Oh boy, I hadn't thought of that. I can just see a situation where you need to buy an i7 to get any motherboard with decent overclocking ability or other features when you would be far happier with an i5 and an extra $100 in your pocket. Intel and motherboard manufacturers working together like this could mean terrible things for home builder.

Yeah, if i think of the things i used to do as a teen i know i would never get away with it nowadays. I didn't used to have access to dry ice so i used to take 2 liter bottles and put old bike tire valve stems in them then pressurize them to about 100 PSI (our poor pump wouldn't go over that) and them split them with an axe, even my parents used to think it was one of the coolest things ever as it has such an amazing report. Used to do this at random times in the summer and LOTS by the 4th of July and never once had anybody complain. Then there were the spud guns i used to make and bolas and Atlatls and all kinds of stuff with my free time after school. I even had a chance to take the spud gun to school for physics class and everyone had a grand time, just a couple years later after columbine i would of been interrogated and forced into counseling if anyone on the school staff found i had such things at home.

It could be worse, they could the a group of people who call their tower a hard drive.

I believe hes talking about managing flows to keep streams from getting interrupted so if it sees data transfers that have been going on between 2 points consistently its going to be less likely to drop packets from that stream than it is some other random ping or small packet. Basicly the idea is to keep things working that are streaming instead of dropping a packet and stalling them or sending packets out of order due to queuing. Benefit is downloads and streams of data are more likely to stay working while one off communications and handshakes would be more likely to get dropped.

while everyone is feeling nostalgic about their old favorite LucasArts games i would like to point out http://www.gog.com/ for everyones old game pleasure. Lots of our old classic favorites at great prices, DRM free and even works on vista/7.

you have my sympathies.

Seems to me the smart thing to do would be for a telco to pay anyone who is running anything to put some fiber alongside. Even better would be to put down fiber down next to whatever your running and then auction it off.