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Yeah, I think that Seattle Times is confused, here is a decent article from Extreme Tech
http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

It comes down to GEO requires fewer satellites to cover the planet (because they have a wider horizon) but sucks because of long latency for travel time, i.e. HughesNet, compared to a lot of satellites to cover the planet in a lower orbit

It would not take 4000 satellites to cover the planet in GEO, but it would in a LEO where each low orbiting satellite has a limited view of the planet. You also get the advantages of shorter latency the closer that the satellite is to perpendicular over your head (closer to 5 thousands of a second than half a second). With a high density you also have easier handshaking between satellites and spread your customers out over more satellites for better bandwidth (both problems that Iridium faced)

I think that Virgin Galactic also made a pre-announcement for building a LEO network

Good times, good times

Actually, NASA had a "file system full" problem on one of the Mars rovers, almost exactly the same problem that Lightsail has. Fortunately they were able to fix it remotely.

Take a look. The car on the left looks weird and cool. The car on the right looks weird and ugly. Most electric or hybrid cars try to resemble the one on the right. It boggles the mind.

The speed of photons is not a meaningful part of that latency.

It is if you're trying to siphon money from the stock market without adding value.

For the general internet, though, it is useless.

Yes, consoles have consistent hardware but that doesn't mean much. That just means you have one version of the operating system with one set of drivers that are slightly better debugged than what the PC people deal with. So what.

Some things differ between video card manufacturers. NVIDIA GPUs are more efficient at some things, AMD at others. This is why Bitcoin miners preferred AMD before mining switched to FPGAs and ASICs: AMD's shader instruction set was more efficient at SHA-1 than NVIDIA's. And different video cards support different forms of texture compression. A console guarantees a shader ABI and a texture format, so you can ship precompiled shaders and compressed textures on disc. Console operating systems also tend to be far lighter than contemporary PC operating systems, so you can fit a lot more into the same 64 MB of RAM (Xbox era), 512 MB of RAM (Xbox 360 era), or 8 GB of RAM (Xbox One era).

I'm just saying that there is a net gain if the xbox is actually just a streamlined subsidized by licenses gaming PC.

Is it a "net gain" for end users not to be able to find worthwhile games among the self-published derivative amateur crap that Nintendo has in the past compared to the rejects on American Idol ? Because that's what floods Apple's App Store, which costs a developer $1000 for the hardware plus $100 per year.

Discovery of worthwhile apps is ultimately a search problem. Consoles have traditionally solved it by whitelisting only the best apps. Mobile has left it unsolved. How would you recommend to solve it?

The reason things are the way they are is because of console history.

Such as the flood of crapps that the Atari 2600 got in 1983, which turned North American retailers and end users off of video gaming entirely until 1985 (NYC)/1986 (nationwide) when Nintendo introduced its NES console with a whitelist mechanism to ensure that the worst products don't occupy valuable shelf space or player attention.

[The game console] is a legacy business model from a time when gaming PCs didn't really exist

The Commodore 64 was what you'd call a "gaming PC" in the early 1980s. Its graphics were better than ColecoVision, almost as detailed as NES. Its main fault was long loading times because most developers stuck to disk or (worse) cassette tape instead of cartridge.

I suspect [Microsoft would] be hit with more monopoly lawsuits were they [to fully unify Xbox with Windows]

I don't see how. Companies like Valve and Sony would be free to do the same thing. Steam OS is based on Debian GNU/Linux, and the Orbis OS that powers PlayStation 4 is based on FreeBSD.

Since you're too lazy to even type a couple words into a search engine:

http://www.extremetech.com/com...

The personal computer will not be around in 50 years. With computers getting smaller, and nanotech on the rise, our needs will adapt to fit the advances of science and technology.

http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

>> Where is the bot that can pass a Turing test reliably?
Here's just one of the ones that have passed the turing test.
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

>> Where in the world are actual intelligent networks?
>> Where is the machine that can learn complex tasks?
>> where is there a machine that uses something other than a human designed tree search to do things?
Many software applications based on neural networks and other self-evolving/learning AI alogirthms are already in everyday use not only learning complex tasks but also themselves coming up with new and better solutions to them.

