With read/write times approaching DRAM and this process which only utilizes three conductor layers, yes it will be as soon as fabs figure out how to shrink cell size just a little bit.
I'm sorry to kick a dead dog, as it were, I should never have responded to any of these questions about my question in the first place (for some reason my five most recent comments, regardless of their relation--or lack thereof--to this story, were modded down one point after I responded to the people asking how MRAM might be used in relation to crashing software).
I never proposed it as a solution either, I said people would try to use it as a solution just like people used a lot of memory when it first got really cheap instead of writing well optimized code. I also agree that a more interesting topic will be what good features OSes add, I only wanted to point out that there was a potential abuse in this new and presumably great technology; just like how the bottom falling out of RAM prices in general spawned a lot of bloatware.
Anyway, I'm sorry that I ever put the damned question at the end of the submission in the first place, and I'm sorry if my reply came off as defensive, I'm just not the worlds biggest fan of being called stupid in a public setting.
A lot slower than MRAM and not truly practical as primary memory.
Non-volatile memory has nothing to do with 'protecting from bad programming'
It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean people won't use it to write one good recovery tool and then sloppy code from there on out. This was the original point of my asinine question.
Not really a problem; The memory doesn't get reset but the processor's registers will (unless they use magnetoresistive registers too for some reason). So basically, yes, the memory will have all the same stuff, but the processor wont be looking in the same place to fetch instructions after you reboot it.
The RAM doesn't crash the computer, but if you don't loose everything in RAM when the computer DOES crash for some other reason (by crash I mean something that needs a reboot here, not when your web browser craps out) then there isn't as much of an incentive to write software that doesn't do this.
We need to just forego metric altogether in the US and skip straight to Modern Physics units!
My car tops out at about 0.000000231 c It can travel about 5000000000000 nanometers per tank of gas and it's engine produces around 937500000000000000000000 electron volts per second at the crank.
I know it's been mentioned already that a small m means milli (10^-3) but I'd just like to point out that most people could call up their friend and talk a binary stream to him and have him type it in faster than 200 mbps. The two of you would only have to say and type in a one or a zero once every five seconds to achieve this. Crazy what a little capitalization can do.
Another interesting tidbit, Berkeley Spice doesn't read "M" as mega either, you have to specify "Meg". Much to the disgust of EE students, "M," and, "m," are both interpreted as milli.
I would ALMOST be ok with this happening in the US if there were a licensing structure implemented and people who go through more rigorous licensing procedures get to drive faster and on a wider variety of roads. I think this would significantly reduce the number accidents caused by poor drivers, and it would keep my insurance down because I'd get fewer tickets.
There would also have to be some pretty hefty checks and balances, so to speak, to prevent this from being abused by law enforcement, but the ability to track my stolen car would also be very nice.
Would this put the makers of lo-jacks out of business?
Hardware companies are supposedly taking the value out of software by adopting open source, and software companies are trying to take the value out of hardware by giving it away.
Seems like this will leave Sun in an interesting situation when they can't sell hardware (because Microsoft is giving it away) and they can't sell software (because IBM, et al are offering alternatives to Java Desktop for free).
required to take advantage of new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store.
Did I miss something? If you're running Linux in the first place, what do you care if your iPod can take advantage of the new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store?
I don't think I've ever had a problem getting a sound card to work, and I even had an AST with some weird ass sound card in it for the first computer I ran linux on.
I would think it might be a little more acceptable and almost as unique/cool to use a symbol from another alphabet that has mathematical significance. I'm particularly fond of pi (spelled using the actual greek letter, of course). Another possibility would be aleph-naught (the cardinality of integers if I remember correctly). Names with weird letters and subscripts just seem cool somehow. It's also subversive because a lot of older government databases probably don't do greek or hebrew well.
Teach the kid how to throw a wicked right hook. The other kids will stop making fun of his hair and start cooperating with HIM (the way it should be if he's the smart one) within the week, guaranteed.
Although SCO's actions have attracted some negative attention from the Open Source Community, many High Scool teacers are exhuberant about the company's recent actions. Bob Frampton, High School calculus teacher at Frederick Davis High said of SCO's recent actions, "It's just great, they're literally changing the way we teach mathematics to our future leaders. It's only thanks to SCO that we can ask exciting new problems such as, 'If every day SCO doubles the number of lawsuits they claim to file the following day, how many days will it take before nobody cares?' or, 'If SCO doesn't play this thing out right, how long will it take before the Fed nails them with fraud? Extra Credit: how many board members will get caught? Support your answer by proof.'"
