Resistance is futile—you should believe That might beg the question, “what exactly is CG,” but I’m going to sidestep that discussion because it might distract from my main point, which is that the most important ...
With all the rumors and information coming out of Taiwan and IDF Shanghai about Intel’s plans, I decided it was time to wipe the palm prints off the crystal ball and have another go at ...
In computer games we have one word terms that are taken for multiword definitions. For example, if I said simulation what would think of? Probably you’d think of a game that requires you to use ...
Last quarter, the GPU industry reached a milestone—one hundred million chips were shipped. Mind you, that was the fourth quarter, which is seasonally high, and we may not see that level in this first quarter, ...
GDC has come and gone and we’re cleaning our cold weather gear getting ready to change for CeBIT. We’ve been to several analyst’s conferences, all tightly locked down with NDAs about the changes coming, so ...
ORNL’s JAGUAR (Courtesy of ORNL) On Broadway in New York City, a flop is something you try to avoid, always. In politics a flop preceded by a flip can be the end of a career. ...
Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trends, styles, customs, and governments come and go. Few things remain constant. Eating, drinking, housing, Maslow-type things remain constant. But the next two levels up are the ones that ...
This isn’t the first—this is the last back page I’ll write this year, unless I decide to write one more. But is being first really so important? Well, if you’re really first, that is, if ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
