Wednesday Wheelies
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.
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