Not just math teachers are thrilled, though. Says Jane Yargood of another local High School, "Darl McBride really deserves a cookie, it's so great that we can teach students about logical fallacies through real world context!" With the end of this somewhat less than momentous case nowhere in sight, it's good to see that some of our educators can find the silver lining in any situation.
Actually, the _nyquist_ freqency would be 20MHz, the maximum you should be able to sample would be 10MHz (1/2 the nyquist freqency). But you're right, you need significantly more than this to prevent fold aliasing. I'd guess ~ 7MHz actual maximum sampling frequency.
. . . In a strange manner of speaking, anyway. It seems to me that it is the West that put Eastern workers in a position to work for so cheap even for such skilled work. Ironically for us, though, it wasn't the average American technology/Engineering work that put them there; we just get the short end of the stick this time. It was all the rich bastards that have been rich for centuries and will continue to be rich because they get the benefit of cheap work out of the people their ancestors shafted. Magically nobody in this country bothers to do anything about--or maybe nobody even manages to see--the real problem: greed begetting more greed amongst this nation's "elite." Man, I'm starting to see wher Karl Marx was comming from. Sorry for sounding like a commie bastard . . .
Imagine if you had to watch Return of the King over wireless. That'd be $35, Probably even rounded up to $40! Damnit, I'd still have to watch it too . . .
I'm a student, so I need to carry more than just my powerbook. I usually carry everything in a Timbuk2 bag and my powerbook inside of that in a sleeve made by Tom Bihn. I've never had any problems and the Timbuk2 bag has room and pockets enough for books, the powerbook, power adapter, a mouse, pens and pencils, headphones, my HP-48GX and more. I really recommend this combo as it has performed very well for me through weather and beatings.
Yeah, but owner had read/write everyone else has read doesn't make as much sense within the context of the book:p. Whoever said humor had to be 100% technically accurate?
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Can I get mine with KC Masterpiece chips?
You think MRAM is practical as primory memory?
With read/write times approaching DRAM and this process which only utilizes three conductor layers, yes it will be as soon as fabs figure out how to shrink cell size just a little bit.
I'm sorry to kick a dead dog, as it were, I should never have responded to any of these questions about my question in the first place (for some reason my five most recent comments, regardless of their relation--or lack thereof--to this story, were modded down one point after I responded to the people asking how MRAM might be used in relation to crashing software).
I never proposed it as a solution either, I said people would try to use it as a solution just like people used a lot of memory when it first got really cheap instead of writing well optimized code. I also agree that a more interesting topic will be what good features OSes add, I only wanted to point out that there was a potential abuse in this new and presumably great technology; just like how the bottom falling out of RAM prices in general spawned a lot of bloatware.
Anyway, I'm sorry that I ever put the damned question at the end of the submission in the first place, and I'm sorry if my reply came off as defensive, I'm just not the worlds biggest fan of being called stupid in a public setting.
Hello. What do you think -hard disks- are?
A lot slower than MRAM and not truly practical as primary memory.
Non-volatile memory has nothing to do with 'protecting from bad programming'
It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean people won't use it to write one good recovery tool and then sloppy code from there on out. This was the original point of my asinine question.
Not really a problem; The memory doesn't get reset but the processor's registers will (unless they use magnetoresistive registers too for some reason). So basically, yes, the memory will have all the same stuff, but the processor wont be looking in the same place to fetch instructions after you reboot it.
The RAM doesn't crash the computer, but if you don't loose everything in RAM when the computer DOES crash for some other reason (by crash I mean something that needs a reboot here, not when your web browser craps out) then there isn't as much of an incentive to write software that doesn't do this.
Touche.
*bows*
Sig sig = new Sig();
No, no, no. It's:
Sig sig;
sig = malloc(sizeof(Sig));
We need to just forego metric altogether in the US and skip straight to Modern Physics units!
My car tops out at about 0.000000231 c
It can travel about 5000000000000 nanometers per tank of gas
and it's engine produces around 937500000000000000000000 electron volts per second at the crank.
It's the wave of the future!
I know it's been mentioned already that a small m means milli (10^-3) but I'd just like to point out that most people could call up their friend and talk a binary stream to him and have him type it in faster than 200 mbps. The two of you would only have to say and type in a one or a zero once every five seconds to achieve this. Crazy what a little capitalization can do.
