Many GPUs do in fact support double precision, its not IEEE standard double precision floating point yet, but that's going to be a feature of the next generation or two. My source is ATi, anything marked with a superscript of '1' does not support double precision maths, everything else does. ATi StreamSDK requirements

If the engineers have been let go from 'Semiconductor Equipment Manufactures' perhaps TSMC should hire one or two at a lower salary.

Out curiosity, does this ruling include file caches in RAM as well as the running executable?

The Open-RD has the same chip as the sheevaplug but its on a normal-ish motherboard and allows for onboard SATA, eSata, 7usb, and VGA. The Open-RD is essentially the sheevaplug on steroids.

Credit to nukem996 for the origial mention of the Open-RD

As it stated in the article I linked, ARM signed the deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) to allow GF to access ARM's architecture and process patents so that other companies could use GF to make ARM SoCs. AMD is trying to move to a smaller process as we speak, so in 2011 when the A5 is slated to come out ARM will be able to use a 40nm process when AMD has long since stopped using that equipment (as stated in the second graphic in the original article).

So this is why ARM and Global Foundries recently made a deal. ARM's Cortex-A5 is going to be built on a 40nm and Global Foundries already has that equipment, with AMD working hard to advance to the next node that frees up a lot of manufacturing power for ARM to use. Officially it was for Cortex-A9 at 28nm but what's to stop other stuff from being done in the shadow of the deal?

It seems that the IPv6 transition is going well; we've migrated peering disputes to the lovely next generation protocol.

Brainfuck actually.

It seems to me that research on MMOs usually happens the other way around. MMO economies and epidemics are noticed for their emulation of real world behaviors before the interest in MMO use as simulations comes around.

Should we be joining MMOs like these to help science? I, for one, would join to help the research but that would probably taint the results.

I would suggest that the poster look into professional monitors. I've noticed that consumer laptops also have low resolution displays do not compare to my old thinkpad which happens to be corporate grade. Back when I was looking for a high resolution CRT I went with a professional 19" that hit 2048x1536. In summary: look for a distributor for professional monitors instead of in the consumer stores. Professional monitors have higher resolutions in my experience, at a premium of course.