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Submission + - Inside Intel's Core i7 Processor, Nehalem at IDF (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Intel's next generation CPU microarchitecture, which was recently given the official processor family name of "Core i7", was one of the big topics of discussion at IDF. Intel claims that Nehalem represents its biggest platform architecture change to date. This might be true, but it is not a grounds-up, completely new architecture either. Intel representatives disclosed that Nehalem "shares a significant portion of the P6 gene pool", it does not include many new instructions and has approximately the same length pipeline as Penryn. Nehalem is built upon Penryn, but with significant architectural changes to improve performance and power efficiency. Nehalem also brings Hyper-Threading back to Intel processors, and while Hyper-Threading has been criticized in the past as being energy inefficient, Intel claims their current iteration of Hyper-Threading on Nehalem is much more energy efficient."
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Submission + - Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Album (wired.com)

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mytrip
mytrip writes: "Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses based on what little information is available.

The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead)."
Privacy

Journal Journal: Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program 279

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"Three of the largest U.S.telephone companies declined to answer a congressional panel's questions about Bush administration efforts to spy on Americans' phone calls and e-mails, citing the government's position that releasing the information would be illegal. Congress approved a temporary measure in July to continue letting spy agencies intercept, without a court warrant, phone calls and e-mai

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