Yeah, there was some post higher up which seemed a little silly: "are we gonna have gigabit or exabit cpus one day?"
So what are you saying exactly, that the number of bits that a CPU is rated only means the total number of RAM bits that can be addressed? In other words, a 32 bit CPU can only address 2^32 bits of RAM? Is that the only real difference?
If it is, I can't imagine any computer in the 60's and 70's being able to address 2^64 bits of RAM.
By the way, there are 10^81 atoms (supposedly) in the Universe, which is somewhere between 2^269 and 2^270 (to be precise, it's 2^269.07617568587635017749587378908).
What's a "true" 1024 bit processor? What does it mean that a processor is 64 bit? From what I understand from the other posts, this transmeta proc is not 256 bits in the same sense that Intel's current chips are 32 bits, but what does that even mean? What can a 128 bit proc do that a 64 bit proc can't and a 32 bit proc can't? Please explain, I'm very curious. Or point me to somewhere that might explain.
That's actually a pretty interesting theory. Let me sleep on it.
That wasn't sarcasm, but I think that's a little flawed. I mean, you might in theory be right, but as of now, VR is not advanced enough to effectively simulate a rape or something, so I guess for now, we'll have to stick to law enforcement.
I do like that theory though.
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You see, you're using your own political theories to defend your own position. I don't think it matters whether they voluntarily sold their stations or not. The fact of the matter is, the old model, in that no one can own more than 40 stations and not more than one in any city, worked. We changed the law, and then so did radio change. And now it sucks more than ever. So you can sit back and wait for your political theories to kick in, or you can advocate changing the law back and have things like they were. Of course, you can't just change the law back. It's too late. A law passed based on six months of lobbying can often take fifty years to undo.
No no, I agree with that last sentiment. It just seems like he was suggesting that all forms of law enforcement are wasteful, even domestic law enforcement. I guess I just interpreted what he said to broadly.
Just to make myself clear: I've always said we need to work out why people are so pissed off, but people usually just give me a hard time about that.
I suppose Gene Roddenberry's family should have the rights to any patent relating to "universal translation devices" since it was his idea first, right? You know, there's more to getting a patent than simply dreaming up the idea. At least there should be more to it than that.
6 to 12 second delay? That sounds awfully high. Are you sure that's not an exaggerated figure? If you recall the failed motorola iridium satellite phone system. The system failed not because of such high delays, but because of the high price/bulky equipment.
There might be such a high delay in order to process the language, but that's got nothing to do with the form of communication.
This is something I've always said, and noone seemed to understand. I think that if we could create a computer based non-spoken language, which would never change, and would be written in stone so to speak.
I think this would also be very useful for historical reasons (that's actually the context I originally envisioned this). Imagine if every fifty or a hundred years we updated our language to translate into this intermediate language. So then, in the 23rd century we could easily read 20th century stuff. "Computer: translate this document from 16th century English into 21st century English".
The fact is that after a thousand years a language bears no resemblance to itself (English from a thousand years ago is about as understandable as modern German, to someone who speaks modern English and not modern German). I think for historical reasons, aside from the diplomatic value of such a project, we need to create this intermediate language.
An important part of this language is that it is not directly understandable to humans, and it certainly shouldn't be able to be spoken, since spoken languages invariably and inexorably change over time.
I'm glad to see someone has had a similar idea that I had.:)
It may be true that DARPA's existence relies on the need for defense, an hence relies on war. But I really doubt there are any forces working at DARPA that are trying to prevent peace.
All research ultimately is done to be applied. The difference between basic research and applied research is that the success rate is much higher with applied research, and the time to bring the technology is much lower. Only with basic research are big discoveries made, and I don't care what you've been hearing, but in the academic world there is a lot less basic research than ever.
The first move toward what we have today was the 'bayh-dole act' of the early 1980's which gave universities, even publicly funded universities, the right to 'own' the results of their own research. That together with the fact that universities are forced to license their research because they are getting progressively lower and lower public funding (that's what the act was for).
A few years ago some organization that represents the universities noted that while universities spend 40 billion dollars a year on research, they only brought in 800 million dollars from that research, and that is way too low. As if the only reason, and the only benefit gained, when universities do research is to make money. I assure you that that revenue figure is much higher today.
