First, from Slashdot In AMD’s recient anti-trust lawsuit AMD have examined the Intel compiler and found that it deliberatly runs code slower when it detects that the processor is an AMD. “To achieve this, Intel designed the compiler to compile code along several alternate code paths. … By design, the code paths were not created…Continue Reading…
Still, you have to hand it to them (Score:5, Interesting) by typical (886006) on Tuesday July 12, @04:15AM (#13040161) (Last Journal: Wednesday June 22, @09:54PM) Despite all this, you really have to hand it to the Chinese government. Consider that: * There is a legitimate concern that people reading articles critical of the government will…Continue Reading…
Hmm (Score:5, Insightful) by BronxBomber (633404) on Tuesday July 12, @09:18AM (#13041362) Among all the hype with all 3 consoles, I hope as much attention is being paid to game playability and fun factor. The Genesis, NES, and TurboGraphx16 werent online (well, the Genesis was with XBand eventually), and some of the most innovative, playable…Continue Reading…
It’s about time that I posted something about this, even if just to set the record straight. It’s an interesting story, and I think you might be interested too. I was in Burlingame for the 2005 California FBLA State Conference. While there, I decided to visit the Burlingame Apple Store because it was the release…Continue Reading…
The Apple Mac mini has only one RAM slot, and for good reason: its purpose is to be small. When I picked up a 1 GB stick and popped it in, I was left with the original 256 MB stick that came with it. Unsure what to do with it, I decided to crack open…Continue Reading…
I’m looking through the “Gifts for Dads” section on ThinkGeek.com, and I’m quite disappointed. Every product looks good when they talk about it in the description, but when I do some research on it, I find it’s not quite what they claim. So buyer beware! Even (or ‘especially’) ThinkGeek.com uses marketing tricks to make things…Continue Reading…