Posts by Matt Bryant

Re: Allison Park Re: Mikel Storm clouds

"HP Profitable?...." Nice dodge of the fact the PC part is. I also note you do not deny that Lenovo took a loss-making IBM PC business and made a success of it.

Re: Mikel Re: Storm clouds

Dell and hp have profitable PC and x86 server lines. IBM sold an unprofitable PC bizz to Lenovo, which Lenovo made profitable. What does that say about IBM management then and now?

Re: Local Dupe "on the balance of the above alone - who are you prepared to believe?"

".....You don't assume that Sweden is silly enough to allow hearsay evidence in its courts?...." Little chance of it going to court and being exposed for little more than whimsical tattletales unless your quivering hero grows a pair and goes to Sweden to face charges.

Re: Local Dupe Re: "on the balance of the above alone - who are you prepared to believe?"

If only all that was being presented in court under oath as evidence, eh? Oh, but it's not, and you know that the Dickileaks groupies have been sprouting male bovine manure (along with threats and childish squeals of outrage) since before the two women in question were even identified. All A$$nut has to do is man up and go back to face the courts, then all these unsubstantiated claims made by his supporters can be put to rest. Do I think it likely that A$$nut thinks they'll hold up in court? Does a bear take dumps in the woods. Looks like liars take dumps in the Ecuadorean embassy.

Re: AC AC danR2 Who's laughing now?

".....when in a hole...." LOL! It is very obviously you and your similarly upset skiddie friends, all crying over Recursion's inevitable trip to prison, that are very obviously in a hole seeing as you cannot post anything relevant. No arguments, no justifications, just whiney posts against those that mock your "hero" for the very obvious fool he is. What, did it all get a bit too serious for you when the lulz started getting jail time?

".....the more frothy mouthed you get...." Park your ego, chum, that's me laughing at you, no frothing involved.

".... As for my mum, she's a 75 year old widow...." And she's still paying for you to get through school at that age! Hadn't you better buck up and pass first grade, you can't go on living in her basement for ever.

Re: AC Re: AC danR2 Who's laughing now?

"....something touch a raw nerve?...." Sorry to burst your little homophobic bubble, but no, you provide nothing more than amusement, in keeping with the rest of the Anonyputzs, Dickileaks and other self-deluding Faithful. For you to touch a nerve you would first have to have an original thought, and that would seem as likely as QPR winning this year's Premier League.

".....Methinks the lady, sorry queen, doth protest too much." Ask your mum, when the milkman or the postie's through with her. Don't interrupt her, she needs the money for your school uniform.

Re: AC Re: danR2 Who's laughing now?

"....Sounds like you and Shagbag speak from experience." No, it's called imagination and a sense of humour, both probably alien entities to yourself, along with intelligent thought and responsibility.

Re: danR2 Re: Who's laughing now?

".....He'll be welcomed as a king." More likely as their new queen.

Re: implicateorder Re: implicateorder implicateorde Billl HAHAHAHAA!

"....cost-savings in the form of more work being accomplished (achieved through performance boosts, etc), etc.". Helloooooh, anyone home? What do you think happens with CMT, already too tightly tied to parallelised workloads to run the single-threaded apps customers have now, when you take away even more general performance stuffing "accelerators" onto the die? FFS, go get an adult to explain it to you.

Re: implicateorder Re: implicateorder implicateorde Billl HAHAHAHAA!

"I don't think Oracle's trying to sell their hardware of "Other" software...." They have to. Sorry to burst your bubble but the only Oracle software that really sells well is the database software, the rest is usually not even in the top three of the relevant software segment. Remember Oracle Collaboration Suite? So, how many Exchange instances did that replace? And the majority of Oracle databases are actually storing data for other companies' software (such as SAP). Larry may think he can sell everyone an Oracle DB appliance but he can't replace the rest of the stack, and if he tries making Slowaris and SPARC too closely ties to Oracle software then he will kill his chances of selling servers for anything other than his own appliances.

Re: Kebabfart Re: Kebabfart implicateorde Billl HAHAHAHAA!

".....If your claim is true......" Oh Kebbie, you KNOW it's true, as otherwise Larry wouldn't need to badge Fudgeitso's SPARC64 kit! Duh!

Re: implicateorder Re: implicateorde Billl HAHAHAHAA!

"....The OS detects conditions that match and offload the work to the processors' built in crypto accelerator." Sure, sounds fine on paper, but you need to understand that in circuit design you don't get anything for nothing. The space taken up on the die by additional, specialised circuits usually has to come at the cost of more generalised circuits that can help in more generic uses. In the case of M5, by finally adding the cache the CMT designs need (though not the rest of the cache-handling technology required), half the cores had to be chopped out to make room. So you have a choice - make the CPU bigger so you can add the additional specialised circuits without affecting the general circuits, or add the specialised circuits at the cost of non-specialised performance. Making the chip die bigger means increasing the wattage required and also reducing the yield per wafer, both of which drive up costs. Staying in the same envelope but reducing general performance makes your chip less attractive to those users not running the specialised tasks you have designed for. And - whilst it maybe hard for the Snoreacle fanbois to admit - not every server out there is running Larry's database software as its core role.

it would make more sense to design such offload engines onto plug-in PCI-e cards, then they can be added as required without crippling the general performance of the system.

Re: Kebabfart Re: implicateorde Billl HAHAHAHAA!

