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November 18, 2002 |
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OSNews.com has an article on Digeo’s all-in-one PVR/set-top box, formerly from Moxi Digital. 9:43:06 PM 
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Comdex With the start of Comdex various companies are introducing their new products: Dell introduced its Axim X5 handhelds which are cheap Pocket PCs running Microsoft Pocket PC 2002. HP countered with a selection of high and low end iPaqs. Nvidia unveiled the GeForce FX (aka NV30), which will be available in February 2003. Some selected tech specs:
Tom’s Hardware states that the chip is a completely new design that uses some of the technologies accrued from 3dfx and Gigapixel. Update: ExtremeTech covers this issue and many architectural details in depth in its preview article. When we did the acquisition of 3dfx, NV30 was underway, and there was a project [code-named Fusion] at 3dfx underway. The teams merged, and the projects were merged. We had each team switch to understand and present the other's architecture and then advocate it. We then picked and chose the best parts from both. Fusion was 3dfx's next architecture after Rampage, and was a fusion of the 3dfx and the GigaPixel technologies. And the fanboy wars of who's tech was better come to an end. 9:41:09 PM
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While Firefly has been pre-empted by a movie this week, Zap2it reports that Fox Television ordered 2 more episodes keeping it on air at least to December. 9:12:54 PM
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One of the most troublesome problems in the Middle East conflict is the refusal of Arabs to accept a Jewish connection to Israel or even the Jewish nature of its historic characters. This is shown in an article by Charles A. Radin of the Boston Globe on the fighting in Hebron where both Arabs and Jews live. He writes: Contention centers on the cave, which the Book of Genesis records that Abraham, founder of the Jewish people, purchased as a burial place for his wife, Sarah. It was his first purchase of property in the Promised Land. Much of the magnificent structure that surrounds the cave today was built by King Herod - who also built the great Jewish sanctuary atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount, where important episodes in the life of Jesus occurred. But the cave itself is covered by a mosque built by the Mamluks, a Muslim warrior class of the Middle Ages. Many Muslims assert that the biblical patriarchs, and the cave where they are buried, have nothing to do with Jews, and that Jews have no right to pray at the site. They also deny the existence of the biblical temples in Jerusalem. Such claims are particularly offensive to the Jews of Hebron and the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba, many of whom are highly religious and consider living here a way of rooting themselves and their families in their history. ''There is nothing Jewish'' about the site, Hajazi Abu Sneineh, director of the mosque, said in a interview. ''The sons of Israel are Muslims. Moses was a Muslim. David was a Muslim.'' Nothing will be solved until these attitudes change. 12:25:27 AM
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Last update: 10/12/2002; 9:30:10 PM .
