Don't trust the name, trust the evidence (I haven't RTFA yet, but intend to).

I'll be mocking all thoe people who started cheering a second early, forgetting to count the leap second.

Where does there always have to be speculation, from completely uninformed people? From my little knowledge of Alan Cox, from mailing lists, he always seems like the kind of guy who likes the lower-level details, and I imagine that few companies will be more interested in tweaking and improving the low levels than Intel. If they saw his obvious talent, and offered him a better job at better pay, then why not move? Alan Cox leaving Redhat doesn't have to say anything bad about them, maybe it says something good about Intel, and the things they are getting more involved in?

So that will be Steven King, with the child sex scene near the end of 'It', in jail then?

Kohei wouldn't sign the copyright over to them. Try writing an addition to emacs or gcc and submit it to the FSF without a copyright assignment and you'll get exactly the same response.

Probably true. I had real hope for McCain when he was first running, I'd vaguely followed his carrier before and thought he was one of the few people who had some backbone, but then it all fell away, shame really. Of course, the real question is what state Obama will be in after he has been in power for 4 years.

Remember, this is the republican party. If they get back in any time before he dies off, he will be there in the background, pulling the strings of whatever new puppet president they choose. McCain would probably have stood up to him, but I suspect now the republicans blame him for their loss, it could well be back to the "Bush Box" to find their next candidate. Scary thought.

It's Christmas! Be sure to go to bed, get up, and spend the day with friends, family and food. Do you really need to update your kernel today? Why not let other people find out if there are some terrible early bugs in it?

It's things like this that convince me that while patents need some serious fixing, they shouldn't be abolished. While we haven't seen all the details, it looks like genuinely interesting and original to me and a step beyond the currently available state-of-the-art. Of course, only time will tell if this is really a good patent, and if the product is really any good in practice. It's easy to make things that look good in the lab but don't do so well in real usage.

'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters.... Having seen the most recent agreements, appropriate compensation for artists from these kind of things seems to be zero, so I think they are already getting a fair deal.

I don't find the multi-core so useful, it's rare that I want to hash one, very large file. More often I want to hash many things, which naturally parallelises. In your SSL web traffic example, if you app isn't dealing with as many connections as it has cores, then you probably don't have to worry about performance, and if you do then you already have one compression per core.

Of course, it also violates the terms of use so is illegal, and will be prone to the BBC breaking it at any time.

Merge back? The Atari 2600 came out in 1977, 4 years before the first PC (If we define PC as 'IBM PC').

MP3 is optimized for best performance at 256kbps.

You claim. Where is here any evidence of this?

Also, many people can't distinguish modern 128kps MP3 encoding in an ABX test.

an MP3 at 320kbps cannot sound better than a 256kbps MP3 encoded from the same source.

Total rubbish! Where are you getting these things from? Do you think the LAME people put in these options just for fun? Are the extra bits just hanging around not being used at all?

Certainly there is a case of diminishing returns, but 320 is still better.