"If all living things strive to satisfy their innate urges, none ever forgets to go forth and multiply. They can't: wild creatures are programmed to breed for nothing, certainly not for old-age care. Homo sapiens, exceptional by its brain, broke this rule. Though sex remains one of the most powerful human instincts, intelligence, or the contraceptives it invents, allows people the fun without the function. Evolution has made us the thinking beings who know how to trade blind multiplication for the good life. This unique intelligence could also, however, make us the only species to vanish on its own, smoothly, without any ecological disruption typical of all previous extinctions. This most-evolved animal constitutes, in many ways, evolution's end of the road. The moment a wave hits its shore, it swiftly disappears."
It's exactly what we're talking about here; it starts of with a fastfood chain that adopts a robotic manager, and ends up with most of humanity enslaved by robots. Pretty entertaining actually...
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
IANAP, But by the looks of it, they're firing a pulsating laser into a chamber of gas. The laser has a chance to get ionized (positively or negatively, they couldn't tell) from the gas and go flying towards a detector. This created a pattern and they mapped a funtion out of it.
Now I could be wrong, so if someone has a better explaination please share.
I also recently gave it up. But this instabilty your talking about, they gave out a bunch of time extensions based on how long the server was down. I ended up getting 7 days of free play because of this.
From TFA: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Nov/bch20041 104027700.htm
Asynchronous processors are capable of allowing each of their units to run independent of a global synchronizing clock, saving the power consumption--not to mention the design life cycle--of a complicated and usually power-hungry clock route scheme. The clock is increasingly the source of a large amount of power consumption, because of both the increasingly long relative wire length and the buffers (extra gates) required to repeat the signals in high-clock-speed devices. Obviously, the elegance of this low power design comes at a cost, in fact a barrier cost to high volume manufacturers. First of all, there is a great reliability issue for high-speed devices. No clock means potential race conditions and other performance/functional conflicts.
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"If all living things strive to satisfy their innate urges, none ever forgets to go forth and multiply. They can't: wild creatures are programmed to breed for nothing, certainly not for old-age care. Homo sapiens, exceptional by its brain, broke this rule. Though sex remains one of the most powerful human instincts, intelligence, or the contraceptives it invents, allows people the fun without the function. Evolution has made us the thinking beings who know how to trade blind multiplication for the good life. This unique intelligence could also, however, make us the only species to vanish on its own, smoothly, without any ecological disruption typical of all previous extinctions. This most-evolved animal constitutes, in many ways, evolution's end of the road. The moment a wave hits its shore, it swiftly disappears."
From this. Long, but very worth the read if you find this stuff as interesting as I do.
http://endofspecies.com/?page_id=10
It's exactly what we're talking about here; it starts of with a fastfood chain that adopts a robotic manager, and ends up with most of humanity enslaved by robots. Pretty entertaining actually... http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
IANAP, But by the looks of it, they're firing a pulsating laser into a chamber of gas. The laser has a chance to get ionized (positively or negatively, they couldn't tell) from the gas and go flying towards a detector. This created a pattern and they mapped a funtion out of it. Now I could be wrong, so if someone has a better explaination please share.
But if the masses started using other OS's, ports would be made quicker, or possibly included with the Windows release.
I also recently gave it up. But this instabilty your talking about, they gave out a bunch of time extensions based on how long the server was down. I ended up getting 7 days of free play because of this.
From one of my favorite news sites: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20583
From TFA: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Nov/bch20041 104027700.htm
Asynchronous processors are capable of allowing each of their units to run independent of a global synchronizing clock, saving the power consumption--not to mention the design life cycle--of a complicated and usually power-hungry clock route scheme. The clock is increasingly the source of a large amount of power consumption, because of both the increasingly long relative wire length and the buffers (extra gates) required to repeat the signals in high-clock-speed devices. Obviously, the elegance of this low power design comes at a cost, in fact a barrier cost to high volume manufacturers. First of all, there is a great reliability issue for high-speed devices. No clock means potential race conditions and other performance/functional conflicts.