It could be two of every different kind of snake?

I've been thinking about this, and beyond 4GB process/address limits and floating point precision, I can't think of a lot of reason to require either of those for real-time applications. Even for video serving , you'd pre-encode your videos offline on high-end servers and then have a bunch of low-power servers to…

Did you even bother reading the linked article before spouting off about overhead cycles? Some 95%+ of the servers are sitting idle all the time!!

I'm not sure about the Atom-based solution, but the ARM one has a fabric, so they've already reduced the ethernet down to a few "escapes" rather than using that as the processor interconnect. Whats interesting is if they'll be able to get rid of the top-of-cabinet router that is typically in every rack. That's…

"Netflix and Facebook will serve over 2k users per server. Lowering their power will end up requiring the server to take less users and more servers will be needed."

ARM's definitely aren't going to be competing with the 64-bit high-performance systems, but there are a LOT of applications that don't need a 64-bit processor. There's a lot of servers that sit there all day and fetch pictures or video or emails off of a hard drive and send it out. All they are is glorified DMA's. …

There are a lot of data centers being located in NC where the price/watt is cheaper than in other states. There are a ton of data centers that would love to add more servers, but are power limited. They have plenty of budget, plenty of space, but are maxed out on how much power they can draw from the grid. And…

What about Chuck? How could you forget Chuck Bartowski?

I used my PC-style Das Keyboard with my Mac at work and it worked great. The Apple keyboard that originally came with it was very pretty, but too goofy to use for serious coding. At least for me.

Logitech Performance MX. Best general purpose (non-gaming) mouse evah!!!

In theory you'll get a much better 3D experience with 48 fps. Somehow it fixes the issue of 3D looking dim (1/2 the light per eyeball?), but I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind how it fixes it.

I'll just leave this here....

Link's broken.

Seriously? This is a thing now? Are we running out of real things to whine about?

You've been waiting all week to thrust that one out there, haven't you?

I always wonder about using Speedtest.net and Glasnost and stuff like that. Just like its easy for an ISP to throttle certain types of traffic, they could also easily give priority to traffic going to a list of known measurement sites, just to make themselves look good, head off complaints, and general marketing…

Is that for real how they do it now?

I wonder why this isn't a problem for the other carriers? Making a cell tower bird-proof should be a solved problem by now. Towers have been around for decades now.

VOTE: Swype. No question the fastest and easiest keyboard around.

2 good coughs is just the beginning, I'd bet.