The thing is a damned pentium can handle both, why can't a dual core do it when it has one core to do the networking and one to play music? It might not be an earth shattering end of the world type problem, but it is still a problem that should not exist. Why the hell can a system that is 50+ times more powerfull than an old junker running windows 98 not be able to do the same tasks without slowdown? This is one of the reasons why I haven't upgraded from XP to vista yet, because even with a modern system it offers nothing that would improve my productivity and gaming, only things that would slow it down. Here's hoping developers hold off on making DX10 only games until MS gets their act together and fixes stupid bugs/slowdowns like this.
Yes that link says you can read the stress on the oxides surrounding the capacitors in the ram using special test modes, but you should read that last line: if it's cooled it can last weeks INSTEAD OF HOURS, so it would only last a few hours unless specialy preserved. Also,that article is over 11 years old, the capacitors and the methods of making them have changed since then.
There is no way the total makeup of a person could be reduced to "a couple megabytes", the human genome alone is made up of 3.2 billion base pairs, then you would also need to store the exact makeup, charge and location of every cell in the human brain, as well as the current state of every cell in your body, also the chemical makeup of every chemical flowing through your body. Also, while much of it would be repeated, many of the cells are of different shape/size/age. Just storing the positions of all the pieces would take up a ridiculous amount of space, no matter what compression is used.
If my father built a house and sold it, does that give me the right to claim rent on it after his death? No. If an artist wants to provide for his children, he should have to set money asside from the money he makes from his JOB, and put it into savings, investments etc... just like every other working parent in the world, and not just have some perpetual money machine giving their child and grandchildren everything they will ever need. Those kids should have to go forth into the world and earn their own living and live their own lives, not just have everything handed to them on a silver platter.
I seriously doubt that modern societies culture of movies & games are destroying childhood for our kids, and rather believe it is causing the death of adulthood. No matter how bad kids want to copy adult fashion, play the latest game or watch the latest movie. Thats what kids have done since the dawn of time: They copy adults and play games and listen to stories. Heck, I doubt there are many people who can say they became adults from playing games and watching movies. They are learning at an accelerated pace compared to adults, and as such tend to go through material a lot faster and have a greater need for stimulation.
100 Years ago kids were expected to help with the parents work, and it wasn't uncommon for a teenager to have to take care of his whole family do to death of parents etc... It's only in the past century that we have had the luxury to try and give our children as care free a childhood as possible. On the other hand, as our society progresses, you have more and more adults spending more and more time and money on leisure activies. Some studies have shown that, especialy in fields where constant learning and updating is a must, that the usual maturing and stabilizing of the mind in adulthood is being slowed or delayed to allow for more mental flexibility and quicker learning. So I seriously doubt that our media centered society is robing our children of thier childhood.
This will have a minimal effect on piracy, since all it will stop is people copying a disc they already own/rented, in which case they probably wont buy another copy. Most of the "lost revenue" the *AA claims they are losing are from people who are getting copies of the movie/song without ever paying to get/rent the original, people who download it off the internet. And anyone with a video capture card/soundcard and a little know how can easily get arround any copy protection currently in existence, including recording video from a gamecube. All it takes is 1 person to be able to copy it onto the net at high quality, file trading will do the rest.
Rockstar SHOULD have just come out and said that the content is tame and is only accessible by modifiying or going through a rigourous process of cheatcodes and bugs to get to. I'm sure since at some point they intended to release it as part of the game and knew about rating boards ahead of time that the "hot coffee" is hardly XXX crazy monkey sex.
Besides, it's not the first game to do this, in God of War there are several women who are toppless, and you can sleep with two topless prostitutes at the begining for bonus experience. It switches to a shot of the endtable at the head of the bed with an urn, you have to knock the urn off the table by shaking the headboard by hitting the keys that come up on screen, and you hear the women moaning in the backround the whole tim.
