What are they going to be doing for those ten years? Waiting for the computer to get built? Maybe there is some work that volunteers could help with to make this project go faster, but it is shrouded in secrecy so we will never know.
Were there ever any highly regarded scientists that also possessed above average social skills? Like picking up girls, telling jokes, that kind of thing.
Both companies realized that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models.
I thought dual core was being used as a last resort, not because it produces better speed improvements than upping the clock. From the benchmarks I have read the X2 is very fast, but is this because of the second core, or have there been other changes to the processor?
Personally I aim to start selling nuclear fusion plants by 2010. Which of course will accomodate growing demand for clean, efficient supplies of power.
I could have sworn I saw this exact same article five years ago, aiming for a target of 2000 as the first year for mass-market helper robots.
If I understand correctly, the reason that dual cores cpus are coming onto the market is because it is becoming increasingly more difficult to make single core cpus faster.
Is that also the case with GPUs? Or do they still have a ways to go in terms of single-core speed improvements?
I don't know whether it was a hoax or not, but I remember reading that utility companies look for spikes in power consumption as evidence of indoor marijuana growing. Whether or not 580w would be over this threshold, I'm not sure.
All of the images are good (especially the office), but far from photorealistic. What is keeping designers from making completely photorealistic renderings? Is it because the amount of computing power required is not practical at this time, or because they just do not know how?
No big deal, just bring the junk food with you to school so you don't have to buy it. I imagine that is already what happens at most schools, with state regulated healthy meal plans and no vending machines.
This is good news, I am definitely looking forward to it.
But they are really milking these trilogies from 20 years ago. I wonder if they will come up with original ones at some point in the future, or if their careers are winding down.
Slashdot Mirror
How does one detect if clicks are coming from their rival? I would like to do this with my site.
Why is it that when some interesting new technology is developed, the first question that gets asked is "How can we use it for the military?"
What are they going to be doing for those ten years? Waiting for the computer to get built? Maybe there is some work that volunteers could help with to make this project go faster, but it is shrouded in secrecy so we will never know.
Were there ever any highly regarded scientists that also possessed above average social skills? Like picking up girls, telling jokes, that kind of thing.
Both companies realized that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models.
I thought dual core was being used as a last resort, not because it produces better speed improvements than upping the clock. From the benchmarks I have read the X2 is very fast, but is this because of the second core, or have there been other changes to the processor?
Personally I aim to start selling nuclear fusion plants by 2010. Which of course will accomodate growing demand for clean, efficient supplies of power.
I could have sworn I saw this exact same article five years ago, aiming for a target of 2000 as the first year for mass-market helper robots.
If I understand correctly, the reason that dual cores cpus are coming onto the market is because it is becoming increasingly more difficult to make single core cpus faster.
Is that also the case with GPUs? Or do they still have a ways to go in terms of single-core speed improvements?
I don't know whether it was a hoax or not, but I remember reading that utility companies look for spikes in power consumption as evidence of indoor marijuana growing. Whether or not 580w would be over this threshold, I'm not sure.
90% say if we receive a message from another planet we should reply
What if it was: "If you reply to this message, we will annihilate your planet"?
Wow..some of that stuff actually looks real.
Never mind, I can see it says here that it is rendered.
http://www.pbrt.org/gallery/01F12.jpg
That's a photograph right?
All of the images are good (especially the office), but far from photorealistic. What is keeping designers from making completely photorealistic renderings? Is it because the amount of computing power required is not practical at this time, or because they just do not know how?
Prediction: The company/idea that kills MS is not going to be called an "MS killer" until after the fact.
No big deal, just bring the junk food with you to school so you don't have to buy it. I imagine that is already what happens at most schools, with state regulated healthy meal plans and no vending machines.
This is good news, I am definitely looking forward to it.
But they are really milking these trilogies from 20 years ago. I wonder if they will come up with original ones at some point in the future, or if their careers are winding down.