This was a senior design project of mine. Didn't have the resources to implement it, with only a $500 budget, we decided to change it to telling how many parking spaces are in a garage depending on how many spaces were initially available and how many cars had entered.

A lot of software I used still has not been updated for Vista/Win 7. I figure in about 5 years I won't need that software anymore. After that, I'll switch to whatever the latest is, which will probably just be Win 8!

I am also looking forward to this, though now my battery probably has 200 cycles on it, and I'd probably get better battery life by replacing the battery instead :-)

These Virtualization (VT-x) instructions can also be disabled for specific iCore parts through hardware fuses.

Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.

This will be a great interactive training tool. Everyone could access it on the browser. It would be hard to mess things up, and even if you did, just refresh the browser tab.

goforit.exe or AstroTit ?

This was the policy for the FDIV bug. People found out that Intel would only replace it if they were using the CPU that uses the floating point unit extensively. Those users that didn't use it extensively still claimed that they would use it, and thats why there was a big fiasco. This time around... Fix it, get it over with...

I don't think putting a complex OS out there like Android/iOS or whatever is the solution in this space (pun intended) is the way to go. The custom solution having a long design cycle, will be completely optimized for power and speed. Depending on the workload, the generic phone hardware can be used but what advantage that is gained by using commodity hardware is lost in the lack of optimization of power and speed.
As long as you can live with larger overhead in the operating system and keeping within a power budget of the satellite design, sure phone hardware can be used. Then again, using an OS like these phone OSs is just overkill!

Intel has mentioned that this is the future. Intel is very security conscious and I'm sure they will be forcing a home IT build with VPN access along with what they have already, PGP disk encryption. In the future, I'm also sure Remote-wipe will be part of the process.

For the employee, this allows them to choose the laptop that suits them
For the employer, it allows them to push a partial cost of the laptop to the employee. What will be burdensome is the fact that IT will have to support so many builds and hardware.
So I guess, initially the employee will be able to purchase a few subsidized business grade laptops... I'd definitely buy a heavily discounted Thinkpad ;-)
Think about this... All business files/documents are stored in a data center under the employers controll, only to be accessed via VPN, or LAN (on employer's site)...

not a big fan of slashdot's lack of WYSIWYG

That's rediculous. I was able to apply a 10% tmobile discount to my bill (negotiated by my company). All I had to do was change my billing date to fall in line with a certain business billing date. I did not have to sign a new contract.

You have to be born in the USA in order to be eligible to be president. ROFLPUSA / ROFLMAYOR

I like my sugar with coffee and cream!

Should I flush() before or after i dump() ?

Yes, exactly... Apple really does have a vendetta against Adobe. HTML5 is coming