where do I insert the coins in my computer?
what will be the conversion rate for other currencies? do I have to break apart if the conversion turns out to be non integer?
when can I get the IntelliCoin usb inserter for all these coins?
what if I don't have any cent pieces. will they give me some change? or will there be a "keep the change" button on all these great websites I will visit daily.
where do I get all these coins? imagine, people will need like thousands of these coins per month. this will pose a serious logistical problem to the federal reserve banks and such all around the world.
So, if I understand the article correctly, they did not only have this great.. NEW idea, but they also went to Bill Gates, Bill liked the idea "harhar cool stuff let's build this before anyone else comes up with it" and then they spent 1.5 YEARS?? with it? omen, this is just sad.
your observations are as far away from the real world as one can get. NO matter what system is used, you have an internal meaningful representation of an abstract number in your head because you have grown up using that system. To me (European), 6 ft tall has no meaning whatsoever (despite your mathematical prove that it is easier to comprehend), unless I start !calculating! and think "mmh.. that's about 1.80 meters, better don't mess with that guy". Same with temperatures. Same way if I tell you it's 21 celsius outside today. It's a cultural thing first and foremost.
Anyway I'd suggest we start using base 2 right now, I mean you can count to 1023 with ten fingers then (sorry, old old joke from 1st day at university). and you could print bit patterns on consumer products instead of barcodes, whow cool, everyone could read it instantly!! and you could indicate your height (meta-)metric with just eight fingers (or just seven, if you're very small or work in a saw mill, hahaha!)
This stuff has been in the pipe for a long long time. It appears that large corporate customers have been testing it since February - and they did not test it as a file and print server. We are talking serious stuff here, no funny small web server, but SAP R/3 and the like. The stuff you run a large company on.
Do you really believe a Company like Compaq would come up with an Intel box with TPC-C numbers as high as these as an answer to some AMD pre-release info? Getting these numbers means squeezing these boxes to the limit, and that takes weeks, and a lot of nightshifts... would be a rather large effort. Believe me, this is a serious architecture, and not at all comparable to the PentiumPro 8way (not scaling at all) that used to be around a year ago.
And yes, you are absolutely right on the bandwidth issue, but keep in mind: The core of this technology is not the single bus, it is the high-speed crossbar switch (Profusion) that sits in the middle of the architecture. read the specs: It actually has ten unidirectional ports that appear as five bi-directional ports. With the 100-MHz buses attached, there is a peak throughput on each port of 800 MB/s. With all five ports, the crossbar switch allows a maximum peak throughput of 4.0 GB/s. Ok, that's theoretical - as is the EV6 stuff.
..met him at a SAP tradeshow back in May in Europe. We SEs were still building the booth. A guy in a dark suit appeared beside the booth. All he said, was: "Hi, I'm Mike"... took us a while to figure out he was the CIO. we were pretty impressed: normally these guys visit the booth for like 10 minutes, and you can't even see them because they are completely immersed in other suits protecting them from the real world.
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where do I insert the coins in my computer?
what will be the conversion rate for other currencies? do I have to break apart if the conversion turns out to be non integer?
when can I get the IntelliCoin usb inserter for all these coins?
what if I don't have any cent pieces. will they give me some change? or will there be a "keep the change" button on all these great websites I will visit daily.
where do I get all these coins? imagine, people will need like thousands of these coins per month. this will pose a serious logistical problem to the federal reserve banks and such all around the world.
So, if I understand the article correctly, they did not only have this great.. NEW idea, but they also went to Bill Gates, Bill liked the idea "harhar cool stuff let's build this before anyone else comes up with it" and then they spent 1.5 YEARS?? with it? omen, this is just sad.
your observations are as far away from the real world as one can get. NO matter what system is used, you have an internal meaningful representation of an abstract number in your head because you have grown up using that system. To me (European), 6 ft tall has no meaning whatsoever (despite your mathematical prove that it is easier to comprehend), unless I start !calculating! and think "mmh.. that's about 1.80 meters, better don't mess with that guy". Same with temperatures. Same way if I tell you it's 21 celsius outside today. It's a cultural thing first and foremost.
Anyway I'd suggest we start using base 2 right now, I mean you can count to 1023 with ten fingers then (sorry, old old joke from 1st day at university). and you could print bit patterns on consumer products instead of barcodes, whow cool, everyone could read it instantly!! and you could indicate your height (meta-)metric with just eight fingers (or just seven, if you're very small or work in a saw mill, hahaha!)
This stuff has been in the pipe for a long long
time. It appears that large corporate customers have been testing it since February - and they did not test it as
a file and print server. We are talking serious stuff here, no funny small web server, but SAP R/3 and the like. The stuff you run a large company on.
Do you really believe a Company like Compaq would
come up with an Intel box with TPC-C numbers as high as these as an answer to some AMD pre-release info?
Getting these numbers means squeezing these boxes
to the limit, and that takes weeks, and a lot of
nightshifts... would be a rather large effort. Believe me, this is a serious architecture, and not at all comparable to the PentiumPro 8way
(not scaling at all) that used to be around a year ago.
And yes, you are absolutely right on the bandwidth
issue, but keep in mind: The core of this technology is not the single bus, it is the high-speed crossbar switch (Profusion) that sits in the middle of the architecture. read the specs: It actually has ten unidirectional ports that appear as five bi-directional ports. With the 100-MHz buses attached, there is a peak throughput on each port of 800 MB/s. With all five ports, the crossbar switch allows a maximum peak throughput of 4.0 GB/s. Ok, that's theoretical - as is the EV6 stuff.
if anyone can do it, it's got to be him.
..met him at a SAP tradeshow back in May in Europe. We SEs were still building the booth. A guy in a dark suit appeared beside the booth. All he said, was: "Hi, I'm Mike"... took us a while to figure out he was the CIO. we were pretty impressed: normally these guys visit the booth for like 10 minutes, and you can't even see them because they are completely immersed in other suits protecting them from the real world.