Santa Rosa Macbooks to be Announced Friday

See also:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/14/1146231&from=rss
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0705laptops.html

INT. GROVE'S DINNER TABLE - NIGHT

GROVE

You don't understand. Macbooks never get Santa Rosa. That chip is perfect for them; it'll make 'em unbeatable. And I'm gonna run them out of the business, and let me tell you why.

(He stands)

Steve Jobs ruined one of Intel Corporation's most valuable motherboards for us. For fifteen years we had her under development. Floating point computation lessons; OpenGL lessons, packet routing lessons. I spent hundreds of millions of dollars on her. I was gonna make her a big star! And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, and it's not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful; she was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest PCI I ever had, and I had 'em all over the world! And then Steve Jobs comes along with his iPhone interface and clickwheel charm. And she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous! Now you get the hell outta here! And if that gumbah tries any rough stuff, you tell him I ain't no Xerox! Yeah, I heard that story....

TOM

Thank you for the dinner and a very pleasant evening. If your car could take me to the airport; Mr. Jobs is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately.

[Tom nods, then exits]

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Dawn.

Web Roundup: Photo Tricks!

The wizards and witches at ReadyMade magazine have posted helpful instructions on how to create a wallet-sized photo print out of a standard 8-inch by 10-inch portrait-size photo.

It's easy! For example, if someone had a 8x10 photo of someone they wanted to carry with them, they could easily convert the wall-size photo into a wallet-sized photo that would more easily fit into, for example, a wallet made from cruelty-free synthetic pleather (instructions also provided).

The technique is astoundingly simple, to the extent that one wonders why the technique is not more common knowledge. It requires no tools, rudimentary folding skills, and only one photo. For example, a photo of your mom:

Simply fold along the blue guide channels until only the center panel is showing ... and voilá!


Alternative instructions for creating portable photos may be found on Extremetech.com, where readers may obtain a guide on how to use off-the-shelf components to build a pocket-sized home theater PC with a 100 terabyte RAID including an HD DVR, an always-on EVDO linkup, 802.11n WiFi with Skype connectivity, a halftrack and, of course, an Ubuntu Linux partition that can be loaded with freeware that will enable its laser-guidance and imaging system to find your mom's place, snap her photo when she's smiling, post it to Flickr, and take off with its pants around its ankles just before your Dad gets home.

ATH-WTF ALERT!! ALERT!! GET OUT OF BOSTON!!

Dark Matter readers in Boston are warned to leave the city limits as soon as possible. To be safe, perhaps even the state of Massachussetts.

Why?

Because Dark Matter readers are highly intelligent. (A survey has determined that 75% of Dark Matter readers have PhD degrees or better.) And if you are in Boston, you are surrounded by stupid, stupid, stupid people. And even stupider police. And even stupider politicians.

In a related story, makers of batteries and wires were arrested today in a major counterterrorism operation. Readers are advised to keep tabs on this developing story, as the contagion may spread to areas outside Greater Boston.