Or you could read the article and realize that the place the facebook lawyers are searching for their evidence is on Ceglia's computer, which he has provided due to a court order.

lol. google was a late entrant into the search provider space. there were at least a dozen others already by the time the came along and finally taught everyone how too make money off of internet advertising... ;)

And in other news...well traveled street corners are magnets for pan handlers. Details at 11!!

Now we know where to look for these people online. Who knew?

Of course, this doesn't mean that facebook doesn't have other users. I mean...does the fact that a pan handlers hangs out near the place that you walk by every day to pick up a cup of coffee mean that every one else you see walking by that spot is also a pan handler?

I suppose it might. :p (j/k)

You are correct that discrete graphics isn't going anywhere, but your argument for why gaming performance is so important in integrated graphics contradicts that. I think the same argument applies there: the thing that people riding on Intel for the performance of their integrated gpu's and who are predicting that AMD will spank them in the integrated gpu space are forgetting is: 1) heat, 2) power, and 3) bw. When you integrate the GPU with the CPU you have to share the heat, power, and bw budget with the CPU.

It will be interesting to see what AMD comes up with when they have an integrated GPU, but frankly, the fact that it has taken them so long to get to that step since acquiring ATI tells me that they are likely finding it rather difficult to do well. I will be very happy if they somehow come up with something that can "spank" Intel in the integrated gpu space, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that they had to cut out so many features to get it into the power/bw budget that it ends up being...about the same.

Other point worth keeping in mind is that a huge portion of the market where intel's gpus do reign is the business desktop space where the only thing the machine needs to do is run web browsers, email apps, and office applications. Blue ray decoding? In that space, it doesn't matter.

Speak for yourself. ;p

I feel for those who can't find jobs, but if you've got one, then just live well within your means, and retirement remains an option.

And take all those calls you get from your bank asking you to enroll in income/debt protection plans as the constant reminder that the bank isn't really on your side in this effort. :-/

even several meters across, let's say 10 for simplicity, is 100 square feet of area illuminated at a time. If you had a 1000 square foot area to send the warning to, that means if you want to get the warning out in say 5 minutes, you would be able to send your signal to each location in your danger zone for 120 seconds. That is slow enough to give everyone a chance to see it, assuming that everyone in the warning zone has the habit of looking up at the sky in the direction of the satellite at least once every 120 seconds (not bloody likely).

In reality though 1000 square feet is actually a rather small. The way Tsunami's propogate out in a circular pattern from the point of the shock, 10000 square feet of area is more likely, in which case to get the warning out in 5 minutes to the entire area with a 100 square foot beam, you would be able to illuminate each area for only 0.5 seconds. That obviously isn't going to work.

That all sets aside the fact that it won't work when the weather is poor since visual light doesn't penetrate cloud cover, and also sets aside the other point that a warning system that relies on visual queues is utterly useless if people are indoors or asleep.

i was saying that because any other way of implementing would render the thing so inneffictive that it would end up warning fewer people than a 16th centery town crier. Moving a pencil beam across a 1000+ square mile area (100 miles of coast line up to 10 miles inland) slow enough for people to see it means the tsunami is going to hit land before you even had time to sweep once across the entire area. Moving it fast enough that it can sweep across the whole of the effected area in short enough time and it will be flipping by in front of people so fast that their conscious mind, even if they were looking right at it, wouldn't register that it had even occurred.

exactly, if it is a pencil beam the chance that anyone will see it, assuming it is bright enough to be seen at all, is essentially zero. Which would make it the most expensive and most ineffective early warning system ever.

you seriously think that the battery used to power an electric car has enough energy to illuminate 100s of miles of coastline from orbit? I don't think you have a clear sense of how much energy it takes to get a beam of light to travel such a large distance.

And even if you had a satellite with enough energy, what is your warning system going to do when it is cloudy in the area where the tsunami is going to hit?

and even if you solved that problem too somehow, what if the people you are warning are asleep because it is night time? how are they going to see your warning system? what if they are awake but inside a building?

vastly more effective would be the systems that are already in place: a siren so loud that it is essentially impossible for people not to hear it unless they are deaf.

I am thinking the same. Now that they've made the decision that their new business model is to sell user data, they are going to buffer and protect what they have if they weren't doing so previously.