Rather than pumping hundreds of millions of greenbacks into improving the PCI bus (which is more than adquate for most tasks today), why aren't people instead trying to reduce the latency on the memory bus? With memory fetches taking more and more CPU cycles, we would benefit greatly from even somewhat slightly reduced memory bus latency.
What will happen to those of us who are running our own individual servers without CERT advisories? Granted they aren't usually the first people to release advisories for bugs (as has already been noted), they are still a very important resource to the security community as a whole. This move implies that non-profit organizations and individuals aren't as important to the security of the web community as the commercial members who can afford to pay. Obviously, this should not be the case. Nobody should be penalized by having an insecure server just because they couldn't pay a stupid money-grubbing company's fee.
What about throwing these in laptops? If you could throw one of these into the shell right behind the screen, you could possibly get the added benefit of getting a little extra energy off the screen (kinda like a hybrid car generating a little energy off the rotational energy it already has put into its wheels). Also, would it be possible to use these reversible fuel cells as a replacement for current Li-Ion batteries?
Umm...I do believe that the definition of "dark matter" is stuff that has mass, but in reality does block light. Imagine a huge cloud of dust floating out in space. Because it doesn't emit light, we don't directly know it exists. Instead, we can infer its existence either through physics (missing mass is sometimes assumed to be dark matter if it is a possible explanation) or by watching light-emitting objects (most notably large formations such as nebulae) and examining the dark areas.
Ok, if this isn't reason enough for abusing CmdrTaco in the polls, I don't know what is:
After the ladies all fell in love with each other, purchased everything available in the game, and had successfull careers, I started luring neighbors over and trapping them in my attic, or drowning them in my pool. You haven't lived until you've seen Xena Warrior Princess die in a terrible grill fire while Sculley flails her arms in terror. Now that would be good TV. Especially with anatomically correct skins.
Software is as much a patentable product as, say, a camera tripod or a mechanical pencil. Just because we understand and use the same knowledge in the design and implementation of a program as someone else who may hold a similar patent doesn't mean that all patents are invalid. Instead it means that the patent review process needs to be modernized to be able to provide software products the same type of protection as physical products.
Does anybody know what the data bandwidth potential is with the Iridium satellites? Could this be a cheaper and better alternative for computer users in remote parts of the world than something like more traditional satellite uplinks?
Even without a set clock cycle, any CPU must have some sort of regulatory system which coordinates the execution of instructions (this is, of course, the primary function of the system clock). Without such a system, all parts of the CPU could execute instructions at random, making performance-improving techniques such as pipelining useless. So where would the regulatory circuitry be on such a chip? Surely adding it to the CPU itself would counteract the supposed gains from ditching the cock.
These guys have it all wrong. Wireless hard drives may be cool and all, but I think that this has greater implications for wireless ethernet as well as FireWire/USB-like devices. Imagine being able to take your laptop into your room and suddenly have a 400Mb/sec connection to the rest of your LAN (assuming you have gigabit, but even if you only have 100BT, it's still better than 11Mb/sec IEEE 802.11). Or, with the external devices, imagine setting your digial camera down on your desk and starting the image transfer without having to mess around with a cable. This would significantly reduce the amount of wire mess around your computers as well as significantly improve "ease of use".
I'm sure you won't elminiate all platter loss even if one side is guaranteed to be perfect every time. Assuming that both sides end up perfectly flat, but not parallel, then you have a weight problem where one side is heavier than another. Get that spinning pretty damn fast and things could get ugly. You'd have a hard drive that vibrates badly and that is subject to extreme failure due to metal fatigue.
Geez. It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that this is friggin' parody. Listed in their available containers is a Chinese Rocket "Urn". Aside from the obvious difficulty of obtaining these shells (especially for sale like this), where would you get a cat big enough to fill that? You'd have to use a Tiger or something!
