Malicious routing will only get them so far. If we have packets we want delivered, we will pay whomever is willing to do it fastest and with the least hassle.
Has anyone thought of writing a worm that just installs a stealth Folding@home client and patches the machine up?
If a million clueless consumers are going to buy more megahertz of Dells than they know how to use, we might as well use their stolen CPU cycles to cure diseases rather than impotence.
That's JUST IT. The only point of reference you have for the speed of machine computations is other machine computations.
For a 'real' sense of what these speeds mean, compare them to human computation. How long would it take you, with a pen and paper, to render one frame of fullscreen PS3 video?
Hell, how long does it take you to increment a 32-bit integer?
There may be some directorial decisions that have to be made differently. Cinematographic depth-of-field effects and occlusion play out differently with a stereoscopic camera, and even the scene blocking may have to be slightly different - if the camera is panning sideways past a foreground oject, for instance, the audience may see an obscured object in the background a few fractions of a second earlier than it would otherwise.
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We are a part of nature, therefore everything we do is by definition natural. So let's not have any rules ever.
That does make free will more useful to believe in, but it doesn't make it any more likely to exist.
Malicious routing will only get them so far. If we have packets we want delivered, we will pay whomever is willing to do it fastest and with the least hassle.
'Pluto.'
Has anyone thought of writing a worm that just installs a stealth Folding@home client and patches the machine up?
If a million clueless consumers are going to buy more megahertz of Dells than they know how to use, we might as well use their stolen CPU cycles to cure diseases rather than impotence.
That's fine. If the OS is invisible to you then it's doing its job.
This thread was all one person.
You mean you ain't got 'cho Mystery Solvin' License?
This is silly. You can also change the numbers displayed on your house but it doesn't mean mail to your new "address" will get to you, ever.
640k should be enough for anyone.
I giggled at that.
And then once again India will end up doing it cheaper and faster than us.
I was under the impression that persistence-of-vision lasts a whole 60th of a second, and I can *definitely* see things go dark when I blink.
I would mod this up if I had the points.
That's JUST IT. The only point of reference you have for the speed of machine computations is other machine computations.
For a 'real' sense of what these speeds mean, compare them to human computation. How long would it take you, with a pen and paper, to render one frame of fullscreen PS3 video?
Hell, how long does it take you to increment a 32-bit integer?
It takes the Power6 about 2 light-inches.
Let's get 'em!
Oh look, our comments are virtually identical. High five :(
Dysentery.
Have you played educational games before?
There may be some directorial decisions that have to be made differently. Cinematographic depth-of-field effects and occlusion play out differently with a stereoscopic camera, and even the scene blocking may have to be slightly different - if the camera is panning sideways past a foreground oject, for instance, the audience may see an obscured object in the background a few fractions of a second earlier than it would otherwise.
None of the above, but let me tell you about our virgin remuneration plan.
I suppose the GDI did too, but they weren't so clearly a terrorist organization. Or were they?
Right you are. The Brotherhood of Nod were pioneers in this style of warfare.
We've been tapping engineers for our cause ever since Counterstrike came out.
APRIL FOOLS!