Too much indexing going on
When I start up my 1.86 MHz XP-pro based HP laptop WS computer which I’ve been using for over two years and sort of gotten comfortable (albeit not satisfied) with, it’s a slow process. Checking ...
Getting the word out…when you want it out
Announcing… Almost everybody in the industry knows what announcements are going to be made before they are actually made. They may not know in exact detail all the time but we generally have a pretty ...
Enigma in the blogosphere
Having spent several days amounting to weeks in various conferences in September around the world, and then reading about them on the web I realize that the bloggers and “news” sites are all frustrated wannabe ...
We’ve come full circle—again
Jon wasn’t the only one to play with time-sharing computers; Bill Gates cut his teeth on them, too. When I was a pup first playing with computers, the machines we had to play with were ...
IBC, what a lot to see
At IBC this year, we learned what is in store for TV in the coming years. What great surprises await us in TV consumer land? Check this out: • Digital cinema: It may actually happen, ...
It’s the application, Stupid
I remember when PDAs first hit the scene and how the very very smart VCs stopped investing in PC companies because “Pocket computers” were going to kill the PC. They were idiots, of course, but ...
The Information Curve
By now you should have seen and studied Kathleen Maher’s Practicality Gap thesis. There is another chart that is interesting to examine, the Information Curve. It’s a phenomenon that a company goes through as it ...
The senility of thinking I have a multitasking system
One of the things you learn quickly in the computer infomation business is that you are not in control, you are at best a laboratory rat running the maze in search of cheese or your ...
Mid-year corrections, forecasts, and procrastinations
Who wants to sit in front of a computer writing crap like this, or worse yet reading it, when there’s a beautiful blue sky over our beautiful bay that’s filled with beautiful people on their ...
Not eyePhone, or uPhone, but myPhone
It was really hard not to write an editorial about the iPhone. We heard (from the San Jose Mercury News) that Hallmark is going to lobby the U.S. Congress to declare June 29 iDay. In ...
Who’s dating whom?
Before AMD acquired ATI it was enjoying a profitable and robust partnership with Nvidia, while ATI was nurturing their multi-decade relationship with Intel. Then AMD’s big checkbook came out and Intel let the jewel of ...
Where oh where is this GP-GPU market?
The reason there’s no report on the GP-GPU market (and lordy, do we need a better name) is because it’s impossible to measure. Nvidia and AMD don’t know who is buying chips for supercomputers, there’s ...