before everyone gets in a huff, plz note the different terms other posters are using: processor speed vs clock speed. You can increase processor speed without increasing clockspeed (multiple execution units, larger cache, etc).
Why would you add a load of transistors that don't increase processor speed? (okay, there's register bit depth, but that can be emulated, adding transistors to do it in hardware makes it *faster*).
So yes Moore's law does directly relate to processor speed, no Moore's law does not directly relate to clock speed, processor speed is not directly related to clock speed, pay attention. God!!!
moore's law was just an experiment in meme propogation. There's actually no such thing as a "transistor". We're all just running placebo processors, made out of curry (which is why they get hot).
The celeron processors have a smaller L2 cache than their equiv pentium processor. L2 cache being SRAM is expensive to produce, so removing it (well, actually, not producing it on the chip in the first place) actually reduces the production cost.
From what I remember of the 486SX/DX thing, the DX had an on-chip FPU but the SX didn't - or in fact the SX did, but due to manufacturing process, the FPU was damaged and so disabled. So they either sell them for less, or they bin them.
This is totally different from stripping out/disabling parts of code from a piece of software (which costs extra for MS to do).
I run my 21" LCD at 1600x1200 and that's just a bit over 80x60DPI
That would make your screen 20" tall and 20" wide, a perfect square, and all your pixels would be taller than they are wide??? Um, that sounds about as wrong as what you were pointing out as being wrong!
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controlling rats was not done by controlling their muscles (eg, electical impulses to make their legs move, something I would have a problem with), but by triggering their reward system when they go move the right way. This makes the rat actually want to do what you're telling it, and ultimately it does it of it's own free will. I thought this was pretty cool.
whilst true that high levels of glutamite can cause neuron death due to excitotoxicity, the brain does have defenses against it (in fact when glutamite levels shoot up high, the brain releases an NMDA-antagonist similar to ketamine, to protect against excitotoxicity).
Glutamite is also coverted in the brain to GABA, another amino acid which acts as a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, which counters glutamite and other excitory neurotransmitters. So it really isn't so cut and dry.
nicotine i believe messes with neurotransmitter levels such as anandomide, which is responsible for pumping more blood around your stomach so you can digest food. When you stop smoking, there is more than a psycological response - a physiological one, that results in more blood being pumped to digest food, which increases hunger. (Incidentally, cannabis(/THC) acts on anandomide receptor sites, causing increased blood flow to the stomach, giving you "the munchies").
After you start eating, hormones are slowly released which stop the neurotransmitters from being released that make you hungry. In some people, these hormones are not released [as much] or don't have the full effect they should, which can result in hunger not being staved off, and thus over-eating. In cases as these, activating receptor sites the hormones should be (eg, through drugs or 'lasers'?) would correct the problem. As you're helping something to happen that should be happening anyway, i can't see any validity in your argument.
Um, the forces transfered through a bridge are perpendicular to the force transfered along a space elevator, the physics are totally different, the comparison makes no sense.
Your government and your media are your terrorists, they're the one's deliberately spreading the terror, and the american public lap it up. I don't understand what you mean about diverting money, diverting it to where? I agree it needs diverting, what's the proportion of money spend on the so called anti-terrorism compared to say, anti-drink-driving? If you compare how many each has killed in America over the past 5 years, the money becomes a joke.
When atoms get too big, they divide. When cells grow past a point, they split. The only way we survive is by parting with part of ourselves which grows itself to become a new person. Small is stable, growth without dividing can't work in a chaotic universe. America needs to split, and it will. It's too big, and the population want too different a things, for one government. They know, but they can hang on a bit longer while everyone's so scared.
As for the SUV comment, the inefficient things need to be smashed up anyway:-p
the only binary executable comes from macromedia, I'd hardly call -one site- 'random websites'. The stuff that comes from random websites is interpreted by the flash player, it's not binary executable (otherwise, how do you think it runs on windows/linux/macs?)
...you guys really are scared! People going on a killing spree cuz they're going to die anyway? Maybe not being bought up in a gun culture is responsible for me not having even thought along those lines, not to mention the difference in terrorism perception and the spread of fear.
People who go round gunning people down, I doubt they really need an excuse, especially one like "damn, I'm wheelchair bound and have very little energy cuz I have MS, think I'm gonna kill lotsa people".
I'd really look into the way you think about the world, it's so far from healthy it's unbelieveable. And that attitude has consequences.
btw, what'ss the difference between what you're saying (you gotta give sick people money otherwise they'll kill) and them using said gun to hold up a bank? It's extorting money through fear either way.
They're for adding to existing devices, to give an ethernet interface to it, so you could have a web interface to your DVD player/recorder for example (admitedly, a crappy example... wifi remote control plane?) In which case, the main device is where it draws it's power from. What the hell would a little box like this on it's own plugged into a network solve?
Even if there's nothing you can do to make something better, there's usually things you can do to make it worse. Knowing about it means you can avoid these things. Knowledge is power.
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before everyone gets in a huff, plz note the different terms other posters are using: processor speed vs clock speed. You can increase processor speed without increasing clockspeed (multiple execution units, larger cache, etc).
