this is totally architecture dependent.

Intel needed their large caches for netburst because pipeline stalls where extremely costly, and the memory had a very large latency, they solved both issues in core 2, with very advanced prefetchers to hide the latency, and a shorter pipeline to make stalls less costly.

AMD on the other hand, moved the memory controller on die with the advent of the Athlon64, which made for extremely low memory latency. Back in the day i read up on cache sizes for AMD chips (because i was going to buy a chip, and wanted to know if going for the large l2 was worth it). As it turns out, in not a single benchmark did a chip with 1 mb l2 beat a chip with only 128k l2 (an 1/8th) at the same clock by more then 10% (and the 10% was an extreme).

The only reason todays chips have such large amounts of L3 is because we dont just have one core sucking down data, we have four (or six, or in case of nehalem, 4+4 virtuals). If intel still had the old FSB, i3/5/7 would need even bigger caches

They think so. So do Eastern Orthodox. So do many Protestants. So do many Anglicans. Which one is the early Church grown up? You'll have to read up on Church history and form your own conclusions.

The strife in Ireland has nothing to do with religion. It stems from a British Army kicking the butt of an Irish Army, and then being rewarded vast tracts of Irish land in return. The conquerors then behaved in an arrogant and exploitative manner, referred to the Irish as "pigs", and allowed millions to starve during the potato famine. This caused the original inhabitants (who just happened to be Catholic) to bear a somewhat overblown grudge against those conquerors (who just happened to be Protestant) who occupied what was formerly their land.

Bezos is a smart businessman, and as such most of his properties are separate corporations that are friends of Amazon, but maintain the ability to go bankrupt if they go wrong without bankrupting Amazon.com. Such a warrant might get the attention of EC2... but there's no way it'd stretch all the way to Amazon.com unless there was some proof of a shared resource being involved.

Decades ago, my dad had a Nordic Track ski machine. The flywheel has a magnet in it that connects to a sensor for the speed display. My dad had the idea to connect it to a serial port for logging purposes, so you could get a graph of your speed over time. I further suggested connecting your speed to a game, for visual motivation. MONEY PLEASE.

At one time there was a wing kit you could purchase for an AMC Gremlin.

Gremlin? That could explain some of the odder UFO sightings.
     

The crippled hard-drive less X-Box 260 can be found for the same price as a Wii, but that's a pretty dumb thing to buy.

And, um, yes, something that is tied for the lowest price is, in fact, 'pretty cheap' by any sane person's conception of 'pretty cheap'.

And you will notice I pointed out two reasons to get a a Wii. They are priced 'pretty cheap' and they have the kind of games that you can't get on a PC or other consoles, casual multi-player games. (Whereas you can get the same kind of games on the PS3, Xbox, and the PC, although not always the exact same game. The exception might be Guitar Hero style games, which are only on consoles, but, hey, only need one of those.)

As mentioned elsewhere, male breasts are generally not considered a private part, regardless of who they are attractive for.

I mean it wouldnt be something I do, but both persons involved seem to be grown-ups, in a perfectly concious state, and it seems to be funny to both (for whatever reason). To me the complete scene is as cryptic as the idea why i would buy a phone from Microsoft; maybe this is just to show that the phone does not have real features going beyond an arbitrary cameraphone from 5years ago (but *with touch*). Overall the video seems to aim at people around 25 i would say.

So i dont understand if that is "sexting", i dont understand what the word exactly means (it seems diffuse), i dont see why i would complain about adults (male or female) sending pictures of breasts to other adults (as long as both sides are fine with it). But i think nodoby should complain by depicting seemingly funny things in an advertisement, even if the people in it act highly irrational.

I am actually more annoyed by advertisments still exhibiting old gender role models.

Won't happen, if they're paying the bills, and the bills are large. You really have to piss off the other Tier 1 providers to get cut off. Cogent got pretty good at that at least a couple times. :) I'd be willing to bet Amazon is actually paying their bills on time. Amazon appears to be well peered, so it's not just one or two that'd have to drop them. The ones who didn't wouldn't mind the jump in revenue at all.

I guess no one ever found the link. And it was supposed to take only a moment. Well so much for many of us doing it..

Not trolling. I just find it ironic that you complain about government intrusion into our lives, yet ignore one of the biggest ones. Why this bias against personal vice while the grand larceny goes unnoticed?

I think the idea that the government issues licenses to run a business is wrong.

For local mom and pops, you would be right. But any business that affects third parties (displaces people, contaminates the ground, air, or water, the economy etc) must be watched closely, and possibly regulated. These things travel far beyond their property line. And we have every right to control that.

So you were against the Reagan and Bush tax cuts also? What about ag subsidies?

I would have escalated it farther. Schools must have been particularly bad in your area; in mine, people at the district level generally have advisors for that kind of stuff.
I'd understand why you'd be tired of it, though, although I would have kept fighting for the sake of it.

They'll have to use evidence and facts instead of her own statements, which doesn't appear to make things too difficult for them.

While I agree, personally, if I was asked "Did you see any pictures of naked children," I would answer in the negative, not take the fifth. How complex can the ramifications of making that statement possibly be?

If it turns out my statement was false, and they charged me with giving false testimony... Well, I think that would sort of be the least of my problems at that point.

Going into particular detail is obviously something to avoid, but what can go wrong by saying "I did not do it?" What am I missing?

1s44c, please don't take this as criticism toward you. I'm just taking this as an example.

Most people on IT really have no idea what high-availability is. They should talk to some people on the telecom industry.

For example: having 2 systems that are virtually equal, one as backup as the other, is just not HA. For real HA, you need to have 2 systems as different from each other as possible, including bands. One box is Intel ? Make the other AMD. It is even better if you can have a PC and a non-PC system, but usually you can't justify the budget for that.

This is called "single point of failure". And, as you said, that is EXACTLY where the problem will happen.