Then why do all Intel CPU's, except a very small amount of xeon CPU's, have only 4 cores max, even the new Ivy Bridge ones to be released this year, even though 5 years ago they also had chips with 4 cores already?
After all, there were rumors about a space game by Notch before. So I think only the name is the April fools part, and later the game will be announced with its true name!
CRT's really are rare now afaik. I don't think you can buy one in a regular electronics shop, and last time I used one is years ago. You must have a really good one!
Dial up modems: long time no see. Depends on where you live I suppose?
Floppies: I still put a floppy drive in my previous PC, but didn't anymore in my newest because I never actually used the floppy drive of that previous PC. What do you still use it for? It's useless to me because most old floppies lost their data anyway...
Wired phone: agreed, still pretty common.
TV sign off anthem: Not in my country afaik (in Europe)
The only reason why I'd want an eBook reader (I don't have one yet btw), would be because with a waterproof cover it'd allow you to read while taking a bath without the danger of destroying your paper book if you'd accidently drop it. More efficient usage of your time!
In general, I understand what I read more better and much faster when reading from paper than from a screen.
The retina of the eye is full of cells. These cells send signals to the brain. The brain is apparently somehow able to know which type of cell sends each signal, otherwise it wouldn't be able to distinguish between the R, G and B signals. How does this connection actually work? Since, when there are 4 types of cells, apparently the brain is able to use those 4 types just as well. So it doesn't seem the brain, in its just born state, is already designed to accept a certain amount of color types, it looks like it's somehow able to work with whatever input is available to it, where this input is a random messy combination of input signals from a whole retina full of cells of N different types...
Maybe the brain somehow figures out that certain cells send signals only in certain colored lighting conditions, and make something out of that? But I also thought that the retina already does some processing of the signals from the cells, so how is that one able to do it correctly even if someone has 4 types of cells? Is its processing color independent maybe?
What makes this material different from that of our solar system? It's got the same kind of atoms. And why do they say *that* material is what we're made from? As far as I'm aware, we're made from the material of *our* solar system, not that of another.
Oh yeah wait I know the answer to my why question: that was the whole point of this thing, to keep the same weekdays all the time, and that's why they can only work with extra weeks:)
Well, the extra day could have a different name outside of the 7-day cycle:p But why bother.
Why a week every 5-6 years? Why not spread this week over multiple years, and toy with an extra day at the end of some years instead? Seriously, doing a whole week of difference every now and then seems very inconvenient. What will it be, a work week or not? Stop the economy for a week? Or if not, what month is it part of?
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Just use a katapult!
What if you don't have enough room for both a fridge and a tv set?
Then you see an IDE in your IDE, in which you could create another IDE, and ...
Linux existed in 1991. But Tux only in 1996. So what, I wasn't very serious in my post.
The drawing of the device shows a clock that looks like a penguin in the bottom left. Maybe it ran Linux? :D
Then why do all Intel CPU's, except a very small amount of xeon CPU's, have only 4 cores max, even the new Ivy Bridge ones to be released this year, even though 5 years ago they also had chips with 4 cores already?
Does each grain need a battery (I hope not)? Or how do they get power to do this communication and so on?
After all, there were rumors about a space game by Notch before. So I think only the name is the April fools part, and later the game will be announced with its true name!
I hope, at least, the game looks so great...
If it's open, it's not really magical anymore...
CRT's really are rare now afaik. I don't think you can buy one in a regular electronics shop, and last time I used one is years ago. You must have a really good one!
Dial up modems: long time no see. Depends on where you live I suppose?
Floppies: I still put a floppy drive in my previous PC, but didn't anymore in my newest because I never actually used the floppy drive of that previous PC. What do you still use it for? It's useless to me because most old floppies lost their data anyway...
Wired phone: agreed, still pretty common.
TV sign off anthem: Not in my country afaik (in Europe)
They have been in the rubber business once so ...
Rather than one single page which you can read in one go?
Maybe trying to apply a series of successive ticks and tocks is too simple and the truth is more complicated?
Yes, they do. There are kids building programmable computers with redstone in minecraft. How more abstract can you get?
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/67-redstone/
The only reason why I'd want an eBook reader (I don't have one yet btw), would be because with a waterproof cover it'd allow you to read while taking a bath without the danger of destroying your paper book if you'd accidently drop it. More efficient usage of your time!
In general, I understand what I read more better and much faster when reading from paper than from a screen.
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It's a Moonquake!
But if Intel is going to focus on low power mobile stuff, who's going to make *awesome* desktop CPU's then? :(
The retina of the eye is full of cells. These cells send signals to the brain. The brain is apparently somehow able to know which type of cell sends each signal, otherwise it wouldn't be able to distinguish between the R, G and B signals. How does this connection actually work? Since, when there are 4 types of cells, apparently the brain is able to use those 4 types just as well. So it doesn't seem the brain, in its just born state, is already designed to accept a certain amount of color types, it looks like it's somehow able to work with whatever input is available to it, where this input is a random messy combination of input signals from a whole retina full of cells of N different types...
Maybe the brain somehow figures out that certain cells send signals only in certain colored lighting conditions, and make something out of that? But I also thought that the retina already does some processing of the signals from the cells, so how is that one able to do it correctly even if someone has 4 types of cells? Is its processing color independent maybe?
What makes this material different from that of our solar system? It's got the same kind of atoms. And why do they say *that* material is what we're made from? As far as I'm aware, we're made from the material of *our* solar system, not that of another.
Then what you need is aluminium foil AND a metal tail touching the ground.
I bought it, until they started playing audio fragments in reverse to find hidden messages.
And that was the first part of the video I saw since I just scrolled through it.
The unit of bandwidth is bits/second.
The article mentions a bandwidth of 28 terabytes. Dimensional analysis shows that the unit of that is bits, not bits/s. What does this mean????
Oh yeah wait I know the answer to my why question: that was the whole point of this thing, to keep the same weekdays all the time, and that's why they can only work with extra weeks :)
Well, the extra day could have a different name outside of the 7-day cycle :p But why bother.
Why a week every 5-6 years? Why not spread this week over multiple years, and toy with an extra day at the end of some years instead? Seriously, doing a whole week of difference every now and then seems very inconvenient. What will it be, a work week or not? Stop the economy for a week? Or if not, what month is it part of?