Archive for the 'Geek Banter' Category
Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become.
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Mark Cuban in trouble for insider trading. Vista Capable suit causing problems. Obama is going to have to stop using the Blackberry. Look for the AVCHD fake Blu-ray discs. Intel rolls the i7 as AMD rolls the Shanghai. Google has new sketch-up art program
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Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down.
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So I am surfing around youtube looking for a version of the video “The Metal” by Tenacious D and I stumbled upon these gems. Lego music videos of metal songs…
Unfortunately my two favorite videos have embedding disabled, but it is worth the click :
Metallica One - Lego
Tenacious D - The Metal
Then if you are a Guitar Hero player you likely know this song, otherwise probably not, but it is a cool guitar song: Through Fire and Flame:
Chop Suey from System of a Down :
Yep .. awesome … awesome in pants!
LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines.
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Is Apple planning to design its own processor? Some think so. The G-phone is cheaper to build than the iPhone. Why is IBM antsy over Apple taking one of its key people. Apple may be developing a chip. More and more stories appear about the headset magnet magnets and pacemakers. Cray Supercomputer to hit 1.3 petaflops. 25 year anniversary of Windows. Nortel stock goes into the tank.
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Earbuds causing heart problems? Apparently. iPhone number one amongst adults. Seagate selling self-encrypting drives. Obama and the CTO story continues. No MP3 player from Dell before Christmas. Microsoft to turn to Sun Microsystems for marketing help. Laughable story. VMWare wants to virtualize cellphones. Why? Circuit City filed Chapter 11.
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Today MarsPhoenix (on Twitter) left us with a final message :
01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000
For those non-geeks out there, that is binary for “Triumph”. The mission was a triumph indeed and through social network sites like Twitter and Plurk, we got to follow the mission and bond emotionally with a lonely lander on a far away planet.
We learned much from our far away friend, and many of us are sad to see him go. For me Dr. Suess said it best :
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Craig’s List killing erotic services after 40 states go after the company. Tethering the Internet now possible with AT&T finally. Meanwhile AT&T rejects Android. Ex-Intel engineer busted for stealing secrets? Can Windows 7 fit on a notebook? Some say no. Ballmer disses Google Android. USB 3.0 now delayed. Hotmail redesigned, users gripe. HP and Cisco downgraded by the market.
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No Agenda gets nominated for an award. Carl Icahn trying to make something happen with Yahoo. Meanwhile the Google Yahoo deal falls apart. Bill Gates pushing something called DreamSpark. Unknown what it is about. Sun shareholders think they should call the pay scale for executives. Intel getting back into the memory business? Gordon Moore to return for this. I reveal an interesting rumor. SanDisk has new 100X speed increase. Barack Obama a victory for social media. Yahoo killing Y!Live. Obama Trojan floating around. John Doerr says take Bill Joy (please!).
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