If you’re wondering how I manage to write up to four blogposts a day, along with maintaining two other blogs, it is because I’ve found myself with a lot more time in my hands, and am currently looking for work.
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Intel Told How To Make Mobos
In an article on Newsfactor.com, Mark Reiner, VP of Epic, designer of Unreal Tournament, is imo acting like a kid when he says that “I’m concerned about the level of growth in the PC games business…A $900 PC is nowhere near as capable as a $299 Xbox 360 console. We’re losing PC gamers in record numbers. Integrated graphics cards [like those produced by Intel for low-end PCs] cannot compete with the console gaming experience.”
His culprit: “80% of new laptops and 55% of new desktops contain integrated graphic cards that cannot run state-of-the-art PC games.”
IMO Board manufacturers will hesitate putting high end cards onto their boards for any of the ff. reasons:
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Of Conspiracy Theories and Artificial Chip Pricing
Back March 23, 2006, 3 Samsung executivers pleaded guilty for DRAM price-fixing, reported on Inq7.net here, and I blogged about it here.
And now, there are new allegations of artificial pricing involving chipmakers, here. Excerpt:
The complaint, to be filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, charges the companies with fixing DRAM chip prices, artificially restraining supply and rigging bids for contracts.
Those actions caused computer makers such as Apple Computer , Compaq Computer, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard Co. and International Business Machines Corp. to pay more for chips and then pass those costs on to consumers, said Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, another lead plaintiff in the case.
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Finally. Geek Girls Getting It.
In other IT news, “IT women shed clothes and geeky image for calendar“.
SYDNEY–A group of female computer professionals in Australia has struck sexy poses for a calendar to try to shake off their geeky image and encourage women to take up technology studies.
“The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar features beautiful photos of real women working in the IT industry, in poses inspired by movie goddesses old and recent,” the group says on its website.
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Slow News Day?
There’s an article today re “UK firm says RP-based web design outfit ripped them off”:
In an e-mail correspondence, Paul Bowers, a representative of the UK-based firm behind arcadegamescript.com, said a company called “wickedinnovations” was hired to do contract job to code and design the company’s website. A deadline to complete the job was set for eight weeks, Bowers said. The company decided to pay 900 dollars as initial fee for the 1,800-dollar contract work.
Bowers said his company eventually found that the Philippine-based firm, which is located in Ortigas in Pasig, allegedly copied code from another website.
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Mac TV Ads Spoof Video
I think the “no, that’s what my trust fund is for” hits the nail right on the head.
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Software Headlines Today At Y! Tech
I took a screenshot of Y! Tech this morning, and other than the fact that I think this’ll make Jeff Birkeland of Y! Tech very happy, do you notice anything? (more…)
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Nokia N91 Writeup Out
Tuned for Tunes is out, where I write about the Nokia N91.
Trying out any N-Series phone is a really special experience. I take a great deal of time trying to figure out what exactly they were trying to do with it before writing it up, and N-Series phones always have a lot to say. Their designers and engineers spend a lot of time dreaming it up, and sometimes I think they’re given a clean slate when it comes to N-Series. What I want to do is to figure out the goal they were trying to achieve, and after using it, determine if they’ve achieved it.
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My PCMag Notebook Shootout Notes
I was lent five notebooks last May by PCMag, and I’m posting here the spreadsheet I used to make the comparison.
Featured notebooks are the Acer Travelmate 3242 WXMi, the Amoi Blue M626 Laptop, the NEC Versa M350 1704DW, the Asus A6R and an Asus A3A. The specs I mentioned are the ff.:
