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Posts by Damn Yank
70 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2008
Secret US spontaneous human combustion beam tested
BMW to ride in with 115-mile range e-scooter?
Coppers prowl Sheffield's Letsby Avenue
Swine flu apocalypse: Batten down the hatches
'Miracle' bra saves Detroit woman from robber's bullet
Sun Sparc guru splits for Redmond
Wednesday 8th April 2009 19:56 GMT 
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/4551455
Marc Tremblay
Marc Tremblay is a fellow, senior vice president, chief technology officer, and chief architect at Sun Microsystems. He has been instrumental in the design of various microprocessors at Sun, including MAJC, UltraSPARC I, UltraSPARC II, UltraSPARC T1, and currently the Rock processor. In the process, he has been awarded more patents than any other Sun employee [ [http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/499609.html Sun Employee Awarded 100th Patent] ] .
He received his bachelor's degree from Laval University in Canada, and both his M.S. (1985) and Ph.D (1991) degrees from UCLA.
References
External links
* [http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Marc%20Tremblay Sun Microsystems biography]
* [http://research.sun.com/dmp/patents.php?uid=16638&show=all All his patents, at Sun Microsystems web page]
* [http://www.parc.com/cms/get_article.php?id=530 High Performance Throughput Computing] , Marc's talk at "PARC Forum".
Bacon sarnies cure hangovers: Official
Realtors charged with Glengarry Glen Ross-style rival hack
Google admits data center podification
Obama CIO on leave after cuffing of former employee
Ryanair may charge cattle to use the bog
Hitler ordered Luftwaffe to spare Blackpool
iPhone app simulates political corruption
Robot 'Spider-man' casts net to nab burglars
USAF cops seek netflinger rifle to down ultralights, paragliders
Boffin seeks $300,000 to build eight-wheel 230mph EV
Tuesday 20th January 2009 21:00 GMT
"where all/good steering wheels belong"
If you are a Driver's Ed instructor, perhaps... ;-)
I had rented a right-hand drive Versa in Ireland and I still wince at home many times I bashed my right elbow into the door when I went to shift on the first day...
Anyway, I rescind my previous comment. The wheel is indeed on the right.
'Kidnapped' child tracked by mobile phone and Street View
NASA warns of 'space Katrina' radiation storm
IBMers hear sound of axe being sharpened
NASA will give away old Shuttles for free
Apologies after teacher's 'Linux holding back kids' claim
Hawaii says 'aloha' to Phoenix electric SUVs, pick-ups
CSC orders staff home in cost-cutting shutdown
Thursday 4th December 2008 20:14 GMT
@Anonymous Coward
"Is that by business unit?"
It must be... I got wind of it from a buddy of mine who works for CSC in the Midwest. We assumed it was company wide.
They figure that come April, there will be another large round of layoffs. (after getting 3 months of work out of them, and not having to paid for accrued vacation during that time)
Thursday 4th December 2008 13:58 GMT 
the article doesn't mention...
CSC employees (at least in the US) can *not* accrue any new vacation time through the 1st quarter of 2009. So after they use their mandatory 7 days before Christmas, and if they don't have any other vacation days banked up, they won't be able to take ANY time off until April '09.
Nice..
Networked multipack cruise missiles in successful test
IBM authorizes OpenSolaris on mainframes
Monday 24th November 2008 14:03 GMT
Hercules! Hercules!
(what movie??)
We have Hercules (and, ahem, z/OS) running on a Macbook - and it actually performs quite well!
It is good for porting and lightweight testing.
I wouldn't want to fire up CICS & DB2 or anything like that.
zLinux is slow on real 'z' hardware - there is so much emulation and other voodoo going on under the covers that it is and always will be a slug...
Mobile shields man from death bullet
Police vet live music, DJs for 'terror risk'
US stocks up on semi-automatic rifles
Monday 10th November 2008 14:22 GMT
god help us all..
The next 4 years should be, well, interesting...
Kalashnikovs??? How ironic. 15-20 years ago no self-respecting gun junkie would own some damn commie ruskie hardware..
I'd go for a Walther PPK, just for the 00 cool factor...
Anyone know where I can pick up an Aston Martin - cheap??
BBC has newsgasm over Obama's dog
Lightning to thunder with speed-creep beating V8 roar
Morning voting in America
Tuesday 4th November 2008 17:09 GMT 
@Richard Gadsden
Actually, I voted this morning with a just a black pen and both sides of a ledger sheet of paper. Fill-in-the-circles, that sort of thing. The machine that tallies the votes was sitting right there in the room. You insert the paper (through a cardboard sleeve so nobody can peek at your choices) and it scans the blacked out circles and immediately processes your vote. They'll come collect it later after the polls are closed and the information will be downloaded to the county systems. If any problems arise, they can go back and review the paper ballots by hand.
Piece o' cake.
The True Confessions of an Election Official
Tuesday 4th November 2008 14:10 GMT
Good article
I was just there 45 minutes ago... Number 17 in line at 6:14AM. That's quite a turnout in a tiny little village of coal miners and farmers. (and one IT geek)
Our 'blue hairs' have retired over the years, and a younger (50-ish) crowd of women have taken their place... They'll have a long day ahead of them. Hats off to them.
Bono bikini babe party pictures loose on Facebook
Plasma rocket space drive in key test milestone
BBC's TV detector vans to remain a state secret
UK asks to buy next-gen spy planes from US
Brown promises £250bn bailout will save SMEs
DARPA seeks Special Forces submersible aeroplane
McCain laptop theft sparks conspiracy theories
Reg reader completely loses the plot
Tiny MyCar named electric vehicle of the year
Chrysler grows iPod Peapod
Monday 29th September 2008 17:45 GMT 
living in lardy-arsed yank land..
"Or maybe it's just designed for getting lardy-arsed yanks to and from the McDonalds a mile away..."
No, because a true blue lardy-arsed yank would be going through the drive-through... I don't see any functional windows in that thing.
25MPH isn't even fast enough for most residential streets here, much less a multi-lane main road. Forget about the freeway.
Ditto to the Escalade comment above.
And given it's a Chrysler, I'm sure the tranny will go out shortly after the warranty ends.
Can't wait to see it on Top Gear... (with a 2 year delay before it arrives on BBC America)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
