Does the number of patents matter as much as their relative importance? If the 2,300 patents are similar to the ones MS was trying to strongarm B&N to license, they're not worth even the 2 cents. But if the 50 patents are for key technologies, they might even be worth more than $22.50.
Sadly, it's worse than that. He's apparently passed away due to a heart attack. I suppose it was brought on by the stress of the asthma attack. RIP Doc.
Yes, but most useful circuits don't have just one transistor, do they? Modern processors have on the order of a billion transistors. By the time we can manufacture single-atom-transistor chips, they'll probably have well over 10 billion. Ionizing radiation will be a hurdle to overcome.
You sound exactly like every naysayer we've had at every stage of progress. Just because _your_ imagination can't grasp how single atom transistors can be mass-produced doesn't mean _nobody_ ever will. If the history of our species teaches us anything, it's that once we've conceived of something as possible, it becomes a matter of when, not if. Or maybe you'd rather be stuck with banging rocks together?
Except actual experience with kids will demonstrate otherwise. My opinion of the matter is based on observing my niece and nephew, both when they and their parents were living apart from me and after they moved in with us. We had no expectations, neither I nor my siblings had sugar/hyperactivity problems when we were kids. But my sister's kids both react to sugar, albeit with noticeably different tolerances. The boy (7) is affected by lower doses of sugar than the girl (6), but both will exhibit startlingly different patterns of activity after a big jolt of sugar. My nephew apparently feels it, and will often start jogging back and forth to bleed off the excess energy, because he just can't sit still when it happens. Here's the kicker: the boy is so sensitive that he gets hyperactive if he has a big rice meal (rice is a staple in many parts of Asia). Please note that non-fiber carbohydrates (sugar and starch) you ingest break down and are absorbed more or less directly into blood sugar.
The bottom line is that different people will have different responses to different chemicals, and sugar can and does have an effect. On the plus side, these two kids are pretty smart and now police their own sugar intake. They take smaller servings of sweets and avoid them from late afternoon onward.
If we take a small leap of thought and apply Landauer's principle, assuming an initially random storage medium that happened to be the perfect inverse of the data you're storing (worst possible case, you have to flip every bit): 1 MB (8×2^20==2^23 bits, 1 MiB for pedants) would take 2.393×10^-14 joules at room temperature, 25 C/298.15 K/77 F(SATP/standard ambient). Converting that with E=mC^2, you get 2.663×10^-28 grams per MB. If we assume a typical mp3 is about 5 MB, it would mass 1.332×10^-27 grams. That's 7.508×10^29 songs per kilogram. 750 octillion. 750 billion billion billion. </intellectual masturbation>:p
Edit: gave up on the degree symbols. alt-0176, ° and ° all don't work.
I use Nightly for the native 64-bit build. Since it's in alpha, bugs are expected. I've run into some updates that make the browser completely unusable... at which point I revert to a previous build, report the bug (if it hasn't already been) and wait for an update.:D
+1. I'm running Nightly (v12.0a1). 1.2 GB memory in use, but that's >100 tabs and 28 enabled addons. Response is fine and only gets bad when I load pages that use flash. Flash sucks. GPP, go update your browser to something less ancient.
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Does the number of patents matter as much as their relative importance? If the 2,300 patents are similar to the ones MS was trying to strongarm B&N to license, they're not worth even the 2 cents. But if the 50 patents are for key technologies, they might even be worth more than $22.50.
Neither do you...
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
That would be Kirigami.
Sadly, it's worse than that. He's apparently passed away due to a heart attack. I suppose it was brought on by the stress of the asthma attack. RIP Doc.
Yes, but most useful circuits don't have just one transistor, do they? Modern processors have on the order of a billion transistors. By the time we can manufacture single-atom-transistor chips, they'll probably have well over 10 billion. Ionizing radiation will be a hurdle to overcome.
You sound exactly like every naysayer we've had at every stage of progress. Just because _your_ imagination can't grasp how single atom transistors can be mass-produced doesn't mean _nobody_ ever will. If the history of our species teaches us anything, it's that once we've conceived of something as possible, it becomes a matter of when, not if. Or maybe you'd rather be stuck with banging rocks together?
Getting wet after midnight? ;p
No, it's not Slashdot. These days, it has become hard to tell the difference between Apple and Microsoft, except maybe Apple sues more people.
+1 Insightful.
Except actual experience with kids will demonstrate otherwise. My opinion of the matter is based on observing my niece and nephew, both when they and their parents were living apart from me and after they moved in with us. We had no expectations, neither I nor my siblings had sugar/hyperactivity problems when we were kids. But my sister's kids both react to sugar, albeit with noticeably different tolerances. The boy (7) is affected by lower doses of sugar than the girl (6), but both will exhibit startlingly different patterns of activity after a big jolt of sugar. My nephew apparently feels it, and will often start jogging back and forth to bleed off the excess energy, because he just can't sit still when it happens. Here's the kicker: the boy is so sensitive that he gets hyperactive if he has a big rice meal (rice is a staple in many parts of Asia). Please note that non-fiber carbohydrates (sugar and starch) you ingest break down and are absorbed more or less directly into blood sugar.
The bottom line is that different people will have different responses to different chemicals, and sugar can and does have an effect. On the plus side, these two kids are pretty smart and now police their own sugar intake. They take smaller servings of sweets and avoid them from late afternoon onward.
January and February were added to the calendar. July and August were just renamed, from Quintilis and Sextilis.
If we take a small leap of thought and apply Landauer's principle, assuming an initially random storage medium that happened to be the perfect inverse of the data you're storing (worst possible case, you have to flip every bit): 1 MB (8×2^20==2^23 bits, 1 MiB for pedants) would take 2.393×10^-14 joules at room temperature, 25 C/298.15 K/77 F(SATP/standard ambient). Converting that with E=mC^2, you get 2.663×10^-28 grams per MB. If we assume a typical mp3 is about 5 MB, it would mass 1.332×10^-27 grams. That's 7.508×10^29 songs per kilogram. 750 octillion. 750 billion billion billion. </intellectual masturbation> :p
Edit: gave up on the degree symbols. alt-0176, ° and ° all don't work.
I'd like to buy a vowel...
No shit, Sherlock! ;p
+1
Actually, the median is one kind of average (3rd paragraph). Or did you think "average" was the same as "arithmetic mean". </even more pedantic>
How do you get 2x32GB cards in a Clip+? The spec sheet implies it only has one SD slot.
I use Nightly for the native 64-bit build. Since it's in alpha, bugs are expected. I've run into some updates that make the browser completely unusable... at which point I revert to a previous build, report the bug (if it hasn't already been) and wait for an update. :D
+1. I'm running Nightly (v12.0a1). 1.2 GB memory in use, but that's >100 tabs and 28 enabled addons. Response is fine and only gets bad when I load pages that use flash. Flash sucks.
GPP, go update your browser to something less ancient.
You might want to check this out: Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency - CCSVI
They did say "young"... I don't think 40-year old virgins count... ;p
No, Moore's Law is mainly about transistor density. Improved cost, speed and power use are effects of smaller transistor sizes.
Sony also had several netbook-ish Vaios. They ran on VIA processors, Pentium Ms and Core (1st gen, not i-), iirc.
Xeons are x86 (IA-32) x86-64 (AMD64). Basically, server branding for plain old x86 chips. I'm guessing JRockit is intended for server deployments?