The Tyranny of Terminology
Source: Willi Heidelbach One of the running jokes about the difference between the English, French and German languages are how rich and efficient English is and how complicated and wordy French and German can ...
To be S3D you have to see
James Cameron called me the other day and told me (he never asks) I should pay more attention to 3D. I told him I’ve been involved in “3D” longer than he has been making movies, ...
To 3D or not 3D, that’s no longer the question
Visual stereoscopy, also known as S3D, has definitely come to the PC. It was actually always there, just not exposed. Soon there will be video stereoscopy available on your TV, you can see cinematic stereoscopy ...
Moving toward the edge —it may be uncomfortable there
This week’s issue of Tech Watch looks at the inflection point we are entering with the end of the IGP and the introduction of the IPG—Integrated Processor Graphics. The question is, or at least one ...
Almost every year Intel’s Paul Otellini gets to be proven right
Paul Otellini says no other architecture has ever survived other than the x86. He cites RISC, Transputer, SGI’s geometry processor, array-processors, DSP, and others. Now he can add the Cell to his list. Last month, ...
On seeing more
Peddie’s second law is—The more you can see the more you can do. Looking good, feeling better. And if you’ve looked at my blog, you will see what I’m currently experimenting with to test that ...
A look at the future—maybe
We’ve spent some intense and serious time with the AMD folks recently, in Las Vegas, Texas, Santa Clara, here in our labs, on the phone and by email, and we’ve gotten a pretty good understanding ...
Look at me when I talk to you
About ten years ago, I wrote an editorial suggesting our PCs could, and should, look at and listen to us. And when they did they would be able to see if we were happy, angry, ...
The middle ground—is there one or many?
When Steve Jobs presented the iPad, he set up the premise that we have smart phones, and we have laptops, and there is a gap between them that should be filled. As he made his ...
Stereo—can we get real?
The movie industry commonly called “Hollywood’ is famous for stereotypes, mislabeling, and misrepresenting. In some sense you could say that’s their business model—to create an illusion, to misdirect. Just the term Hollywood is misdirection as ...
Predictions
They’re pretty predicable—wrong. This is the time of year when everyone and their dog make predictions about what’s going to happen next year. I predict that this year, that will happen again (see, my accuracy ...
Welcome to the Cloud – It may be scarier than you thought – Cloud Computing
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