short time ago a chap told me: we may have to many of it already as you'll seldom hear these days: i am runnning out of memory.

truly you miss something, if you just listen to historians and don't consider that memory may be dynamic, associative and even transactional:

TM (transactional memory) provides a new concurrency-control construct that avoids the pitfalls of locks and significantly eases concurrent programming. It brings to mainstream parallel programming proven concurrency-control concepts used for decades by the database community. Transactional-language constructs are easy to use and can lead to programs that scale. | queue, unlocking concurrency

update: critizism on that approach by patrick logan

also worth reading a conversation with john hennessy and david patterson, the authors of the fat, heavy weight book: computer architecture: a quantitative approach.

give us your thoughts | grand challenges for engineering.

charles joseph minard, from the polish-russian border to maskwa and retour.

the whole drama on one side.

napoleon begins his march on moscow with an army of 422,000 men. this is shown in beige. by the time he reaches his goal he has only 100.000men left. during the return journey, represented by a black line from right to the left, he sustains further losses as a result of the intense cold and the arduous crossing of ice rivers ... | paul mijksenaar