@Vanillacide

To be fair, this is a case of "zomg, for-profit organisation serving customers and making money at the same time!".

Tesco are getting a huge amount of the cash spent in the UK, and it's really squeezing the competition, but it's not like they coerce people into their stores.

If people are happy to shop in Tesco stores for everything that they sell, can you really criticize Tesco for that? (Assuming all's well and legally acceptable, that is)

Looks to me more like he did a backwards roll to get in position.

The noise of the servos/motors kinda ruins it to be honest.

*Siiiiilent WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....*
*Hooooly WHIIIIIR*

:-/

Because they take a lot more time and money than just inserting an already available wireless module, and it adds an extra function too. Saying "our model has wireless! WIRELESS!!!" will attract more general consumers than "our model has half a gigapixel higher resolution than the nearest competitor!".

I took a very quick glance through the article (linky at the bottom) and you're right Martin, they simulated something on a level of complexity of brain tissue, they didn't actually simulate it.

Also, the abstract says that they simulated something exceeding a cat's *cortex*, not their entire brain.

So really what they've done is they've simulated how the different cells in part of a cat's brain operate. They've made a simulation more complicated that the synapses of a cat brain, but only simulated something on a level with about a third of the neurons in a cat brain.

I'm not saying it's not a huge achievement, just that I'm not expecting computers to start purring just yet.

Link to the article: http://www.modha.org/C2S2/2009/11182009/content/SC09_TheCatIsOutofTheBag.pdf

On top of that if the stealth mode just kills the main engine the electric motors might not put out much heat, but that diesel generator has gotta cool down first.

So then your options are install a superfast cooling system that'll suck your battery dry in minutes, or sit there twiddling your thumbs until the engine cools down. So It's not actually useful unless you're doing a cold start to sneak right up on the enemy as far as the battery will let you. Awesome.

"Prototypes of the new battery have been tested for more than a hundred (discharge/recharge) cycles, and are expected to last at least twice as long"

Blegh. They'll need to improve on that first.

Because up until now there was very little support for them in the general consumer market, but now that Windows 7 is about to come out and seeing as it has trumpeted about the multitouch features in it manufacturers suddenly feel more confident that it'll sell seeing as Windows has such a big share of the home PC market. Match that in with the fact that finger touch has generally become more acceptable and known to consumers (iPod touch/iPhone are good examples) and suddenly touch monitors don't seem like a bad idea.

Before that there were very few places you could really sell them: public service machine and tablets really. I'm still not sold on them anyway, I hardly use the finger touch on my tablet PC. I really hate getting fingerprints on my nice clear screen.

Also, 1/4th? Fail! :-p

That's actually a pretty nifty idea, but knowing industry the cost will outweigh the benefits of just buying them separately.

There's also the small problem of upgrades: if you've a dual system, what happens when AMD/Intel update their CPU ranges and spec new mobos? You'll have to chuck out your whole hybrid mobo for a new hybrid mobo, which is a bit of a waste seeing as the Atom parts probably won't upgrade much. You may even end up chucking away the same Atom system that is included in your new mobo.

Could work well, could work badly...

The difference being that a four dollar crossover cable doesn't connect machines over the internet. Your machines don't need to be in the same country to share data over these, whereas machines using a crossover need to be in the same room/building.

Horses for courses and all that, these could be useful in some situations but they're totally different to crossover cables.

It offers the benefits of helping to prevent simple spambots stuffing the place full of posts about Viagra and get rich quick schemes. It also means excessive trolls or spambots that slip through the net can have their email address/account banned, leaving the comment section (relatively) on-topic.

It's a minor pain, and it's not perfect, but the benefits are great.