"In bureaucratic terms it's going well." "The committees are working as along as the chapters are opened technocrats on both sides work very well, but in political terms, its idle,it is not going anywhere."
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
It is not hard to see a lobby from nations squabbling as to who would be the most worthy to be well placed as a priority for such investment and there would be spats as to would have to pay the costs as one nations work force sat idle, waiting for the other(s) to complete their work.
Intel boasted of a power-saving technology that will put power not being used by idle processor cores to work, speeding up those cores that are grunting through heavy-duty tasks.
It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).