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IBM Plans Collaboration On Power Architecture
TheInternet writes "According to CNET News, IBM has made a series of announcements regarding the opening-up of the Power chip architecture. The story lacks technical details, but apparently, IBM is going to divulge more information about Power/PowerPC, and expects collaboration from the industry on the future of the chip. Nick Donofrio is quoted as saying: 'We will free electronics manufacturers from the limitations of proprietary microprocessor architectures', and Red Hat and Sony are two companies listed as taking part. Power5 was also shown, as was the Blue Gene/L supercomputer, using 32 500MHz processors to achieve 128 gigaflops."
yeah.. 1 april..
Collaboration on power architecture plans you!
the dropped packets!!!
And you lot are stuck here reading this crap _hours_ later!
I go with some friends tonight to see the new movie The
Gospel of John in our local cinemaplex. Halfway
through the movie I'm about to cork off and decide to liven
things up a little in the theater.
Unknown to my friends, I had eaten several bowls of cereal
and milk earlier and I'm basically lactose intolerant.
What this boils down to is that the cereal and milk ferment
in my gut and give me really raunchy gas about 2 hours
after I down them.
Well, the gas attack happens on schedule and I proceed to
start stinking up the theater with SBDs! Beside me is an
oriental couple and their little girl is sitting in the
seat right next to me. She was getting the brunt of the
noxious fumes, and after 30 minutes of getting gassed she
was in tears and sobbing out loud to her mother that "I
WANNA GO HOOOOOME MOMMY".
It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing.
Of course, you could hear other people sitting in front of
and behind me complain about the stench too. Isn't life
grand?
WoooHooo! So someone is finally going to try to unseat Microsoft for the most failures!
Having interest in your mother's box makes you a 'mofo'
Having interest in your father's package makes you a 'homo'
Slashdot Moderation Anomalies
I have a question regarding moderation. The people who run slashdot keep tight control on discussion topics and policy criticism, so there is no general message board for asking this sort of question, which is why I ask here. In fact, I will probably get modded down because we are not supposed to question Slashdot's perfection. But I will ask anyway:
I had a post that had a starting score of 2, and got moderating to 5, with 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. My karma is excellent. It was a post that could be read as damaging to Apple's marketing. All of a sudden, it went to a starting score of 1, 50% insightful, 20% Interesting, and 20% Overrated. I have a few questions. 1.) How does the starting score go down??? 2.) How can the percentage of moderation not add up to 100%? 3.) Is there some super-moderator censorship used by Slashdot when they don't like the content of the post?
[tin-foil hat] Could Apple have complained when they saw my post, considering that Slashdot is probably the biggest Apple hype-machine on the planet (besides Apple themselves), and might even get kickbacks?[/tin-foil hat]
Anyway, how could such anomalies occur?
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
Interesting Lingo, I bet you learned this on the playground behind your elementary school.
When they open up DB2, then they'll get my attention. Collaboration on processor design is not new at all.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Most of my money is tied up in a DOW30 index fund, which will remain unnamed, but I can say that it starts with the letter 'V'. What's good for INTC and MSFT is very good for America. The compeition in capitalism made this country great. Giving away everything is bad business!
prImA donnas to
....your girlfriend.
That would clearly be the geek equvalent of herbal penis pills.