What is email?

by | Monday, May 28, 2007 | Architecture, Information Management | 4 comments

Mirrorworlds for the masses David Gelernter’s company, Mirror Worlds Technologies, tried to put an interface on Windows that reflected how people actually remember and link their experiences, rather than some CompSci metadata accommodation. The company ceased...

Intel’s best and worst

by | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech | 5 comments

Over on ZDnet Monday I posted RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow. I wrote about Intel’s ill-fated attempt to get Fully Buffered DIMMs accepted as the memory standard for servers and workstations. I got started on the topic because I’m thinking of buying...