[nlug] Fwd: [postgreSQL] Financial Support for PUGS

2010-08-10 Thread Justin W Elam
FYI -from Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com to pgus-gene...@postgresql.org As the United States PostgreSQL Association continues to grow we are extending the services we provide to our members and the PostgreSQL.Org community in the United States. I am pleased to announce that

[nlug] the iPad Killing Intel?

2010-08-10 Thread j...@coats.org
I thought it is an interesting article, Intel whining they aren't selling as many high end chips since more folks are doing 'web' or 'cloud' computing (sorry, no buzzword bing winners here). Possibly a topic to talk about at the meeting tonight. ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your

Re: [nlug] the iPad Killing Intel?

2010-08-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
I hate reading these kinds of articles. It seems like analysts are always putting out stupid opinions because having an opinion (no matter how ill-informed) is what is expected of them. The fact is, there are more computers being sold every day, around the world, than there has ever been sold

Re: [nlug] the iPad Killing Intel?

2010-08-10 Thread j...@coats.org
I worked for Motorola in Austin for a while in the '90s. While I was there they celebrated selling over 1 Billion of one flavor of one of their 68xx processors (I forgot which it was). Ok Apple's changing processor using A4 (an Apple rather than Intel design) instead of Intel on iPad may change a

Re: [nlug] the iPad Killing Intel?

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Thomas
On 8/10/2010 4:44 PM, j...@coats.org wrote: The Intel processor is getting a bit long in the tooth, but no one has been able to come up with a different architecture for mass market use that catches on in quite a while. Though, to be fair, it's not really factual to say that what Intel is