Creating, Storing Information, Memories Is Easy…Finding It? Dam! “I’ve brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it’s the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books. And they’re all saying the same exact thing: Listen to Riley.” — Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), National Treasure (2004) Today’s technology is fantastic. Camphones, computers, videoMP3 [...]
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Escape From Bad Mobile Service
“It’s possible for one man to get out through the wire, even get away, but there are in fact a considerable number of people besides yourself in this camp who are trying to escape.” Squadron Leader Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) – The Great Escape (1963) The nice thing about the CTIA (the wireless association) conference is [...]
Flash Memory… Nothing Less Than World Domination
“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.” – The Emperor Ming (Flash Gordon, 1936, Universal Studios) Knowledge and imagination are [...]
The Swiss Army Phone
You probably didn’t know it (we didn’t really) but they have a name — The Thumb Generation — Teens/Tweens that text, IM with their everything cell phones. They do everything except take photos, shoot video, download 50 songs at a crack. They may get there but it’s going to take time — lots of time [...]
IPTV: Who Will Make Money off The Matrix?
The Internet Matrix emerged in the late ‘80s with three struggling internet service providers (ISPs) serving researchers, educators and a few business people. It enjoyed spectacular growth. Morpheus and Neo sat there just enjoying the success !!! The Internet’s Matrix 2 came in the ‘90s with more excitement, more money than people could imagine. [...]
Lenses, Lenses Everywhere!
“We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How’s that for a bit of homespun philosophy?” – Stella (Thelma Ritter), Rear Window, 1954 Recently an ABC-TV news executive recently outlined his department’s plan to have a site [...]
Next Generation DVDs: BluRay and HD-DVD
Ten years after its introduction, the installed base of home DVD players has finally – almost – replaced VHS players. No matter how much the PC, CE industry wants people to replace today’s technology with tomorrow’s…it takes time. At the same time people have been wringing their hands that two high definition disc formats (Blu-ray [...]
OEMs Lick Vista’s Balls
Is it just me or is the whole Vista hype going AWOL? Don’t get me wrong… I like Vista and the way it works, although it needs some adjusting to get it working as smoothly as other OSes. Sure it runs perfect on your new OEM Dell, Compaq, HP with no issues what-so-ever… but what [...]
What is Vista? (part 2)
Some notable Windows XP features and components have been replaced or removed in Windows Vista. Perhaps the most significant of these is the removal of Windows Messenger, the network Messenger Service, HyperTerminal, MSN Explorer, and the replacement of NetMeeting with Windows Meeting Space. Windows Vista also does not include the Windows XP “Luna” visual theme, [...]
What is Windows Vista? (part 1)
Windows Vista is the the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Vista was known by its codename Longhorn. On November 8, 2006, Windows Vista development was completed and [...]
Die, Floppy, DIE! (The Floppy Rant)
We live in an age where processors have reached an atomic minimum, a sound card has more processing power than Apollo 11, and where video cards become garage sale fodder within six months. CDs could once only be created by large studios with deep pockets, but is now a very common consumer item, and almost [...]
Futuremark Staff Changes
Futuremark Inc. Appoints Oliver Baltuch as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, North America Baltuch brings 20 years of strategic marketing and semiconductor experience for tier one semiconductor companies Saratoga, CA – April 5th, 2006 – Futuremark Inc., developer of the world’s most popular benchmarks for PCs and handheld devices, announced today the appointment of [...]
Go Download Firefox!
“GO DOWNLOAD FIREFOX!” That’s what I’ve been screaming to people in my personal surroundings. “Why?”, one might ask? Well, I’m Dutch, and the Dutch are notoriously cheap bastards. I heard that the phenomena they call Firefox is free and more importantly free of spyware and popups. I’ve used Internet Explorer for a long time since [...]
Futuremark Begins Development of Vector Graphics Benchmark
Saratoga, CA and 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 15th, 2006 – Futuremark, creators of world’s most widely used benchmarks for handhelds and PCs, announced they have established an open development program to define and create VGMark07, the OpenVG Benchmark. This new benchmark will provide handheld industry companies developing OpenVG API enabled hardware with [...]
How Does 95th Percentile Billing Work?
Many web businesses are hosted through a datacenter, and there are many pricing plans depending on your bandwidth needs. If your site is heavily text based without a lot of images and steady traffic, then a flat rate might be best for you . If you are like most web businesses, then you need dynamic [...]
Winamp Antitrust Case against MS
Winamp has a very valid antitrust case against MS. They may just rise … Actually, it seems that all of the stuff “killed off” by Microsoft end up in the hands of a couple companies: Novel, Sun Microsystems and Sun’s biggest customer, AOL. Odd, huh? There are at least two dozen products that MS killed [...]
Tyan vs Supermicro
My concerns with the Tyan over the Supermicro is manifold: First, the AMD chipsets are (arguably) less stable than the Intel. Second, the AMD processors cost nearly twice as much as the Intel processors and provide no performance benefit over the Xeons (using Linux numbers since Linux is NUMA aware) Third, Windows is not and [...]
Socket Change Required for Heat
The dual core processors will pretty much require for heat reasons DDR2 memory, so that will involve a socket change. And there have been dual core processors on the market for several years now. IBM and Sun being the two most prominent examples. Of course, Intel already has dual core processors fabed and in engineering [...]
Alienware and Intel 925X
Lol, Alienware is planning nVidia SMP on Intel 925X chipsets right now, so I’m not sure what nVidia is all about. Built into the PCI-E spec is a form of fast switching between interfaces. So, theoretically, one could use 4 of the 8 PCI-E channels per card to communicate between each other and still have [...]
Intel Likes Radeon
Intel boards tend to like Radeons over nVidia products, so I doubt the problem is that. I’m definitely for EMI. Unlike the newer XT cards, the drivers don’t have a recovery function, so any EMI is multiplied by time, and rebooting (resetting the card completely) will solve this. The newer drivers many have solutions for [...]
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