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  • links for 2010-01-28

    Video on the Web – Dive Into HTML5 This is a great description of containers versus codecs when it comes to video files on the web. There are many types of containers and many types of codecs. You can have an AVI file that is encoded in Xvid/DivX. Or you can have a Quicktime file…

  • Intel linked with HPC boost buy • The Register

    Larabee is the code name for an Intel graphics card/chipset that was designed to compete against nVidia and AMD. One side benefit would be it could be used as a co-processor to accelerate software algorithms on desktop computers like nVidia’s CUDA architecture or Apple’s OpenCL. Sadly the only market left for Larabee might be High…

  • Buzz Bombs in the News – Or the Wheel Reinvented

    Is it the buzz bomb or a shock cannon, you be the judge.

  • 64GBytes is the new normal (game change on the way)

    Flash memory is tearing up the charts these days with new form factors and sizes being announced at least once a year. And the bleeding edge consumer of those new modules is usually Apple. But new video cameras have adopted the new memory modules as the SDXC memory card format. So 64GB is going to…

  • The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier

    Traveling over the holiday I got to thinking about the pat down searches inbound flights to the U.S. were forced to go through. In the good ‘ol days of the 1970s we only had to deal with simple metal detectors and the X-ray machine. That was it. But now we have to continuously add new…

  • Revolutionise computer memory – New Scientist

    I used to follow all the achievements and exploits of the research departments working on advances in non-volatile memories (anything not DRAM). Magneto Resistive materials looked very promising both Magnetic RAM and Ferro-Electric RAM had been worked on for years. But each new project seemed to spur others on to look for different techniques and…

  • EDS mainframe goes titsup, crashes RBS cheque system • The Register

    Outsourcing datacenters is very popular and lucrative depending on your bottom-line requirements. Nobody wants to manage anyone with that level of skill and salary, especially when it comes to benefits. So keeping your skilled workers to a minimum is a way of saving money. But when your datacenter goes down for 12 hours, you lose…

  • Intel Gets Graphic with Chip Delay – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

    Intel’s executives were quite brash when talking about Larrabee even though most of its public appearances were made on PowerPoint slides. They said that Larrabee would roar onto the scene and outperform competing products. via Intel Gets Graphic with Chip Delay – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com. And so now finally the NY Times nails the…

  • Google Shrinks Another Market (and I’m not talkin’ DNS)

    Now that Droid has hit the market and the mobile Google OS is strutting its stuff, when are we going to see the benefits of an AppStore like Universe? Early wins are going to be critical, so maybe turn-by-turn navigation is an early win?!

  • links for 2009-12-04

    Google SketchUp Books for Design Professionals This series combined with the ModelMetricks series of books for kids to learn SketchUp are the greatest single source of 3D modeling self-instruction on the web. (tags: 3d sketchup books)