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Stop. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Eat $800 million. The Disneyfication of the a third-rate search engine and a pointless portal failed to make Go any better than worthless. So it's gonna be stopped. Godzilla vs. Tux, part 2 Intel counterpunches Transmeta with a couple of chips that seem to do pretty much the same thing as Crusoe, only maybe better. Here's the lead-in to the CNET story: Intel is releasing two chips that will compete directly with Transmeta's Crusoe processors in the notebook market, and the scary part for Transmeta is that it didn't take Intel long at all. The democracy of spelling From Google:
How a caffiene junkie kills time I'm sitting in the press room at Linux World Expo in New York, and here's the one good thing I can report so far (aside from the show, which will probably run smoothly once it starts, which looks like tomorrow instead of today when I thought it was), is the espresso bar on the lower level. The cappuccino I ordered is a real cappuccino!! Amazing. I'm staying at our part -time (and probably, soon, our ex-) apartment at 56th and Broadway in midtown Manhattan, and after four days of searching I have not yet found a place in the neighborhood that serves cappuccinos that are not large containers of hot milk tinted slightly tan by a diluted ounce or so of coffee. Of course the little establishment here in the basement "proudly brews" Starbucks coffee. Hey, it beats the crap out of Maxwell House. Who? Wah? On Sunday night Joyce and I watched the Superbowl at Essex House, the upscale Central Park hotel which some of us might remember as the guest house for Saturday Night Live in the early years. They have a dark, clubby and expensive bar there (the cover was $10 and cocktails were $13 each) with a half dozen nice TVs. Not the rowdy New Yawk kinda place we were looking for, but that was okay. We got to see and hear the ads — not always possible in your normal bars. Somewhere in there was an ad for who-knows-what (often you can't tell until they reveal the mystery at the end), terminated by the slogan "now it gets interesting" and a name: Accentuate? Accentual? Accessive? Anonyma? Apasthesia? Afterwards we couldn't remember. What we could remember was the audibule gasp that went up when the crowd saw what it said under the new name: "formerly Andersen Consulting." It was as if we had all witnessed a high-priced suicide on national television. What was interesting about watching blood seep from an idea that had just launched from altitude and lay dead on the pavement? I tried several of the new name candidates on the Web. Nothing loaded. Nor did www.andersenconsulting.com. I looked up andersen consulting on Google, and found it at http://www.ac.com. It took, I swear, two minutes to load while "reloading applet" kept appearing at the bottom of the window. If you want to view the design-at-all-costs ad campaign braggage, it's here. To save you the trouble, here's the copy. Read and wince: Now it gets interesting Oy. Guess that's why they didn't call it DuperDriveJust got this in an email from Jay R. Ashworth: Don't you think the inability of the iDVD to author *any* dupeable DVD's, even *original material* is more comment-worthy than just the fact that it can't steal movies? Yes. It sucks. The drive still encourages production of original work, even if it won't work as a mint for duplicating original work already stored on DVDs. Thus the diffusion of industrial power will spread from bigass entertainment producers to The Rest of Us. (Jay just sent more background on this, by the way. I'll get to it later.)
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