if you always get a negative reinforcement for an action, operant conditioning will cause the drivers to slow down.
Sorry, not in this case. You can follow cars mile after mile travelling west in California's San Fernando valley. Speed limit is 30 or 35 mph and the lights are timed to match the posted speed. More than half the cars travel 5 to 15 mph over the limit and brake to a full stop at each stoplight, every quarter or half mile. They never learn, never even show a hint that they understand what is happening, not in the 21 years I lived there.
There's no reason for Sun to make their own fab, UMC and TSMC and IBM all provide state-of-the-art foundries. But your basic point is valid. In my opinion continuing to utilize the SPARC architecture is foolish.
Unions also use the threat of violence. Consider if you wish to be a member of a group that were it not called a "union", would be a criminal organization.
Early 360s had a clock rate of 4 MHz and didn't get much higher before the name changed to 370. So I'm imagining tons of hardware doing a lot less work than a desktop PC.
Flat frequency response on axis. Low levels of distortion. Reasonably uniform off-axis response. Ability to be used at high SPL without self-destructing.
I dropped my Reason subscription because I only got 7 of 11 issues and no response when I complained.
You're fortunate if you live in an area where Reason is available on a newstand. 15,000 copies for newstands doesn't go very far. Think of 10 newstands in each of the 200 largest cities, and that's less than 8 copies per newstand with nothing left for the rest of the country.
No, eventually it will be possible to build many layers of silicon storage. When 1 bit can be stored per cubic micron, that's 125 Gbyte per cc. Many layers of storage is probably not practical for a rotating medium, I'm rather surprised that DVDs have managed 2 per side.
I think Rochester depends pretty heavily on Kodak. Kodak is trying, but it's in decline. When a city's industrial base declines, it's hard to find the money to keep the place pretty.
To some extent, clean rooms are going away. Wafers stay inside sealed production lines, away from nasty dirty people who are now free to get out of their bunny suits.
It's fairly obvious that this will happen eventually, it would be more interesting if you provided a timeline for these events.
Parallel processing can only go so far in making speed improvements. Another technique that needs more attention paid to it is piping. If you're performing 50 operations on every byte of a 10 gigabyte file, some things can be sped up by doing the first 5 steps in one processor, sending the data to the second processor, doing the next 5 steps there, etc..
I'm no expert here, but I've read that focussing X-rays is in the difficult-to-impossible range. X-rays have dimensions comparable to atomic dimensions, so making a surface that looks smooth to an X-ray is not possible. Zone plates sound like a good idea. Is scattering going to be a problem? Can contrast ratios be made high enough?
Cache. Main memory. Flash, eprom, etc.. There is a variety of steps between processor and hard disk that address this problem. Yes, faster hard drives would be nice, but there are limits to how fast things can spin. It's not as if companies like Seagate aren't busting a gut trying to improve the technology.
DeBeers has mines in many countries (including Arkansas in the USA IIRC) and has worked to control production in other places (recently, Australia). This is just from memory, please don't rely on this.
Short-long weeks can be tough on many people who have to be around for their children or otherwise mesh with other fixed schedules. For other people they are a delight, cutting down the number of commutes to work and providing one or two additional "vacation" days evey fortnight. I always enjoyed the extra "off" days.
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So instead of 1 in a million speeders dieing from speeding, 1 in 100 will die, spinning off the road to avoid a deer. And then the lawsuits start.
Sorry, not in this case. You can follow cars mile after mile travelling west in California's San Fernando valley. Speed limit is 30 or 35 mph and the lights are timed to match the posted speed. More than half the cars travel 5 to 15 mph over the limit and brake to a full stop at each stoplight, every quarter or half mile. They never learn, never even show a hint that they understand what is happening, not in the 21 years I lived there.
Commodore died because of malicious management, and is therefor not a valid comparison.
There's no reason for Sun to make their own fab, UMC and TSMC and IBM all provide state-of-the-art foundries. But your basic point is valid. In my opinion continuing to utilize the SPARC architecture is foolish.
Then they could do productive work instead of being blood suckers.
You've confused "right" with "power". There is no right to steal (a.k.a. tax).
Unions also use the threat of violence. Consider if you wish to be a member of a group that were it not called a "union", would be a criminal organization.
No, you're flaming.
The last time I got bit.
Early 360s had a clock rate of 4 MHz and didn't get much higher before the name changed to 370. So I'm imagining tons of hardware doing a lot less work than a desktop PC.
Is this weather data on-line? Or do they keep it on tape in some warehouse, to be mounted rarely, if ever?
Flat frequency response on axis. Low levels of distortion. Reasonably uniform off-axis response. Ability to be used at high SPL without self-destructing.
Oh, for Guinness sake.
You're fortunate if you live in an area where Reason is available on a newstand. 15,000 copies for newstands doesn't go very far. Think of 10 newstands in each of the 200 largest cities, and that's less than 8 copies per newstand with nothing left for the rest of the country.
Reason, like most political specialty magazines, loses money on each issue. It survives through voluntary contributions to the Reason Foundation.
No, eventually it will be possible to build many layers of silicon storage. When 1 bit can be stored per cubic micron, that's 125 Gbyte per cc. Many layers of storage is probably not practical for a rotating medium, I'm rather surprised that DVDs have managed 2 per side.
In California they're related to moonbeams.
I think Rochester depends pretty heavily on Kodak. Kodak is trying, but it's in decline. When a city's industrial base declines, it's hard to find the money to keep the place pretty.
To some extent, clean rooms are going away. Wafers stay inside sealed production lines, away from nasty dirty people who are now free to get out of their bunny suits.
Parallel processing can only go so far in making speed improvements. Another technique that needs more attention paid to it is piping. If you're performing 50 operations on every byte of a 10 gigabyte file, some things can be sped up by doing the first 5 steps in one processor, sending the data to the second processor, doing the next 5 steps there, etc..
I'm no expert here, but I've read that focussing X-rays is in the difficult-to-impossible range. X-rays have dimensions comparable to atomic dimensions, so making a surface that looks smooth to an X-ray is not possible. Zone plates sound like a good idea. Is scattering going to be a problem? Can contrast ratios be made high enough?
Cache. Main memory. Flash, eprom, etc.. There is a variety of steps between processor and hard disk that address this problem. Yes, faster hard drives would be nice, but there are limits to how fast things can spin. It's not as if companies like Seagate aren't busting a gut trying to improve the technology.
DeBeers has mines in many countries (including Arkansas in the USA IIRC) and has worked to control production in other places (recently, Australia). This is just from memory, please don't rely on this.
Didn't Juan Ponce de Leon (1460-1521) do some research on this subject?
Short-long weeks can be tough on many people who have to be around for their children or otherwise mesh with other fixed schedules. For other people they are a delight, cutting down the number of commutes to work and providing one or two additional "vacation" days evey fortnight. I always enjoyed the extra "off" days.