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Analysts Predict AMD & Intel will Struggle in 2009

Posted 11/17/2008 at 10:57:09am

  As I see it there is nothing uncertain about our economy. It stinks. And yes, like so many others I have forgone a very necessary upgrade and/or replacement of my computer. The reason should be painfully obvious to anyone. We can’t afford the outrageous prices being charged by manufacturers, service providers and retailers. Here is the problem; roughly ten years ago some Wallstreet dork determined that no business entity was getting more than 3% of any customer’s disposable income. (According to the feds, about 20% of the average Americans income was disposable.) The afore mentioned dork stated that each business should be trying to get that 20%. The problem with this of course is that there isn’t one mega corporation providing all goods and services. There are thousands of businesses vying for a piece of that 20%. Unfortunately business bought into this philosophy of greed and now everyone is paying the price for the foolish choices made a decade ago.

 Tracy Fox

"High tech is cool, but low tech rules."

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Quantum Encryption System Deemed Unbreakable, Won't Send You Hurling Through Time

Posted 10/15/2008 at 11:16:17am

Tracy Fox

"High tech is cool, but low tech rules."

In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the momentum of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the momentum of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain. Put simply this means that while they could measure the precise location of quantum particles at the start of a transmission, they can not predict the precise location of those particles at the end of the transmission or at any point in between. In order to accurately predict the future location of any moving object you need to know: 1. The objects original location, 2. The objects trajectory, 3. The objects velocity and 4. All obstacles. The last one may have you scratching your head, but think about it. Quantum particles are zipping and bouncing along a fiber optic line, (basically a tube). Remember these people are not just saying that they can get information from point A to point B. They are essentialy claiming to know what the precise location of every particle is through out the transmission. And they would have to know that in order to know weather or not someone had tapped the lines. But of course that is impossible by todays standards. The only way to know the precise location of any particle is to measure that particle. And that measurement will change the particles speed and trajectory.

NewsSSD Performance on
IDF: Intel Pimps SSD to Hardcore Gamers

Posted 08/27/2008 at 12:38:22pm

 Independent verification? Here's a thought, why not get IOMeter and run the tests for yourselves? OH, wait. I believe MaximumPC has done this in the past. Hmm, kinda brings MaximumPC's credibility into question.

 You know the more I see of the "improvements" to MaximumPC, the lower my opinion of it drops. This magazine used to be, hands down, the best technical magazine in the world. Now it's closer to PCWorld. And that is just a big advertisement mag with zero credibility.

Tracy Fox

"High tech is cool, but low tech rules."

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