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Where's My 10 Ghz PC?
An anonymous reader writes "Based on decades of growth in CPU speeds, Santa was supposed to drop off my 10 Ghz PC a few weeks back, but all I got was this lousy 2 Ghz dual processor box -- like it's still 2001...oh please! Dr. Dobbs says the free ride is over, and we now have to come up with some concurrency, but all I have is dollars... What gives?"
People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
According to most predictions we were meant to be enjoying lives of leisure by this point - working a 5-hour week in the paperless office, and driving to work in our hovercars.
Judging from these pictures of the Intel retail boxed heatsink for the Pentium 4 560J (3.6 GHz), by the time we get 10 GHz PCs, the hovercar problem will take care of itself.
Well, not unless he's able to leverage it, because it's impacting the story we have to tell.
Maybe the guy who promised him a 10GHz PC was counting in binary ?
Trolling using another account since 2005.
I think it's going to take a lot of imagineering to fully appreciate the tectonics of a potential paridigm shift.
Mods don't find marketspeak funny, apparently.
Thankfully we've got some proactive synergies and tremendous upside.
"More organs means more human." - Zim
If we put our brains together synergistically, and I'm sure we can reach a solution.
For God's sake, please stop the business-speak!
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche