I'll bet you didn't expect that

Subject: General Tech | January 26, 2007 - 12:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Who could have imagined it?  The Inquirer has located a computer store that stays open until midnight, and not just on nights when a new MMORPG expansion is released!  Think of all those times you had to give up and go to bed because you destroyed a keyboard, and didn't have a back up.  If this catches on, you'll never have to worry about that happening again!

Oh, and it has an iMac running Vista Ultimate Edition too.

But how will you ever find it once you put it down?

Subject: General Tech | January 25, 2007 - 12:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The storage density record was destroyed by a joint group from Caltech and UCLA.  While you are not likely to see this for sale anytime soon, that circuit seems to be well ahead of Moore's Law and proves we have a while to go before we hit any sort of limit to the complexity of circuits.

AMD Announces Strategic Partnership with TCL Computer

Subject: General Tech | January 25, 2007 - 12:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BEIJING - Jan. 25, 2007 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that TCL Computer Tech. Co.

Absolutely fabulous, or total flop?

Subject: General Tech | January 24, 2007 - 02:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Slashdot links to a game currently in development, called The Crossing.  It is based around the idea of having the enemies controlled by other humans.  In the single player, story mode, you have missions to accomplish, and occasionally skirmishes to fight in.  In the mission mode, you will likely be on your own, but with a chance another human may take over one of the AI characters, a la 'Agent Smith'.  In the skirmish mode, those playing single player games take the roles of Elites, and the purely muli

New Intel Research Grant Focuses on Aging Advancements

Subject: General Tech | January 24, 2007 - 01:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2007 — Getting a head start on assessment and intervention for age-related conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and injuries from falls is the goal of the collaboration between Intel Corporation and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Well, that won't cause controversy

Subject: General Tech | January 24, 2007 - 01:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer and Ars Technica have 2 different takes on the news out of Redmond today, that 1 in 5 Windows installs fail a WGA check.  To put it another way, 114 million systems of the 512 million that have installed WGA have failed, and you can add a significant amount of systems that people have never installed WGA on to that total.  Of the 114 million that failed, Microsoft has stated about 20% are not due to piracy, and although they do not say

So long Intellipoint, Microsoft and Razer join forces

Subject: General Tech | January 23, 2007 - 06:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Habu gaming mouse is the product of a joint venture between Microsoft and Razer.  It has all that you would expect, like on the fly DPI adjustments and multiple buttons.  It also has some extras like the ability to move the buttons, and it swings both ways so lefties can use it.  If you like your mouse to glow, the side rails and mouse wheel will attract you, as it did in ExtremeTech's case.