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The introduction of the new AMD R300-series graphics-cards is imminent. Telling it exactly this should happen on 16th June 2015. After it had seemed to be clear, that there will be no all-new graphics-chips, with the exception of the new and revolutionary...
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On 6th June 2013 Edward Snowdens revelations about electronic mass-surveillance have been published – and have changed the world. Both the person Snowden as well as his revelations were already in 2013 highly controversial and are still today. Why Edward...
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With "Starsky & Hutch" a high-quality and especially formative crime-series debuted on the day exactly 40 years ago on April 30th 1975. Although I have known the series created between 1975 and 1979 during my childhood & youth, so in the 1980s and 1990s,...
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Appreciations for important science-fiction series have something of a tradition for me. After the two Star Trek series "Next Generation" (TNG) and "Deep Space Nine" (DS9), as well as "Babylon 5" and its spin-off "Crusade" it's "Voyager" (VOY) to celebrate...
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I have been dealing with AMD a couple of times in my blogs, in my German one as well as in my English one. Up to now I mostly have put my focus on technical aspects of the US semi-conductor company. In late November this has changed: After around 2 months...
Read moreIt's hard for me writing English blog-entries frequently as this language isn't my mother tongue and it takes me much more time realizing entries in solid quality than in German. But this entry is quite a compulsory one. After having criticised AMD for...
Read moreUS CPU-manufacturer AMD has something really extra-ordinary in semi-conductors business: A loyal fanbase, you can even say a base of hardcore-fans of the company. As long as AMD processors are at least reasonable competitive to Intel, the top-dog among...
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Between the 3 major anniversaries of Star Trek TNG (25 years), DS9 (20 years) and B5 (20 years) in between September 2012 and February 2013, as well as 2 further, major science fiction anniversaries in 2015 and 2016 this year is a pretty quiet SF-year....
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Around 10 months ago I stumbled over a video clip on YouTube , thereby met a great, young, British music-duo and wrote a blog entry about them. By the way this entry 2013 has become my blogs big hit. Last week, Jonathan and Charlotte have announced that...
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As written in my last blog entry, so it is fixed that AMD towards spring 2014 revises its Opteron server-processors. However i t is unclear so far whether also an update for the FX desktop-CPUs will be left over. For me and probably for all loyal AMD...
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