The closest thing we know to a perpetual motion machine is a super conductor. A superconductor is a material that offers no resistance to electrons which freely move about. It's not quite perfect because there is no such thing as a perfectly closed system.
When america loses astronaughts their manned space flight shuts down untill years later after an investigation is done. In SOVIET RUSSIA they just kept sending man after man after man up into space. I have a feeling china would do the same damn thing.
I'm sure they'll get there eventually.
They would be able to camouflage with the sky and kill everyone in a massive BSOD. There's no way they could stop it either!
Nitrogen is actually used for this purpose
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In many large grain elevators inert gases such as nitrogen may be pumped into the silo's while the others gases are pumped out. N2 is pretty inert and is non-toxic. What is toxic is the lack of oxygen. Best yet, most of our atmosphere is nitrogen.
One day this beautifull puddle of goo will evolve into something wonderfull. By then it will be able to massively execute in parrallel and become capable of abstract thinking. It will have reached a new level of understanding and power. No wait, we can already make those! All it takes is a little love!
Perhaps this is just another "technical" and "synthetic" benchmark. It's all about real world performance, like Linus said, and there are many other shortfalls to the chip and its architecture.
"but speaking strictly from the technological point of view"
I think that was his point. It's great technically but it sucks in the real world. If its not practical its a shitty architecture IMHO.
I also think the x86-64 is a more viable solution as well.
It does get Geekier. I was programming (for school at least), on irc, had star trek on my TV tuner (set as wallpaper), and reading this/. post.
ps: Star Trek Kicks Ass!
We'll its easy enough to put that DRM in current BIOS'. In fact right now bios' can block/permit writting to the boot sector of a hard disk. All it would take is a little mod and we could have a Windows friendly bios. This new bios is definently a good improvement and has nothing to do with drm.
And yes, you are paranoid!
It seems to me that Student Unions pretty much bitch and protest nearly all administrative decisions at a university. I would really expect them to go all out in this case. If they had any brains at all there would be a huge student rally this weekend to protest this. I'm pretty sure the WHOLE school would show up. NO ONE likes to have their privacy invaded and worst yet, have RIAA and MPAA within striking distance!
Since when has MS ever cared about standards. One nice thing about being a monopoly is that you don't! I honestly hope they aren't doing this just to stop the mono project. Perhaps because one day mono will be able to run.Net applications (which MS so obviously wants everyone to run). The popularity of linux would be sure to grow because people will be able to use the same software as they do in windows From a business stand point this is a smart thing to do.
I'm at that level of chess where i'm thinking just like a computer. I basically try to think of as many moves as possible and rate them.
I like to think of computer chess as still being human because we design and program the damn things to do what we want. It's our logic not the computers that is playing with us. It's not as if the computers can think for themselves.... yet.
Sounds kick ass!
Am i misunderstanding this or do i correctly understand that this runs vhdl.
I'm in the process of learning vhdl right now and i think it would be really cool to test out some designs without looking at a waveform for a result. I'm only in 1st year engineering so actually designing hardware is out of the question. If so this would be totally kick ass!
We all know that TCPA is meant to be trusted computing but i also see many issues with it. For ex, the integration of DRM into the whole equation by microsoft. I can easily envision them integrating it into their WMP 9 technology and preventing all those without TCPA access to the media.
Next is the whole issue of what is "trusted". Is Open Source software trusted? What about compiling a custom kernel. Will that jeopardize the trustedness.
Another issue i have is with a possible encrypted hard disk. Will criminals and terrorists sabotage their OS rendering the hdd unreadable?
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The closest thing we know to a perpetual motion machine is a super conductor. A superconductor is a material that offers no resistance to electrons which freely move about. It's not quite perfect because there is no such thing as a perfectly closed system.
hahaa. lol. good one.
How many people will be willing to mess around with their hardware and possibly solder. Not many i can tell you!
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!
re sig: well, 1/2 is integer divide which will return 0.
This story has really began some good 'ol conversation of dupe vs !dupe.
1) amd makes new cpu 2) games start to support it 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!
When america loses astronaughts their manned space flight shuts down untill years later after an investigation is done. In SOVIET RUSSIA they just kept sending man after man after man up into space. I have a feeling china would do the same damn thing. I'm sure they'll get there eventually.
They would be able to camouflage with the sky and kill everyone in a massive BSOD. There's no way they could stop it either!
In many large grain elevators inert gases such as nitrogen may be pumped into the silo's while the others gases are pumped out. N2 is pretty inert and is non-toxic. What is toxic is the lack of oxygen. Best yet, most of our atmosphere is nitrogen.
Imagine what a beowulf of these would look like!
Perhaps a little like a scandinavian warrior from the 6th century!?
One day this beautifull puddle of goo will evolve into something wonderfull. By then it will be able to massively execute in parrallel and become capable of abstract thinking. It will have reached a new level of understanding and power. No wait, we can already make those! All it takes is a little love!
Perhaps this is just another "technical" and "synthetic" benchmark. It's all about real world performance, like Linus said, and there are many other shortfalls to the chip and its architecture.
"but speaking strictly from the technological point of view"
I think that was his point. It's great technically but it sucks in the real world. If its not practical its a shitty architecture IMHO.
I also think the x86-64 is a more viable solution as well.
I dunno, after all they are suicide bombers!
It does get Geekier. I was programming (for school at least), on irc, had star trek on my TV tuner (set as wallpaper), and reading this /. post.
ps: Star Trek Kicks Ass!
We'll its easy enough to put that DRM in current BIOS'. In fact right now bios' can block/permit writting to the boot sector of a hard disk. All it would take is a little mod and we could have a Windows friendly bios.
This new bios is definently a good improvement and has nothing to do with drm.
And yes, you are paranoid!
It seems to me that Student Unions pretty much bitch and protest nearly all administrative decisions at a university. I would really expect them to go all out in this case. If they had any brains at all there would be a huge student rally this weekend to protest this. I'm pretty sure the WHOLE school would show up. NO ONE likes to have their privacy invaded and worst yet, have RIAA and MPAA within striking distance!
Maybe if you post this a few more times you might finally get +5
.Net patent could stifle standards effort
.Net applications (which MS so obviously wants everyone to run). The popularity of linux would be sure to grow because people will be able to use the same software as they do in windows
Since when has MS ever cared about standards. One nice thing about being a monopoly is that you don't! I honestly hope they aren't doing this just to stop the mono project. Perhaps because one day mono will be able to run
From a business stand point this is a smart thing to do.
Engineers are the center of the Universe.
Ahmen to that!
I'm at that level of chess where i'm thinking just like a computer. I basically try to think of as many moves as possible and rate them. I like to think of computer chess as still being human because we design and program the damn things to do what we want. It's our logic not the computers that is playing with us. It's not as if the computers can think for themselves.... yet.
Sounds kick ass! Am i misunderstanding this or do i correctly understand that this runs vhdl. I'm in the process of learning vhdl right now and i think it would be really cool to test out some designs without looking at a waveform for a result. I'm only in 1st year engineering so actually designing hardware is out of the question. If so this would be totally kick ass!
We all know that TCPA is meant to be trusted computing but i also see many issues with it. For ex, the integration of DRM into the whole equation by microsoft. I can easily envision them integrating it into their WMP 9 technology and preventing all those without TCPA access to the media. Next is the whole issue of what is "trusted". Is Open Source software trusted? What about compiling a custom kernel. Will that jeopardize the trustedness. Another issue i have is with a possible encrypted hard disk. Will criminals and terrorists sabotage their OS rendering the hdd unreadable?
well, digital or not, its still is a radio wave.