I only noticed a while ago that the dev channel was silently updating, I had a week of weird crashes, but otherwise it's been quite good.

The difference in heat dissipation requirements is negligible when it's a choice between 1cm or 2cm thick asbestos padding to avoid 3rd degree burns from your MacBook Pro.

Oracle want your money, when it's profitable.

Or the SCUMM engine which was originally developed for Monkey Island and now ScummVM boasts a repertoire of [according to the Wikipedia page] 28 from Lucas Arts & Sierra On-Line games and nearly 40 games from other developers. A huge proportion of them are still extremely playable and enjoyable today because the SCUMM engine let people focus much more on story, art and interaction than software.

Sure there were some changes over the years (better graphics, CD audio, speech, higher resolutions), but they're progressive improvements.

Based on hits rather than unique visitors to one of my "adult" sites show a slightly different story.

Firefox: 44.6%
IE: 39.2%
Safari: 11.5%

The browser breakdown across unique visitors is similar to yours, which leads me to this stunning conclusion:

        Safari users consume significantly more porn.

Well, the last I heard Bing spider was looking for `Robots.txt` rather than `robots.txt` which would explain the file being "ignored" in this case.

EBCDIC or 7bit ASCII?

Buying Folgers coffee would be a slap in the face. For $1 per person per day it's pretty easy to afford some good quality coffee, instead of brown vaguely coffee-esque tasting caffeinated hot water.

Why has bittorrent still not been decentralized from trackers?

It has... The Pirate Bay shows magnet links along with the regular .torrent file and they've shut down their tracker. Torrent Freak as usual have a nice writeup on the action.

All the other Tilera products run Linux with standard GCC toolchain for MIPS, as far as I can see this new one is the same but comes with 36 more cores than the previous largest processor they sell... so from that perspective there shouldn't be significantly more problems compared to working with any ARM or MIPS development board.

And BLAS? This is targeted for an entirely different industry, the same one that Sun's TI series competes in with 'up to 256' hardware threads per box... highly concurrent but fairly trivial stuff; BLAS on the other hand offloads an extremely specific workload, so while it may have the best floating-point performance it's also hard to utilize (talk to any PS3 game developers and they'll explain just how much work it is to take advantage of the CELL cores).

The Register goes into more detail than this article, as usal.

The Tile-Gx chips will run the Linux 2.6.26 kernel and add-on components that make it an operating system. Apache, PHP, and MySQL are being ported to the chips, and the programming tools will include the latest GCC compiler set. (Three years ago, Tilera had licensed SGI's MIPS-based C/C++ compilers for the Tile chips, which is why I think Tilera has also licensed some MIPS intellectual property to create its chip design, but the company has not discussed this.)

So it seems pretty standard and they're using existing open & closed source MIPS toolchains, however there's still "will" and "are being" in that sentence which brings a little unease...

The free option, available only to USA residents.

Yes, I'd love to watch some of the stuff available on Hulu, but no... due to "Copyright" it's not available in my country.

Wait... what? There is no technical limitation, there's no financial limitation, there's no business limitation... unless the company behind Hulu is extremely dense or has absolutely no clue about marketing.

Or do you want to get into the fact that shows on Sky and Virgin media or other satellite/cable providers in the UK & Europe are shown as little as 3 months after, is this all about a gentlemans agreement to keep a monopoly profitable when it should've died years ago?

When marketing & politics get involved, especially in issues like this, expect the fucking worst.

By the time Hulu gets around to allowing Europeans to view stuff we'll have to not only pay a fee, but also sit through 5-10% in duration of advertising for local Cable/Satellite companies which offer a worse service.

Anyway, I have to go change the proxy settings in Firefox so I can watch some stuff on Hulu, brb.

It's also an environment in which you can simply ignore stuff. Somebody is sending hurtful stuff that I don't like? Blocked.

> Lawyering is best served cold.

I whole heatedly agree, the best lawyers are dead ones.

I find very little of the porn produced by Playboy to be either erotic or arousing. I do find it tedious & sometimes hilariously bad when they try too hard (which is often).

It seems like so much mainstream porn today isn't porn, it's a parody of porn full of big breasted woman who moan non-stop as soon as the camera starts rolling. There are some great pornographers like Bang Bros and Abby Winters, but they're as far away from Playboy as you could imagine, in fact most shops in the UK sell magazines on-par with Playboy, like FHM or Nuts, in the middle shelf.