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Comment the REAL article is at nasa (Score 1) 464

by scbomber on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @12:08PM (#32579518) Attached to: NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29may_noaaprediction/

this article actually predicts a QUIETER sunspot cycle than the last one.

the article at telegraph is the usual sensationalist BS.

Comment if you're pleasing the high-value individuals (Score 1) 510

by scbomber on Thursday February 11, 2010 @05:22PM (#31105126) Attached to: Why Apple Doesn't Market Squarely To Businesses

people who value apple's simplicity + power and have the $$ to indulge are extremely likely to be thought leaders in their organizations...instant word-of-mouth

Comment Wouldn't a better headline be... (Score 2, Insightful) 137

by scbomber on Saturday February 28, 2009 @10:44AM (#27022697) Attached to: Accessing Medical Files Over P2P Networks

"Clueless docs store patient data on wide-open PCs?"

Submission + - AMD previews new processor extensions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @10:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: It has been all over the news today. AMD announced its "x86 extensions for parallelism", a series of x86 extensions to make parallel programming easier. The first extension are the so called lightweight profiling extensions [that] would give software access to information about cache misses and retired instructions so they can optimize data structures for better performance. The specification is here and it has much wider applicability that parallel programming. It can be used to accelerate Java, .Net and dynamic optimizers.

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