> cause untraceable transactions

And this differs from cash, how? And...what's so untraceable about bitcoin, considering every transaction *permanently and publicly stored*. It's such a pain in the ass to anonymize, that even Dread Pirate Roberts seemingly got sick of it.

You can use the controller signals as a data connection on the super nintendo. I'm assuming you could do it on an NES also.

Actually, I'm surprised they don't have 5G in that speed list. Both broadcom and aquantia support 1/2.5/5/10g. And, cat5e can do 5g and 10g in shorter runs, and not many people need 100m. I don't see the point of having 2.5G be the standard for wired when 802.11c can do over that (which is why we need something wired beyond 1G). For a desktop standard, I would rather have a full multi speed 10g chip that gives me the fastest possible with my cable, that gives a speed and reliability benefit over wireless.

Which makes me think it's an Aquantia PHY, since Aquantia and Broadcom are the only ones with known silicon that supports 2.5g, 5g, and 10g. But from Aquantia's current products, they're still at a 28nm process, which makes me think it's not integrated. Mystery company, Intel built a PHY out of nowhere, or Aquantia supports a 14nm process and haven't announced it yet (usually, announcements like that are simultaneous).

> For me, Swiss watches represent the pinnacle of hand crafted micro engineering.
> It serves a single purpose ...you're definitely not the target audience. :P

Your sporadic announcement, while wearing the watch, would be claims of hand made mechanisms.

As far as I know, nobody has a 10G phy at 14nm at this time. Intels current 10G ethernet PHYs come from Aquantia: http://www.lestina.com/media/p...

Their current offering is still at 28nm. None of the *very very few* 10G ethernet phy competitors have anything close.

It would have to be a mystery company they were getting this IP from, especially considering the 2.5G Ethernet rate support. Only Aquantia and Broadcom support this right now.

If you think a $10k piece of Jewelry is an investment, unless you plan on melting down the gold when prices are high or it's a collectors, then you are most likely not the type of person that could afford one. The friendly man behind the counter at the pawn shop can help explain the intricacies of jewelry pricing to you, and laugh when you claim "but I paid xxx!!!".

What's the point of a Rolex? They're absolutely obsolete, unless you're going for some strange fashion statement involving sporadic announcements of "it's a Rolex". If you are rich, then it'll be impressive as a pair of blue jeans for the rest of us. But, if you want a modern smart watch that you can dress up with, where the Rolex used to go, then you're choices are limited to exactly one. There's an absolute gaping void in the market that they're putting *something* into. What's the problem with that? Why does that involve a "soul"?

Bluetooth was horribly implemented by most devices and use cases. 8 device limit (although, I've rarely seen anything that supports pairing with more than one), wasn't really usable as a data connection for iPhone since that required jumping through certifications hoops, many Android implementations were broken, and not much that has Bluetooth goes beyond audio.

It could have been cool, but broken software stacks meant that nothing but the most basic profiles worked reliably and making something interesting meant it wouldn't work in the field. This whole iBeacon thing being anything but trivial makes me shutter at the lack of creativity for Bluetooth devices in the last decade.

Maybe things will get better with 4.1.

From the summary:
> and two integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports

The article doesn't say that they're integrated, just the summary. Maybe the mac is internal, but the phy (the power hungry part of ethernet) will be a separate chip. There's no way they stuck it in the cpu, 10G phy silicon is huge and heatsinky.

Who knows if they they included the phy power in the 45 Watts.

Then write to your politician to not be so corrupt and uphold all of the existing laws. A consumer buying the lesser product just to prevent a monopoly is totally absurd.

It's been interesting watching the beast slowly awaken from ARM poking at it so much. I hope we get some great mobile chips out of this.

Maybe 2015 will be the year of the well hidden don't-hold-it-that-way type heat sinks, along with thicker phones for bigger batteries, so we can actually use these things. Function has to creep back into fashion at some point.

You're lucky. I'm have one option (comcast in silicon valley) of $79 for 20meg down/1meg up.

We can *just* do hd streaming for amazon/netflix videos. Some nights, it's too slow and we buffer every once and a while.

I have no mod points, so take this comment instead.

Slashdot, your comment rating system is shit.

And, once these multi rate gigabit get cheaper, cat5e should be good up to 5gig at 100m, 10G short run. :D