THG Debuts Networking Guide 191
fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has opened their new site Tom's Networking. The name pretty much says it all."
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
Not too good for their main audience I guess (Score:4, Insightful)
Damn slashdot's influence to hell (Score:2, Insightful)
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
Keep doing what you do best. Slashdot is here for bullshit comments, karma, and is generally not considered a "valid journalistic source". Your site is considered journalism by many.
Domain pollution (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope to God you're kidding about this. Tom is about as credible and knowledgable as any random
Re:I'll say it....... (Score:5, Insightful)
ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this - some of them may very well be clean - but it's safest to assume this and never put your complete trust in a single site.
Re:I'll say it....... (Score:2, Insightful)
try www.hardocp.com
or www.anandtech.com
or www.aceshardware.com"
www.hardocp.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
www.anandtech.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
www.aceshardware.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
Re:I'll say it....... (Score:3, Insightful)
I can prove it purely on theory:
Give every product good reviews, manufacturers love you, consumers view you as a cheap shill and your site dies due to lack of userbase.
Give every product honest reviews ("this hardware is worthless" included), manufacturers refuse to supply you with demo hardware and you're stuck paying for your own equip and doing reviews weeks later than everyone else. your site dies due to users going elsewhere.
The only compromise is to favor certain companies and let them deal with the financial aspect(read: cooperate bribing), while trashing their competitors so as to appear like a real reviewer. Its easy to take any data and mangle it to say what you want, and thats all a payed off reviewer has to do.
Combine all of this, and you know that any review site still running is influenced by advertisers. Same with magazines/tv too.