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Comment Re:They could actually try to sell the Cell (Score 3, Informative) 124

by TonyMillion on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:59AM (#33866980) Attached to: IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor

odd, when we were working with cell we went straight to matrix vision and they LOANED us the hardware for about a year.. Nothing sleazy at all. IBM Also loaned us a server, as did Sony (a beautiful rack-mount job which will never see the light of day).

http://www.matrix-vision.com/products/cell.php?lang=en

Bottom Line - the PPC part of the Cell is rubbish, terrible IO and generally 'weak' by todays standards, the SPEs are great, but not enough memory on them (256k) for the algorithms + tables we needed to process the data.

In the end optimizing for intel & SSE3 and making the algorithms multi-core capable was less pain:performance ratio than working on the Cell which would have required all the additional work of managing DMA to/from the meagre memory on the SPE.

Comment Re:Article is misleading. Only worry about sugars (Score 1) 507

by TonyMillion on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @04:25AM (#31667692) Attached to: Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction

Its more likely that carbs are a hell of a lot cheaper than a nice juicy steak, rather than the 'power' of the sugar lobby.

Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store 277

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 21, 2009 @12:54PM from the insufficient-quantities-of-hip dept.

Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."

Jason Fried On Focus and Avoiding Interruptions 102

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @10:29AM from the what-were-we-talking-about-2-seconds-ago dept.

BigTimOBrien writes "Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, talks about the day-to-day operations of 37signals. How does the company work, and what are the guiding principles behind the design of Basecamp and Campfire? He talks about the importance of avoiding interruptions and the relative unimportance of both physical space and mandatory meetings."

Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? 292

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 09, 2008 @08:46AM from the thats-no-moon dept.

Matt_dk writes "A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon. 'It's so simple,' says Ermanno F. Borra, physics professor at the Optics Laboratory of Laval University in Quebec, Canada. 'Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a focus. This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory.'"

Comment Re:He had it coming... (Score 1) 388

by TonyMillion on Thursday January 10, 2008 @07:52PM (#21992856) Attached to: Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim

Actually, roger melle was nothing to do with clarkson...

It was a piss take of a look north presenter called Mike Neville who by all accounts was a beer swilling, chain smoking, lecherous old coot, not unlike roger melle!

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