I think the bigger question is, "how would you move this process to a FAB"? I don't think it will happen soon, but it seems to me we would need robotic STMs? Research is continuing... I assume.

Nahhh. I'm pretty sure there is a Wal~Mart there.

I think the research should continue... In Texas!

With everything that's screwed up in this country, how did this bubble up to the top of the list?

Hey, on Star Trek they always found places to walk around without space suits...

Yup, the eye is collapsing, and the wind speed is dropping,,,, But it is still 951MB

Isn't that called DWDM?

You're kidding right? This is /.

I am still stunned that our president and congress put us into a position where we have to pay for rides to the ISS for a zillion dollars a seat, with no other alternative. We've had 30 years to design the next big thing. What happened?

I subscribe to "you can never be too thin, too rich, or have too much disk space". Wow! think of how much PR0N that is!!!

When you can't scale vertically any further, you scale horizontally. What we need is software that will take advantage of multiple cores and hyper-threading in those cores. There are some out there. (Video editing comes to mind.) If we get started now, we will be all set when the end-game becomes imperative. That way, we can see processing improvement in the same relative footprint.

I had to think about this a bit before responding... I left college because they told me I had to take calculus or do not come back to my major. I left, and got a job as a COBOL programmer. I then moved into system programming, went on to be published at conferences, magazines, etc. My job now is main frame capacity planning and performance measurement as a storage vendor. Yes, I use math in my job. Calculus? NO.

So, you have the "special" discount?

Wait! Can't we just fix this with switch zoning?