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Monthly Archives: September 2003

AM Scramble (part 2)

by Rob Friesel

Santa Clara, California-based Intel has said the PC market is not yet ready for 64-bit computing and lacks applications that will run on the chips. Which strikes my as funny, b/c the article focuses solely on Intel and AMD chips, not bothing to mention that Apple’s new G5 is a 64-bith processor and that Adobe […]

AM Scramble (part 1)

by Rob Friesel

Because many astrologists consider Mercury to be the planet of communication, shipping, contracts and verbal agreements, they associate Mercury’s thrice-yearly retrograde — including the current period of Aug. 28 to Sept. 20 — with all manner of wacky happenings here on Earth, including a penchant in people for indecision. Hope this doesn’t have any ill-effects […]

3ngrish.

by Rob Friesel

“…regions with the greatest linguistic diversity (e.g. Africa) lag significantly in Internet host and user growth, suggesting a widening of the digital divide at least for minority language groups.” Extremely hesitant to agree. And just as hesitant to disagree. While it’s true that regions of comparably high linguistic diversity frequently and consistently lag in technological […]