"especially gaming and graphics." I think the author is confused. Their current 100 or so watt A10's are exceptional at gaming plus the underlying processing. With 4.5 watts in this new one, you can watch an HD movie just fine or do other pure graphics operations but run Starcraft 2's AI scripts on the CPU portion? Oh HELL no!
Let's take X Rebirth for example. You can run it on moderate graphics hardware but you need a beastly CPU, at least an original i3 minimum (so passmark rating of 1800+) just to barely run the game and even then you get framerate drops. I put it on a Phenom x6 and it really tore up the CPU cycles.
Let's see how close AMD is on their low powered chips. Their E1 -2500 APU got a whopping 915 score with one of the worst single core performance ratings I've ever seen on a modern chip. So the author clearly doesn't know the difference between an AMD low powered APU and a more traditional desktop APU. One can do gaming, the other is lightyears away. I think it'd crush a Mali 400 tablet GPU, but at 4.5 watts, it'd crush your batter life pretty quickly as well.
This is sort of like ATMs but eve more so. They do one thing. Just make a device that does one thing without really an OS. Why the hell are ATMs running XP? So why aren't missile control and security and launch controls just gauges, switches, cameras, sensors, and buttons? You need a missile guidance computer and communication encryption to the missile but a lot of the simpler systems can be electrical circuits or ultra simple chips about the same grade as an LED glowstick uses to flash its lights. If you want to know the temperature of a missile storage facility, transmit it through a digital thermometer to a few LED displays after hitting an interpretation chip. If you want to turn up the temperature, use a rheostat or equally simple digital point to point system. Why the hell does it have to be a full blown computer to do something so stupid? That makes even a floppy disk system look overcomplicated and needless.
Cryptocurrencies rely on smartphones and wallet backups and encryption and time delays and blah blah blah. It's actually less convenient and easy than cash or credit. So what they need is an NFC-like system. Just get the "credit belts" from the book A Tale of Time City or something. Those worked pretty slick! With bitcoins the delay to verify that a transmission wasn't faked is up to 10 minutes. Even in litecoin, it's 2.5 minutes. That's a bit long to hang around and make awkward conversation with the checkout person at a shop while there's a line behind you. That alone will make it not work.
The first programming language I ever saw was when I was like 10. It was an exact rip of BASIC but used to control AI bugs that would fight each other and negotiate a grid. You could equip scanners and weapons and stuff but then you had to code the actions in a giant decision tree based on conditions and loops. I thought it was awesome! Now I'm a software programmer professionally.
So on the heels of the worst chips ever made, the E300 and E1 and E2, they're making another pathetically underpowered piece of crap that morons will try to run Windows 8 on. I can't wait to see the next emachines slimline piece of crap with 2GB of RAM roll into my shop because their $300 all in one solution is "too slow."
At least SOMEONE gets it. SOMEONE lives in reality, which is precisely where terrorists have been proven to reside. If you take the amount of staff it would take to guard a small nuclear reactor so that the fuel isn't stolen and instead put those staff members of stationary bikes with alternators, you'd actually get more power than from the reactor. That's how fucking stupid of an idea this is. You might as well build an artificial black hole on Earth's surface, it's slightly safer.
Okay, is this real enough for you? No nuclear reactors of any kind in existence right now don't require unbelievably dangerous and radioactive fuel. The end, no 2 ways about it. How are you going to guarantee the security of that? There is no such thing as a non-radiactive tritium reactor. That is a fact and a law of physics. You might as well just ship Uranium or Plutonium directly to the terrorists. Why they think ANYONE would invest in something this insanely, monumentally, suicidally stupid is beyond anyone's comprehension for logic.
Maybe this one will get funded. I have an idea to give radioactive material with megaton-level nuclear potential energy stored inside, placed in a portable, easy to steal container, to 3rd world countries. Anyone want to invest?
These people are morons! MORONS!!!!! I mean there aren't even words for shit this stupid. Who the hell gets up in the morning and says let's build suitcase nukes for the betterment of mankind of lalalala I'm going to imagine unicorns and fairies and that terrorists don't exist. Were they on vacation on the fucking moon when Fukishima happened? Are they not away of radioactive-free nuclear fusion research? AAGGGGHHH I know, why don't they buy Yahoo and Myspace and merge them together to make little suitcases that generate megawatts of Xrays "FOR BIRD WATCHING."
Wow, what a flawless system! Except...
You show up in person to buy or sell drugs and it's a sting. You mail them and it gets seized or the target and/or sender gets arrested via tracking. Or you mail them to a central escrow hub that also gets traced and arrested and shut down. What a great set of 3 options.
"Using technology designed to find nuclear warheads and submarines..."
