This last week I’ve been playing “F.E.A.R.,” a Sierra game, and so far (I’m about three-fourths of the way through it) it lives up to its name. More than once I’ve had the hair stand ...
A software bug is an expensive mistake that can cost a company developing the software and/or its users hundreds of thousands of dollars to remedy. That’s nothing in light of the worldwide economic costs of ...
With the introduction of new Intel-based Macs, machines that are over three times faster than their Power PC predecessors, Apple is on the threshold of doing what it’s been claiming it has done—redefining the personal ...
Hey look someone left their giant golfball here on the side walk. Today, we’re young, fresh, willing to take on the world and we’re happy to be in Vegas. Check with us in a few ...
Huh? At CES and afterwards you are going to hear about how the TV set manufacturers are suddenly in a panic to get digital-ready sets. This is happening since the FCC’s announcement last month that ...
Crackdown cracks up. (Source: Microsoft) A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to get up close and personal with an Xbox360. I had a comfortable chair, a coach, and a dozen new friends ...
Now that we have every conceivable type of media available on our PCs, in every form factor, medium, and bandwidth, with more than able storage, and on all the PCs we have including our laptop, ...
Upton listens. In a classic example of getting the best politicians money can buy, the brilliant U.S. Congress is once again demonstrating its disregard for logic or majority view and responding to special interest groups. ...
I used to think we were in the technology business, and I was proud, first as a young buck engineer, and later as a trying-to-be entrepreneur, to say I was in the technology business. And ...
My ears are ringing from all the pipelines that have been piped into them this week. Nvidia has one in their 6150, two in their 6200, and 24 in their 7800, while ATI has six ...
FIGURE 1. JPR’s speculation on Intel’s Viiv architecture. (Source: Jon Peddie Research) Although Viiv is not finalized yet, at least not publicly (no doubt the OEMs preparing their holiday offerings know full well what’s in ...
9 outwits mechanical beast. (Source: Shane Acker) Siggraph was, as always, a blast. Although it was smaller in booth size, the crowds felt larger, and they were for sure exciting. This was the 32nd event ...
