Just to recap.. the video on their website states it's just below 3W per Gbit.
They actually put up a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisco_pics/4406738473

Now... if i do the maths, that turns out to be 322000 Gbit * 3 = 966000W.
It strikes me as not very easy to handle from a heat dissipation point of view.

To be honest, same here. I'd like to think i can type pretty fast and not do a whole lot of mistakes, but i do need to correct things (which i mostly notice on the fly).

I've never tried to learn how to type properly. People told me they thought it looks really weird that i use three to four fingers on my right hand but only the index finger on my left, but it works for me.

I also like to think that looking at the keyboard (though I can type without looking at the keyboard just fine) kind of lets me think about what it is that I'm typing a bit more. Takes the eyes off the screen and focuses one on the individual words.

Been a developer for 10 years, never hurt me.

As a matter of fact, "minor crime" does not refer to murdering someone :)

How about this - Prisons are not meant to be used for revenge? How about.... the justice system is not meant to be used for revenge? If I go ahead and kill someone, do you lock me up as part of revenge? In America, this seems to be true, there's just no way anyone would ever think for a moment beyond what first comes up in their minds and you'll hear the mob shout out "ELECTROCUTE HIM!".. It's. just. wrong! What do you think happens to people who get jailed for minor crimes? Do you think jail time is going to make them any -less- criminal?

WHY do people think their engine stop when they shut it off ? It only stops if you depress the clutch, otherwise it will be driven by the wheels and it *will* actually add to braking power because of friction.

WRONG! VM does not even offer 40Mbit/sec, it offers 50MBit/sec which is actually what youre going to get. I got a 50Mbit/sec connection myself and it's been great ever since they installed it. They do *not* traffic shape the 50Mbit/sec package: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html On your lats bit about support: That's simply not true, i've had an outage once and was able to contact virgin media support (knowledgable people, not your usual unqualified support guys) on a newsgroup at 10 PM on a weekend (think it was staurday or sunday, they do work on sundays too!) and they rectified it within 1-2 days.

Go for Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu (*not* Kubuntu, which is usually much less stable and less supported out there). LinuxMint tries to be the prettiest out there and even as a power-user, I love to see and use all the bling. Unlike your usual GNOME environment, the system bar is at the bottom, and doesn't look much different than the windows one. I've never had a problem with LinuxMint stable-wise and the distrowatch.com index seems to agree that it's a very good platform.

...you ignore when learning things on your own. Seriously, if you teach yourself a language it's usually by developing a project of your choice (mostly for the fun of it, as it has been for me). What people do is, they go for the fun bit of hacking things together to get a working piece and pick one of two choice: * Try to use all the language features even if this means overkill for simple situations. * Go on to piece it together and leave a horrible mess. I used to do the latter >10 years ago in that situation, starting out in the mess that Visual Basic itself is, never really realising just how bad it was. I was proud of what I'd achieved! Looking back, I can't believe I published any of that. It's when people go for the first choice and start realising how software is meant to look like from the source that they learn to be a competent programmer. There's all these intricate details like Garbage-Collection, String-Manipulation, Floating-Point Math (the point being that it is unlike mat taught at school !) and many more things like Memory-Management and some such that one *can* get to work sloppily, but it's only when one realises how to utilise these things in the correct way that i would agree self-teaching is the way to go. I'm a self taught programmer, still in university (3rd year with an average mark of 1.8), employed as a software engineer and I'm 100% certain I wouldn't have been able to achieve 1 quarter of these things without teaching myself how to program. ....Yeah... it is at this point that people can rightfully say they *do* waste quite some time in university.

+5 Insightful, not Funny, nope.. insightful, only on slashdot could such a thing happen. Part of the reason i love it as much as i do, oh and while you're here: I'm a prince from the far lands of absurdistan and would like to ask if you would like to [insert random passage of text here]

Innovation means taking risks when going into directions that may not immediately turn a profit form time to time. Google has been doing this with their 20% rule http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html for quite a while now and some nice projects have resulted. If this philosophy, which often enough might not result in immediate profit for the company is to be stopped the way you seem to have in mind, then the very thing google stands for could be lost. In the end, turning to profits like that might be the best way to commit suicide for a company that relies on innovation, good PR and fanboyism as much as google.

Mod parent up, exactly my thoughts as a Software Developer as well.

One thing to keep in mind is that even though it looks bad (and for email it certainly is..), most other mediums aren't quite as affected by it. I do get quite a bit of Spam on ICQ these days, but the ratio between spam messages and real messages is waaaaaaaay better than 20:1. I would expect the same to hold true for most other mediums as well, so that it might in fact be a good idea to use those as a separate alternative communication channel should your inbox become overwhelmed. Something i have noticed over the years is the reduction in Trojans and worms being sent (at least to my inbox). There was a time when i received around 50 trojan-emails a day, whereas now it has been quite a while that a spam mail did actually contain any attachment whatsoever. To summarize, yeah.. email looks bad, but there's a whole set of alternative or additional channels that can be used which aren't quite as saturated.

huh? Weird metrics... Why not just tell us it's about 3.5 LoC ?

Somehow "heat engine" directly translates into "internal combustion engine" for me. But this piece uses electricity, exactly how useful is that? This is bound to be less efficient than to use the electricity to just power an ordinary electric motor. I suppose scaling a motor down to that size might be kinda difficult, though, if that was the point, why emphasize that it is a heat engine?

I don't understand at all how the summary is related to the headline. What do RPG elements have to do with that? I would presume that RPG influences in a game don't stop anyone from making a mod for it? That clearly can't have been the reason why infinity ward did what they have done.