Most but not all of the electric power going into the CPU is turned into heat in the CPU. The CPU drives external wires, some of which may be terminated. Energy is lost in the termination, and some (hopefully small) amount is turned into elctromagetic radiation.
Dual core is closer to being true multiple processors than hyperthreading is. Hyperthreading has duplicate registers for a second process and if the first process becomes stalled the second process' registers get swapped in and the chip attempts to make progress on the second process. Dual cores can actually run two processes (threads) on the same clock cycle.
This is why open source is so good. Have a time hog application that is single thread? Rewrite it to take advantage of multiple threads. Not an easy job, but you'll gain an education in writing tricky code.
There's a tradeoff here between flicker and bandwidth.
When TV was young, tubes were used for amplification and they had by today's standards very limited gain-bandwidth product. Increased bandwidth would require additional amplification stages and thus significantly increased cost. The 5 to 6 MHz bandwidth chosen was about the maximum acceptable then, and to get acceptable resolution with acceptable flicker, interlaced video was necessary.
Fine, the cost of the FPGA is $30. That's the major cost in the card, but not the only cost. Assume the total manufacturer's cost is $50 (not including development), add on packaging, middleman and retailer markups... That card isn't going to be sold for less than $100, at best.
Edison invented the high voltage thin filament incandescent lightbulb (more similar to what is in common use today than anything else at the time of the invention.)
I looked at your link to dialectical and the different definitions are contradictory. This explains how you can lump Ayn Rand in with turds like Marx and Hegel who were divorced from reality.
You need to be more discriminating. I've heard hateful language from Savage and Mike Reagan, but Limbaugh, Larry Elder, and Neal Boortz are reasonable. The same applies to the left, but their main emotional content is sneer.
A great example is the fact that Kerry-Edwards won all four debates, but all the television pundits are now saying the debates don't really matter.
The idea that K-E won the debates is just your opinion, and sounds like an echo of newscaster's opinions after the debates. It seems like most people watching or listening to the debates thought "their guy" "won". (My very weak opinion is that Cheney was better in his debate, Bush better in the last debate, and Kerry better in his first two debates. This is based upon style and debating-brownie-points.) If the debate is judged by whose statements represent what will be the best for US citizens, Bush-Cheney routed their opposition.
The idea that the media prefers Bush is just laughable. So-called journalists are dominantly liberal. It is market forces that have allowed Fox News to blindside the rest of the TV industry.
For example, "Patriotism" and "Nationalism" got really bad names in Europe because of WWI and WWII and their apparent causes.
Your point is brilliant, and shows the danger of not focussing on fundamentals. Patriotism toward a bad government is bad. Patriotism toward a good government is a limited good, requiring that the government stay good and that the individual frequently check the government's performance with respect to his standards.
Your Mix C compiler may well run 1000 times faster now. 8086s took at least 4 cycles (IIRC) to execute a single instruction and could only grab 16 bits at a time (and 8088s only 8 bits). Contrarywise, disk I/O hasn't improved nearly as much and might be the limiting factor.
Velocity is determined by the permittivity (dielectric constant) and the permeability of the medium in which the conductor is embedded, not (to a first approximation) the conductivity of the conductor.
High dispersion is still a problem in digital cameras. Digital processing cannot completely fix chromatic focus errors. Even with three sensors at different focus points, there is an error band across the split spectra.
High index material also causes more problems with internal reflections. This is solved with coating (and multicoating), but I've read that suitable materials to multicoat high refractive index optics are unavilable.
We're already having lots of trouble with trees and it has nothing to do with modern GM. Consider elms and American chestnuts, both nearly wiped out. There are breeding programs already in place, particularly for the commercially valuable chestnut, to produce disease resistant varieties.
Although a 128 bit data path can be useful for getting data to the CPU faster, there's negligible use for 128 bit addresses. A full 128 bit implementation is unlikely to fulfill any market need in this decade or the first half of the next.
Internal combustion engines require technology not available until at least the 1700's. Diesels require good metallurgy and excellent machining (to make injectors). Non-diesel piston engines require electrics, late 1800's. Other IC varieties are no simpler.
Portability, durability, permanence (will that web page be there in a year, or am I going to have to save it to disk, and if I do so will the links work?), ability to write in the margins and cross out things I know are wrong.
The web is a different kind of tool, and important information is occasionally very difficult to find or just not there. Same applies to books.
It's not a coincidence that the initial disease vector was a male homosexual. Anal sex tends to break capillaries, making the transmission of AIDS much more likely.
The value of options to an employee vary according to the type of options and the ability of the employee to affect the price of the company's stock. Options to buy General Motors stock at today's price don't have any motivating value to the line worker who is unlikely to be able to raise the stock price of a company in long-term slow decline. No matter how hard he works or what brilliant suggestions he makes, by the time he can exercise his options the stock will be below the strike price and the options will be worthless.
There are some important issues you are glossing over here.
First, even very expensive, excellent quality lenses for 35 mm cameras do not have resolutions better than 100 lp/mm (5 micron spot) and system resolution is roughly the root-mean-sum-of-squares of the limiting factors.
Second, the "medium speed microfilms" you cite are specialty films for black-and-white duplicating. The medium speed color negative films that most people are going to be using have MTFs that fall below fifty percent before they reach 60 lp/mm (8 micron spot size).
Third, unless shooting is done at very high shutter speeds or a massive tripod is used or a strobe flash freezes motion, motion blur will dominate the loss-of-resolution mechanisms at this quality level.
