Of course theres few direct paths like that across the die. Because of design considerations, signals take a somewhat circuitous route (pun completely intended). Because of this, they build flip-flops in wire to buffer the signals between clock ticks.
If your clock is running high enough that the longest distance between buffer flip-flops is too far for the signal to reach, you'll have unreliable stability, obviously.
And since intel, amd et al. never intended this particular class of chips to reach 15 ghz, or even half that, you can bet they didn't bother putting extra transistors and complexity in to create the necessary flip-flops to handle 10, 8 etc ghz speeds reliably.
In fact, theres a fair bit of research a professor of mine has published about diminishing performance when you start putting too many buffers in-line. Its one of the many current design issues processor manufacturers face.
one of the wrights key designs was the proper, efficient shape of the propeller, a very complex and difficult thing to design, but also build correctly and to the necessary tolerances with the technology of the time.
They also refined alot of the math behind the physics. When they first started building their test results didn't match the ones published in the standard book of tables of various aeronautic physics at the time. Turns out the guy who wrote that book was wrong about alot of things and they ended up rewriting everything, fixing equations and the like based on their empirical data gathered.
While it will undoubtedly be argued to death about what constitutes the first "flight", the wrights were far and away the first aeronautical engineers to build a working plane - and continue to build and improve them - on sound physics and principles.
These EZ-passes are very weak transmitters. I'm not sure how they work exactly, but they might even be passive ones where they take the energy from outside and retransmit using that.
In any case, a cell phone requires the ability for the cell tower to hear you from a few miles away. The EZ-pass works in a couple dozen feet.
After all, theres no people on board to fry. The instruments themselves need shielding from it, but thats why they stuck the reactor at the far end of the boom away from the instruments.
The soviets launched several satellites with fission reactors, and they were considerably crappier than the new designs are...
The main reason for the reactor is to power the ion engines. The more electricty you have, the more thrust you can generate with them. Ideally, in the far future, we'll have spacecraft with fusion powered ion engines travelling all over the solar system at a fairly good clip.
This depends on what market you're talking about. Consumer market, yes. You're probably right.
But the consumer market is a small piece of the software pie. Most software that is written out there is custom business software and enterprise software. And I believe this is who the article mainly aimed at.
If there is a 'proprietary tool' out there that is essential to the operation of a business, you can bet someone will support it for as long as you're willing to pay them to do so. This is why many organizations are still using (and updating) COBOL programs originally written back in the mid-70s, among others. The reasons behind this are many.
A fork though can potentially force them into an upgrade path they don't want to take.
Adding support for a new format requires considerable time in the form of having not only the programming for it done, but then the considerable amount of testing before you start printing circuits. The development costs are a major investment.
I doubt they would sell 100,000 devices on OGG alone. OGG just isn't that popular. As a CS major at a major public university where CS is the 2nd largest major, I don't know of a single soul who uses OGG, even among those who use linux. And thats among college students who are by far the largest music file gatherering population.
There are very few people who play ogg files. Even among linux users - whom there are very few of relatively speaking.
Taking the time to put ogg into a player costs money in terms of labor and development, and for that.0001% (or less) of people actually interested in it makes it something of a questionable business decision to spend the time and money on.
More often than not, the EULA's of software that install spyware contain a clause about it saying 'you agree to install this horse shit v1.0 blah blah blah'.
Now, of course, you can violate the EULA and get yourself some spyware removing tools and be ride of it.
Its a whole other story though, if Dell starts advising people to break these agreements. Granted, they are legally gray, but thats the point entirely of not wanting to get into the fray and being a potential party to breaking a contractual agreement.
A lawsuit avoided entirely is better than a lawsuit won.
Most PSU's are only capable of drawing less than their rating anyway..I have an antec 350 watt here, but on closer inspection of the label can only pull 328 watts reliably.