Bittorent is designed for a massive swarm of people all downloading the same file at the same time. It won't die under these circumstances, it will thrive. The more people you have downloading the file, the more people are sharing the file. The reason bittorent is faster is because it forces you to share with others, and doesnt allow you to get away with not sharing the file like many p2p programs, where many people with "slow" connections or a cap on their monthly bandwidth turn off their uploads. Thats why so many people download off one guy with other p2p programs, because the file is never shared by so many people who dowload it, the few people who are sharing their copy's queue is swamped.
It's all because of bittorents tit for tat system, where if the seeders are swamped, you'll usualy get your upload speed returned to you from the other peers you are downloading with. If you upload at 5k/s, you download at 5k/s,but if you can do 30k/s you usualy get 30k/s. You swap the pieces you have for pieces your missing with the other downloaders. Your client remembers the people who traded with it succesfully and tries to make further trades with these people since your client can confirm that they are uploading, and thus you will get something in return. Meanwhile the seeders are feeding the rarest pieces to the people it sees as the ones who upload the most to others, and they swap with others and so on, until everyone has a complete copy.
I seriously doubt that they keep the cached pages in ram. They probably keep them on hard drives, and only keep the keyword index in ram. I mean, how often is the cached pages feature used in comparison with the search feature.
I can see it now, a month after they release the first computer running with this technology, somebody is going to write a virus that sets all the values in the pc to 1, creating a magnet and wipeing out my disks and monitor. I don't know about you guys, but considering that most of this technology requires a magnetic field to set up the electron spins makes me a little nervous about installing anything using this technology with conventional electronics, where magnetism causes some very strange problems. And i doubt we will be seing a chip using lasers to change the spins due to the fact that it would be rather tough to install millions of lasers on a chip, not to mention the power draw/heat problems it would cause.
Just because the speeds of processors are running so fast does not mean that the latest and greatest today will be outdate tomorow. Outdated is when the processor will no longer run the latest programs at an acceptable speed. Personaly, I don't care if my chip is the fastest or the slowest on the market, as long as it runs my programs at a good speed.
How would reading the article support the magazine? You don't give them any money, if fact you take up some of their bandwidth, which will cost them a bit. And choosing not to read an article in a magazine because it has a few sections that you object to is about as smart as an ostrich sticking it's head in the sand. It's people like you who have books banned from schools because they object to the content. We had to read a book in one of my grade 13 french classes (I live and Canada, and either a year of college or grade 13 was required to go to University) , and one of the pages had been ripped out because of sexual content. One of the students got the book from the local library, photocopied it and passed it arround. Quite frankly, it beat arround the bush so much that only 4 of us (out of 15) actualy understood that they were having foreplay. Quite frankly, some people take these things way to far. To demean someone means to make them come out with less confidence, respect, etc... Just because you don't want to have a photo taken of you naked does not mean others do not. No one forces them to, it is a choice they made. Saying they can't is just like saying they can't vote, or wear pants, or work. It is their right to do so. Well that's enough rambling on about that subject. I may also have a more relaxed look on female nudity because they can legaly go topless in Canada. Hmm, too little sleep and to much thought make brain tired. Me go sleep now.
Just because you make something easier to use does not mean you have to dumb it down. If you can hide the majority of the config file editing & system configuration behind a GUI it would be great. If we could have something like Windows (although without the security holes, bugs etc...) on top for those who are learning linux, and those who know what they are doing can go in and edit the config files manualy, it would be great.
Considering the low size/heat/power usage of these chips, they could probably squeeze several of these into one chip. Imagine a 3Ghz proccessor that can run x86/macintosh/alpha/etc.. with just a change of software.
I'm Canadian, so my money isn't worth much, and I'm just out of college and just started working, and I could still afford to buy about 4 of the high end ones per month. (minus motherboard & extra hardware requirements). My computer would go up by approx. 2.4 Ghz per month!
I may be wrong, but I doubt that linux running on the 700Mhz chip will run at the same speed as on the 400Mhz. The chip only translates those codes that are used, so if there is no 16 bit operations, it will not do anything in 16 bit. 16bit support itself does not slow down a system, it is 16 bit instructions that slow down a system because they are less flexible. And besides, if optimizing for 16bit brought your computer from a 400Mhz to a 700Mhz, intel would have optimized their chips for 16bit and windows would be almost twice as fast(PIII 1400Mhz anybody?). The 16bit optimizations are just designed so that the parts of windows that are still 16bit, and hence slower, will be less of a bottleneck. It might cause a slight decrease in speed for a fully 32bit operating system, but linux should still far outperform windows.
