For your entertainment, I just thought I would update you with a link to the second part of the article I mentioned the other day:
Notes from the Technology Underground: The Nuclear Potato Cannon Part 2
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Bionic Boléro
I just read an article on Wired that was quite moving. It is written by a man who completely lost his hearing as an adult, after not having all of it in the first place as a child.
It is about his journey to hear Boléro again--a piece of music that he really connected with as a fifteen-year-old. It is a bit long, but well worth the read. The power went out here while I was reading it on my laptop, and I barely noticed because it was so engrossing.
Read here.
[Via BoingBoing]
It is about his journey to hear Boléro again--a piece of music that he really connected with as a fifteen-year-old. It is a bit long, but well worth the read. The power went out here while I was reading it on my laptop, and I barely noticed because it was so engrossing.
Read here.
[Via BoingBoing]
The War Is Over?
Well, maybe not really, but this chip could have a big impact on the war.
Maybe I should clarify which war I am talking about: The HD-DVD vs. Blue-Ray Disk war. This is very similar to the VHS vs. BETAMAX war--which I (sort of) remember.
My hopes are leaning strongly in the direction of Blue-Ray Disk; partly because it has a vastly greater capacity for data, and partly because it is not another stinking acronym.
Anyway, the story this post is really about is that a company called Broadcom has created a chip that can de-compress both formats at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. This means that you do not have to buy two players, or one of those clunky looking two-drawer players. It is all in one neat package.
Of course, this is only the chip--meaning there is no player yet. We'll just have to wait and see if it is really a marketable item for the industry, as well as to consumers. This, of course, relies on where the industry is heading in the next six months or so.
One of my questions about the product would be: Will it be implemented into the media drives in PCs? I don't want to be purchasing a laptop with the wrong format of drive, and have to purchase another external drive...
Possibilities...
LINK
Maybe I should clarify which war I am talking about: The HD-DVD vs. Blue-Ray Disk war. This is very similar to the VHS vs. BETAMAX war--which I (sort of) remember.
My hopes are leaning strongly in the direction of Blue-Ray Disk; partly because it has a vastly greater capacity for data, and partly because it is not another stinking acronym.
Anyway, the story this post is really about is that a company called Broadcom has created a chip that can de-compress both formats at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. This means that you do not have to buy two players, or one of those clunky looking two-drawer players. It is all in one neat package.
Of course, this is only the chip--meaning there is no player yet. We'll just have to wait and see if it is really a marketable item for the industry, as well as to consumers. This, of course, relies on where the industry is heading in the next six months or so.
One of my questions about the product would be: Will it be implemented into the media drives in PCs? I don't want to be purchasing a laptop with the wrong format of drive, and have to purchase another external drive...
Possibilities...
LINK
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Google PC Anyone?
Nothing official. Total speculation. Interesting, though.
According to the article, which was published in the LA Times on the first of this month:
The article is pretty interesting in its speculation, and seems to me that it is well researched. Some might say that it is to early for Google to do this, but what better way to launch an operating system?
I do have to wonder what kind of OS they would have--by which I mean, how extensive it would be. It is very difficult to keep these things under wraps these days. They may be releasing a “Beta” version that will stay in beta for a long time, which seems to be the way they do everything else.
In the end, I guess we just need to wait a couple more days to see what will happen.
read more|digg story
[Edit Follows:]
Just found some more interesting speculation about the same thing. It takes him a while to get there, but this is a little more thorough examination of the state of things:
And now, without further ado: the Google PC by ZDNet's David Berlind -- In writing Now's the time for the network computer, my colleague and fellow blogger Dana Gardner has it all wrong. OK, maybe half wrong. The network computer bit is 100 percent dead-on. It's the Oracle part he has wrong.To everybody including Novell CEO Jack Messman who thinks Microsoft's forthcoming version of Windows (Vista) will be [...]
According to the article, which was published in the LA Times on the first of this month:
Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, will give a keynote address Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Analysts suspect that Page will use the opportunity either to show off a Google computing device or announce a partnership with a big retailer to sell such a machine.[Link to entire story below]
The article is pretty interesting in its speculation, and seems to me that it is well researched. Some might say that it is to early for Google to do this, but what better way to launch an operating system?
I do have to wonder what kind of OS they would have--by which I mean, how extensive it would be. It is very difficult to keep these things under wraps these days. They may be releasing a “Beta” version that will stay in beta for a long time, which seems to be the way they do everything else.
In the end, I guess we just need to wait a couple more days to see what will happen.
read more|digg story
[Edit Follows:]
Just found some more interesting speculation about the same thing. It takes him a while to get there, but this is a little more thorough examination of the state of things:
And now, without further ado: the Google PC by ZDNet's David Berlind -- In writing Now's the time for the network computer, my colleague and fellow blogger Dana Gardner has it all wrong. OK, maybe half wrong. The network computer bit is 100 percent dead-on. It's the Oracle part he has wrong.To everybody including Novell CEO Jack Messman who thinks Microsoft's forthcoming version of Windows (Vista) will be [...]
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