Cable now does POTS, and the telephone companies want to do TV. The new alphabet soup includes IPTV, VoIP, IPv6 over IPv4, with many many many more to come. Just wait and see the strange concoction brew. After all data is DATA and bits are bits, right?
Perhaps a "Ham and Rye over IP with a pickle?
Don't laugh. Nanotech matter printers are on the horizon. You just maybe getting' your P&J on whole wheat while watching "Mod Squad" over the same broadband wireless connection..smm.
I thought that's what the IBM/Sony/Toshiba's cell broadband processor was supposed to do in the PS3? Oh well.......And what do we need that old x86, (dual, quad, whatever) for? Refresh my memory will ya?
Long live multicore and/or multiprocessor technologies!!!! But mercy on the po' programmers though... Long live C/C++/Java multiprocessor extensions!
Man/Woman is not only a tool builder; He/She is also a model builder. We build models to understand, predict, plan... be these models in hour heads or via our machines: be they a small implementation of some physical effect, drawings on a cave wall, paper and pencil, an equation, or a simulation on a computer.
Recently I have been quite interested in "models" (I am not referring to the covergirl/coverboy kind). From one perspective, mathematics allows one to model "reality". There is always the concern of "truthfulness" or how well models afford us to "reason" about the real world. Here I am using the term "reason" to mean understanding and predicting in the "real world", both seen and unseen, by the human senses.
In the engineering sense, a model that allows a problem to be solved is usually good enough, whether or not it actually represents the real world.
Please more intelligent discussion!
smm
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"Do not try to bend the spoon--that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the TRUTH." --The Matrix (Warner Brothers/Village Roadshow Pictures, 1999)
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Cable now does POTS, and the telephone companies want to do TV. The new alphabet soup includes IPTV, VoIP, IPv6 over IPv4, with many many many more to come. Just wait and see the strange concoction brew. After all data is DATA and bits are bits, right?
.smm.
Perhaps a "Ham and Rye over IP with a pickle?
Don't laugh. Nanotech matter printers are on the horizon. You just maybe getting' your P&J on whole wheat while watching "Mod Squad" over the same broadband wireless connection.
Mmmm ....
...And what do we need that old x86, (dual, quad, whatever) for? Refresh my memory will ya?
... Long live C/C++/Java multiprocessor extensions!
.smm.
I thought that's what the IBM/Sony/Toshiba's cell broadband processor was supposed to do in the PS3? Oh well....
Long live multicore and/or multiprocessor technologies!!!! But mercy on the po' programmers though
Time for a paradigm shift.
OK, I'm done.
Man/Woman is not only a tool builder; He/She is also a model builder. We build models to understand, predict, plan ... be these models in hour heads or via our machines: be they a small implementation of some physical effect, drawings on a cave wall, paper and pencil, an equation, or a simulation on a computer.
Recently I have been quite interested in "models" (I am not referring to the covergirl/coverboy kind). From one perspective, mathematics allows one to model "reality". There is always the concern of "truthfulness" or how well models afford us to "reason" about the real world. Here I am using the term "reason" to mean understanding and predicting in the "real world", both seen and unseen, by the human senses.
In the engineering sense, a model that allows a problem to be solved is usually good enough, whether or not it actually represents the real world.
Please more intelligent discussion!
smm
--
"Do not try to bend the spoon--that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the TRUTH." --The Matrix (Warner Brothers/Village Roadshow Pictures, 1999)