Microsoft pushes Intel for 16-core Atom processor

I think too, the governments should regulate companies that make microproccesors, so that they strive to make products more efficient.

For example, limiting the maximum TPD on ALL cpus with more performance like the Intel Core i family and AMD Phenoms in the coming years, something

2011 to 90 watts of TDP,
2012 to 60 watts of TDP,
2013 to 40 watts of TDP,
and so ...

Intel, AMD you can do it !

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Will an assured $150k investment hurt the spirit of Y Combinator?

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Here?s a gutsy move, but one that could pay off extremely well in the long run. According to TechCrunch, Angel investor Yuri Milner and SV Angel have just laid down an offer that will be exceedingly difficult to refuse: $150,000 to every startup in the current Y Combinator, plus every group to come. While it?s great news for the 40-some hackers who are hoping to claw their way to victory right now, it just might do more harm than good in the grand scheme.

Y Combinator, if you?re not familiar, is a startup boot camp of sorts. Twice a year, the venture fund takes a group under its wings and provides a very small seed investment (generally less than $20k, according to the YC FAQ) in exchange for an equally small stake in the company. The money allows the groups to remain on a ramen-fueled diet while hacking away to make a product the best that they can make it.

For 3 months, the startups move to the valley, receive coaching and then pitch on ?demo day? to potential investors. Many of the companies are funded during demo day, and a good number have historically not even completed the full YC time before receiving full funding or being acquired.

What Milner and SV Angel have done, in essence, is take away part of the difficulty that makes YC so infamous. That boot camp mentality is one that has been groomed for quite some time and it has taught many companies how to develop a product on the leanest of investments. What concerns us about the Milner/SV offer is that $150k is nearly 10 times the typical investment given to a YC company, and that money might just take away the edge that we often see from YC success stories.

Neither Milner nor Ron Conway (co-founder of SV Angel) are fools. Taking a look at the investment track records of each shows that they have considerably more hits than misses. YC companies are generally eaten alive by the Angel community and the growing concern over a valuation bubble has only made that scenario more acute. Neither SV nor Milner have had a chance to see the current crop at YC but, as Rackspace?s Rob La Gesse notes, ?they are betting blind, but knowing the house wins most of the time. Brilliant.?

I had the chance to talk with Adam Goldstein, founder of Hipmunk and Y Combinator alumni. The question I asked to him was simple ? if it had happened to his group, would Hipmunk have been as good as it is today? His overall view? Yes.

?I think that there are a number of companies that negotiate with YC to get non-standard funding or deals. They know, no matter what they do, they?re likely to get funding [because of the Y Combinator credentials].?

An interesting twist to this scenario, though, is one that is not widely advertised. While YC startups might be hungry, increasingly, they?re not as hungry as they once were. According to Goldstein:

It seems like they [Y Combinator] are funding more and more startups that are no longer at seed stage. In many cases they are funding startups that have raised outside capital from Angels, if not Series A?By the time they reach YC, they?ve already raised $150 [thousand] if not more.

Goldstein offers the opinion that $150k extra funding isn?t enough to change the spirit of YC. Sadly, I didn?t get to write his quote down, but his thought is that if we?re not talking millions in additional funding, then the work that we see coming out of Y Combinator will not change.

At The Next Web, we?re privileged to be able to see the best and brightest, and to be able to tell you about them. It?s our sincere hope that, regardless of what today?s announcement will do to the Angel and VC community, the spirit of Y Combinator will not change. We love seeing the future of our Internet world, and Y Combinator is a prime source of that new blood. Anything that could change what Y Combinator is deserves a bit of investigation.

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Brad is a music and tech junkie who calls Nashville home. While he writes across many channels on The Next Web, he has a particular interest in startups located in the Southern US. Find him on Twitter @BradMcCarty.

