The company I work for outsources production to Singapore: * Not due to a lack of technical expertise in Silicon Valley. * Not due to differences in wages and other operating costs. * Not due to a lack of capital equipment (though equipment is exported from California to Singapore for production). The reason is export taxes. Singapore doesn't have them. And since a large fraction of customers are outside of the US, it only makes since to do production outside of the US. Even if Singapore has comparatively less experience and capital -- it won't for long.

Check out the video. This is not a product. It's a patent. Blech.

Rambus was my first job out of college in 1999. I remember the shredding party well. I was like, why are we doing this? The old timers assured me it was perfectly normal. Anyway there was free beer, so that was nice. I haven't seen anything like it in my subsequent career. And free beer is all too rare.

I think it's because it takes so long to develop games for the latest generation of consoles, that it took several years for the PS3 and XBOX 360 to have any good titles. The Wii is unique in that the software was simpler and Wii Sports made it fun from day one. But PS3 was really a tough sell. When it came out all you could play was this silly truck racing game that wasn't fun compared to PS2 games and didn't even look that cool. We're just starting to see some good games for PS3 in the last year or two. For the next generation of consoles they should try to release some kind of developer kit years in advance.

Me neither.

Love it.

To Hell with that.

My Android phone transcribes search terms from voice input. I wonder if there's a way to use Google's voice transcription servers. No idea how, but it seems like Google has already done the hard work.

I'm not so sure about that 62,000 miles figure. That's more than the circumferance of the earth.