AMD designed the processors used on the PS4 and the Xbox One as well. And yes it does take 2-3 years to design a whole new architecture like Zen even if they had deep pockets like Intel. Which they don't.
AFAIK the typical problem of a stellarator is that because of the confinement geometry it's less useful as a confinement testing device. You basically have to rebuild the stellarator to change the confinement geometry to any significant degree unlike in a tokamak. It also requires a lot of customized parts. Designing one is a headache. Make a mistake, the power output is crap, then you need to break it down and rebuilt it. That's why research on stellarators was mostly abandoned in favor of tokamaks. AFAIK to increase the plasma density you still need some kind of electromagnet even with a stellarator geometry.
I don't know man. I suspect the materials aren't there and may not be for quite some time. Of course if we don't invest on projects which require the use of materials which sustain heavy neutron impacts, or better superconductors, the materials may never come to be.
You got that backwards. Fusions bombs use a fission trigger which generates enough neutrons to ignite the D-T. Typically most of the energy in a fusion bomb, at least in a Teller-Ulam design, comes from fusion. Unless the design is flawed somehow.
There are other ways to generate the neutrons to ignite the D-T. The ignition of the fuel has never feel the problem, the problem is how to contain the burning plasma at enough density in a steady state configuration.
AMD increased their production quite a lot. First with the switch from Austin to Dresden and then when they doubled Dresden's size. It takes a couple years to build a modern manufacturing plant and it takes quite a lot of capital. AMD could have done it much faster had Intel not interfered with their anti-competitive practices with the Japanese manufacturers, among others, remember that AMD had to basically give away chips to Compaq back then so they would even accept their because of Intel's monopolist practices (for which they were sued and ended up settling with AMD for quite a large amount of money). Now for the reason as why AMD had to sell its fabs to GlobalFoundries, that was because of the lame-ass move of buying ATI at the peak of its market price, a move which was highly suspicious and which landed several people into court.
Oh he did quite a lot worse than not turn it around. Several of the cellphone companies back then are still around in some form or another. With the cash reserves they had they could have done a lot better.
I still remember when I ran Linux/X11 on a Pentium with 16 MB of RAM. Paltry specs compared with a modern smartphone. Yet X11 is considered "heavy" for some reason. Feh.
Everybody used to carry around paper agendas and briefcases with their important files. Now you can completely replace that entire thing with your smartphone.
Curiously the Android phone I bought has no buit-in text editor facilities at all, there is Google Drive, but you need to be connected to the network. Lame.
Actually I think it makes a lot of sense to have a bunch of bio-sensors on something you can place on your arm. It doesn't have to be on the wrist, it could be a bracer or something. I bought one of the heart monitoring devices, but like you said it, doesn't work that well doesn't mean this will always be the case though.
If someone could make a non-invasive heart meter, glucose meter, or lipid profile meter it would sell quite a lot.
You're assuming you can find a job which will pay like that on 8 hours a day. I'm tired of the entitled boss bullshit. It's even worse than the entitled employee bullshit.
It uses power and it doesn't violate conservation of momentum any more than a submarine. The only question is can push against the vacuum like you can push against water/air or not.
Ceramic shingles are cheap. Ever heard the adage 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'? You don't see that many large glass surfaces around for a pretty good reason...
Read the article. They basically want to do flights where most of the travel route is over the ocean.
I'm more interested in which engines they are using. Aside from military engines I can't think of any single engine available today which has an afterburner (which they will need if they want to hit Mach 2+).
If I understand this correctly labor hours are different from wall clock hours. Say you have to people working on manufacturing at the same time. The labor hours will increase even if the wall clock hours are the same.
It will basically make them focus more on self-reliance. One point against it is that the less interconnected both economies become they more likely it is that war might happen between them.
It's basically the same thing they did with the high speed trains. The Chinese bought a couple of each design and got licenses to manufacture all them in China. Then they started making their own versions with increasingly more Chinese content until they don't need to the licenses any longer. The Chinese bought basically all nuclear reactor designs that mattered and built them in China (Canadian, Russian, French, American, etc).
Western culture is about as old as Chinese culture regardless of what the Chinese claim. Western civilization is based on ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Phoenician culture.
It's not like the historical capital for China was always Beijing either.
They pay a royalty per device for it. Try charging a royalty per copy for something you distribute for free and see how long you'll stay in business...
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AMD designed the processors used on the PS4 and the Xbox One as well. And yes it does take 2-3 years to design a whole new architecture like Zen even if they had deep pockets like Intel. Which they don't.
