Here is what Uttar said:
As always, I'll just quote GPU:RW
Quote:
Not a lot of new info nowadays, but don't worry, because here's some GPU:RW-only info!
First of all, nVidia is set to rejoin FutureMark's beta program. Amusing, isn't it?
And secondly, FutureMark agreed to do a demo ( I don't believe this is a benchmark demo, just something like Dawn ) for nVidia's NV40, to be launched at Comdex.
As you can see, Uttar made no pretense of doing anything other than quoting someone else. So, in the absence of confirming press releases from the companies involved, etc., all such information should be understood as being prefaced with, "It is rumored that..."
As such, Uttar's quote from another source should have been understood thusly:
Not a lot of new info nowadays, but don't worry, because here's some GPU:RW-only info!
First of all, it is rumored that nVidia is set to rejoin FutureMark's beta program. Amusing, isn't it?
And secondly it is rumored, FutureMark agreed to do a demo ( I don't believe this is a benchmark demo, just something like Dawn ) for nVidia's NV40, to be launched at Comdex.
This is the way all such remarks should be understood in the absence of corporate press releases from the companies involved which confirm them, IMO.
Now, had Uttar prefaced his remarks as certain direct knowledge he had obtained in and of himself, then I think you'd have a point. But he did quote his source and so I think that lets him off the hook.
OTOH, you are alleging something different which also comes from sources which are less than official coprorate press releases, although certainly if nVidia does not rejoin the program and FM does not do a nVidia demo there will be no press releases on it--simply nothing will happen...
As for me, my position on both viewpoints is that I will wait and see. True, I did not comment on the remarks of others as you've said, but that was because I had no knowledge supporting an opinion either way, because I automatically consider all such "information" speculatively until it is proven one way or the other (to my satisfaction.) From time to time I will engage in a positioned dialogue which I consider to rest on speculation, that's true enough. But when I do I usually try to preface my remarks with "If it's true that x-rumor has legs, then..."
Really, though, my main point is that on the Internet many of us hear things which we consider to be reliable which aren't...
I've been bitten more than once, myself. So that's why I dispense the advice I do in this case...
