Awe and Shock. This report
here says a company has come up with a math processor
that does 25 gigaflops. They go on to say if you stuffed a PC
with 24 of these things (pretty hard to do in many PCs since
you would reportedly need six PCI slots, something rather
rare), at a cost of $25,000USD, you would have a desktop
computer equal in power to one of the top 500 in the world.
Or not. Depends on whether they actually produce any
silicon.
Excess and Stupidity. If four is okay,
six is good, eight better, and 12 the best, then what do you
call a car with 16 cylinders displacing 13.6 litres? Call it
a Cadillac. That last bastion of incredibly bad taste has a
concept car (see it
here) that puts out 1,000 hp/745 kW. I am at a loss of
words for describing how ugly this car looks so I will say no
more.
Speaking of Retro. Ford is creating a
replica of their storied Le Mans winning GT40 and calling it
the Ford GT. This one has half the cylinders and half the
horse power of the Cadillac but will probably run rings
around the Caddy due to its lighter weight and much better
handling. See the Ford
here.
AWGTHTGTATA. Not if you know what that
means you don’t. If you don’t, feel free to check out yet
another listing of Internet acronyms here.
B4N.
Aloha!
