no you're right that air isn't going to be any better, but if it conducts heat better then you can make a larger heat sink, and the heat will cunduct further in the material that conducts heat better, thus more air will be touched by a hotter surface.
The fan itself doesn't conduct any heat. Nor should it. If anything, this will help make heatsinks more conductive, and thus you may be able to get rid of the fan alltogether. Which would be great, less power consumed, and one less moving part in the computer. You can't just make a heat sink really really big and then get rid of the fan, that won't work. The heatsink has to be able to conduct that heat from the proc to the outside world.
Why does everything have to be distributed? Why does it need to be that way? For software dev, most of the time it makes sense to develop and build on a main machine. Either yours or the target, but not a shared network of untrusted machines.
One thing they don't mention is how strong the material is. It might be brittle, or revert back to normal insulating carbon after a long while. It seems like this is so new, they really don't know what to do with it. That and you have to heat the carbon up to 3000 degrees to make it.
Actually, after using the DOM inspector in Mozilla, I can see that such a project is not unfeasable. If you haven't yet, try opening up a page in Moz 9.9.9 with the Dom inspector and changing the attributes of an image or something, as it will resize. It's very cool and very well done. The only problem I see with a web based ide is that the server will be very overloaded with more then two developers. SO you'll have to develop a version that can run local (or something) and link to the main repository.
If only that were true. Thanks to all the help that we give outselves, any man that can produce more then one sperm and any woman with an egg in her can reproduce. Natural selection is going down the toilet.
Actually, it's not that you have to make a ton of threads. It's that you have to find a way to keep all the HW busy at the same time. No stalls, always rendering or calcualting something. Each part of the PS2 is very fast, but it doesn't have an automatic rendering pipeline like say DirectX, where the cpu just tells the graphics what to draw and some of the calculations are auto-handled by the graphics.. The PS2 has to be programmed explicitly.
The GPU has 16 pixel pipelines, but they only do one texture in a pass, so you have to keep them busy.
I also bet that granny could change a config file or edit the registry if someone showed her how. BTW, you are not born with the innate knowledge to change the oil or the filter. Someone SHOWED HER HOW or she read a book that told her how to do it!
One of the problems with developing software that is free with the intent of selling a service to support it is that it implies that the software you are developing is HARD TO USE, and requires support in order to use. Thus most GUI applications and configuration programs are the least profitable and also reduces value of the product it is tring to configure.
Who wants to buy service on their media player, web browser, or word processor. Most people, once they figure out how to use a program are very happy and content. (Unless they want more features) GUI applications should be fairly self contained and self sufficiant. Only software that has lots of options that need to change, or software that has to have 100% reliablity is very good for the support model. But a word processor that should run 95% of the time, but it's ok if it crashes ( nobody dies ) and your work is mostly recoverable, then selling support doesn't work so well.
Are does this already. They have processors that go into a Java mode to execute bytecode directly. So that myth is false. Nobody wants to impelement a pure java engine because there is still no javaOS, and no java (coprocessor card) because it's still much faster to just interpret the java code, rather then offload it to another processor.
Face the facts of computer usage (esp. Windows). There is no way that you are going to be able to download any random program and not run the risk of it hosing your computer. Unix has some security against this, it works well if you don't run as root. Windows 98 has no security, so you run that risk everytime you download an executable file. Win2k has minor ( less then Unix ) but still, it is fairly easy for a program to trash your computer. It's part of the way computers work. The only way around it is to use a limited device like an internet appliance.
You could also backup everyday. And use that to restore when you install a bad program.
Spyware is bad, crappy install programs are bad, central databases that system depends on can be bad. Many ways to start programs without the user's knowledge is bad (how many ways can a program be started automagically in windows?). The PC is a test bed for ideas and most ideas are bad. The good ideas are slowly being integrated into the next generation of computer appliances. While the bad ones are poluting our computers everytime a program is downloaded.
are too busy looking at themselves to be bothered with things like 'coding' or 'open source'. It's the people who are ulgy/really screwed up that always get the real work done.
Those other examples claim that they are banks on their front page. Paypal makes no such claim to being any sort of normal 'bank'. They do claim to produce intrest on your account ( not always positive). And their most significant claim is that they allow you to send money from person to person. They are more like a virtual western union (or at least their advertising would have you believe).
It's not that they don't exist, it's just that they don't exist like a normal bank.
Because until the internet, there was no way you could build paypal. (Well maybe over the phone, but that would be much more difficult) Because the internet allows paypal to have virtual presence wherever there is net access, and has no physical presence. You cannot goto the paypal headquarters and deposit your money into your paypal account. The laws are just not setup to deal with this kind of business yet. A bank without a physical point of presence is not covered by any of todays laws (correctly). It'll probably be awhile before the lawyers figure out what Paypal and services like it really are.
I'm not saying that at all, I'm just saying that all the other search engines are about the same, they all generally return me good results. But google has the cleanest interface of them all.
