If there's a 5% chance that one computer will fail, would that make there a 30% chance that one of six would fail?
With one computer, you have a 95% chance of having a functional computer. With six computers, you have a 1-0.05^6 = 99.999998% chance of having a functional computer.
Luckily, one only need wonder about this if one is so thoroughly ignorant as to not realize that the energy it takes to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen will never be made up by the energy you get out from recombination.
Especially when one of their arguments (an apparent confusion of trademark with copyright) is that the GPL is invalid because it is only selectively enforced.
You don't have to believe it, but it works that way. Reversible computing is an information theoretic problem. You are constrained by the second law of thermodynamics and Shannon's Law of per-bit efficiency.
Of course there will be advances to be made that do not require full reversibility, and I'm sure some trade off of reversibility and entropy will be found which is optimal from an engineering standpoint. It will involve less discarding of gate states, because it will have to. The second law of thermodynamics is a tough nut to crack.
Yeah, it's a shame congress didn't have the opportunity to vote on the DHS restructuring. Oh, wait. They did, and they have had several opportunities to amend the law without the executive branch initiating any further action.
Sorry, but reversible computing is about having N distinct ouputs for N distinct inputs in any logical operation. Think thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, where reversibility is intimately coupled with "no production of entropy" which means "no loss of information."
It is at the information theory and logic level of description where reversible computing must be implemented.
1. Bush, George W. - US President (100%) 2. Bayh, Senator Evan, IN - Democrat (74%) 3. Libertarian Candidate (66%) 4. McCain, Senator John, AZ- Republican (61%) 5. Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (59%) 6. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (58%) 7. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (57%) 8. Dodd, Senator Chris, CT - Democrat (56%) 9. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (56%) 10. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (54%)
It's amazing how being concerned about national security enough to be procative really separates the field.
I am soooo tired of the assumption that the Windows SETUP is the Windows INSTALLER. Have you ever installed WinXP from scratch? It's still the ugly yellow text on blue TEXT INTERFACE. You can't just click next, next, next.
Not true. To set up Windows XP, you just buy a new computer and turn it on.
saying it is more difficult to understand/develop a kernel with a modular approach as opposed to the standard kernel. Microkernels spend lots of time communicating from one piece of the kernel to another where a standard kernel has shared pieces so the communication doesn't have to take place
Then why didn't he just write the kernel in procedural FORTRAN?
Absolutely. The Wall Street Journal has called them "The World's First Mature Fascist State," since they have lasted so much longer than those, uh, other fascist states.
This is one good explanation for why the NSA etc. are putting so much money into quantum computing. They would be pleased as punch with a provable null result, meaning that U.S. encrypted secrets in other hands will likely remain encrypted secrets.
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With one computer, you have a 95% chance of having a functional computer. With six computers, you have a 1-0.05^6 = 99.999998% chance of having a functional computer.
Oh, wait. I thought you said as much heat as the average PC enthusiast. Never mind.
see this and related documents from here.
Luckily, one only need wonder about this if one is so thoroughly ignorant as to not realize that the energy it takes to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen will never be made up by the energy you get out from recombination.
Especially when one of their arguments (an apparent confusion of trademark with copyright) is that the GPL is invalid because it is only selectively enforced.
Of course there will be advances to be made that do not require full reversibility, and I'm sure some trade off of reversibility and entropy will be found which is optimal from an engineering standpoint. It will involve less discarding of gate states, because it will have to. The second law of thermodynamics is a tough nut to crack.
Yeah, it's a shame congress didn't have the opportunity to vote on the DHS restructuring. Oh, wait. They did, and they have had several opportunities to amend the law without the executive branch initiating any further action.
It is at the information theory and logic level of description where reversible computing must be implemented.
There is no phase 2. There is no phase 2!
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Ah, grasshopper: when you understand that the answer is "both" and "neither," then you will be on the path to entanglement.
That depends on what the meaning of IS is.
Uh oh. Public broadcasting better watch out during their next pledge drive.
Yes, you are using fewer capital letters and more lower-case letters by the end of your list.
Yes, I have considered that. It's just that they're wrong.
I meant, "proactive," of course.
XP -> eXPerience?
or
XP -> $\chi \rho$ -> Cairo?
My top 10:
1. Bush, George W. - US President (100%)
2. Bayh, Senator Evan, IN - Democrat (74%)
3. Libertarian Candidate (66%)
4. McCain, Senator John, AZ- Republican (61%)
5. Biden, Senator Joe, DE - Democrat (59%)
6. Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (58%)
7. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (57%)
8. Dodd, Senator Chris, CT - Democrat (56%)
9. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (56%)
10. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (54%)
It's amazing how being concerned about national security enough to be procative really separates the field.
PS: Evan Bayh? WTF?
I hope someone at least left the window rolled down for him.
Not true. To set up Windows XP, you just buy a new computer and turn it on.
Make that employed person.
Then why didn't he just write the kernel in procedural FORTRAN?
Absolutely. The Wall Street Journal has called them "The World's First Mature Fascist State," since they have lasted so much longer than those, uh, other fascist states.
You are so wrong, and stop being so pessimistic. For as long as I can remember, fusion has been only 30 years away.
This is one good explanation for why the NSA etc. are putting so much money into quantum computing. They would be pleased as punch with a provable null result, meaning that U.S. encrypted secrets in other hands will likely remain encrypted secrets.