My current CPU is a Conroe architecture Core 2 duo E6700. I'm building an new PC with an Ivy Bridge i7 CPU in a couple months, and it'll definitely offer that kind of performance increase. Successive generations of latest and greatest have always offered marginal improvements at best, but it accumulates once you skip a generation or four.
You've got the ticks and the tocks mixed up. The CPU that introduces a new architecture (ie, Sandy Bridge) is the Tick, and its die shrink (Ivy Bridge) is the Tock.
The difference between the Dragon and other proposed commercial cargo delivery spacecraft is that Dragon is fully pressurised and capable of life support even in cargo configuration. If a person were to sneak into the thing on its test flight, they'd have had a comfortable ride.
No, the biggest obstacle to higher clock speeds is the speed of light. At 1 GHz, information can only propagate around 30cm per processor cycle. If die sizes remain around 1 cm square, it's physically impossible to go above 30 GHz (give or take).
For most of our species' history, the only use of our ideas was as badges of allegiance, since there was no way we knew of to use them on the outside world. "Conservatives" are just stuck in pre-history in the sense that they're refusing to use ideas as anything more than an indicator of allegiance.
People who get the death sentence have a very serious debt to society. Let's ignore for the moment whether or not you agree with what people in China get the death sentence for, or the death sentence in general. Even if you don't like it, you can not deny the reality.
The reality is, the death penalty is plain WRONG, and making it desirable or profitable in any shape or form is unethical at best.
Should they fire the rest of us for every tin foil consiracy theory we believe?
If you announce it clearly, yes. You should also lose all social benefits and be shunned from your circle of (rational) acquaintances and relatives. We, as a species, seriously need to weed out the nutjobs.
The German Wehrmacht (and the other regular branches of the German military in WWII) had little to do with the Nazi party. The only "Nazi" military was the Waffen-SS, whose notable accomplishments include running death camps and overall pathetic performance in actual combat. The American stereotype of branding anything related to Germany in the 1933-1945 era as "Nazi" is just wrong.
How many FLOPS does that get you at peak performance?
Saying the human brain is "more powerful" makes no sense by itself. It's better at certain tasks (like pattern recognition, jumping to conclusions and holding contradictory beliefs) because it's hard-wired to do them. When it has to use general-purpose computing (like when you try to do floating-point math), you'll find most computers a great deal faster and more efficient.
Just about every modern smartphone/tablet is perfectly capable of displaying normal (desktop) websites. Sounds like a waste of effort and campaign money to me.
Because that would give us an excuse for a conventional military strike against them. As long as what they're doing is illegal, they can pretend to be petty gangsters to be dealt with by local law enforcement. Do you really think the our politicians would sit on their hands if the drug cartels tried to seize power and pretend to be a real country?
Well, to be fair, if you're going to use the USSR and the PRC as an example of societies ran by engineers, I'd just like to get right back at you by pointing out Iran and Saudi Arabia as countries ran by irrational morons who consider authority and tradition (which is all religion amounts to) as superior to evidence or proof.
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My current CPU is a Conroe architecture Core 2 duo E6700. I'm building an new PC with an Ivy Bridge i7 CPU in a couple months, and it'll definitely offer that kind of performance increase. Successive generations of latest and greatest have always offered marginal improvements at best, but it accumulates once you skip a generation or four.
You've got the ticks and the tocks mixed up. The CPU that introduces a new architecture (ie, Sandy Bridge) is the Tick, and its die shrink (Ivy Bridge) is the Tock.
1. Speed of light in a wire is at best 0.7c, typically .5c-.65c depending upon the material. So, cut your propagation distances accordingly.
That can be fixed by replacing electronic processors with purely optical electronics.
The difference between the Dragon and other proposed commercial cargo delivery spacecraft is that Dragon is fully pressurised and capable of life support even in cargo configuration. If a person were to sneak into the thing on its test flight, they'd have had a comfortable ride.
No, the biggest obstacle to higher clock speeds is the speed of light. At 1 GHz, information can only propagate around 30cm per processor cycle. If die sizes remain around 1 cm square, it's physically impossible to go above 30 GHz (give or take).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon
Both have had successful flights, and their first flight to the space station is launching in a few weeks.
>adults with imaginary friends
For most of our species' history, the only use of our ideas was as badges of allegiance, since there was no way we knew of to use them on the outside world. "Conservatives" are just stuck in pre-history in the sense that they're refusing to use ideas as anything more than an indicator of allegiance.
People who get the death sentence have a very serious debt to society. Let's ignore for the moment whether or not you agree with what people in China get the death sentence for, or the death sentence in general. Even if you don't like it, you can not deny the reality.
The reality is, the death penalty is plain WRONG, and making it desirable or profitable in any shape or form is unethical at best.
While I agree with the death penalty in theory for murder (and only for intentional murder)
Right, we should kill people who kill people, because killing people is wrong!
Should they fire the rest of us for every tin foil consiracy theory we believe?
If you announce it clearly, yes. You should also lose all social benefits and be shunned from your circle of (rational) acquaintances and relatives. We, as a species, seriously need to weed out the nutjobs.
Allright, I laughed. I speak English without an accent though.
And the Waffen-SS actually had a fairly strong reputation on the Eastern front, and were known as very effective and fierce fighters.
Effective and fierce at killing unarmed peasants, yes.
The German Wehrmacht (and the other regular branches of the German military in WWII) had little to do with the Nazi party. The only "Nazi" military was the Waffen-SS, whose notable accomplishments include running death camps and overall pathetic performance in actual combat. The American stereotype of branding anything related to Germany in the 1933-1945 era as "Nazi" is just wrong.
Valve caters more to the "single 18-40 basement-dweller" demographic, so not really family oriented.
How many FLOPS does that get you at peak performance?
Saying the human brain is "more powerful" makes no sense by itself. It's better at certain tasks (like pattern recognition, jumping to conclusions and holding contradictory beliefs) because it's hard-wired to do them. When it has to use general-purpose computing (like when you try to do floating-point math), you'll find most computers a great deal faster and more efficient.
But it's meant precisely for disposable, non-durable crap that currently only comes in non-biodegradable, chinese-slave made form.
Just about every modern smartphone/tablet is perfectly capable of displaying normal (desktop) websites. Sounds like a waste of effort and campaign money to me.
It's more like having freedom of speech, but anyone who feels like it can revoke it. GPL doesn't restrict freedom, it enforces freedom.
Kill them all, let the autopsy sort them out.
The military's job is fighting wars. Securing peace is the people's and governments' job.
Has that stopped us from interfering with central and south-American countries whose governments we didn't like before?
Because that would give us an excuse for a conventional military strike against them. As long as what they're doing is illegal, they can pretend to be petty gangsters to be dealt with by local law enforcement. Do you really think the our politicians would sit on their hands if the drug cartels tried to seize power and pretend to be a real country?
Well, to be fair, if you're going to use the USSR and the PRC as an example of societies ran by engineers, I'd just like to get right back at you by pointing out Iran and Saudi Arabia as countries ran by irrational morons who consider authority and tradition (which is all religion amounts to) as superior to evidence or proof.
Every religious person has obviously failed to apply sanity to the "should I believe crazy shit?" problem.