It's more income. So ... more taxes. Think of it like the grocery bag tax in the affluent suburbs. We do need more "investment" in schools ... so this is a win for society, right?

Serious biologists were very skeptical from the start : http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-and-new-micro...

Soon, there were lots of questions : http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/06/01/return_of_th...

I'm thinking NASA is good at space exploration, not so good at biology.

Sadly, it's called HTML5 : DOM + javascript + CSS + AJAX Google and Apple and Microsoft have locked things down pretty good, otherwise. The best portable application appears to be Mozilla compatible.

Hi, thanks for this response! I definitely agree with you that it's easiest... and yet, startups are creating awesome iOS native apps, and awesome Android native apps - in the same office. I would love to hear more from the experience of these types of startups.

No disagreement with you on your points.

Many are not working because they're unemployed: http://www.google.com/search?&q=U.S.+real+unemployment+r...

Which version of SQL server is an "essential system service" on Windows?

Intel Fortran vs gcc ???

How about Intel Fortran vs. Intel C ? How about gcc C vs. gcc Fortran ?

Hyper-optimized compiler for Intel architecture beats compiler designed to be portable to many, many target architectures? Not very shocking.

This. ICC is known to beat gcc usually.

Yeah, I'd suspect that better use of SSE instructions is the big win for number crunching.

Cool. Yeah, seems like it's better inlining and use of XMM registers more than the SSE instructions themselves.

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The Great State of Twitterbraska is not on the Republican primary schedule, though.

Having a lightweight, standalone executable with quick start up time is still a major win.

What about caching database connections? Opening a new connection on every request can be very slow, particularly for Oracle.

One may consider using FastCGI to avoid the costs associated with starting a new process with each request.

Here's the "experts" talking about the announcement ...

seqnanswers thread : http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16709

Just how good this piece of equipment is unknown. Regardless, the race to the $1K genome may be in the final lap.

Illumina is their main competitor. Looks like ILMN stock took a hit but recovered quickly : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ILMN+Basic+Chart&t=5d , so I guess the market is unconvinced.

Funniest Intel fake I ever saw this: Intel had a demo booth at at computer covention where they ... ta da ... were demonstrating the latest whatever. I peered inside the computers and had a good chuckle. This was obviously run by the marketing guys on the cheap because the "intel inside" ... was actually and AMD chip.

A long, long time ago, Compaq was demoing some gigantic new server which had redundant, hot swappable everything. As the presenter mentioned that you could simply pull out a DIMM on the fly, my friend reached in and did so, which powered off the machine completely.

Probably the most stressful job in the world is giving high-profile tech demo's...

Funny anecdote, but does "hot swap" necessarily mean "yank out without warning"? My understanding is that you might need to tell the kernel that you are going to yank out a component before doing so. Similarly after adding in a component you might have to poke the kernel and say "hey, new stuff here" before you can use it.

Well he said it was "redundant everything".

Still, I suspect it was probably designed to handle unexpected 1-bit errors and, like you're saying, allow for replacing RAM modules with the cooperation of the OS.