Really? So when did we all get to using optical interconnects? Electricity doesn't travel at the speed of light.
We're not, but even if we were, that's the fundamental limit. Electricity traveling slower than this makes the problem worse.
And even if it did, for your random, uninformed postulation to be true
You've clearly misunderstood his post, so adding insults just makes you look foolish.
we would need evidence that chips could not practically run faster than 3GHz. Unfortunately for you, that is not the case.
No we wouldn't. If it can't be done in one clock cycle, it'll be done in two (or more). Who said anything about this limiting clock speed?
Anyway, at a higher clock speed, the problem becomes even more pronounced. With a 3.8 GHz clock, a signal at the speed of light only travels 7.9 cm during one clock cycle (but let's estimate about 6.5 cm for electricity).
It seems that the installer treats any internal or external, occupied or unoccupied, flash card slot as a hard drive.
Correction: the installer treats anything that Windows assigns a drive letter to as a drive.
Unfortunately, Windows assigns any internal or external, occupied or unoccupied, flash card slot a drive letter.
The solution is to disable the card reader in your device manager till the installation is complete. Or you could do it your way if you really like clicking...
"Denmark, another country that relies heavily on wind power, frequently imports electricity from its energy-rich neighbor Norway when the wind dies down..."
This seems to imply that renewables can't produce all the energy required, but over 99% of Norway's energy is generated by hydroelectric, so they're still using renewable energy.
Oh, I did solve it, but I thought black was playing the wrong move! I realised what I had wrong later last night as I was mixing up yet another lemsip.
In my defense, I'm loaded with the cold at the moment and can't think straight. Someone posted an old school picture on facebook yesterday, and it took me about 3 minutes to figure out which one was me!
If you buy a terabyte sized hard drive, what's your solution if it fails? Presumably you bought it so you could store zillions of pictures, MP3s and movies on the thing... how badly will your day be ruined if it fails?
Hardware Posted by Hemos on Wednesday November 11, @10:11AM from the why-i-could-put-3/4-my-cd-collection dept. Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
As for price drops: I'm not sure whether SSDs can sustain this kind of growth. It's unlikely that Intel et al. are not already using fairly advanced lithography so shrinking down the flash chips isn't going to be easy.
I remember thinking the same thing about CPUs, RAM and HDs! I'm still seeing many stories about new techniques for SSDs being tried, so I actually think they will continue improving for a while yet.
Remember that price is just one advantage of HDDs; storage space is the other. It's unlikely that we're going to see a 3 TB SSD within the next five years.
There's already a 1 TB one available, even if it's insanely expensive, so I'll take that bet. In fact, I'll raise it: I predict there will be a 4 TB SSD for sale before the end of 2012!
Not until someone starts pumping some research Dollars into that technology. Right now, SSDs are developing at a glacial pace.
That's completely backwards. The drop in price per GB for SSDs has been much faster than that of HDs. In fact, if SSDs and HDs continue to drop in $/GB at the same rates they previously have, they'll be equivalent by around 2015.
Of course, that's a big "if", but it does show the progress they're currently making.
(sourced this from some graphs I found a few weeks ago. Google for "dollars per gigabyte" and I'm sure you'll find them)
Newton certainly ruled things out. Regardless of weight or density, organic or inorganic source, soul or soulless, gravity accelerates stuff downward around 10 m/s/s.
I can kind of figure out what you're trying to say here, but it's just so horribly misleading that I'm going to call it Wrong.
My bad, I bow to your personal experience of many previous ice ages.
It's not personal experience, I just know how to read. You should try it sometime.
When you touch a stove and burn your hand, you don't need to keep touching it repeatedly to know it's probably still hot. Hmmm let's see... we've probably had at least a thousand cycles of cooling and warming periods in the last 4.5 billion years, all before man even existed. So what's the probable cause of the one thousand and first ?
Well, of course your stove it hot. It would have been heated by the forest fires, since that's the only way fire has been available for millions of years so that must still be the case, right?
MAN OF COURSE !!! NO OTHER POSSIBLE EXPLANATION !!!
Are you happy now ?
Not really. You clearly don't think it's caused by man, but you seem very reluctant to say what is causing it. Don't be shy, come on and tell us! You're pretty sure it's not CO2 (and I'm not even asking you to explain why the CO2 isn't absorbing extra radiation as it should), you're suggesting it's something natural, so tell us! What is it?
Presumably the same thing that caused the last one... you know, after all the ice melted ?
That's an idiotic conclusion. There are several different reasons why the earth has cooled or heated in the past, so why should the last one be any more likely than any of the others?
