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Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware
unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).
Quoting Bill Gates: "640K is enough memory for anybody." And look what happened to him! ;-)>
We're through being cool! Eliminate the ninnies and the twits! -Devo
Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.
INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.
CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat
HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.
MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most
Or click one of the download links on the fucking article. Kdawson is blind, but that doesn't mean you have to be.
Someone once said there would never be a need for more than 640K in a personal computer. I wouldn't be so bold as to say 256 processor cores would be enough in a personal computer.
Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
because they want to run Microsoft Office and another program. BLOATWARE FOREVER!
-- A computer without Windoze is like a choclate cake without mustard
It's aware of 256 cores, nothing about utilizing the 256. I'm guessing it probably has more to do with licensing, it needs to detect the cores properly so it can bill you for them individually.
Actually if you look at interviews with Ballmer at the time(Sorry I can't find a link,but as others have noted my Google Fu is starting to seriously suck) but Xbox was his plan for "getting into the living room" and "connecting with the Windows PC for a total media experience" because at the time there was big press buzz about how Apple owned the music space and how easy it would be for Apple to own the living room. I forget what was the buzzword of the day-"upward convergence" or "upward integration" or something. Basically it was this theory-Apple gets a foot in the door with iPod,they then come out with a set top box that integrates with the iPod for a seemless experience,followed by support in Mac that makes for a total multimedia domination.
But the point still stands. Anyone who has been watching the moves at MSFT since Ballmer got the power can tell you that Ballmer wants to be Steve Jobs so bad it hurts. The problem with that is twofold. One,MSFT doesn't do cool. When they try to do cool,like with Zune and Vista,it comes out as lame and sucky. Apple can do cool because the Unix underpinnings have great memory and process management which means the bells and whistles don't slow it to a crawl. And second,by focusing their resources on trying to beat Apple at their own game,it not only comes off as "Me too!" ripping off,but it ignores the CORE of their business,which of course IS business.
Fortune 500 companies don't give a flying crap about cool. They want resource light(to cut down on hardware cost) they want easy to manage with little need for retraining(to cut down on IT support cost) and they want easy to lock down with Group Policy. Is there ANYONE who can look me in the eye and tell me with a straight face that Vista was designed for business? Is their anyone here who hasn't looked at the shots of Win7 and thought "damn they are even ripping off the Apple dock.". The point is MSFT better learn REAL quick where their bread is being buttered from,because even here in mudsuck AR I have had more and more SMB owners wanting to take a good hard look at Linux. Just a few years ago these folks wouldn't have given Linux a second thought. But MSFT focusing on the home users and loading their OS with bells and whistles are really starting to turn off the businesses. And with EA and others trying to make PCs unusable for gaming with DRM that acts worse than any virus,the LAST thing MSFT needs right now is for businesses to move to Linux/Apple.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.