As I understand reversible computing it's basically a recycling of data to preserve electrons before they are allowed to disappate as heat. The idea being that the more you reuse an electron the less heat a chip will create. The problem is not so much that the chips aren't designed this way today its got more to do with how fast chips lose electrons as heat due to the fabrication technology they are built with.
As most hardware savy people know, the smaller the chip the less space between transistors there is for electrons to be lost as heat. So as fab tech improves it requires less energy to keep a chip running because less energy is being lost between transistors [just keeping the chip functioning without data corruption]. As fab tech improves we will get to a point where it becomes feasible to use reversible computing because there will be so little energy being lost in this way. In other words more heat will be being produced not from the current leakage of a chip but from data waste caused when a bit is no longer needed. Last I heard, that's around the 5nm mark.
There is also reversible computation, the software equivilant of this which is an interesting read imo.
If you made a game with the word nestle in it you would expect to be sued. That's just a word, there's a lot more in a game. However, I doubt copyright is strong enough to defend a game on look and feel. They need specifics and for that you can't go past patents. Atari have clearly changed, is this an act of desparation on their behalf, are they this desparate for cash?
Value of any currency usually depends of the stability of the governing body. So long as people mine CC's then they will be prized. So basically hardware used to mine the stuff is the governing body and so long as its progressive then CC's will be sort after.
The real problem is that Australia is a large country with a small population by comparison to countries like the US. This makes the cost per head very high as you want every single person to enjoy broadband here. Australia is, like many other countries putting up satelittes as a way to reduce having expensive fibre going out very long distances to serve very few people, however you can't expect people living in no where's land to have recievers for these. So NBN now becomes about having numberous solutions that weren't fully thought through from day one. I wouldn't call it bad management per se, its coped its fare share of bad publicity because a healthy some of people weren't hooked up for stupid little reasons, like a plug wasn't pushed in and it took them a week to get a technican out and fix it, as was the case with me. Crap like this happens.
Big companies like Microsoft are always over stating these sorts of things. How many of these windows 10 machines get used daily by people is a more important statistic imo.
Problem I'm having with microsoft these days is that they do things that make you go 'yay that's really good' then you wonder for how long. Its just another carrot on a string to attract foolish developers over only to be forced one day later to have to adapt to some microsoft propriatery way of doing it to sap money out of you.
I'm sorry but your poor attempt to explain the numberous stupid decisions that have been made the global entities and blaming it on everyday joes is laughable and extremely boring. Just had to let you know.
The thing that seems to be slowing down firefox more than anything for me is the bookmarks toolbar at the top. I love my bookmarks toolbar but as it get filled up with more and more links it really bogs down Firefox. If you right click on one of you links in the horizontal bookmarks bar at the top > properties > delete the name = nice simple icon in the bookmark bar. I've go nearly 50 of them now running along the top of firefox and its just sooo handy but you feel it when it comes to performance. This needs heavy optimization imo.
I had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga, both totally fanless systems. Although the Amiga 2000 and on came in tower cases which would have been good for cooling compared to a keyboard computer. It was either the 386 or the 486 that introduced the need for fans with their turbo modes, then everything just went downhill:p
Is, to have stuff like this that as it wears you just chuck it back in your home 3d printer for a quick patch up. Home maintance the 3d printer way. One day we'll have 3d printers and scanners in one for this exact purpose I says.
And before this the pro-cannabis party were claiming the increased usage of pot was responsible. Everyone just trying to grab the credit because irrational statements keep pulling in the readers.
Copyright is clearly the underlying problem. If you take it out of the equation in one place the greedy will find another way to introduce somewhere else, its what they do.
I remember Intel trying to tell us that you improve the efficiency of a computer my making it run harder to complete tasks faster. They love to rewrite logic using words that happen to sound like there filling some sort of gap. Truth is Moores law has only been about increasing transister density, nothing else. Optimizing architectural changes has nothing to do with it, Intelies again.
