Awww, is the air slipping out of your balloon?
That’s OK, we’ll get you a new one in a couple of years Hiya folks. Ya say ya lost your job today? Ya say it’s 4 a.m. and your kids ain’t home from school yet? ...
Getting ready for…
There’s so much to prepare for As October sadly comes to an end, and daylight savings time in the U.S. with it, we have to look to the future and be prepared for the next ...
Is VR the new electricity?
Is AI the new light bulb? Virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) remind me of stories I’ve read describing the late 1800s and early 1900s when people were finding novel uses for electricity, like ...
Summer is over and work begins
Fall really is a wonderful time of year. The kids are back at school and still too enthusiastic about their new clothes and seeing their friends to remember that it’s a terrible soul-crushing place. It’s ...
Call me lazy, backward, a troglodyte, whatever
I didn’t create the problem, I’m a victim like you I’m not buying a new PC. Even though the one I have is embarrassingly old, going on three years now, and even though it crashes ...
You will know computers really work when . . .
Computer—what’s that? I kinda’ grew up in the computer era, beginning with punch cards and patch panels. At the time it was exciting, the newest thing. Only super geeks could play with computers, and we ...
The letters of the future
Although we speak in code, we all have the decoder We’ve lived through, enjoyed, and profited from the PC era, and of course it’s not over yet, just shifting to the high end. As the ...
On Siggraph and other conferences
Resiliency due to relevance Siggraph and other shows are right-sized for the audience they serve. Allow me to elaborate. We at-tend, as visitors, and occasionally as speakers, several conferences a year (maybe as many as ...
Could 2016 be the make or break year for consumer VR?
The promise of so many things this year The subject of VR is getting more air time than the U.S. political candidates, which in itself isn’t a bad thing. Google is going to build a ...
Seeing is, . . . everything
The human brain processes entire images in 13 milliseconds We are visual animals. Ninety percent of the information we gather about the world and ourselves is done by our visual system, and naturally, we use ...
The year shapes up
If the first quarter is when the tech industry states its highest ambitions and fondest dreams, the second quarter is when many promises come to fruition … or not. New products promised at the end ...
FLOPS vs FRAPS: cars and GPUs
What makes the difference where the rubber meets the road? FLOPS—Floating-point Operations Per Second is a measurement of a processor’s arithmetic processing speed and has been used since the early 1960s to evaluate and compare ...