Robert Dow

Look at me when I talk to you

About ten years ago, I wrote an editorial suggesting our PCs could, and should, look at and listen to us. And when they did they would be able to see if we were happy, angry, sad, impatient, or bored. They would know when we were dictating a memo, story, or email, and when we were giving them commands to open … Read more

The middle ground—is there one or many?

When Steve Jobs presented the iPad, he set up the premise that we have smart phones, and we have laptops, and there is a gap between them that should be filled. As he made his presentation, I thought, I just saw this presentation a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. Jen-Hsun Huang did it at CES. Huang said the exact … Read more

Astounding year-to-year growth in PC graphics; Quarter-to-quarter also beats expectations

TIBURON, CA-January 26, 2010 – Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced today its estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market shares for Q4’09. Figures for the year 2009 came in above expectations with a 14% year to year growth, an amazing comeback, in this year of retrenching and recession Table 1: … Read more

Stereo—can we get real?

The movie industry commonly called “Hollywood’ is famous for stereotypes, mislabeling, and misrepresenting. In some sense you could say that’s their business model—to create an illusion, to misdirect. Just the term Hollywood is misdirection as the Canadians, French, Indians, and Nigerians will attest. Those countries produce an amazing amount of movies and some amazing content and yet they are grouped … Read more