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Now, frequency isn't everything, but performance scaling is nearly linear if you hold the pipeline depth constant. (And scale the bandwidth, which has also been done..) For more information about Power6, take a look at:

http://www.serverpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?ar ticleId=180200700&pgno=1

You think a $100 laptop project -- working with $29 million dollars donated by some tech companies -- has surpassed the Gates Foundation's $10 billion in donations to nonprofits (particularly to solve health issues in Third World countries)?

A quaint, but disingenious way of attacking the parent. You do realise that the point of a NPO is to help people, not to clothe them in arbitrary amounts of cash, right? Or do you think that because The Apache Software Foundation brought in less than $25 000 in 2005, and IIS brought in over $17 billion, that IIS is 708 000 times better than Apache?

The whole POINT of Negroponte's $100 laptop project is that it is inexpensive. In case it's not plain yet, let me point out that you are attacking this project because of your apparent disapproval of its most laudable and impressive quality.

Try working in the international nonprofit sector for awhile, you'll start getting ticked at Negroponte too. These kids needs nutrition, vaccines, and education.

I'll happily get ticked at Negroponte the very moment it's shown that he is discouraging medical and nutritional aid to these impoverished nations.

A laptop might help with the latter, but good teachers, clinics, and/or radio networks would solve this problem MUCH MORE CHEAPLY.

And, as we all know, any given problem is only allowed to be solved in one single Dekortage-approved manner.

Negroponte is a visionary, and I like him a lot, but in this case he is using a chainsaw to hammer a nail.

That's one of the most pointless quotations I've ever heard. Are you from Texas or something? You know these things aren't funny unless you say them in a drawl, right?

You might want to check your facts before posting this kind of FUD.

$#%@!!!! You post a WEB SURVEY and the have the gall to accuse me of spreading FUD?! Good God, you are either truly naive about all things statistical, or you're trying to spread quite a bit of FUD yourself.

IDC: IBM takes lead from BEA
Gartner: IBM trumps BEA

You don't by any chance work for JBoss's Astroturfing department, do you? Hmmm... very suspicious... :-P

Unfortunately for Linux, mi2g also confirmed that the Linux operating system has become somewhat of a hacker's paradise. In a study conducted only seven months ago they found that overall, the most vulnerable operating system for manual hacker attacks was Linux, accounting for 65.64% of all hacker breaches reported.

Search for "mi2g" on Google. The second result is a Register article titled, "Why is mi2g so unpopular?" According to the article, "The chief charge against mi2g is its regular predictions of withering cyber-assaults which, critics say, rarely seem to materialise." It goes on to say, "most of its staff appear to be without significant operational IT security experience".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/21/why_is_mi2 g_so_unpopular/

Most of the rest of the google links are news storys about experts debunking the a mi2g "study" from about 9 months ago which reports Darl's numbers. Here's a choice quote from an article at http://nwc.serverpipeline.com/52500233 :

Mi2g appeared to anticipate criticism of its study. "We would urge caution when reading negative commentary against mi2g, which may have been clandestinely funded, aided or abetted by a vendor or a special interest group," it said in a press release publicizing the study.

Wow. Darl's been cloned.

Oh, they are, are they? Is that why they just finished migrating their entire server lineup over to Itanium, and phasing out the PA-RISC?

http://www.serverpipeline.com/163702707

It's an alloy of gallium and indium

http://nwc.serverpipeline.com/news/54200844

If this is the riskiest bug coming out of FireFox right now, I think I'm going to consider myself lucky. Microsoft's browser had at least one far greater bug to its IFRAME setup, on top of the countless other horrifying bugs running around.

Like others have said before, however, this is only the beginning for FireFox. As it gets more and more popular, more and more of these nasty bugs are going to appear and (hopefully not) be exploited. Won't stop me from enjoying FireFox, though, and it shouldn't stop anyone else either.

Another promising Austin startup, NanoCoolers, says it is nearly ready to offer evaluation samples of its processor-cooling modules, based on a liquid form of gallium and indium.

An alloy of gallium and indium. It is liquid well below room temperature, with a boiling point in the ballpark of 2000 C.

Another neat trick is that the system has no moving parts. The tubing passes through a magnetic feild. A pair of electrodes stick into the liquid metal and introduce a DC electric current, effectively creating a liquid electromagnet. The electric current through the magnetic feild is exactly the same as single winding of an electric motor - except the motor force is directly on the liquid metal itself. This force pumps the liquid around the cooling loop.

Silent, and no failure prone moving parts.

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No one ever got fired for buying Intel.
Really ? .... just wait a bit ...

They just reincarnated as Desktop Linux Working Group. No SCO this time...