i apologize for attacking your geometry skills. please forgive my grumpyness. i'm studying too long trying to get a grip on routing protocols and different signaling protocols, and my head is going to explode.
while transistor count IS increasing, just slapping on a bunch of cores does NOT linearly the performance most programs. for the overwhelming part of the user experience in the personal computer world, real world performance is doubling every three to four years.
In the past most of them stayed. "America is the land of opportunity," you know? Only now it increasingly isn't. The fact that Chinese are returning home for "a better quality of life" really sticks a fork in that claptrap about how financial freedom brings political freedom doesn't it?
sorry, i can figure out what connection you mean by that, but i don't see how that discredits the theory that if you don't have economic freedom, you don't have freedom at all.
don't tell Kurzweil, but all of tech is slowing down.... especially the most glorified moore's law (i know, i know, it's not a law, and it's about circuit density, etc)
i've been monitoring different computer performance benchmarks over the years, and back in the days up to the P4, double times were about thirty months. now they are up to three years, or more.
the heartrate of the dream is what is slowing down....
some retail stores would setup their demo PCs on white shiny enamel coated shelves, with no mouse pads. there would be a row of people trying to play with these display units, while being frustrated by the mice not working.
used to think xp was bloated, 'till vista came out.
took vista to make xp look good.
gawd, i hated being on the frontlines of customer support when vista came out.
ms could and should have supported and developed 98. if ms could have worked in better flash drive support, added large file support (over 4GB files), and other small things in a service pack or two, it would still make a great home OS.
if you rtfa and look at the videos, you'd see the power output is equivalent to a spark plug spark. i'm sure most of us have been zapped while checking for spark....
what i can't imagine is someone reading this post nearly a day after the article hit the front page.
i used to think that the steps rave organizers went to, to keep it hard for the law to bust, were extreme, and that they were too paranoid, and thought there was no way the cops would be wasting their time on the internet trying to figure out codewords and such.
how ironic that true information freedom will end up being centered in countries such as russia, or countries with less governmental control, such as on the african continent, or south america. hell, so called "unfree" countries such as china, even with it's great internet wall, will become safe havens for data that is heavily regulated by the west.
we went from very simple digital joysticks, to analog joysticks, to analog pressure buttons, and now to multi-axis 3D input. i love it. it's what i've been wishing for since i was a kid.
analog steering wheels probably represent the need perfectly. [well, at least in the racing games that lean to the simulation side as opposed to the arcade side....]
i hope all the next-gen continue to get more nuanced inputs!
what i find most interesting is the order certain songs "go together", like listening to a song from Slayer, followed by, say, "someday i suppose" from the bosstones. when composing songlists, i appreciate how similar songs and moods can flow, but also how the contrast of dissimilar songs can SOMETIMES compliment each other.
a large database could ferret out such instances that might occur frequently in multiple playlists.
i used to like Google News because it brought together all sorts of news from a variety of sources. Now it's front page is filled with stories from the largest of the MSM. Now it is just a direct path from NYT, LAT, and W.P. to your monitor.
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i apologize for attacking your geometry skills. please forgive my grumpyness. i'm studying too long trying to get a grip on routing protocols and different signaling protocols, and my head is going to explode.
you can have economic freedom and STILL not be free, i am not arguing you that.
but if you don't have economic freedom, you are not free, at all.
do you have trouble with the not all rectangles are squares thing too?
while transistor count IS increasing, just slapping on a bunch of cores does NOT linearly the performance most programs. for the overwhelming part of the user experience in the personal computer world, real world performance is doubling every three to four years.
sorry, i can figure out what connection you mean by that, but i don't see how that discredits the theory that if you don't have economic freedom, you don't have freedom at all.
don't tell Kurzweil, but all of tech is slowing down.... especially the most glorified moore's law (i know, i know, it's not a law, and it's about circuit density, etc)
i've been monitoring different computer performance benchmarks over the years, and back in the days up to the P4, double times were about thirty months. now they are up to three years, or more.
the heartrate of the dream is what is slowing down....
it was the prisoner of this generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere_Man_(TV_series)
some retail stores would setup their demo PCs on white shiny enamel coated shelves, with no mouse pads. there would be a row of people trying to play with these display units, while being frustrated by the mice not working.
kinda. sorta. just saying that Kurzweil thinks that somehow computing power will make EVERYTHING get better, exponentially.
please, i know i'm not being exactly accurate, so you Kurzweil worshipers can refrain from any geometric proofs here, thank you.
98 was faster than xp.
xp was faster than vista. a lot.
used to think xp was bloated, 'till vista came out.
took vista to make xp look good.
gawd, i hated being on the frontlines of customer support when vista came out.
ms could and should have supported and developed 98. if ms could have worked in better flash drive support, added large file support (over 4GB files), and other small things in a service pack or two, it would still make a great home OS.
lol
i don't think they will be THAT high powered.
we're not talking Cyclops...
if you rtfa and look at the videos, you'd see the power output is equivalent to a spark plug spark. i'm sure most of us have been zapped while checking for spark....
what i can't imagine is someone reading this post nearly a day after the article hit the front page.
i used to think that the steps rave organizers went to, to keep it hard for the law to bust, were extreme, and that they were too paranoid, and thought there was no way the cops would be wasting their time on the internet trying to figure out codewords and such.
guess i was wrong....
ditto
thanks for fleshing out what was implied.
but i think you have shown even more widespread ironies, going both directions between dramatically different political and cultural spheres.....
how ironic that true information freedom will end up being centered in countries such as russia, or countries with less governmental control, such as on the african continent, or south america. hell, so called "unfree" countries such as china, even with it's great internet wall, will become safe havens for data that is heavily regulated by the west.
it will darn near be just as special as the first time. it's been SO long since we've been there, in person.
the next footprint should be just as protected.
LOL
and i wax nostalgic over the eight-bit NES light gun... Duck Hunt!!!
we went from very simple digital joysticks, to analog joysticks, to analog pressure buttons, and now to multi-axis 3D input. i love it. it's what i've been wishing for since i was a kid.
analog steering wheels probably represent the need perfectly. [well, at least in the racing games that lean to the simulation side as opposed to the arcade side....]
i hope all the next-gen continue to get more nuanced inputs!
Godwin!
Nemesis anyone?
they probably recognized that the DRM actually encouraged us to seek out and download cracked versions....
there IS a comment moderation system on YouTube, and even when i set it to "Show great (+5 or better)", the comments are still atrocious.
i always think of idiocracy (the movie) when i read youtube comments.
wait, I'm an idiot for ever even reading youtube comments.
what i find most interesting is the order certain songs "go together", like listening to a song from Slayer, followed by, say, "someday i suppose" from the bosstones. when composing songlists, i appreciate how similar songs and moods can flow, but also how the contrast of dissimilar songs can SOMETIMES compliment each other.
a large database could ferret out such instances that might occur frequently in multiple playlists.
i know i sound like a jerk, but what else do you think they would be talking about?
i used to like Google News because it brought together all sorts of news from a variety of sources. Now it's front page is filled with stories from the largest of the MSM. Now it is just a direct path from NYT, LAT, and W.P. to your monitor.
Thanks to you both, flowsnake and Colourspace, much appreciated.