>> I hear this crap about machine intelligence thrown out without any significant exemplars of said intelligence.
>> Show me something smarter than Eliza.
Uh how about you do your own looking? just try Googling stuff? Its not like this stuff isn't easily findable..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects...
http://www.extremetech.com/ext...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

After their bait and switch with SSD's, how can anyone trust them or the reviews?

http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

I shifted to an SSD for my OS and core applications (plus a few disk-speed sensitive games - a fast-growing category) last year. I'd been planning to buy the 500gb 840 EVO, but, by some small miracle, Amazon had a special on the 840 Pro on the weekend I made my purchase, putting its price very close to the EVO, so I bought that instead. The 840 Pro is apparently not affected by this. Phew, bullet dodged.

But it's interesting that the issue is picked up in so few reviews. Indeed, there's a veiled apology for this in an ExtremeTech article about the bug from October. Reviews are generally carried out on the basis of a short but intensive testing period and hence don't pick up serious issues that take a bit of time to show up.

That's obviously been particularly important in this case, due to the specific nature of this bug. But when it comes to expensive bits of hardware like SSDs and high-end graphics cards, I'd be interested in reviews which came out a bit later but gave a better reflection of failure rates and longer-term issues. I've been stung before by buying a well-reviewed graphics card which turned out to have a horrible failure rate over time.

Tesla has done a lot of work in this area, see: http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

Which behavior? Um, both Comcast and Verizon throttling Netflix unless Netflix paid a bribe, i mean, extra fee? And Verizon even kept right on throttling after being paid said 'bribe'.

I already paid Verizon to give me access to the internet (up AND down) at set speeds, they don't get to then charge the content provider that I have specifically requested content from another fee.

If there were any competition, people who were having their Netflix traffic throttled would switch to another ISP, but there aren't any other ISPs for most consumers.

I wonder is this part of the lawful intercept they mention in the manual? I mean what are the odds of accidentally leaving unauthorized rsync active in the device. Who did ANTlabs get to do the work?

Lawfull Intercept
- Monitoring of Networks
- Comply with legistative requirements
- Local storage of logs

"Gaining access to a guest room through a compromised key lock system wouldn’t just be of interest to thieves. One of the most famous cases involving the subversion of a hotel’s electronic key system .. It’s not known exactly how the attackers compromised that key system.

Again, the locks were compromised by plugging an Arduino microcontroller into the DC socket on the lock. The lock then disgorged the 32 bit passcode to the device - in the clear - no encryption. A curious design decision on behalf of the locks manufacturers to say the least.

Tablets, a fad? Dude, this actually IS the post PC era. Tablets are going gangbusters.

Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams carry 2.5 terabits per second

American and Israeli researchers have used twisted vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created — by some margin. This technique is likely to be used in the next few years to vastly increase the throughput of both wireless and fiber-optic networks.

These twisted signals use orbital angular momentum (OAM) to cram much more data into a single stream. In current state-of-the-art transmission protocols (WiFi, LTE, COFDM), we only modulate the spin angular momentum (SAM) of radio waves, not the OAM. If you picture the Earth, SAM is our planet spinning on its axis, while OAM is our movement around the Sun. Basically, the breakthrough here is that researchers have created a wireless network protocol that uses both OAM and SAM.

New Optical Fiber Puts a Twist on Data Transmission
“For several decades since optical fibers were deployed, the conventional assumption has been that OAM-carrying beams are inherently unstable in fibers,” said BU engineering professor Siddharth Ramachandran, who designed the new fiber. “Our discovery of design classes in which they are stable has profound implications for a variety of scientific and technological fields that have exploited the unique properties of OAM-carrying light, including the use of such beams for enhancing data capacity in fibers.”

The strategy by Ramachandran, Willner and colleagues, OAM mode-division multiplexing, combines both approaches. They packed several colors into each mode and used multiple modes. Unlike in conventional fibers, OAM modes in these specially designed fibers can carry data streams across an optical fiber while remaining separate at the receiving end.

Ramachandran’s OAM fiber had four modes (an optical fiber typically has two), and he and Willner showed that for each OAM mode, they could transmit 400 Gb/s in just a single wavelength of light — or 1.6 Tb/s across 10 wavelengths — over the course of 0.68 miles (1.1 km).

