Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is quickly becoming my favorite writer over at ZDNet. Whether I agree or not with what he writes, he always conveys a sense of involvement, which to me is like saying ‘honesty++’. The reasons for the conclusions are given, usually well thought out, and better yet, well put. He never sounds like he [...]
Now that Mr. Negroponte has decided that the children of the world need Windows XP on their OLPCs, and that his pockets need to be lined with Microsoft dollars, the developers of the Sugar interface, that promised, among other things, mesh computing, has been spun off to become an entity answering to no one.
This is [...]
The looks of John McCain are being bandied about, as though he was in a contest rivaling the Miss Universe pageant. In an article on Slate, someone was commenting that the Saturday Night Live appearance that Senator McCain made, made him look very old, but only on HDTV.
Since I did not see the appearance [...]
Over at Tom’s Hardware, the testing of several motherboards featuring the nVidia 780a chipset, for Athlon and Phenom processors has been done. The nVidia looks as though it will, with some maturation, become a very respectable platform for the Phenoms, and shows great graphics and memory performance. It also allows those of us who [...]
Christopher Dawson (ZDNet) has an article giving us the next iteration of the OLPC computer, almost before most people saw the first one (Have you seen one close up?).
The little jewel is about the size of the Asus EEE handheld, and looks like it will be manufactured by Fisher-Price. It features the typical gauche ‘angry [...]
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