AMD's acquisition of ATI Technologies, one of the top two graphics processor makers, may be great news for desktop Linux users.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
AMD's ATI acquisition may help Linux
American Bar Association: Bush is Destroying the Constitution
President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.
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How 25 years of MTV have Changed the World (for better and worse)
MTV famously claimed its first casualty with its premiere video, aired August 1, 1981. But since video killed the radio star, what has the network accomplished?
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The High Cost of Being Poor
There are people, concentrated in the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, who still confuse poverty with the simple life. No cable TV, no altercations with the maid, no summer home maintenance issues -- just the basics like family, sunsets and walks in the park. What they don't know is that it's expensive to be poor.
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Monday, July 24, 2006
AMD, ATi, Microsoft, and the Zune Set to Change the IT World
AMD buys ATi and Microsoft launches an ipod killer that they told everyone they didn’t have.
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Porn Star for Governor?
In the upcoming election Republican porn star Melody “Mimi Miyagi” Damayo will be appearing on the list of candidates for the governor of Nevada. So far, out of all the candidates, she has gotten the most mainstream press and expects to use her previous career to compliment her campaign. Are we seeing the beginning of a trend where educated politicians are being replaced with media stars?
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Online Dating 2.0: 13 Next-Gen Sites To Find Love
A great outline of 13 next-generation online dating sites with a handy feature comparison chart.
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U.S. Gas Prices Hit All-Time High
Nationwide gas prices hit an all-time high in the last two weeks, rising nearly 2 cents to just over $3 per gallon.
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
Foreign Companies Buy U.S. Roads, Bridges
Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
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North Korea producing highly advanced counterfeit US currency
The counterfeits were nearly flawless. They featured the same high-tech color-shifting ink as genuine American bills and were printed on paper with the same precise composition of fibers. The engraved images were, if anything, finer than those produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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YouTube Is The Fastest Growing Website
The popularity of YouTube is growing at an astronomical rate, as web traffic to the video-sharing site grew 75% just in the week ending July 16.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Wireless Broadband Could Go Live Nationwide in Less Than 3 Years
If Craig O. McCaw gets his way, you'll be able to do all that, and more, in as little as three years' time. McCaw's Clearwire Corp. has amassed enough licensed radio spectrum to create a nationwide, wireless broadband network based on an emerging technology called mobile WiMAX -- a powerful cousin of WiFi.
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Dual-booting Windows and Linux the easy way (Linux.com videos)
An excellent step-by-step videos-based guide. There is no longer a reason to have any machine in the house/office which is Windows-only.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Is America's $8 Billion Bottled Water Industry A Fraud?
"In a trendy nightclub in New York City, the bartender tells guests they can only be served bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny half-pint container. One outraged clubber is
stopped by the restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from the
tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New York's tap water isn't
safe."
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Americans Becoming Isolated From Reality
A major national survey being released today shows that the average number of people with whom Americans discuss important matters has dropped from three to two in just two decades.
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Toughest Immigration Law Passed in Hazelton, PA
A Pennsylvania town that passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the United States this week overstepped its authority, said a civil-liberties group which announced plans on Friday to sue. The city council of Hazleton, a former coal-mining town of some 31,000 people, late on Thursday passed a measure that will deny a business permit to anyone hiring illegal immigrants.
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Free Broadband for satellite users Starts TODAY
Again things in the UK are ahead of the USA. Article talks about free broadband being given to satellite television customers. Talk about a way for satellite television to kick the cable companies in the rear. Com on Dish guys, see what is going on in the Uk. Cable won't know how to compete!
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'Pirates' loots box office, grosses $258M
"Pirates of the Caribbean" is looking more like "Treasure Island." Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" dug up $62.2 million in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Bush Hijacks The Constitution
George Orwell once wrote: "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." This New York Times OpEd boldly speaks the Truth behind the Bush administration seizure of the Constitutional values Americans hold dear.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
Self-control is the key to success
"He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the bell, he would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If, however, they didn't ring the bell and waited for him to come back on his own, they could then have two marshmallows." Interesting study that correlates results to success in life.
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