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Comment The die photos show it pretty clearly... (Score 2, Informative) 155

by CTho9305 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @03:53PM (#26292595) Attached to: How Sony's Development of the Cell Processor Benefited Microsoft

At first glance, the Xbox CPU doesn't really resemble Cell, but if you just compare Cell's PPE to one of Xenon's three cores the similarity is striking: Xenon, Cell

Comment Re:Additional instructions (Score 4, Informative) 298

by CTho9305 on Friday August 01, 2008 @09:48AM (#24432497) Attached to: PCMark Memory Benchmark Favors GenuineIntel

The CPUID instruction provides feature bits that software should use to determine which instructions are available. Using the vendor string is not a reasonable way of detecting the presence/absence of instruction set extensions like SSE.

A New Concept in Supercomputers 113

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 15, 2008 @11:33AM

Steve Kerrison writes "With the power of CPUs ever-increasing and the number of cores in a system increasing too, having a supercomputer sit under your desk is no longer a pipe dream. But generally speaking, the extreme high end of modern computing consists of a big ugly box housing that generates a lot of noise. A UK system integrator has developed a concept PC that blows that all away. The eXtreme Concept PC (XCP) has quite a romantic design story, with inspiration coming from concept cars and the sarcophagus-like Cray T90. The end result is a system that resembles a Cylon — computing power never looked so ominous. Although just a concept, the company behind the design reckons there could be a (small) market for the systems, with varying levels of compute power accompanied by appropriate (say, LN2) cooling."

Comment hard drive art! (Score 2, Interesting) 337

by RainbowSix on Saturday January 12, 2008 @01:13AM (#22011038) Attached to: How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives?

I made some contemporary art out of my old hard drives:
http://polynomial.org/disc_wall2.jpg

The Trouble With Rounding Floats 456

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 13, 2006 @10:41PM from the not-the-rootbeer-kind dept.

lukfil writes "We all know of floating point numbers, so much so that we reach for them each time we write code that does math. But do we ever stop to think what goes on inside that floating point unit and whether we can really trust it?"

Defeating Google's Perpetual Search Logging 251

Posted by Hemos on Saturday August 12, 2006 @03:25PM from the do-slightly-less-evil dept.

heretic108 writes "Google's policy of storing everyone's search histories forever is causing concern amongst many, especially since Google stores a cookie on everyone's PC expiring in 2038. But at least one user is fighting back. His short and simple guide tells you how to set up any decent web browser so that it routes Google requests through an anonymous proxy, while sending everything else direct to the net for full-speed surfing. Follow these steps and get Google's nose out of your business once and for all."

Why YouTube Needs the Rights to Your Video 139

Posted by timothy on Monday July 24, 2006 @05:40PM from the all-in-the-phrasing dept.

erlichson writes "There has been a lot of controversy over the YouTube terms of service. Why are consumers surprised? Fundamentally, YouTube's business model requires that they get the rights to redistribute your content. This note analyzes an alternative publishing model available to consumers that doesn't require granting a license to your content, but the trade-off is that you won't get the same level of distribution."

Hotmail On Your Desktop 235

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 30, 2006 @09:05AM from the mail-everywhere dept.

thomas2you writes "Microsoft has just started its beta testing on a new program, made to have Microsoft's hotmail on your own desktop according to an article on CNET. It's going to be free software, you're going to be able to manage multiple accounts and they are attempting to include the ability to also just control all pop3 and smtp accounts you have, including Google's gmail as well as Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail. From the article, 'The move is a shift for the Hotmail business, which in the past, has charged users who wanted to read their mail using desktop software, rather than a Web browser. Microsoft charged $20 and up for its paid service.'"

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) 216

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, 2006 @09:05AM from the take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side dept.

anadgouda writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0 alpha is released. The links for download were not available directly on Mozilla.com website. Being Alpha, all features might not work and most of the plugins might not be compatible." Reading thru the comments, it appears there's some disparity as to whether or not this is actually just a naming scheme that they use; but let me reiterate that there has been no official announcement from Mozilla, so take with a giant grain of salt. Some good screenshots at OSdir.

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