Posted by on under nforce chipset, chipset business, cpu manufacturers, delicate line, solutis, mths, compas, hiatus, nvidia, pc magazine, laptops, walks, processors, intel, attitude, nbsp, shock | 
It's been about two months since NVIDIA called
rumors that it was leaving the chipset business "groundless," so perhaps it's no big shock that
PC Magazine is now reporting that the company is putting its nForce chipset line "on hiatus." On hiatus, that is, until the company gets a few
sticky legal questions out of the way, including whether or not its four-year deal with Intel
covers Core i7 processors. Thus we have the delicate line that NVIDIA walks with Intel: for the time being, the two companies need each other, but they don't have to like each other, and as the latter continues to pursue
graphics integration with the CPU, manufacturers are going to be increasingly pushed towards all-Intel solutions. All this leads us to wonder if NVIDIA might decide chipsets in general are more trouble than they're worth, especially considering
Intel's general attitude about them -- and whether ION might be the next on the block.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
NVIDIA halting chipset development after all originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under samuel morse, iry, best thing since sliced bread, panics, phe, hysteria, thoreau, typewriters, backlash, aces, pencil, brains, critique, telegraph, waves, peoe, attitude, memory |
Salon has a refreshing take on the effect of the net on wider culture, courtesy of Dennis Baron, author of the new book A Better Pencil. Baron places hysteria about the net's supposed dumbing-down in context with other panics of years gone by. Historically, when the new communication device comes out, the reaction tends to be divided. Some people think it's the best thing since sliced bread; other people fear it as the end of civilization as we know it. And most people take a wait and see attitude. And if it does something that they're interested in, they pick up on it, if it doesn't, they don't buy into it. I start with Plato's critique of writing where he says that if we depend on writing, we will lose the ability to remember things. Our memory will become weak. And he also criticizes writing because the written text is not interactive in the way spoken communication is. He also says that written words are essentially shadows of the things they represent. They're not the thing itself. Of course we remember all this because Plato wrote it down -- the ultimate irony. We hear a thousand objections of this sort throughout history: Thoreau objecting to the telegraph, because even though it speeds things up, people won't have anything to say to one another. Then we have Samuel Morse, who invents the telegraph, objecting to the telephone because nothing important is ever going to be done over the telephone because there's no way to preserve or record a phone conversation. There were complaints about typewriters making writing too mechanical, too distant -- it disconnects the author from the words. That a pen and pencil connects you more directly with the page. And then with the computer, you have the whole range of "this is going to revolutionize everything" versus "this is going to destroy everything." Is the Internet melting our brains?...
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Posted by Jason Kottke on under prae, ollie, rewards, rage, parenting, attitude, psychology, appearance, teeth, parents, parental pressure |
When the usual methods of getting your child to do something fail, perhaps try the exact opposite approach instead.
They direct the parents to temporarily back off almost entirely: to stop asking their child to do the desired behavior and say it's OK not to do it at all, stop offering praise or other rewards for doing it, and mask their attitude of engaged enthusiasm or frustrated rage with an appearance of bland disinterest in whether the child does it or not. What happens next, frequently, is that within a day or two the child starts doing the behavior with no prompting from parents or anyone else.
The explanation of why this technique works is pretty interesting. We've tried it a bit recently with Ollie and his extreme disinterest in brushing his teeth and we're seeing some promising results, although I imagine this works better with slightly older kids.
Tags: parenting psychology
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Just because cold, dreary weather reigns king outside doesn’t mean you have to let it in. Insulated windows help with the elements while decorative coverings keep the chill from your attitude. Warm up the room with some of the coolest window treatments around. #1 – Here, powder-blue and chocolate-brown Thai silk drapes fall elegantly from the [...]
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Posted by on under brad pitt and angelina, pitt and angelina, angelina jolie, digg, millis, bohemian, brad pitt, fidelity, attitude, relationship |
With six beautiful children and millions in the bank genetically blessed couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie surely have a great life. But when it comes to their relationship they seem to have a very bohemian attitude to staying faithful to each other.
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