30 Billion COBOL transactions estimated per DAY

Source: Reuters

Ok, that estimate is two years old, but still, huge ... no?

Sorry I don't have any sympathy for LulzSec or whatever their name (Geeze at least get a cooler name or they are bunch of high school drop outs).

Well key is How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read. A fun book by Pierre Bayard.

When it comes to desktop, laptop and server chips, Intel's pretty much got a lock on the market but everyone can see the writing on the wall: mobile chips and architectures are the future of computing thanks to the popularity of smartphones, but Intel doesn't have anything to offer in that regard.

Server market is a different ball game. Xeon are only in the low end server. IBM has lead in middle and high end servers with their P and Z systems. P and Z chips are custom designed for IBM systems only.

Agreed. Not exactly, but this comic says it as well. http://abstrusegoose.com/291

I got notification from them as well but it went to the SPAM folder. Sorry.

There are many patents on random number generator. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=random+number+generator+patent&btnG=Google+Search

If it is matter of core-war, IBM's latest Power7 also has 8 cores. It is actually based on 45nm technology compared to Intel's latest 32nm. What makes Power7 exciting is that it has on-die 32MB L3 cache. They achieved this by introducing eDRAM (embedded DRAM) in the technology. Both Nehalem-EX and Power7 are targeting low-end server market, so it should be interesting battle.

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/09/ibms-8-core-power7-twice-the-muscle-half-the-transistors.ars

The free dictionary tells me that " put paid to " means "to consider something closed or completed; to mark or indicate that something is no longer important or pending". And that " canard " means "An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story." So am assuming the author wants to say that the opening up of SixthSense via an open source license will stop the false stories that open source does not lead to innovation.

But can it the same place twice ?

/ducks

Maybe you want to check the disclaimer too ...

Note: Damage caused by overclocking AMDâ(TM)s GPUs above factory-set overclocking is not covered by AMDâ(TM)s product warranty, even when such overclocking is enabled via AMD software.

Is it only me who is surprised (because of ignorance) that the s/w footprint stands at 100MB, when evidently they just want to control the h/w & for an application they want only a browser? Well, for practical uses, the browser would need flash plugins, etc. and most obviously would need addons if the browser supports it. When a Linux distro like DamnSmallLinux provides much more than a browser in just 50MB why do these guys need double of that?!