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Lots of chatter is going on about the release of Equipt, the newest of Microsoft’s products to rent us our software. On one side there are the opinions of how it is about time, on the other the gasps of how it is finally, dreadfully, here.
In a small way, Dana Blankenhorn, on ZDNet weighs in, [...]

A not so unexpected announcement from Intel comes today, telling us what we already knew – the speed race, in GHz, is over.  The chips of today are close to their limits already – there will be no amazing 6GHz chips just over the horizon.  Oh sure, there are those apocryphal tales of old style [...]

and remember that one standard is why USB was so successful. Unlike other standards that really weren’t, USB has had Intel forging the specifications all along, like the hardy blacksmith that turns out perfect horseshoes every time because of the practice he’s had.
If AMD and nVidia threaten to move on their own standard, either because [...]