'you kidding ?
That thing suck 3.0A 5V DC (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx#component), that's fraking 15W, same as my core2-based laptop in low-power mode, without the LCD turned on. It just has an ARM926EJ-S core [on the market for *years*...] on steroid, previous model required fan-cooling and had heat dissipation issue. Not to say that it uses a 16bits bus to access the RAM...
If I got $200 to spend, I'd rather prefer an OMAP4-based board featuring a Cortex-A9, ala http://pandaboard.org/.
in reality, you will just get more features out of the same die consuming the same amount of power than today. We did great with small CPU, the software we run on them just became full of bloat (not to speak about all the HD crap). That said, Intel's business is to sell you a new CPU every few years, not make it last 15 years.
The french fast-breeder reactor (namely superphenix) was shut down (and started to be dismantled) for political reason in 1998 (12 years ago) (as the green party was part of the governing coalition). Moreover, it had never been built for electricity generation (or any ROI): it was a prototype.
Another fast breeder, phenix is still active (ever thought not currently in operation, and no longer linked to the power grid since 2009). Its power is however much lower (only 250MWe vs 1.2GWe for superphenix).
the more complex theories get, the longer you took to teach them, the less smart people there is to understand them, the less there might be to extend those to fill the void.
In the mean time, we still have to find how to survive.
ps: I'd be happy to read you knew kick-ass theory that will make the impossible today possible tomorrow... oh, what ? you don't have it working ? too bad, we'll still need oil to grow food to feed billions of people (not even all of them today):(
And the man will never fly, of course.
you still don't fly, you just burn oil to propulse an iron can into the sky. Now with a bit of genetic engineering, you can make man able to fly by itself.
I'll have to believe you because I personally can't see that clearly into the future 300,000 years ahead of me.
You don't have to trust me. You have to trust the math unless you can contradict them with a new theory. If a df/dt > 0, that function will at some point equal any positive constant.
Humanity is very different from the animal world, and the difference is that humans are sentient creatures, even though you don't seem to grant them use of that qualifier:-) The way of Morlocks is not the only solution.
I don't do weak science, sorry. Our supposed sentience didn't help us much, yet, to get aware of the problem, and is unlikely to help when the two of us will compete for survival. Because that's only what important at the end, surviving to breed and continue the species.
By many estimates we will run out of accessible oil (and gas) within 100 years, if not earlier. There isn't much time to contemplate. Without oil the society will crumble even if you have infinite energy because oil and gas are raw materials for plastics. Which means you need to stop burning the oil ASAP.
Oil forecast are based on today's consumption, if it raises, it will shorter the supply (humm, exponential growth...), if it lower it will just make the problem happen later. If plastic production start to be a problem, we then have to find a way to exploit our waste and develop recycling like we never did.
Please check your dictionary, "finite" mean "cannot be expand, no matter how much you try to". I know that it might be hard to conceive but you will never travel at more than 299 792 458 m/s. One day or another, there will not be enough resources to feed all mankind, that can be in 30 years or in 300000 years, you cannot go beyond.
That day, if you and me are looking for the same resource, if there is not enough for both of us, the strongest of us will take over the weakest, life worked like that for the past 5 billions years, there is no reason for it to change, humanity is pretty much nothing on this time scale.
In the mean time, we have to keep searching for new source of energy before the current one is depleted. Currently, that's not guaranteed, so we have better keep the current one last as long as possible until we found a replacement. If we don't that will be a real slaughter...
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'you kidding ? That thing suck 3.0A 5V DC (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx#component), that's fraking 15W, same as my core2-based laptop in low-power mode, without the LCD turned on. It just has an ARM926EJ-S core [on the market for *years*...] on steroid, previous model required fan-cooling and had heat dissipation issue. Not to say that it uses a 16bits bus to access the RAM ...
If I got $200 to spend, I'd rather prefer an OMAP4-based board featuring a Cortex-A9, ala http://pandaboard.org/.
in reality, you will just get more features out of the same die consuming the same amount of power than today. We did great with small CPU, the software we run on them just became full of bloat (not to speak about all the HD crap). That said, Intel's business is to sell you a new CPU every few years, not make it last 15 years.
yes, but you can still kill people without guns. As long as the will is there, means is just a detail.
The french fast-breeder reactor (namely superphenix) was shut down (and started to be dismantled) for political reason in 1998 (12 years ago) (as the green party was part of the governing coalition). Moreover, it had never been built for electricity generation (or any ROI): it was a prototype. Another fast breeder, phenix is still active (ever thought not currently in operation, and no longer linked to the power grid since 2009). Its power is however much lower (only 250MWe vs 1.2GWe for superphenix).
the more complex theories get, the longer you took to teach them, the less smart people there is to understand them, the less there might be to extend those to fill the void. :(
In the mean time, we still have to find how to survive.
ps: I'd be happy to read you knew kick-ass theory that will make the impossible today possible tomorrow... oh, what ? you don't have it working ? too bad, we'll still need oil to grow food to feed billions of people (not even all of them today)
And the man will never fly, of course.
you still don't fly, you just burn oil to propulse an iron can into the sky. Now with a bit of genetic engineering, you can make man able to fly by itself.
I'll have to believe you because I personally can't see that clearly into the future 300,000 years ahead of me.
You don't have to trust me. You have to trust the math unless you can contradict them with a new theory. If a df/dt > 0, that function will at some point equal any positive constant.
Humanity is very different from the animal world, and the difference is that humans are sentient creatures, even though you don't seem to grant them use of that qualifier :-) The way of Morlocks is not the only solution.
I don't do weak science, sorry. Our supposed sentience didn't help us much, yet, to get aware of the problem, and is unlikely to help when the two of us will compete for survival. Because that's only what important at the end, surviving to breed and continue the species.
By many estimates we will run out of accessible oil (and gas) within 100 years, if not earlier. There isn't much time to contemplate. Without oil the society will crumble even if you have infinite energy because oil and gas are raw materials for plastics. Which means you need to stop burning the oil ASAP.
Oil forecast are based on today's consumption, if it raises, it will shorter the supply (humm, exponential growth...), if it lower it will just make the problem happen later. If plastic production start to be a problem, we then have to find a way to exploit our waste and develop recycling like we never did.
Please check your dictionary, "finite" mean "cannot be expand, no matter how much you try to". I know that it might be hard to conceive but you will never travel at more than 299 792 458 m/s. One day or another, there will not be enough resources to feed all mankind, that can be in 30 years or in 300000 years, you cannot go beyond. That day, if you and me are looking for the same resource, if there is not enough for both of us, the strongest of us will take over the weakest, life worked like that for the past 5 billions years, there is no reason for it to change, humanity is pretty much nothing on this time scale. In the mean time, we have to keep searching for new source of energy before the current one is depleted. Currently, that's not guaranteed, so we have better keep the current one last as long as possible until we found a replacement. If we don't that will be a real slaughter...
It already exist: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8417344656.html. However, their solution runs a custom RTOS for modem control and a Linux kernel for the multimedia and MMI.