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Comment Re:Three words: (Score 1) 443

by memnoch37 (#29174773) Attached to: Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate?
I did not like Titanic, for all the reasons you mentioned and more. But, he didn't make Titanic with people like us as the target audience. He hit his mark perfectly and made a boatload of money. Avatar seems like it's targeted towards both the 'old crowd' of sci-fi and Titanic's audience. Will aiming for both targets cause him to miss completely? We'll find out in December...

Comment Re:Article doesn't really talk about features (Score 1) 192

by memnoch37 (#28272337) Attached to: 26 Desktop Processors Compared

Its too bad the article doesn't talk about things like Execute Disable, Virtualization support, etc. For a power user audience like /. these are important considerations.

For me not being able to install Xen, or Windows 7 XP mode, etc are complete deal killers. I want CPUs with those features, especially when shopping "value CPUs".

Getting something like an E8190 is a mistake that will bite a /. power user in the ass eventually even if it is a few bucks cheaper than an E8200 and delivers the same performance, at the same wattage, etc...

I completely agree. I recently put together a new pc for myself and I almost went with the recommended CPU from this article, the Q8400. Then I realized Win7's XP mode won't even run without hardware virtualization, which that chip lacks. The Q9400 is only slightly more expensive, has a larger cache, and has hardware vt, making it a no-brainer for me.
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New Class of Pulsars Discovered 93

Posted by Soulskill from the for-all-your-gamma-ray-needs dept.
xyz writes "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars which emit purely in gamma rays. A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star, and of the nearly 1,800 cataloged so far, only a small fraction emit at frequencies higher than radio waves. The gamma-ray-only pulsar, which lies within a supernova remnant known as CTA 1, is silent across parts of the electromagnetic spectrum where pulsars are normally found, indicating a new class of pulsars. It is located 'about 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. Its lighthouse-like beam sweeps Earth's way every 316.86 milliseconds. The pulsar, which formed in a supernova explosion about 10,000 years ago, emits 1,000 times the energy of our sun.'"

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