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Microsoft pushes Intel for 16-core Atom processor

Microsoft has reportedly asked Intel to create a 16-core Atom processor that would be used in the company's servers. Speaking at The Linley Group Data Center Conference, Microsoft engineer Dileep Bhandarkar suggests that Intel's Xeon chips require too much power for their higher speeds and there's a "huge opportunity" to improve energy efficiency by outfitting servers with chips like Intel's Atom and AMD's Bobcat.

It was also noted that an system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution is ideal for low-power computing. "When you look at these tiny cores, another way of making them work in a very efficient way is [not to] surround them with a whole bunch of south bridges and network controllers. Essentially, the tiny cores and systems-on-chip should go together" Bhandarkar explained to conference attendees.


Bhandarkar mentioned that Microsoft would consider deploying ARM-based servers if the chipmaker could show enough value over x86 chips. ARM would have to offer a 2x improvement per dollar per watt to make the transition worthwhile. "Instruction-set transitions are extremely painful." If anything, Bhandarkar says ARM's presence motivates Intel and AMD to deliver more efficient x86 chips.

Linley Group founder and analyst Linley Gwennap believes it's only a matter of time before Intel brings the Atom to servers. "We're seeing more of the ARM guys going after the server market and just to compete on power performance per watt, Intel is going to have to rely on the Atom CPU," he said. Intel wouldn't confirm plans for a server-grade Atom, but it noted that HP currently sells an Atom-powered home media server.

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Weekend Open Forum: How much did your case cost?

Although some enthusiasts are willing to splurge on extravagant computer cases, many shun the notion of spending $200+ on a glorified metal box. That's understandable with when you compare the features of products such as Cooler Master's $60 HAF 912 and $200 HAF X. Both offer the same core functionality: a home for your components.

Expensive cases typically have superior cable management, stock cooling and accessibility, but budget chassis owners aren't missing out on much. Cables can be hidden with some imagination and zip ties, fans can be upgraded if necessary, and unless you swap hardware frequently, fancy tool-less mechanisms won't be saving you much time.

The difference between a $60 and $200 chassis often amounts to some extra space, aesthetics such as interior paint, and a simplified installation process. Our question is: are those features worth a price premium to you? How much did you pay for your current case? To get us rolling, I'm using the dated Thermaltake Tai-Chi and Julio has the HAF 932.

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Catching Classic Sports Moments as They're Happening

Soon, millions of people will sit down to watch the Green Bay Packers face off against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV. But high as the stakes may be, it doesn't guarantee that it will be the most exciting game of the season. A startup called RUWT?! (short for Are You Watching This?!) offers a service that's meant to help fans find the most exciting games all season long, for sports including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer.

One night in the fall of 2000, Mark Phillip, a Brooklyn native who founded RUWT?!, was watching the New York Jets play the Miami Dolphins. In the third quarter, around the time the Dolphins took a 30-7 lead, Phillip, dejected, fell asleep. When he woke up in the morning, however, he found out that "not only did the Jets come back, but it turned out to be one of the biggest comebacks in the history of Monday Night Football." In fact, the game has become known as "The Monday Night Miracle." Phillip says, "I've always regretted missing it."

This eventually inspired Phillip to build RUWT?! in 2006. He hoped to provide a service that would keep fans clued in to the biggest moments in sports. The software combines and processes information from two main feeds in order to predict when a game is worth watching and alert fans with information about how to catch the moment.

First, RUWT?! pulls in data about what's on TV across the United States. The service never recommends games you can't watch in your area?when you sign up, you tell it your location and TV provider?and it includes information about what channel the game is on.

Then, RUWT?! processes a feed of sports information that includes everything from scores to schedule changes to injuries. The service has rated more than 120,000 games to date, and it learns from previous ratings to inform its new ones. It considers factors such as the rivalry between the teams playing, the score, the time left in the game, the opinions of the site's users, and other signs of Internet buzz.

It personalizes its recommendations based on a user's preferred sports and teams. People can also set thresholds for when they'll receive alerts?for example, they can tell RUWT?! to alert them only for games rated "Epic."

"It's been an interesting experience to try to quantify with math this thing that's so passionate for me," says Phillip, who majored in computer science at MIT.

