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@ Ars Technica lots of details from this weeks International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and followup on Further Details of Cell processor and other things MultiCore. Also Dana Blankenhorn has a take on this in More On Cells in Continue reading Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor: the SIMD processing units & the SIMD processing units
Via SearchDomino and Ronald Pijper:XML encoding a string: XML strings must be encoded to conform to standards. Unfortunately, in Domino there are no XML encoding functions like @URLEncode. The code is a JavaScriptLotusScript version of this function. It encodes the Continue reading XML encoding a string in JavaScript
Via Boing Boing (and ex-Bakka boy Cory Doctorow) , BAKKAPHOENIX is Moving! back to Queen Street West, their old haunting grounds, to 697 Queen St. West, half a block west of Bathurst, on the south side of Queen. Google Map. Continue reading Toronto’s SciFi BookStore, Bakka Books moving back to Queen St, March 1
As mentioned in MultiCore: Cell Architecture Explained, this week at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) more details of the Cell will be present by STI (Sony, Toshiba, and IBM). The New York Times (reg req) has the advance Continue reading Further Details of Cell processor expected this week
The best part of the “Game” @ IFILM or AdLand Ad-rad. Here is last years (2004), disappointing batch. Filed under: advertising
Via Boing Boing we have a Paul Di Filippo novella (>6 Kwords) : “And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon”, a tale of disturbed processing gone wrong in a world similar to The Gizmo Society of End Users and Continue reading And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon by Paul Di Filippo