THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Kilroy said Monday that Intel's Xeon 5100 chip will be the tops in both "performance and performance per watt," and he trotted out Greg Brandeau, vice president of computer operations for Pixar Animation Studios, to back up his boasts that the new microprocessor would be speedier and energy efficient.
Brandeau said it took 12 months of 'round-the-clock computer animation to create Pixar's new film, "Cars," and added that Pixar's data center is now so packed that it can't accommodate new machines without over-heating its air conditioning system.
After testing a prototype server running the Xeon 5100, he estimated that a roomful of such devices would have taken "37 percent of the space and one-half the power" of Pixar's current server array.
But then the day may come when anyone can make Pixar on a computer. What good will server farms do then?