These are my links for April 19th through May 7th:

• Missing The Point: It Doesn’t Matter If Torture “Works” –
• Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip –
• DSLR Mirror Lock-Up – Worth the Effort or Not? –
• Take Shape For Life –
• A Keyboard and a .45 –
• Oleg Volk Photography –
• CrimeReportSearch –
• The First Zombie-Proof House –
• OOSChecker: The Ultimate iPad2 Treasure Hunter –
• Affordable Weekend Getaways and Vacations – LivingSocial –
• Texas3006.com –
• Corps Lakes Gateway: Texas –
• Lily Ponds Cottage – New Ulm, Texas –
• Google Encrypted Search –
• Portal 2 and Steam on PlayStation®3 –

These are my links for December 4th through December 14th:

• Lewis and Clark Air Rifle exhaustive evidence –
• Lewis and Clark’s Amazing Airgun –
• How to adjust Core Parking from inside Windows 7 –
• The New Methodology –
• SAT Score Conversion Chart –
• UT’s Davis expected to resign Sunday – it's finally happening!
• Dunegons and Dragons Cartoon Cosplay –

These are my links for August 18th through August 19th:

• How to Interview a Programmer –
• Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right –
• Microsoft Interview Questions –
• Intel agrees to buy McAfee, decides that security matters –
• Steam Game Performance Improvements in Latest Mac OS X Update –

New York State is doing what AMD wanted to do many years ago, but gave up… nail Intel with Antitrust proceedings.

I remember in the mid-90′s when AMD was just about to spring the Athlon chip that nudged them ahead of Intel in performance for the first time in, well, ever. For years before this, AMD would publicly decry Intel’s business tactics… trying to shove them out of the market. Exclusive deals with Microsoft, shady dealings with review sites and benchmark tools, and weird clock performance ratings. AMD shouted about these things early and often. But nothing ever came of it. Either their legal team was inept, or Intel’s was just that good. After many years of this, AMD seemed to give up. I haven’t read a peep of anti-Intel whining out of them in years.

Now, out of the blue New York wants to do the dirty work. This was prompted by similar suits/investigations by the European Union and other countries. (I believe Microsoft is getting a bunch of similar scrutiny and attention).

This couldn’t come at a better time for AMD, as they were trounced by the great performance leap of the Intel Core2 proc, and are now struggling to show they can compete. Even I, as a long time buyer of AMD, had to switch… after over a decade of using AMD chips in my gaming rigs. I mean, the Core2′s are so fast and so cheap, and left me with a great upgrade path.

AMD also is feigning ignorance in the matter, and was subpoenaed themselves in the case.

This is going to get interesting.