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Comment FPGA-like portions of CPUs (Score 1) 180

Why is this a bad thing? It seems like this is a feature to get people the features they want now, while providing upgradability to CPU capability via software, like FPGAs. Seems like people think this is just a set of flags to enable/disable CPU features already baked in. But to me this looks like something that allows CPU features not even developed yet to be applied in the future. Looks good to me.

Comment Samsung Pay? What a joke (Score 1, Troll) 30

I doubt this would gain traction. I for one would never trust Samsung with my information. They will never become Apple Pay. Judging by the lame bloatware they add to their "powerful" Galaxy devices that slow them to a crawl, and their lack of innovation in the mobile space, I predict failure. Just another case of, "Me, too."

Comment Re:Little-known fact (Score 1) 140

Wow, you are so bitter for nothing! Calm down. It is common for hardware designers to design extra capabilities for future revisions. Makes it easier to improve. Car manufacturers do this too. The Mustang 5.0 engine right now has some cutouts in the design which hint that direct injection is coming. Welcome to reality.

Comment Re:They say it is "completely anonymous" (Score 1) 268

Yes, no personal information such as names and addresses are collected. However, in ANY client/server interaction, an IP address is logged. A particular IP address was found to be registering numerous bogus copies of Windows. Now they are attempting to prosecute that person who is committing that illegal action. Since they don't have any personal information, they have to use the courts to find out who it was.

Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 80

I see this as a really good thing. More options for parallel computing are great. Writing the parallel parts in VHDL/Verilog isn't too bad if you studied computer/electrical engineering. This is a good technology to compete with GPUs. To me, writing parts in Verilog for parallel data computations would be easier than using OpenCL and similar. I'm sure the development tools would be updated for this kind of support.

Comment Bad marketing (Score 1) 127

I purchased almost every Nintendo console up until the Wii. I grew up on the original Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Stopped at the Wii.

Nintendo's marketing after the Wii was not effective. They should fire whoever named the console, and especially since they named the follow up console "Wii U". I didn't even know that the Wii U was so much different & better than the Wii.

Nintendo needs to wake up and smell the coffee. They should title their next console with "Nintendo" in it, to get all the nostalgic people back on. Or at least come up with a less silly name.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 110

You think Google is any better? They breach people's privacy horrendously. I actually trust Microsoft more. Google tracks everything you do and uses that to target advertise to you. If you have an android device and take it with you, they track all routes you drive, places you've been to, and save that to their database. This is enabled by default, and you need to dig deep to find out how to disable these privacy breaches. This is just the tip of the iceberg with Google. Wake up.

Comment Re:The bottlenecks are elsewhere (Score 1) 295

I respectfully disagree. Although we may not be able to take advantage of the full 10GbE throughput right away due to limitation in I/O devices, it is still faster to transmit something over the network on a 10GbE link. For example, regarding the 500MB/s SSD you mentioned, the transmit speed on 10GbE will cap to ~4Gb/s. It's still faster than 1GbE.

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