Grant Gochnauer BLOG
The Spring Framework takes First Place at the JAX 2006 Conference
If you are a JAVA programmer, you absolutely have to look into this framework. It is by far the best OSS lightweight framework out there today.
JAVA inches closer to being Open Source
Great article on why so many e-mails are misinterpreted. It just goes to show how important face to face communication is in today's world of technology
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
New Zealand company products Bio-diesel from waste. World's first
It is believed to be the world's first commercial production of bio-diesel from "wild" algae outside the laboratory - and the company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million litres of the fuel each year from Blenheim by April.
More anger towards Bush over surveillance report
Approval rating at new low: 29%
Brain merging with microchips
Numenta is building a computer memory platform called the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) platform, which is modeled after the human brain. Hawkins said this week that Numenta's open-source software toolkit will debut later this year or early 2007, and it will let developers create applications for computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning.
NVIDIA reports record earnings
For the first quarter of fiscal 2007, revenue increased to a record $681.8 million, compared to $583.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, an increase of 17 percent. Net income computed in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 was $90.7 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $64.4 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2006.
Tim Sweeney Interview video via bittorrent and direct download
Sony and Panasonic announce a new HD format (for camera)
Intel Core Duo 2 will be 40% faster than Intel's fastest Extreme CPUs out today
Light so fast, it actually travels backwards?!
In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light.
PS3 Launches!
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corp., announced late on Monday that it would launch its highly-anticipated PlayStation 3 game console in mid-November. The company plans to deliver up to 4 million new-generation consoles already this year, but the game machines will not be very affordable: $499 - $599, depending on the model.
X-BIT Coverage
Press Release
Engadget Coverage - The bundles
Engadget Coverage - The controller
Engadget Coverage - Launch Details
News.com coverage - With Q&A
World of Warcraft THE MOVIE
Blizzard Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures are suiting up for war. The companies are teaming to produce a live-action film based on Blizzard's award-winning "Warcraft" video games, with Legendary acquiring movie rights to the "Warcraft" universe.
Bioware's Jade Empire coming to PC (with enhancements!)
Chip power breakthrough
John Wood, a British engineer who founded Multigig in 2000, devised an approach that involves sending electrical signals around square loop structures, said Haris Basit, Multigig's chief operating officer. The regular rotation works like the tick of a conventional clock, while most of the electrical power is recycled, he said. The technology can achieve 75% power savings over conventional clocking approaches, the company says.
Apple's head laywer steps down
This is what happens when you make little girls cry who write you letters!!
Windows Live Messenger now open to public
E3 HD High-res torrent site
Download all the HD trailers from E3 here
Torvalds comments on Linux kernel instability
Researchers able to cure cancer — in Mice
Now, they said white blood cells from that mouse's descendants were injected into ordinary mice with cancer and their disease was completely wiped out.
Liquid water behaving as a solid? Scientists discovered strange new properties
First screenshots of AIM Pages (The "myspace killer")
Fembots are coming!! RUN for your lives!
More rumors and speculation on Microsoft buying Yahoo at CNN
New way to mass produce Tamiflu — best defense against bird flu
Jet powered VW Bug. This baby has some serious horse power!
Review of Ageia PhysX processor
More here at Anandtech
Seagate 7200.10 750GB Drive is a BEAST
Almost portlets: Developing portlets without a portal container
3-D Models of DaVinci's machines. Very neat
Fuel pump of the future A gas station in Oberlin, OH that performs vegetable-oil conversions on diesel vehicles is about to install a pump that doesn't pump gasoline, but rather E85 and biodiesel blends. Drivers will be able to select the ratio of biodiesel-to-diesel in their fuel right at the pump.
The future of hydrogen fuel cells
Hidden star explains supernova oddity
Astronomers hope the companion star's presence may help them better define the evolution and aftermath of supernova explosions, and may even link regular stellar explosions with their much more powerful hypernova cousins.
Pretty blue planet — Amazing pictures of Earth
Americans are sicker than their English neighbors
Creative X-FI Scandal
This is one thing that affects me personally and I agree 120% with this article. I have tried 3 different X-FI cars in 3 different PCs and all of them experience pops and hisses and Creative has taken over 6 months just to ACKNOWLEDGE the existence of any issues at all. Have there been any driver updates? NO. There are hundreds of pages of problems with this card and Creative just turns their back. AMAZING!
Awesome Upcoming game: Neverwinter Nights 2
Preview 1
Preview 2
Windows Live Messenger BETA released
VISTA to be delayed, yet again according to Gardner
Trojan virus targets World of Warcraft players
The Trojan, named PSW. Win32.WOW.x, is spreading fast, say experts at the Indian firm. In a statement, they said it targets account holders of the online game, nicking passwords and shutting down virus-scanners and firewalls on users’ computers.
Skype announces Skypecasts
Skype is also launching a preview of Skypecasts, a free new product that allows live, moderated Skype conversations of up to 100 people. The host may controls mute, eject and “microphone passâ€. Skypecasts may be prescheduled and promoted via html snippets.
WSJ takes a look at how computers have been portrayed in film over the last 20 years (with footage)
FBI is apparently ABOVE the law
The FBI sought personal information on thousands of Americans last year from banks, Internet service providers and other companies without having to seek approval from a court, according to new data released by the Justice Department.
Why should you care about Net Neutrality?
To take a strong example, would it be a problem if AT&T makes it slower and harder to reach Gmail and quicker and easier to reach Yahoo! mail? Welcome to the fight over “network neutrality,” Washington’s current obsession. The debate centers on whether it is more “neutral” to let consumers reach all Internet content equally or to let providers discriminate if they think they’ll make more money that way.
Who will decide fate of Blu-ray and HD-DVD? The porn industry say experts
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