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Senate Approves Changes Intended to Ease Gridlock

The bipartisan agreement left intact the filibuster, the most powerful weapon that can be used on the Senate floor. But the Senate approved other changes Thursday in rules intended to quicken the pace of action, including new limits on a single lawmaker?s ability to anonymously block legislation and nominations.

At the same time, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, made a commitment to give Republicans more opportunity to change legislation on the floor in exchange for a commitment from Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, to refrain from filibustering attempts to bring up measures for debate.

?We want the Senate to move deliberately,? Mr. Reid said. ?But we want it to move. We have to find a balance that will encourage us to debate and that also enables us to legislate.?

The Democrats who had wanted to rein in the filibuster were unable to rally the votes to do so because others feared retaliation by Republicans as well as the possibility that the very nature of the Senate could be undermined.

All the more far-reaching proposals, including one requiring senators to remain on the floor if they were filibustering a bill, fell well short of the 67 votes needed to alter the rules.

Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, one of the Democrats who had pursued more substantial changes, asked, ?How much will it really change for this Senate?? In exchange for Democrats not trying to force through a rules change on a straight majority vote rather than the two-thirds margin typically required, Mr. McConnell agreed that Republicans would not make a similar effort should they gain control of the Senate in 2012.

?I would oppose such an effort to change the rules with a simple majority in this Congress or the next Congress, regardless of which political party is in the majority,? Mr. McConnell said in a written exchange with Mr. Reid outlining their agreement.

Despite the impasse over curtailing the filibuster, members of both parties said the changes were significant and in keeping with efforts to bring more civility to Congress and to encourage at least some cooperation between the two parties.

?We have come to a consensus about a change in behavior, which I believe in the end will be more important than the change in the rules,? said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who was instrumental in the negotiations.

Under the agreement, the Senate would also take steps toward relinquishing the right to confirm hundreds of midlevel administration nominees and those appointed to part-time advisory positions. About 400 of the 1,400 posts now requiring confirmation would be exempted from Senate review. The change, which will require legislation, is seen as a way to ease the Senate workload while speeding the ability of the White House to fill jobs.

?Change doesn?t come often or easily to the Senate,? said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Rules Committee. ?I hope our efforts will make a difference starting today.?

Still, he and others said they would continue to aggressively champion their own position.

?We know there are still sharp differences within our body on issues, and those won?t disappear,? Mr. Schumer said. ?On certain bills, we will both use every procedural tactic we have under the rules.?

The new limits on the right of a senator to block a bill or nomination through an anonymous objection ? known in the Senate as a ?hold? ? were approved on an overwhelming vote of 92 to 4.

A senator will now be required to acknowledge a hold in the Congressional Record within two days of imposing one. If the senator does not do so, the hold would then automatically be attributed to the party leader or another senator who might have initiated the hold at a colleague?s request. The thinking is that senators may be unwilling to accept responsibility for an objection lodged by a colleague, putting pressure on that senator to step forward.

The enforcement mechanism was added after earlier attempts to force disclosure produced limited success. ?We think we have plugged the holes here,? said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a longtime critic of anonymous holds.

On a vote of 81 to 15, the Senate adopted a rule prohibiting senators from forcing the reading of lengthy amendments if the legislative language had been publicly available for 72 hours. The tactic has been a favored stalling maneuver.

?The effect has been to tie the Senate in knots and it creates a spectacle,? said Senator Mark Udall, the Colorado Democrat who sought to end the practice. ?This is a common sense approach.?

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Catching Classic Sports Moments as They're Happening

Soon, millions of people will sit down to watch the Green Bay Packers face off against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV. But high as the stakes may be, it doesn't guarantee that it will be the most exciting game of the season. A startup called RUWT?! (short for Are You Watching This?!) offers a service that's meant to help fans find the most exciting games all season long, for sports including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer.

