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  Samstag, 28. Oktober 2006

Flickr patents interestingness.

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Nota bene: Those are patent applications. In any case, especially the latter one sounds highly dubious.Inquirer: AMD, Intel are come-back kids with X86 vectorisation [ Ø HTP • ]

"[...] [I]t is going far beyond the old MMX/SSE-like SIMD approach, where a single instruction maybe operates on up for four sets of operands. Now, we talk about at least 16 parallel 64-bit FP units in the proposed vector engine of the next Intel core, or 64 pipelines in, say, the ATI R600 GPU, usable as a FPU, too."

Recommended reading. Interesting times ahead.'[...] [S]ome of Schwarzenegger's success may be due to massive mining of consumer data, the theory being that if they know what you buy, they know how you vote. [...] "In simplest terms: A homeowner who drives a Volvo, reads The New Yorker magazine and shops at Whole Foods Market likely leans Democratic. A pickup driver with a hunting or fishing license who reads Time magazine probably leans right." Some other nuggets from previous research: Jaguar owners are those most likely to vote, Hyundai drivers among those least likely. Dr. Pepper is the only sugared soft-drink with a GOP-leaning consumer base, and NFL viewers tend to be Republican. Such information can help a campaign find potential supporters even if they're hidden in opposition territory. "It's not where they live, it's how they live," said Josh Ginsberg, the Schwarzenegger campaign's deputy political director.'

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