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How many FLOPS?

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 24th 2008 | Permalink
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FLoating point Operations Per Second – FLOPS, one of the more obscure acronyms in our lives, and one of the oldest ones. It’s since been modified with a prefix of M (mega), G (giga) and most recently T (tera). A Terra is a million millions, one trillion (1012) a whole lot of anything, whether its cycles (Hertz), Bytes, dollars, or FLOPS. (And note - the ‘S’ in FLOPS is capitalized.) So I was asked recently, how many TFLOPS in all the game consoles? There are two answers to that question. Do you mean in all the ones built, or just the…

Moore’s law violated by inflation – your new laptop will cost more

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 22nd 2008 | Permalink
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Another contributor to sluggish PC sales for this year Even though one of the applied tenants of Moore’s law is that prices will drop over time (Moore never said that, it’s just a statement that has been applied to his original observation about feature size shrinkage over time), it appears the rising price of oil will change that as nations around the world grapple with inflation. Prices will rise. This appears to be showing up first in laptop costs as reports of higher priced magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis are coming out of China with cost increases of 10% due to rising metal…

Come together ... over me

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 20th 2008 | Permalink
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Common people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another - for a while… We’re getting closer to the dream, the vision, of ubiquity mutual connectivity in the home – and maybe beyond a bit. My vision, since 1999, has been that everything in the home will talk to everything in the home. Everything that can will be a server, and everything will be a client. Since 1999 I’ve had to modify my vision a bit, I’ve had to learn a strange new alphabet, B, A, C, U, and then N – what’s that all about?…

Virtual Reality Resolution

Posted by Ted Pollak on May 20th 2008 | Permalink
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M.C Escher: Hand with Reflecting Sphere A number of months ago I visited a defense contractor who is making virtual reality training simulations for the military. To use the system people put on a VR headset which has a resolution of 800 x 600. At this meeting I asked the developers what the “virtual resolution” of their world was and the concept was lost to them. Well what I meant was how many pixels are in the universe from a single perspective around the user. Lately I have been flying Microsoft Flight Simulator X with a TrackIR head tracking device which…

The New Communications Tools…Listening, Helping

Posted by Andy Marken on May 10th 2008 | Permalink
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Andy Marken

Guest blogger Andy Marken has weighed in with his very opinionated view on how, exactly marketing professionals are going to have to change their ways in order to take advantage of the new order: Web 2.0. It’s not business as usual and it’s going to require new attitudes as more people get in on the act. By G.A. “Andy” Marken, Marken Communications Inc, Marketing and communications “experts” like to tell us how the Internet and Web 2.0 have opened up new opportunities for the industry to reach out to and influence people in new, exciting, more effective ways.  Instant information web…