Author Archives: dru

I’m sitting here with two monitors. I’m checking my email over the web. I’m watching/listening to the Apple keynote in another window. I’m paying somebody for an eBay purchase. My phone is talking to my computer wirelessly. My computers are … Continue reading →

I don’t have a friendster account (or an Orkut one for that matter.) I do use Plaxo and LinkedIn (yeah, I work for Plaxo on the Outlook client 🙂 ) Then I read this blog about what happens to someone … Continue reading →

I was browsing around the old internet today and happened on an ad for the following company: http://www.artvps.com/ They make PCI boards that will take your render times down several orders in magnitude. Their stuff works with Maya, MentalRay, and … Continue reading →

This company called ClearCube just got $25 million in funding. That is nice, but it is the technology that is neat. They have some sort of little box that acts as a thin client for your PC. Essentially, you put … Continue reading →

The 16 pipelines have 16bit or 32bit formats for the texture pipelines. Also, the system uses 64 bit filtering for the system. Even better, on the tech specs, they specify: Full 128-bit studio-quality, floating point precision through the entire rendering … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. If you didn’t notice, Nvidia released their new GPUs a couple months back. Whats new? Well, they are 16 pipes of 32 bit goodness. How many transistors? 222 MILLION Compare … Continue reading →

It seems like a lot of Proto languages are coming out here in 2004. This new one http://slate.tunes.org/, called Slate keeps it’s syntax much more aligned with Self. Where did all these language writers come from? When I was on … Continue reading →

But I’m back. I was on a trip to Florida, and then things just get backed up. Expect more posts.