So in practice what you are saying is clearly within an acceptable margin of true, but is perhaps not clearly stated (you need a 1000 times smaller process, not a 1000 times smaller chip!)
Well of course, it's a ballpark figure, not taking into account what exactly the pipeline does. However, it's not only the size of a transistor that matters. I don't know much about how a processor works (I am a Physicist), but as far as I know data in the form of electricity comes from somewhere (register), goes through some transistors, and then back into a register. If you want a cycle to last around 0.3 nanoseconds (which corresponds to 3.3GHz, close to modern i7's), the entire roundtrip can be at most 0.3ns / c = 9cm. So we still have a little room before the speed of light hits us with a brick wall, but with the current architecture we couldn't possibly have RAM speeds in the multi-gigahertz range.
The speed of light is actually a very important consideration, a signal can only move so far in a single cycle, if you operate at 1000 times faster you exponentially reduce the distance the signal can travel in that time and at a thousand times smaller distance you actually come into some very real physical limitations for the chip size and usefulness of the signal. It isn't that this has no uses, but it does have significant limitations on what this can be useful for.
No, it's not exponential. If you want to have 1000 times shorter cycles, you need a 1000 times smaller chip.
QFT. It's not the same with paintings, but most people find modern (popular) music creative. AFAIK it's not done by robots yet, but most of it is taking samples from other songs, writing lyrics according to known formulas, and autotuning the singer's voice.
He could pay for the whole thing himself, and nobody would buy it. If, on the other hand, he mostly fund it himself through puppets on IGG, it will get widespread praise for breaking all sorts of records, listening to the people. It will also give the idea that people want this, so people will actually want this.
What you say about taking your eyes off the road is correct. However,
Physical controls are preferable for humans because they model the physical world to which we've adapted.
For the younger generations, this isn't true anymore. People who've had a smartphone since their youth are more used to touchscreens. Going back to buttons is about as difficult as the transition to touchscreens was.
There are many situations where you want to do something else just before or after a variable is modified. One example is that you want to verify the new value is in a certain range, or is non-empty, or whatever. Maybe you have to delete the old one before the new one is assigned. A very common example is that you want to notify something else that a value has change. This is used in UI programming, when you want multiple controls/displays to be synchronized. At a certain point, you find out that it's simpler to just writte getters and setters for everything than figure which ones you'll actually need.
This is Merkel. She's the epitome of leading from the back. First, she checks where the masses are running, then she overtakes them, puts herself on the front of the movement and screams "follow me!"
So by definition it takes her a while to find out where everyone is running, she really doesn't want to start early and follow... erh, lead an agenda that doesn't have enough voters behind it.
This is basically what democracy should be about: doing what the people want.
there's no market for the mined resources in space, and it's too expensive to transport them back to earth.
Not really, it's easy to transport stuff from space back to earth. The expensive part is getting things up from Earth to space, which is the problem asteroid mining is trying to solve.
Samsung is not going to leave Apple alone, in the market. Samsung is doing which Dell, HP or Lenovo can't do - creating devices which will make even an Apple user envious (sans software as Mac is simply far better than Windows).
WTF is this? Written by three-year-old Apple fanboy?
Writing Mon$anto would have been to obvious, with NSA spying and all. The editors now have to find subtler ways of saying big corporate corporations are greedy.
Quite right, and when you use your "rewards card", you give them detailed information about your individual buying habits, which is why I delight in the expressions I get when I decline their incessant offers to give me one - "No, thank you. My privacy is worth more to me than the few bucks I would have saved." I mean, slack-jawed, glassy-eyed, totally-don't-get-what-you-mean type stares. It's... "priceless".
Would you care to elaborate on that? This is a common sentiment on Slashdot, but I still don't think it's rational. What is the benefit of knowing that some corporation with millions of customers doesn't know what products you buy? I know there's a warm fuzzy feeling of 'sticking it to the man', but are the other, more tangible benefits?
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So in practice what you are saying is clearly within an acceptable margin of true, but is perhaps not clearly stated (you need a 1000 times smaller process, not a 1000 times smaller chip!)
Well of course, it's a ballpark figure, not taking into account what exactly the pipeline does. However, it's not only the size of a transistor that matters. I don't know much about how a processor works (I am a Physicist), but as far as I know data in the form of electricity comes from somewhere (register), goes through some transistors, and then back into a register. If you want a cycle to last around 0.3 nanoseconds (which corresponds to 3.3GHz, close to modern i7's), the entire roundtrip can be at most 0.3ns / c = 9cm. So we still have a little room before the speed of light hits us with a brick wall, but with the current architecture we couldn't possibly have RAM speeds in the multi-gigahertz range.