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As I understand reversible computing it's basically a recycling of data to preserve electrons before they are allowed to disappate as heat. The idea being that the more you reuse an electron the less heat a chip will create. The problem is not so much that the chips aren't designed this way today its got more to do with how fast chips lose electrons as heat due to the fabrication technology they are built with. As most hardware savy people know, the smaller the chip the less space between transistors there is for electrons to be lost as heat. So as fab tech improves it requires less energy to keep a chip running because less energy is being lost between transistors [just keeping the chip functioning without data corruption]. As fab tech improves we will get to a point where it becomes feasible to use reversible computing because there will be so little energy being lost in this way. In other words more heat will be being produced not from the current leakage of a chip but from data waste caused when a bit is no longer needed. Last I heard, that's around the 5nm mark. There is also reversible computation, the software equivilant of this which is an interesting read imo.
If you made a game with the word nestle in it you would expect to be sued. That's just a word, there's a lot more in a game. However, I doubt copyright is strong enough to defend a game on look and feel. They need specifics and for that you can't go past patents. Atari have clearly changed, is this an act of desparation on their behalf, are they this desparate for cash?
Value of any currency usually depends of the stability of the governing body. So long as people mine CC's then they will be prized. So basically hardware used to mine the stuff is the governing body and so long as its progressive then CC's will be sort after.
Imma gonna just kept my car runnin for 9 years juss to prove this moron wrong.
The real problem is that Australia is a large country with a small population by comparison to countries like the US. This makes the cost per head very high as you want every single person to enjoy broadband here. Australia is, like many other countries putting up satelittes as a way to reduce having expensive fibre going out very long distances to serve very few people, however you can't expect people living in no where's land to have recievers for these. So NBN now becomes about having numberous solutions that weren't fully thought through from day one. I wouldn't call it bad management per se, its coped its fare share of bad publicity because a healthy some of people weren't hooked up for stupid little reasons, like a plug wasn't pushed in and it took them a week to get a technican out and fix it, as was the case with me. Crap like this happens.
No we should have longer support times for OS's but not indefinitely. Who would have thought they'd be a middle ground.
Big companies like Microsoft are always over stating these sorts of things. How many of these windows 10 machines get used daily by people is a more important statistic imo.
We need a new term to be defined here, here's one.. Democratic Dictator.
This figure goes hand in hand with the recent study that showed more people accessing the net with android over windows.
Judges love criticising people for their lack of common sense, now lets see how their common sense works out.
Problem I'm having with microsoft these days is that they do things that make you go 'yay that's really good' then you wonder for how long. Its just another carrot on a string to attract foolish developers over only to be forced one day later to have to adapt to some microsoft propriatery way of doing it to sap money out of you.
I'm sorry but your poor attempt to explain the numberous stupid decisions that have been made the global entities and blaming it on everyday joes is laughable and extremely boring. Just had to let you know.
Yes, just waiting for SteamOS to exit beta :P
You haven't met Intel.
The thing that seems to be slowing down firefox more than anything for me is the bookmarks toolbar at the top. I love my bookmarks toolbar but as it get filled up with more and more links it really bogs down Firefox. If you right click on one of you links in the horizontal bookmarks bar at the top > properties > delete the name = nice simple icon in the bookmark bar. I've go nearly 50 of them now running along the top of firefox and its just sooo handy but you feel it when it comes to performance. This needs heavy optimization imo.
I had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga, both totally fanless systems. Although the Amiga 2000 and on came in tower cases which would have been good for cooling compared to a keyboard computer. It was either the 386 or the 486 that introduced the need for fans with their turbo modes, then everything just went downhill :p
Is, to have stuff like this that as it wears you just chuck it back in your home 3d printer for a quick patch up. Home maintance the 3d printer way. One day we'll have 3d printers and scanners in one for this exact purpose I says.
And before this the pro-cannabis party were claiming the increased usage of pot was responsible. Everyone just trying to grab the credit because irrational statements keep pulling in the readers.
Well kids and infants die too don't they? Also wouldn't this practice encourage murder by those that prefer the taste of human flesh?
Copyright is clearly the underlying problem. If you take it out of the equation in one place the greedy will find another way to introduce somewhere else, its what they do.
I remember Intel trying to tell us that you improve the efficiency of a computer my making it run harder to complete tasks faster. They love to rewrite logic using words that happen to sound like there filling some sort of gap. Truth is Moores law has only been about increasing transister density, nothing else. Optimizing architectural changes has nothing to do with it, Intelies again.
We're not even allowed to look at TPB here in nanny state Australia, they've blocked it on us.