OEM's should listen to their customers and not Microsoft. Locking the bootloader is extremely anti-consumer and anti-competitive.

What this means for the future of Linux and alternative OSes is unclear at best.

Those who build their own desktops will retain the ability to disable Secure Boot, since Asus or MSI doesn't know what kind of operating system you're going to load on the board. But laptops are a different story. Some laptop vendors will undoubtedly continue to ship a ''Disable'' option on Secure Boot, but vendors like HP and Dell may simply decide that closing the attack vector is more important than user freedom, particularly when the margin on PCs is so low to begin with. When every support call is measured against the handful of dollars an OEM makes on each machine, eliminating the need for such interaction is extremely attractive.

Psychological research has long confirmed the power of default settings --- ship something enabled (or disabled), and the vast majority of users will never change the option. Given that Windows machines were already required to enable Secure Boot by default, where's the security benefit in making the kill switch optional?

As far as we can tell, there isn't one.

Linux's worst-case scenario: Windows 10 makes Secure Boot mandatory, locks out other operating systems

For the vendor of a mass-market Linux laptop ---- if there is such a thing --- choosing a signed Linux OS and closing an attack vector common to both Linux and Windows makes perfect sense as well.

It is not anti-consumer and it is not anti-competitive.

OEMs are listening to their mass market customers and what these customers are saying is "Lock it down.. We don't want to tool up and poke around under the hood."

It seems like the laptop version of G-Sync is using the same protocol as FreeSync (i.e it doesn't require any special hardware).
http://www.extremetech.com/ext...
So, maybe somebody could hack Nvidia's driver to make it compatible with FreeSync monitors?

I wondered, so some brief research shows that concrete decomposes and its constituents melt completely at a maximum 1800C. Nuclear fuel temperatures apparently top 2000C, so it appears that a runaway reaction can burn its way through the containment vessel. That link, btw, is to an inherently safer nuclear reactor design.

The point is a typical (modern) ICE has an efficiency of 20%.
Regarding thermodynamic and the Carnot Theorem, a "heat engine" running in similar temperature conditions has an efficiency of 40%.
So an ICE is only at 50% of its theoretical maximum.
On the other hand electric engines are above 99% efficiency ... in comparison to an ICE that is a factor of 5.
OTOH we could go back to "steam engines". With our modern technology we could build small scale steam engines close to the theoretical maximum of efficiency and would be twice as good as ICEs.

A few years ago a british team wanted to build a new racing car based around a steam engine, unfortunately it was not as fast as hoped: http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

The (copper) Gigabit Ethernet PHY transmits and receives simultaneously on four wire pairs. It accomplishes this with a hybrid that subtracts the transmitted signal from the one being received. Last year some newer WiFi access points debuted that could do the same thing with RF. (Gigabit Ethernet is technically RF too because each of the four wire pairs operate at around 125MHz. WiFi access points operate in the 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz bands.)

One connector is enough when the data is wireless.

Boy, you wouldn't think that by reading all the haters on /. And elsewhere, bitching about the new MacBook...

And it seems like you already got started on the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors just by mentioning them.

And you're DEFENDING that horseshit?!? Have you ever tried to figure out the TWO specifications (Post O.D. and Barrel I.D.) for some random power supply you are trying to match? I can tell you from personal experience, that without specifications (often not published for proprietary AC adapters), or without a set of digital calipers, you'll play hell figuring those measurements out...

If you insist on data being passed over a connector, packets of serial data could be passed over the power connector by modulating the power of the supply or the impedance of the device. Think of POE

But the USB-C standard, which isn't Apple's proprietary connector, actually HAS Power Transmission (and plenty of it!) built into it, rather than some kludge like you are proposing.

yes that is exactly what he meant by calling it an industry connector you dink

How can you even think that, with the new Pixel Chromebook sporting USB-C, too?

If you can even read, here's a nice article with lots of pretty pictures and small words that explains USB-C in terms that even a dink(sic) like you can understand.

