Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?'
For a lot of problems, for the same reason that some guy who just married 8 brides will still have to wait for his baby.
Impotency?
I'll see your 'Duh' and raise you a 'not really news'.
See this BBC News article from 2000 which describes how, "part of the hippocampus grew larger as the taxi drivers spent more time in the job." Navigating the streets of London for a job requires more spacial memory and reasoning so that bit of the brain grows.
Hardly a breakthrough or a suprise, unless I'm missing something?
It just couldn't simply because there isn't wind all the time...
Yes there is wind all the time.
Not in one place, obviously, but by the time you've hooked up a shitload of turbines spread across thousands of miles you largely mitigate the "it's not windy here" problem.
And in Europe, on the rare occasions when whole countries are becalmed, power is sent along interconnectors from neighbouring countries. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7598212.stm
It's always windy somewhere.
If you are British and are pissed off at the special financial and legal treatment that religious groups get from the state then please, put your money where your mouth is and sign up to this pledge:
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
