Well Volvo were way ahead with software updates from the late 90's. The S80 was well known for having more computing power than an F15 with over 40 computers. I guess in this context thats why Ford bought them, then sold them off once they learned a few tricks. Unfortunately Ford did not learn how to upgrade a car via the Internet, like with a Volvo when you get it serviced. i.e. when they plug the car in at a dealer, it connects to the factory via the internet. I think a USB stick is just a marketing gimmick.

The below processor looks like the current transistor king to me, way beyond the scope of the discussions on moores law here, sometime you need to think outside the mainstream box more than double Intels best


Virtex-7 2000T FPGA Device First to Use 2.5-D IC Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technology to Deliver More than Moore and 6.8 Billion Transistors, 2X the Size of Competing Devices SAN-JOSE, Calif., Oct. 25, 2011-- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced first shipments of its Virtex®-7 2000T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the world's highest-capacity programmable logic device built using 6.8 billion transistors, providing customers access to an unprecedented 2 million logic cells, equivalent to 20 million ASIC gates, for system integration, ASIC replacement, and ASIC prototyping and emulation. This capacity is made possible by Xilinx's Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology, the first application of 2.5-D IC stacking that gives customers twice the capacity of competing devices and leaping ahead of what Moore's Law could otherwise offer in a monolithic 28-nanometer (nm) FPGA.

Common wheres Taco bell going to get its ingredients from ? .... talking of mexican try hard cartels with no substance .... I though food was a drug these days ? .... anonymous to what ?

250 million Nokia 1100's have been sold since its launch in late 2003, making it the world's best selling phone handset as well as the best selling consumer electronics device in the world. Beat that Apple or beat IBM first Stevie ? personally I know nothing is going to beat Winodws on a Nokia as far as phone goes, some things dont change

Whats all that copper worth recycled in China ?

As i say NBN = 'National Blocking Network'

The ALP wants to stop National party members from watching sheep facing web cams ! - Ha

The 'nbn' was part of the previous govenments commitment for many years to support faster broadband in rural Australia, not the major cities

NBN - "National Blocking Network" ha ha !

If Australians hadn't worked it out, when the whole broadband filter when a little quiet, along came the NBN. Its clear after trials of the filter that some smart guy told the government if you force everyone through the same controlled internet system you have a better chance of filtering / tracking sites , well the NBN was born. This is the only way the government could implement a broadband filter, and today Optus and Telstra signed deals with the NBN totalling billions, offcouse the NBN is just one big internet filter, and the government is going to try force everyone through it to implement their filter.

The future of the Microsoft GUI is not with Windows but with SharePoint. SharePoint is now the true Heart of Microsoft while providing the richest developer experience for any sort of cleint GUI development. Please take the time to look at the SharePoint client object model this allows for development in Javascript, Silverlight or .NET for any real world client. SharePoint, apart from being the best server side backend available - fullstop Sharepoint leader in ECM Magic quadrant - a blog, This is about the only technology stack anyone scared about their career should be considering. And it is also the most sucessfully technology Microsoft has ever invested in, even back in 2008 with the previous version of SharePoint Bill Gates Says fastest growing software in Microsofts History Its sad to say, most Slashdot readers are NOT aware of this, and still caught up in the old ways of the world