Posted 06/28/2009 at 07:44:43am

Seriously?  I doubt that this will be of any benefit.  I live in Chicago and Chicago has an agreement with Comcast that they will be the dominant player in the broadband market.  Considering Chicago's <sarcasm>excellent political reparte</sarcasm>, I'm pretty sure that this won't create new competition but it will only create a lot of Quid Pro Quo deals.  It's been like this in Chicago, and Chicago is a BIG city.  Any city deals in Chicago almost always results in ZERO customer benefits, because in the end it costs more and the benefits are far and few between.

Also, I commend this guy for doing this.  These broadband fascists need to learn that free market doesn't mean 'free to raise prices, free to destroy competition' but it means 'free to enter/exit the market' and 'freedom for market success.'   I would rather see free market competition deal with these monsters the way they need to be dealt with: lose customers, lose profits and lose our business.

Posted 06/09/2009 at 11:54:27am

I would gladly get the phone, but the price is ridiculous!  For a phone whose only "upgrade" is video and a newer processor is not worth the money AT&T's willing to charge.  I also can't believe that while MMS is available, AT&T won't support it until later on?  What.the.hey.  If they charge for MMS, I'm gonna seriously switch to Verizon once my contract is over.  AT&T freakin' sucks donkey balls.

Posted 05/27/2009 at 12:59:17pm

From a business perspective, I can virtualize the crap out of my servers and utilize fewer hardware.  I could also utilize this for processing large chunks of data - though, on the other hand, I'm probably more keen to use nVidia's CUDA technology instead.  But this will make a great server none-the-less, wish I could afford one for my home. :P

Posted 05/27/2009 at 12:57:09pm

Not quite, the cores themselves are running at x.xx Ghz, Hyperthreading doesn't half the processing power, all it does is allow the core to run two threads simultaneously.  Hyperthreading (a.k.a., SMT or Symmetrical Multi-Threading) requires that software be SMT aware - so there are some drawbacks, but Windows is SMT aware.

Posted 05/04/2009 at 11:34:39am

installed on my Core 2 Duo, 8GB DDR2-800, 250GB/1TB system.  Plays nice with nVidia hardware, fast, responsive and love the new UI.

I 'upgraded' from XP Professional to Vista Ultiamte (32-bit) then went to Vista Business x64.  Vista did NOT like my nVidia Geforce card - so much that it kept crashing.  Re-installed several times, installed the driver and is now stable.  However, networking in Vista blows.  I'm guessing that Vista doesn't like my nForce 570 SLI motherboard, either.

Windows 7 plays nice, no crashes nor hangs.  Google Chrome is working fine and so is IE8.  Haven't tried Firefox 3 on it.  Visual Studio 2008 plays beautifully and haven't encountered issues with it.  SQL Server Management Studio works too.

Overall, I think Windows 7 should have been what Vista was.  Vista was such a failure that I don't understand how Microsoft could have launched such a piece-o-crap OS.  7 is so stable and mature (in beta, mind you) that I'm contemplating using it as my primary OS even though it's still beta.