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Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra?
argonaut writes "Ace's Hardware has an in-depth article on Niagara -- Sun's upcoming parallel server processor with 8 cores and 4 threads each. The article discusses the chip's radical architecture and what kind of performance can be expected from it in traditionally thread-heavy server applications like web hosting, databases, and other multi-user applications. Given the recent cancellation of the UltraSPARC V, it seems this is going to be Sun's new direction for its in-house CPU design efforts. Furthermore, both Intel and IBM are working on other highly parallel processors and AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron. So, will more threads prop up Sun's performance?"
Yeah...that one took a couple of reads to sort out. All I saw was N*I*G*A and thought 419....
gnaa wuz here looooool
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I suggest we ban humor in article titles. It always looks goofy. Who's with me?
Is anything more overused then using SQL in an attempt to be funny? Just a thought.
We can do better!
Pedantic Politicians Propose Ponderous Pirate Prison Penalties Rejected
Apparently, Slashdot isn't going to cover that bill that's currently in the Judiciary Committee which would give prison penalties for merely having enough copyrighted files shared.
Right now, they have to prove that you're doing it to get copyrighted files in return (NET Act), or they don't get to send you to prison, pretty much (because you're not doing it for financial gain, and the NET Act is the thing that defined exchange of copyrighted works as "financial gain"). But IANAL, so don't take my word for it, read the current copyright laws for yourself. Beware, USC 17 is looooooooooonnnnng.....
Speaking of viagra, a shameless attempt at off-topic karma whoring: check out what happened when Macromedia asked Matt Stone and Trey Parker to come up with some content for them, i just wish i could have seen their faces when they watched this: here and here (free registration needed :\)
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boo, hiss!