One night in the fall of 2000, Mark Phillip, a Brooklyn native who founded RUWT?!, was watching the New York Jets play the Miami Dolphins. In the third quarter, around the time the Dolphins took a 30-7 lead, Phillip, dejected, fell asleep. When he woke up in the morning, however, he found out that "not only did the Jets come back, but it turned out to be one of the biggest comebacks in the history of Monday Night Football." In fact, the game has become known as "The Monday Night Miracle." Phillip says, "I've always regretted missing it."

This eventually inspired Phillip to build RUWT?! in 2006. He hoped to provide a service that would keep fans clued in to the biggest moments in sports. The software combines and processes information from two main feeds in order to predict when a game is worth watching and alert fans with information about how to catch the moment.

First, RUWT?! pulls in data about what's on TV across the United States. The service never recommends games you can't watch in your area?when you sign up, you tell it your location and TV provider?and it includes information about what channel the game is on.

Then, RUWT?! processes a feed of sports information that includes everything from scores to schedule changes to injuries. The service has rated more than 120,000 games to date, and it learns from previous ratings to inform its new ones. It considers factors such as the rivalry between the teams playing, the score, the time left in the game, the opinions of the site's users, and other signs of Internet buzz.

It personalizes its recommendations based on a user's preferred sports and teams. People can also set thresholds for when they'll receive alerts?for example, they can tell RUWT?! to alert them only for games rated "Epic."

"It's been an interesting experience to try to quantify with math this thing that's so passionate for me," says Phillip, who majored in computer science at MIT.

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Senate Approves Changes Intended to Ease Gridlock

The bipartisan agreement left intact the filibuster, the most powerful weapon that can be used on the Senate floor. But the Senate approved other changes Thursday in rules intended to quicken the pace of action, including new limits on a single lawmaker?s ability to anonymously block legislation and nominations.

At the same time, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, made a commitment to give Republicans more opportunity to change legislation on the floor in exchange for a commitment from Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, to refrain from filibustering attempts to bring up measures for debate.

?We want the Senate to move deliberately,? Mr. Reid said. ?But we want it to move. We have to find a balance that will encourage us to debate and that also enables us to legislate.?

The Democrats who had wanted to rein in the filibuster were unable to rally the votes to do so because others feared retaliation by Republicans as well as the possibility that the very nature of the Senate could be undermined.

All the more far-reaching proposals, including one requiring senators to remain on the floor if they were filibustering a bill, fell well short of the 67 votes needed to alter the rules.

Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, one of the Democrats who had pursued more substantial changes, asked, ?How much will it really change for this Senate?? In exchange for Democrats not trying to force through a rules change on a straight majority vote rather than the two-thirds margin typically required, Mr. McConnell agreed that Republicans would not make a similar effort should they gain control of the Senate in 2012.

?I would oppose such an effort to change the rules with a simple majority in this Congress or the next Congress, regardless of which political party is in the majority,? Mr. McConnell said in a written exchange with Mr. Reid outlining their agreement.

Despite the impasse over curtailing the filibuster, members of both parties said the changes were significant and in keeping with efforts to bring more civility to Congress and to encourage at least some cooperation between the two parties.

?We have come to a consensus about a change in behavior, which I believe in the end will be more important than the change in the rules,? said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who was instrumental in the negotiations.

Under the agreement, the Senate would also take steps toward relinquishing the right to confirm hundreds of midlevel administration nominees and those appointed to part-time advisory positions. About 400 of the 1,400 posts now requiring confirmation would be exempted from Senate review. The change, which will require legislation, is seen as a way to ease the Senate workload while speeding the ability of the White House to fill jobs.

?Change doesn?t come often or easily to the Senate,? said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Rules Committee. ?I hope our efforts will make a difference starting today.?

Still, he and others said they would continue to aggressively champion their own position.

?We know there are still sharp differences within our body on issues, and those won?t disappear,? Mr. Schumer said. ?On certain bills, we will both use every procedural tactic we have under the rules.?

The new limits on the right of a senator to block a bill or nomination through an anonymous objection ? known in the Senate as a ?hold? ? were approved on an overwhelming vote of 92 to 4.

