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Submission + - Google Apps Engine gets SQL (blogspot.com)

Submitted by oker
oker writes: Google has finally added SQL to its cloud platform offering — Apps Engine. So far developers had to use Datastore service which not only provides a vendor lock-in threat but also is not supported by most of existing software and libraries. The SQL service should definitely improve Apps Engine adoption. It is currently in limited preview mode.
Businesses

LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux 452

Posted by timothy from the linus-mentioned-their-startling-speed dept.
LingNoi writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK: "The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the group's main stock exchange. The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds. The 126 microsecond speed is 'twice as fast' as its main international competitors, the London Stock Exchange said. BATS Europe and Chi-X, two dedicated electronic rivals to the LSE, are reported to have an average latency of 250 and 175 microseconds respectively. Neither company immediately provided details. But many of the LSE's older and more traditional rivals offer speeds of around 300 to 400 microseconds. Nevertheless, Linux is now standard in many exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange."
Upgrades

Journal Journal: $498 17" laptops make swap space obsolete 21

Journal by tomhudson
When you can buy a 17" laptop with 6 gigs of ddr3 ram, a 1600x900 screen, and a 640gig hd for $498, who needs a swap file or partition?

Who needs a desktop? Just plug in a second screen. Or buy a second laptop.

Who needs a file server? Just stick a 750gig drive in the second drive bay.

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AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269

Posted by samzenpus from the power-of-love dept.
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
Classic Games (Games)

GOG.com Not Really Gone 276

Posted by samzenpus from the stepped-out-for-a-minute dept.
gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."

Comment I ran PeaceKeepr and SunSpider (Score 1) 288

by PhrozenOne (#33590732) Attached to: IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed

I just benchmarked the new IE9 beta ( I am loving the new look :) )

Hardware Information:
Core 2 duo e5300 @ 2,6GhZ,XFX ATI Radeon 4770 512 MB DDR5, 2x2 GB A-DATA@800MhZ, Gigabyte Ep45 UD3P mobo, WD Black 640 GB

Software information:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64,
started programs during benchmark: Skype, MS OneNote, BitDefender 2011, about 20 IE9 tabs

Results

Sun Spider:
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-results.html?%7B%223d-cube%22:%5B19,18,18,18,18%5D,%223d-morph%22:%5B25,23,24,24,23%5D,%223d-raytrace%22:%5B19,19,19,19,20%5D,%22access-binary-trees%22:%5B6,6,6,6,6%5D,%22access-fannkuch%22:%5B13,14,12,13,13%5D,%22access-nbody%22:%5B20,21,20,20,20%5D,%22access-nsieve%22:%5B3,3,3,3,3%5D,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:%5B2,2,2,2,2%5D,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:%5B6,5,5,6,5%5D,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:%5B4,4,4,4,5%5D,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:%5B11,11,10,11,11%5D,%22controlflow-recursive%22:%5B3,3,3,2,3%5D,%22crypto-aes%22:%5B8,8,8,8,9%5D,%22crypto-md5%22:%5B6,6,6,6,7%5D,%22crypto-sha1%22:%5B8,7,7,7,7%5D,%22date-format-tofte%22:%5B24,23,24,24,24%5D,%22date-format-xparb%22:%5B24,24,24,27,24%5D,%22math-cordic%22:%5B1,1,1,1,1%5D,%22math-partial-sums%22:%5B22,21,21,22,21%5D,%22math-spectral-norm%22:%5B11,11,11,11,11%5D,%22regexp-dna%22:%5B26,25,25,24,24%5D,%22string-base64%22:%5B8,9,9,8,8%5D,%22string-fasta%22:%5B24,24,23,23,23%5D,%22string-tagcloud%22:%5B34,33,34,33,63%5D,%22string-unpack-code%22:%5B39,39,39,38,39%5D,%22string-validate-input%22:%5B22,22,22,22,22%5D%7D

Kraken

No results, it waited for about 10 minutes, but the test just stops at one point and starts all overa again, just like in a loop.

PeaceKeeper

2521 Points
Rendering 2197
Social Networking 1309
Complex Graphics 6245
Data 5317
DOM Operations 1811
Text Parsing 3681

Comment Re:request to the peanut gallery: (Score 1) 288

by PhrozenOne (#33590230) Attached to: IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed

I just benchmarked the new IE9 beta ( I am loving the new look :) )

Hardware Information:
Core 2 duo e5300 @ 2,6GhZ,XFX ATI Radeon 4770 512 MB DDR5, 2x2 GB A-DATA@800MhZ, Gigabyte Ep45 UD3P mobo, WD Black 640 GB

Software information:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64,
started programs during benchmark: Skype, MS OneNote, BitDefender 2011, about 20 IE9 tabs

