"While Intel-based designs clearly dominate the computing market, Lipcon said there is very little overlap between the two technologies because Alpha does not run on any Windows-based systems."
Once again, the difference between architectures and software slips through the grasp of the media...
Also, I could have sworn that there were restrictions on the computational power that we could export from the U.S. Something that breezes through nuclear calculation could probably brute-force crack most encryption methods in an afternoon...
This further reinforces my opinion that the New Scientist contains too much sensationalism, and not enough fact.
The entire article is about Carbon Dioxide, yet in their graphic of the chemical reaction, they show a nuclear power plant in the background as the generator spitting out "greenhouse gasses"...
... despite the fact that the "smoke" seen coming out of the cooling towers is harmless steam (though arguably water vapor is a greenhouse gas, as pointed out by another poster) and nuclear plants are often touted for their lack of emissions of any kind (barring the rare distaster, that is)
Maybe I'm just picky because I grew up 3 miles from the Limerick Nuclear plant in southeast PA, and was forced to learn about it in HS, or maybe its because I work for a utility company.;)
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Once again, the difference between architectures and software slips through the grasp of the media...
Also, I could have sworn that there were restrictions on the computational power that we could export from the U.S. Something that breezes through nuclear calculation could probably brute-force crack most encryption methods in an afternoon...
The entire article is about Carbon Dioxide, yet in their graphic of the chemical reaction, they show a nuclear power plant in the background as the generator spitting out "greenhouse gasses"...
Maybe I'm just picky because I grew up 3 miles from the Limerick Nuclear plant in southeast PA, and was forced to learn about it in HS, or maybe its because I work for a utility company. ;)
-- Scott