DARPA is not a one-trick pony. The only "invention" they can be credited with is the internet, and that's why basic research is so unglamourous. But regardless of what you've heard elsewhere, DARPA has advanced the processes in making microprocessors smaller/faster, and they've also done a lot of pioneering research in nanotechnology. The kind of research that they did pretty much started these industries.
Yeah, wasting an exorbitant amount of tax dollars, sure. Like the internet.
Be cynical as you want, but DARPA is the one government agency which is really flexible and has a vision. With the rise of corporate dependency on innovation, even in the academic world, DARPA is one of the last bastions of basic research. Get with it.
The Ewoks weren't that bad, but think about how cool the alternative would've been, if Lucas hadn't been so keen on kiddie merchandising: Imagine Endor being a planet of Wookiees instead of Ewoks (ewok is kind of derivative of the word wookiee). Imagine a plausible insurrection of giant wookiees, cooperating to take out the storm troopers. Instead, we got this stupid slapstick ewok shit.
Sure, it's possible, but that doesn't mean they'll do it. His point still stands. They will release "new star wars" without any option on the disc to play it old style, and then, after an outcry, we will be treated to the classic one again.
Sorry, Beowulf wasn't written in the last millenium, let alone the last century.
I agree with your point about beowulf, and a lot of older stuff. Some people may love it, and scholars will pore over every detail, but it's just an academic exercise.
There are certain universal human themes, and I don't think using them in a story should be called "rehashing".
Not a chance! Lucas is going to cut up ANH and the original trilogy as much as he can to support the idea that he had the plot for the entire saga worked out, even though it's very clear the first trilogy (EP1,2,3) is just tacked on to 4,5,6.
Ok, fine, then discrimination. I don't like to use that example because discrimination laws happen to be a good thing, but the federal government ignoring/defiling the constitution is not. Discrimination became federal through the manipulation of "interstate commerce" laws, just in case a black man is doing business in another state, that's what the laws are for.
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Yeah, there was some post higher up which seemed a little silly: "are we gonna have gigabit or exabit cpus one day?"
So what are you saying exactly, that the number of bits that a CPU is rated only means the total number of RAM bits that can be addressed? In other words, a 32 bit CPU can only address 2^32 bits of RAM? Is that the only real difference?
If it is, I can't imagine any computer in the 60's and 70's being able to address 2^64 bits of RAM.
By the way, there are 10^81 atoms (supposedly) in the Universe, which is somewhere between 2^269 and 2^270 (to be precise, it's 2^269.07617568587635017749587378908).
What's a "true" 1024 bit processor? What does it mean that a processor is 64 bit? From what I understand from the other posts, this transmeta proc is not 256 bits in the same sense that Intel's current chips are 32 bits, but what does that even mean? What can a 128 bit proc do that a 64 bit proc can't and a 32 bit proc can't? Please explain, I'm very curious. Or point me to somewhere that might explain.
Yeah, and in 1854 he also managed to open up Japan after 250 years in isolation. This Matthew Perry guy is pretty accomplished (not to mention old).
That's actually a pretty interesting theory. Let me sleep on it.
That wasn't sarcasm, but I think that's a little flawed. I mean, you might in theory be right, but as of now, VR is not advanced enough to effectively simulate a rape or something, so I guess for now, we'll have to stick to law enforcement.
I do like that theory though.
You see, you're using your own political theories to defend your own position. I don't think it matters whether they voluntarily sold their stations or not. The fact of the matter is, the old model, in that no one can own more than 40 stations and not more than one in any city, worked. We changed the law, and then so did radio change. And now it sucks more than ever. So you can sit back and wait for your political theories to kick in, or you can advocate changing the law back and have things like they were. Of course, you can't just change the law back. It's too late. A law passed based on six months of lobbying can often take fifty years to undo.
No no, I agree with that last sentiment. It just seems like he was suggesting that all forms of law enforcement are wasteful, even domestic law enforcement. I guess I just interpreted what he said to broadly.
Just to make myself clear: I've always said we need to work out why people are so pissed off, but people usually just give me a hard time about that.
I suppose Gene Roddenberry's family should have the rights to any patent relating to "universal translation devices" since it was his idea first, right? You know, there's more to getting a patent than simply dreaming up the idea. At least there should be more to it than that.
6 to 12 second delay? That sounds awfully high. Are you sure that's not an exaggerated figure? If you recall the failed motorola iridium satellite phone system. The system failed not because of such high delays, but because of the high price/bulky equipment.
There might be such a high delay in order to process the language, but that's got nothing to do with the form of communication.
