A laptop that boots in less than 2 secs?
Intel’s Moblin 2.0 platform could be well-named, with the chipmaker hoping its open source Linux OS will deliver a two second boot time. Forget about standby-resume routines, sleep modes and even ‘pre-boot’ environments like Splashtop. Intel reckons you’ll soon be able to take your netbook a cold start to a desktop that’s ready for work in just two seconds…
Fancy a game of charades?
Charades is a popular guessing game often played at parties or other social events. Teams of at least two players choose one team member to pantomime an unknown but familiar quotation, title, name or other short phrase. The other members of the team must declare the correct phrase in its entirety within a specified time limit to win a point. The opposite team must then do the same in order to win their own point. The team with the most points after a number of rounds is declared the winner. The prime directive in Charades is not to utter a sound while performing clues to the phrase in question…
