It appears from the article that it's a new, separate architecture to which the kernel hasn't been ported yet, so these are add-on processors that can help reduce the load on the actual CPU, at least for now. So, em, two things: 1. How exactly does that work without kernel level support? They claimed having ported separate apps (MySQL, memcached, Apache), so this might suggest a generic kernel interface and userspace scheduling. 2. How does this fix the apps they ported being mostly IO bound in a lot of cases and 99% of the cores will still just be eating out of their noses?

Yes, except, no.
People with genotype XY, and non-active (mutated) SRY. Female phenotype.
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Presumably (especially considering how long the bug has managed to go unnoticed and how prevalent it is), it's obscure and an implementation detail (then again, most bugs are). You can't expect random developers to have this kind of knowledge of an underlying XML library -- especially when the rest of the world had no clue either. Despite being unit tested all around the world, nobody has managed to find and report this bug prior to this person. Doesn't that say anything?

There's also the quadruple blind test, where we don't give give the actual measurements to the statisticians, to remove all possible bias.

Correct, but when one implementation is obviously dominant (say, CPython and it's GIL), it becomes a language problem for anyone that wants to write real software in it right now.

If you don't encrypt confidential data with keys not given to everyone in your company, let alone people in *OTHER* companies, you deserve to have all your corporate data stolen.

Not to mention countries where the father (family) of the bride is responsible for the dowry, such as India and Pakistan. Many of the poorer villages there are effectively doomed to die out, since some of them are almost exclusively male due to this practice.

It did flag Youtube. It didn't flag Youtube *videos* or Google videos. Neither did it flag Google Maps results, images, news, groups (news servers)... This 'website flagging' thing, obviously, only works on website search results -- not everything else.

Please note that even though you clone (ie geneticaly copy) an organism, you do not copy what you 'love'. There is no guarantee (in fact, it is exceedingly likely, sort of depending on who you ask) that many of the mannerisms that you've learned to recognize in your current dog will not happen in the 'new' version of it -- because those mannerisms were learned from a very specific set of events that can impossibly be reproduced. Bad human analogy: if you were adopted by a rich/poor family, you (same genetic makeup) would have a completely different life.

KDE and Gnome are window managers? I thought they were desktop environments. Pretty big difference. There's nothing stopping you using GNOME/KDE with FVWM, e17, openbox, whatever.

The fact that you're actually playing a human is a big factor too. Fast connections and low ping times aren't the only reason LAN parties were successful -- sometimes you just want to rub it in.

Exactly. I can recommend The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable to anyone. It's a great book, and written before the current financial and economical crisis. I'm not going to say he predicted it accurately, but reading it again knowing all this has significantly changed my opinion on the book. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515 Read it -- you won't regret it.

Isn't Runescape a Java applet? I don't play it, but I could've sworn it was.

I'm very happy with my X301, and I'm typing this on a T43p. I can't say I feel the T43p is significantly better or worse engineered. However, I haven't had the X301 very long...

You can't hear a Prius from all the way down the road, silly.