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Submission + - Frederik Pohl passes away at 93 (theregister.co.uk)

damnbunni writes: Frederik Pohl, one of the last Golden Age science fiction authors, passed away on September 2nd of respiratory distress, as reported on his blog [http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/]

Pohl is perhaps best known for his Heechee Saga novels, beginning with Gateway in 1977, but his work in pulp magazines in the '30s and '40s helped give rise to science fiction fandom.

Comment Re:Guys who build roads will tell him the same thi (Score 1) 269

There are books in the library that contain information that can be used to do bad things. You can remove any an all cards (for libraries that still use them), or database references to those naughty books. The books will still be in the library, but will be harder to find (even for many librarians).

There are websites that show up in Google searches that can contain copyrighted material for unauthorized download. You can remove those sites from any and all search results. Those sites will still be there, but they will be harder to find.

Am I missing something here? I thought this kind of thing was already happening.

Comment Re:No sonic boom? (Score 2) 140

I grew up right outside (literally the last house to the south gate) of Edwards AFB in the late 80s-early 90s. I miss all the cool aircraft that flew right past our house.

I watched everything from the B-1, when it was still in flight test, to the maiden voyage of the B-2 from my front yard. Also watched the Space Shuttle a couple of times, when it had to come in on a non-standard approach.

Living in the middle of the desert, sonic booms were about the last thing we complained about

Comment Re:Security is about what you're securing. (Score 2) 189

Last year, my son (16 at the time) went to San Diego to see his mom. He went to Comicon every day for free. His mom, her BF, and my son's younger half brother all went at one time or another.

They just asked people exiting for their badges. He thought it was pretty funny getting in with a girl's badge.

Comment Re:Career (Score 1) 848

Yes. I love walking away from my (salaried) boss when it is time for me to punch the clock. He looked at me quizzically the first time, and I said "Is this conversation really overtime important?".

My single-dad-raised son is doing pretty damn good at 17 when compared to a lot of other kids that have two parents with awesome careers. I realize that having a "career" doesn't make you a bad/absent parent, but it sure makes it easier to neglect what I see as more important.

Submission + - Bulldozer's Just As Bad With Servers (arstechnica.com)

RobinEggs writes: Some reviews of Bulldozer's performance in servers have arrived, and Arstechnica has a breakdown. The results are pretty ugly. Apparently Bulldozer fares just as poorly with servers as with desktops.

From the article: 'One reason for the underwhelming performance on the desktop is that the Bulldozer architecture emphasizes multithreaded performance over single-threaded performance. For desktop applications, where single-threaded performance is still king, this is a problem. Server workloads, in contrast, typically have to handle multiple users, network connections, and virtual machines concurrently. This makes them a much better fit for processors that support lots of concurrent threads. Some commentators have even suggested that Bulldozer was, first and foremost, a server processor; relatively weak desktop performance was to be expected, but it would all come good in the server room.

Unfortunately for AMD, it looks as though the decisions that hurt Bulldozer on the desktop continue to hurt it in the server room. Although the server benchmarks don't show the same regressions as were found on the desktop, they do little to justify the design of the new architecture.'

It's probably much too early to start editorializing about the end of AMD, or even to say with certainty that Bulldozer has failed, but my untrained eye can't yet see any possible silver lining in these new processors.

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