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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« on: April 05, 2011, 06:31:11 PM »
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1. Why is it being pimped on this Amiga forum then? You admit now it has FA to do with Amiga now hmmmm thanks.


I don't think that was ever in doubt, which is why it is posted in the "other operating systems" section of the forum.
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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 09:52:56 PM »
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Think about this....the all time record for most users on Amiga.org was 497 on July28,2010, most likley because of a CUSA event. And how many years has this forum been up???
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Just what does this tell you?


It tells me that you haven't factored in the obvious point that the current incarnation of the site has only been up a comparatively short time compared to the total lifespan of the site.

And no, "most users online" statistics were not part of the migration dataset when the site moved from xoops to vbulletin.
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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 10:10:47 PM »
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True. Now that you mention it, I remember there were somewhere in the ballpark of 1,300 online for the Gary Hare live Q&A.


I think I remember that one too :)
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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 11:20:33 PM »
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I guess the last thing Barry wanted was an Amiga site where people were openly questioning his products and motives.  The purge begins...


What purge? People have left of their own accord, nobody has been banned - which given the tone of some of the recent threads is a small miracle. Personally, I'd much rather people stay.

Let me tell you, it'll take some hell of a purge to shift my a*se from the site.

I might not be as vocal about it as some, but I'm not particularly impressed with CUSA so far either. I do have to give them credit for bringing a product to market and securing what seems to be some decent advertising, but the C64x is certainly not something I'd be inclined buy. Nor are any of the other systems currently mentioned on their website. Furthermore, their bad first impressions have stuck for me, particularly the dodgy website, "borrowing" other people's artwork and so on. However, I suspect they care about my disdain for all that as much as I do for their opinion.

The ragequit mentality of certain people here over this episode is disappointing. I honestly thought that most people that react like that would have done so already at some point. It isn't as if the community has never experienced frisson like it before.
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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2011, 11:26:52 PM »
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For that price? An i7 processor for a start ;)


Not a good fit for the breadbox case though. Imagine the cooling problems...
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Re: Wow! C-USA's first commercial.
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 11:33:08 PM »
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a mobile edition i5, maybe even a i7... would be pretty hot, still.


Also consider that any i7 would have to be accompanied by a GTX580 class graphics card to rouse my interest. If it hasn't got more cores / higher compute rating than the one I have, I'm not interested :lol:
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