Comment Re:Personality (Score 1) 482
It can be both, plus a third choice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Terminology
Comment Re:I for one .... (Score 1) 215
It has nothing to do with 42. It has more to do with the mouse...
Go and actually read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The movie version won't help you much here.
Submission + - PS3 cluster as a cheap academic supercomputer (theage.com.au)
corrie writes: Gaurav Khanna, an astrophysicist, has built his own supercomputer using 16 PS3 consoles.
From the article: "Hooked together in a single cluster, the PS3 consoles provide his department with the same amount of computing power as a 400-node supercomputer."
