Basically, this method cannot be used to transfer power, just power state changes. Which would be useful for instant communication, except that you have to communicate the change via traditional channels first for it to be observed in the spooky device - because the receiver needs to know what to measure in order to receive it.

Basically, useless.

Imagine the sending and receiving end having a database of matrices describing all the various known combinations that can be transmitted, and a light-speed channel of delivering a key identifying the matrix in question...

I started to laugh, but then didn't.

At least this will force terrorists to shove C4 up their ass. I wonder what they'll do with the detonator cords.

Well, my laptop is too thin to have anything as bulky as a VGA connector, so there is a mini displayport socket and a dongle to convert to VGA... works.

Safety and predictability. Make things boring and people, in the average, are happy :)

Wouldn't it be just hilarious if Apple _didn't_ announce a tablet at all? Maybe they're just having fun with all the fuzz and competitor R&D misdirection their speculated announcement is making :-)

Damn, if they announce iPhone 4G with an imaging display or some such non-tablety gizmo, I want a cookie.

This has to be the coolest reason for 64-bitness, ever!

MrHanky, ScrewMaster... ROFL

AFAIK, "Nuh-uh" means something naughty with a polar bear, in Eskimo. I suspect there is common experience involved, otherwise there wouldn't be an expression for it.

So, (provided that he's an Eskimo) the AC wins. QED.

PS. I also maintain both *nux and *bsd environments, and I fully agree with the original statement. All my mission critical stuff runs bsd.

'Number'. Not 'Numbers'.

Ooh! That's Aerosmith! Do I qualify - or did I flunk the marketing bit..?

27"? FFS, he has reason to be... I want one of those too :P

Of course. It's "sudo make me a sandwich".

Go look for yourself: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/

I would expect the cache configuration handling in osfmk/i386/cpuid.c be a bit simpler, but quite frankly, dropping Atom support is probably a trivial code change aimed to prevent users running 10.6 on underpowered machines...

As long as your firm keeps requiring NTLM, I know it will not get any respect in mine, and likely many others...

We'll gladly take your money, though.