Keep! 'em!

I! laugh! each! time! I! see! them!!! please! keep! them!

Seriously!

life without wifi?

Can we get a measurement of how long the battery will last without the wifi on and connected? wifi is a power hog, and I can't use it on the plane.

And, where did the speakers go?

@lglethal

Hmm... seems Ford was also into the nuke biz... or wanted to be :)

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

@lglethal

Doh!

I don't usually consider the images to be relevant...

Massive Scale, even on Multi-Core...

If you're interested in exploiting the full power of your CPU, but aren't interested in the problems that come along with the "traditional" multi-threaded approach, or virtualization, or whatever, then I suggest you have a look at this article Brad posted a little over a year ago.

http://solvetherealproblem.blogspot.com/2006/08/multicore-singlethreaded-megascale.html

My colleague explains a bit behind how we attain massive scale without the constant need for more and more horsepower, or completely changing our techniques.

We have used this approach successfully over the last decade for telephony and "web-ish" systems, CPU intensive applications, network intensive, etc. We usually have the following problem: people in ops wanting to turn off our machines because we aren't using enough of the CPU, and us needing to keep it on for our redundancy model. We do, however, have a few CPU intense applications that run on quad-core machines with no problems. We run each app at 50% of a core, run 4 instances of it, and tell the "consumers" of that service about all of them, and they round-robin their requests among them.

Cheques

Us canuks still call 'em cheques :) Irks me to see "check" used in the same context.

Prior Art

So, aren't the claims in the patent basically what "procmail" does? If so (if I read the patent correctly), isn't procmail (which was first released in 1990 - see http://www.procmail.org/procmail.HISTORY.html - it was up to version 3.11pre7 before the patent application was filed) an example of prior art, thus making this patent invalid?

If it isn't, doesn't that mean that anyone in violation of this patent would have to follow the exact flow described in the patent for the "automatic determination" of messages?

If this patent is valid, wouldn't it make all SPAM filters also violators?

/me hates trolls.

What "technology" ??

Having actually implemented such a calling service, I really am at a loss to figure out what "technology" Intel is going embed in computers. This is a server-hosted service invoked from a URL.

Too much hype!

Metacrawler.com

Probably the first, and still there.

I don't really understand how this gets so much hype. At least Metacrawler and All4One consolodate the results. searchboth is one click more convenient than having two windows open... because it just opens two frames.

Similar?

Looks very similar to Sun's X4500. http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/