The SemiAccurate (http://macte.ch/LUHV) web site generated a lot of discussion over the weekend when it said that Apple was planning to dump Intel from its laptop lines within 2-3 years. That’s an interesting idea, and perhaps it’s on target, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
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Apple has been granted two patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office.
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By Greg Mills
“Star Trek” has a rosy view of the future where hunger and want are historic, and computers listen to users to input information. To access a computer you say “computer,” and then give your command or search information. You dictate text and it just appears on the screen. That is a cool concept and it has been hinted at for years on PCs of both stripes.
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By Greg Mills
Bleeding, as a medical therapy, is one of those historic absolutely backwards things that were done in Medieval ignorance. Someone who is already weak from an illness would be bled every day to get rid of the “bad blood.”
There is no way of knowing how many people died from the bleeding treatment instead of what they were trying to be cured of. We know now there is no such thing as bad blood or good blood.
Read MoreWhile digital home-video options are gaining in popularity and Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray a “bag of hurt,” more than three quarters of U.S. consumers continue to view movies on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Nearly 80 cents of every dollar spent on home video movies goes toward the purchase or rental of physical discs.
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