Intel has found another use for its tiny, low-power Atom chips—today they’ve announced intention to move into the system-on-a-chip industry, where they’ll compete with ARM, MIPS, Freescale, and IBM among others to provide embeddable systems for things that aren’t PCs. Namely cable boxes, manufacturing robots, security hardware, and anything else that needs an all-in-one brain. Initially they’ll be using the Pentium M, but the transition to Atom should happen next year. Maybe this is what the "most of us wouldn’t use Atom" talk was all about.[WSJ]
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Upside-Down XBox 360, Sofas Kill Fat Children [Gaming]Source:
http://archive.dailypicture.net/upsidedown_xbox_36...Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat --but if I were his parents I would be more worried about the fact that he is playing games with a controller that isn’t plugged in. Could it be that an abundance of fat and Xbox 360 playing leads to insanity? [Kotaku]
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The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees [No More Flintstones Vitamins]Source:
http://archive.dailypicture.net/the_fcc_cuts_comca...Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 million new subscribers before it hits the wall, pretty much ruling out acquisitions of other cable companies or any major growth.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to limit the growth of cable providers had been floating aroun...
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