Old news, time to join us in the Cosmic Era/Universal Century time standards :)

You might wanna replace the fan... the bearing is bad on the one your poking now.

This is slashdot. We clog tubes. This unfortunately appears to have clogged the news in both directions... at least until the truck finally delivered the news.

this article should be renamed to:

Zerg Dust Bunnies Wreak Havoc on Graphic Cards.
Arcturus Mengsk had this to comment: "These dust bunnies are are obviously caused by the terrorist actions of Jim Raynor!"

Of course it says: Marblecake also the game

Because: Nah, I'm not really into pokemon.

http://xkcd.com/178/

Only if it's a plug in hybrid.

"Mice that had lost the GRPR-producing neurons reacted to painful stimuli just like normal mice, licking themselves and flinching or jumping in response to heat, highly irritant chemicals and mechanical pressure."

Poor mice :(

This case had pro-bono lawyers working for free for the defendant.

Yes! Now i can change my password back to password!

The insight doesn't use purely electrical power. When the car moves, the engine must be on. The electric power is just like a temporary "afterburner boost".

Of course you'll void the warranty if you hook up some untested batteries. You think Toyota is going to cover replacing all the hybrid components because your 50000volt battery overloaded the 500v sized inverter? Or perhaps think about those lithium battery recalls from certain laptop makers... Do you think Toyota is going to replace your car because your after-market battery exploded and caught on fire? NO.

The Prius was NOT designed to run on pure electrical power. For example: the transmission oil pump does NOT turn on unless the gas engine is on. Driving XXX miles without lube is a recipe for disaster.

A new Prius, one that is DESIGNED by Toyota to be a plug-in hybrid is undergoing testing.

All companies want to make money. You'd be naive to think of any other purpose.

For a second there, I thought the world's biggest music pirating satellite was launched.

A dead undead. That'll be the day!

I wish I had an awesome teacher like that. Going into the movie theater in the name of education to capture a clip in the discussion about:

"the use of special effects in modern star trek movie VS the original movies."

That and a > 9000 word essay.

My company has a T2000, and it is slow. 1/4 as slow as the 1.2ghz box it replaced.

Everything is slower. From the tarring of files to the rsync of directories.

In order us to even return to the same performance as our old box, we had to make multi-threaded processes kick off approx 4 worker threads to handle the work.

It's not an oracle myth when your single-threaded shellscript takes 4x as long as before.

It's the equivalent of that cashier taking smoke breaks 3/4ths of the time instead of scanning my food!

Sure, I have more cashiers (8 "cores") but they're less efficient when it counts. ONLY if your stuff is multithreaded can you even have a remote chance of reclaiming your lost performance.

An even better analogy would be a highway.

A dual core processor being 2 sets of highways with a speedlimit of 120 mph and one lane per set.

A t2000 being a 8 sets of highways, each with 4 lanes per set, but with a speed limit of 30mph.

Each highway has 4 lanes, the combined speed for the highway is 120mph, but each car waits longer before getting to its destination. However, it has way more sets of highways, so the maximum throughput is higher.

But throughput isn't everything if you have to sacrifice time for an impatient customer that NEEDS to get from point A to point B ASAP.

Whats the point of a SSL offloader that can handle 32 customers, but handles each customer 4 times as long?

More efficient, perhaps. But I'd rather buy something that give me more customer capacity without sacrificing speed... especially if my SSL encryption speed is already an issue.