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After The Rush . . .

We heard so much about people becoming street people just to get a PS3, with YouTube video, of course, that we decided to go down to the place videoed and take a few pictures after the “frenzy.” Most battlefields wish

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War of Stuff . . .

News Item: Samsung To Push Solid-State Drives News Item: People Start Trying To Crack Vista (And, no, Vista hasn’t been done yet, despite any accounts you might have read. What’s out there right now isn’t a crack, it’s a stall

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A Fishing Expedition . . .

I don’t know how useful or useless this is going to be, but hopefully it will be at least a start to something useful. I have three questions, answer whatever applies: Question 1: Have you ever gamed against someone and

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A New Intel Ghost CPU . . .

Sometimes, people let their feelings triumph over the facts. Such is the case over this article (and most of the other article on the subject in the computer hardware press) entitled, “Judge orders RIAA to justify its piracy charges” The

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First Surface Optical Storage

This article is an extention of my previous article Holographic Storage. Rather than repeat half of it as exposition I will assume that you have read it. A number of prominent people have suggested that optical storage is on its

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Vista’s DRM and You

With the latest news about Microsoft deciding to allow unlimited(?) reactivations in Vista, there is still alot of moaning about the new DRM technologies in the new OS. Much of it is based on F.U.D. spread by hardcore anti-DRM people

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More Than Four? . . .

I was looking at yet another multithreaded game presentation when a question came to mind: Just how far are these multicores going to go? After all, while it has certainly has become much more difficult to make a single CPU

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When Push Comes To Shove . . .

There have been growing complaints that AMD is stiffing the retail channel, most lately this. My reaction to the complaints is a simple question: You’re surprised? I’ve listened to the head honchos, and especially the head honcho at AMD for