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Taking You Down With Me . . .

The, shall we say, officially-sponsored benchmark numbers for Conroe are extremely impressive. Even the relatively lousy numbers are very impressive. When you get to the gaming numbers, and the 20% improvement turns into 30%, they go from impressive to, well,

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Falling Down On The Job . . .

You run a company. Your company made $2.5 billion the Christmas quarter, and almost $9 billion for the year. That’s pretty good money. First quarter 2006, you expect the normal seasonal dropoff of 5-10%. Two months into the quarter, it

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I’ve Lost The Will To Speed

Do you still have fire in the belly, or are you burned out? How do you relate to ttfk’s experience? We’re going into our eighth year and have seen a LOT of changes – how about you? Spend a couple

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Google? Privacy? . . .

Got this email after I spoke about Google yesterday: No comment on potential privacy issues? This has been the foundation for many of the complaints heard about many of Google’s products (e.g. Gmail, Desktop Search), and Google’s response to the

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Beware Googzilla? . . .

Someone recently asked: Recently I’ve read some comments . . . that google is becoming more frightening than Microsoft in its attempts to conquer the world with its products step by step. First the search engine than then Gmail, Google

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But Does It Boot Windows? . . .

Since Apple Macintoshes are PCs these days, I guess we need to talk about them a bit more often. Apple introduced the Intel-based Mac mini yesterday. I have just one question: Does it boot Windows? If it doesn’t, it is