Another interesting tidbit, Berkeley Spice doesn't read "M" as mega either, you have to specify "Meg". Much to the disgust of EE students, "M," and, "m," are both interpreted as milli.
I would ALMOST be ok with this happening in the US if there were a licensing structure implemented and people who go through more rigorous licensing procedures get to drive faster and on a wider variety of roads. I think this would significantly reduce the number accidents caused by poor drivers, and it would keep my insurance down because I'd get fewer tickets.
There would also have to be some pretty hefty checks and balances, so to speak, to prevent this from being abused by law enforcement, but the ability to track my stolen car would also be very nice.
Would this put the makers of lo-jacks out of business?
Hardware companies are supposedly taking the value out of software by adopting open source, and software companies are trying to take the value out of hardware by giving it away.
Seems like this will leave Sun in an interesting situation when they can't sell hardware (because Microsoft is giving it away) and they can't sell software (because IBM, et al are offering alternatives to Java Desktop for free).
required to take advantage of new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store.
Did I miss something? If you're running Linux in the first place, what do you care if your iPod can take advantage of the new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store?
I hate to be critical, it's a great drawing, but why is the fish smiling?
his ass is about to get eaten!
I don't think I've ever had a problem getting a sound card to work, and I even had an AST with some weird ass sound card in it for the first computer I ran linux on.
Maybe this guy's just an idiot.
Oh wait, they do . . .
Must've been one short report . . .
I would think it might be a little more acceptable and almost as unique/cool to use a symbol from another alphabet that has mathematical significance. I'm particularly fond of pi (spelled using the actual greek letter, of course). Another possibility would be aleph-naught (the cardinality of integers if I remember correctly). Names with weird letters and subscripts just seem cool somehow. It's also subversive because a lot of older government databases probably don't do greek or hebrew well.
Teach the kid how to throw a wicked right hook. The other kids will stop making fun of his hair and start cooperating with HIM (the way it should be if he's the smart one) within the week, guaranteed.
Although SCO's actions have attracted some negative attention from the Open Source Community, many High Scool teacers are exhuberant about the company's recent actions. Bob Frampton, High School calculus teacher at Frederick Davis High said of SCO's recent actions, "It's just great, they're literally changing the way we teach mathematics to our future leaders. It's only thanks to SCO that we can ask exciting new problems such as, 'If every day SCO doubles the number of lawsuits they claim to file the following day, how many days will it take before nobody cares?' or, 'If SCO doesn't play this thing out right, how long will it take before the Fed nails them with fraud? Extra Credit: how many board members will get caught? Support your answer by proof.'"
Not just math teachers are thrilled, though. Says Jane Yargood of another local High School, "Darl McBride really deserves a cookie, it's so great that we can teach students about logical fallacies through real world context!" With the end of this somewhat less than momentous case nowhere in sight, it's good to see that some of our educators can find the silver lining in any situation.
Actually, the _nyquist_ freqency would be 20MHz, the maximum you should be able to sample would be 10MHz (1/2 the nyquist freqency). But you're right, you need significantly more than this to prevent fold aliasing. I'd guess ~ 7MHz actual maximum sampling frequency.
. . . In a strange manner of speaking, anyway. It seems to me that it is the West that put Eastern workers in a position to work for so cheap even for such skilled work. Ironically for us, though, it wasn't the average American technology/Engineering work that put them there; we just get the short end of the stick this time. It was all the rich bastards that have been rich for centuries and will continue to be rich because they get the benefit of cheap work out of the people their ancestors shafted. Magically nobody in this country bothers to do anything about--or maybe nobody even manages to see--the real problem: greed begetting more greed amongst this nation's "elite." Man, I'm starting to see wher Karl Marx was comming from. Sorry for sounding like a commie bastard . . .
Imagine if you had to watch Return of the King over wireless. That'd be $35, Probably even rounded up to $40! Damnit, I'd still have to watch it too . . .
I'm a student, so I need to carry more than just my powerbook. I usually carry everything in a Timbuk2 bag and my powerbook inside of that in a sleeve made by Tom Bihn. I've never had any problems and the Timbuk2 bag has room and pockets enough for books, the powerbook, power adapter, a mouse, pens and pencils, headphones, my HP-48GX and more. I really recommend this combo as it has performed very well for me through weather and beatings.
Yeah, but owner had read/write everyone else has read doesn't make as much sense within the context of the book :p. Whoever said humor had to be 100% technically accurate?
So does that mean only root can execute the commands, but just about anybody can read or write in the pages?