Case in point: Jeffrey Archer. He sued the news of the world for libel, won, was later found to have lied in court, and was then jailed for perjury.

AVX v.s. SSE4.2 : 8 x floats per instruction v.s. 4 floats per instruction. (Nehalem v.s. Sandy Bridge)
AVX2 v.s. AVX : 8 x 32 integers per instruction v.s. 4 x 32 bit integers per instruction. (Ivy Bridge v.s. Haswell)

The performance gains certainly are there. As per usual, meaningless benchmarks are meaningless.

Don't be so quick to judge...... In the documentary, you're never quite sure if she was like that anyway, or whether it's been triggered by some deep rooted psychological scar from being in the armed forces.

Clippy still works.

The timenurse.

Sounds about right for a Core2 duo era laptop. Not everyone in the world wants to, or can afford to, upgrade their laptops every year. (I've only just upgraded mine to a nice new shiny one, and I'm pretty impressed by the 5+ hours battery life).

Visual C++ is the best compiler I've used for PPC. (It's a shame that's not available outside of the 360 devkit).

SPE = Synergistic Processing Elements.

second attempt....

http://vimeo.com/70748579#>there are indeed....

Sooooooo......, you're a climate scientist who has spent a substantial part of their life studying the effects that man made atmospheric pollution have on the Earth's climate? No? Then forgive me if I ignore everything you say, and instead listen to people who are qualified to talk on this subject.

Can't speak for those at the NSA, but I grew up next to GCHQ, and knew a few people who worked there. Whenever the topic of GCHQ came up in conversation, it was pretty apparent that no one actually knew what they were doing. They are given small tasks from those higher up, but they have no idea what it's for, or why they're doing it. Someone might be writing speech regonition software, someone else might be processing some telephone numbers into a database, someone else might be writing some GPS software. No one is allowed to talk about their work to anyone else, and so no one gets the big picture as to what's actually happening. Individually the component libraries are innocent enough, but they turn positively orwellian when they are merged into a single tool (which is something the IT serfs will never see)

Agreed, stupid article is extremely stupid. MS can afford to take a writedown on the 360 say, because they know full well they'll make the money back on game sales later on. Selling a tablet at a loss however, doesn't make any sense to anybody. How are they going to make their money back in this scenario? It's not like they can make the OS free-to-play, and then allow 'one run command per 15minutes of grind, or buy this barrel of gems for 20 run commands'.
If you want to make a product that sells in high volume, then you need to make sure that the product is something that the market wants. This is the thing I can't really get my head around with MS at the moment. It's almost like they've replaced market-research with pure-fantasy. Did they not show anyone the metro interface? Didn't anyone mention that it looks like it was designed by a colour blind child with no drawing ability or understanding of aesthetics? Or did they just assume that they could steam roller the world into liking a product that no one wants?

We have people over the age of 30 here, so please don't use unsavoury language like that again.

and then it blew up, leaving canon.