Why put a microscope online? How else are you going to do deep packet inspection?

I wonder what VIA would say about that. it seemed like they had the atom-level market carved out before the atom appeared.

sounds familiar. I had an 80GB early intel SSD (INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC) in a macbook pro, which gave me the OSX blue screen equivalent while I was working on it one day without any warning. it wouldn't even boot. Disk utilities under OSX (run from another system, obviously) were unable to even fsck the filesystems, so I replaced the disk. (I had the foresight to make backups, so I didn't lose anything.)

I moved the failed SSD to another machine to take a look at the SMART parameters, which still showed a 96% lifetime left, although it did show read errors after a captive self-test. an email to intel tech support indicated that a secure delete might bring it back to life, and indeed it did. after the secure delete, the drive was reformatted, and I now use it as storage for a couple VMs, and so far so good, although I'm careful not to have anything critical on it.

so no, not graceful. sudden and catastrophic. I'm wondering what a subsequent failure will look like, now that I have smartmontools keeping an eye on it.

NetBSD has PCC working for a few ports. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler)

it's called NetBSD.

Itanium (IA-64) is/was Intel's 64-bit roadmap before AMD did the x86-64 hack. I'm not sure if this is a benefit or a curse. It arguably got 64bit to the masses, but it's a 64-bit hack of a 32-bit hack of a 16-bit hack to an 8-bit CPU...

(disclaimer -- I work for Intel, but the views expressed are my own.)

Intel has supported socket-connected FPGAs for years now. A few vendors (including xtremedata and nallatech) offer(ed) FSB-attached FPGAs. Pactron (with Altera FPGAs) and Xilinx are offering QPI-attached FPGAs on the Nehalem/Westmere -EX platform and have announced support for Sandy Bridge.

I work for Intel on these technologies.

intel still owns perpetual rights to the ARM architecture. they choose not to exercise them. the ARM lines were sold to Marvell a few years ago. for better or worse, it's "IA or the highway" at chipzilla these days.

guess who dave ditzel works for now?

amd/intel64 allow the x32 ABI which gains some speed and power benefits from being between 32- and 64-bit. Pure 64-bit is seldom a win.

I was under the impression that intel's answer to hypertransport was QPI, introduced with Nehalem and continued in Westmere and Sandy Bridge. Intel may employ me, but I still root for AMD and wish I could buy a quad-core VIA.

all the things you cite (LPs, film, and fountain pens) are still produced new, albeit with limited availability. niche markets for all of these items still exist.

evaporated cane syrup is not as refined as table sugar. chemical composition aside, it does taste better than table sugar.

starcon 2 used 4-channel amiga-style mods.

you know you're shooting with 400 speed film. throw a polaroid back with 400 speed polaroid film on your medium or large format camera, and _with the same lighting and exposure settings_ take a polaroid shot. it develops in a minute or so, and you can see if you need to adjust, how your shadows are coming out, if your framing and composition is OK, etc. it's like a very slow LCD back.