They always touted the Ginsu knife as being one of the most durable knives that "never needs sharpening".

And, of course my question is.... Will it blend? ;)

Intel won't support Linux on one of their new architectures? And, what makes this different than their position in the past?

After all, the reason that the x86_64 architectures are generally referred to as "amd64" in the linux community is because AMD came to the linux/open-source communities and said, "Here! This is what we got. Take a look and tell us what you think." where Intel, when questioned about the specs on their 64-bit architectures, said "We can't tell you that... that's proprietary information."

To the best of my knowledge, Intel has never been much support to the linux community, traditionally. It still hasn't stopped us from developing code that supports their architectures... It just takes longer as you have to pick apart the specs from the outside. So, the first few that decide to load linux on a Clover Trail system will have some extra work to do, but I don't think this is any more of a show-stopper than it has been in the past.

"Power to the Penguin!"

Intel won't support Linux on one of their new architectures? And, what makes this different than their position in the past?

After all, the reason that the x86_64 architectures are generally referred to as "amd64" in the linux community is because AMD came to the linux/open-source communities and said, "Here! This is what we got. Take a look and tell us what you think." where Intel, when questioned about the specs on their 64-bit architectures, said "We can't tell you that... that's proprietary information."

To the best of my knowledge, Intel has never been much support to the linux community, traditionally. It still hasn't stopped us from developing code that supports their architectures... It just takes longer as you have to pick apart the specs from the outside. So, the first few that decide to load linux on a Clover Trail system will have some extra work to do, but I don't think this is any more of a show-stopper than it has been in the past.

"Power to the Penguin!"

To quote some lyrics:
"One pill makes you larger;
And one pill makes you small;
And the ones that Mother gives you;
Don't do anything at all..."

While I *do* like the idea of being able to make certain that all necessary resources are in such abundance that we can eradicate want, I also understand that under current global situations, there would be more conflict of *WHAT* is supposed to be IN those PILLS AND *WHO* gets to make the FINAL DECISION regarding it.

"severely damaging to test credibility... when you don't allow users to run your test on some of your competition's offerings, such as Safari.
All they're trying to do is say "We're the best (in this carefully chosen group)" Of course they're going to win that argument..."

And, it's the *same* argument that Microsoft's marketing makes over and over again.
Does anyone remember these?

"Windows XP is the most secure operating system Microsoft has ever shipped." (Author's Note: Other than MS-DOS, perhaps... Remember: No networking, no network attacks! hehe)
"Vista is the most secure OS ever."
"One World, One Web, One Program." (Author's Note: An advert for Internet Explorer from 1998 (? 2001?))

When it comes down to it, if you are actually capable of believing *any* of the trash that Microsoft's marketing puts out, well then I have a bridge for sale for you. Needs a bit of clean-up from the bird-droppings, but I can give you a great deal on it! Let me know!

Well, the fact that we can be thrown into confusion because some coked-out leader decides he wants to make a mark on the same scale as his daddy by putting an extra month on each end of DST leads me to the opinion that perhaps the entire timekeeping system could use an overhaul.

Discordian dates, anyone?
"Today is Boomtime, the 33rd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3177"