Month: May 2008

As we saw in our last piece, by inflating self-esteems and deflating the standards set by the “pros” then providing a means by which anyone can say anything to the whole world, we’ve asked for what we’re getting. However, saying

There’s someone I know, an older man, about sixty, definitely in the Sixpack category of computer users. The other night, he asked me, “Is it true that in any blog, you can’t go ten posts without [someone insulting someone else,

So why are so many people such loons on the Internet? Here’s a few perhaps less obvious thoughts on the matter: A World Polluted By Egosteroids Before we ask, “Why are some people such egomaniacs,” maybe we should ask, “Who

It’s been almost ten years since Intel put a “multiplier lock” on its Pentium II models. About a year from now, the other shoe will drop. When the cheaper Nehalems come out, the socket 1160 kind, they’ll contain additional circuitry

Next week, there is supposed to be a press gathering at Dresden where AMD is supposed to explain its “asset light” plan. A couple people already think they know what’s going to happen, Charlie Demerjian and Theo Valich. They think

No way we can duck this story. 🙂 Once upon a time, some people from the Shanghai Supercomputer Center wanted to upgrade their computer so that it would be faster than some Indian supercomputer running a few thousand Intel chips.