Archive for September, 2006

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Gentlemen, to Evil!

September 27, 2006

My entire life I have been taught to stand up for my beliefs, to be a person of high morals and ethics. That’s why I feel obligated to express our concerns about the Salvation Army’s wanton, cruel intimations. But first, …More

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer …More

Fast Internet

September 20, 2006

I’ven’t been online much since we haven’t had internet at the new house. But now we do!

Harbingers of the Hard Rapture

September 19, 2006

Ever so slowly, it is coming. – Chess was once the pinnacle of geekdom, but then the artificial intelligence geeks got too smart for chess and turned to Go. Why Go? The game is more than a thousand years older …More

I

September 13, 2006

#define rdtsc _asm _emit 0x0f _asm _emit 0×31 __try { _asm { // Get the count before calling the known delay function rdtsc mov esi, eax mov edi, edx // call the delay function push uiParameter call DelayFunction pop ebx …More

Rehoboth Beach, DE

September 10, 2006

I am in the midst of getting packed up and ready to fly back to CA tomorrow morning. This vacation has been very nice: I got to Seattle, Orcas Island, Rehoboth DE (that’s Delaware, fools), Gotham, and I was able …More

The Wedding At Orcas Island

September 6, 2006

No. That’s not a greyscale filter. That’s a picture from Seattle. A bunch of Lorons and I made the trip to Seattle the weekend before last to be present for Micheal and Jasmine’s wedding. The wedding itself was on Orcas …More

Goolag

September 5, 2006

Google, renowned for taking on the US Justice Department early this year over the integrity of its user data, has agreed to hand over a small portion of its data to Brazilian authorities under threat of hefty fines and possibly …More