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Second Hand Smoke - You Ready To Rule?*
Sunday 25 March 2001 – 07:00
Long-term readers of Tom's Hardware will certainly remember Omid Rahmat, who used to supply us with his irreverent weekly column. After 14 months Omid is finally back with us with his first new Second Hand Smoke.

Second Hand Smoke - It's Goodbye for Now*
Friday 18 February 2000 – 06:00
This is it. My final column for Tom's, for now at least. Out with a bang on everything from ATI, and Nvidia, to PlayStation 2, and Internet economy.

Second Hand Smoke - DirectX - Better than NT?*
Thursday 20 January 2000 – 06:00
Inspired by my old friend, Ken Nicholson at SGI, a romp through history with some interesting connections to Quake, Nvidia, and Linux.

Second Hand Smoke - Renegades of the Empire*
Friday 12 November 1999 – 06:00
A new book goes behind the scenes of DirectX, and tells the story of the maverick developers who bucked the Microsoft corporate culture to make it happen.

Second Hand Smoke - Predictions for 3dfx*
Friday 15 October 1999 – 06:00
With the sudden news of 3dfx's CEO departure, we have to resort to crystal balls to figure out what next.

Second Hand Smoke - The extinction of man*
Friday 1 October 1999 – 06:00
Mankind, I mean men, are in danger of losing all that's good, and holy to them. The culprit isn't the other sex, but the chinless wonders of the new economy, and their dreams of interactive television.

Second Hand Smoke - Why not Nintendo?*
Friday 17 September 1999 – 06:00
Sony has to contend with Sega and Microsoft, an alliance that may show its true colors with the recent release of the Windows CE toolkit 2.0, and, lest we forget, Nintendo, with its own unique perspective on the future of gaming.

Second Hand Smoke - The Phony War*
Friday 27 August 1999 – 06:00
Nvidia and 3dfx release their second quarter financials, and everyone has an opinion.

Second Hand Smoke - The PowerPoint Generation*
Friday 13 August 1999 – 06:00
What happens when you graduate from Microsoft? Alex St. John, once the public face of DirectX, demonstrates WildTangent at Siggraph 99

Second Hand Smoke - Pay the piper*
Friday 30 July 1999 – 06:00
Forget AOL, or Amazon.com, the most interesting company online is Sony

Second Hand Smoke - Graphics III: 3dfx in limine*
Friday 16 July 1999 – 06:00
Michael Howse, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, 3dfx, speaks.

Second Hand Smoke - Graphics II: mutatis mutandis*
Friday 9 July 1999 – 06:00
Scott Vouri of Diamond Multimedia, and Andrew Wolfe of S3 talk about 3dfx, the merger of their companies, and offer some interesting bits of wisdom.

Second Hand Smoke - The Sims - Wow!*
Friday 21 May 1999 – 06:00
I cannot gush enough about The Sims, the highlight of my sojourn to E3. It is spirited, animated, humorous, beguiling, audacious, amusing, enthralling, charming, mesmerizing, seductive, and so many other things. It is, without doubt, the future of mainstream games in the innovative, original, creative, and imaginative way it takes a specific gaming genre and turns it on its head.

Second Hand Smoke - Loving Electronic Arts*
Friday 14 May 1999 – 06:00
Electronic Arts is about the only game publisher that feels like it has its corporate head firmly on its corporate shoulders. It's blue chip; it's professional; it's Disney for gamers; it's brand after successful brand. But, it is still subject to the schizophrenia of the game industry.

Second Hand Smoke - Stop Smothering AMD!*
Thursday 4 July 2002 – 06:00
AMD fanboys have taken on the characteristics of Apple computer lovers, and are hell bent on destroying the plucky little microprocessor vendor with smothering love, if you can call it love. They're trashing the company. For the love of AMD, let's all stake our claim to independence and run the colonizing freakazoids off the Web before they impose more of their imperious ways on the rest of the PC market. Happy fourth.

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