Few computers will ever come close to pulling that amount. The processor takes up the most watts at around 70 for a new powerful one, followed by harddrive (~15), CD (when running), and video card (25 for std. AGP, up to 50 or even 110 for high powered stuff). There will be some draw on the other components but it won't amount to more than a few watts. I'd venture that most computers used in a dorm are only pulling 150 or so regardless of their PSU's rating.
Few humans could pass the turing test in the way turing outlined it - Have a human start the test, and then switch over the computer at some point later on without telling the questionee.
supersonic aircraft make noise over their entire flight path.
A sonic boom is not a one time event. It follows the plane over its entire flight corridor. This is why the concorde was disallowed from flying over land.
The unused silicon chips left over aren't useful - they're not square shaped (the edges are round), of odd and varying sizes, and they often already printed on with partially etched chips, depending on how the equipment works.
I believe - and I could be wrong here, please someone correct me - that the silicon ingots have to be grown in a fairly complex fashion involving centrifuges to spin impurities out and the like resulting in a cylinder shaped ingot, from which they cut the wafers from.
Electronic voting is coming, and its not going to go away. It certainly does have the ability, if done properly, to make elections far more accurate and fair.
However, the current election board members nationwide are generally clueless about computer security and why a closed system is bad as opposed to open, publically audited one. They don't have the knowledge or expertise to make a good decision regarding this.
This is a excellent chance for you, slashdotters, to get involved with your community and do some good instead of sitting at your keyboards and bitching. Meet with local officials about your concerns and most importantly - volunteer your time. Get yourselves on the election board, propose a new seat, such as officer of technology and the like that makes sure systems are fair and equitable and secure.
Democracy only works when the public participates. If you don't do your part, or simply sit and bitch behind a keyboard, don't expect things to fall your way on their own.
the metal casing of the drive helps bleed off the heat thats created by the platters. I imagine trying to window mod a 7200 and greater drive would have to take the heat into account as well.
At least until scotty comes and tells us how to build transparent aluminum, I don't see anyone getting a modern drive to work with a window for very long.
manufacturers are currently more interested in cramming more features into the chip
Completely untrue. A PDA doesn't need a P4. But it does need an energy efficient chip that won't drain the batteries in 30 minutes. There are alot more cellphones/pdas/other low-power portable devices out there than PCs. A 'manufacturer' as you put it would have to be ran by monkeys, stupid ones at that, to not cater to the millions of low-power devices demanded.
In the EE departments of every decent university these days, energy efficiency is being taught right alongside gate and speed efficiency in chip design classes.
every time some dimwit questions whether we've been to the moon or not I point them to visit their local major observatory. Many of them have the equipment to take the moon's range using a laser and that reflector.
Granted you might (probably) won't be able to get a demonstration, but it certainly is very cool to measure the distance of the moon to the nearest cm...
paper publishing takes a long time. gathering, analyzing data and making sure you're coming to proper conclusions takes lots and lots of research and double checking. And then theres peer review, which takes months as the paper gets submitted to academic peers who read and analyze and comment on it - when they've got the time.
In any case, the data points themselves arent as relevant as the topology and structure of growth. doesn't matter if the data is from 2001, theres plenty to be learned from.
There was as much (if not more) philosophy in revolutions than reloaded. It was more subtle, however.
There are 2 main points (and i'll try not to spoil): Freedom is CHOICE. The ending makes perfect sense and fits completely in line with this. It is different than the usual sci-fi fare though which is why I think alot of people were dismayed by it. But if they actually paid attention and thought for more than 5 seconds about it...
2. The machines aren't inherently evil.
and then theres the yin-yang that pervades the entire storyline.
Oh, and regarding the 'bad dialog'. The bad dialog and one-dimensional characters is mostly limited to the humans. If anything, the matrix is like Julius Ceasar. Its a tragedy about a secondary character (brutus in Caesar, smith in the matrix). The 3 most influential programs, smith, oracle and architect all have the best lines, character development and insight.
