Do you really need to bequeath your blog to your next of kin? If you're talking to your family about funds and credentials, you're telling them 'here, I expect you to keep spending money forever on pointless sentimentality'. Keep a backup of the content, that's all.

But don't get me wrong; we should all be ready for our inevitable demise. I can't overestimate how important it is to prepare a will, insurance, a small untraceable account and a few years of queued posts offering a food tour of the afterlife.

You know, maybe they could find a way to automatically search text against a index of existing works.

Actually, they should contact Google—I hear they're good at it.

Indeed, other than the words '3D printing', why is this news? It's not exactly rocket science.

...ok, well, it kinda is

Benchmarks are a more 'sustained' CPU load than typical home/office use. If anything, I think these would feel faster than the tests imply. Not everyone spends their day compiling code or applying Photoshop filters. (What's wrong with them?)

The *program* lasted six years, but the majority of the money was paid back 2-3 years in. It kept ahead of inflation and bond rates, so a net win for taxpayers.

Not shabby at all, as bailouts go. Brilliant compared to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac or the disaster that was the '80s S&L crisis.

Intel is slapping i5 (and i7) on some pretty slow chips these days...

Troll? What else would make a public utility monopoly change its ways?

You just ruined the chance for people to say global warming is going to result in the moon crashing into the Earth, silly poster.

Nonsense. As every Solarian knows global warming is due to the sun bestowing it's benevolent, fiery appendage upon us.

I know my average has plummeted over the years; especially when I bought a second display, and then a third.

Fortunately, this year I may replace them all with a large 4k display and then I'll have a long attention span again.

To be fair, that's not what I'm worried about falling.

I see lots of announcements - not just this one - shouting about their new microarchitectures, how cool they are, the amazing benefits, and so on. But documentation of exactly what the new microarchitecture is, exactly what it does, seems thin-to-non-existent. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

All "big" processors nowadays have fancy pipelines, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, multiple cores, and so on. Fine. But how is Zen different from past microarchitectures? What makes it revolutionary?

Details, please.

...laura

The capsule in this test is a dummy; the final Dragon v2 will steer and land with its own 'SuperDraco' engines.

Until security is in a less sorry state I doubt too many people will stand in line to have the Internet wired into their nervous system.

It's always fun to look up what else people have been in. One that caught my eye was Ms Whitney as an uncredited band member in the still brilliantly goofy Some Like It Hot.

...laura.

She can see the economy from her house!