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  • The 10 Most Important Technology Developments of 2008 [View article]
    Second - The cloud

    Good point here. But you left out one important player - Apple's MobileMe.

    Oh yes, it did get off to a truly horrible start, but there it is and I assume it is growing. Not only does it have most of the important parts of the cloud and the virtualization experience, but it comes from a company that excels precisely in integration of the user experience.

    It has one other very important advantage over Google, Yahoo, and many others. It does not rely on advertising. (It also is free of the fear folks have of Big Brother Google collecting all this info on you.)

    Yes - you have to pay for it, but it is a fairly nominal price (except for additional disk space), and then you are free of all the pesky advertisements. It would be easy for Apple to add in other apps, they already make them.

    Personally - I think they would do well to cut the price in half. After all, it is one big subtle advert for Apple itself.
    Dec 31 04:16 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • The 10 Most Important Technology Developments of 2008 [View article]
    Several points here. First: CPU vs GPU.

    I have a Masters in CS including courses in architecture. This does not mean that I know everything, so I will say up front "Perhaps I am missing something." However! My understanding is as follows.

    By Definition a GPU is an engine for performing specific mathematical operation in parallel. By definition, it does NOT have the capacity to perform all the general purpose operations that are done by a CPU. General purpose programs are compiled to run on a CPU.

    THEREFORE - if you want to run a program, then you must have a CPU in the computer.

    Of course - as has been noted - One can easily put an x86 (or whatever) core on a GPU chip. This would no longer be a GPU but rather an integrated chip. One can also put a GPU on a CPU chip (there is nothing magical about the operations that an NVidia GPU performs) This would also be an integrated chip.

    So I do not see the big fuss here. That the GPU is taking over some of the math processing (a la OpenCL), this is an interesting development.
    Dec 31 04:02 am |Rating: +1 -2 |Link to Comment
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