The art of testing and other esoteric sidelines
We test a lot of things here at JPR and at JPA before that. We’ve been testing stuff officially and unofficially for 30 some years—you’d think we’d know what we’re doing. Hell, we thought we ...
Been seeing double for a very long time
The idea of using a computer for stereovision representation of molecules dates back to Project MAC at MIT in 1966. And in the early 1980s the concept became known “molecular graphics” and the Molecular Graphics ...
It’s the noun stupid – Video Game Consoles
I couldn’t understand after all these years why the press keeps referring to, and getting excited about “video games,” and yet never mentioned the PC. The first console dates back to the “Brown Box,” Ralph ...
Those ungrateful consumers
Look at all we’ve done for them and have they once said thanks? No, all they want to do is talk about the good old days. The good old what? You mean when we had ...
The Tyranny of Terminology
Source: Willi Heidelbach One of the running jokes about the difference between the English, French and German languages are how rich and efficient English is and how complicated and wordy French and German can ...
To be S3D you have to see
James Cameron called me the other day and told me (he never asks) I should pay more attention to 3D. I told him I’ve been involved in “3D” longer than he has been making movies, ...
To 3D or not 3D, that’s no longer the question
Visual stereoscopy, also known as S3D, has definitely come to the PC. It was actually always there, just not exposed. Soon there will be video stereoscopy available on your TV, you can see cinematic stereoscopy ...
Moving toward the edge —it may be uncomfortable there
This week’s issue of Tech Watch looks at the inflection point we are entering with the end of the IGP and the introduction of the IPG—Integrated Processor Graphics. The question is, or at least one ...
Almost every year Intel’s Paul Otellini gets to be proven right
Paul Otellini says no other architecture has ever survived other than the x86. He cites RISC, Transputer, SGI’s geometry processor, array-processors, DSP, and others. Now he can add the Cell to his list. Last month, ...
On seeing more
Peddie’s second law is—The more you can see the more you can do. Looking good, feeling better. And if you’ve looked at my blog, you will see what I’m currently experimenting with to test that ...
A look at the future—maybe
We’ve spent some intense and serious time with the AMD folks recently, in Las Vegas, Texas, Santa Clara, here in our labs, on the phone and by email, and we’ve gotten a pretty good understanding ...
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, ...