Using technology designed to check in at Denny's on Four Square, they could have known where the plane is more than once per hour or whatever the hell.
"everything from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math"
Aha, so next time you're doing poorly on a math exam, tell the teacher that you need all the males to leave.
Since apparently they have zero business training, let me explain what they should do. When a competitor arrives and you know you'll eventually take over, copy or buy them. In this case, copy them. Coal will fail. They should be investing in factories that make solar panels and wind turbines.
Impossible to transport, can't eat it if someone touched it on the shelf which means it needs plastic packaging (lol), and Willy Wonka has prior art and likely a patent.
Taco Bell's "beef" is like 40% beef. The rest is food glucose and soy and some fillers, which make it a lot cheaper and healthier and not that much worse tasting. People seemed alright with it when the "shocking" revelation came out a year or two back.
That'd really piss off ISPs. Want to shakedown netflix for money to pay for priority lanes? Tada, now you've got huge downloads with accompanying uploads coming from distributed locations and using normal web ports. Talk about a nuclear option.
We learned in grade school that it works because a lot of liquids, especially water, stick together. The water going downward pulls the water upwards because the whole amount in the hose is bonded together. THAT is how it works.
Well, after my friend said that I figured it either travels through time and the fabric of reality or it has like 6 3D joints and a 1 dimensional movement track, lol.
My friend's company just got a multi-million dollar 19-axis robot for carving custom wood. They're the only ones in America with one that does specifically what they do. It has already paid for itself in 3 years. If they didn't work with wood and did prototypes or CNC or something more 3d printer friendly, dropping a few thousand on a top of the line 3D printer would be no problem. A shipment of materials costs more than that. The staff hours carving custom parts out of plastic alone would pay for it. So I'd say they need to target businesses first, use the funds to make the technology much better, THEN go cheap and target the residential customers with even lower priced machines.
Oh gee, I wonder where they got such a great idea from. OH THAT'S RIGHT, the original The Witcher was a category 5 DRM shitstorm that blew up in their faces when it failed to work properly on Windows 7 and screwed over all their customers. Wow, how selfless and progressive of them
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"especially gaming and graphics." I think the author is confused. Their current 100 or so watt A10's are exceptional at gaming plus the underlying processing. With 4.5 watts in this new one, you can watch an HD movie just fine or do other pure graphics operations but run Starcraft 2's AI scripts on the CPU portion? Oh HELL no!
Let's take X Rebirth for example. You can run it on moderate graphics hardware but you need a beastly CPU, at least an original i3 minimum (so passmark rating of 1800+) just to barely run the game and even then you get framerate drops. I put it on a Phenom x6 and it really tore up the CPU cycles.
Let's see how close AMD is on their low powered chips. Their E1 -2500 APU got a whopping 915 score with one of the worst single core performance ratings I've ever seen on a modern chip. So the author clearly doesn't know the difference between an AMD low powered APU and a more traditional desktop APU. One can do gaming, the other is lightyears away. I think it'd crush a Mali 400 tablet GPU, but at 4.5 watts, it'd crush your batter life pretty quickly as well.
This is sort of like ATMs but eve more so. They do one thing. Just make a device that does one thing without really an OS. Why the hell are ATMs running XP? So why aren't missile control and security and launch controls just gauges, switches, cameras, sensors, and buttons? You need a missile guidance computer and communication encryption to the missile but a lot of the simpler systems can be electrical circuits or ultra simple chips about the same grade as an LED glowstick uses to flash its lights. If you want to know the temperature of a missile storage facility, transmit it through a digital thermometer to a few LED displays after hitting an interpretation chip. If you want to turn up the temperature, use a rheostat or equally simple digital point to point system. Why the hell does it have to be a full blown computer to do something so stupid? That makes even a floppy disk system look overcomplicated and needless.
Cryptocurrencies rely on smartphones and wallet backups and encryption and time delays and blah blah blah. It's actually less convenient and easy than cash or credit. So what they need is an NFC-like system. Just get the "credit belts" from the book A Tale of Time City or something. Those worked pretty slick! With bitcoins the delay to verify that a transmission wasn't faked is up to 10 minutes. Even in litecoin, it's 2.5 minutes. That's a bit long to hang around and make awkward conversation with the checkout person at a shop while there's a line behind you. That alone will make it not work.
I believe it was called "AI Bug" and it was for Windows 98 and XP :-D
The first programming language I ever saw was when I was like 10. It was an exact rip of BASIC but used to control AI bugs that would fight each other and negotiate a grid. You could equip scanners and weapons and stuff but then you had to code the actions in a giant decision tree based on conditions and loops. I thought it was awesome! Now I'm a software programmer professionally.
