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All mp3 players used to be like that, remember paying $100 for a 32Mb version.

Custer scheduling is a huge area. I used to work on MPI clusters and it is an art to balance CPU, Bandwidth, propagation time to pick the optimum number of processors for a particu…

Thanks I hadn't seen that, although OTFE can't (yet) encrypt the system drive.

Doesn't matter, the nice thing about software patents is that somebody somewhere could have a patent on using the number '2' in a video codec. And you never know until they get bou…

You can enter a password to reset it. But you can always just start Windows in safe mode and uninstall the app! For real security Truecrypt your hard drive and store the key file o…

That sounds like a standard 'negotiable' clause - you can argue that pretty much anything should/shouldn't have been done for a world class superstar. The M+M one is cleverer becau…

Pure genius! I had a lecturer (a Brit) who would insert the phrase 'Rule Britannia' into lecture notes to see if anyone ever read them. There is also an urban myth about some entra…

Depends on utilisation. If you own a cluster and are able to keep it busy 24x7 then it pays off pretty quickly. Amazon have to have enough spare idle capacity to handle unexpected …

If you wanted to find a needle in a stack of chicken feed would you use 1024 chickens or two oxen?

Tell that to the people at ARM who ship 10 RISC cpus for every Intel desktop chip out there.