Comment Unlikely. (Score 1) 325
Well, it's just a rumor. Apple is always surrounded by rumors and I don't think much of this one. Besides, all the limitations of Twitter make it seem like an u
Comment Everybody relax (Score 1) 274
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment Re:America, fuck yeah (Score 1) 118
No, most Americans think the same thing. I don't think anyone at Fermilab or CERN thinks that way because it tends to be a lot of the same people. They're all physicists and they all want to run the experiments and get on with science.
They do want to get their names on papers & articles though.
Comment Re:Please kill ActiveX (Score 5, Funny) 380
You've clearly never tried to kill a zombie process.
Comment Let me google that for you. (Score 1) 321
Atlantis is right here.
Comment Re:Performance Is Overrated (Score 1) 193
It is true that some sectors will always need more power. It is not clear if those sectors are large enough to support the enormous and growing cost of each subsequent generation of CPU technology. Right now, scientific computation is essentially getting a subsidy from the gamer community. I don't know if this will continue to be true in the future. Game workloads currently do not benefit much from multicore designs and it is unlikely to be a "small matter of programming" to get there.
As specialized domains of computation become divergent in their needs, the goal of making one CPU design to rule them all gets harder and harder.
Submission + - AMD Nearly Out Of Cash
An anonymous reader writes: Following a horrible quarter and market share losses, AMD is within two quarters of running out of cash, according to EETimes. "AMD lost approximately $883 million in free cash flow in the last quarter, worse than expected, and putting the company within two quarters of running out of cash," EETimes quotes Wall Street analyst Chris Caso as saying. It gets even worse for AMD. After losing significant market share in 2006, Intel struck back in the first quarter of 2007, gaining 4.5 percentage points in the microprocessor market. Intel now holds 80.2 percent of the global chip market. Can AMD dig itself out of a hole? Maybe, maybe not. "AMD will look to lessen the capital needs of its models by outsourcing production and partnering up, though we believe this could take much longer than investors anticipate," analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research told EETimes.