This is something I've always said, and noone seemed to understand. I think that if we could create a computer based non-spoken language, which would never change, and would be written in stone so to speak.
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I think this would also be very useful for historical reasons (that's actually the context I originally envisioned this). Imagine if every fifty or a hundred years we updated our language to translate into this intermediate language. So then, in the 23rd century we could easily read 20th century stuff. "Computer: translate this document from 16th century English into 21st century English".
The fact is that after a thousand years a language bears no resemblance to itself (English from a thousand years ago is about as understandable as modern German, to someone who speaks modern English and not modern German). I think for historical reasons, aside from the diplomatic value of such a project, we need to create this intermediate language.
An important part of this language is that it is not directly understandable to humans, and it certainly shouldn't be able to be spoken, since spoken languages invariably and inexorably change over time.
I'm glad to see someone has had a similar idea that I had.
I'm all for what you said in that first paragraph, but are you for real? You think we should just drop all our funding for law enforcement?
It may be true that DARPA's existence relies on the need for defense, an hence relies on war. But I really doubt there are any forces working at DARPA that are trying to prevent peace.
In fact, I was saying the opposite. Research can have incredible value, even if it doesn't make any money.
All research ultimately is done to be applied. The difference between basic research and applied research is that the success rate is much higher with applied research, and the time to bring the technology is much lower. Only with basic research are big discoveries made, and I don't care what you've been hearing, but in the academic world there is a lot less basic research than ever.
The first move toward what we have today was the 'bayh-dole act' of the early 1980's which gave universities, even publicly funded universities, the right to 'own' the results of their own research. That together with the fact that universities are forced to license their research because they are getting progressively lower and lower public funding (that's what the act was for).
A few years ago some organization that represents the universities noted that while universities spend 40 billion dollars a year on research, they only brought in 800 million dollars from that research, and that is way too low. As if the only reason, and the only benefit gained, when universities do research is to make money. I assure you that that revenue figure is much higher today.
DARPA is not a one-trick pony. The only "invention" they can be credited with is the internet, and that's why basic research is so unglamourous. But regardless of what you've heard elsewhere, DARPA has advanced the processes in making microprocessors smaller/faster, and they've also done a lot of pioneering research in nanotechnology. The kind of research that they did pretty much started these industries.
Yeah, wasting an exorbitant amount of tax dollars, sure. Like the internet.
Be cynical as you want, but DARPA is the one government agency which is really flexible and has a vision. With the rise of corporate dependency on innovation, even in the academic world, DARPA is one of the last bastions of basic research. Get with it.
The Ewoks weren't that bad, but think about how cool the alternative would've been, if Lucas hadn't been so keen on kiddie merchandising: Imagine Endor being a planet of Wookiees instead of Ewoks (ewok is kind of derivative of the word wookiee). Imagine a plausible insurrection of giant wookiees, cooperating to take out the storm troopers. Instead, we got this stupid slapstick ewok shit.
Sure, it's possible, but that doesn't mean they'll do it. His point still stands. They will release "new star wars" without any option on the disc to play it old style, and then, after an outcry, we will be treated to the classic one again.
Sorry, Beowulf wasn't written in the last millenium, let alone the last century.
I agree with your point about beowulf, and a lot of older stuff. Some people may love it, and scholars will pore over every detail, but it's just an academic exercise.
There are certain universal human themes, and I don't think using them in a story should be called "rehashing".
arg sorry, I misunderstood the thread.
Why is it null and void? I'm sure you're clever enough to devise a differential notation that can be typed with a standard keyboard.
They should probably spell it "semicide".
Not a chance! Lucas is going to cut up ANH and the original trilogy as much as he can to support the idea that he had the plot for the entire saga worked out, even though it's very clear the first trilogy (EP1,2,3) is just tacked on to 4,5,6.
Are you defending abused wives, or abused star wars fans?
Ew, the dreamcast controller sucks! I love my dreamcast and all, but it sucks for two reasons:
1)it feels like a cheap plastic toy, it's really shitty
2)it forces your hands to be parallel to each other forcing your arms inward in an awkward position.
Ok, fine, then discrimination. I don't like to use that example because discrimination laws happen to be a good thing, but the federal government ignoring/defiling the constitution is not. Discrimination became federal through the manipulation of "interstate commerce" laws, just in case a black man is doing business in another state, that's what the laws are for.
I think it's spelled "Europeans".