Archive for November, 2008

Science fiction? Science Fact.

Posted in Computer News, News on November 20th, 2008 by Doofie

Have you ever seen the movie “Minority Report”? If you have, this new computer operating system may remind you of it. I have always perceived this to be the future of computing, and it certainly looks like that my perceptions were not far off…

http://oblong.com/

I know not everybody is into bike stuff

Posted in Biking, Video on November 17th, 2008 by odd

But this is too funny not to post.  There is a magazine called MountainBike Action that sucks,…bad.  This is a parody of one of their reviews that is actually really damn accurate.  Part of why its so funny, but just part.

link

 

A New Day

Posted in News, People, politics on November 5th, 2008 by stagnant

After the election last night I decided to check a couple of my favorite artist’s sites for comment. Checkout this one from Maynard at Puscifer.com

If you haven’t heard some of Obama’s acceptance speech you should. Although not his own words, the quote from Abraham Lincoln shows an amazing compassion for ALL of us as Americans (about 11.5 minutes in). Maybe we can keep this country in one peice after all.

Maybe even more importantly, take a look at parts of the McCain concession speech. It was the most impressive speaking I have heard from McCain in a long time. It proves that he really does have our best interests in mind and I hope his supporters can remain as humble as he has.

Sarah Palin Pranked

Posted in News, politics on November 3rd, 2008 by Doofie

If we could have one word for Gov. Palin, what would yours be?

Personally, I have to go with Dumbass.

Next Generation Processing

Posted in Computer News on November 3rd, 2008 by Doofie

Well folks, Intel lifted the NDA off their new “nehalem” processors, so named Core i7. These little beasts are a whole new class on their own, blowing the core2 series of chips out of the water in most applications. As far as i can tell, they are not widely available yet, but look to see that increasing in the next few weeks. To see how the chip stacks up, check out this link.

A Few specs worth mentioning (check out the bandwidth – only the start of the full potential)

  Core i7 Extreme 965 Core i7 940 Core i7 920
Clock frequency 3.20 GHz 2.93 GHz 2.67GHz
Quick path speed 6400 MT/s 4800 MT/s 4800 MT/s
Memory controller DDR3-1333 DDR3-1066 DDR3-1066
Price $999 $562 $284
Parallelism 4 Physical Cores, 8 Logical Processors (hyper threaded)
Memory standard Triple Channel DDR3
L2 Cache size 256 KB per core
L3 Cache size 8 MB
Transistor count 731 Million
TDP 130 W
Fabrication process 45 nm