Do you know what a centrifuge is and how many countries have enough of them? Obviously not.
So on the heels of the worst chips ever made, the E300 and E1 and E2, they're making another pathetically underpowered piece of crap that morons will try to run Windows 8 on. I can't wait to see the next emachines slimline piece of crap with 2GB of RAM roll into my shop because their $300 all in one solution is "too slow."
At least SOMEONE gets it. SOMEONE lives in reality, which is precisely where terrorists have been proven to reside. If you take the amount of staff it would take to guard a small nuclear reactor so that the fuel isn't stolen and instead put those staff members of stationary bikes with alternators, you'd actually get more power than from the reactor. That's how fucking stupid of an idea this is. You might as well build an artificial black hole on Earth's surface, it's slightly safer.
Okay, is this real enough for you? No nuclear reactors of any kind in existence right now don't require unbelievably dangerous and radioactive fuel. The end, no 2 ways about it. How are you going to guarantee the security of that? There is no such thing as a non-radiactive tritium reactor. That is a fact and a law of physics. You might as well just ship Uranium or Plutonium directly to the terrorists. Why they think ANYONE would invest in something this insanely, monumentally, suicidally stupid is beyond anyone's comprehension for logic.
Maybe this one will get funded. I have an idea to give radioactive material with megaton-level nuclear potential energy stored inside, placed in a portable, easy to steal container, to 3rd world countries. Anyone want to invest?
These people are morons! MORONS!!!!! I mean there aren't even words for shit this stupid. Who the hell gets up in the morning and says let's build suitcase nukes for the betterment of mankind of lalalala I'm going to imagine unicorns and fairies and that terrorists don't exist. Were they on vacation on the fucking moon when Fukishima happened? Are they not away of radioactive-free nuclear fusion research? AAGGGGHHH I know, why don't they buy Yahoo and Myspace and merge them together to make little suitcases that generate megawatts of Xrays "FOR BIRD WATCHING."
Wow, what a flawless system! Except...
You show up in person to buy or sell drugs and it's a sting. You mail them and it gets seized or the target and/or sender gets arrested via tracking. Or you mail them to a central escrow hub that also gets traced and arrested and shut down. What a great set of 3 options.
"Using technology designed to find nuclear warheads and submarines..."
Using technology designed to check in at Denny's on Four Square, they could have known where the plane is more than once per hour or whatever the hell.
"everything from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math"
Aha, so next time you're doing poorly on a math exam, tell the teacher that you need all the males to leave.
"The rodents are also less stressed out"
And so are the male scientists, depending on what time of the month it is.
If Jean Claude can do the splits between two volvos, you can certainly have the computer get your Honda 6 inches from a bike rider, lol.
Don't forget...
4. moron in the road
5. deer in the road
6. moronic deer in the road
Since apparently they have zero business training, let me explain what they should do. When a competitor arrives and you know you'll eventually take over, copy or buy them. In this case, copy them. Coal will fail. They should be investing in factories that make solar panels and wind turbines.
Impossible to transport, can't eat it if someone touched it on the shelf which means it needs plastic packaging (lol), and Willy Wonka has prior art and likely a patent.
Taco Bell's "beef" is like 40% beef. The rest is food glucose and soy and some fillers, which make it a lot cheaper and healthier and not that much worse tasting. People seemed alright with it when the "shocking" revelation came out a year or two back.
That'd really piss off ISPs. Want to shakedown netflix for money to pay for priority lanes? Tada, now you've got huge downloads with accompanying uploads coming from distributed locations and using normal web ports. Talk about a nuclear option.
And why are all drops exactly the same size? Oh that's right, they're all bonded together.
We learned in grade school that it works because a lot of liquids, especially water, stick together. The water going downward pulls the water upwards because the whole amount in the hose is bonded together. THAT is how it works.
Well, after my friend said that I figured it either travels through time and the fabric of reality or it has like 6 3D joints and a 1 dimensional movement track, lol.
My friend's company just got a multi-million dollar 19-axis robot for carving custom wood. They're the only ones in America with one that does specifically what they do. It has already paid for itself in 3 years. If they didn't work with wood and did prototypes or CNC or something more 3d printer friendly, dropping a few thousand on a top of the line 3D printer would be no problem. A shipment of materials costs more than that. The staff hours carving custom parts out of plastic alone would pay for it. So I'd say they need to target businesses first, use the funds to make the technology much better, THEN go cheap and target the residential customers with even lower priced machines.
Oh gee, I wonder where they got such a great idea from. OH THAT'S RIGHT, the original The Witcher was a category 5 DRM shitstorm that blew up in their faces when it failed to work properly on Windows 7 and screwed over all their customers. Wow, how selfless and progressive of them