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Tech News: Birth and Death of High Def

Flash will kill Blu-ray and HD DVD
You can see this coming

Sandisk launched a device which could, single-handedly, whack all optical media in the next five to six years. The concept is fairly simple. You place the device between standard definition source without HD support, and a TV, and it will pull the content onto a flash card, so that you can play the video on your mobile gizmo.
by Theo Valich.

Blu-ray, HD both doomed as pr0n industry twiddles thumbs
AEE 007 The third player will triumph

The majority of this victory is due to one thing, Sony’s arrogance. It doesn’t learn from history, and is burdened with the huge millstone of unchecked ego. You can see signs of it everywhere, but the most obvious is at the Adult Entertainment Expo that goes along with CES. Sony underestimated porn.
by Charlie Demerjian.

FreeBSD 6.2 Released to Mirrors

FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. “FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.”
from OSnews.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

We had completely disappeared from Google’s main index!
by Rick Ross.

Pushing no buttons with the iPhone

But now, here comes the iPhone. I haven’t touched one yet, but I will stand in line for a long time to get one. I desire one: heartily, enthusiastically, and with gusto. Mucho gusto. How can I not tell everyone I know—and everyone who cares to listen—just how cool it is?
I did just that last night, over dinner with friends. I busted into full evangelical mode over chili verde at a tasty new restaurant and let everyone know—including the poor saps at neighboring tables, I’m sure—just how awesome, brilliant, life-altering, and revolutionary this new iPod/Internet/camera/high-def/wide-screen/touch-screen/WiFi/Bluetooth phone was going to be.
by Eric Suesz.

500 MHz FSB? Core 2 Duo Overtakes Core 2 Extreme

In the processor world, the right product appeals to almost everyone by being fast, efficient and affordable. It also has to offer additional benefits, such as a nice margin for overclocking, because that’s what people do to save money and squeeze the most performance out of their hardware. Core 2 Duo is based on a well-designed microarchitecture and is manufactured using the latest 65 nm process, which gave Intel quite a head start over AMD. This becomes obvious when looking at overclocking results: all of the Core 2 Duo X6800 samples that we had in our test labs were effortlessly able to overclock from 2.93 GHz to 3.46 GHz, and many of the regular Core 2 Duo models run at least 3 GHz as well. Clearly, Intel laid out its Core 2 specifications for ideal efficiency, not for performance.
by Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos