Parallella – A Giant Leap for Mankind

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Parallella – A Giant Leap for Mankind

October 02, 2012 /
A while back I ran a post examining the current trends in the hardware and software industries and expressed my concern at the direction they seem to be heading. In the last decade and the last few years in particular, technological advancement has slowed to a crawl despite companies finding ways to keep current tech interesting. But in that process, the same companies have in some ways also been slowly murdering their own industries and the personality types of people that could keep them going in the ...

Parallella – A Giant Leap for Mankind

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Computer Geeks: an Endangered Species?

August 31, 2012 /
There was once a time when if you really wanted to work with computers, you had to build your own hardware. You had to work programming languages in to existing hardware yourself. In either case, you knew your hardware and software alike quite well and were completely comfortable and capable messing around with both. Even as the decades wore on and software became more complex as hardware became simpler, anyone worth their geek salt was expected to have a decent working knowledge of current releases in ...

Computer Geeks: an Endangered Species?

Breaking Down the Video Game Stigma

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Breaking Down the Video Game Stigma

July 28, 2012 /
News flash: if you’re a video gamer, your activity of choice is not well respected. Another news flash: if you’re not a gamer, chances are you should respect gamers’ activity of choice a bit more. Both of you, however, will have to take responsibility if this is to change. Everyone can agree that video games have made some large strides, but what remains to be settled is whether or not they have attained the same level of art as movies–or in other words, if they have reached a point where they are ...

Breaking Down the Video Game Stigma

Homepage Service iGoogle is Shutting Down, Need Alternatives?

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Homepage Service iGoogle is Shutting Down, Need Alternatives?

July 04, 2012 /
Despite getting an update only a few months ago to improve the look and functionality of their personal homepage service, Google has just announced that it will be closing the book on iGoogle for good as part of its ‘spring cleaning’. If like me you’ve been a loyal user of the service for a few years now and aren’t sure where to turn, don’t worry too much; you’ve got until November 1, 2012 to figure out a new solution. However, there’s no point in procrastinating and putting more stock in a ...

Homepage Service iGoogle is Shutting Down, Need Alternatives?

COPYCAT!

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COPYCAT!

June 21, 2012 /
People accusing other people of stealing their great ideas is nothing new. Who invented the telescope? Who discovered the New World? Who discovered electricity? Ask different people in different periods of history and you’ll get multiple conflicting answers. Go as far back in time as you like; anywhere someone thinks up something amazing and someone else promptly happens to think up the same amazing thing, blood instantly runs hot on both accounts as one person adamantly asserts that he has first dibs, ...

COPYCAT!

Myths vs Truths: Multicore CPUs

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Myths vs Truths: Multicore CPUs

June 17, 2012 /
So you just bought a new computer with 6 CPUs running at 3GHz each? Wow! That’s a lot of horsepower! …but is that really what you ended up with? Even though multicore CPUs have been around for years now, it has constantly been a struggle for the average consumer to understand what exactly they’re getting themselves into. As a matter of fact, even many experts in the consumer technology field still have difficulty explaining with accuracy this magical invention that is dual-core, quad-core, hexa-core, ...

Myths vs Truths: Multicore CPUs