@abracadvr8 Yeah, probably not; I was just trying to be funny.

dig, dig...right, here's the Wikipedia entry:

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

Top speed is 70 kph (!); they've got LiIon batteries in the wings. The plan is to make five legs of 3-4 days each, switching pilots for each leg.

@Honza: Yeah, but in Switzerland you've gotta get it up to 142 kph.

@(Unverified) "You just need a punctiform human" -- Here, hold still.

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If you move fast enough, the sun doesn't go down.

OK, I don't think I've ever said this before, but now I have to:

Gag me with a spoon.

iPhone apps aren't allowed to provide turn-by-turn navigation. A year or two ago, Apple and Google were friendly enough that Google probably could've gotten an exception; but not now.

(Especially since the iPhone is on AT&T, who want you paying $10/mo for their navigation service.)

And hey, with this, you won't need a sextant on your sex10.

Yeah, but it's kind of a pain hopping across the pond every time I need bandwidth. ;-)

Take a look at this paper that just showed up in ACM Queue:

"Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems"
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1658422

The idea is that, since different programs (or the same program at different times) exhibit different levels of parallelism, a machine which has many slow, simple cores and a few fast, complex ones can shift the load around to optimize the performance/power tradeoff. It works only if the various cores have the same instruction set--e.g., an x86 machine with a Larrabee GPU.