AT&T Says No To Privacy

The title of the article sums up best. AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours. Apprently, privacy is a myth. They don't even bother pretending to care enough to pay lip service.

Ruby On Rails Hype Gone Wild

So according to Business 2.0 David Heinemeier Hansson is on the 50 people do matter list. While Linus Torvalds, and Ken Kutaragi are on the 50 people who don't.

I'll take Linux and 100 million PS2 anyday. Looks like Business 2.0 has some bugs, maybe I should wait for Business 2.1.

Oracle Found Grails

Oracle decides to back Grails as their dynamic language framework. Grails is written in Groovy. It uses Hibernate as the ORM, and Spring as the MVC.

Google Broke Java Binary Search

Google has found a bug in Java Binary Search API. This bug can manifest itself for arrays whose length (in elements) is 2³⁰ or greater (roughly a billion elements).

Leave it to Google to have 1 billion elements to insert and search.

New GPU Prototypes Sucks Power

Both ATI and NVidia's new GPU prototype are like insane when it comes to power usage. Both when running at full load, draws over 300 Watt.

It won't be long now for Desktops to start having two power supplies. One for the GPU, and one for everything else. Just think about this, if you run NVidia in SLI mode, or ATI in x-fire mode. You'd be draining 600 watts as you frag your next target.

Square Enix Upset With FF12 Sales

Square Enix has sold 2,126,000 copies of FF12 to date. It dropped off the top 10 chart at the end of April. So the number of new copies sold at this point will be very low. Why are they upset with a 2.1 mil sales title? Well, FF10 sold 2.4 mil copies and that was back when there were less than 10 mil PS2 install base in Japan. Plus FF12 cost more to make than FF10. So basically, you spent more making a game, have at least 4-5 times larger target audience. And it sold less copies.