Found the system specs for the test PCs, I wouldn't call them High End PCs except in the sense that the price was high end. The Xeon X5550 system appears to even be underclocked 1GHz below it's normal speed of 2.66/3.06GHz.

Still, it'd take a big cluster of them to equal the performance of the V6. That's worth it right there.

http://www.cs.amherst.edu/ccm/cf14-mcgeoch.pdf

"All software solver tests were carried out on a suite of
seven Lenovo ThinkStation S30 0568 workstations, each containing
one Intel Xeon E5-2609/2.4GHz Quad-Core processor
with 16GB RAM. The operating system was Ubuntu
64-bit 12.04 LTS.

Blackbox runs on a Lenovo d20 workstation containing
two Intel Xeon X5550@1.6GHz Quad-Core processors with
16GB RAM. The operating system is Fedora 15. The number
of hardware samples per main loop iteration was set
to k = 1000 and the stopping rule was set to 107 function
evaluations.

The QA algorithm was run on a hardware chip named
Vesuvius 5 (V5) that contains 439 working qubits.
It is a challenging problem to nd precise, accurate, and
commensurable runtime measurements for these diverse solution
strategies. We adopted the following conventions.
All software runtimes are Unix CPU times in units of seconds.
The Matlab front end started timing immediately
before solver invocation and stopped immediately upon return:
thus the tasks carried out by the front end (including
all I/O) are not included in our time measurements. All software
tests were run on empty systems (with no competing
user processes), measuring one solver on one instance, running
on one core at a time. The Intel hyperthreading option
(which is known to produce timing anomalies) was turned
o. In addition to total CPU times, most tests produced
\history" trace data, by which each solver recorded time and
solution cost whenever a better solution was found."

ugg! They're. dammit.

Their still working on the Repeat/Sex Offender app that causes the handle to buzz when they get close, so it might be a while.

So which do you smoke to get high, the Yorkie? I assume there's a lower TCH concentration in the Golden Retriever.

You laugh, but marijuana in larger doses is said to induce "paranoia" and "hallucinations". However, these are just the codewords the government use to hide the fact that your pineal gland is being stimulated and re-activated. Anyone that has seen the documentary From Beyond, can imagine what will happen if this drug reached a critical mass of use and lowered The Veil that that separates THEM from us.

Can I get my Google Monocle to link to my Google Tophat, Google Pocket Watch, and Google Sword/Taser Cane?

Have both hands free while recording sexcapades and such?

There's a Ski goggle HUD by Recon (and used by most of the ski goggle mfgs) that came to general retail last year. It connects to it's own wristworn ruggedized android computer and also can mirror your smartphone's screen. It's main purpose is as a GPS Ski map, phonecall headset. buddy locator, and performance recording (altitude, speed).

Their frontpage is showing a similar setup on a set of sunglasses (these with a built in camera) that would be cool for motorcycling, mountainbiking, etc...

Pretty much everything you can do with a free app or 2 on any smartphone already, but you'll have a very difficult time reading the screen of a smartphone on the slopes or while riding a bike.

It isn't a pair of "googleglasses" but it is an android based hud system that illustrates how such a system could be more usefull than a standalone smartphone.

You so funny. ha ha ha.

But while we're laughing, we should exclude other obscure dev projects with smaller install bases like Win 8, Redhat, and all of the BSDs.

Well anyone could just Google it. So any assburger level Slashdot user should be expected to. CM is not remotely obscure. If you Google the initials CM it is the third result... right after centimeter and a Wikipedia disambiguation page.

Of course just actually Googling Cyanogenmod, only produces relevant results.

Funny. But the last time I tried using any kind of auditory control I found that I would have to give up music and movies to get it to work.

It's right now. Deal with it.

I first head it at a Dragoncon in a galaxy (Georgia, USA) far away and a time (over 20 years ago) far far away. A New Hope was playing the main hall that night and the later dance ball with half the strippers in Atlanta was pretty epic.

Kinda lodges in the brain.

May the 4th... be with you.

As shown in historical media, the blast of the exploding Deathstar expanded on a two dimensional plane. This plane obviously did not bisect the ewok's midichlorians.

That needs to be used (as not intended) in a movie.