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shell — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:55:21 -0700

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"Even if Rock had made it to

David — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:20:46 -0700

"Even if Rock had made it to market, it would have been an uninteresting processor as companies like Intel and AMD are offering high-performance chips at more reasonable prices, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research."

Suggesting 'Rock' is "uninteresting" is beyond comprehension.

The UltraSPARC RK or 'Rock' processor by Sun Microsystems is interesting to Computer Scientists, who have worked for decades to speed single threaded performance. Sun implemented many of those theories in 'Rock' silicon such as:
- thread level parallelism
- thread level speculation
- transactional memory
- out-of-order retirement
- deferred queue

'Rock' is a very interesting processor in the academic world since companies like Intel and AMD have not recently pioneered computer science technologies in silicon to optimize single threaded applications. Implementations of theory in real silicon are very important to review academic thoughts and determine future implications. Implementations like 'Rock' are studied for decades.

'Rock' is a very interesting processor for business, military, and academia system performance of single thread bound applications - software threads on 'Rock' runs with very few of the painfully long waits on slow memory due to cache misses, commonly experienced with Intel and AMD processors. People who purchase systems expect their systems to be doing work, instead of sitting around idle.

'Rock' is a very interesting processor in the commercial world since accelerating existing single thread-bound software allow for acceleration of existing software (which does not scale well with multiple threads) - something the major CPU developers (AMD and Intel) in rest of the market have abandoned. If a single thread is the problem, newer CPU's from other vendors will not solve their performance problem, increase the thread bottlenecked performance, and increase the business profitability.

'Rock' is a very interesting processor in the investment community. The release of Rock would enable Sun to pioneer another niche, abandoned by the other vendors (single threaded performance.) Filling niches has proven to be very profitable for Sun and investors. Sun had pioneered the niche of multi-threaded hardware with the release of their 32 hardware thread UltraSPARC T1 processor - driving proprietary vendors (Intel, AMD) to change their road maps and start seriously threading their CPU's... projects to speed existing single-threaded applications are non-existent today. The release of Rock would enable Sun to pioneer this lost niche, abandoned by the other vendors. Filling niches are very profitable to investors in those technologies.

'Rock' is very interesting to the environmentally conscience consumer. Very little work has been done recently in the market to increase the performance of single threaded software, with the exception of increasing clock rate, which drives up the costs to consumers in: hardware, cooling, and power consumption. Rock has been the exception - targeting increased single threaded performance without aggressively increasing clock rate and the negatives that go along with it.

'Rock' is interesting to the businesses which are consolidating locations. In conjunction with increasing the speed of existing hardware threads making thread-bound applications run faster - with the number of threads per-processor going to 4 to 16, the number of servers required to consolidate multiple locations are reduced to a quarter of the platforms.

Interesting is clearly not the problem with 'Rock'. If there is a problem with 'Rock' - the consumer community will need to wait for something more than a rumor.

I have the go phone and i

gary — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:23:08 -0700

I have the go phone and i took the sim card out and inserted it into my iphone 3g and it works fine

Good

lee — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:45:00 -0700

Good

If Green IT might be an

Todd James — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:38:32 -0700

If Green IT might be an antidote for CIOs then I have nothing to against. We need to somehow survive in this time of recession. If you will see, lot of people would like to get some instant cash loans every now and again. Sudden expenses come up, and you don't always see them coming, which is exactly the kind of situation in which an instant cash loan comes in handy. Otherwise known as a payday loan, it's a small short-term loan that you pay back on your next payday. Since many lenders have gone online, you can submit applications over the phone, or over the Internet. Lenders also use direct deposit to get you your funds within hours, and they also have payment plans to work with you. You could try payday lenders for your instant cash loans.

And here is how Ebay REALLY

becky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:02:40 -0700

And here is how Ebay REALLY handles a report of counterfeit items:
I filed a dispute after receiving (and reporting) fake HP ink cartridges. The cartridges shipped directly from China, not the seller's stated shipping address in Florida (which immed made me very suspicious), and upon closer examination they proved to be older, used and refilled cartridges, not the new, genuine HP cartridges they described. There were several things that gave this away and reasons were described IN DETAIL in my Ebay complaint. (date on box said 2011 while magnifiying glass showed date stamped on the cart was 2005, cartridge rattled indicating it had been drilled and refilled, cheap sticker over the drill hole, HP outer box colors leaching onto each other in transit, etc, etc)
So what does Ebay/PayPal tell me to do? They instruct me that, in order to receive my $285 back from the seller (who may or may not be in on the scam), I must RETURN them AS IS to the seller!!!
Yeah, way to go, Ebay, that's really policing the site and protecting consumers, now isn't it? Seller can simply turn around and resell them either on your site (because he's NOT suspended) or on another site, to someone else, who may not be as knowledgable about these. Way to go, Ebay. You're a joke. You're not doing ANYTHING to protect consumers and you deserve to LOSE this lawsuit. Period.

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So I got bored around about

Olly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:47:23 -0700

So I got bored around about where people started arguing about credit scores.
I'm emmigrated to the states about 5 weeks ago. Tried to bring my wife's UK iPhone over, but it wouldn't work with an AT&T SIM. On account of not having a social security# at the time, AT&T wouldn't let me (even with the offer of a $1000 deposit and proof I have a very good salary) get her a contract that would let her have an iPhone.
Instead, we bought an AT&T GoPhone SIM and used it in a spare Motorola that I had.
I have since picked up an iPhone 3GS for her, and am pleased to report that it appears to be working as a phone (the data bit doesn't, but I guess good things come to those who wait...)

On a more serious note, I can't believe you guys put up with such crap from AT&T...how the merry hell can they happily imply that $69.99/month is a 'good deal' and how on earth did they manage to stiff you guys into *paying* to recieve calls...if anything, you need to stop bitching at each other and take these companies to task over their ridiculous pricing scams...

the faiht is lost,our money

ruben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:16 -0700

the faiht is lost,our money is not coming back,bad luck this time,thanks for all your help mr,Ian

This author thinks the world

Bigg Dogg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:25:32 -0700

This author thinks the world revolves around him, perharps it would be nice if he realizes it doesn't. If celeb tweets doesn't help you make decisions, it does help some other people, hence, the following. Bing was not created to catar to just your needs. It's a search engine (oops! decision engine) for the masses. Live with it.

> Given all this, it seems

acg.chicago — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:28:35 -0700

> Given all this, it seems clear to me that the main purpose for the transcription
> service is to get your permission for Google to read your voice-mails for
> contextual advertising.

Any other blinding insights you'd like to share with us? :-)

-- Andy

Michael jackson is the best

jennifer higginson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:02:53 -0700

Michael jackson is the best man on the EARTH no one can replace him he is the king of pop.
he will live on in my mind for ever and ever. i love you michael.

WACKO JACKO.

Is this the same guy thats

AJ — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:19:06 -0700

Is this the same guy thats hosing money out the door? Losing 200 million per year?