I didn't say he was, I asked him if he was.  There is a significant difference.

I personally know of no way to calculate the CPU speed based on the components that support the CPU.  I neither accept nor defend the validity of the authors statement.  That said, the guy who wrote this has been in the field, he's written countless articles, and he advises clients on the subject of semi-components.  His creditials are solid.

I don't have a problem with someone saying they don't believe it.  I take issue with someone saying he's wrong and not being able to contradict what he is saying.  I haven't read post for post, but so far I haven't read where EThomaz has actually contradicted his argument, he's only introduced his own argument to rationalize why the author is wrong.  I want more than that.  To me, that isn't a justified argument against someone who has creditials I can take stock in.

Understand, this isn't an attack on EThomaz, per se.  This is an attack on the shrill and insufficient conversations that permeate the Internet.  Opinions are like assholes.  We all know this.  Everyone has one.  There needs to be a higher level of conversation where people can actually move out of their encampments to come to rational, logical conclusions. 

That's what this is about.  The moderation on this site won't do anything to improve the level of discussion or discourse.  As long as no one is trolling or flaming, they don't see problems.  Unfortunately there are problems and they are significant to the level of discourse on this site.  Seriously, why are your most vocal Xbox supporters the most frequently banned?  On the face of it you will say because they've violated the rules, but the problem is we can't have a conversation here about the Xbox platform without the thread being filled with useless opinion.  Unfortunately, the few people on this site who can straddle both sides of the isle with some unbiasedness often resort to the same childish conversation.

I believe EThomaz is capable of providing decent, unbiased, quality conversation.  I want him to offer insightful, thoughtful, intelligent arguments.  That was my challenge in saying "prove it."  I don't always agree with what Walsulfur says, but the guy when he makes an argument comes packing heavy fire.  He supports pretty much every argument he makes. 

I'm not saying every conversation on this site has to be intellectual.  I'm saying, if someone is going to refute someone who is a known professional in their industry and has experience and credentials in that industry, and you say they're wrong.  You better have a good argument to support it.

There is a huge difference between.  "He's wrong." and "I think he's wrong."  The first one is fact, the second one is opinion.  One implies first-hand knowledge that contradicts.  The other an opinion, whether educated or not.

I don't want to shut-out differing opinions from my own, but the shrill, immature conversations are getting tiresome.  They're getting tiresome for a lot of people, not just me.  That's why you see people in your Xbox community getting banned more frequently.  That's why you see your Nintendo community leaving.  You have a problem.  It's not those two communities, and it isn't the level of conversation we bring to the site.  How we act is a direct reflection of how we are treated.

If you want this site to be one big Sony circlejerk, do nothing.  It'll happen.  Your community will continute to fester and boil until the Xbox and Nintendo community leave for good.  You want to a strong gaming community, you want lively and intelligent conversation, then start considering doing something to foster it.  Because right now you're banning the people that help bring something diverse to this site.

You assumed.  Your assumptions are patently false.     

This is so true, +1 for you sir. Nsanity is the only reason I come to this site, Nsanity alone posts more Xbox news than there appears on Neogaf. Losing such an amazing poster would be a huge blow to this site. And I can understand his reaction, in al his threads there's always a sony fan that needs to derail it by stating his opinion as a fact. Ethomaz is a great poster with a lot of insight but he needs to stop stating everything he says as a fact because it only derails threads

I can't help but be curious as to who this is aimed at and what it means, but a word of advice - some of that nears the line. I'd tread lightly.

Since we're all on the subject of derailed thread, I'm gonna put in my two cents.

It takes two to tango. If someone speaks up about something its up to the opposing party/next person to respond. Ethomaz may not have been 100% clear but he did eventually explain himself and he did it pretty quickly and elegantly. It was the responses that got the people banned, not Ethomaz. Don't blame one individual for anothers wrong doing. And what's with not being allowed to state things as fact? Is that what we all should do from now on?

2+2=4 IMHO

Well, the typical trend has been more GPU force and it has been for awhile.  In fact, the Cell was more like a GPU.  Regardless of that though, the new gpus(I know the PS4 does, Xbox One probably also does) are able to utilize "GPGPU" or General-purpose computing  on graphics processing units.  This means that the system can offload some CPU processes onto the GPU.  So even if at some point we need more CPU power, the GPU can handle some of it.  

The Cell is built exactly like a GPU!  I have been saying this for a while now.

What? No, the Cell isn't built like a GPU.

For starters it doesn't have the extra transisters for things like Render Output Pipelines or Texture Mapping Units to begin with.

Plus, the Cell is still a very serialised processor, graphics tasks are very parallel.

I'll use the book reference again.
If you were to hand the Cell a book, it would read the entire book page by page untill it finished, a GPU however will read every single page in a book at the same time.
Which is a good thing as some instructions need to be read in sequence due to timing with other instructions, perfect for a serialised CPU like the Cell.

That's not to say the Cell couldn't do graphics tasks, every CPU can, the Cell could just do more than any other console at the time because of it's CPU advantage, but don't get the idea that the Cell would magically transform a games graphics as it's pretty much only going to be limited to Framebuffer effects and Morphological Anti-Aliasing and possibly texture decompression.
It does however, pick up some of the slack from the GPU.