I may be wrong, but I doubt that linux running on the 700Mhz chip will run at the same speed as on the 400Mhz. The chip only translates those codes that are used, so if there is no 16 bit operations, it will not do anything in 16 bit. 16bit support itself does not slow down a system, it is 16 bit instructions that slow down a system because they are less flexible. And besides, if switching from 32bit to a 16 bit operating system brought your computer from a 400Mhz to a 700Mhz, we would all be running dos and windows 3.11.
I have never seen a bunch of bitches (no offense to any of the women out there). There is no reason why they have to release anything. They will release it when they are good and ready, and no amount of bitching on your part will speed the process. We should just apreciate the fact that they are willing to open-source it when they are happy with the final product. If it's taking them to long for you, write your own damn scripts. Hi, it's nice to meet'cha, I'd like to treat you to a bagel and a slice of pizza, But i'm broke as fuck and don't get payed to the first of next month, but if you want to join me i'm about to roll my next blunt, but I don't have no weed, no philies or no papers, plus i'm a rapist & repeated prison escapist, so give me all your money, and don't try to outrun me, 'cause you know you stinkin ass is too fat to outrun me. -Eminem
Because the Qubit is can be "in between" on and off, it would allow one Qubyte to store every number between 0-255, or just a couple of them. This way, you could multiply all the numbers in one by another qubyte, which on a 32-bit quantum couputer would allow you to multiply up to 4294967296 numbers in a single opperation, although you would have to use every number between one and 4294967296 to get that many. As you can see, a working quantum computer would blow conventional computers out of the water. The only problem is when your working this small, just about anything could interfere with the processor, and as far as I know the most advanced working quantum coputer can and & or two bits together.
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The thing is a damned pentium can handle both, why can't a dual core do it when it has one core to do the networking and one to play music? It might not be an earth shattering end of the world type problem, but it is still a problem that should not exist. Why the hell can a system that is 50+ times more powerfull than an old junker running windows 98 not be able to do the same tasks without slowdown? This is one of the reasons why I haven't upgraded from XP to vista yet, because even with a modern system it offers nothing that would improve my productivity and gaming, only things that would slow it down. Here's hoping developers hold off on making DX10 only games until MS gets their act together and fixes stupid bugs/slowdowns like this.
Yes that link says you can read the stress on the oxides surrounding the capacitors in the ram using special test modes, but you should read that last line: if it's cooled it can last weeks INSTEAD OF HOURS, so it would only last a few hours unless specialy preserved. Also ,that article is over 11 years old, the capacitors and the methods of making them have changed since then.
There is no way the total makeup of a person could be reduced to "a couple megabytes", the human genome alone is made up of 3.2 billion base pairs, then you would also need to store the exact makeup, charge and location of every cell in the human brain, as well as the current state of every cell in your body, also the chemical makeup of every chemical flowing through your body. Also, while much of it would be repeated, many of the cells are of different shape/size/age. Just storing the positions of all the pieces would take up a ridiculous amount of space, no matter what compression is used.
If my father built a house and sold it, does that give me the right to claim rent on it after his death? No. If an artist wants to provide for his children, he should have to set money asside from the money he makes from his JOB, and put it into savings, investments etc... just like every other working parent in the world, and not just have some perpetual money machine giving their child and grandchildren everything they will ever need. Those kids should have to go forth into the world and earn their own living and live their own lives, not just have everything handed to them on a silver platter.
I seriously doubt that modern societies culture of movies & games are destroying childhood for our kids, and rather believe it is causing the death of adulthood. No matter how bad kids want to copy adult fashion, play the latest game or watch the latest movie. Thats what kids have done since the dawn of time: They copy adults and play games and listen to stories. Heck, I doubt there are many people who can say they became adults from playing games and watching movies. They are learning at an accelerated pace compared to adults, and as such tend to go through material a lot faster and have a greater need for stimulation.
