Roughly Drafted is a good source of computer info.
The editorial stance has one foot in marketing, one foot in engineering. For example, with regard to the disk formats, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD:
To deliver HD video, the DVD Forum determined that a new disc format would be required to deliver greater bandwidth and capacity over the […]
I don’t have the time or space to fully develop this argument, but here it is:
Greed is a lousy design agent.
People who support capitalism and free markets state axiomatically that a profit motive is a good way to develop new technologies and markets. And that statement and sentiment are repeated without inspection by the […]
Okay, it is hard to hate an inanimate object, but one of the things that is easy to do in MS windows is to allow software vendors to labor the user with stuff and make it harder to use the computer. MS enables this.
I had to get PGP Desktop installed on my machine. […]
Folding at Home is a distributed computing project, similar to the one for SETI, that may actually work. They are doing first principles chemistry to try to learn how proteins fold.
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology’s workhorses — […]
Ubuntu is a distribution of the Linux operating system that wants to be available for everyone. Linux is making a lot of inroads into government offices in other countries. These governments are balking at the high cost of Microsoft based products. The latest to switch is the French Parliament.
Ubuntu has a page […]
As someone who deals with DRM on a daily basis, I found this translation of a letter to Steve Jobs to be very funny.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’
Friday, 16 February 2007
Source: “Macrovision’s Response to Steve Jobs’s Open Letter”.
I […]
Cuba loves Linux.
Cuba’s communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire - Microsoft Corp. - by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft’s proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is […]
The boffins at MIT are hard at it. This time they are trying to fabricate a turbine on silicon. The turbine would have 1 mm features.
After a decade of work, the first millimeter size turbine engine developed by researchers at MIT should become operational by the end of this summer.
The article talks about […]
Yes, sometimes, you need to muck out the brain. Like after a stroke. And someone has invented a brain cleaner.
An injury to the brain can be devastating. When brain cells die, whether from head trauma, stroke or disease, a substance called glutamate floods the surrounding areas, overloading the cells in its path and setting off […]
Electronic product companies like to show adverts on the telly where people are using their products to enhance their lives. The actors in the adverts show a wonderful life, gleaming smiles and personal connections, all rendered honest by hardware. But what is the reality?
Veronica Brown is a hot fashion designer, making a living off the […]