What you're really trying to say is that since we don't know for sure what caused that last one, we can't know what's causing this one....which is equally stupid. We're here now and can measure solar radiation, the earth's albedo and know what the earth's orbit is like.
..and a notification pops up to let you know it's been plugged in.
Where is it?
Just there where the notification popped up. Click on it, and click on the device and it opens in Dolphin.
Ah, there. Filddle with something. Loose it. Where is it?
Exactly the same place it was the first time. Click on it and it opens in Dolphin.
Climb, climb, climb the folder hierarchy until you find/whatever/media.
Or just click on the device button on the left in Dolphin.
The down, down, down to you home.
Or just click on the Home button to the left in Dolphin.
You seem to be doing everything in the most difficult way possible and then complaining that it's difficult. The way KDE handles USB drives is by far the best of the mainstream OSs (yes, I use Windows 7 and OSX as well).
The "L" and "R" sounds in Chinese are different than in English (or don't exist?), so Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing English words with those sounds in. That's the joke (look at the names he listed again).
English speakers have a similar difficulty with Scottish Gaelic words, because Gaelic has 3 different "L" sounds and 3 different "R" sounds (used to have 4, but one has been dropped). They get a bit tongue-tied when trying to pronounce these words.
The inherent fear/insecurity that humanity has towards things outside of their control ensures that this, and any other technology of this sort, will go unused and disregarded.
You mean like being in a train, or bus, or aircraft, or train, or basically any vehicle when someone else is driving?
Actually, perhaps a better example is a lift (elevator). When they were first produced there were similar predictions and indeed many people refused to use them, using the stairs instead. Now, though, they're so commonplace we think someone strange if they refuse to use one.
I suspect that these systems will first be introduced as additions to the existing safety systems on modern cars. But I quite fancy a car I can drive to the pub and then it can safely drive me home later!
I think most people agree that the US does not produce the best dance music anymore, so I sort of think you're beating a dead horse.
Beating a dead horse will only give you a crisp beat for about 10 minutes or so; after that it starts to sound a bit "squishy". No wonder you don't produce the best dance music if you can't sort out your percussion.
So you want to be like England, where they can search your car without cause and take you in for weapons possession for having a multitool in your briefcase.
Firstly, they asked permission to search the car and were given it. It says that right there in the article.
Well, that's "A" covered. You can do the rest yourself.
Oh, and before you go on again about other countries, why not go and check how many of your own citizens have been killed by police officers this year. Now compare to other countries. How does it look?
And yet, if any did, they would be shouted down as they were only ordinary people making observations, and not properly accredited Astronomers.
Except, of course, this doesn't happen in real life. There are many amateur scientists in all fields who make valued contributions. It's only the lazy who don't produce any work at all, don't bother learning even the basics of a subject, and yet think their idle speculations are somehow worthy of note, who complain about being shouted down. What they're really whining about is that their ignorant "theories" get ignored.
You obviously do not comprehend the raging contempt for ordinary people shown by your ruling class.
My ruling class? Who would they be? Do they include astronomers?
Well, whoever they are, their contempt is irrelevant: I haven't seen any concerted effort to stop people from educating themselves in science.
How about this? Astronomers agree with the ruling class that a gigantic hoax would have "positive" effects on society.
Unbelievably, there are actually people who believe that this could actually happen! Of course, they're the kind of person who're either too lazy or too stupid to just learn a bit of astronomy and check for themselves, yet are still convinced that they know better than anyone who's actually made the effort. But then, there's no shortage of those.
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So, being so scientifically minded, when was the last time you tried to prove that particular belief wrong?
That's true.
No, they didn't. In fact, they specifically requested that he not be put to death. Their request was denied.
Since priests didn't order the burning of Giordano Bruno, the point is moot.
We're not, but even if we were, that's the fundamental limit. Electricity traveling slower than this makes the problem worse.
You've clearly misunderstood his post, so adding insults just makes you look foolish.
No we wouldn't. If it can't be done in one clock cycle, it'll be done in two (or more). Who said anything about this limiting clock speed?
Anyway, at a higher clock speed, the problem becomes even more pronounced. With a 3.8 GHz clock, a signal at the speed of light only travels 7.9 cm during one clock cycle (but let's estimate about 6.5 cm for electricity).
No he wasn't.
Correction: the installer treats anything that Windows assigns a drive letter to as a drive.
Unfortunately, Windows assigns any internal or external, occupied or unoccupied, flash card slot a drive letter.
The solution is to disable the card reader in your device manager till the installation is complete. Or you could do it your way if you really like clicking...
This seems to imply that renewables can't produce all the energy required, but over 99% of Norway's energy is generated by hydroelectric, so they're still using renewable energy.