100 Years ago kids were expected to help with the parents work, and it wasn't uncommon for a teenager to have to take care of his whole family do to death of parents etc... It's only in the past century that we have had the luxury to try and give our children as care free a childhood as possible. On the other hand, as our society progresses, you have more and more adults spending more and more time and money on leisure activies. Some studies have shown that, especialy in fields where constant learning and updating is a must, that the usual maturing and stabilizing of the mind in adulthood is being slowed or delayed to allow for more mental flexibility and quicker learning. So I seriously doubt that our media centered society is robing our children of thier childhood.
This will have a minimal effect on piracy, since all it will stop is people copying a disc they already own/rented, in which case they probably wont buy another copy. Most of the "lost revenue" the *AA claims they are losing are from people who are getting copies of the movie/song without ever paying to get/rent the original, people who download it off the internet. And anyone with a video capture card/soundcard and a little know how can easily get arround any copy protection currently in existence, including recording video from a gamecube. All it takes is 1 person to be able to copy it onto the net at high quality, file trading will do the rest.
Rockstar SHOULD have just come out and said that the content is tame and is only accessible by modifiying or going through a rigourous process of cheatcodes and bugs to get to. I'm sure since at some point they intended to release it as part of the game and knew about rating boards ahead of time that the "hot coffee" is hardly XXX crazy monkey sex.
Besides, it's not the first game to do this, in God of War there are several women who are toppless, and you can sleep with two topless prostitutes at the begining for bonus experience. It switches to a shot of the endtable at the head of the bed with an urn, you have to knock the urn off the table by shaking the headboard by hitting the keys that come up on screen, and you hear the women moaning in the backround the whole tim.
Bittorent is designed for a massive swarm of people all downloading the same file at the same time. It won't die under these circumstances, it will thrive. The more people you have downloading the file, the more people are sharing the file. The reason bittorent is faster is because it forces you to share with others, and doesnt allow you to get away with not sharing the file like many p2p programs, where many people with "slow" connections or a cap on their monthly bandwidth turn off their uploads. Thats why so many people download off one guy with other p2p programs, because the file is never shared by so many people who dowload it, the few people who are sharing their copy's queue is swamped.
It's all because of bittorents tit for tat system, where if the seeders are swamped, you'll usualy get your upload speed returned to you from the other peers you are downloading with. If you upload at 5k/s, you download at 5k/s,but if you can do 30k/s you usualy get 30k/s. You swap the pieces you have for pieces your missing with the other downloaders. Your client remembers the people who traded with it succesfully and tries to make further trades with these people since your client can confirm that they are uploading, and thus you will get something in return. Meanwhile the seeders are feeding the rarest pieces to the people it sees as the ones who upload the most to others, and they swap with others and so on, until everyone has a complete copy.
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I seriously doubt that they keep the cached pages in ram. They probably keep them on hard drives, and only keep the keyword index in ram. I mean, how often is the cached pages feature used in comparison with the search feature.
I can see it now, a month after they release the first computer running with this technology, somebody is going to write a virus that sets all the values in the pc to 1, creating a magnet and wipeing out my disks and monitor. I don't know about you guys, but considering that most of this technology requires a magnetic field to set up the electron spins makes me a little nervous about installing anything using this technology with conventional electronics, where magnetism causes some very strange problems. And i doubt we will be seing a chip using lasers to change the spins due to the fact that it would be rather tough to install millions of lasers on a chip, not to mention the power draw/heat problems it would cause.
I would not trust Windows with my toilet. It overflows enough as it is.
Just because the speeds of processors are running so fast does not mean that the latest and greatest today will be outdate tomorow. Outdated is when the processor will no longer run the latest programs at an acceptable speed. Personaly, I don't care if my chip is the fastest or the slowest on the market, as long as it runs my programs at a good speed.