Results

Sun Spider:
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-results.html?%7B%223d-cube%22:%5B19,18,18,18,18%5D,%223d-morph%22:%5B25,23,24,24,23%5D,%223d-raytrace%22:%5B19,19,19,19,20%5D,%22access-binary-trees%22:%5B6,6,6,6,6%5D,%22access-fannkuch%22:%5B13,14,12,13,13%5D,%22access-nbody%22:%5B20,21,20,20,20%5D,%22access-nsieve%22:%5B3,3,3,3,3%5D,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:%5B2,2,2,2,2%5D,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:%5B6,5,5,6,5%5D,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:%5B4,4,4,4,5%5D,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:%5B11,11,10,11,11%5D,%22controlflow-recursive%22:%5B3,3,3,2,3%5D,%22crypto-aes%22:%5B8,8,8,8,9%5D,%22crypto-md5%22:%5B6,6,6,6,7%5D,%22crypto-sha1%22:%5B8,7,7,7,7%5D,%22date-format-tofte%22:%5B24,23,24,24,24%5D,%22date-format-xparb%22:%5B24,24,24,27,24%5D,%22math-cordic%22:%5B1,1,1,1,1%5D,%22math-partial-sums%22:%5B22,21,21,22,21%5D,%22math-spectral-norm%22:%5B11,11,11,11,11%5D,%22regexp-dna%22:%5B26,25,25,24,24%5D,%22string-base64%22:%5B8,9,9,8,8%5D,%22string-fasta%22:%5B24,24,23,23,23%5D,%22string-tagcloud%22:%5B34,33,34,33,63%5D,%22string-unpack-code%22:%5B39,39,39,38,39%5D,%22string-validate-input%22:%5B22,22,22,22,22%5D%7D

Kraken

No results, it waited for about 10 minutes, but the test just stops at one point and starts all overa again, just like in a loop.

PeaceKeeper

2521 Points
Rendering 2197
Social Networking 1309
Complex Graphics 6245
Data 5317
DOM Operations 1811
Text Parsing 3681

Comment Re:request to the peanut gallery: (Score 1) 288

by PhrozenOne (#33590120) Attached to: IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed
I just benchmarked the new IE9 beta ( I am loving the new look :) ) Hardware Information: Core 2 duo e5300 @ 2,6GhZ,XFX ATI Radeon 4770 512 MB DDR5, 2x2 GB A-DATA@800MhZ, Gigabyte Ep45 UD3P mobo, WD Black 640 GB Software information: Windows 7 Ultimate x64, started programs during benchmark: Skype, MS OneNote, BitDefender 2011, about 20 IE9 tabs Results Sun Spider: http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-results.html?%7B%223d-cube%22:%5B19,18,18,18,18%5D,%223d-morph%22:%5B25,23,24,24,23%5D,%223d-raytrace%22:%5B19,19,19,19,20%5D,%22access-binary-trees%22:%5B6,6,6,6,6%5D,%22access-fannkuch%22:%5B13,14,12,13,13%5D,%22access-nbody%22:%5B20,21,20,20,20%5D,%22access-nsieve%22:%5B3,3,3,3,3%5D,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:%5B2,2,2,2,2%5D,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:%5B6,5,5,6,5%5D,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:%5B4,4,4,4,5%5D,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:%5B11,11,10,11,11%5D,%22controlflow-recursive%22:%5B3,3,3,2,3%5D,%22crypto-aes%22:%5B8,8,8,8,9%5D,%22crypto-md5%22:%5B6,6,6,6,7%5D,%22crypto-sha1%22:%5B8,7,7,7,7%5D,%22date-format-tofte%22:%5B24,23,24,24,24%5D,%22date-format-xparb%22:%5B24,24,24,27,24%5D,%22math-cordic%22:%5B1,1,1,1,1%5D,%22math-partial-sums%22:%5B22,21,21,22,21%5D,%22math-spectral-norm%22:%5B11,11,11,11,11%5D,%22regexp-dna%22:%5B26,25,25,24,24%5D,%22string-base64%22:%5B8,9,9,8,8%5D,%22string-fasta%22:%5B24,24,23,23,23%5D,%22string-tagcloud%22:%5B34,33,34,33,63%5D,%22string-unpack-code%22:%5B39,39,39,38,39%5D,%22string-validate-input%22:%5B22,22,22,22,22%5D%7D Kraken No results, it waited for about 10 minutes, but the test just stops at one point and starts all overa again, just like in a loop. PeaceKeeper 2521 Points Rendering 2197 Social Networking 1309 Complex Graphics 6245 Data 5317 DOM Operations 1811 Text Parsing 3681
The Internet

IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed 288

Posted by CmdrTaco from the couldn't-get-worse dept.
CWmike writes "Those who have written off IE as being slow and old-looking are in for a surprise. The just-released Internet Explorer 9 beta is dramatically faster than its predecessor, sports an elegant, stripped-down interface and adds some useful new features, writes Preston Gralla. Even more surprising than the stripped-down interface is IE9 beta's speed. Internet Explorer has long been the slowest browser by a wide margin. IE9 has turned that around in dramatic fashion, using hardware acceleration and a new JavaScript engine it calls Chakra, which compiles scripts in the background and uses multiple processor cores. In this beta, my tests show it overtaking Firefox for speed, and putting up a respectable showing against Safari, Opera and Chrome. It's even integrated into Windows 7. One big problem: It will not work on Windows XP. So, forget the performance and security boost, many enterprises and netbook users."

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