"..... It performed awfully in real life workloads......" LOL! Didn't you get the memo? The reason Snoreacle's has to swallow its pride and badge Fudgeitso servers is BECAUSE the whole CMT range are pants with real workloads outside of the web serving niche. And the main reason is because it chokes on heavy single-thread apps and doesn't have enough cache. Your pointless denial of reality is very amusing but I think it's about time you started facing facts.

Re: Novatose Re: What's the point? - roadmaps completed!

".......Sun couldn't come up with anything intelligent around roadmaps...... It looks like the roadmaps from Sun are pretty much being completed by Oracle......" So which is it? If Sun didn't have any intelligent road maps and Oracle are completing on them then surely that means Oracle are just completing a not intelligent roadmap. Thanks for clearing that up.

Re: AC Sunshiner Re: Billl HAHAHAHAA! - no rationality? no numbers?

"......you don't have a rational argument for your statements....." Try the Oracle server sales figures (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/20/oracle/ ). Nothing shows the fact that Larry is failing to convince the customers more than the complete lack of penetration of Niagara into even existing Sun accounts, who prefer the SPARC64, whether badged or direct from Fudgeitso. Your staged benchmark figures are completely pointless compared to the all important sales figures.

/ SP&L

Re: implicateorde Re: Billl HAHAHAHAA!

"There are initiatives underway (and have been for a while now) to use FPGAs to provide hardware acceleration. Why is it a bad idea to do something similar on the processor die itself?...." The question becomes how tightly do you integrate the app to the hardware. Too tightly and the chip becomes too specialized to do any other tasks well. And then you reduce the customer base, which means you lose any economies of scale and have to sell your specialised chips at very high prices. Remember the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell? Brilliantly clever, capable of amazingly tight integration, and yet a PITA to develop for due to the tightness of integration. Lack of stomach for the pain of coding it limited the application base, limiting the uses and keeping the costs high, leading to it overlooked in favour of cheaper, simpler, "less clever" but infinitely more popular and flexible designs like x86. If Larry ties his chips too tightly to Java, or worse still too tightly to just Oracle database software, then the other app vendors will push their software on anything but Larry's chips, and you can't build a business on Larry's software alone.

Re: Billl Re: HAHAHAHAA!

"Itanic.

'nuf said"

More like you CAN'T find anything to say to dispute the obvious - T5 can't do the heavy, single-threaded enterprise workloads Larry claims it can, and sticking a lump of cache on the side without any integration into the chip on M5 is a waste of time. Once again, SPARC64 (and Itanium, and Power) will massively outsell Niagara because it's the only chip Snoreacle's can offer that is actually capable of doing the job required. Whilst it's good for Snoreacle's that Larry has learned from Ponytail's mistakes, it's still amusing to see how the Sunshiners are still trying to deny the obvious.

/SP&L

Re: Franklin Re: Fehu

".....Your faith in the competence and willingness of the law is touching." Your blinkered and reflexive desire to think the worst of The Man is simply moronic.

Re: Fehu

".....So, "insufficient evidence" means that they didn't post the required number of pictures of themselves committing the crime?....." No, it probably means the pics are either of not good enough quality to identify anyone or that they do not show conclusive proof of coercion. The police would need to build up enough evidence to convince a prosecutor to take the case to court, and if the girl did not report the case until four days after the event she probably cleaned up all the physical evidence and left the cops with nothing but her word. Tragic, I'm sure the coppers involved would love to take the "rapists" in question into a windowless room for five minutes of truncheon practice, but that's not how the law works.

What the Anons are doing is saying "investigate but you had better reach the conclusion we have decided on or else" - that's just vigilantism by computer.

Re: hungee Re: SAP

Agreed, it would seem other organizations in Queensland manage to pay their staff despite the unions, so I'd have to say the blame lies more with IBM.

Re: nobody got fired for going with IBM

In this case, the probably more interesting question is who gets sued for buying IBM? I can't see Logica or Accenture kicking up too much of a fuss as they have to work with IBM, but I can see the taxpayers of Queensland looking to recoup some costs from Big Blue.

/More popcorn, please!

Re: Local Dupe Re: "Our only threat is the threat of more threats."

".....Then why were they treated with such unsparing behavior and threatened with such outrageous sentences by the prosecutors?....." Who says they are outrageous? You see it's actually just like dealing with kiddies - the first time they do something stupid you might send them to their room for the afternoon, they do it again then you up the punishment in the hope they get the message, so you ground them for a week. The problem is you and your skiddie chums are really thick and the message didn't get through with community sentences and harsh words, and the e-crims are using your skiddie activities as cover, so the grown ups are having to use stronger sentences and it seems (from the volume of the whining) that you and your Anonyputz buddies are finally starting to get the message.

Re:Local Dupe Re: Local Dupe Re Local Dupe Saturday 6 April 20:17 GMT

".....threat....." Threat!??! ROFLMAO! Please do explain what threat the Anonyputzs are to anyone other then themselves? What they have actually done other than mindless and minor Internet vandalism? What massive "threat" did Aaron Swartz provide other than the a bit of petty copyright theft? Sorry to burst that big bubble of grandiose self-absorption, but you guys are not Internet James Bonds or real-life Lisbeth Salanders, you're just skiddies wasting bandwidth.

Re: Kebabfart Re: Kebabfart XFS not safe

<Yawn, yawn, YAWN>. Simply repeating the same Sunshiner propaganda over and over is simply going to switch the undecided off even faster. Fail!