Can anyone find some more details on the transfer rate/seek time?
For a hard disk peak transfer rate is when reading consecutive blocks... if the solid state drive can get near peak performance for random access, it's got a huge advantage.
Depends on the place I suppose. I've never seen anybody ignore the phone and leave it for voicemail.
I like to think that if it's important enough to interrupt someone, their full attention will be required because I will have an intelligent question:)... if it's not important enough, I will email. Or (better still) work it out on my own.
Well. Taken literally "enable" means "make possible", "supply with means, knowledge, or opportunity", "give sanction to" or "make operational".
In other words: you can't play unless we let you.
The arrogance is astounding. Of course it may in fact be the case that Microsoft can make everyone pack up and go home if they want to. Does this mean they've decided to let it live?
I dislike calling coworkers. Partly because it requires them to drop what they're doing, which seems a bit rude. Fortunately where I work I can usually just wander over and talk to people.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, email is for anything with >1 day deadline, face to face is for anything urgent or unexpected. (i.e. asking for a favour).
The feature size (10-100 micrometres) is 100-2000 times what you'll get from a modern silicon fab plant (50-100 nanometres). Call it 1000 times for the sake of argument. So for every organic transistor you could instead have 1,000,000 in silicon. It's not exactly going to be a revolution in processing power. (In fact it puts us back in the early 60s).
The market is apparently cheap, disposable logic. From the sound of it, the fab plants are about 100 times cheaper for the same chip-area/year output. That means each transistor will be up to 10,000 times more expensive; it's going to have to be very simple logic to be cost-effective.
The process sounds like it could be well suited to doing small runs, so I suppose that's something.
Ah well. I will go on record as saying that this is not hugely exciting. When in 50 years' time organic semiconductors have taken over you can all mock me as appropriate:)
That was what I thought. I suppose logically they can make the requirements stricter while forcing backwards compatability with the draft. (i.e. you can no longer do X but you must communicate with other hardware that does X).
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Well... that doesn't necessarily mean it's as fast at random access as it is at consecutive access.
Normal computer RAM is also faster at consecutive reads than random reads.
Can anyone find some more details on the transfer rate/seek time?
For a hard disk peak transfer rate is when reading consecutive blocks... if the solid state drive can get near peak performance for random access, it's got a huge advantage.
And is thus very cool.
There's not exactly a vast range of choice for Blu-ray owners, is there?
I think some form of Bayesian analysis is in order to adjust the stats so they're fair. I suspect just comparing straight numbers is highly skewed.
First post to say something helpful...
(Please add your own "you must be new here" jokes).
Wonder what the warranty is like.
Depends on the place I suppose. I've never seen anybody ignore the phone and leave it for voicemail.
I like to think that if it's important enough to interrupt someone, their full attention will be required because I will have an intelligent question :)... if it's not important enough, I will email. Or (better still) work it out on my own.
*shrug*
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Which I suppose makes your post ironic. Hmm.
If you'd told me a year ago that my grandmother would actually try a console game, I'd've looked at you most puzzled.
But Wii tennis seems to have near-universal appeal.
Wow. You don't want much, do you?
Actually my requirements are if anything higher. I'll get a phone when it can replace my desktop...
Hrm. Isn't it a bit small for use as a doorstop?
That would be defenestrate. De-fenestrate is quite different :p
Although the article links to another about an Australian telco executive attacking the iPhone that's quite entertaining.
That depends on what you wanted it to do.
Oh, the irony!
Well. Taken literally "enable" means "make possible", "supply with means, knowledge, or opportunity", "give sanction to" or "make operational".
In other words: you can't play unless we let you.
The arrogance is astounding. Of course it may in fact be the case that Microsoft can make everyone pack up and go home if they want to. Does this mean they've decided to let it live?
Nah. It probably doesn't mean anything.
Bring back Red Dwarf or Babylon 5 instead, those haven't been milked enough :)
I dislike calling coworkers. Partly because it requires them to drop what they're doing, which seems a bit rude. Fortunately where I work I can usually just wander over and talk to people.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, email is for anything with >1 day deadline, face to face is for anything urgent or unexpected. (i.e. asking for a favour).
Huh. I guess they're good for something after all.
Well. I wouldn't bet on Tetris not being patentable in America. (Ignoring prior art at this point, obviously).
You must mean the old tale of the ant, the grasshoper and the squirrel.
I did read the article. I was just pointing out that the headline+summary are pretty misleading; this is not even trying to be a silicon replacement.
The feature size (10-100 micrometres) is 100-2000 times what you'll get from a modern silicon fab plant (50-100 nanometres). Call it 1000 times for the sake of argument. So for every organic transistor you could instead have 1,000,000 in silicon. It's not exactly going to be a revolution in processing power. (In fact it puts us back in the early 60s).
The market is apparently cheap, disposable logic. From the sound of it, the fab plants are about 100 times cheaper for the same chip-area/year output. That means each transistor will be up to 10,000 times more expensive; it's going to have to be very simple logic to be cost-effective.
The process sounds like it could be well suited to doing small runs, so I suppose that's something.
Ah well. I will go on record as saying that this is not hugely exciting. When in 50 years' time organic semiconductors have taken over you can all mock me as appropriate :)
But is it useful? For military and some business use, I can see it... but does anyone actually run SELinux on a home system?
If so -- why?
That was what I thought. I suppose logically they can make the requirements stricter while forcing backwards compatability with the draft. (i.e. you can no longer do X but you must communicate with other hardware that does X).
But then, what has logic got to do with it?
For what?
No, wait, I don't want to know.