DARPA Is Developing Implants To Heal Soldiers’ Bodies and Minds link
Verified case in courts of electronic harassment of targeted individual James Walbert with MRIs of implants in the neck and head youtube
NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, 'Subvocal Speech' sciencedaily
Harold Holt Murder - Gary's CT Scan Images of device in throat (1979) harold-holt.net
Powering micro-implants using high frequency waves extremetech.com
Literal Smart Dust Opens Brain-Computer Pathway to "Spy on Your Brain" activistpost
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind berkeley.edu
Who is Elisa Lam? (1 hour long) vimeo youtube
http://www.mindjustice.org/200...
Small implants to trigger muscle spasms for remote harassment link
Whats been possible since the 70's link
https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Tin...

They are a massive operation, and if you are a vendor of theirs you don't need to share factory floor space with other customers - and certainly not knock offs of their products.

The problem is that you knock a lot of other customers out of the way to take care of Apple, and they become your only huge customer. Then they pull the rug out from you and your left with no customers.

As for the codec? THAT is the tough one, as I've had the "fun" of trying to get Intel indeo running on a new system and that was once the big kahuna when it came to codecs. I mean who would have thought Intel would abandon their work? This is where FOSS would probably be a good choice as you can have the source code and instructions printed out on paper besides the discs.

...except my cable modem does not share storage with my PC. On the other hand, the baseband and Android system (not to mention the device-specific efs/imei stuff and the user data stuff) are all located on the same emmc on many devices. (Hence the ability to "flash a new radio")

Could the baseband access or change data on the Android partitions or the efs data? I'm not sure, but the articles suggest to me that they could.

Also, my cable modem doesn't share memory with my PC either: ....the application processor (with Android e.g.) and the baseband processor can share memory, so that an attack and takeover of the baseband stack offers the possibility to attack Android.

The baseband may have a separate CPU from Android, but it could access peripherals, sensors, etc. As an example:

The baseband processor (and thus REX OS) has direct access to the phoneâ(TM)s hardware (speakers, microphones), and also seemingly the ability to write to the same memory as the SoC (or application processor).

That's bad.

Also, unlike your cable modem analogy, which communicates to your router via a known network protocol, the baseband communicates with Android in most cases via the involvement of closed-source, mysterious "binary blobs".

So I guess if your cable modem were fused to your computer, sharing a hard drive, with direct access to its memory and peripherals, and communicating to your computer via a mysterious unauditable binary, then maybe your analogy would hold up.

OK, so 4k monitors benefit from vector graphics for scaling up. Still doesn't explain the "flat" look, or the use of only 2 or 3 colors over a solid color background. The use of SVG in favor of bitmaps doesn't mean it has to be ugly or simple or avoid visual cues like contours and shadows. The entire Windows 7 icon set could be re-rendered as SVG and your scaling problem would be solved. No, Microsoft's new icons are ugly because Microsoft managers want to promote Windows Phone, and since previous incarnations of windows mobile failed so badly they think it necessary to use a drastically new look to distance the new product from the old.

For that, you can thank IBM.

They have been at the leading edge of a number of computer technologies over the years. It's a shame that IBM has been so poor at capitalizing on them.

The thing is, atoms are very, very small, but they still have a finite size. A hydrogen atom, for example, is about 0.1 nanometers, and a caesium atom is around 0.3nm. The atoms used in silicon chip fabrication are around 0.2nm.

source: http://www.extremetech.com/com...

The mods here are idiots. A cursory search reveals the results of testing which shows that you know what you're talking about here.

Every SSD has a limited number of writes. That hasn't changed. Wear leveling algorithms ensures that normal users will never be faced with that issue under normal use, though. In other words, unless you have some very specialized scenario where you're writing massive amounts of data continuously, it's really not an issue. Keep in mind that also, even if you happened to hit the write limit twenty years from now, all your data should still be readable.

Reliability is a bit harder of a metric to cover, because there's no way to measure reliability except in aggregate: large number of drives over many years of operation. How would a reviewer with one or two devices to test determine reliability? Over the week or so they tested, it was likely 100% reliable.

... All it takes is a facebook profile. They already do facial identification in the background.
http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

Not to mention that the "Chinese supersonic sub" could bring about the downfall of the Virginia class and all the fancy big-data detection technology.

