Recent Comments:
Poll: Where do you buy your Blu-ray Discs? {Engadget HD}
Jul 12th 2008 6:45PM Other: Who needs to buy when you have NetFlix? You can get months of service for the cost of just one new Blue Ray. DVDs are a good deal but Blue Rays cost way too much. If you must own a movie, just wait a year or two and you should be able to pick them up for under $10 like you can with DVDs.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 4) - Windows Vista Ultimate {Engadget}
Jun 28th 2008 3:38PM Radio Shack Color Computer with Microsoft Basic partially written by Bill himself.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 2) - Office Ultimate 2007 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 5:38PM TRS-80 Color Computer had Microsoft Basic including some code written by Bill Gates himself!
The Bill Day giveaway (part 3) - Zune 80GB (black) {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 5:37PM TRS-80 Color Computer had Microsoft Basic including some code written by Bill Gates himself!
The Bill Day giveaway (part 1) - Toshiba Gigabeat T400 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 12:16PM My favoriate Microsoft powered product? That's like asking for my favorite salmonella tainted tomatoes.
Half of government-issued digital TV coupons have expired before use {Engadget HD}
Jun 15th 2008 1:23PM It's not really procrastination. I could never find a good one. I could never even find any decent reviews. Good converters were in development but none were released in time. The real problem is that the coupons expired way too early. They should have lasted up until the cutoff date at least. That would have encouraged converter box makers to compete with each other and release units with decent features and the ability to decode weak signals. I decided I would rather keep my $10-40 and buy a better converter in the future. Heck if I don't use the stupid coupon, I could opt for one with a HDMI plug.
Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Atari founder biopic {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 1:08AM ... and in the third act, there is a giant spider!
Poll: What will your next display be? {Engadget HD}
Apr 26th 2008 4:29PM My current home theater display is a 720p LCD projector. My previous display was a 1024x768 LCD projector. My next display will be a 1080p projector (LCD or DLP TBD). Nothing beats the wow factor of a 10 foot projection screen lit with a 2000 lumen HD projector. Projector's like my current one go for $1500 currently. This isn't even expensive really. I am just finishing up my first 2000 hour projector lamp and have the replacement sitting next to the projector ready to go. The lamps cost $300 each (if you look around for a good price) and last me about 18 months. The screen itself is cheap (I ended up salvaging the screen from a powered one that broke and fixing it to the wall). I subscribe to NetFlix so I always have stuff to watch. My one real luxury is the three leather Barcolounger reclining theater seats I got at Sam's Club for around a grand. If you have never experienced decent video projection before, a setup like mine will knock your socks off.
NVIDIA VP joins the smack-talk fun, says the Intel CPU is "dead" {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 1:23AM I think the entire industry are hoping that if they build it, they will come. They in this case are applications that can take advantage of all the increased computer power. This has actually been the case for as long as I have been into computers (which is a very long time). Just when I think that there is no need for any more computer power, someone goes and invents a web browser. Suddenly moving pixels around the screen efficiently became pretty darn important almost overnight.
This is how it is today. We decide that we can browse the web just fine on our Core 2 Duo processors, so do we really need 80 cores? Then someone comes up with a fairly decent artificial intelligence simulation that can act as an excellent personal assistant/slave and overnight we will all be lining up at the Apple store to buy a shiny new superparallel computer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYrPkFe2J0
NVIDIA VP joins the smack-talk fun, says the Intel CPU is "dead" {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 1:08AM I think I agree with you for the most part. It is very frustrating that he claims that the CPU is dead but then does not announce a GPU that can actually replace a CPU. I also agree that for many users (perhaps even most users) a GPU is a luxury not a necessity. I could also argue that for those users a faster CPU is also a luxury. Just how fast does a CPU have to be to run a web browser after all?
The thing about computers is that they just keep getting faster. As they do we seem to find uses for all those extra computations per second. These are "luxuries" such as Google Earth, HD Video editing, extremly realistic 3D games and so on. As computer technology progresses, people can do these things with less and less expensive computers. This is why it matters to everyone in the end whether the GPU will replace the CPU. Whatever technology is in the high end computer today will be in the low end computer in five years.
This GPU/CPU argument matters in other ways as well. The high end is where all the profit margins are. Those of us that love to play with bleeding edge technology fund gigantic corporations like Intel and NVidia. Those of us that like to invest in these companies have a great deal of interest in what technology is going to come next and from where.
