After looking closer, the board is only fanless in the pictures. The box contains a 60mm fan for the CPU.

Didn't know there was ION boards with dual core Atoms and passive cooling. Time for a late Christmas gift for myself.

I'm currently running a HTPC based on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850e on a 780G based motherboard. All media is stored on a NAS. This setup works great for 720p, but it's not as silent as I'd like. I've seen a few postings about XBMC on BeagleBoard, but it doesn't seem to be in a functional state as of yet. What I'd really like is to have a passively cooled box that's able to play 1080p H.264.

Given a proper infrastructure in the surrounding area, tall buildings can certainly lead to a more efficient transportation system. When a building reaches a certain size however, the transportation system inside the building starts to become a problem. How tall can a building be built before all the space gets eaten up by elevator shafts?

What's the state of video decoding support under Linux for these integrated GPUs? I've been looking for something to update my HTPC with...

Perhaps it should have been given another name than a common statistical probability distribution (for some reason people who explore new programming languages are often interested in math and may therefore mix things up)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_distribution

This is only the networking divisions, not the phone divisions. It won't affect the phone development at all. (At least not in the current network generations)