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Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell

Posted by timothy on from the different-approach dept.

endersdouble writes "Ars Technica's Jon "Hannibal" Stokes, known for his many articles on CPU technology, has posted a new article on IBM's new Cell processor. This one is the first part of a series, and covers the processor's approach to caching and control logic. Good read."

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post !!!

    1. Re:first post by 384-B_SWORD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Do you speak any language that non-gibbering idiots can understand? Dullard, do yourself and everyone else a favor: disconnect your computer from the Internet. If brains were gasoline, you wouldn't have enough to run an ant's go-kart around the inside of a donut. Is that a conclusion or simply the place where you got tired of thinking? Reading your post makes blindness a wonderful thing to look forward to. To quote Thomas Brackett Reed: "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." You are about as entertaining as watching grass grow in a windowbox. What do you do for a living? You are living, aren't you? Genius does what it must, talent does what it can, and you had best do what you're told, you dyslexic lobotomy patient. Maybe you wouldn't come across as such a jellyfish-sucking mental midget if that pimple on your ass hadn't turned out to be a brain tumor; if your weren't so fat that when you stand on the weighing scale, it reads: "To be continued!", or if you didn't have a face that makes people ask: "Damn, is it Halloween already?" No, come to think of it, you would. Now, why don't you climb onto that Special Needs tricycle of yours with the fourth wheel attached for extra-ensured retard stability and pedal your fat ass down to the sports field and do some "outdoors" stuff for a change. Hell, if you don't like it, you can always offer to lick-clean the jockstraps.

  2. HuHu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did he eat it?

  3. BSP SAYS FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.beefstormposse.com

    go ahead and hate me

  4. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never got tired of the myriad ways Hannibal, Face and the gang could trick B.A. onto that airplane. Every damn time!
    Comedy gold.

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  6. Child pornography by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent post should not be modded down. It should be REMOVED by Slashdot editors and the IP of a sender should be reported to relevant authorities. I don't want to go to jail because I clicked it and downloaded child pornography on my fucking WORK COMPUTER for christ's sake! REMOVE THIS POST IMMEDIATELY.

  7. I didn't know P Diddy drove a Diet Pepsi truck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOur moms cunt tastes like a breezy sunday afternoon barefoot o n the cool grass and sunshine pouring down like golden angel piss

  8. Okay... by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this under the header games? I know nothing about the processor, by the way.

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    1. Re:Okay... by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      How exactly is this off topic? Considering the article didn't say it was for the PS3 (as the other posters have told me), and I am talking about the damn topic... thanks, my head a splode because of the mods idiocy.

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  9. Re:Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny. I followed that link, searched Wikipedia, and found:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AGoatse.cx

    Poll: Should the goatse image be shown inline, as a link, as an external link, or none of the above?

    Inline: 14
    Inline but not at top of page: 53
    Link: 18
    External link: 32
    None of the above: 12

    What do you think? Inline goatse on Wikipedia? WTF?

  10. Re:In addition to the pornography... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree: this link should be removed and the poster's IP should be reported to the relevant authorities.

    Not only for posting this link but I wonder how the poster even knows such links! It's a subdomain of "biz.nyud.net" (which seems to be a part of ku.edu) on a non-standard port 8090. I remember when something like a month ago I was demonstrating to a friend that there is no child porn on the net becuase I was trying to find anything in every possible way and the worst things there are was a nudist beach pictures. The point is that a knowledge about such hidden websites is not public. The poster should be investigated. I hope slashdot editors are responsible and will (1) remove that post (don't fucking tell me about freedom of speech! slashdot editors removed posts about scientology and this is child pornography we are talking about!) and (2) report this fuck to police and FBI.

  11. Re:Slashdot does not remove posts by JNighthawk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Except that Slashdot has removed posts before.

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  12. Re:In addition to the pornography... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is interesting... a Slashdot user who actually thinks that even linking to (or even knowledge of) certain kind of material should be punishable.

  13. Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The initial post is probably a troll, and a good one at that.

    Americans bellow on how they are the most free nation on Earth, yet if you violate a cultural taboo (posting pics of underage kids), then all of the sudden these so-called rights to free speech disappear.

    I can understand why you don't want to look at the stuff, but why are you imposing your beliefs on others? So what if you like kids? Are you going to have the cops arrest your mom when she parades out the pics of you when you were a toddler crawling around on the floor naked with private parts showing?

    America: Land of the hypocrites.

    1. Re:Americans by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The point of laws against child pornography is that sexual abuse of children is extremely harmful to them. When I speak of children, I mean 14ish. I think the child porn laws should be changed (yes, a 16 year old should be allowed to have sex *gasp*). It's a matter of supply and demand, as always. As long as there is a demand, people will keep supplying it. In order to supply the child porn, children will have to have been abused. So, in order to prevent abuse, having the child porn is also illegal. Now, beastiality on the other hand, while I find it utterly disgusting and reprehensible, I don't know why it's illegal. You can kill and eat an animal but can't have sex with it. But, like I said, I don't support it and find it completely disgusting.

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    2. Re:Americans by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You are a disgrace to humanity.

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    3. Re:Americans by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I reiterate, you disgusting fucking troll, you are a disgrace to humanity. As such, you'll hear nothing else from me. I hope you die, you racist.

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    4. Re:Americans by Zen+Punk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'm not sure that you're a disgrace to humanity, but you are a troll. And trolls are pretty low. Would you say these things in a real-life conversation? Of course not, you're trying to defend child porn. What's baffling to me is what drives a person to go to public forums just to stir up shit.

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    5. Re:Americans by JNighthawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hrm. I'm not sure what to say to that, besides you're right, mostly.

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  14. Misleading title by ndogg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The blurb's title is misleading. The Cell processor is likely to have little to do with the POWER5 arch:

    I asked if there's any relationship between POWER5 and the Cell architecture that IBM is working on with Sony. Pattnaik didn't seem to familiar with the details of Cell, and he said that there's no relationship between the two designs. He noted that if they shared some similar characteristics, then it isn't because the two teams are collaborating in any way.

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  15. Re:In addition to the pornography... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Welcome to Slashdot. We preach for the legalization of stealing from recording artists and movie studios one minute and demand that spammers and child pornographers be brutally tortured or persecuted the next.

    How is that for a consistent moral compass?

  16. Title is write, I'm an ass by ndogg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, clicked the wrong link. I hate you, endersdouble, but I don't hate you enough to put you on my foes list.

    Oh, why can't /. blurbs be simpler? As if they're not already.

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  17. Dammit, Michael! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was posting that. Now you've made me look redundant. And repetitive.

  18. Re:In addition to the pornography... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rock on, I knew we could count on you to help distribute child pornography!

  19. Re:ATTN: MICHAEL SIMS OR ROB MALDA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael Sims got fired, you idiot.

  20. Re:ATTN: MICHAEL SIMS OR ROB MALDA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello, JacksonBrown

  21. Also Virus-laden, Javascript tar pit by jonabbey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That page also supplies a Java applet designed to exploit a 2003 IE/Java bug.

    The page also attempts to seize control with Javascript.

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  22. Gmail Invite by Gmail+Fairy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-95c522b451-5fecbd4 4ca-8132b87ed4

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  23. Re:Wikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >What do you think? Inline goatse on Wikipedia? WTF?

    Most of us have the maturity to handle looking at an on topic image, whatever the content. Why would it not be inline like other wiki images? To protect little girls' innocence?

  24. Post 400 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spoke claimed in the name of child porno!