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Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz
denisbergeron writes "Yahoo has the news about the new P4 who will run at nothing less than 3.06 GHz. But the great avance will be the hyperthreading technology (already present in Xeon) that allows multiple software threads to run more efficiently on a single processor."
And yet while running enterprise class systems I can't find a system with too little power.
Lets face it servers are well beyond 95% of applications.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I agree, it is a typo and is easily ignored. The level and intensity of /.'s typo-whining are generally out of proportion to the significance of whined about typos, but as one /.'er has mentioned, it can be a question of credibility.
/. is one of the premier websites for technical information. And even if that information goes through a highly democratic filtering process (known as moderation), the quality of the content does to some degree reflect on the editorial body of /. Typos that provide misinformation that could be easily corrected should be.
What happens in five weeks from now when Google's spiders cache this story's typo, or when you come searching on /. for that P4 3.06 mhz, or was it Mhz, or no, Ghz? (Sure, you could leave off the hz designation, but my point is that the reason for the failed search would not be clear.) This could easily be corrected by about 33.3 seconds of an editor's time. Instead, we get posts that get modded down as redundant, some of those moderations perhaps done by an editor him or or herself.
The irony in all of this is that /.'s editors can easily correct such errors. I know because I recently (yesterday) posted a thread as an AC that was deleted within minutes. I recognize that deletion as a wise one; I'm not complaining. But it seems to me that other editorial decisions should also be made with the same kind of responsiveness.
/., for all its flaws, is a source of information for many professionals. Its editorship should at least reflect that professionalism especially in matters of technical specification.
(readers dissatisfied with any typos they dind in this post are entitled a full refund)
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