Not this is new news but guess what? ATI and AMD have merged with is a fancy way of saying, ATI has been swallowed up by AMD. Now I love AMD, don't get me wrong. However I don't aprove of major US companies thinking that they can swallow up Canadian companies cheaply. Now in AMD's case it will cost them $5 bilion and about 70 shares of there stock to buy ATI. So what does the tech world and the market have to gain? Well hopefully better chipsets for AMD motherboards and better processors from AMD as they are allowed to tap into ATI's coperate secrets. However it also works the other way. ATI will be able to make superious chipsets for motherboards for AMD as well as increase the performance in the graphics card lines. So it works both ways. However there has been a second development while I've been trying to get this through the publishing process. Intel has revocked ATI's chipset license. So what this basically means is that any and all mainboards that are made by Intel can no longer have ATI chips put in the them by default. However you can go out and buy an ATI graphics card to put in your PC. However insiders tell various news sources that Intel has not revoked ATI's chipset license. So this could be interesting. If Intel does (or did) revoke ATI's chipset license it's not the end of the world. All it means is that ATI chipsets will only go into AMD motherboards. And then there are motherboards manufactered by third parties.
The one major thing that could come out of this could be that Vista, as well as all other major future operating system could become more interoperable. Think of it thisway. The motherboard could be designed in such as way that the graphics card and the proccesor work together to enhance both the speed and the graphics performance of Vista. But who knows? Anything can happen.
Review: The New Digg Labs
As part of it's upcoming API, digg has launched it's two new users app's today. Called Swarm and Stack the apps are meant to enhance the way diggers know which stories are getting the most diggs (stack) and how many users are interested in a story (swarm) Launched last night the two apps together are in a new section of the site called digg labs. But enough banter onto the review
Stack
As mentioned above, Digg stack is meant to show a more detailed view of dugg stories. This is a novel concept and the UI of stack is quite nice. However I have 2 complaints. First the page does not render properly in Firefox. If Kevin Rose had anything to do with this project, he would not have let this detail go unnoticed. Another problem with Digg stack is the unability to go back to stories that have passed. When active digg stack moves actively to the left. And with all the digg comming in at times it's hard to click on a certain story. You can however pause the stack and click on a story. When you click on as story as well as a link to source page, you get a history of diggs per hour. This is very useful information. What I would like to see in stack sooner rather than later is the ability to digg a story within stack. Currently you must either have a tab/window open within the main section of digg and then search for the story within the specified container. You should be able to log into Digg within Digg labs and digg stories within stack. My third suggestion/critisism is that you should be able to review the stack. For example you should be able to go back through stack and see stories that have already gone by.
I love the idea of stack and it's much more effective than browsing through digg manually. Good Job Digg! 3.5/5
Swarm
I haven't spent as much time with swarm although I have gotten a feel for it. Like stack, it's meant to give users an idea of what stories are popular and what stories aren't. Swarm gives you an idea of how many users are viewing a story at any given time. Although not put into porportion. An interesting idea swarm can be very overwhelming. I clicked into my swarm tab to see dozens of stories with hundreds of little yellow things (users) floating around them. It was very overwhelming. So if I had to pick between swarm and stack I would pick stack. I find stack to be a bit more of clean interface as well as a bit more clarity and detail in terms of what information is provided. 3/5
Keep up the Good work Kevin!
Scotty's ashes to be shot into Space
Actor James Doohan's ashes will be shot into space this fall. They where supposed to be shot in space last year, however the launch that was supposed to shoot the ashes into space unable to launch because of tests on the rocket. Doohan's widow Wende (Doohan) said that James' final wish was to actually go into space. In 2004 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A little known fact about Doohan is that he was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and invaded the beaches with the 1st Canadian Division on DDay. He killed two german snipers, and did considerable damage to the germans before being shot six times by a german machine gun. Four times in the leg, once in the chest, and once in the finger. The finger was amputated. He would later conceal this in his later performances. He was trained as a pilot as an artillery observer and, at one point was labelled "the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force", although he wasn't officially a memeber of the RCF. Doohan' ashes will be shot into space along with 100 people, notable of them Timothy Leary, and astronaunt Gordon Cooper. But anyway I digress.
Sorry it took so long to push this post through the door, but good material is hard to come by these days.
Nathaniel
I love the idea of stack and it's much more effective than browsing through digg manually. Good Job Digg! 3.5/5
Swarm
I haven't spent as much time with swarm although I have gotten a feel for it. Like stack, it's meant to give users an idea of what stories are popular and what stories aren't. Swarm gives you an idea of how many users are viewing a story at any given time. Although not put into porportion. An interesting idea swarm can be very overwhelming. I clicked into my swarm tab to see dozens of stories with hundreds of little yellow things (users) floating around them. It was very overwhelming. So if I had to pick between swarm and stack I would pick stack. I find stack to be a bit more of clean interface as well as a bit more clarity and detail in terms of what information is provided. 3/5
Keep up the Good work Kevin!
Scotty's ashes to be shot into Space
Actor James Doohan's ashes will be shot into space this fall. They where supposed to be shot in space last year, however the launch that was supposed to shoot the ashes into space unable to launch because of tests on the rocket. Doohan's widow Wende (Doohan) said that James' final wish was to actually go into space. In 2004 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A little known fact about Doohan is that he was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and invaded the beaches with the 1st Canadian Division on DDay. He killed two german snipers, and did considerable damage to the germans before being shot six times by a german machine gun. Four times in the leg, once in the chest, and once in the finger. The finger was amputated. He would later conceal this in his later performances. He was trained as a pilot as an artillery observer and, at one point was labelled "the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force", although he wasn't officially a memeber of the RCF. Doohan' ashes will be shot into space along with 100 people, notable of them Timothy Leary, and astronaunt Gordon Cooper. But anyway I digress.
Sorry it took so long to push this post through the door, but good material is hard to come by these days.
Nathaniel
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