A senator will now be required to acknowledge a hold in the Congressional Record within two days of imposing one. If the senator does not do so, the hold would then automatically be attributed to the party leader or another senator who might have initiated the hold at a colleague?s request. The thinking is that senators may be unwilling to accept responsibility for an objection lodged by a colleague, putting pressure on that senator to step forward.

The enforcement mechanism was added after earlier attempts to force disclosure produced limited success. ?We think we have plugged the holes here,? said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a longtime critic of anonymous holds.

On a vote of 81 to 15, the Senate adopted a rule prohibiting senators from forcing the reading of lengthy amendments if the legislative language had been publicly available for 72 hours. The tactic has been a favored stalling maneuver.

?The effect has been to tie the Senate in knots and it creates a spectacle,? said Senator Mark Udall, the Colorado Democrat who sought to end the practice. ?This is a common sense approach.?

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Decoding Pneumonia's Defenses

An in-depth genetic analysis of closely related strains of streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium that causes pneumonia, has revealed how the microbe has continually escaped attempts to defeat it. The findings show that the bug can easily swap chunks of DNA with other strains, allowing it to rapidly evolve defenses against both antibiotics and vaccines. Researchers say the findings will help them design more effective preventive measures and treatments.

"It shows just how astonishingly quickly this bug can reinvent itself," says William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard and one of the study's authors. "I think the findings should renew our recognition of exactly how innovative we have to be in finding new ways to combat disease caused by this organism, which is readily capable of throwing off any intervention we direct against it."

Despite antibiotics and a vaccine, the World Health Organization estimates that pneumonia-causing bacteria, known as pneumococcus, is responsible for about four million deaths per year, mostly among children from poor countries.

Researchers sequenced 240 strains of a drug-resistant form of the microbe, collected between 1984 and 2008 from 22 countries around the globe. The original variant, from which the others descended, is thought to have arisen about 40 years ago in response to the introduction of antibiotics. While researchers had previously compared a handful of genes in these microbes, this study was the first to analyze the entire genome, allowing researchers to re-create its evolutionary tree. The findings are published today in the journal Science.

"I think this is a landmark paper," says Alexander Tomasz, professor of microbiology at the Rockefeller University. Tomasz contributed some of the DNA used in the study. "It uses the most sophisticated molecular techniques on [strains] collected at various sites over time to trace the evolution of one of the most important human pathogens."

Microbes can evolve in two ways; via single letter changes to the gene-coding region of DNA, or by swapping large chunks of DNA. The latter mechanism occurs less frequently, but it is capable of producing much larger changes in the organism?including the ability to evade a vaccine.

The new research highlights just how common this swapping is in the pneumococcus bacteria. "We can see multiple occasions where the clone has acquired different elements of resistance, such as to macrolide antibiotics, at different times and in different parts of the world," says Stephen Bentley, a scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the senior author of the study.

The researchers found, for example, two variants that had swapped out the portions of their genomes that made them vulnerable to the vaccine. "That kind of convergent evolution in parallel tells us something about how readily these things can pick up the opportunity to escape," says Hanage. "We've known for years that it happens. What we hadn't realized was just how many times it occurs in individual lineages." The most recent version of the vaccine has already been updated to include antibodies against these strains.

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10 awesome but impolite email filters

10 awesome but impolite email filters

I?m pretty good in managing my Inbox these days. On most days I?m close to reaching my Inbox Zero goals, on other days I might have 10 or 20 messages I have to deal with.

This morning I thought about some filters I secretly wish I could use, but don?t. They are either unpractical, very rude or plain impossible. Here they are:

Delete on CC or BCC
Most emails you get that have your address in the CC are mostly just FYI. 90% of those you can safely ignore. If it would have been really important they would have emailed you directly. I once knew a guy who filtered all email that had him in the CC to a separate folder which he simply ignored. I wish I could do the same but don?t feel comfortable doing it. I know I would miss out on that 10% that is actually important. Still, one can dream.