Why would you add a load of transistors that don't increase processor speed? (okay, there's register bit depth, but that can be emulated, adding transistors to do it in hardware makes it *faster*).
So yes Moore's law does directly relate to processor speed, no Moore's law does not directly relate to clock speed, processor speed is not directly related to clock speed, pay attention. God!!!
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What about identity theft?
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moore's law was just an experiment in meme propogation. There's actually no such thing as a "transistor". We're all just running placebo processors, made out of curry (which is why they get hot).
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The celeron processors have a smaller L2 cache than their equiv pentium processor. L2 cache being SRAM is expensive to produce, so removing it (well, actually, not producing it on the chip in the first place) actually reduces the production cost.
From what I remember of the 486SX/DX thing, the DX had an on-chip FPU but the SX didn't - or in fact the SX did, but due to manufacturing process, the FPU was damaged and so disabled. So they either sell them for less, or they bin them.
This is totally different from stripping out/disabling parts of code from a piece of software (which costs extra for MS to do).
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controlling rats was not done by controlling their muscles (eg, electical impulses to make their legs move, something I would have a problem with), but by triggering their reward system when they go move the right way. This makes the rat actually want to do what you're telling it, and ultimately it does it of it's own free will. I thought this was pretty cool.
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my mom used to do this to me :'-(
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whilst true that high levels of glutamite can cause neuron death due to excitotoxicity, the brain does have defenses against it (in fact when glutamite levels shoot up high, the brain releases an NMDA-antagonist similar to ketamine, to protect against excitotoxicity).
Glutamite is also coverted in the brain to GABA, another amino acid which acts as a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, which counters glutamite and other excitory neurotransmitters. So it really isn't so cut and dry.
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nicotine i believe messes with neurotransmitter levels such as anandomide, which is responsible for pumping more blood around your stomach so you can digest food. When you stop smoking, there is more than a psycological response - a physiological one, that results in more blood being pumped to digest food, which increases hunger. (Incidentally, cannabis(/THC) acts on anandomide receptor sites, causing increased blood flow to the stomach, giving you "the munchies").
After you start eating, hormones are slowly released which stop the neurotransmitters from being released that make you hungry. In some people, these hormones are not released [as much] or don't have the full effect they should, which can result in hunger not being staved off, and thus over-eating. In cases as these, activating receptor sites the hormones should be (eg, through drugs or 'lasers'?) would correct the problem. As you're helping something to happen that should be happening anyway, i can't see any validity in your argument.
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Um, the forces transfered through a bridge are perpendicular to the force transfered along a space elevator, the physics are totally different, the comparison makes no sense.
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...horizontal speed. The higher you get, the faster you're going to be traveling *before* you even start falling.
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it's done by which gets downloaded the most
Your government and your media are your terrorists, they're the one's deliberately spreading the terror, and the american public lap it up. I don't understand what you mean about diverting money, diverting it to where? I agree it needs diverting, what's the proportion of money spend on the so called anti-terrorism compared to say, anti-drink-driving? If you compare how many each has killed in America over the past 5 years, the money becomes a joke.
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When atoms get too big, they divide. When cells grow past a point, they split. The only way we survive is by parting with part of ourselves which grows itself to become a new person. Small is stable, growth without dividing can't work in a chaotic universe. America needs to split, and it will. It's too big, and the population want too different a things, for one government. They know, but they can hang on a bit longer while everyone's so scared.
As for the SUV comment, the inefficient things need to be smashed up anyway
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the only binary executable comes from macromedia, I'd hardly call -one site- 'random websites'. The stuff that comes from random websites is interpreted by the flash player, it's not binary executable (otherwise, how do you think it runs on windows/linux/macs?)
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yes, very good, you got the joke...
...you guys really are scared! People going on a killing spree cuz they're going to die anyway? Maybe not being bought up in a gun culture is responsible for me not having even thought along those lines, not to mention the difference in terrorism perception and the spread of fear.
People who go round gunning people down, I doubt they really need an excuse, especially one like "damn, I'm wheelchair bound and have very little energy cuz I have MS, think I'm gonna kill lotsa people".
I'd really look into the way you think about the world, it's so far from healthy it's unbelieveable. And that attitude has consequences.
btw, what'ss the difference between what you're saying (you gotta give sick people money otherwise they'll kill) and them using said gun to hold up a bank? It's extorting money through fear either way.
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Easy password acronym for any slashdotter to remember: In Soviet Russia, Password Enters You!
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Criminals must use their brains for crime, to commit crimes, to satisfy the definition of being a criminal. (duh :-p)
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...while the good kids are playing Peter Pan?
They're for adding to existing devices, to give an ethernet interface to it, so you could have a web interface to your DVD player/recorder for example (admitedly, a crappy example... wifi remote control plane?) In which case, the main device is where it draws it's power from. What the hell would a little box like this on it's own plugged into a network solve?
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god I must be stoned, that actually made me laugh *lol*
...it's about what you do with it! :-p
*lol* class :-)
Even if there's nothing you can do to make something better, there's usually things you can do to make it worse. Knowing about it means you can avoid these things. Knowledge is power.
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