This is clearly the question that corporate co-authors Nvidia and Logicblox hoped you would ask.

The paper seems to represent more of an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach, but suffers from some unfortunate hand-waving, particularly in their attempt to negate the real cost of memory->PCIe transfers (to their credit, at least they call out that latency), their unwillingness to perform comparisons on like-to-like base hardware, and their rather odd choice of front-end environment. Coupled with their odd price-performance metric, I suspect that Nvidia marketing got way up in Gatech's business on this. My suspicion is that there are real use cases where SIMD processing is going to substantially speedup relational database performance on easily partitioned datasets, but as more vectorization effort is placed on main CPU, the advantages of kicking off to coprocessor will eventually go the way of the 387.

It's hard to see the connection between anything mentioned in the article and being turned into a horrible person.

I dunno; the summary is patently wrong: three nukes DID shutdown because of Sandy. Salem-1 remains shutdown because of failure of 4 of 6 coolant pumps. Efforts to repair those 4 continue today. From the comments below, it seems as though *5* of 6 pumps were actually adversely affected. So yay, the system SCRAM'ed and the massive redundancy built into nukes kept this from turning into an incident... but closer than I would have preferred.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/8872230

From the cited article:
"Salem-1 shut early Tuesday morning "when four of the station's six circulating water pumps were no longer available due to weather impacts from Hurricane Sandy," the company said in a statement that day.

Waves hit the plant's circulating water building, requiring the shutdown, PSEG Nuclear chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo said during a press teleconference Wednesday morning. One of five pumps has been repaired, and the other four are expected to be repaired Wednesday, Izzo said. He did not say when Salem-1 is expected to return to service."

Missing my mod points right now. Well played, sir. Well played.

I actually thought it was fine - not of the same caliber of the original - though a bit moralizing.

It's setting the hook; you use the actual words out so that someone who does get interested in this stuff has a jumping off place for, at the very least, a wikipedia fishing trip.

Being smart IS better than being dumb - clearly a smarter person has the ability to formulate more solutions to more abstract problems - but it's not SUFFICIENT. I think a lot of smart people fall into this trap. Being smart doesn't make you moral, empathetic, doesn't make you hard-working, patient, generous, driven, doesn't make you good looking, athletic - doesn't weigh in on any part of who you are other than that of your intellect. If you can't apply your intellect to understand the levers of society, and make concessions to them, then that is to your detriment, and is your problem. Perhaps it's your "I'm 170" attitude that is creating barriers for you?

You were called on the floor as being sociopathic, almost certainly for this: "fuck it, you know what, I don't care anymore. Enough of trying to do good for others, I'm doing this for *me* and the rest of the world can go fuck itself."

You rebut: "I'm in this life for ME now." It would appear that your self-description certainly fits the dictionary definition, if not the DSM-IV. If you're "sick of doing for others", then you never really were in it for doing for others, you were in it for, as you say, yourself.

I recall it was always quality of search results returned in the early days that made Google really shine. The light interface and innocuous ads did stroke the "do no evil" meme and seemed pretty responsive as well. Their search engine worked so much better than AltaVista that there wasn't much contest (and Yahoo's browse-your-category mechanism was horrendous). This is my perspective as a geek, though; I couldn't tell you what others thought.

Now it's all just a horrible mess, and search results are once against mostly crap, I contend through detestable SEO efforts.

Your system should not be locking up. This sounds like a hardware issue; I haven't experienced system hangs when apps hang at all (though there is some pretty lousy behavior in Lion that can crop up - autosave state can sometimes restore the crashed state, so your app just subsequently crashes over and over again without removing some files down your Library directory).

Absolutely right. NBC should aspire to be more than "Fox News for Liberals". It's a reprehensible edit.

I was 6' when I was 13. Was I a "kid"?

It seems to be evolutionary work that will likely strengthen magnetic containment fusion (eg Tokamak/ITER) research.

As someone mentioned - Firehose.

Unrelated to anything you or anyone else said, I'd prefer a feature that didn't enable comments posting or moderation unless you read the story...

I suggest you look at your bill again, particularly the section marked:
Verizon Wireless' Surcharges and Other Charges & Credits

I would say software installation on Linux distributions is actually WORSE now than it used to be. If you stick to your distro's repos, you're fine - unless you want a package that's not IN your distro's repos - say, OpenStack running on CentOS; oh, sure, they've got a repo they publish for OpenStack (only its location is documented INCORRECTLY in the manual). So go ahead and "yum install -y openstack-nova openstack-glance openstack-swift" - but now head through the documentation and start trying to follow their examples. Oh, euca tools to manage it? No sweat, it's included in the packages - but wait - not all of them.

This is one example of many, many, many. Your supposed advantage of utilizing libraries breaks down when you come across a package that requires a downrev version - or if you use Python 2.6 frameworks on CentOS 5. It becomes a massive PITA pulling all the strings to get to basic functionality. Yes, it's all out there, you can read the source, you can change it and submit your git clone to source mainteners - but really. WTF should I have to, when I'm just trying to use the functionality that is supposedly offered?