I couldn't agree more. nVidia certainly has flooded the market with parts lately. Not that it's ever a bad thing to have a SKU for each market segment, but I think nVidia's heading more towards two or three per segment. I disagree on the Inq's posit about model numbers, though; I'm thinking more about GT vs GS (each SKU having three different amounts of memory to choose from).

"Given that Nvidia so desperately wants to become a big boy chip firm like Intel, expect the revamp of the naming scheme to produce an utterly incomprehensible numerology that can only be understood by scholars of ancient mathematics. Soon."

Charlie over at the Inq goes through the reasons why he thinks that Blu-ray sales have not only failed to increase, but that you should avoid buying a Blu-ray player at all costs. I personally still think that flash media's going to be the distribution media of choice sooner rather than later...

"US consumers are still dumb sheep, but this time they are realizing what is being done to them and they aren't biting. Sony's hope of having 50% of disc sales this year be Blu-ray are more likely to happen because of falling DVD sales than rocketing Blu-ray."

The guys at Phoronix have taken a ThinkPad and an Opteron-based server, and run both Hardy Heron & Vista Ultimate on each to see which OS consumes the most power while running.

"With Ubuntu 8.04 LTS now available, we have decided to run another simple power comparison."

Ten tips for texting that are actually functional. I didn't know about the Google calendar one. Pretty interesting stuff.

"Just send a message with the word 'next' to GVENT (dial 48368) and you'll get back the time and details of your next scheduled event."