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 […]
Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims has a new computer game. The game is called Spore. It was demonstrated recently by Wright and the musician and artist, Brian Eno. The article talks about the evolution of computer games. Here’s the wrapup.
It occurred to me as I wandered through […]
North Korea is in the counterfeiting business. Of everything. From New York Times
Though there is some dispute on the timing, the first counterfeit big-head supernotes might have arrived on the market as early as 1998. Like the earlier generation of supernotes, the big-head imitations show an ever-growing attention to detail. “They would certainly […]
ReactOS is a Open Source rewrite of the MS Windows NT kernel. Say “Amen!” somebody!
Check them out at ReactOS.
A good example of why net neutrality is imporant is covered, indirectly, by this article from the Washington Post.
For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks to the Internet, music lovers are rediscovering […]
Boing Boing has the call about censorship.
Peacefire, an anti-censorware site, says that journalists at the LA Times have told them that the LA Times has begun to censor the Internet feed in its newsroom. LA Observed says that the Times told them it uses Websense to restrict reporters’ access to the Internet, and that peacefire.org […]
Over at High Performance Computing, they are reporting on how well the Cell processor will perform scientific work.
“Overall results demonstrate the tremendous potential of the Cell architecture for scientific computations in terms of both raw performance and power efficiency,” the authors wrote. While their current analysis uses hand-optimized code on a set of small scientific […]
There is a project to make laptops for the developing world at a cost of $100.
This link will take you to the web site for that project, which is being run out of MIT.
This link will take you to a PledgeBank site where the goal is to […]
Andrew Tanenbaum has a paper up at the IEEE Computer Society. What’s the problem?
Current operating systems have two characteristics that make them unreliable and insecure: They are huge and they have very poor fault isolation. The Linux kernel has more than 2.5 million lines of code; the Windows XP kernel is more than […]
Not to be confused with a news black hole, the New York Times is reporting on a detector for gravitational waves, the kind given of when black holes merge.
n the most precise effort yet to detect gravitational waves — the quiverings of space-time predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity — the […]