We could question what Data has in place of emotions, which are attributed as the source of Lore's evil. There are frequent references to an inherent "ethics" program in Data.
Regarding his rank, it could be noted that it turns out that Picard is reluctant to actually put him in command of a bridge early on (evan after "Measure").
His rank could be viewed as nothing more than acknowledging that he is a useful tool in the command chain, which at least from a formal Starfleet Command point of view. That the crew of the Enterprise doesn't really agree on this is of course also true.
Would, let's say your credit card details, constitute anything but "simple information"? Would you object if someone got hold of them and published the data?
If you would, why? If the bartender from gp takes your credit card details and gives them to his "friend", wouldn't it be quite obvious that he has some guilt in the frauds that his friend probably uses the information for?
The parent wrote that LCDs are more energy efficient, not the other way round.
I am not sure, but is there really any big difference when the CRT is firing or not? I was under the impression that the real killer is the magnets directing the electron beam, and those will surely be just as active even if the beam is almost gone.
(But maybe the magnets are responsible for adapting the amplitude of electrons reaching the surface, but I wouldn't think so? Too lazy to Google...)
NUMA is *non*-unified memory architecture. Put another way: different processors have different access times to the same memory. Contrast this to completely symmetrical multi-processing, where each processor is of the same type and has exactly the same ability to communicate over the same (or an identical) bus to everything else.
What you describe sounds to me as some kind of NUMA, but also with the twist of the processors actually doing distinctly different things depending on demand. Maybe I read too quickly, but I don't really see the point in one CPU being a simple slave to another, how would that increase the available power; or the efficiency in the utilization of it?
I may have to check it, but remember that the tides on Earth are mainly affected by the moon. This is part because they follow a r^3 relation, so it vanishes very quickly with increasing distance. If the force was really significant enough, we could expect that the Earth's axis rotation would have been synchronized to the year. (Compare: Mercury, moon.) And while it's true that the day is getting longer because of the tidal forces of the moon, the effect is on the scale of a few hours for a hundred million years.
But, IANAANAG (I am not an astronomer nor a geologist), so maybe it is more significant for the internal heating than I think.
There are interactions, but it would simply not be enough. Look at Venus and Mars. Which one has cooled down and is geologically passive? Which one has moons?
Yeah, you're right. But it had a separate triangle chip, so there were three main chips on the card, one of them related to triangle handling(contrasted to texture mapping).
(Yeah, I had one, too. Under Windows 2000, it also did fine for a while as a pseudo-2D card for a dual mon setup.)
Yes, it is an invented term. It was invented by nVidia when the original GeForce was released. It was kind of a milestone, because by putting that logic on the chips, the development towards truly programmable pipelines was much more natural.
Also, note that a lot of posts here uses this "marketing term". Obviously, it did catch on.
BTW, how many GPUs did the original Voodoo 2 have? Three, because there were three chips doing calculations related to graphics?
Actually, the V5 did no T&L, AFAIK. The first "GPU" was the GeForce 256, and Nvidia motivated that by the fact that it had a (locked) T&L pipeline, not just triangle setup and texturing.
(Hey, the Voodoo 2, fully normal, even hade 3 chips, two texture units and one triangle setup.)
And to all of you talking about dual core chips: forget it. The current chips are parallel in every relevant way already and putting two of these highly parallel chips together on the same die wouldn't benefit compared to "just" adding more units. Heat and lower yields with increasing die sizes are reasons to not do that without some kind of limit.
Therefore, it's no surprise that separated chips actually are able to perform better at a lower price point.
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Didn't you say that you were more insightful even when you were not-high?
We could question what Data has in place of emotions, which are attributed as the source of Lore's evil. There are frequent references to an inherent "ethics" program in Data.
Regarding his rank, it could be noted that it turns out that Picard is reluctant to actually put him in command of a bridge early on (evan after "Measure").
His rank could be viewed as nothing more than acknowledging that he is a useful tool in the command chain, which at least from a formal Starfleet Command point of view. That the crew of the Enterprise doesn't really agree on this is of course also true.
Would, let's say your credit card details, constitute anything but "simple information"? Would you object if someone got hold of them and published the data?
If you would, why? If the bartender from gp takes your credit card details and gives them to his "friend", wouldn't it be quite obvious that he has some guilt in the frauds that his friend probably uses the information for?
The parent wrote that LCDs are more energy efficient, not the other way round.
I am not sure, but is there really any big difference when the CRT is firing or not? I was under the impression that the real killer is the magnets directing the electron beam, and those will surely be just as active even if the beam is almost gone.
(But maybe the magnets are responsible for adapting the amplitude of electrons reaching the surface, but I wouldn't think so? Too lazy to Google...)
NUMA is *non*-unified memory architecture. Put another way: different processors have different access times to the same memory. Contrast this to completely symmetrical multi-processing, where each processor is of the same type and has exactly the same ability to communicate over the same (or an identical) bus to everything else. What you describe sounds to me as some kind of NUMA, but also with the twist of the processors actually doing distinctly different things depending on demand. Maybe I read too quickly, but I don't really see the point in one CPU being a simple slave to another, how would that increase the available power; or the efficiency in the utilization of it?
I may have to check it, but remember that the tides on Earth are mainly affected by the moon. This is part because they follow a r^3 relation, so it vanishes very quickly with increasing distance. If the force was really significant enough, we could expect that the Earth's axis rotation would have been synchronized to the year. (Compare: Mercury, moon.) And while it's true that the day is getting longer because of the tidal forces of the moon, the effect is on the scale of a few hours for a hundred million years. But, IANAANAG (I am not an astronomer nor a geologist), so maybe it is more significant for the internal heating than I think.
Unnecessary if we do, damned if we don't?
There are interactions, but it would simply not be enough. Look at Venus and Mars. Which one has cooled down and is geologically passive? Which one has moons?
Yeah, you're right. But it had a separate triangle chip, so there were three main chips on the card, one of them related to triangle handling(contrasted to texture mapping). (Yeah, I had one, too. Under Windows 2000, it also did fine for a while as a pseudo-2D card for a dual mon setup.)
Yes, it is an invented term. It was invented by nVidia when the original GeForce was released. It was kind of a milestone, because by putting that logic on the chips, the development towards truly programmable pipelines was much more natural. Also, note that a lot of posts here uses this "marketing term". Obviously, it did catch on. BTW, how many GPUs did the original Voodoo 2 have? Three, because there were three chips doing calculations related to graphics?
Actually, the V5 did no T&L, AFAIK. The first "GPU" was the GeForce 256, and Nvidia motivated that by the fact that it had a (locked) T&L pipeline, not just triangle setup and texturing. (Hey, the Voodoo 2, fully normal, even hade 3 chips, two texture units and one triangle setup.) And to all of you talking about dual core chips: forget it. The current chips are parallel in every relevant way already and putting two of these highly parallel chips together on the same die wouldn't benefit compared to "just" adding more units. Heat and lower yields with increasing die sizes are reasons to not do that without some kind of limit. Therefore, it's no surprise that separated chips actually are able to perform better at a lower price point.
25 MHz Pentium Is would be a quite valuable rarity.
Like: "50 MHz bus, 1/2 CPU frequency multiplier".
I even believed your story until reading that!