The speed of light is actually a very important consideration, a signal can only move so far in a single cycle, if you operate at 1000 times faster you exponentially reduce the distance the signal can travel in that time and at a thousand times smaller distance you actually come into some very real physical limitations for the chip size and usefulness of the signal. It isn't that this has no uses, but it does have significant limitations on what this can be useful for.
No, it's not exponential. If you want to have 1000 times shorter cycles, you need a 1000 times smaller chip.
The much less popular time lord.
A lot of "creativity" is overrated.
QFT. It's not the same with paintings, but most people find modern (popular) music creative. AFAIK it's not done by robots yet, but most of it is taking samples from other songs, writing lyrics according to known formulas, and autotuning the singer's voice.
And what do they create? Text messages and facebook posts, anything else?
Publicity, or at I least I hope so.
He could pay for the whole thing himself, and nobody would buy it. If, on the other hand, he mostly fund it himself through puppets on IGG, it will get widespread praise for breaking all sorts of records, listening to the people. It will also give the idea that people want this, so people will actually want this.
What you say about taking your eyes off the road is correct. However,
Physical controls are preferable for humans because they model the physical world to which we've adapted.
For the younger generations, this isn't true anymore. People who've had a smartphone since their youth are more used to touchscreens. Going back to buttons is about as difficult as the transition to touchscreens was.
Any problem with corporations is a problem with the government.
In a democracy, any problem with the governemnt is a problem with the people.
The summarization of the summary of the summary is left to the reader.
It is better to put changes into functions that are clearly named and preferably documented.
Of course, such functions are commonly called setters. Sometimes you just want to modify one attribute.
There are many situations where you want to do something else just before or after a variable is modified. One example is that you want to verify the new value is in a certain range, or is non-empty, or whatever. Maybe you have to delete the old one before the new one is assigned. A very common example is that you want to notify something else that a value has change. This is used in UI programming, when you want multiple controls/displays to be synchronized. At a certain point, you find out that it's simpler to just writte getters and setters for everything than figure which ones you'll actually need.
This is Merkel. She's the epitome of leading from the back. First, she checks where the masses are running, then she overtakes them, puts herself on the front of the movement and screams "follow me!"
So by definition it takes her a while to find out where everyone is running, she really doesn't want to start early and follow... erh, lead an agenda that doesn't have enough voters behind it.
This is basically what democracy should be about: doing what the people want.
I like to call him Herr Doktor and picture him with a monocle. Then I pretend he's the antagonist.
Do you also scream EXTERMINIEREN?
Arrakis used to have plenty of water, unfortunately all those damn Fremen kept collecting it and hiding it in caves.
Oh, my. Your post has been up for more than a minute, and not down modded to hell? Wow.
Must be upvotes from Civilization players, we've known the real Gandhi for some time.
Well, he did save Hitler.
If you're using PHP, you're a fucking idiot.
FTFY
there's no market for the mined resources in space, and it's too expensive to transport them back to earth.
Not really, it's easy to transport stuff from space back to earth. The expensive part is getting things up from Earth to space, which is the problem asteroid mining is trying to solve.
It's simple, just invert the polarity of the tachyon beam!
Why, oh why, can't somebody other than Apple make a 16:10 laptop?
Once in a while I open TFA, and get this:
Samsung is not going to leave Apple alone, in the market. Samsung is doing which Dell, HP or Lenovo can't do - creating devices which will make even an Apple user envious (sans software as Mac is simply far better than Windows).
WTF is this? Written by three-year-old Apple fanboy?
Writing Mon$anto would have been to obvious, with NSA spying and all. The editors now have to find subtler ways of saying big corporate corporations are greedy.
There will also be a very long list of perfectly unacceptable pages that won't get blocked. That, or they block everything.
Obligatory UF, somehow relevant again.
Except that Dolphin has tabs, and its predecessor Konqueror had tabs for as long as I remember. Windows explorer still doesn't.
Quite right, and when you use your "rewards card", you give them detailed information about your individual buying habits, which is why I delight in the expressions I get when I decline their incessant offers to give me one - "No, thank you. My privacy is worth more to me than the few bucks I would have saved." I mean, slack-jawed, glassy-eyed, totally-don't-get-what-you-mean type stares. It's... "priceless".
Would you care to elaborate on that? This is a common sentiment on Slashdot, but I still don't think it's rational. What is the benefit of knowing that some corporation with millions of customers doesn't know what products you buy? I know there's a warm fuzzy feeling of 'sticking it to the man', but are the other, more tangible benefits?