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Intel antitrust investigation officially launched by FTC {Engadget}
Jun 8th 2008 8:32AM Engadget's piece is LAME and UNINFORMATIVE, and is probably the reason why there are so many silly comments here about the FTC bullying Intel or Intel having the right to define its pricing policy.
THE FTC ISN'T GOING AFTER INTEL'S PRICING POLICY. It's going after a distribution scheme where Intel's clients only get rebates or get bigger rebates ONLY IF THEY DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH AMD. Read the piece in nytimes, it says so much more clearly.
As many have posted here, this practice gave Intel an unfair advantage and managed to get it through the heat back when AMD was biting its heels with better and cheaper CPUs without much trouble. Sure Intel has better products now - but if AMD goes belly-up I so does Intel's incentive to innovate. Which is all the worse if it could have been prevented by the FTC and they didn't act.
I don't know American law very well but I'd assume that it's the FTC who must prove that Intel's conduct was unlawful. So if Intel does get fined I for one don't believe it will be because of a whim by the folks at the FTC, but because they managed to prove that Intel broke the law, the same law that applies to any other company in the same situation.
Just my USD$.02
Bacteria computer is good at math, even those pesky story problems {Engadget}
May 30th 2008 10:14AM WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!
I can see the headlines in a few years: invincible bacteria decimates world population, was taught to dodge antibiotics by silly scientists.
DOOM.... DOOM... DOOM... DOOM... DOOM...
ASUS bringing Splashtop instant-on OS to all its motherboards {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 9:49AM Instant on basic OS: great asset especially if your HDD dies on you and you don't have a live cd at hand.
Advanced system repair tools: good only for advance users, basic users may enjoy the ability to turn their PC on regardless of some hardware/software problems but I doubt they'd be able to do something useful with the tools. Also, limited by the size of the flash memory on which the OS is installed.
Wish list: HTPC software + iMon! Push power button, instantly get a (decent) media centre home screen and start playing whatever media you want.
Windows XP SP3 release just around the bend? {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2008 5:55AM @SUPERGOOMAN
Somehow I find it very hard to believe. I have my fair share of USB peripherals - printers, memory sticks, external HDD, digital camera - and I must have installed some 5 or 6 different builds of Vista beta. Not a single one corrupted ANY of my files. The first were relatively unstable and laggy, but the last couple were really usable. So much so that I ran RC1 until the beta activation expired and I had to go back to XP. And I'm not talking monster-super-gaming-rig here: I had a plain Pentium4 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon X300, which were enough to run Vista with Aero.
Did you have all those decades' worth of films on USB sticks? Did you perchance yank them from the computer when they were being used? I don't want to say you're making it up but really - you'd have to be a very unlucky guy to have that happen.
By the way - always back up important files on non-rewritable media... And stash them away so they don't get broken/scratched/whatever.
High voltage "antivirus" halo protects your laptop, keeps you vigilant {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 2:53PM Meh... Nice for producing long-exposure photos, but quick snaps and the real-time viewer impression are lame (looks like a cheap high-school experiment with those dangling wires).
And we're off: Twin Cities get first DOCSIS 3.0 deployment {Engadget}
Apr 3rd 2008 7:44AM I'd like to see that tested. When you're paying 150 bucks (150 bucks!!!!!!) for your connection it had better live up to expectations. Do COMCAST use traffic shaping? Can you use that speed anywhere outside their network?
BTW, there's an ISP in Portugal who's offering 60mbps dl/5mbps ul over optic fiber (plus phone and tv). I haven't tested it, but it costs €50 - even with the dollar depreciating, it's still a LONG way from USD 150.
Skullphone's Clear Channel billboards not hax0r3d, actually pa1d for {Engadget}
Mar 26th 2008 3:27PM What the...? What's with the disappointment?!?! I think it's a brilliant joke hehehe. He DID get his graffiti on those panels. And all of us talking about it.
Come on, the guy's a street artist, NOT a hax0r. If he were trying to pass off as one I'd agree that this prank wouldn't do much good for his credibility, but as it is... I'm thinking GTA IV-style invading enemy gang turf with my tags on every screen visible from the street [^_^]
Cybernet's all-in-one keyboard computers get an upgrade {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2008 1:34PM Er... Kind of bulky for an HTPC don't ya think? What with all of a PC's innards in the keyboard on your knees... Better to have a decent HTPC case and a good wireless keyboard - but that's just my 2 cents [^_^]
Cybernet's all-in-one keyboard computers get an upgrade {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2008 10:51AM Oh look! The Amiga 500 got a touchpad =)
AMD unveils DirectX 10-compatible 780 Series motherboard GPU {Engadget}
Mar 4th 2008 1:58PM @CosterMonger: what I read from your numbers (if I'm reading them correctly - you don't make it easy :P) then AMD integrated graphics is pulling out 2x to 3x the performance as an Intel integrated graphics. Don't go comparing apples with bananas. Integrated graphics will not get you top performance. This chipset is for folks who don't want or need dedicated graphics cards, and as things are apparently you're better off with AMD. Now - does it come with socket 775 so I can throw an Intel Core Duo CPU in there? Hehehe
