A smart business person would also take into account the operating costs of the hardware, not just the capital cost. If the TCO of flash drive is lower than hard disks, it will prevail. The TCO would include cost of electricity (operating and cooling), MTBF values, and possibly density (i.e gigabyte / cubic inch).
No.. the contest is clearly not over. The contest will run until the 10% improvement has been reached. If the grand prize has not been awarded by 1 year after the start (October 2 2006, 00:00:00 UTC), then the $50,000 progress prize may be awarded, if and only if there is a 1% improvement from the start of the contest (or the from the progress prize winner of the previous year).
After a submission has been made that shows 10% improvement, then all contestants will have 30 days to make their final submissions before judging begins. The only exception to this rule is that the 30 day notice can not be sent out before 3 months after the start of the contest.
Have you seen the price of house in California? Most people I know put 60%-70% of their salary into a mortgage. Sounds like 50% is probably a good deal.
The spacing of transitors is at best 65nm by todays standards. The average width of an atom is 130 picometers, or 0.13nm. The transistor size has a long way to go before it reaches a "few atoms".
You might be refereing to the gate oxide layer which is much closer to a couple atoms, but this doesn't mean that the transistor does not still have a long way to go.
I bet if you asked the experts in the 1980's they probably would have said the theoretically limit would be hit by the turn of the century.
Was it just my imagination or did some of the final Death Star battle scenes in Ep IV look like the color level drops out almost entirely? Especially the Death Star explosion, it looks horribly pixelated and almost entirely in black and white. Can anyone confirm this or is my TV/DVD just messed up? I'll try it on my computer to confirm.
For all those people that think "Intel screwed themslelves with the MHz myth", and "they should follow AMD's number scheme", they are already doing this. Read it for yourselves:
For all those people that think Intel is just doing this to clear out inventory, that is also not true. How many people do you know go for the top of the line, most expensive processor anyway? How much % of the population outside of the US could even afford anything near the top of line. US sales can't be more than 40% of Intels global sales. They will be able to sell any excess inventory without a problem in Asia/India/MiddleEast.
The most likely reason for this is that yeilds are so low that the cost for the chip would be out of line with current prices. The delay will give the fabs enough time to improve their process steps and get wafer yields inline with the other processors.
This design has been tackled recently by a person at my engineering school. The results were good considering it was done with only a few grand. A lot of documentation on how it was completed is posted.
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A smart business person would also take into account the operating costs of the hardware, not just the capital cost. If the TCO of flash drive is lower than hard disks, it will prevail. The TCO would include cost of electricity (operating and cooling), MTBF values, and possibly density (i.e gigabyte / cubic inch).
Too bad C-Net has to copy other peoples ideas.
No .. the contest is clearly not over. The contest will run until the 10% improvement has been reached. If the grand prize has not been awarded by 1 year after the start (October 2 2006, 00:00:00 UTC), then the $50,000 progress prize may be awarded, if and only if there is a 1% improvement from the start of the contest (or the from the progress prize winner of the previous year).
After a submission has been made that shows 10% improvement, then all contestants will have 30 days to make their final submissions before judging begins. The only exception to this rule is that the 30 day notice can not be sent out before 3 months after the start of the contest.
Have you seen the price of house in California? Most people I know put 60%-70% of their salary into a mortgage. Sounds like 50% is probably a good deal.
I can't reveal the results but the bottomline, AMD's performance was far better than Intels. It Rocks!
I always look for the term "It Rocks" in my benchmarking results. Can't get more scientific than that.
The spacing of transitors is at best 65nm by todays standards. The average width of an atom is 130 picometers, or 0.13nm. The transistor size has a long way to go before it reaches a "few atoms".
You might be refereing to the gate oxide layer which is much closer to a couple atoms, but this doesn't mean that the transistor does not still have a long way to go.
I bet if you asked the experts in the 1980's they probably would have said the theoretically limit would be hit by the turn of the century.
Are you kidding me? Get a clue. South Korea is years ahead of the US with respect to high speed internet availability and cell phone technology.
Was it just my imagination or did some of the final Death Star battle scenes in Ep IV look like the color level drops out almost entirely? Especially the Death Star explosion, it looks horribly pixelated and almost entirely in black and white. Can anyone confirm this or is my TV/DVD just messed up? I'll try it on my computer to confirm.
For all those people that think "Intel screwed themslelves with the MHz myth", and "they should follow AMD's number scheme", they are already doing this. Read it for yourselves:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/
And...
For all those people that think Intel is just doing this to clear out inventory, that is also not true. How many people do you know go for the top of the line, most expensive processor anyway? How much % of the population outside of the US could even afford anything near the top of line. US sales can't be more than 40% of Intels global sales. They will be able to sell any excess inventory without a problem in Asia/India/MiddleEast.
The most likely reason for this is that yeilds are so low that the cost for the chip would be out of line with current prices. The delay will give the fabs enough time to improve their process steps and get wafer yields inline with the other processors.
I bet in 30 years PORN will be awesome !! ;)
He means:
"(Nokia N-Gage, anyone?)"
should be
"(Nokia N-Gage anyone?)"
XviD owned ?? oohhhh yeahhh BloodBR ownz XviD - sorry admin leak@hackermail.com
Anyone notice the response from the xvid.org site? Looks like it was slashdotted , hacked or both.
Features sound great ... but does it play OGG's ??
This design has been tackled recently by a person at my engineering school. The results were good considering it was done with only a few grand. A lot of documentation on how it was completed is posted.
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