Just a minor correction is in order. The headline for this post read "The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer", however it should have read, "The Saturn V Guidance Computer" since the computer was, of course, a part of the Saturn V rocket which was used during the Apollo 11 mission. I believe this same rocket (and associated computer) was used in subsequent Apollo launches as well.
I hardly think that failed attempts at cloning a human will result in horrible genetic mutants. Current cloning methods basically take all the genetic data out of a cell and drop it into another. (actually, I believe that in all actuality, they take the entire nucleus out of a cell and put it into a cell which has already had its nucleus removed) The risk of genetic mutation from this is effectively nil. If the genetic data itself is moved, then it's possible that a chromosome may have been left behind, but if this is the case, the fetus will not develop and will be a miscarriage. Even if you assume that a genetic defect occurs, the odds that it will occur in a place where it will either 1) allow the fetus to continue developing or 2) have an effect on the resulting person is extremely close to nil.
Interestingly enough, I just checked out Arstechnica and saw the following headline: Stress-reducing games. Could this be a new genre of beneficial games?
Interesting concept, however, in reading some of the posts here, it seems as though ppl are under the assumption that this would correct optical impairments (e.g., astigmatism, near/far-sightedness, etc.). From what I can gather in the Wired article, this would only fix retinal problems. To correct for various other optical impairments would require much more CPU horsepower than these cells seem to be able to muster. (remember how Hubble needed that optical correction unit to fix its vision problem?)
Also, whether or not the user of this device would be able to see in color in the affected area could be called into question. The article makes no mention of it. I would venture a guess that the current version of the chip does not allow the user to see in color.
Nevertheless, imo, this is a very promising technology. Perhaps if or when the technology is developed, we will be able to have our retinas replaced by similar technology. Perhaps we can even have small CPUs implanted behind the eye socket that will be able to correct for optical deformities in the eye itself rendering contacts and glasses obsolete.
But you see, if you did go with a setup like this and could keep the Fluorinert from evaporating (easy -- just create a closed system), you would be able to use this for all of your future computing needs. (maybe just topping off the Fuorinert once in a while....)
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Rather than pumping hundreds of millions of greenbacks into improving the PCI bus (which is more than adquate for most tasks today), why aren't people instead trying to reduce the latency on the memory bus? With memory fetches taking more and more CPU cycles, we would benefit greatly from even somewhat slightly reduced memory bus latency.
What will happen to those of us who are running our own individual servers without CERT advisories? Granted they aren't usually the first people to release advisories for bugs (as has already been noted), they are still a very important resource to the security community as a whole. This move implies that non-profit organizations and individuals aren't as important to the security of the web community as the commercial members who can afford to pay. Obviously, this should not be the case. Nobody should be penalized by having an insecure server just because they couldn't pay a stupid money-grubbing company's fee.
What about throwing these in laptops? If you could throw one of these into the shell right behind the screen, you could possibly get the added benefit of getting a little extra energy off the screen (kinda like a hybrid car generating a little energy off the rotational energy it already has put into its wheels). Also, would it be possible to use these reversible fuel cells as a replacement for current Li-Ion batteries?
Umm...I do believe that the definition of "dark matter" is stuff that has mass, but in reality does block light. Imagine a huge cloud of dust floating out in space. Because it doesn't emit light, we don't directly know it exists. Instead, we can infer its existence either through physics (missing mass is sometimes assumed to be dark matter if it is a possible explanation) or by watching light-emitting objects (most notably large formations such as nebulae) and examining the dark areas.
I think it should be named rzip. The "r" stands for rm! ;-)
Software is as much a patentable product as, say, a camera tripod or a mechanical pencil. Just because we understand and use the same knowledge in the design and implementation of a program as someone else who may hold a similar patent doesn't mean that all patents are invalid. Instead it means that the patent review process needs to be modernized to be able to provide software products the same type of protection as physical products.
Does anybody know what the data bandwidth potential is with the Iridium satellites? Could this be a cheaper and better alternative for computer users in remote parts of the world than something like more traditional satellite uplinks?
