Reading this article I somehow recalled the 'good old days' with the Palm Vx. I suspect it might have something to do with the Palm Vx thumbnail Slashdot utilizes. IMHO the Palm Vx had an elegant and simple user interface for the 90's. It had an appstore (one from Palm, another from Handango and so on), and interestingly enough (although the Vx was not a phone) users did not have to 'jailbreak' the device. Am I the only one feeling nostalgic ?

I'm a nuclear engineer and I think the use of the term UI for the control room is somewhat 'simplistic'. I personally think a major issue was over design in a certain area (redundant alarms), and lack of safety systems that would prevent the core from melting even with a LOCA in place. It was two hours after the shutdown when the fuel melting began at TMI-2. This was a scenario where the operators couldn't understand what was happening. Now from an operator's perspective (who sits in the operator room) you're not looking at a "UI" in the traditional CS sense. Here is an image of a control room: http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v38_1_05/images/a11_controls_full.jpg The events leading up to the disaster started on the secondary side (non-core) leading to a LOCA (Loss of Coolant Accident). For those unfamiliar with the term "secondary side". The secondary side of a Nuclear Power Plant is similar to that of any power generating plant, meaning the secondary side does not contain the reactor core.

Depends: Can we file bankruptcy. Can we separate the good Microsoft and the bad Microsoft ? Will good Microsoft be sold off to Swedish "The Pirate Bay" firm.

Perhaps that might actually force other countries to adopt this new business model. Google to Music Industry: Look this model works in China, on the other hand pirates are wrecking sales elsewhere, we recommend you adopt our Chinese model everywhere, this way can turn "free sales" into a profit. Works for Google, works for the consumer.

"However, the current build only has support for IE". Question being does Microsoft intend to support other browsers ?

Taping my fingertips...

A) Install USB linux on one of them. They come in handy when repairing computers. B) Pass them to close friends, or colleagues at work, they'll give it to their children. C) Give it to your neighbor.

Sounds a whole lot like Internet Explorer.

The trend post-2007 is that the losses have decreased, and if 51 represents the value for first quarter 2009, then they're headed towards their largest profit margin on the PS3 yet.

Mature insight !

What else do you imagine ? I'm guessing you have one heightened sense of imagination, which I would probably associate with a gun totting Republican, who also happens to be a linux fanboy, and wishes to bring Linux into a subject that has nothing to do with it.

Normally I wouldn't reply to that but funny you bring it up: My computational cluster runs Linux (personal and at work) and it has a lot of memory, hence my original post. You can't do much with a supercomputer without a decent amount of memory. And Dell ? Who uses Dell.

"Mine only has 31 nodes, so I could use it as a way to store roughly half of the phonebook in my cell phone." I think I'll pass this one up.

Sub # 1 to Sub # 2: "No, you move !"

Wonder if our missile defense system can handle this ?