I heard from one of NASA's fiber optic departments that Intel is working (with them?) on fiber based busses. They suggested that it was going to happen very soon. Not for consumer machines at first, of course.
I would really like to see instant messaging services hook into a real time translation engine (a la babblefish). Deciphering the mangled translations would be half the fun, the new slang phrases that cropped up would be the other half.
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I heard from one of NASA's fiber optic departments that Intel is working (with them?) on fiber based busses. They suggested that it was going to happen very soon. Not for consumer machines at first, of course.
I would really like to see instant messaging services hook into a real time translation engine (a la babblefish). Deciphering the mangled translations would be half the fun, the new slang phrases that cropped up would be the other half.