TFA is a reminder that the metrics we use to assess the impact of open source software are old and outdated. How does a market cap reflect the new value of commercial software, which has had to raise the bar to beat features and performance of the 'free' competitor. How do you quantify the benefit of open source to the actual open source developers? The latter is arguably intangible, but significant. Someone can simply google my name and see production-level code I've written, support messages I've posted in forums, and conference presentations I've given. There is true economic value in this output, but how do should it be quantified and aggregated?

Too boring

The 1 million hour quota seems even smaller when you consider the nature of the simulation. Computational fluid dynamics simulations rely on super-linear performing algorithms, so a quick & dirty modeling effort would need to drastically reduce the amount of data and number of variables considered.

"The desperate marketing team at Rescue-Time, who spread FUD about how you spend your online time, did a flawed calculation based on wild speculation and concluded that Google's playable PAC-MAN doodle is the reason why we haven't cured cancer."

This will probably happen sometime in the 1970's with the IBM's z-series. Also, in the 1990's Sun might introduce their own hardware isolation through a product called Dynamic System Domains. It's hard to tell though. I think the future is going to be rough for Sun.

The reported accuracy rate of 99.3% for a single chip does not translate to 99.3% accuracy for an entire genome. Complex genomes are particularly difficult to measure at the edges of chromosomes and in areas of large redundant information (genomic 'repetitive' regions). The claim of 99.3% is stating that only the relatively easy to measure regions produce the reported levels of accuracy.

What a coincidence that just today, NSI spammed their customers with a Winter DNS sale announcement. Perhaps they are betting the hate will die down after the 3 week sale. If you need some help moving your DNS away from NSI, take a look at their HOW-TO