Month: September 2005

Computers haven’t gotten much faster the last few years. It doesn’t look like they’re going to get a whole lot faster for most purposes the next few years, either. Yes, the CPU makers have real problems; I know that all

Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed. Interest rates are creeping up, slowly but surely. The U.S. real estate market seems to be getting more and more speculative. When everyone seems to want to get into the act; it’s a sure

The California Legislature has put on the governor’s desk a bill that would prevent the sale of violent video games to those under 18. Any such bill would be ironic and amusing given who sits behind the governor’s desk. Governor

Today is the fourth anniversary of 911. Ironically, it’s a good time to look at a more recent disaster. Katrina shows us the benefits and limitations of modern technology. Computers let us communicate in ways unimaginable even fifteen-twenty years ago.

I’m joking (for the moment) about the “fair and balanced” part, but not the part about the gaming. Fox is buying IGN Entertainment, which runs many current gaming sites, for $650 million. That’s not chump change. One of Fox’s objectives

In Australia, Kazaa was told that they were bad boys, and were ordered to make their program not so theft-friendly. This is all well and good. This is also a case of whack-a-mole. If your house is being robbed, and

SUMMARY: Small 92 mm condenser delivers competitive performance. One of our test objectives is to see how small we can get the condenser with “acceptable” performance; with micro case sizes taking an increasingly larger share of the market, a compact