I wonder if (recently retired) Tim Cook would be willing to take the Nvidia CEO job until he could identify a successor inside the company? He built out a hardware, software, services and chip design business at Apple.
The Commodore 64 Ultimate has cool network functionality. You can access the disk menu via Telnet, control it via HTTP calls and stream video right out of the C64. My attempts to read the screen straight out of memory via Wifi and turn it into a PNG? Not going so well, this is geoWrite. Ouch.
Earlier this week I said Jensen Huang would survive the spy scandal. He would have. But he will not survive having an affair with a direct report. Even the most spineless board, with no good replacement options, recognises the legal jeopardy that puts the company in. What a way to self destruct.
The Nvidia board is going to investigate Jensen Huang’s relationship with the Chinese spy, but no one wants him to leave. He has 3.6% of the common stock with no super voting rights. Large stockholders could push him out, but they won’t. He’s that valuable.
Alex Gibney’s Musk runs an arse-numbing 4 hours and is filled with rehashed stories, tropes and library footage. But the part that got me was Justine Musk discussing the death of their child and their marriage. Not the first time a man consecrated his success by destroying his family.
Netflix went from discount DVD bin to prestige broadcaster and back to discount DVD bin. Only the price kept the prestige.
The discrete gaming GPU market is going through a managed decline. In the low to mid gaming market, we’ll see unified memory System on Chip designs everywhere, with discrete GPUs reserved for enthusiasts starting at ~$700 per card. Graphics cards having their sound card moment.
Jessica Chastain’s physical performance as Other Mommy is the best part of a mediocre horror movie. She can make herself look like she’s being worn by the demon and she makes it look painful. She moves like you’re going to die. A great horror monster in a lesser movie.
The Commodore 64C was the first computer I ever owned. Limited even by the standards of that time, but what a machine. Who could forget spending hours typing in program listings only to find the program didn’t work and never would? I still get nightmares.
The presence Patrick Stewart gave Jean-Luc Picard was the backbone of Star Trek: TNG. Observation lounge discussions got heated, but everyone around the table had their say, and Stewart made you feel he heard them before Picard decided. One of the best pieces of casting luck in TV history. RIP.
Cheap upgradable gaming has hit a wall. The memory crunch has killed the sub-€300 graphics card, the entry points are now €2,000+ enthusiast PCs and €1,000 consoles by the time the PS6 hits. The cheapest place to start new? €500 handhelds.
Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: The Veilguard dented two major brands in gaming. But it was Anthem’s failure that mortally wounded BioWare. You can’t spend seven years of development on a live-service game, abandon it just two years after launch, and expect your studio to survive.
CXMT is ramping to Micron-scale DRAM capacity on Beijing’s tab while Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron ration supply through multi-year deals with their biggest customers. The moment CXMT has surplus capacity to export, those same suppliers will be lobbying western governments for RAM tariffs.
I’m reading Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy) after taking a Stephen King break. Wow, we did screw up back in 1990 when he restored ~400 pages of flabby writing his editors cut from The Stand & people bought it. This book is half the size with a strong editor.
Finished reading: Roll the Calls by Ari Emanuel 📚 Ari is the least consequential of the Emmanuel brothers but the richest. Never settle for what you have; be upset someone else has something different and take it from them. Go back to being unsatisfied. He’s unhappy, and it comes off the page.
Finished reading: Strata by Terry Pratchett 📚 I don’t advise reading Strata if you’ve read and enjoyed Pratchett’s later works. This is a writer lacking a comfortable comedy style, with thin, one-dimensional characters in an unfunny satire of the “we can create planets” genre. Skip it.
The latest Resident Evil is a good horror comedy and worth the trip to the movies. Austin Abram’s hapless organ transport delivery person, Bryan, carries the movie for 90 minutes. Don’t be put off by past franchise entries, this is body horror with laughs.
Sitting in an early afternoon showing of Resident Evil and the theatre is filled with teenage girls. The screaming has already started, we’re only on trailers.
I got 18 minutes into this week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before turning it off. I’m guessing the story ideas for the numerous gimmick episodes this season were AI generated.
Watching the annual ‘running of the nerds’ on the BlizzCon Twitch livestreams. Take a shower, fellas. Take a shower.