So you're saying that it would take just 11 posts on Twitter to kill someone?

Or a single ethernet frame!

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I always end up plugging this (I know a guy who works there), but if you didn't know about it, David May has a new outfit. It's very much in the same vein as the Transputer, and it's still based on CSP. You may want to check it out!

Finally it produces a neutron flux

Hah, yeah right! You're going to have to make up some more believable sounding sciencey words before we fall for THAT one. Why don't you just go reroute the flux capacitor through the deflector to invert a tachyon pulse while you're at it?
Comedians...

Why is the GP modded over the parent? "Simply another NP-complete problem" and "not a special case" are just wrong. As can be found on wikipedia, the following text states that solving one NP-complete problem faster means they are ALL solvable faster. Come on slashdot! Computational complexity 101!

In computational complexity theory, the complexity class NP-complete (abbreviated NP-C or NPC, with NP standing for nondeterministic polynomial time) is a class of problems having two properties

• Any given solution to the problem can be verified quickly (in polynomial time); the set of problems with this property is called NP.
• If the problem can be solved quickly (in polynomial time), then so can every problem in NP.

Anyway, this article is about solving the problem in parallel with bacteria (which is totally cool, don't get me wrong.) It's not a faster algorithm, although I suppose you could argue that massively parallelizing it IS a faster solution.

Olympus Mons. Can't beat carving up that CO2 powder.

(...) trying to use the word "disingenuous" to sound smart.

I'm sorry you took it that way. I used the word "disingenuous" because I think the GGP is misrepresenting the magnitude of the Kent State shootings in comparison to Tiananmen: People are less likely to remember Kent State simply because of the smaller human cost. Just to reinforce, I am talking about impact and not necessarily political motivation.

There were 13 casualties in the Kent State shootings, 4 of which were fatal. The Tiananmen square numbers are (officially) 241 deaths, which is probably far smaller than the real number (There have been reports of up to 2400 deaths). I think it's disingenuous to compare Tiananmen and Kent State. Perhaps 9/11 would be a closer analogue? In any case, there was lots of media created about Kent State, and it _IS_ taught in schools.

1) those are profit numbers for the whole company, not just for netbooks.
2) We're in a recession.
In fact, a little googling shows that netbook sales are doing either better than or equal to the sales of notebooks. Have some links:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/12/netbook-sales-surge-in-economic-downturn-wheres-apple.ars
http://www.mynetbookreviews.co.uk/netbook-news/netbook-sales-still-soaring-in-2009/
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2242197/mini-notebook-penetration-hits
That's just from googling "netbook sales" articles in the last month. Lastly, the reason given by asus not to ship an ARM netbook is because (according to your article) windows is what

most consumers are used to.

So in answer to your question, it's been working out very well indeed.

A niche market with low margins? Wow, I bet the guys in charge of the Eee are just /wishing/ they'd consulted you before going to market.

Meanwhile, the two biggest parties will have free reign, as long as they piss the voters off equally.

Yep, and if those two stay in power long enough, you end up with a duopoly on power (Hello, USA).

666 MB (0.8 KB/sec) 9 days, 11 hours remaining.

You sure you want to download that?

I always thought it was "Bull Sh*t, More Sh*t, Piled Higher & Deeper"

There's another photo showing the Shuttle and the ISS transiting the Sun and the two are very similar. In that photo, the ISS is the more prominent object.

... and here it is!

I think most concurrent languages have been derived at least in part from CSP, so they'll probably all 'feel' like occam; it's just occam got there first. Incidentally, if you already knew about occam, you might want to check out David May's (the guy behind Occam) new startup XMOS.
I'm not affiliated, but I do own their dev kit :-)