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AMD

Submission + - Intel processor launch 10-core Xeon in half 2011 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The recognized provider of chips, Intel has recently announced that the 10-core "Westmere-EX "Xeon is available before the end of the first half of 2011.

The chip will be the next successor to the fastest server processor from Intel, the Nehalem-EX which has eight cores, and was published in 2010.

Intel will use 32nm process technology to construct the 10-core "Westmere-EX" Xeon processor. It should be noted that the current chip Nehalem-EX is designed with the processing of 45-nm technology.

A spokesman for the chip manufacturer, said the next target high-end servers in data centers, large databases and other application needs.

The spokesman also said the systems Westmere EX chips is two socket supports up to 2 TB memory. new technologies help users update the server processors.

Meanwhile, Intel's main rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is preparing a new Bulldozer architecture-based 16-core (code-named Interlagos) start in the third quarter of this year.
Space

Submission + - Cold 'Star' No Hotter Than a Summer's Day (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Researchers have found two brown dwarfs--so-called failed stars that are too small to sustain the stable burning of hydrogen--that are colder than any previously seen. They're so cold and so small that they are almost like giant planets. One's temperature is barely 300 kelvin--about as warm as a bright summer day on Earth. The two objects could be the first examples of a proposed class of ultra-cool brown dwarfs known as the Y-class. And because they are almost as cold as "gas giant" planets—Jupiter is about 150 K—studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.
The Military

UN Intervention Begins In Libya 688

Posted by timothy from the at-least-there's-no-war dept.
maliamnon writes "US, French, and British forces began enforcing a UN resolution (1973/2011) to defend civilians in Libya today. French aircraft are attacking tanks, while the US and possibly UK are supporting the operation with cruise missiles from sea." Update: 03/19 22:34 GMT by T : Adds reader bloggerkg: "More than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets in western portions of the country, US Vice Adm. William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing. The US will conduct a damage assessment of the sites, which include SA-5 missiles and communications facilities. A senior US military official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the missiles landed near Misrata and Tripoli, the capital and Gadhafi's stronghold."
Microsoft

Internet Explorer From 1.0 To 9.0 129

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-how-he-rolls dept.
FrankNFurter writes "Remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0." He actually does some interesting packet sniffing to see why sites aren't rendering, and amusingly shows MSIE 1.0 getting a 93/100 on the acid test... pretty impressive considering it lacks JS and CSS.

Comment Nine times out of ten, it's an electric razor. (Score 1) 5

by Ptolemarch (#35510044) Attached to: Russian Bomb Squad Defuses Sex Toy
Lovely. I never quite thought this was true:
Narrator:
Was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer:
Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick.
Narrator:
Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer:
Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police.
Narrator:
My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Officer:
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
Airport Security Officer:
[whispering] it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo.
Narrator:
I don't own...

— Fight Club (also)
NASA

The Saturn Fly-By 83

Posted by CmdrTaco from the nice-place-to-visit dept.
Jamie noted that today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is actually a video of Saturn built by compiling actual photographs taken by Cassini in 2004. Unlike most videos of this type, this isn't actually 3D animation, these are the actual photos (albeit "digitally tweaked, cropped"). Great views of the planet, as well as Titan, Mimas and Enceladus.

Comment Re:I'm amazed (Score 1) 1281

by Ptolemarch (#10402462) Attached to: Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech
If our schoolchildren were forced to read some of the classics, I wonder how different things might be in America today.

I'm not so sure. I'm a student at St. John's College, where the sophmores just got done reading Plutarch's Cato the Younger, Caesar, Antony, and Brutus.

In the Seminar discussions that followed, I was amazed by how many students, who claim to hate tyranny, given their fairly extreme views on Bush, but were quite the fans of both Caesar and Antony, and against Cato and Brutus. It was mind-boggling. I and one other of my classmates were basically the only ones defending the defenders of the Roman Republic.

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