DSPs have done sound modeling for years. So is the GPU the new DSP? Or is it simply cheaper because your desktop machine already has a GPU, whereas it may not have a DSP?

1. Dig trench
2. Dump infected computers in trench
3. Shoot computers with machine guns
4. Cover computers with dirt

Problem solved.

Open up that checkbook, Bill.

Sounds like that Tom Lehrer song...

Why, that's almost enough to run the sign that says, "Powered by Green Energy!"

I'm getting the impression that LA, Chicago and NY are going to have a long wait for this.

No, this is just for the Japanese market. American telcos continue to slumber in their golden beds.

Nuttin.

Nevermind.... it's over several years... duh

Russian GDP is $2T. 50B/2T = 2.5% of GDP for this project.
Maybe a decimal place is off somewhere?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2001.html#rs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes

The flat tax is one of those things that sound great in a sound bite but are unworkable in reality. And besides, a flat tax is inherently regressive because the wealthy spend a much smaller percentage of income on necessities than poor and middle income people.

otherwise leave them alone to enjoy the labor of their hands . . . which they gained by sacrifice of time with their families, their personal well-being and sometimes their lives.

Since these folks enjoy the same public roads, military, police and fire protection, etc as everyone else, then they can help pay for them. Otherwise, they're just mooching off the public good. If it's too much to ask, they can move to some godforsaken island and fend for themselves. Libertarianism cuts both ways --- if you don't want to pay for the FDA, fine, but don't complain when your family members die from tainted medicine.

30 nm resolution means "some" nanoscale features, not nanoscale finished objects.

Ratio of circle's diameter to its radius. Yipee.