I forget to say: get a competent lawyer. As in this case, one who is familiar with copyright. Don't hire your "lawyer friend" who is specialized in divorces or crime.
Nitpicking at its finest again... and pretty dump. Do I repeat myself? Strange, have the feeling of a deja vue...
Lithography only works if the chemicals involved can "react" to your wavelength. That is Physics. Facepalm.
We are not able to "jump ahead" "nodes"... no idea why everyone today says "node" a chip manufacturing process is not called a "node".
If mankind was able to "jump ahead" we would do that, facepalm.
You're still missing the point of the OP's question. He had no point. He was an idiot. Thinking you can just tell someone: "I need a warp drive. Better tomorrow than next year."
If you substract the last 10 years, yes. My impression is that all "good value" made from 1975 till 2005 was thrown way the last years. Just Look at modern MS software, shudder... Windows 10 is a nightmare, too.
I did not talk about water. I talked about F and C, both are based on water. Which water the inventors used I leave to your imagination or to your reading skills. Hint: wikipedia.
Facepalm... nitpicking at its finest, but just so dump and pointless.
A computer needs to be programmed first... and believe it or not: as a programmer you use pencil and paper a lot.
But I guess you are just a couch potato and have no clue about real engineering and science... otherwise you had grasped that I was speaking metaphorical.
To lazy to count how many US Mars missions crashed... wasn't one of the recent one because of a computer mixing up imperial with SI units... go figure, rofl.
You can switch using a temperature scale. You can switch using a distance scale. You can switch using a weight scale (can you? I can't, I barely can convert pounds to kg and have no clue about the lesser units "grains" etc.)
But *YOU* most certainly can not calculate the force a 2 pound unit exercises under mars gravity on the surface it is lying on. Unless: you convert it into grams/kg first.
No, the record separator is used to separate records, aka lines. As "replacement" for tabs you would use FS, the field separator, one char in ASCII behind or before the record separator. Well, considering that you could have line feeds in a field, take the "line above" figurative.
How do you actually get news on facebook? I only get posts of friends, their timelines etc. and: advertisements. I never saw any news on my Facebook visits. Or do people consider "advertisements" as "news"? But perhaps I once checked a box: "no news" or something, no idea.
Oh, I just responded to an Anonymous Coward . . . does that mean I have to go to church tomorrow, to atone for my sin . . . ? No worries, you simply can sent me 1 bitcoin and I sent you a letter of indulgence, eMail is fine, I assume?
One system has loosely coupled units which makes it a nightmare to calculate anything relevant for engineering or science, the other system has closely coupled units that fit together and make complex calculations easy.
Obviously both are arbitrary and not god given...
Nevertheless: one is more useful than the other...
No, it was not a story, just a post on/. in another CPU related story. A small american company I believe. I think now to remember it was "only" 128 "cores". But the clue was that a core could sleep as long as it has no external signal coming in, so basically I/O ports would/could cause a kind of "cycle" signal too. But now I remember how to find the company again, I sent the link per eMail to a friend... but on my other comp. It will be in the sent folder. It was a kind of VLIW CPU with extremely low power consumption.
This is why I am always amused at the metric FTW crowd. I's just another system base upon something, something.
Then you have not grasped it. The only thing that you can replace in the SI system, that is the official name, not metric, and all the laws of physics can still be used the same way: is actually temperature. Because it is slightly disconnected, or lets say orthogonal to the rest of the system.
Or in other words: shooting a rocket to Mars is super simple to calculate in SI units with a pencil on paper. And close to impossible to do correctly by hand on paper in imperial units.
That is why SI was invented: you want to have mass, force, acceleration, time, distance in _convenient_ units that work together. Not in fragmented separated units for every single aspect of life.
Next; 10 hours in a day, 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minutes? Minutes, seconds and hours are still around aren't they? Was tried. But considered inconvenient and dropped again.
BTW, in Europe you buy eggs, by ten, or _half a dozen_ did not see a place where you could get a prepacked dozen eggs since 30 or 40 years. However everything you can buy per piece e.g. oysters you by per dozen, however in France you then get 13 oysters:D (just because you mentioned the Queen)
360 degrees btw, we have because the year is roughly 360 days long. Using a 365 degree scale would be simply to inconvenient.