Ignoring the fact that one of those things would be noisier than an earthquake and completely sonar blind, yeah, it's a great idea. Let's hope the Chinese are stupid enough to waste their money on building a bunch of them.

Not to mention that the "Chinese supersonic sub" could bring about the downfall of the Virginia class and all the fancy big-data detection technology. Short of a super-sonic sub, the detection technologies aren't that far-fetched - detecting an exoplanet hundreds of light-years away has some of the same signal processing issues, and look at the improvements in that area.

And metal-air batteries are light years ahead of Tesla's (with energy density an order of magnitude better, without compromising on power density). http://www.extremetech.com/wp-... http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

And metal-air batteries are light years ahead of Tesla's (with energy density an order of magnitude better, without compromising on power density). http://www.extremetech.com/wp-... http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

Your information is a quite outdated, AMD has been making CPUs at TSMC since 2011 because GloFo couldn't deliver. It's possible AMD paid something to get out of that deal, but it's long ago now.

Gamenab stumbled across the leaked driver and tried to use it to spread a bunch of conspiracy theory FUD. I hope most people here can correctly apply Occam's razor as opposed to the alternative, which is that he supposedly designed those changes, those changes going into an internal driver build that was inadvertently leaked and happened to apply to the exact laptop he already owned.

ExtremeTech picked apart his BS in more detail: http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

"Some DX12 features will still need updated GPUs, but all the basic features should work." ExtremeTech

I would bet real money that Microsoft has already made multiple offers to buy Xamarin. I'm assuming they haven't succeeded because their offers didn't create enough billionaires... When they made the Visual Studio 2015 announcements last year (along with the open source stuff), Xamarin was front and center, obviously the most important external partner at this time.

MS is open sourcing the core .Net Framework (for Linux, Mac OS (and they spoke about iOS, which I'm assuming is different: http://www.extremetech.com/com...), which I don't really understand), which is basically what Mono targets.

This gets the company core access to most of the popular development environments that exist today, adding Linux backend server support and support for the two largest major phone/tablet environments with them in control rather than Mono.

Xamarin will surely support the open Source Microsoft .Net Framework (along side Mono, for a while at least regarding Mono).

During the announcements last year they spoke about Mono have some features they would like to support, and how Mono could use the open source .Net Framework code to improve as well (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-open-source-of-net-core-framework-net-core-distribution-for-linux-osx-and-free-visual-studio-community-edition).

I feel that their "support" for Mono is designed to not rock the boat for organizations that have implemented Mono already.

Obviously, moving forward, MS is going to push it's open source .Net Framework for non-Windows platforms. Which is fine, it's open source, so why not?

Microsoft is trying to sell Visual Studio/MSDN licenses, but more importantly, to have the most common framework development goes against. Frankly they are looking to take advantage of how Sun is handling Java (for the love of everything, why is crapware included with Java???). I'm sure they also want to push Mono into the "legacy' category in terms of modern development frameworks.

And Visual Studio is a very nice environment (Xamarin Studio is decent, I couldn't afford the version with Visual Studio integration because my Android development was for personal use). I would love for Microsoft to buy Xamarin, it would then be available free to me via my MSDN Ultimate subscription...

it's useless because it doesn't use a processor that hasn't even launched?

It's useless for me. What am I supposed to do with a friggin Iris? Fuck that, I want a real numbercruncher, even if I have to wait.
So, I'm not complaining, they've got a great lappy, just not quite what I imagined for myself, so I'll hold out.

I can't find the link, but there was something about TB2 not being connected directly to the CP lanes.
Ah, there it is:

Intel has never allowed motherboard vendors to hang the Thunderbolt silicon / add-in card off the CPU's PCIe lanes. [...] It would have been great to have a new version of Thunderbolt with PCIe 3.0 along with the X99 launch. But, we already know it is not going to be the case till Skylake launches.

From: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
So that seems the single most important update we've had in years, IMHO.

Hopefully I'll be able to get myself something like a WS 60, but with proper TB support that will be able to run OS X. I.e. metal case, two drive bays, lots of RAM, TB2-3, USB 3(.1), and a quadra or the like.
I'm willing to accept binary blobs on my 'puter for such specs, since I have a Free router that does the network filtering anyway.

