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What you need to know about Intel's Nehalem CPU

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/11/2008
It's also a hell of a lot faster than your ARM chip. What's your point? (see comment)
985

What you need to know about Intel's Nehalem CPU

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 04/11/2008
"ne-ha-lum" is correct according to Intel, with the e like "a". ("Na-Hay-Lum") (see comment)
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What you need to know about Intel's Nehalem CPU

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/11/2008
"QPI is essentially a direct connection from the CPU to the memory." Who the fuck modded you up? QuickPath is a transport bus, like HyperTransport or PCI Express. It has *zero* connection to memory. None. At all. Nehalem has an on-core memory controller, … (see comment)
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Intel Reveals 'Moorestown', World's Smallest Motherboard

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/05/2008
It's also a blazing 400MHz, 32-bit only PPC chip. Meanwhile this is a sub 2GHz, 64-bit, dual thread architecture platform. They're not even in the same class. (see comment)
790

A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor

Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/29/2008
The 2GHz version is roughly the speed of my old iBook's G4 on our MPEG applications benchmark, to give further comparison (this is without advanced SSE instructions). It's not that it's in-order where the performance of this chip dies. It's the fact that … (see comment)
790

A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/29/2008
AMD doesn't compete in this market at all (they've had Geode, but it's been due for a refresh for years now and it's not received it). The ARM manufacturers, however, shat themselves when they saw Atom. And rightfully so, because Atom could replace the to … (see comment)
790

A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/29/2008
Except your modern Celeron will be roughly twice the speed of Atom, clock for clock. (see comment)
790

A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/29/2008
Only the Atom is no Pentium; it's what happens if you take a 1996 era chip and bump its units to 2008 spec. It's essentially a Pentium with the Pentium 3's ALUs, SSE3 from the Core lineage, and the bus from Netburst; it's a clusterfuck. But it's a damned … (see comment)
684

GNOME 2.22 released, brings new architectural features

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 03/16/2008
"It has nothing to do with Firefox. It's Gnome." That dialog is created from Firefox. Firefox is choosing not to add a thumbnail to their filechooser dialog. It's a Firefox bug. Nautilus isn't involved *AT ALL*; you can uninstall Nautilus (and for that … (see comment)
684

GNOME 2.22 released, brings new architectural features

Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 03/14/2008
You hope that GNOME will fix a Firefox bug? (hint: Firefox is made by Mozilla) (see comment)
977

MetaRAM quadruples DDR2 DIMM capacities, launches 8GB DIMMs

Comment in News (0 diggs, 1 reply) - on 02/26/2008
The whole point of saying "50k" servers is to give you some realization of just how damned expensive these things are going to be. They're not intended for Desktop users, but maybe workstation and server clients who actually can utilize systems with that … (see comment)
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MetaRAM quadruples DDR2 DIMM capacities, launches 8GB DIMMs

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/26/2008
Rebooting would suck. Having to flush 28GBs of RAM back to disk: pain in the ass. (see comment)
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MetaRAM quadruples DDR2 DIMM capacities, launches 8GB DIMMs

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/26/2008
No, you'd be able to put more RAM in the same system with fewer sticks. 64-bit architectures natively support gobs and gobs of RAM (18 exabytes), but what stops you from actually using that amount of RAM are all physical properties. These guys figured out … (see comment)
2125

Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements

Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 02/20/2008
For the same money you'd pay for a single copy of Photoshop, you could have spent the same amount on fixing the GIMP, or half of that divided across two people. Or one-one-thousanth spread across a thousand. If all of the people who have spouted the meme … (see comment)
2125

Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/20/2008
I didn't say to use open source software. I explicitly said DON'T USE IT if you can't afford the opportunity cost (that is, if you need CMYK, you shouldn't be using GIMP). If it doesn't do what you need it to do, don't use it. If it does what you need t … (see comment)
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Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements

Comment in News (6 diggs, 2 replies) - on 02/19/2008
"The lack of CMYK support in Gimp is ridiculous when people have been complaining out it for sometime." Oh yeah, if it's so ridiculous why don't you add it to the GIMP? How much have you paid to have it added? How much work have you done to realize how h … (see comment)
804

Intel sued by Univ of WI for Core 2 Duo patent infringement

Comment in News (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 02/08/2008
"Wow, a tech company being dishonest?" Why does everyone think Intel was being "dishonest?" Nobody can possibly know about all of the possible patents, Intel might not have had a clue that they independently invented this technology (if they even did, wh … (see comment)
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Small wonder: inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/07/2008
Intel sold their ARM lines to Marvell. (see comment)
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Small wonder: inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU

Comment in News (20 diggs, 2 replies) - on 02/06/2008
Absolutely, this chip's smaller than some ARM variants, clocks in at astonishingly low power usage, and is ridiculously fast. Every ARM vendor on the planet crapped their pants when they saw this chip's potential to destroy their high-end market. Interes … (see comment)
1008

Intel Doubles Capacity of Phase-Change Memory

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/05/2008
More or less. The crystal is placed between two tiny "coils" (really, they're just really small wires), the top line is connected to ground, the bottom is connected to a transistor which has a specific threshold set to flip the transistor when an amount o … (see comment)
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