- Light on news.
- IBM announces a supercomputer on a chip.
- Microsft wants the OLPC machines to run XP.
- The suicide girl getting sick publicity.
- Look for a new ultra-lite Mac.
- Where is the killer app for the Vista OS?
- JetBlue to do an Internet in the air scheme. Most of these ideas all die.
- Seiko-Epson stopping TV sales. Huh?
- Toyota to make some creepy robots.
Click to listen:
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Hilarious! I enjoyed this broadcast. An honest take on tech is what I’m looking for.
-LP
You can’t use your laptop on a plane since your company is to cheap to upgrade you to business class so you’re stuck in steerage and the guy in front of you pushes his seat all the way back before the frickin’ wheels even leave the ground and spends the whole flight leaning forward and looking out the window while eating Doritos and you only have 6.7 inches of usable space so your laptop screen is tipped so far forward you can’t even see the function keys….
Not that I’m bitter or anything.
#2, then get the GLASSES that display the screen and use the AUX video output.
Add a wireless mouse or wand and have fun…
It’s a “super-computer” in that it’s neato! Or maybe it was intented to be a “supra-computer on a chip” and spell checking software changed it.
Naturally Micosoft wants its OS on the OLPC lappies, whenever it faces the possibility of an Open Source OS spreading faster. Little Hadji might grow up not knowing (or caring) what XP is! So I guess Microsoft will sue everyone until it gets its way. Or there won’t be any OLPCs without XP. Since M$ has all this money to bribe and/or sue governments and nations. Then you know they could easily sell their OS for much less bucks (or one price!).
I believe the “kill app” thing only ever applied to Macs. Not that Macs had to have killer apps. They just seem to get one, with every major generation of their OS. But other than the Media Player. I can’t say I know what XP’s or Vista’s killer app was suppose to be. And WMP is just a knockoff of iTunes. Wasn’t IE Windows 95’s killer app? Because there never was a “lite” version of IE. But Outlook came out in a lite or “express” version with XP, rather than the full blown app.
@JCD —
First, Just love the BLOG … awesome.
Second, here’s the article off Reuters.
It’s about hooking CPU cores together with light ( a la fiber optics) instead of wires.
IMO, very cool …
IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) says it has made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses that brings closer the day when supercomputing, which now requires huge machines, will be done on a single chip.
In research published on Thursday in the journal Optics Express, IBM said it had produced electro-optic modulators 100 to 1,000 times smaller than comparable silicon photonics modulators and small enough to fit on a processor chip.
By connecting processing cores on a chip by light instead of with wires, the problems of high energy consumption and heat generated by multi-core chips could be bypassed, enabling leaps in computing power.
IBM said it had reached a “milestone” in the quest to connect hundreds or thousands of processing cores on a tiny chip. By comparison there are nine cores on the sophisticated chips that power the Sony (6753.T: Quote, Profile, Research) PlayStation 3 games console.
“Just like fiber optic networks have enabled the rapid expansion of the Internet by enabling users to exchange huge amounts of data from anywhere in the world, IBM’s technology is bringing similar capabilities to the computer chip,” said Will Green, IBM’s lead scientist on the project.
He said using light instead of wires to send information between the cores could be as much as 100 times faster and use 10 times less power than wires.
Awesome VOIP on plane here I come…
Want a 2 pound laptop that’s got a 20 hour battery life, that is sunlight readable, costs less than $200, get the Linux based OLPC laptop, with a $3 Windows XP Lite on an SD card option.
#7 – And the reason no one cares, and the smaller MacBook Pro will do so well, is that style is king.
WiFi and data access will be great, but I sure hope this doesn’t lead to cell access. And voip for that matter. The same self centered ass that stands at the register in the supermarket, while talking on the cell phone and ignoring the line of shoppers he’s left waiting.
Or what about the doofus in the restaraunt who not only takes the call, but keeps talking for 30 minutes. Now this might not be such a big deal, but he seems to think it’s necessary to talk very loudly, as if he’s talking on a WWII battlefield telephone.
For heaven’s sake, please don’t let these people use cell phones on a plane.