Oh, I did solve it, but I thought black was playing the wrong move! I realised what I had wrong later last night as I was mixing up yet another lemsip.
In my defense, I'm loaded with the cold at the moment and can't think straight. Someone posted an old school picture on facebook yesterday, and it took me about 3 minutes to figure out which one was me!
Unless 1.Bh4 b3
I get your point, but you need rid of that queen.
Some things stay the same! From Slashdot, 1998:
I remember thinking the same thing about CPUs, RAM and HDs! I'm still seeing many stories about new techniques for SSDs being tried, so I actually think they will continue improving for a while yet.
There's already a 1 TB one available, even if it's insanely expensive, so I'll take that bet. In fact, I'll raise it: I predict there will be a 4 TB SSD for sale before the end of 2012!
By default, it uses a swap file rather than a dedicated partition.
That's completely backwards. The drop in price per GB for SSDs has been much faster than that of HDs. In fact, if SSDs and HDs continue to drop in $/GB at the same rates they previously have, they'll be equivalent by around 2015.
Of course, that's a big "if", but it does show the progress they're currently making.
(sourced this from some graphs I found a few weeks ago. Google for "dollars per gigabyte" and I'm sure you'll find them)
I can kind of figure out what you're trying to say here, but it's just so horribly misleading that I'm going to call it Wrong.
It's not personal experience, I just know how to read. You should try it sometime.
Well, of course your stove it hot. It would have been heated by the forest fires, since that's the only way fire has been available for millions of years so that must still be the case, right?
Not really. You clearly don't think it's caused by man, but you seem very reluctant to say what is causing it. Don't be shy, come on and tell us! You're pretty sure it's not CO2 (and I'm not even asking you to explain why the CO2 isn't absorbing extra radiation as it should), you're suggesting it's something natural, so tell us! What is it?
That's an idiotic conclusion. There are several different reasons why the earth has cooled or heated in the past, so why should the last one be any more likely than any of the others?
What you're really trying to say is that since we don't know for sure what caused that last one, we can't know what's causing this one....which is equally stupid. We're here now and can measure solar radiation, the earth's albedo and know what the earth's orbit is like.
So my question stands: what's causing this one?
Caused by what?
Just there where the notification popped up. Click on it, and click on the device and it opens in Dolphin.
Exactly the same place it was the first time. Click on it and it opens in Dolphin.
Or just click on the device button on the left in Dolphin.
Or just click on the Home button to the left in Dolphin.
You seem to be doing everything in the most difficult way possible and then complaining that it's difficult. The way KDE handles USB drives is by far the best of the mainstream OSs (yes, I use Windows 7 and OSX as well).
The "L" and "R" sounds in Chinese are different than in English (or don't exist?), so Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing English words with those sounds in. That's the joke (look at the names he listed again).
English speakers have a similar difficulty with Scottish Gaelic words, because Gaelic has 3 different "L" sounds and 3 different "R" sounds (used to have 4, but one has been dropped). They get a bit tongue-tied when trying to pronounce these words.
You mean like being in a train, or bus, or aircraft, or train, or basically any vehicle when someone else is driving?
Actually, perhaps a better example is a lift (elevator). When they were first produced there were similar predictions and indeed many people refused to use them, using the stairs instead. Now, though, they're so commonplace we think someone strange if they refuse to use one.
I suspect that these systems will first be introduced as additions to the existing safety systems on modern cars. But I quite fancy a car I can drive to the pub and then it can safely drive me home later!
What kind of scientific models are you thinking of that aren't mathematical models?
Beating a dead horse will only give you a crisp beat for about 10 minutes or so; after that it starts to sound a bit "squishy". No wonder you don't produce the best dance music if you can't sort out your percussion.
Firstly, they asked permission to search the car and were given it. It says that right there in the article.
Secondly:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Well, that's "A" covered. You can do the rest yourself.
Oh, and before you go on again about other countries, why not go and check how many of your own citizens have been killed by police officers this year. Now compare to other countries. How does it look?
Except, of course, this doesn't happen in real life. There are many amateur scientists in all fields who make valued contributions. It's only the lazy who don't produce any work at all, don't bother learning even the basics of a subject, and yet think their idle speculations are somehow worthy of note, who complain about being shouted down. What they're really whining about is that their ignorant "theories" get ignored.
My ruling class? Who would they be? Do they include astronomers?
Well, whoever they are, their contempt is irrelevant: I haven't seen any concerted effort to stop people from educating themselves in science.
Unbelievably, there are actually people who believe that this could actually happen! Of course, they're the kind of person who're either too lazy or too stupid to just learn a bit of astronomy and check for themselves, yet are still convinced that they know better than anyone who's actually made the effort. But then, there's no shortage of those.