.. but sadly there were no shares available.

The land of numerous indicted and convicted politicians, machine politics, and the home of a mayor who found an aviation icon "inconvenient" (Meigs field) and tore it up under the cover of darkness to pay off his developer buddies. Another Daley might destroy the shuttle for his political advantage. Thanks, but no.

Take two cases -- the RSA algorithm implemented in an FPGA, and the same algorithm implemented in software. Both are (or were, at the time of the invention) innovative and nonobvious. In the hardware version, the algorithm is the selection and interconnections between the hardware components; in the software version, the algorithm is in the code. Tell me why the hardware invention is deserving of patent protection, and the equivalent invention in software is not.

"No one, is to stone anyone, until I blow this whistle ..."

... so that is probably the best play right now if you want a color screen, Amazon content, and pdf.

Even if Windows Phone 7 (or whatever cute name marketing comes up with) is the best thing since sliced bread, Apple and Google will continue to release three software versions for Microsoft's one, ensuring that MS will once again be left in the dust.

You have to wonder why MS continues to try their hand in areas where has no advantage -- or clue, really. The best engineers on the planet can't win in the face of poor management and squabbling VPs.

Ballmer's arrogance knows no bounds.

Not to mention the fact that it is a steaming pile of insecurity.

Bullshit. No action of the EC granted Firefox its ~30% market share -- the mozilla folks earned it, competing head-to-head with Microsoft. There is no monopoly in browsers, no matter what the whining management of Opera and the EC claim.

"Free market", at least in the EC, typically means "giving unearned advantages to anyone but Microsoft".

Hell, there aren't any blind drivers of any sort as far as I know, but there is still braille on the drive-up ATMs.

... you'd think he/she/it could keep these simple attacks from a puny unenlightened human at bay.

Linus does rate high recognition, but it should be a better award than the "Peace" prize. Considering some of the previous winners -- Yassar Arafat, Barak "No Accomplishments" Obama and Al "No Controlling Legal Authority" Gore -- Linus deserves a better award than one given by extreme-left Norwegian politicians.

It's a pity that Apple's notorious approval process didn't kill this propaganda.

As it has happened in the past, someone is plotting a rising demand curve against a presumed insufficient supply, and screams "we're doomed!". This kind of thinking ignores new oil finds, and new recovery techniques which extract more oil from existing finds.

Also ignored are two known Saudi Arabia-sized oil sources -- the tar sands of Alberta and oil shale in the US. At current prices, using these sources isn't economically feasible, but if the price of oil moves up and stays up, we'll see these sources come on line.

Can you name one thing the world has run out of? New technologies, close substitution, and ingenuity driven by economic need have always bolstered and increased the supply of a needed commodity.

Remember that this 1.1TF is single-precision; double-precision is around 240GF. Let's hope they fix this in the next version.

Also, there is 240 cores per C1060, for 720 cores total of Tesla power. The additional 240 cores come from the Quadro in the system; those cores may occasionally be busy with graphics work and unavailable for computation.