Regarding the sheep, if I had 60 sheep, I certainly would not divide them to/by 100 people!!! He he he! I keep them!
It is absolutely ideal to to use negative numbers. At zero water freezes, below zero it is frozen: very important for drivers, planes/airports etc. or house owners who have to organize clearing of snow, Skiing/winter sports areas etc. or estimations how long it takes that lakes freeze over.
Nothing can be simpler than having 0 at the freezing point of water. You are just not used to it.
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures. Complete nonsense, no it is not. It is only convenient for those who are used to use it. For everyone else it is complicated 0 degrees is dangerously cold for humans. That is wrong. It is only -18 degrees in Celsius. It is cold if you are naked or not properly dressed. 100 degrees is dangerously hot for humans. This is absolutely wrong. This is your body temperature. Every summer in Germany easily tops this temperature, no one is complaining.
Celsius is only based on the objective freezing and boiling points of water... located on the surface of this particular little blue planet So is Fahrenheit, facepalm. Or what do you think is going to happen to 0 Fahrenheit?
Let me rephrase your nonsense for a better perspective: 0 Celsius is dangerously cold, because when you are naked most people won't survive it long 100 Celsius is dangerously hot, because most people wont survive it long
However: when we do Sauna, we often sit around in 96 - 98 degree Celsius hot air in the Sauna, 3x for 20 minutes or so. Often even sprinkling water on hot stones to create 110C hot steam. Then we go into the outside, at -10 degrees C / 14F, or colder: naked and rub our skin with ice, or lie and roll in the snow.
You see: the scales and the perception if one or the other is more dangerous or better is completely arbitrary. If you can not remember that 0C and below means: cold and 40C and above means hot... then stick to your F as we stick to our C.
And please: stop this idioticity with claiming 100F would be dangerously hot, 2/3rd of the planet are at any given time warmer. And they are most densely populated parts.... well, except Siberia perhaps, that is not so densely populated, haha.
And: there is actually a therapy (forgot the illness) where you stand several minutes in -100C cold air. That is -148F. NAKED
I don't know a framework that is "bloated" because of laziness.
But feel free to point some out.
Apps, don't need installers. You simply copy them into the appropriated directory. And "installers" again have nothing to do with frameworks or laziness in building them.
Code bloat comes: from to much code. That is the opposite of laziness... people are working in the wrong areas, or to many people work on the project and duplicate code. Or you might have a complete different definition of bloat, who knows.
That is a good link, checking if they can need me as contributor.
There was a link on/. a year ago pointing to another "new" CPU architecture which was also highly multithreaded (something like 256 cores), low power and plenty of I/O pins for embedded systems. Unfortunately I lost the link.
The first poster gave the answer to all this: Physics!!!
Why don't you read on Wikipedia how a processor is made? You probably grasp immediately that we are right now at the point where we can not make them smaller, hence we can not make them faster.
Oh.... I did not read this line from you till now, forget my comment above: Why is nobody trying to dramatically outstrip Moore's Law? Because no one is working on flying faster than the speed of light, too.
Is it even possible to jump more than one process node ahead at a time, or increase IPC by an order of magnitude at a time rather than by a small percentage? No it is not. How would you accomplish something you don't know how to accomplish it? Hu?
Make a 100 yards sprint. Measure your time. Then explain to me how you plan to be twice as fast in a week... good luck. Or explain to me how you plan to be twice as fast in a year. A human being that can sprint, simply can not double its speed, regardless how long and hard it tries....
Slashdot Mirror
I forget to say: get a competent lawyer. As in this case, one who is familiar with copyright. Don't hire your "lawyer friend" who is specialized in divorces or crime.
Even if you think you can not pay the costs.
Get a lawyer.
Even if you think you have good advice or can read the law.
Get a lawyer.
You pay likely 10 times more in the end if you have none. And chances are: if you are "in the right" and have a lawyer, the other side pays the bills.
Nitpicking at its finest again ... and pretty dump. Do I repeat myself? Strange, have the feeling of a deja vue ...
Lithography only works if the chemicals involved can "react" to your wavelength. That is Physics. Facepalm.
We are not able to "jump ahead" "nodes" ... no idea why everyone today says "node" a chip manufacturing process is not called a "node".
If mankind was able to "jump ahead" we would do that, facepalm.
You're still missing the point of the OP's question.