For practical purposes of general high quality amateur and similar use, this new Canon product meets the resolution of 35 mm film products and doesn't suffer from the randomness of film.
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Most but not all of the electric power going into the CPU is turned into heat in the CPU. The CPU drives external wires, some of which may be terminated. Energy is lost in the termination, and some (hopefully small) amount is turned into elctromagetic radiation.
Dual core is closer to being true multiple processors than hyperthreading is. Hyperthreading has duplicate registers for a second process and if the first process becomes stalled the second process' registers get swapped in and the chip attempts to make progress on the second process. Dual cores can actually run two processes (threads) on the same clock cycle.
This is why open source is so good. Have a time hog application that is single thread? Rewrite it to take advantage of multiple threads. Not an easy job, but you'll gain an education in writing tricky code.
When TV was young, tubes were used for amplification and they had by today's standards very limited gain-bandwidth product. Increased bandwidth would require additional amplification stages and thus significantly increased cost. The 5 to 6 MHz bandwidth chosen was about the maximum acceptable then, and to get acceptable resolution with acceptable flicker, interlaced video was necessary.
Fine, the cost of the FPGA is $30. That's the major cost in the card, but not the only cost. Assume the total manufacturer's cost is $50 (not including development), add on packaging, middleman and retailer markups... That card isn't going to be sold for less than $100, at best.
Edison invented the high voltage thin filament incandescent lightbulb (more similar to what is in common use today than anything else at the time of the invention.)
I looked at your link to dialectical and the different definitions are contradictory. This explains how you can lump Ayn Rand in with turds like Marx and Hegel who were divorced from reality.
You need to be more discriminating. I've heard hateful language from Savage and Mike Reagan, but Limbaugh, Larry Elder, and Neal Boortz are reasonable. The same applies to the left, but their main emotional content is sneer.
The idea that K-E won the debates is just your opinion, and sounds like an echo of newscaster's opinions after the debates. It seems like most people watching or listening to the debates thought "their guy" "won". (My very weak opinion is that Cheney was better in his debate, Bush better in the last debate, and Kerry better in his first two debates. This is based upon style and debating-brownie-points.) If the debate is judged by whose statements represent what will be the best for US citizens, Bush-Cheney routed their opposition.
The idea that the media prefers Bush is just laughable. So-called journalists are dominantly liberal. It is market forces that have allowed Fox News to blindside the rest of the TV industry.
Your point is brilliant, and shows the danger of not focussing on fundamentals. Patriotism toward a bad government is bad. Patriotism toward a good government is a limited good, requiring that the government stay good and that the individual frequently check the government's performance with respect to his standards.
Your Mix C compiler may well run 1000 times faster now. 8086s took at least 4 cycles (IIRC) to execute a single instruction and could only grab 16 bits at a time (and 8088s only 8 bits). Contrarywise, disk I/O hasn't improved nearly as much and might be the limiting factor.
Velocity is determined by the permittivity (dielectric constant) and the permeability of the medium in which the conductor is embedded, not (to a first approximation) the conductivity of the conductor.
High index material also causes more problems with internal reflections. This is solved with coating (and multicoating), but I've read that suitable materials to multicoat high refractive index optics are unavilable.
No, YOU don't know enough. The people who create this stuff are quite knowledgeable, and paranoids like you are not competent to regulate them.
We're already having lots of trouble with trees and it has nothing to do with modern GM. Consider elms and American chestnuts, both nearly wiped out. There are breeding programs already in place, particularly for the commercially valuable chestnut, to produce disease resistant varieties.
More beneficial by what standard?
This thing called civilization could be dangerous. Better not develop it.
Although a 128 bit data path can be useful for getting data to the CPU faster, there's negligible use for 128 bit addresses. A full 128 bit implementation is unlikely to fulfill any market need in this decade or the first half of the next.
Internal combustion engines require technology not available until at least the 1700's. Diesels require good metallurgy and excellent machining (to make injectors). Non-diesel piston engines require electrics, late 1800's. Other IC varieties are no simpler.
The web is a different kind of tool, and important information is occasionally very difficult to find or just not there. Same applies to books.
Carelessness IS immoral. Have you never heard the term "criminal negligence?"
It's not a coincidence that the initial disease vector was a male homosexual. Anal sex tends to break capillaries, making the transmission of AIDS much more likely.
Don't be silly. There are several companies that have nothing but patent portfolios to provide income. Consider, for example, Rambus.
The value of options to an employee vary according to the type of options and the ability of the employee to affect the price of the company's stock. Options to buy General Motors stock at today's price don't have any motivating value to the line worker who is unlikely to be able to raise the stock price of a company in long-term slow decline. No matter how hard he works or what brilliant suggestions he makes, by the time he can exercise his options the stock will be below the strike price and the options will be worthless.
First, even very expensive, excellent quality lenses for 35 mm cameras do not have resolutions better than 100 lp/mm (5 micron spot) and system resolution is roughly the root-mean-sum-of-squares of the limiting factors.
Second, the "medium speed microfilms" you cite are specialty films for black-and-white duplicating. The medium speed color negative films that most people are going to be using have MTFs that fall below fifty percent before they reach 60 lp/mm (8 micron spot size).
Third, unless shooting is done at very high shutter speeds or a massive tripod is used or a strobe flash freezes motion, motion blur will dominate the loss-of-resolution mechanisms at this quality level.
For practical purposes of general high quality amateur and similar use, this new Canon product meets the resolution of 35 mm film products and doesn't suffer from the randomness of film.