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: HILARIOUS!!!
As soon as the subject of an email looks anything like the title here you know what to expect: an email a mile long, probably from a family member you don?t even like, with some kind of funny image from 1998. The email will contain the emailaddresses and names of everybody who forwarded it before you. I guess this would be a fairly easy filter to set-up. If subject contains more than 3 exclamation marks, filter to trash.

Bounce all From = hotmail.com
Hotmail is a great service and used to be the coolest email to have. Okay, for the the first 6 months of 1996 when they launched (yeah, 14 years ago!). If you are still using Hotmail you are either 65+, a schoolgirl or just not someone I want to do business with. Well, that is my first instinct when I see a hotmail address. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I would just auto reply to every hotmail.com address with the following illustration:

See the complete illustration at The Oatmeal, it is hilarious.

If text > 3 sentences
When you email me a simple question in a max of 3 lines you can expect an answer within minutes. Got a simple yes/no question? Be prepared for lightspeed replies. Longer than 3 lines? Those are the emails I open and close 6 times and will take days, sometimes weeks, to answer. I would love to have a filter hat automatically replies with the following message:

?Thank you for contacting me. Unfortunately your email was too long and/or contained too many questions. Please only ask me 1 question at a time and preferably in less than 140 characters.?

It won?t ever happen and I wouldn?t want to be that rude, but how cool would it be! One option is to use the ?3 sentences? signature which might educate some of the people you regularly email with.

All questions that can be answered with a Google search
Some people think it is easier to email me with a question than to browse through 10 google search requests. And it is. But it also means I?m doing your work. Before you email me ask yourself if there isn?t a way to ask that question on Google. Or, if you aren?t sure about it why not ask me on Twitter? I can either ignore you there, or retweet your question so one of my followers can answer you. Pretty tough to setup a filter for this one though.

??? ???? ???
I admit that this is actually more a SPAM filter issue, but I have no idea what those characters mean and the only characters I understand are basically the roman alphabet. Anything not written with that is unreadable so might as well go straight to the trash bin. The same goes for Spanish, German, French and pretty much any other language besides Dutch and English. Wouldn?t it be cool if you could set-up a simple auto-reply to all those languages you don?t speak:

?I?m sorry but all I speak is English and Dutch. Please resend your message in one of those languages, or if you were spamming me, please die. Have a great day!?

All newsletters
I would be very happy to filter any email that contains the word ?Newsletter? to a separate folder. No need to delete them right away but just stow away out of sight. Should be easy to do and save me a lot of work. And I know, you could simply unsubscribe to all those newsletter, but you know how that works; a small percentage has a ?one-click-unsubscribe? link, but the others force you to come up with your login details (which you forgot) or at least your email address, which you then have to go find in the headers of the newsletter because you have no idea which one you used to sign up with. Just deleting them is easier.

All notifications
I admit that I got this one done already. I switched off all notifications from Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Quora and all the other cool services that insist on notifying you whenever someone farts in close proximity to your online profile.

If I?m in the mood for that I will just head over to their websites (or fire up their iPhone apps) and check out what is happening. No need to flood my inbox with all that shit.

All ?want to get together for some coffee?? requests
This is a tough one. Some of those you actually like getting (if from = ?Jennifer Lopez? action = ?accept all invitations?) but a lot of those are time wasters. All you want to do is get to work, right? Unfortunately it is really difficult to just say no to those requests. It seems so impolite. An auto-reply like this might help:

?Coffee invitation auto-reply: Hi, I receive a lot of ?coffee drinking invitations? and unfortunately don?t have time for all of them. Please reply with the answers to the following questions: what do you hope to get out of our coffee meeting and how could I benefit from investing an hour of my time into this meeting??

If reply = ?thanks!?
I know it is very polite to say thanks when I answer your question offline and face to face. But in email, when you ask me a question, I answer it and you are happy with it, there really is no need to send an email with nothing but ?Thanks!? in it. Want to thank me? Keep my inbox clean. Really NEED to thank me? Send me a bottle of champagne or some flowers.

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