I would personally much rather pay to see a movie that inspired me to think about things than pay money to see a crap visual fest thats devoid of any meaning, as most films tend to be.
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Of course theres few direct paths like that across the die. Because of design considerations, signals take a somewhat circuitous route (pun completely intended). Because of this, they build flip-flops in wire to buffer the signals between clock ticks.
If your clock is running high enough that the longest distance between buffer flip-flops is too far for the signal to reach, you'll have unreliable stability, obviously.
And since intel, amd et al. never intended this particular class of chips to reach 15 ghz, or even half that, you can bet they didn't bother putting extra transistors and complexity in to create the necessary flip-flops to handle 10, 8 etc ghz speeds reliably.
In fact, theres a fair bit of research a professor of mine has published about diminishing performance when you start putting too many buffers in-line. Its one of the many current design issues processor manufacturers face.
They also refined alot of the math behind the physics. When they first started building their test results didn't match the ones published in the standard book of tables of various aeronautic physics at the time. Turns out the guy who wrote that book was wrong about alot of things and they ended up rewriting everything, fixing equations and the like based on their empirical data gathered.
While it will undoubtedly be argued to death about what constitutes the first "flight", the wrights were far and away the first aeronautical engineers to build a working plane - and continue to build and improve them - on sound physics and principles.
These EZ-passes are very weak transmitters. I'm not sure how they work exactly, but they might even be passive ones where they take the energy from outside and retransmit using that.
In any case, a cell phone requires the ability for the cell tower to hear you from a few miles away. The EZ-pass works in a couple dozen feet.
After all, theres no people on board to fry. The instruments themselves need shielding from it, but thats why they stuck the reactor at the far end of the boom away from the instruments.
The soviets launched several satellites with fission reactors, and they were considerably crappier than the new designs are...
The main reason for the reactor is to power the ion engines. The more electricty you have, the more thrust you can generate with them. Ideally, in the far future, we'll have spacecraft with fusion powered ion engines travelling all over the solar system at a fairly good clip.
This depends on what market you're talking about. Consumer market, yes. You're probably right.
But the consumer market is a small piece of the software pie. Most software that is written out there is custom business software and enterprise software. And I believe this is who the article mainly aimed at.
If there is a 'proprietary tool' out there that is essential to the operation of a business, you can bet someone will support it for as long as you're willing to pay them to do so. This is why many organizations are still using (and updating) COBOL programs originally written back in the mid-70s, among others. The reasons behind this are many.
A fork though can potentially force them into an upgrade path they don't want to take.
Adding support for a new format requires considerable time in the form of having not only the programming for it done, but then the considerable amount of testing before you start printing circuits. The development costs are a major investment.
I doubt they would sell 100,000 devices on OGG alone. OGG just isn't that popular. As a CS major at a major public university where CS is the 2nd largest major, I don't know of a single soul who uses OGG, even among those who use linux. And thats among college students who are by far the largest music file gatherering population.
Taking the time to put ogg into a player costs money in terms of labor and development, and for that .0001% (or less) of people actually interested in it makes it something of a questionable business decision to spend the time and money on.
except adobe dropped its charges against him after outcry. though the government decided to pursue them.
used to be the only baud the phone company would guarantee you could get with a modem by their line quality standards.
Dunno if this is still true.
Now, of course, you can violate the EULA and get yourself some spyware removing tools and be ride of it.
Its a whole other story though, if Dell starts advising people to break these agreements. Granted, they are legally gray, but thats the point entirely of not wanting to get into the fray and being a potential party to breaking a contractual agreement.
A lawsuit avoided entirely is better than a lawsuit won.
then the long is typically 64 bit, at least if you're using a modern language.
Most PSU's are only capable of drawing less than their rating anyway..I have an antec 350 watt here, but on closer inspection of the label can only pull 328 watts reliably.
