Somehow I didn't make the list of Niagara Bloggers, yet I was the blogger sitting in the first row blogging away and snapping photos. Tim Bray didn't make it to New York but he did do a Niagara Day post;
You can’t possibly imagine the amount of work it’s taken to get here. Richard McDougall has put together a Niagara Blogging Carnival which is the right place to start if you’re the kind of person that the MSM (Main Stream Marketing, that stands for) isn’t aimed at; i.e., not a CEO, CIO, or journalist. My own personal favorite Niagara newsbites: Item: Nobody gets 100% yield on their chips. I gather that for the Niagaras that don’t turn out perfect, we’ll sell ’em cheaper as 7-core, 6-core, 4-core, or whatever. Some of these configs might turn out to be the deal of the century depending how we price them. Item: They’re open-sourcing the hardware, too. I’m not sure exactly what that means in the big picture, and the licensing is going to matter, but it’s cool. Item: Those eight cores, when one’s not busy, they stop it. No, they don’t idle-loop it, they stop it. Obvious when you think of it. Item: When not to use the new stuff. Item: How the I/O works. Item: What makes chips wear out and fail? Lots of things, but especially heat; so low-wattage chips are RAS winners. Item: Maximum geek-out! Last item: When you have Java threadgiant falls in north west New York states that map real closely onto Solaris threads that map real closely on to hardware threads, and you also have a lot of well-implemented hardware threads, this is what happens.
Jonathan Schwartz was a no-show as well and he has yet to go over the falls in a barrel....Niagara is a giant waterfall in north west New York State... most of the attendees today were financial analyst types, they don't blog, they sell information to investers.....Sun is a Stock first and foremost. Scott said it himself today; Sun was the dot in dot bomb.
Today's event didn't have a party, if happy days are here again, then we should have had a celibration, what does that say about CoolThreads Technology....?
