Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, has passed away. He invented the IC during the summer mass-vacation period at TI just weeks after joining the company and before he’d accrued enough time to take vacation. It happened like this: The innovation came in August 1958, when Kilby was working alone at a Texas Instruments [...]
Here’s his take on the process by which the Apple OS will go mainstream: 1. Apple releases OS X86 as a proprietary system for its boxes. It’s immediately pirated and goes into the wild. 2. Apple squawks about the piracy to draw attention to it, thus increasing the piracy, creating a virtual or shadow beta [...]
The economic battle of the 21st century is between India and China, with the US and Europe on the sidelines and South America and Africa outside the stadium. Mark Steyn, among others, thinks India will win because China is still too embroiled in the fascist/communist mindset: Mao, though he gets a better press than Hitler [...]
High-definition TV is probably confusing to most folks, so I’m going to lay out the basics in the interest of world peace and harmony and explain the technologies currently duking it out for your consumer dollar. First, lets understand that high-definition TV is digital, but not all digital TV is hi-def. DVDs, for example, are [...]
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