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  1. Re:teach them a lesson on Universal Wants a Slice of Apple's iPod Pie · · Score: 1

    direct quote from wikipedia - "As of September 2006, the Store has sold more than 1.5 billion songs"...
    Which translates into about 975 million dollars feed to the music industry since the iTMS opened.

  2. Re:Short List on The Moon's Magnetic Umbrellas · · Score: 1

    You made my day... classic movie. :)

  3. Re:Batteries not included on Wireless Sensors To Monitor Power Grids · · Score: 1

    IIRC these little guys feed off of animal flesh to keep themselves charged.

  4. Re:Increase the CCD resolution of next telescope on The Hubble Lives On · · Score: 1

    The JWST is going to live at a Lagrange point (L2) making it very difficult to attempt any servicing. So they have to use technologies that are tested and resilient to the harmful affects of the environment it will be living in.

  5. Re:In a business enviroment on Joanna Rutkowska Discusses VM Rootkits · · Score: 3, Informative
    I would say that few, very few are actually using the hardware virtualization.
    That is not her point. It doesn't matter if software does or not exist exists that uses the capabilities of the hardware.. the issues is that operating systems are running on hardware that has virtualization capabilities built-in but the operating system aren't really tooled to properly secure this capability to prevent it being used to subvert the operating system.
  6. Re:Someone convince me... on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1
    OK, the specs on the new MacBooks look great; however, the price difference between my Dell E1505 Core2Duo and a similarly configured MacBook is $1000.


    You care to outline the configurations you are looking at? Also clarify if you are talking about a MacBook Pro (which this article is about) or MacBook?
  7. Re:But does it run MacOSX 64bit on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that x86-64 allows 8 addition registers under programmatic control among other enhancements (for example passing function parameters in registers).

    So in the case of x86-64 you actually can (usually will) get better performance running in 64 bit mode then in 32 bit mode despite the cache penalties and bandwidth implications of having to move around pointers that are twice as wide as before.

  8. Re:But does it run MacOSX 64bit on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 2, Informative

    10.2.8 & Panther (10.3) support native 64 bit math operations in application code when running on a 64 but capable system (G5).

    Tiger (10.4) supports applications with 64 bit virtual memory spaces when running on a 64 bit capable system (G5, Core 2 Duo, Xeon 51xx) but ONLY for applications that linked against libSystem, Accelerate.framework and a few others. In other words Tiger supports 64 bit address spaces but only for a handful of libraries.. basically no UI application primarily limited to POSIX. Again like Panther, Tiger supports use of 64 bit math operations in all applications.

    Leopard (10.5) extends 64 bit virtual memory spaces support to all system frameworks and libraries. It will support running 32 bit and 64 bit application side by side without any of the limitations of Tiger or Panther.

  9. "adult webmasters" on Zango Under Fire From Adult Webmasters · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess the child webmasters don't care.

  10. Re:Cheating? Yep... on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1

    It is called a design decision... Intel's Core 2 Duo family is designed with a large L2 cache coupled with a higher latency memory access, just as AMD is design with smaller L2 cache a lower latency memory access.

    Anyway making statement about well if you cut this, change or run this specific task that then you see this makes little sense when trying to truthfully compare real devices. Compare the devices as they are running the work load YOU need to run and see which is best for what YOU want to do with them.

  11. Re:Interesting. on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1

    oops... I also meant to list the mobile Core 2 Duo (Merom) with 4 MiB cache: T7600, T7400, T7200

  12. Re:Interesting. on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1
    Intel was supposed to have 4M cache on the core 2 duo and it is only 2.


    You may want to visit Intel's site... several of the Core 2 Duo based processors have 4 MiB shared L2 caches (X6800, E6700, E6600, Xeon 51xx).
  13. Re:Isn't that going a bit far? on Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair · · Score: 1

    Actually based on current information it looks like Yorkfield is two dual core blocks (with related cache) on a single die NOT an MCM. This is much the same as current AMD packages and the coming K8L.

    The K8L looks likely to have 512 MiB of cache (L2) per core with 2 MiB of cache (L3) shared among all four cores while Yorkfield will have two independent 6 MiB cache (L2) blocks shared between two cores and on die glue between the independent dual core blocks and the FSB.

  14. Re:Putting the master password in the manual? on Googling for ATM Master Passwords · · Score: 1

    If the default password exists why shouldn't it be in the manual? If it exists bad folks will know about it one way or another eventually. It is better to have it clearly documented and ideally in your face when you do first setup. ...having a default password isn't the problem, it not changing the default password...

  15. Re:GPGPUs... on ATI's Stream Computing on the Way · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point of a thing like this is to ship data in bulk to the VRAM attached to the GPU. Then have the GPU grind away on that data using the large memory bandwidth available on the adapter. Then once finished pull the data back off the adapter. Also note that PCIe is much much better then any prior PCI/AGP bus for feeding this type of thing.

  16. Re:Y'know... on First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming · · Score: 1

    So realizing that A is just a bunch of BS and the same as B... would you choose C?

  17. Re:Well on the upside on Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kernel panic information gets logged on reboot to a file and you can capture a kernel core dump if you want.

    Review... TN2063, TN2118, Debugging the Kernel, etc.

  18. Re:Cosmic rays have prior art on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    If a blackhole (as is the topic of this submission) was created by such an event and that blackhole didn't evaporate (etc.) then we would NOT be here to talk about it.

  19. Re:Man Mini was updated as well on Apple Unveils 24" iMac · · Score: 1

    So the Core Solo 1.5 bumped to a Core Duo 1.66 and you wanted a price drop?

    Put it this way... the existing Core Duo 1.66GHz Mac mini just got a $200 price cut with a new Core Duo 1.83GHz system taking its price point.

  20. Re:If only it were so easy... on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    Actually many locals are strict in what construction style and external appearance a building or home can take.

  21. Re:Yet more evidence QWZX on Repercussions of Reporting on Apple 'Sweatshops' · · Score: 1

    ...no maybe you just missed the point of his remark.

  22. Re:help on Microsoft and Mozilla To Collaborate for Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think MS is trying to get all the browsers to support the new user security model in a consistent fashion... I believe that is the main drive for this and no it isn't easy.

  23. Re:Size and functionality on Next Generation Stack Computing · · Score: 1

    Thank god most OS vendors are utilizing register based ABIs on x86-64 (would have loved 32 named registers... but 16 is better then nothing) to allow operations similar to what you outlined for PPC.

  24. Re:Only now? on 'Life on Mars' Meteorite Rejected After 10 Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the tin foil hat is a little tight... it appears to be cutting off blood supply to your brain affecting your reasoning abilities. =P

    Basically from the word go their has been many many scientist that questioned the theory presented for the origin of the features in the meteorite. A handful of those scientist did experiments over the _years_ since (research takes time) to see if any non-organic processes could have produced similar structures and they have found ones that can.

  25. Re:Hoping for the iPod video update on Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors · · Score: 1

    If you have an video capable iPod iTunes will sync videos to your iPod when you connect it.

    Review the FAQ for more information.