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Paraphrasing Mark Twain, the news doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme...

Iraq buys 4000 PlayStation 2s in world conquest bid

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[ROTB]

>a teraflop of computing power

Just one? A PS3 I thought pulls two for $299 ...

[WildWeasel]

Cyberdyne Systems Model 101

[cavador]

I have an Xbox360,and I got a big surprise when I checked out the specs of these units.It's got twice the graphics power of my top end pc.Any game I put on it updates the framerate far quicker than the same game on a pc.With the pc the lag in the framerate is quite noticable. I have added a maxshooter device to the xbox.(Which allows a mouse and keyboard to be fitted.) I'm still narky about the network card being more than Au $140.00.I will just have to wait till it comes down in price before I can turn it into a full computer.(I'm almost there except for networking.)

[MarkL]

It is amazing just how much things have changed with the incredible increases in technology. The idea isn't new. In fact, it was commercially available in the early 1980s using the INMOS Transputer. Anyone who's familiar with Happaugue's video capture boards knows the company that was best known for designing and selling the parallel computing Transputers. Many of the concepts pioneered for that are still in use today with parallel processing, clustering, and in supercomputers today.

Mark

[2harddrive]

Pretty soon we will read that Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore labs are doing nuclear weapons design and explosion simulations on the Playstation 3!