It's pretty common, when reading discussion of Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads, to come across the comment: Sure, they're great ads but they don't work. John Hodgeman's PC is far more likeable than Justin Long's smug hipster Mac. This is missing the point.

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Good news for green tech: The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. That's according to the Top500 supercomputers list, to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

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The world's fastest ever supercomputer is to be built for the US government to help it conduct nuclear safety tests. Codenamed 'Roadrunner', the system will be capable of sustained computation speeds of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop.

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And just like that, the roadrunner is gone and somehow I feel like Coyote standing unwittingly surrounded by the fuse lit ACME rockets surrounding me, with a dazed and confused expression that is given to the inevitable on my face.

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