Knuth: Multicore Engineers 'out Of Ideas'
Blog Comment To some extent, we've fixed the problem at top and bottom - our applications and presentation layers are inherently parallel these days, now we've moved on from everything being a dumb terminal at the end of an RS232 line , and by the time you get...
[April 29, 2008, 15:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In short order, we become beings of pure intellect, propelling ourselves into a universe of raw existence uncoupled from the dull limits of mere matter. It doesn't really matter how good your industrial design is then.
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Intel To Ship Portable Demo In Handheld Push
News Whether the eventual products are called mobile phones or PDAs (personal digital assistants) will likely be a matter of opinion. I would assume that in this year, people would actually dial it down," said Gene Matter, chief architect for Intel's...
[January 31, 2001, 8:39]
Broadcom Warns Bush Over Qualcomm Chip Veto
News A statement from Broadcom on the matter also suggested that countries such as China and Brazil — both seen as lax on IP issues — would "take comfort in a presidential decision that places political considerations ahead of property rights", adding...
[July 9, 2007, 14:33]
Making Sense Of SOA Is No Game
Leader The fact that IBM is trying to teach people about SOA and BPM using virtual realities is indicative not of the brilliance of this as a training approach, but of the peculiarly amorphous nature of the subject matter.
[May 23, 2007, 18:07]
Looking For Vital Signs In Microsoft Live
Leader The world is warming to Web services: the old, non-networked days are all but over and no matter what the next big success story is, it will not be selling software on CDs. These are the life signs that matter.
[August 10, 2006, 13:35]
MacBook Air Conditioning May Not Be So Cool
Blog Yet while the various multi-finger tricks on the touchpad are initially impressive, they really don't matter very much on a machine that also has a full-sized keyboard and a full-sized display. Add to that the sealed-in battery, the lack of optical...
[January 16, 2008, 23:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which raises the suspicion that BT looks upon its broadband customers as a rather dull herd of cattle who'll make with the milk no matter how coarse the grass. Wednesday 29/7/2005 Oh, naughty BT. Free phone calls for a year!
[July 1, 2005, 19:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What seems to be the matter? And they say technology journalism is dull. Rolls-Royce, has been dutifully taking notes. The bash was ostensibly to talk about Dell's plans for enterprise servers, but there was much more fun to be had off-piste, so to...
[June 9, 2006, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He's sure that no matter how many of these public humiliations there are, the same old companies will continue to get huge contracts to do important projects very badly indeed. Go into IT, he recommends the youth of the country, and spend a year or...
[February 19, 2001, 8:25]
Zattoo Puts Live TV On The Desktop
Blog It's P2P, which keeps the costs down, but it doesn't really matter how low the costs are if there's no income. Unlike the rest, Zattoo comes with all of the BBC's terrestrial and digital channels, ITV (local and regional), Channel 4, Five, and a...
[April 29, 2008, 14:18]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback If we, as the customers, can try talking a bit more politely and a bit more sensefully using neutral accent or for that matter a decent accent.why wont anyone understand it? Secondly, the customers at times are already dead getting their machines...
[January 4, 2006, 18:03]
Throwing Money At Technology
News You can collect all the information that you want, but unless you can get the right information to the right people, it doesn't really matter," said Gilman Louie, chief executive of In-Q-Tel, a CIA-affiliated venture capital firm, and member of...
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
