Vega Thread

[RolloTheGreat]

Rollo speak for yourself.  I have a near genius IQ.  I don't need you telling me how intelligent I am.  If you knew all the ins and outs of all I have accomplished in my life you would not be comparing me to some kind of grunt engineer that doesn't know what he's doing.

You've got to "own the oaf" SB.

Or more accurately:

You've got to accept that microchip engineers who probably make at minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars to design some of the highest tech in the world make guys like you, me, Apoppin, GStan look like newborn babies compared to those guys when it comes to science and math skills.

That is why they make the big bucks doing it, and we hang around on dead tech forums mumbling about "shaders" and "performance per watt".

Don't be angry- you've just been sold the idea that you are some kind of demi-engineer by the tech companies because that is part of how they market to you.

They provide oafs like Apoppin press kits with a bunch of dumbed down PR speak for the mechanics of what has changed and what it does. Those oafs regurgitate it to oafs like us (although I was once an oaf like Apoppin, receiving all press kits and attending press events in person and in webex conferences) and we nod knowingly and grunt with satisfaction, "Jiminy crickets! Lookit that texel fill rate!."

I'm sure you're a sentient creature, but you're no world class engineer or on par with them at math and science. How do I know this? Because you'd be doing what they do for the big bucks if you were.

Ben is almost always the "smartest guy in the room" on tech forums, I wanted him for Focus Group in a big way. (he refused, probably didn't have time for penny ante stuff like that) He used to have his own tech web site, and he isn't "I'll run lots of benchmarks and paraphrase the press kit" like 90% of them.