He had no point. He was an idiot. Thinking you can just tell someone: "I need a warp drive. Better tomorrow than next year."
If you substract the last 10 years, yes. ... Windows 10 is a nightmare, too.
My impression is that all "good value" made from 1975 till 2005 was thrown way the last years. Just Look at modern MS software, shudder
I did not talk about water.
I talked about F and C, both are based on water. Which water the inventors used I leave to your imagination or to your reading skills. Hint: wikipedia.
Facepalm ... nitpicking at its finest, but just so dump and pointless.
A computer needs to be programmed first ... and believe it or not: as a programmer you use pencil and paper a lot.
But I guess you are just a couch potato and have no clue about real engineering and science ... otherwise you had grasped that I was speaking metaphorical.
To lazy to count how many US Mars missions crashed ... wasn't one of the recent one because of a computer mixing up imperial with SI units ... go figure, rofl.
Indeed it is! ....
I mean if local groups hat tried to 'enlighten' the city council, but the FSFE?
If M$ had be caught doing that we had an uproar
Computers, not.
The programmer however does.
There actually was a lander crash on Mars because of unit mix ups.
My point is: if you can calculate complicated stuff in mind or on paper you have an advantage ... well, not you, ... but me.
No Sorry. What?
So you never were in a Sauna?
LOL!
You can switch using a temperature scale.
You can switch using a distance scale.
You can switch using a weight scale (can you? I can't, I barely can convert pounds to kg and have no clue about the lesser units "grains" etc.)
But *YOU* most certainly can not calculate the force a 2 pound unit exercises under mars gravity on the surface it is lying on. Unless: you convert it into grams/kg first.
No, the record separator is used to separate records, aka lines.
As "replacement" for tabs you would use FS, the field separator, one char in ASCII behind or before the record separator.
Well, considering that you could have line feeds in a field, take the "line above" figurative.
How do you actually get news on facebook?
I only get posts of friends, their timelines etc. and: advertisements. I never saw any news on my Facebook visits. Or do people consider "advertisements" as "news"? But perhaps I once checked a box: "no news" or something, no idea.
Oh, I just responded to an Anonymous Coward . . . does that mean I have to go to church tomorrow, to atone for my sin . . . ?
No worries, you simply can sent me 1 bitcoin and I sent you a letter of indulgence, eMail is fine, I assume?
Does not matter if it is "arbitrary".
One system has loosely coupled units which makes it a nightmare to calculate anything relevant for engineering or science, the other system has closely coupled units that fit together and make complex calculations easy.
Obviously both are arbitrary and not god given ...
Nevertheless: one is more useful than the other ...
No, it was not a story, just a post on /. in another CPU related story. ... but on my other comp. It will be in the sent folder. It was a kind of VLIW CPU with extremely low power consumption.
A small american company I believe. I think now to remember it was "only" 128 "cores". But the clue was that a core could sleep as long as it has no external signal coming in, so basically I/O ports would/could cause a kind of "cycle" signal too.
But now I remember how to find the company again, I sent the link per eMail to a friend
This is why I am always amused at the metric FTW crowd. I's just another system base upon something, something.
Then you have not grasped it. The only thing that you can replace in the SI system, that is the official name, not metric, and all the laws of physics can still be used the same way: is actually temperature. Because it is slightly disconnected, or lets say orthogonal to the rest of the system.
Or in other words: shooting a rocket to Mars is super simple to calculate in SI units with a pencil on paper. And close to impossible to do correctly by hand on paper in imperial units.
That is why SI was invented: you want to have mass, force, acceleration, time, distance in _convenient_ units that work together. Not in fragmented separated units for every single aspect of life.
Next; 10 hours in a day, 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minutes? Minutes, seconds and hours are still around aren't they?
Was tried. But considered inconvenient and dropped again.
BTW, in Europe you buy eggs, by ten, or _half a dozen_ did not see a place where you could get a prepacked dozen eggs since 30 or 40 years. However everything you can buy per piece e.g. oysters you by per dozen, however in France you then get 13 oysters :D (just because you mentioned the Queen)
360 degrees btw, we have because the year is roughly 360 days long. Using a 365 degree scale would be simply to inconvenient.
Regarding the sheep, if I had 60 sheep, I certainly would not divide them to/by 100 people!!! He he he! I keep them!
