X-Bit Labs does an awesome comparison of the AMD 4800 X2, Intel Core Duo, and the Intel Pentium D 960. What is amazing is that all 3 chips are within about 5% of each other on speed but the power consumption comparison is where it gets interesting. Look at this:
John Carmack disses Playstation 3
… in an interview that the PlayStation 3 game console is not as optimal as Microsoft’s Xbox 360
NEAT! — A musical realization of the motion graphics
Treo 700p announced. YAWN!
With a weight of 180 grams, it runs on a 312 MHz Intel XScale processor and features a high-res, 320×320 TFT colour screen like the Treo 650 – up from the 700w's limited 240×240, 128MB of memory -60MB free for PalmOS apps and data-. The 700p runs PalmOS Garnet v5.4.9., and supports Bluetooth v1.2 and dual CDMA digital (800/1900Mhz) plus CDMA2000 EvDO to complete the feature set. As usual, compatibility with Office, Excel and Powerpoint files is provided via the bundled software. MultiMediaCard, SD & SDIO cards are supported, up to two gigabytes, according to Palm. The digital camera sports 1280×1024 resolution and automatic light balance, capturing video at 352 x 288.
Online nightclub for teens. What's next?
The club is a cross between MySpace.com, the Web's biggest networking site, and "World of Warcraft" a multiplayer online game. Both are successful at building Web communities, and Littlefield and his company, Doppelganger, hope they've built a hybrid.
Awesome article on the "singularity debate"
Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence, perhaps through enhancement of the human brain, direct links between computers and the brain, or Artificial Intelligence. This event is called the "Singularity" by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole – just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds. Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs – the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds.—Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The "right" way to eat a Reeses Peanut Butter cup.. in New York
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