iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests See here. Fairly staggering iPad 2 supremacy over three tests. I bet the unintuitive (but happy) results stem from a combination of two factors: The encoding is hardwareacceleratedon that new GPU silicon ( and the GPU is a whispy speed-demon) iOS’s overhead is so low [...]
With CES over, and some Apple announcement’s ahead, I totally missed the big picture as remarked upon by market analyst Horace Dediu. At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened: The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers. The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Microsoft for the next generation of Windows. [...]
“An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars on October 8, 2010 in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.” via the Boston Globe
“When I first saw this, I had to do a double take,” writes Ars Technica‘s Emil Protalinski of Microsoft’s announcement that that the company is killing Encarta this year. “I made sure it wasn’t April 1 at least three times before I conceded.” – I did a double take too, but in the opposite direction. [...]
Just got back from Barcamp Texas. The definition these particular organizers forwarded is a good one: BarCamp is an ad-hoc technology gathering for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction with attendees. So no, there were neither tents nor pubs involved. The ‘bar’ [...]