It is absolutely ideal to to use negative numbers.
At zero water freezes, below zero it is frozen: very important for drivers, planes/airports etc. or house owners who have to organize clearing of snow, Skiing/winter sports areas etc. or estimations how long it takes that lakes freeze over.
Nothing can be simpler than having 0 at the freezing point of water.
You are just not used to it.
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures.
Complete nonsense, no it is not. It is only convenient for those who are used to use it. For everyone else it is complicated
0 degrees is dangerously cold for humans. That is wrong. It is only -18 degrees in Celsius. It is cold if you are naked or not properly dressed.
100 degrees is dangerously hot for humans.
This is absolutely wrong. This is your body temperature. Every summer in Germany easily tops this temperature, no one is complaining.
Celsius is only based on the objective freezing and boiling points of water ... located on the surface of this particular little blue planet So is Fahrenheit, facepalm. Or what do you think is going to happen to 0 Fahrenheit?
Let me rephrase your nonsense for a better perspective:
0 Celsius is dangerously cold, because when you are naked most people won't survive it long
100 Celsius is dangerously hot, because most people wont survive it long
However: when we do Sauna, we often sit around in 96 - 98 degree Celsius hot air in the Sauna, 3x for 20 minutes or so. Often even sprinkling water on hot stones to create 110C hot steam.
Then we go into the outside, at -10 degrees C / 14F, or colder: naked and rub our skin with ice, or lie and roll in the snow.
You see: the scales and the perception if one or the other is more dangerous or better is completely arbitrary. If you can not remember that 0C and below means: cold and 40C and above means hot ... then stick to your F as we stick to our C.
And please: stop this idioticity with claiming 100F would be dangerously hot, 2/3rd of the planet are at any given time warmer. And they are most densely populated parts .... well, except Siberia perhaps, that is not so densely populated, haha.
And: there is actually a therapy (forgot the illness) where you stand several minutes in -100C cold air. That is -148F. NAKED
Physics is the answer.
You can not change the way how the light used for the lithographic processes is bend and diffracted ...
If you want to make smaller masks, you need shorter wavelengths to do the "photographic" processes to mold the chips.
We are on the edge that we are using UV and X-Rays ... there is simply no real way of improvement anymore in making gate sizes smaller.
Go figure and read some articles ... sigh: PHYSICS!
You have provided no sound explanation as to why engineering processes,
Why should I? It is completely clear from wikipedia articles.
time and experience are exactly stuck in lock-step with Moore's Law.
No they are not. "Moors Law" stopped a decade ago, probably 2 decades.
I don't know a framework that is "bloated" because of laziness.
But feel free to point some out.
Apps, don't need installers. You simply copy them into the appropriated directory. And "installers" again have nothing to do with frameworks or laziness in building them.
Code bloat comes: from to much code. That is the opposite of laziness ... people are working in the wrong areas, or to many people work on the project and duplicate code. Or you might have a complete different definition of bloat, who knows.
That is a good link, checking if they can need me as contributor.
There was a link on /. a year ago pointing to another "new" CPU architecture which was also highly multithreaded (something like 256 cores), low power and plenty of I/O pins for embedded systems. Unfortunately I lost the link.
The first poster gave the answer to all this:
Physics!!!
Why don't you read on Wikipedia how a processor is made? You probably grasp immediately that we are right now at the point where we can not make them smaller, hence we can not make them faster.
Oh .... I did not read this line from you till now, forget my comment above:
Why is nobody trying to dramatically outstrip Moore's Law?
Because no one is working on flying faster than the speed of light, too.
Is it even possible to jump more than one process node ahead at a time, or increase IPC by an order of magnitude at a time rather than by a small percentage?
No it is not. How would you accomplish something you don't know how to accomplish it? Hu?
Make a 100 yards sprint. Measure your time. ... good luck. Or explain to me how you plan to be twice as fast in a year. A human being that can sprint, simply can not double its speed, regardless how long and hard it tries ....
Then explain to me how you plan to be twice as fast in a week
Quite true. If you could plan for "breakthroughs" they would be called breakthroughs.
He is comparing historical mips with modern.
In linux they call it "bogus MIPS" ... a computer in 1990 did perhaps 100 "bogus MIPS" and a computer now does 500,000 ...
The literal meaning of MIPS however is million instructions per second ...