Posts by Vince

US nuke boffins: Multicore CPU gains stop at eight

The Memory Wall strikes again

But just try getting research funding to fix things. Not as exciting as transactional memory or virtualization or yet another cache-reshuffling.

Intel rallies rivals on parallel programming education

so...

the summary is, the chip companies aren't smart enough to make computers faster anymore. So their solution is to make them harder to program. Excellent.

Martha Stewart criticised for swoop on town name

Upstate NY?

I know this article is probably from a NYC-centric view, but please refrain from referring to something as "upstate NY" unless it _really_ is upstate. Like Saranac Lake, or Watertown. I guess Albany, Syracuse, or Buffalo. Even Ithaca or Binghamton could pass. But some town that is like a 10 minute train ride from NYC itself does not really qualify as "upstate".