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How would reading the article support the magazine? You don't give them any money, if fact you take up some of their bandwidth, which will cost them a bit. And choosing not to read an article in a magazine because it has a few sections that you object to is about as smart as an ostrich sticking it's head in the sand. It's people like you who have books banned from schools because they object to the content. We had to read a book in one of my grade 13 french classes (I live and Canada, and either a year of college or grade 13 was required to go to University) , and one of the pages had been ripped out because of sexual content. One of the students got the book from the local library, photocopied it and passed it arround. Quite frankly, it beat arround the bush so much that only 4 of us (out of 15) actualy understood that they were having foreplay. Quite frankly, some people take these things way to far. To demean someone means to make them come out with less confidence, respect, etc... Just because you don't want to have a photo taken of you naked does not mean others do not. No one forces them to, it is a choice they made. Saying they can't is just like saying they can't vote, or wear pants, or work. It is their right to do so. Well that's enough rambling on about that subject. I may also have a more relaxed look on female nudity because they can legaly go topless in Canada. Hmm, too little sleep and to much thought make brain tired. Me go sleep now.
Just because you make something easier to use does not mean you have to dumb it down. If you can hide the majority of the config file editing & system configuration behind a GUI it would be great. If we could have something like Windows (although without the security holes, bugs etc...) on top for those who are learning linux, and those who know what they are doing can go in and edit the config files manualy, it would be great.
Some of us have actual work to do and can't spend all hours of our day surfing all the computer news sites to see if one has a new tidbit.
Considering the low size/heat/power usage of these chips, they could probably squeeze several of these into one chip. Imagine a 3Ghz proccessor that can run x86/macintosh/alpha/etc.. with just a change of software.
I'm Canadian, so my money isn't worth much, and I'm just out of college and just started working, and I could still afford to buy about 4 of the high end ones per month. (minus motherboard & extra hardware requirements). My computer would go up by approx. 2.4 Ghz per month!
I may be wrong, but I doubt that linux running on the 700Mhz chip will run at the same speed as on the 400Mhz. The chip only translates those codes that are used, so if there is no 16 bit operations, it will not do anything in 16 bit. 16bit support itself does not slow down a system, it is 16 bit instructions that slow down a system because they are less flexible. And besides, if optimizing for 16bit brought your computer from a 400Mhz to a 700Mhz, intel would have optimized their chips for 16bit and windows would be almost twice as fast(PIII 1400Mhz anybody?). The 16bit optimizations are just designed so that the parts of windows that are still 16bit, and hence slower, will be less of a bottleneck. It might cause a slight decrease in speed for a fully 32bit operating system, but linux should still far outperform windows.
I may be wrong, but I doubt that linux running on the 700Mhz chip will run at the same speed as on the 400Mhz. The chip only translates those codes that are used, so if there is no 16 bit operations, it will not do anything in 16 bit. 16bit support itself does not slow down a system, it is 16 bit instructions that slow down a system because they are less flexible. And besides, if switching from 32bit to a 16 bit operating system brought your computer from a 400Mhz to a 700Mhz, we would all be running dos and windows 3.11.
Any Kid who grows up looking up to me will be pretty messed up.
I have never seen a bunch of bitches (no offense to any of the women out there). There is no reason why they have to release anything. They will release it when they are good and ready, and no amount of bitching on your part will speed the process. We should just apreciate the fact that they are willing to open-source it when they are happy with the final product. If it's taking them to long for you, write your own damn scripts. Hi, it's nice to meet'cha, I'd like to treat you to a bagel and a slice of pizza, But i'm broke as fuck and don't get payed to the first of next month, but if you want to join me i'm about to roll my next blunt, but I don't have no weed, no philies or no papers, plus i'm a rapist & repeated prison escapist, so give me all your money, and don't try to outrun me, 'cause you know you stinkin ass is too fat to outrun me. -Eminem
Because the Qubit is can be "in between" on and off, it would allow one Qubyte to store every number between 0-255, or just a couple of them. This way, you could multiply all the numbers in one by another qubyte, which on a 32-bit quantum couputer would allow you to multiply up to 4294967296 numbers in a single opperation, although you would have to use every number between one and 4294967296 to get that many. As you can see, a working quantum computer would blow conventional computers out of the water. The only problem is when your working this small, just about anything could interfere with the processor, and as far as I know the most advanced working quantum coputer can and & or two bits together.