Ars Technica’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]
Ars Technica’s Jon Stokes discusses what he has learned about AMD’s new “Fusion” CPU / GPU designs… My immediate reaction on hearing Moore describe this was that AMD was planning to pursue the Larrabee route, and replace the GPU with a pool of small x86 cores. Obviously, you have to expose this ‘GPU’ hardware (in […]
The simple fact is that large set of data can be used to ascertain certain things. For example, using NetFlix’s data set, the most popular movies among men over 40. But consider when that data set becomes huge… How many restrictions would be needed to find an entry that is yours? Even if it’s made […]
What sort of research group ‘plagiarizes’ a report advocating for stronger intellectual property laws? And why does the Business Software Alliance give specific percentages for software piracy even in countries where it has done no surveys? A Canadian law professor raised those questions this week—and got results. (View the rest of the article at Ars […]
I just ran across a article on ArsTechnica regarding artificial muscles made out of carbon nanotubes… Can Boomers now be far behind? Okay, so we still have to work on the entire Artificial Intelligence bit, especially where they randomly go on a rampage for no apparent reason… But still, artificial muscles with that density was […]
One of my pet peeves is the idea that playing a game, or watching a video, can make you into a aggressive, violent psychopath. But I think that Ars Technica makes the point Utah passes pointless, worthless underage game sales bill A Utah bill that will open retailers to fines if they sell M-rated games […]
Making sense of Mac market share figures: “ Mac market share has been a hot topic ever since Apple staggered into (and subsequently crawled out of) the gutter in the mid-90s. It has been a slow but steady climb to the point where, as of late, Apple has set quarter after quarter of records when […]
Ars Technica examines “The Trouble with Boys” by Peg Tyre. Â The book postulates: “Boys get expelled from preschool at four times the rates of girls,” she writes. “They are prescribed the lion’s share of ADHD medication, they get most of the C’s and D’s in middle school, and they drop out of high school more […]