No More Rebooting?

blankmange writes: "This headline caught my eye: 'The End of Computer Rebooting.' Seems that there has been some new developments in memory technology: The new thin-film technology that could give rebooting the boot is based on resistor logic rather than the traditional transistor logic used in most PCs and other memory-enabled devices. It also is considerably faster than current memory systems and holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files. This is great news, but what am I going to do with the extra hour or so a day?"

Comments

Surely there must be an override...

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Don't people WANT to be able to remove power from a system on occasion and start from scratch?

When your favorite Windoze flavor goes south, for example, and a "proper" shutdown is impossible, the power switch is a harsh but effective alternative. What would happen in this scenario when you CAN'T clear memory to get rid of the infinite loop inside a rogue ring 0 driver?

Are we now going to have a "reset" button for our memory devices? Barring that, I suppose one could always keep a small screwdriver and a pinout of the device handy... hehehe

Re:We already have this...

[swordboy]

No... Using the rate guide for my locale, I come up with a minimum charge of $0.08221 per kWh. Based on a 24-7 use of 300 watts, I come up with nearly $18 per month. That is not cheap but I'd like to know where you get your numbers from.