Few computers will ever come close to pulling that amount. The processor takes up the most watts at around 70 for a new powerful one, followed by harddrive (~15), CD (when running), and video card (25 for std. AGP, up to 50 or even 110 for high powered stuff). There will be some draw on the other components but it won't amount to more than a few watts. I'd venture that most computers used in a dorm are only pulling 150 or so regardless of their PSU's rating.
Few humans could pass the turing test in the way turing outlined it - Have a human start the test, and then switch over the computer at some point later on without telling the questionee.
A sonic boom is not a one time event. It follows the plane over its entire flight corridor. This is why the concorde was disallowed from flying over land.
Yeah if we had limitless funds, we could build great probes that would work 5 times past their expected lifetimes.
I believe - and I could be wrong here, please someone correct me - that the silicon ingots have to be grown in a fairly complex fashion involving centrifuges to spin impurities out and the like resulting in a cylinder shaped ingot, from which they cut the wafers from.
I mean, why would you even post at all without reading it? To make us think you're "smart" about nuclear reactors?
Electronic voting is coming, and its not going to go away. It certainly does have the ability, if done properly, to make elections far more accurate and fair.
However, the current election board members nationwide are generally clueless about computer security and why a closed system is bad as opposed to open, publically audited one. They don't have the knowledge or expertise to make a good decision regarding this.
This is a excellent chance for you, slashdotters, to get involved with your community and do some good instead of sitting at your keyboards and bitching. Meet with local officials about your concerns and most importantly - volunteer your time. Get yourselves on the election board, propose a new seat, such as officer of technology and the like that makes sure systems are fair and equitable and secure.
Democracy only works when the public participates. If you don't do your part, or simply sit and bitch behind a keyboard, don't expect things to fall your way on their own.
the metal casing of the drive helps bleed off the heat thats created by the platters. I imagine trying to window mod a 7200 and greater drive would have to take the heat into account as well.
At least until scotty comes and tells us how to build transparent aluminum, I don't see anyone getting a modern drive to work with a window for very long.
manufacturers are currently more interested in cramming more features into the chip
Completely untrue. A PDA doesn't need a P4. But it does need an energy efficient chip that won't drain the batteries in 30 minutes. There are alot more cellphones/pdas/other low-power portable devices out there than PCs. A 'manufacturer' as you put it would have to be ran by monkeys, stupid ones at that, to not cater to the millions of low-power devices demanded.
In the EE departments of every decent university these days, energy efficiency is being taught right alongside gate and speed efficiency in chip design classes.
Granted you might (probably) won't be able to get a demonstration, but it certainly
is very cool to measure the distance of the moon to the nearest cm...
paper publishing takes a long time. gathering, analyzing data and making sure you're coming to proper conclusions takes lots and lots of research and double checking. And then theres peer review, which takes months as the paper gets submitted to academic peers who read and analyze and comment on it - when they've got the time.
In any case, the data points themselves arent as relevant as the topology and structure of growth. doesn't matter if the data is from 2001, theres plenty to be learned from.
I'm sure they'll get around to rewriting the electrical laws of physics one of these days.
There are 2 main points (and i'll try not to spoil): Freedom is CHOICE. The ending makes perfect sense and fits completely in line with this. It is different than the usual sci-fi fare though which is why I think alot of people were dismayed by it. But if they actually paid attention and thought for more than 5 seconds about it...
2. The machines aren't inherently evil.
and then theres the yin-yang that pervades the entire storyline.
Oh, and regarding the 'bad dialog'. The bad dialog and one-dimensional characters is mostly limited to the humans. If anything, the matrix is like Julius Ceasar. Its a tragedy about a secondary character (brutus in Caesar, smith in the matrix). The 3 most influential programs, smith, oracle and architect all have the best lines, character development and insight.
I would personally much rather pay to see a movie that inspired me to think about things than pay money to see a crap visual fest thats devoid of any meaning, as most films tend to be.