It is true. The official position of the United States and Japan is that we acknowledge, rather than recognize, the PRC claim to Taiwan. Canada and the UK "take note" rather than recognize.
Because apparently, the Taliban are the only bad people left in the world, and Red China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and all the other totalitarian states in the world are suddenly our best buddies.
Taiwan's status is undetermined. It is claimed by two rival governments, the People's Republic of China (the Communist mainland government) and the Republic of China, the former government of the whole shebang that fled to Taiwan in 1949 and has since become democratic. The US recognizes the PRC, but not its claim over Taiwan; even a number of states that recognize the PRC's claim on an official basis have strong military/political ties to Taiwan, such as South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. The PRC would lose if they attacked Taiwan.
Quite a bit more than $20000, if the prices posted on IBM's website are anything to go by, since the lowest-end, single-processor POWER7 server costs $34152.
IBM is a low-volume high-margin company. They don't see a lot of gain from doing the R&D so they can make these chips at a reasonable price and then taking the much smaller profit margins from them when they can make billions in profit from selling their own hardware. In addition, they want to be the only viable upgrade pathway for their existing customers - a while ago a company (Platform Solutions) tried selling Itanium mainframes with an emulation layer for running Z/OS and they got sued into the ground by Big Blue.
Its still that way. POWER6 could actually go up to 5GHz, but IBM sacrificed out-of-order execution to get there. POWER7 brings it back with a slightly lower clock speed and more cores.
POWER and Itanium are architecturally so different that kdawson's snide "put this new Intel chip in the shade" comment is kind of nonsensical. Itanium is superscalar to an extent that POWER doesn't come close to, with each core being able to execute up to six instructions per cycle. While its possible that POWER7 is faster, its also more expensive to get a reasonable configuration and the performance difference between the two is not as clear-cut as our illustrious editor is trying to suggest.
It would be far more likely to be FORTRAN than a C derivative. Also, plenty of supercomputers, especially IBM pSeries based ones, do have very high clock speeds (4-5GHz) and a relatively small number of cores; recent Nehalem systems follow the same trend.
Have you seen Symbian's marketshare graphs lately? Just wondering.
By the way, it also works fine as a smartphone OS, judging by Nokia's many, many smartphones. And for those who it is insufficient for, Nokia also offers Maemo, which many consider to be the best smartphone operating system available.
Not this bullshit again.
Language changes. Maybe in the 60's, guys working on the PDP-8's liked to call themselves "hackers," and it meant something else. Now, hacker is a negative term. Get the fuck over it.
Have a nice day!
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Or for the legitimate government of China to retake the mainland.
Its more likely than you think!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/01/if-you-throw-away-your-console-the-terrorists-have-won/
"This is most likely because English is not Allan Brito native language."
This is probably my favorite sentence in the review.
IBM owns and develops several operating systems (i, AIX, z/OS, z/VM, z/TPF). I'm not really sure what you're referring to.
It is true. The official position of the United States and Japan is that we acknowledge, rather than recognize, the PRC claim to Taiwan. Canada and the UK "take note" rather than recognize.
Because apparently, the Taliban are the only bad people left in the world, and Red China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and all the other totalitarian states in the world are suddenly our best buddies.
Taiwan's status is undetermined. It is claimed by two rival governments, the People's Republic of China (the Communist mainland government) and the Republic of China, the former government of the whole shebang that fled to Taiwan in 1949 and has since become democratic. The US recognizes the PRC, but not its claim over Taiwan; even a number of states that recognize the PRC's claim on an official basis have strong military/political ties to Taiwan, such as South Korea, Singapore, and Japan. The PRC would lose if they attacked Taiwan.
http://www.tadpole.com/products/notebooks/bullfrogv2.asp there you go. Dual processor, and even has a full-size PCI slot.
Quite a bit more than $20000, if the prices posted on IBM's website are anything to go by, since the lowest-end, single-processor POWER7 server costs $34152.
IBM is a low-volume high-margin company. They don't see a lot of gain from doing the R&D so they can make these chips at a reasonable price and then taking the much smaller profit margins from them when they can make billions in profit from selling their own hardware. In addition, they want to be the only viable upgrade pathway for their existing customers - a while ago a company (Platform Solutions) tried selling Itanium mainframes with an emulation layer for running Z/OS and they got sued into the ground by Big Blue.
And UNICOS, Super-UX, and a few other niche systems.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp - I wouldn't say "clobber," but they're roughly at par on performance and Itanium has an edge on price/performance.
Its still that way. POWER6 could actually go up to 5GHz, but IBM sacrificed out-of-order execution to get there. POWER7 brings it back with a slightly lower clock speed and more cores.
POWER and Itanium are architecturally so different that kdawson's snide "put this new Intel chip in the shade" comment is kind of nonsensical. Itanium is superscalar to an extent that POWER doesn't come close to, with each core being able to execute up to six instructions per cycle. While its possible that POWER7 is faster, its also more expensive to get a reasonable configuration and the performance difference between the two is not as clear-cut as our illustrious editor is trying to suggest.
It would be far more likely to be FORTRAN than a C derivative. Also, plenty of supercomputers, especially IBM pSeries based ones, do have very high clock speeds (4-5GHz) and a relatively small number of cores; recent Nehalem systems follow the same trend.
Have you seen Symbian's marketshare graphs lately? Just wondering.
By the way, it also works fine as a smartphone OS, judging by Nokia's many, many smartphones. And for those who it is insufficient for, Nokia also offers Maemo, which many consider to be the best smartphone operating system available.
This comes the same month as the release of 16-core processors by IBM and Oracle, and a 12-core from AMD. This isn't that impressive.
Oracle has repeatedly stated that Solaris, along with SPARC, is going to have increased investment.
Not this bullshit again. Language changes. Maybe in the 60's, guys working on the PDP-8's liked to call themselves "hackers," and it meant something else. Now, hacker is a negative term. Get the fuck over it. Have a nice day!
I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, since Maemo runs QEMU. Probably a hell of a lot faster than OSX, too.
Do you not see the difference between Mac OS running under emulation and Mac OS running natively?
You answered your own question. Apple is not on the list. Evidently, they are not a particularly wonderful company to work for.
You're an idiot. There is no way in hell that a quad-2GHz ARM is significantly slower than any low-end or mid-range Intel x86 offerings.
IBM gave up?
16-core 4GHz processor modules would like to have a word with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7
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