f = 16 GHz = 16 × 10^9 1/s gives a period t = 1/f = 0.0625 × 10^(–9) s. Distance x = ct = 3.00 × 10^8 m/s × 0.0625 × 10^(–9) s = 0.019 m. But yes, a THz chip would be seriously up-fucked.
Indeed. Light travels just under 2 centimetres in the 16 GHz period. The Pentium 4 core is not much smaller than this... it seems like they're pushing their luck on order-of-magnitude estimates alone.
There used to be lots of UNIX workstations around my university. Nice, solid machines. Then one day they vanished, replaced by a bunch of temperamental Windows machines. Thankfully I'm now a postgrad and don't have to put up with that crap anymore since I have a workstation on my desk, and have access to the Linux compute servers.
Grandparent wasn't high-horsing: availablility of Free source means a lot to him/her, as it does to me. It is a requirement Windows and Mac OS X do not fulfil adequately. We therefore make like good capitalists and pays our money (or not) and takes ours choice — be that Linux, BSD or something more exotic. So-called moral high-grounds are not in play.
That an operating system can run on my computer is its privilege, not its right.
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So is this the real reason why Sun Ra came to Earth?
Actually that didn't work out too well... I had something for a general audience in mind...
f = 16 GHz = 16 × 10^9 1/s gives a period t = 1/f = 0.0625 × 10^(–9) s. Distance x = ct = 3.00 × 10^8 m/s × 0.0625 × 10^(–9) s = 0.019 m. But yes, a THz chip would be seriously up-fucked.
Indeed. Light travels just under 2 centimetres in the 16 GHz period. The Pentium 4 core is not much smaller than this... it seems like they're pushing their luck on order-of-magnitude estimates alone.
And you don't even know where the jello toupee is being worn.
Inexpensive.
Then you should know by now that the only system of units one needs are those in which hbar = c = 1, and all lengths are inverse energies.
1 cm^3 of pure water doesn't weigh 1 g at sea level. 1 cm^3 of water has mass 1 g at etc., etc. Dimensions, people!
"Gran Paradiso". Sounds like a "professional" name for an old hooker.
Even those conservative New England housewives?
Yeah, Debian/Solaris crossed my mind too.
Oh my God, I'm a geek.
Is this because we finally paid off the lend/lease debt?
There used to be lots of UNIX workstations around my university. Nice, solid machines. Then one day they vanished, replaced by a bunch of temperamental Windows machines. Thankfully I'm now a postgrad and don't have to put up with that crap anymore since I have a workstation on my desk, and have access to the Linux compute servers.
"A keyboard? How quaint!"
"High-end industrial"? What, for those with a CNC machine fetish?
You either (a) are being disingenuous; (b) are well self-controlled; or (c) frequent this place enough to have a username by now.
in paroxysms of passion. "One-night stands! One-night stands! One-night stands! One-night stands!"
The only reason that matters is BECAUSE WE CAN.
I thought you'd've realised by now that the US has no citizens, only consumers.
Grandparent wasn't high-horsing: availablility of Free source means a lot to him/her, as it does to me. It is a requirement Windows and Mac OS X do not fulfil adequately. We therefore make like good capitalists and pays our money (or not) and takes ours choice — be that Linux, BSD or something more exotic. So-called moral high-grounds are not in play.
That an operating system can run on my computer is its privilege, not its right.