In any case, they got pretty close to what I want except for the TB and the GPU. I might get one of these for my wife in order to support them.

Talk about blatant extortion... Perhaps Google should be more concerned about patching the 1,001 vulnerabilities in Android before casting stones at others.

For example, how about this: http://www.extremetech.com/mob...

That's a inappropriate comparison.

To patch that vulnerability would require the ability to update Android on existing handsets.

For this to work, the handset manufacturers would have to provide a new version of Android for the given handset.

For this to work, the Android development model of "partner, not Google, productizes Android" would have to change.

For this to work, there would have to be ongoing development on an older hardware platform.

For this to work, there would have to be carrier involvement in certification.

For this to work, the carrier revenue model of locking you into a two year contract every 18 months would have to change.

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It's in absolutely no ones financial interest to provide updates to Android in already shipped handsets, and Google is not in a position, as an OS supplier, rather than a phone vendor (which is what Apple is), to force changes in operational model into the carrier or the partner device vendor.

U.S. Carriers are *NOT* going to change their revenue model just so people can buy ala carte devices that will work with any carrier, and cost more up front for you to go with their service, rather than rolling it into the monthly payment when you go with a competitors service. Everyone would have to change at once (collusion, a violation of both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the RICO Statutes, and definitely something that would be prosecuted), or the carrier that tried to move to the European model would find itself out of business.

Likewise, the handset vendors, whose revenue model is completely built on thin margins, but selling a new handset every 18 months, instead of you buying one and keeping it for 10 years, would have to charge higher margin on their device sales in order to keep their revenue numbers up, and to pay for the R&D ongoing on the already-sold platform. And then they'd need to change their FAS accounting to match that of Apple's, or face charges under Sarbanes-Oxley, which is what Apple had to do before it could give away the WiFi updates to 802.11g/n for iPods. You'll (maybe) remember that they got a percentage of the monthly wireless fee from the carrier for iPhones, but realized their income at time of sale on iPod Touch and non-3G iPads, and so they had to charge $5 for the update.

And seriously, would you be willing to pay $5 for a bug fix for a bug you were pretty sure wasn't impacting you anyway, and was just some security "researcher" throwing a hissy fit to get their company name in the news so they got audit contracts out of it?

And it look like Microsoft will embrace that "repository" format for Windows 10, finally. But don't get too exited, I am pretty sure that dubious sites will convince people to add their crapware repository and pull things with unneeded dependencies.

Looks like they've more recently followed up with a "new OS" announcement for the machine called Linux++, which one would assume is a modified Linux. That's supposed to be the stopgap to Carbon their ground up new OS:

http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

So still some movement, and 6 months is a bit better than "3 years" or whatever the standard it-will-never-happen date is for computing (for fusion it's 20 years apparently).

Sam

Worse in the winter cause you're blasting heat? Why not just put a coat on?

Because cold adversely affects batteries, also on electric vehicles.

Stone is good too.

I can't verify the source, but this article suggests the machines will be Power8 based. Assuming these are the machines in question.

No, those machines are being built for the Department of Energy (DoE); NOAA, for whom the machines being discussed in this thread are being built, is part of the Department of Commerce.

Stingray, the fake cell phone tower cops and carriers use to ...

This is the 8th hit on a Google lookup on the word "stingray". This is (in theory, at least), a tech site. You're telling us it didn't occur to you to look for something having to do with "stingray" and tech of some sort?

In addition, the linked Ars Technica article has this:

According to the Observer, which did not publish the records in full, but summarized some of them, the “CMPD sought permission to use cellphone surveillance more than 500 times since 2010, or about twice a weekDocuments and interviews suggest judges rarely, if ever, denied authorization requested by CMPD to use equipment that can intercept cellphone information from criminal suspects and innocent people alike.

In any case, now you know: Americans call mobile phones "cell phones".

Go forth now, my son! And spread your hard-won knowledge amongst those less fortunate and diligent than thou. :)

I can't verify the source, but this article suggests the machines will be Power8 based. Assuming these are the machines in question.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-...