Even without a set clock cycle, any CPU must have some sort of regulatory system which coordinates the execution of instructions (this is, of course, the primary function of the system clock). Without such a system, all parts of the CPU could execute instructions at random, making performance-improving techniques such as pipelining useless. So where would the regulatory circuitry be on such a chip? Surely adding it to the CPU itself would counteract the supposed gains from ditching the cock.
These guys have it all wrong. Wireless hard drives may be cool and all, but I think that this has greater implications for wireless ethernet as well as FireWire/USB-like devices. Imagine being able to take your laptop into your room and suddenly have a 400Mb/sec connection to the rest of your LAN (assuming you have gigabit, but even if you only have 100BT, it's still better than 11Mb/sec IEEE 802.11). Or, with the external devices, imagine setting your digial camera down on your desk and starting the image transfer without having to mess around with a cable. This would significantly reduce the amount of wire mess around your computers as well as significantly improve "ease of use".
Granted, this could be a great source of natural human body armor, imagine what it would do to a woman's breasts!
Next thing you know, they'll be making Buckyballs out of hummus!
I'm sure you won't elminiate all platter loss even if one side is guaranteed to be perfect every time. Assuming that both sides end up perfectly flat, but not parallel, then you have a weight problem where one side is heavier than another. Get that spinning pretty damn fast and things could get ugly. You'd have a hard drive that vibrates badly and that is subject to extreme failure due to metal fatigue.
As in Western Digital?!?! lmao!!! If you could only see the insane quantity of failing Western Digital hdds here.....
Geez. It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that this is friggin' parody. Listed in their available containers is a Chinese Rocket "Urn". Aside from the obvious difficulty of obtaining these shells (especially for sale like this), where would you get a cat big enough to fill that? You'd have to use a Tiger or something!
http://www.bonsaitiger.com/
It would be remarkably easy to do with some very basic JavaScript (iirc, of course):
<a href="javascript:window.history.go(-1) ">
Just a minor correction is in order. The headline for this post read "The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer", however it should have read, "The Saturn V Guidance Computer" since the computer was, of course, a part of the Saturn V rocket which was used during the Apollo 11 mission. I believe this same rocket (and associated computer) was used in subsequent Apollo launches as well.
I hardly think that failed attempts at cloning a human will result in horrible genetic mutants. Current cloning methods basically take all the genetic data out of a cell and drop it into another. (actually, I believe that in all actuality, they take the entire nucleus out of a cell and put it into a cell which has already had its nucleus removed) The risk of genetic mutation from this is effectively nil. If the genetic data itself is moved, then it's possible that a chromosome may have been left behind, but if this is the case, the fetus will not develop and will be a miscarriage. Even if you assume that a genetic defect occurs, the odds that it will occur in a place where it will either 1) allow the fetus to continue developing or 2) have an effect on the resulting person is extremely close to nil.
Interestingly enough, I just checked out Arstechnica and saw the following headline: Stress-reducing games. Could this be a new genre of beneficial games?
Interesting concept, however, in reading some of the posts here, it seems as though ppl are under the assumption that this would correct optical impairments (e.g., astigmatism, near/far-sightedness, etc.). From what I can gather in the Wired article, this would only fix retinal problems. To correct for various other optical impairments would require much more CPU horsepower than these cells seem to be able to muster. (remember how Hubble needed that optical correction unit to fix its vision problem?)
Also, whether or not the user of this device would be able to see in color in the affected area could be called into question. The article makes no mention of it. I would venture a guess that the current version of the chip does not allow the user to see in color.
Nevertheless, imo, this is a very promising technology. Perhaps if or when the technology is developed, we will be able to have our retinas replaced by similar technology. Perhaps we can even have small CPUs implanted behind the eye socket that will be able to correct for optical deformities in the eye itself rendering contacts and glasses obsolete.
But you see, if you did go with a setup like this and could keep the Fluorinert from evaporating (easy -- just create a closed system), you would be able to use this for all of your future computing needs. (maybe just topping off the Fuorinert once in a while....)