if only i can get a hold of their stocks,
its a good thing bill gates retired cause this new company will likely buy them out in a few years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJUd7h5TgM

5/6/2007 2:14:38 PM

el oh el.

5/6/2007 2:23:47 PM

damn kids with their rock music -shakes fist-

5/6/2007 3:15:27 PM

ummm... is it 1970 again?

5/6/2007 3:45:01 PM

His dad is probably the friend of someone at the station that did the report. God I hate reporters.

5/6/2007 5:20:17 PM

or the mom had to suck someone's dick for that...

5/6/2007 5:26:15 PM

that must be an area that doesn't have many murders.

5/6/2007 5:45:11 PM

If he wrote his own OS from scratch, that's pretty impressive for a HSer.

He does seem very arrogant though, which should get him far in the business world.

5/6/2007 5:53:52 PM

so the future is that we are going backwards?

OR

chances are this kid could die in a car accident on his way to his senior prom....oh wait that was just the 'cool' kids.

5/6/2007 6:22:06 PM

Quote :

""Your looking at, possibly, the newest revolution in computer history..." - Brian Bouchard"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


ok kid. tell me another one. OMG LOOK EVERYONE, ITS DOS IN A WOODEN BOX, ITS A REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

5/6/2007 6:42:19 PM

yeah im not sure whats revolutionary about a wooden computer

5/6/2007 6:52:35 PM

haha

it looked like that OS was doing a whole lot, too.

5/6/2007 7:04:22 PM

i don't understand what the point of this computer is.

any kid can build a computer in a wooden box.

5/6/2007 7:26:46 PM

Yeah what a bunch of little faggots, that kid doesn't even know what it means to be revolutionary. WOW A WOODEN BOX COMPUTER MADE OF SPARE PARTS FOR $100??? Oh wait anybody could build a freaking command line dos computer from spare parts for way under 100. The news people failed to mention what the computer could do, and that's probably because it can't do jack shit. What kind of podunk small town news station calls building a 15 year old pos computer something special...


just reading all the comments on that youtube video is funny enough, I hope those kids see it too, they're getting called the fuck out

[Edited on May 6, 2007 at 7:39 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2007 7:37:32 PM

anyone see that wooden box someone built using cherry wood and made it look like an authentic Japanese house? That was a piece of art. No glue, nails or screws were used.

5/6/2007 8:12:16 PM

I invented this revolutionary thing.

I think I'm going to call it a "wheel."

5/6/2007 8:54:53 PM

^^^ It's Portland... Maine. About 1/20th the size of raleigh.

[Edited on May 6, 2007 at 8:55 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2007 8:55:18 PM

wow.

I mean, at 16 I built a PC to fit in my car under my passenger seat, with an IR remote and a little LED 2 line screen wired to the dash.

Which still sucked, but it was a bazillion light years more marketable than the EPITAPH I !!!!1!11

5/6/2007 9:11:46 PM

Haha, yeah I remember people hooking up busted laptops to their car stereo systems in high school and using them as mp3 players. One guy I knew used a laptop-car charger to hook it into the 12 volt electrical system in the car. The battery only had enough life left in it for about 40 minutes when the car wasn't turned off, but he hooked it up so that it wouldn't keep charging when the car was off (this allowed him to have his stereo on and music from the laptop playing without putting extra drain on his battery.) Add that to the in dash display and he had a neat setup. Mind you it wasn't nearly as user friendly as an in-dash dock for an ipod or even a GOOD mp3 player and a stereo with a line in.

Anyways, the repairing of the laptop, electrical work involved in hooking everything up, making an appropriate UI, and all that work was far more impressive than what these kids did. That guy also never bragged about it and never claimed it would be the next revolution in car stereos. Although, had he stuck with it he probably could have created a marketable product. These kids might create something worth donating to 3rd world countries as long as that cheap-ass laptop the UN is pushing keeps not happening.

[Edited on May 6, 2007 at 9:43 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2007 9:42:49 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6618919.stm

Snowflakes promise faster chips

Quote :

"Chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes. The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator. It solves the problem of electrical energy leaking between wires, which creates unwanted heat. IBM says the chips will run 35% faster and consume 15% less energy. The company has developed a method of controlling the interaction between self-assembling molecules, called diblock copolymers, to create the vacuum holes. Mr Edlestein, IBM Fellow and chief scientist of the self-assembly airgap project, said: "We have managed to harness the kinds of processes we see in nature to make regular patterns - such as the layers of enamel on your teeth, or the shape of a seashell if you look under a microscope. "In this case we choose molecules that have a certain shape and certain molecular forces between them, and when they are mixed properly and baked they naturally on their own behaviour assemble themselves into regular arrays of certain patterns." While the self-assembled polymers were developed back in 2001, it is the first time anyone has been able to produce mass quantities and integrate them into a manufacturing process with high yields. Dr Douglas Paul, senior research associate at Cambridge University, said: "The big breakthrough is getting it into a manufacturing process and producing 300mm diameter wafers with the process working. "This is never easy as the yields need to be near perfect for every single process stage and there are hundreds in a full wafer to get circuits to operate with the billion transistors or so now in production." The controlled interaction between the molecules creates a series of evenly-spaced dots - each one only 20-nanometres in diameter. One nanometre is about a million times smaller than the size of a pinhead. As they state they expect it to be in chips in 2009 it still has a bit of work to go Dr Douglas Paul, University of Cambridge Those dots are then etched away in a chemical process, forming holes, which are then capped to create a vacuum. For years, chip makers have used insulators such as the oxidised form of silicon, called silicon dioxide. While effective, silicon dioxide cannot match the insulating properties of a vacuum. The new chips will be used initially in IBM's server machines - used by businesses and research groups - and the process will then be rolled out to the firm's semiconductor partners. Dr Paul said IBM's claims of a 35% speed increase was "quite a significant jump in performance just by changing one process in the fabrication of the chips". He added: "IBM will have test circuits to allow the performance to be measured but they haven't stated what the detailed performance they have got on their research website yet. "As they state, they expect it to be in chips in 2009; it still has a bit of work to go." "

This microprocessor cross-section shows empty space in between the chip's wiring. Wires are usually insulated with a glass-like material. The vacuum holes are a much better insulator.

5/7/2007 4:33:11 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6354225.stm

Teraflops chip points to future

Quote :

"A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel. The Teraflops chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm. The chip achieves performance on a piece of silicon no bigger than a fingernail that 11 years ago required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it. The challenge is to find a way to program the many cores simultaneously. Current desktop machines have up to four separate cores, while the Cell processor inside the PlayStation 3 has eight (seven of them useable). Each core is effectively a programmable chip in its own right. But to take advantage of the extra processing power, programmers need to gives instructions to each core that work in parallel with one another. There are already specialist chips with multiple cores - such as those used in router hardware and graphics cards - but Dr Mark Bull, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, said multi-core chips were forcing a sea-change in the programming of desktop applications. "It's not too difficult to find two or four independent things you can do concurrently, finding 80 or more things is more difficult, especially for desktop applications. "It is going to require quite a revolution in software programming. "Massive parallelism has been the preserve of the minority - a few people doing high-performance scientific computing. "But that sort of thing is going to have to find its way into the mainstream." The first time teraflop performance was achieved was 11 years ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia National Laboratory. It is going to require quite a revolution in software programming Dr Mark Bull That machine took up more than 2,000 square feet, was powered by almost 10,000 Pentium Pro processors, and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity. "Our researchers have achieved a wonderful and key milestone in terms of being able to drive multi-core and parallel computing performance forward," said Justin Rattner, Intel Senior Fellow and chief technology officer. "It points the way to the near future when teraflops-capable designs will be commonplace and reshape what we can all expect from our computers and the internet at home and in the office." The Teraflops chip uses less electricity than many current high-end processors, making the design attractive for use in home computers. It consumes 62 watts, and the cores can power on and off independently, making it more energy efficient. Intel says that commercial spin-offs of the chip could see it being used in high-definition entertainment PCs, servers and handheld devices. Possible uses include artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games and real-time speech recognition, said the firm. "

5/7/2007 4:37:11 PM

completely accidental, too

5/7/2007 4:51:26 PM

I remember when I was 10 yrs old and took 3 broken mac's, stripped spare parts to build one good mac, installed the os and got the damn thing to work just so I could play some cheesy mac games and puzzles...

5/7/2007 5:00:08 PM

what happened to games on mac? all i got is chess and i suck at chess

5/7/2007 6:45:21 PM

I remember the first computer that was my own.

It was an IBM 386, I found it in a corner of the Sears Surplus Center and they gave it to me for free because it was "broken". Took it home, noticed the power cable had a cut in it, used another one of my dad's and it worked fine.

Saved my allowance for two months to buy a single speed CD-Rom for it.

I was 9.

5/7/2007 7:56:56 PM

"You're looking at possibly the newest revolution in computer history," said Bouchard. "When a phoenix dies it kills itself in it's own ashes and then is reborn again. With these old parts, consider it the ashes of the phoenix and we're making it rise up," Bouchard said.

5/7/2007 8:55:58 PM

^^^^i remember when i first moved to the US and i got a $300 cd-rom for Christmas....it was my first time ripping open a computer but i managed to install it successfully in the old 486. what sucked was i couldn't get the faceplate to fit with the CD-rom was the beginning of many ghetto riggings

5/7/2007 10:11:53 PM

that kid looks like JBaz

LOL

5/8/2007 9:48:13 AM

5/8/2007 10:29:33 AM