An Open Letter To Tech Review Sites

This letter advises on how to "generate additional page views" by adding Linux to the review line-up.

Why not just split your article into 4,784,237 pages with no way to view the entire article at once? After all, it works for Phoronix.

Notably, the "open letter" is all on one page. Didn't want to make it too obvious, I guess.

The Phoronix articles that are longer than one page that I ever feel like reading can usually be 95% captured by reading the first and last pages, and skipping the 27 pages of random graphs in between...

First and last ... that's the way I do it.

Phoronix is competing with sites like Toms Hardware whose reviews follow the same format. Game enthusiasts love lots of graphs.

indeed "There is a point zero zero four differance in frames per second between those two cards, man that card sucks"

Simple truth is the human eye cant process past 32 frames per second, and the older we get the worse it gets. I dont think I can tell the diffrence past ~20 fps.

I give Phoronix the thumbs-up for less-cluttered pages and more coherence than Tom's hardware. I'm definitely getting old; I look at both sites, mutter "too many notes!", and move on.

Ya know az, there could come a time when you're marooned on a desert island, and your survival depends on precise overclocking of RAM, CPU, and GPU, and precise fine-tuning of framerates.

It could too.

Quoting:Simple truth is the human eye cant process past 32 frames per second, and the older we get the worse it gets. I dont think I can tell the diffrence past ~20 fps.

That's nonsense actually. Why do you think televisions went from 50 to 100 Hz? Here is a really nice article that explains a lot about how the human eye and brain work in relation to FPS:

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

The short version: 24 fps might be enough for most movies, but you need a lot higher FPS for games. The monitor also matters. With LCDs you can get away with lower FPS than CRT of TV.