And actually yes the name does matter because I could never remember altavista's web address. I used Yahoo for awhile, never liked Lycos. Ask was neat, but the style of results was too messes up for me. They kept on adding more types of results to their page and it just didn't make any sence to me.
Google, has a simple, orginized resultset that (to me) makes sence. And their pages are so simple that they take no time to load, even on an old modem. (unlike ask, or other search engines)
I like google better because the name is better and the pages it gives to me are very clean looking. All the other search engines seem too complex to me.
Performance will only increase if memory increases as well. Those increases in speed due to indexes that all dbs have are only possiable because they use buttloads of ram. IF you have ever managed a DB you would know that with a million records, you are using multiple tens of megabytes for just the index. No data, no file, just the index. Filesystems are designed so that if you have the path of a file, it is very fast to get the pointer(s) to all the data that file contains. Since all data is split up over multiple areas on the disk.
One reason that dbs are so blazing fast is because they waste tons of disk space as well. Right now it takes a certain amount of disk space to just hold the record for a file ( which is why on large drives, many small files take up tons of space). This will increase the amount of space needed for a file. How much is up to MS, but I can easily foresee a tenfold increase in file record size. Filesystems are very optimized for this.
On another note I don't know why they don't just use ntfs for this, ntfs can have multiple 'streams' in a file, you could just use a 'stream' for metadata and then build an indexing service on top of that. You don't need to switch to a whole SQL based file system. Just provide an api for the indexing service that works. ( and make everyone switch )
I bet that it won't break samba at all for a very simple reason. They have to maintain backwards compatability. All the way back to win 3.11. MS must do this because that's what their customers want.
Does anyone realize that you could launch entire buildings into space with this technology? Think about that, with nuclear fuel powering the launch into space you could launch empire state buildings into space. Not tiny rockets like today, but huge mammoth buildings.That's what will allow us to colonize other planets, chemical rockets will never get us there.
According to a special I was watching on TLC, the reason that chernobyl melted down was that they were trying to generate power when it was unsafe. They knew that when they were doing it, but the Government pushed very hard on the engineers to generate as much power as possiable that saftey was not as large a concern as it should to have been.
The difference is that Outlook server gives you the ability to create huge expanding without your control mail lists. Thus, one user can send a thousand emails because he has access to those thousand email addresses via the outlook server.
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no you're right that air isn't going to be any better, but if it conducts heat better then you can make a larger heat sink, and the heat will cunduct further in the material that conducts heat better, thus more air will be touched by a hotter surface.
The fan itself doesn't conduct any heat. Nor should it. If anything, this will help make heatsinks more conductive, and thus you may be able to get rid of the fan alltogether. Which would be great, less power consumed, and one less moving part in the computer. You can't just make a heat sink really really big and then get rid of the fan, that won't work. The heatsink has to be able to conduct that heat from the proc to the outside world.
Why does everything have to be distributed? Why does it need to be that way? For software dev, most of the time it makes sense to develop and build on a main machine. Either yours or the target, but not a shared network of untrusted machines.
One thing they don't mention is how strong the material is. It might be brittle, or revert back to normal insulating carbon after a long while.
It seems like this is so new, they really don't know what to do with it.
That and you have to heat the carbon up to 3000 degrees to make it.
Actually, after using the DOM inspector in Mozilla, I can see that such a project is not unfeasable. If you haven't yet, try opening up a page in Moz 9.9.9 with the Dom inspector and changing the attributes of an image or something, as it will resize. It's very cool and very well done. The only problem I see with a web based ide is that the server will be very overloaded with more then two developers. SO you'll have to develop a version that can run local (or something) and link to the main repository.
If only that were true. Thanks to all the help that we give outselves, any man that can produce more then one sperm and any woman with an egg in her can reproduce. Natural selection is going down the toilet.
Actually, it's not that you have to make a ton of threads. It's that you have to find a way to keep all the HW busy at the same time. No stalls, always rendering or calcualting something. Each part of the PS2 is very fast, but it doesn't have an automatic rendering pipeline like say DirectX, where the cpu just tells the graphics what to draw and some of the calculations are auto-handled by the graphics.. The PS2 has to be programmed explicitly.
The GPU has 16 pixel pipelines, but they only do one texture in a pass, so you have to keep them busy.
I also bet that granny could change a config file or edit the registry if someone showed her how. BTW, you are not born with the innate knowledge to change the oil or the filter. Someone SHOWED HER HOW or she read a book that told her how to do it!
Now even the underprivileged will be able to afford to stop the MLB from reading their minds. No more tinfoil hats!
One of the problems with developing software that is free with the intent of selling a service to support it is that it implies that the software you are developing is HARD TO USE, and requires support in order to use. Thus most GUI applications and configuration programs are the least profitable and also reduces value of the product it is tring to configure.
Who wants to buy service on their media player, web browser, or word processor. Most people, once they figure out how to use a program are very happy and content. (Unless they want more features) GUI applications should be fairly self contained and self sufficiant.
