tim ferro
professional software developer, gen y advocate, blogger, and orator

Being a long time fan boy of AMD, it hurts me to see Intel slashing its prices. Although un-like other fan boys I know when it’s time to jump ship (only for a little while). For only 25 bucks more than AMD’s cheapest quad core, you’ll get Intel’s quad core which spanks AMD’s best quad core in almost every benchmark, ouch. By the way, I do mean on DDR2 mobo’s, I’m not counting Intel’s advantage with DDR3, because that would be even more painful.

For me it’s not about brand loyalty, if you are a sheep then maybe it is for you. If you are a true geek or nerd or whatever you call yourself it’s about speed, pure and unadulterated speed, (and cost). That magical price/performance ratio. So all hail to the new price/performance king, Intel.

Here’s the link to another beautiful xbitlabs article, it includes the new pricing.

“The truth is finally out there about the new “X-Files” movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” said Chris Carter, the series’ creator and the movie’s director and co-writer.” - Source

“DreamWorks has acquired rights to the Japanese manga “Ghost in the Shell” with plans to adapt the futuristic police thriller as a 3-D live-action feature.” - Source

“Joystiq had a chance to test the Wii-specific light-saber fighting in The Force Unleashed, and they walked away impressed, claiming it could almost be shipped as its own game. I probably wouldn’t go that far: the mode will require two players to play, as there is no AI to duel against. Still, the system sounds pretty slick, and the Wii version of the game suddenly became much more attractive. ” - Source

” Fedora 9 beta is available for download today, with a final release scheduled for April 29. The latest version of the free (as in beer) cousin of Red Hat Linux comes with a number of major updates, including support for the latest versions of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments.” - Source

“As Bender’s Big Score gets set to air in four installments on Comedy Central later this month, Fox Home Entertainment ahs announced that the next adventure in the series of Futurama DVD movies will be available at retail this summer. The Fate of human and robot-kind is at stake when Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs debuts at retail on June 24.

In what Fox is calling the most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love as the Planet Express crew encounters a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions.” - Source

“The first alpha release of Fedora 9 (codenamed Sulphur) was announced this morning on the Fedora mailing list. This alpha, which provides a first look at the features of Fedora’s next release, includes GNOME 2.21, KDE 4.0, Firefox 3 beta 2, version 2.6.24 of the Linux kernel, and many other improvements.” - Source

Season 3 is written and Season 4 is already in production! The bad news is that Season 3 won’t air until June 2008. Until the get your Venture fix from these 3 kewl websites:

• Adult Swim : Venture Brothers
• Venture Bros dot Com
• Publick Nuisance

“On November 27, Futurama comes back in a big way with Bender’s Big Score, an “epic” film involving all the characters from the show that ran on Fox from 1999-2003. The DVD is the first in a series of four direct-to-DVD releases, which will be edited into 16 episodes that will air on Comedy Central in 2008.” - Source