{"id":1046,"date":"2008-08-28T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/28\/what-a-difference-six-months-can-make\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:36:24","slug":"what-a-difference-six-months-can-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/28\/what-a-difference-six-months-can-make\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference Six Months Can Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra quotes GPG boss Chris Taylor as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=19999\">saying that the PC is &#8220;rediscovering itself&#8221; as a platform.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t so positive about the platform <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/the-economics-are-ugly\/\">last February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two statements don&#8217;t directly contradict each other; in February he was talking business but now he&#8217;s talking about hardware and install base. But if the business problems are still there, specifically piracy, what does it matter if the average graphics card will do the job that needs to be done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra quotes GPG boss Chris Taylor as saying that the PC is &#8220;rediscovering itself&#8221; as a platform. He wasn&#8217;t so positive about the platform last February. The two statements don&#8217;t directly contradict each other; in February he was talking business but now he&#8217;s talking about hardware and install base. But if the business problems are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[81,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}