I think the point of the original post was not so much about atmosphere (or life) as it was about size. What if the Earth and Moon were the same size and orbited each other as they revolved around the Sun?
Re:What is an example that can't run in parallel?
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Forget Moore's Law?
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Who cares? I know I don't care if Word is 10% faster/ When it actually does matter, the compiler won't give you much - that's pretty much given.
Sure, if you look at aplication software where most of the program's running time is spent idle waiting for input, but with computationaly tough software those small increases in performance, especially in nested loops shave a great deal of time. Also, as MMP increases in popularity, compilers will be developed to find ways to parallelize software in ways that won't be immediatly obvious to most developers. Just out of curiosity, how do you explain the research if it's not at all important?
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Most code today isn't terribly optimized, it just runs 'fast enough'.
Most code today isn't optimized by hand there's actually a lot of research going into building a better compiler. Most of the little tricks that you learn reading an old C manual are simply ignored by today's compilers because they can probably deal with the problems better than you can.
The parent comment is correct, but the entire issue is confused. In a few years, the Itanium will be the cheapest processor available, and Google will be using it.
I'm not sure that I believe that they will switch in the next few years... Is the number of requests that Google has to service increasing at that great a rate? Are there that many more web pages being indexed? I don't think so.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article is not about Moore's law failing to predict technological advance, but rather that if the industry continues in the same way it has been, it will destroy itself with ever decreasing profit margins. That you can make a faster computer, but who's going to buy them every 18 months. I know I can't afford a new computer that often. Hell, I just got rid of my PPro 166.
Re:New? but I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey ...
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Blacker Than Black
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Except that the monolith is described as being perfectly smooth. This stuff has all those itty bitty craters.
What is it with hypocrisy in this country? We prosecute one company for a monopoly and another does the same but because they're smaller and out of the way it's ok?
Microsoft isn't being sued because they are monopolistic, they are being sued because they use their monopoly in one market segment(OS) to leverage themselves into another segment(browser), which they were expressly forbidden to to in a previous anti-trust case. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
The windows aren't yours by definition because if you're an unpriviledged user, and Virus Scan(from the article) is running as a priviledged user, you can hi-jack that widow and execute arbitrary code(as stated in the article).
At the Hy-Vee here in Ames, IA there are no doors, you just slide the can/bottle into a hole in the front of the machine.
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Digital Dark Ages?
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The point of the article is that it will be impossible to look up what happens because the media we use to store that info will be unusable. The data will fade, and be lost forever.
Re:Ferrous based magnetic tapes last FOREVER!
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Where do paper tape and punch cards fit into the equation, and let's not forget the punch out ballots they apparently become unusable after the first time they are read.
Actually, during the Dark Ages, there was very little writing being done in Europe. The illiterate German barbarians had taken over the entire Roman empire, and wiped out almost every trace of literacy on the continent. It's all detailed in the book How the Irish Saved Civilization. All in all, it's a good little book.
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Because you can't *do* anything with NT other than look at it and say, "boy, that sure is an operating system."
I think the point of the original post was not so much about atmosphere (or life) as it was about size. What if the Earth and Moon were the same size and orbited each other as they revolved around the Sun?
Sorry, but what does the color red have to do with it?
We're going to run out of beer at this rate!
Yeah, but Bush is using english words.
Build a space program that can get to Mars cheaper than we can now.
ORV... Bullet holes!
Sure, if you look at aplication software where most of the program's running time is spent idle waiting for input, but with computationaly tough software those small increases in performance, especially in nested loops shave a great deal of time. Also, as MMP increases in popularity, compilers will be developed to find ways to parallelize software in ways that won't be immediatly obvious to most developers. Just out of curiosity, how do you explain the research if it's not at all important?
Most code today isn't optimized by hand there's actually a lot of research going into building a better compiler. Most of the little tricks that you learn reading an old C manual are simply ignored by today's compilers because they can probably deal with the problems better than you can.
Great analysis, I couldn't have put my feelings better.
I'm not sure that I believe that they will switch in the next few years... Is the number of requests that Google has to service increasing at that great a rate? Are there that many more web pages being indexed? I don't think so.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article is not about Moore's law failing to predict technological advance, but rather that if the industry continues in the same way it has been, it will destroy itself with ever decreasing profit margins. That you can make a faster computer, but who's going to buy them every 18 months. I know I can't afford a new computer that often. Hell, I just got rid of my PPro 166.
Except that the monolith is described as being perfectly smooth. This stuff has all those itty bitty craters.
I'm betting they'll paint Jesus instead.
Microsoft isn't being sued because they are monopolistic, they are being sued because they use their monopoly in one market segment(OS) to leverage themselves into another segment(browser), which they were expressly forbidden to to in a previous anti-trust case. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
It's also very unlikely that you'll get feces on your hands when you pee.
Can't remember where I read it, but even 2400bps is about as fast as *anyone* can read. 57600bps is much too fast if anything.
The windows aren't yours by definition because if you're an unpriviledged user, and Virus Scan(from the article) is running as a priviledged user, you can hi-jack that widow and execute arbitrary code(as stated in the article).
At the Hy-Vee here in Ames, IA there are no doors, you just slide the can/bottle into a hole in the front of the machine.
The point of the article is that it will be impossible to look up what happens because the media we use to store that info will be unusable. The data will fade, and be lost forever.
Where do paper tape and punch cards fit into the equation, and let's not forget the punch out ballots they apparently become unusable after the first time they are read.
Actually, during the Dark Ages, there was very little writing being done in Europe. The illiterate German barbarians had taken over the entire Roman empire, and wiped out almost every trace of literacy on the continent. It's all detailed in the book How the Irish Saved Civilization. All in all, it's a good little book.
Actually, I think you mean willen have on-been.
With FM yeah, but with AM you should be able to make the band as narrow as you can build a bandpass filter.
Bull, just look at Ken Lay and his "homestead".