Hard discs only use around 10, maybe 15 watts, which is fairly paltry compared to most of the other devices in a computer. Just turning down the brightness of your monitor saves about the same. As a percentage of the total power consumption of the average computer, a high estimate might be 12% or so.
I don't think it's a technological limit, but rather an economic one; lack of competition in the high-end CPU market is why you don't see clocks like that. AMD simply have nothing to offer as competition in that domain. There is little doubt in my mind that Intel is capable of making 3.8Ghz and even 4Ghz CPU models, because many people have overclocked the newer 45nm dual-core chips to such levels without much hassle. If memory serves, up until around 3.5Ghz you don't even need anything more than the stock cooling system!
How many Stephen Hawkins are people going to kill in the quest for perfection?
How many tyrants, rapists and murderers will we kill in that quest? This line of reasoning is borne of cherry-picking, as a good or smart person is not in the slightest bit guaranteed. The argument is as invalid as one which holds that people shouldn't reproduce because they might create the next Stalin or serial killer. They might, but you won't know until it doesn't matter anymore.
Remember, on scales like this our intuitive notions just don't work. Planets are almost indestructible, barring events on the scale of a supernova. Think about it; what happens if you blow a planet to pieces, even right from the middle? It's going to reform again due to gravity unless a positively gigantic force is applied. A planet's biosphere may be delicate, but the ball itself is amazingly, massively tough.
/I'm a NJ native and have been documenting the culture and physiology of the resident aliens in NJ for two decades. Trust me on this one. ...Prefect? Ford Prefect?
But why would they think it was a bad thing to expose? The whole "Look what we can do with so little" angle seems appealing; efficiency is something to boast about nowadays.
Hell, maybe even Commodore. I doubt it. Although I was too young to have much knowledge of the company back when I was actually using an Amiga, from what I gather Commodore were the masters of bungling. Check out Ars Technica's series of articles about the rise and fall of the Amiga. They're quite interesting.
...because most recent games I've played, while amazing in appearance, had diabolical storytelling. It's something that really needs to be improved, especially in action games.
The sound and visual quality of games has become incredible, but the stories and the way they're told have not improved much; the contrast in quality is a little striking. If you've played Crysis, Quake 4 or Rainbow Six Vegas and so on, you'll know what I mean. There are counter-examples of course, such as the Half-Life series and, to take an older example, System Shock 2.
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Hard discs only use around 10, maybe 15 watts, which is fairly paltry compared to most of the other devices in a computer. Just turning down the brightness of your monitor saves about the same. As a percentage of the total power consumption of the average computer, a high estimate might be 12% or so.
It is a perfectly spatulant word and the English-speaking world would be metalopulant to finally instructulate it offically.
That better be a synonym of 'sexy'.
Coincidentally, 32 is the number of times this joke has been overused in the last five minutes alone.
Mine is, you insensitive identity-thieving clod!
The "Bundestrojaner" will only be used as a last resort and in defense to terrorism.
Sucker.
We're not bombing them so the news doesn't show the country on a colorful map.
Apparently even that doesn't help too much.
I don't think it's a technological limit, but rather an economic one; lack of competition in the high-end CPU market is why you don't see clocks like that. AMD simply have nothing to offer as competition in that domain. There is little doubt in my mind that Intel is capable of making 3.8Ghz and even 4Ghz CPU models, because many people have overclocked the newer 45nm dual-core chips to such levels without much hassle. If memory serves, up until around 3.5Ghz you don't even need anything more than the stock cooling system!
But I guess I have too much faith in humanity.
These days it seems like any amount is too much.
How many Stephen Hawkins are people going to kill in the quest for perfection?
How many tyrants, rapists and murderers will we kill in that quest? This line of reasoning is borne of cherry-picking, as a good or smart person is not in the slightest bit guaranteed. The argument is as invalid as one which holds that people shouldn't reproduce because they might create the next Stalin or serial killer. They might, but you won't know until it doesn't matter anymore.
The Mormon plugin can help avoid such problems. It takes a lot of CPU to run though.
And people complain Firefox is a RAM hog... What browser does it use?
The PS3 has 224MB of RAM to use (256MB total with 32MB reserved for the OS, and 256MB of VRAM). You'd think it could manage pretty much any website!
Remember, on scales like this our intuitive notions just don't work. Planets are almost indestructible, barring events on the scale of a supernova. Think about it; what happens if you blow a planet to pieces, even right from the middle? It's going to reform again due to gravity unless a positively gigantic force is applied. A planet's biosphere may be delicate, but the ball itself is amazingly, massively tough.
At under 30 kilometers in diameter, they're both miniscule. My understanding is that they're captured asteroids.
You should report this to the DoRD department.
Maybe they just thought you took a wrong turn.
/I'm a NJ native and have been documenting the culture and physiology of the resident aliens in NJ for two decades. Trust me on this one. ...Prefect? Ford Prefect?But why would they think it was a bad thing to expose? The whole "Look what we can do with so little" angle seems appealing; efficiency is something to boast about nowadays.
You can't just ask what someone feels! That makes me angry!
Whoops, modded informative instead of funny. Posting to undo.
...because most recent games I've played, while amazing in appearance, had diabolical storytelling. It's something that really needs to be improved, especially in action games.
The sound and visual quality of games has become incredible, but the stories and the way they're told have not improved much; the contrast in quality is a little striking. If you've played Crysis, Quake 4 or Rainbow Six Vegas and so on, you'll know what I mean. There are counter-examples of course, such as the Half-Life series and, to take an older example, System Shock 2.
Yes! I bought that game just for developers' attitude.
It's my understanding that I think you meant the Department of Redundancy Department, it seems you intended to say.