Author Archives: greader
Is Freescale Going From RIP to IPO? – BusinessWeek
The chipmaker wants to go public to help pay off its $8 billion in debt.
MIPS, ARM Wrestling In Wireless – Yahoo! Finance
MIPS Technologies (NMS:MIPS) is ready to take on cell phone chip-design king ARM (NMS:ARMH).ARM had sales of $479 million last year, compared with $71 million
Diagram Showing The Relationships Of Car Makers To One Another (Looks Incestuous)
Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers!
This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between the various car manufacturers. I found it pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know...
Tom’s Hardware’s Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up
Which SSD should you buy today? Seventeen flash-based drives battle across a benchmark suite that include throughput, I/O performance, consistency, power consumption, efficiency, and the best overall bang for the buck. The time is right to upgrade.
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In-car computing for the luxury set
Something I've seen a lot of on my nocturnal Manhattan dogwalks: Idling ambulances and parked Lincoln Town Cars with the drivers in them, heads always inclined downwards at the same angle, eyes open, faces lit from a bluish-white source below. Get clos...
China’s nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km – Yahoo! News
Shared by Frank
wtf
Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.
Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? – Maz Jobrani (2010)
A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can't be trusted ..."
China Passes Japan to Become No. 2 Economy – NYTimes.com
Experts say that unseating Japan underscores China’s clout and bolsters forecasts that China will pass the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy as early as 2030.
“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?” America’s misguided culture of overwork – Nonfiction – Salon.com