Only software that has lots of options that need to change, or software that has to have 100% reliablity is very good for the support model. But a word processor that should run 95% of the time, but it's ok if it crashes ( nobody dies ) and your work is mostly recoverable, then selling support doesn't work so well.
Are does this already. They have processors that go into a Java mode to execute bytecode directly. So that myth is false. Nobody wants to impelement a pure java engine because there is still no javaOS, and no java (coprocessor card) because it's still much faster to just interpret the java code, rather then offload it to another processor.
Face the facts of computer usage (esp. Windows). There is no way that you are going to be able to download any random program and not run the risk of it hosing your computer. Unix has some security against this, it works well if you don't run as root. Windows 98 has no security, so you run that risk everytime you download an executable file. Win2k has minor ( less then Unix ) but still, it is fairly easy for a program to trash your computer. It's part of the way computers work. The only way around it is to use a limited device like an internet appliance.
You could also backup everyday. And use that to restore when you install a bad program.
Spyware is bad, crappy install programs are bad, central databases that system depends on can be bad. Many ways to start programs without the user's knowledge is bad (how many ways can a program be started automagically in windows?). The PC is a test bed for ideas and most ideas are bad. The good ideas are slowly being integrated into the next generation of computer appliances. While the bad ones are poluting our computers everytime a program is downloaded.
are too busy looking at themselves to be bothered with things like 'coding' or 'open source'. It's the people who are ulgy/really screwed up that always get the real work done.
Those other examples claim that they are banks on their front page. Paypal makes no such claim to being any sort of normal 'bank'. They do claim to produce intrest on your account ( not always positive). And their most significant claim is that they allow you to send money from person to person. They are more like a virtual western union (or at least their advertising would have you believe).
It's not that they don't exist, it's just that they don't exist like a normal bank.
Because until the internet, there was no way you could build paypal. (Well maybe over the phone, but that would be much more difficult) Because the internet allows paypal to have virtual presence wherever there is net access, and has no physical presence. You cannot goto the paypal headquarters and deposit your money into your paypal account. The laws are just not setup to deal with this kind of business yet. A bank without a physical point of presence is not covered by any of todays laws (correctly). It'll probably be awhile before the lawyers figure out what Paypal and services like it really are.
How did you know that was my favorite show? Can you read my mind as well?
I'm not saying that at all, I'm just saying that all the other search engines are about the same, they all generally return me good results. But google has the cleanest interface of them all.
And actually yes the name does matter because I could never remember altavista's web address. I used Yahoo for awhile, never liked Lycos. Ask was neat, but the style of results was too messes up for me. They kept on adding more types of results to their page and it just didn't make any sence to me.
Google, has a simple, orginized resultset that (to me) makes sence. And their pages are so simple that they take no time to load, even on an old modem. (unlike ask, or other search engines)
Damn straight. I couldn't say it better myself. I only said what I think everytime I goto google, I'm not looking for karma.
I like google better because the name is better and the pages it gives to me are very clean looking. All the other search engines seem too complex to me.
Performance will only increase if memory increases as well. Those increases in speed due to indexes that all dbs have are only possiable because they use buttloads of ram. IF you have ever managed a DB you would know that with a million records, you are using multiple tens of megabytes for just the index. No data, no file, just the index. Filesystems are designed so that if you have the path of a file, it is very fast to get the pointer(s) to all the data that file contains. Since all data is split up over multiple areas on the disk.
One reason that dbs are so blazing fast is because they waste tons of disk space as well. Right now it takes a certain amount of disk space to just hold the record for a file ( which is why on large drives, many small files take up tons of space). This will increase the amount of space needed for a file. How much is up to MS, but I can easily foresee a tenfold increase in file record size. Filesystems are very optimized for this.
On another note
I don't know why they don't just use ntfs for this, ntfs can have multiple 'streams' in a file, you could just use a 'stream' for metadata and then build an indexing service on top of that. You don't need to switch to a whole SQL based file system. Just provide an api for the indexing service that works. ( and make everyone switch )
I bet that it won't break samba at all for a very simple reason. They have to maintain backwards compatability. All the way back to win 3.11. MS must do this because that's what their customers want.
Does anyone realize that you could launch entire buildings into space with this technology? Think about that, with nuclear fuel powering the launch into space you could launch empire state buildings into space. Not tiny rockets like today, but huge mammoth buildings.That's what will allow us to colonize other planets, chemical rockets will never get us there.
According to a special I was watching on TLC, the reason that chernobyl melted down was that they were trying to generate power when it was unsafe. They knew that when they were doing it, but the Government pushed very hard on the engineers to generate as much power as possiable that saftey was not as large a concern as it should to have been.
What about ROMs of old nintendo games? Nintendo doesn't make those games anymore, but they threaten most sites that distribute them.
The digital world is a strange one since copying is free.
The difference is that Outlook server gives you the ability to create huge expanding without your control mail lists. Thus, one user can send a thousand emails because he has access to those thousand email addresses via the outlook server.