AFAIK the typical problem of a stellarator is that because of the confinement geometry it's less useful as a confinement testing device. You basically have to rebuild the stellarator to change the confinement geometry to any significant degree unlike in a tokamak. It also requires a lot of customized parts. Designing one is a headache. Make a mistake, the power output is crap, then you need to break it down and rebuilt it. That's why research on stellarators was mostly abandoned in favor of tokamaks. AFAIK to increase the plasma density you still need some kind of electromagnet even with a stellarator geometry.
I don't know man. I suspect the materials aren't there and may not be for quite some time. Of course if we don't invest on projects which require the use of materials which sustain heavy neutron impacts, or better superconductors, the materials may never come to be.
You got that backwards. Fusions bombs use a fission trigger which generates enough neutrons to ignite the D-T. Typically most of the energy in a fusion bomb, at least in a Teller-Ulam design, comes from fusion. Unless the design is flawed somehow.
There are other ways to generate the neutrons to ignite the D-T. The ignition of the fuel has never feel the problem, the problem is how to contain the burning plasma at enough density in a steady state configuration.
Its a failure for their investors, but I'm not an investor, so why should I care?
AMD increased their production quite a lot. First with the switch from Austin to Dresden and then when they doubled Dresden's size. It takes a couple years to build a modern manufacturing plant and it takes quite a lot of capital. AMD could have done it much faster had Intel not interfered with their anti-competitive practices with the Japanese manufacturers, among others, remember that AMD had to basically give away chips to Compaq back then so they would even accept their because of Intel's monopolist practices (for which they were sued and ended up settling with AMD for quite a large amount of money). Now for the reason as why AMD had to sell its fabs to GlobalFoundries, that was because of the lame-ass move of buying ATI at the peak of its market price, a move which was highly suspicious and which landed several people into court.
I guess your graphics card didn't have hardware cursor support. I had a an S3 968 with VRAM.
It's supposed to be called Elerium-115. Not Moscovium-115. Damned uncultured scientists...
Oh he did quite a lot worse than not turn it around. Several of the cellphone companies back then are still around in some form or another. With the cash reserves they had they could have done a lot better.
I still remember when I ran Linux/X11 on a Pentium with 16 MB of RAM. Paltry specs compared with a modern smartphone. Yet X11 is considered "heavy" for some reason. Feh.
Everybody used to carry around paper agendas and briefcases with their important files. Now you can completely replace that entire thing with your smartphone.
Curiously the Android phone I bought has no buit-in text editor facilities at all, there is Google Drive, but you need to be connected to the network. Lame.
Actually I think it makes a lot of sense to have a bunch of bio-sensors on something you can place on your arm. It doesn't have to be on the wrist, it could be a bracer or something. I bought one of the heart monitoring devices, but like you said it, doesn't work that well doesn't mean this will always be the case though.
If someone could make a non-invasive heart meter, glucose meter, or lipid profile meter it would sell quite a lot.
No, what it does mean is that you are trading what is probably the most precious resource, life time, to someone else for less than what it's worth.
You're assuming you can find a job which will pay like that on 8 hours a day. I'm tired of the entitled boss bullshit. It's even worse than the entitled employee bullshit.
It uses power and it doesn't violate conservation of momentum any more than a submarine. The only question is can push against the vacuum like you can push against water/air or not.
Ceramic shingles are cheap. Ever heard the adage 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'? You don't see that many large glass surfaces around for a pretty good reason...
Read the article. They basically want to do flights where most of the travel route is over the ocean.
I'm more interested in which engines they are using. Aside from military engines I can't think of any single engine available today which has an afterburner (which they will need if they want to hit Mach 2+).
If I understand this correctly labor hours are different from wall clock hours. Say you have to people working on manufacturing at the same time. The labor hours will increase even if the wall clock hours are the same.
It will basically make them focus more on self-reliance. One point against it is that the less interconnected both economies become they more likely it is that war might happen between them.
It's basically the same thing they did with the high speed trains. The Chinese bought a couple of each design and got licenses to manufacture all them in China. Then they started making their own versions with increasingly more Chinese content until they don't need to the licenses any longer. The Chinese bought basically all nuclear reactor designs that mattered and built them in China (Canadian, Russian, French, American, etc).
Western culture is about as old as Chinese culture regardless of what the Chinese claim. Western civilization is based on ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Phoenician culture.
It's not like the historical capital for China was always Beijing either.
They pay a royalty per device for it. Try charging a royalty per copy for something you distribute for free and see how long you'll stay in business...
Actually bubble sort IS O(N) for the particular case of sorting an already sorted list. Which happens more often than you would think it does...
Try pressing the ALT key.
Fashion is knowing that nobody wears watches anymore.
I see a lot of people wearing fitness bands. Which are also watches.