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links for 2010-12-11
Comic for December 7, 2010 I need to remind myself of this cartoon every time I see the word values appear in mission statements. (tags: values culture cult)
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links for 2010-12-03
3 Augmented Reality Tutorials A nice collection of the toolkits out there for you to use on a currently shipping cellphones and computers (tags: augmentation ar augmented_reality)
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Bob Slydell: What would you say, Ya DO Here?
When you are at work, what is it specifically that you consider work? Is it answering a request, a question, doing something someone has delegated to you? Or is it something bigger, more creative, something that requires isolation and silence to get done?
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Hitachi GST ends STEC’s monopoly • The Register
In the market for data center hardware, competitive advantages and outright monopolies do not exist for very long. Someone can reverse engineer or clone your product sooner or later. In the case of the Fibre Channel SSD, that was just a matter of time once everyone saw there was a hug potential market for these…
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LSI Launches $11,500 SSD, Crushes Other SSDs
Now you’re talking real data center type pricing. What do you get for your high dollar, high margin PCIe card anyways? Maybe just a little more speed, check it out.
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A Conversation with Ed Catmull – ACM Queue
Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith were two key figures in the history of computer animation while they worked at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Catmull eventually left ILM to form up Pixar with John Lasseter and Steve Jobs. And Catmull while at Pixar created the first feature length computer animated movie: Toy Story.…
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TidBITS Opinion: A Eulogy for the Xserve: May It Rack in Peace
Apple has announced the End of Life (EOL) for its Xserve product line. There will still be spare parts for a while yet, and some pay for support options available. But the era of the Xserve only lasted from 2002 to 2011. Xserve we hardly knew ye’.
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A Quick Look at OCZ’s RevoDrive x2 – AnandTech
What OCZ (and other companies) ultimately need to do is introduce a SSD controller with a native PCI Express interface (or something else other than SATA). SandForce’s recent SF-2000 announcement showed us that SATA is an interface that simply can’t keep up with SSD controller evolution. At peak read/write speed of 500MB/s, even…
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Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs • The Register
According to Greg Martin, a spokesman for the FPGA maker, Achronix can compete with Xilinx and Altera because it has, at 1.5GHz in its current Speedster1 line, the fastest such chips on the market. And by moving to Intel’s 22nm technology, the company could have ramped up the clock speed to 3GHz. via…
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OCZ Reveals New Bootable PCIe SSD (quick comparison to Angelbird PCIe)
Many, many companies are making many announcements in the product category of PCI Express SSD drives. This once rare and expensive product is now being developed into a bigger market with standards organizations being formed and a flurry of new products being announced recently. What does this all mean for you? Hopefully it means the…
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