Depends; we don't yet know how to commercially make graphene. This is a shame because in addition to ultracapacitors it could also be used to make integrated circuits. It's the same problem as with nanotubes; lots of great uses already found, now we just need to figure out how to make them.
It doesn't tackle those subjects yet you always see those lumped into evolutionary discussions.
You're absolutely right; people act as if it's creationism vs evolution, but it's actually creationism vs the whole of science. If creationism is right we've got geological science wrong, the science of star and planet formation wrong, the speed of light wrong, radioactive decay rates, the universe's rate of expansion, the doppler shift's effect on light, the cause of the background x-ray radiation, etc, etc.
If it was just creationism vs evolution creationists wouldn't be so hypocritical when they accept the parts of science which they think fit.
The key difference is that L2 cache, memory controllers, FPUs, they all need to interact closely with the CPU.
GPUs generally just take data from the CPU and get rendering, so unless they start sending data back to the CPU much more there's no real reason for them to merge.
Another difference; graphics cards benefit from being updated every now and then. Another; GPUs use a lot of transistors, and because of their parallel nature the more transistors the better, it's not something that will get so small that it can be tacked onto the CPU as a nice extra. There are probably more.
The real psychics don't care for such material wealth. The truly powerful only use their powers for good, to catch criminals and fight The Empire, and aren't interested in personal gain.
i disagree. i think there are a lot more competent programmers out there than there are visionary individuals.
Obviously we're getting into a debate about what "visionary" is. The GP was probably just saying "there are more ideas than people to implement them", which is very true.
I have first hand experience with an FOSS project of my own which gets absurd numbers of feature requests and absurdly ambitious ideas.
Not sure what to make of your comment, because I've been told by others that standard model stuff generally isn't taught at BSc level. (I mean what would we use it for?)
But yes we do quantum mechanics, that's not sub-atomic.
Also as I understand it's completely mathematical, so taking the mathematical "bits" on faith is like taking the whole lot on faith.
I've had nothing but trouble finding good information between the "BLACK HOLES, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!", the idiot reporters doing "human interest" style pieces about it, and the incomprehensible (to me) physics-babble.
I'm almost at the end of a physics BSc and we don't touch on sub-atomic (sub-nuclear) physics (I guess it's not yet practical enough), so the details are incomprehensible to the vast majority of people. You need to be a phd to stand a chance, which is a shame (especially for me).:-(
Also when you block cookies from a site or set them to session only that still leaves the site on a list of blocked/session only sites. Fine if you're worried about privacy on the server end, not so good if you're worried about privacy on the client end (and that's what I gather the reason for the new privacy tabs are).
Yep terrorists living on a lunar colony might use the spent fuel for a dirty bomb.. A dirty bomb, on an inherently radiation shielded space-colony, salvaged and detonated by space terrorists... On the moon.
It will only take one incident to loose any cost savings by an order of magnitude.
Seriously, you can't get into any of your machines for an hour, how much does that cost? the machines start doing the wrong thing?
The people who put these systems in place know what they are doing, and aren't throwing money out of the window needlessly.. These aren't machines in the server room down the hall, these are machines in unmanned installations, which may need constant monitoring.
Textbook prices are very high, but that has nothing to do with people needing to be certified. Are the companies which hire you going to do a tests equivalent to the ones you take over the course of a full education to ensure you've got the right skill-set? Learning a full syllabus and receiving a qualification on completion is pretty logical.
The fact that so many algorithms take into account disk based storage, and attempt to serialize reads and writes, I don't think the benchmarks (which are close in most cases between SSDs and HDDs) reflect the potential gains of SSDs.
That's $600 for an 80GB one. I hope among the range they're selling we get a more reasonably priced ~20-30GB one.
My OS (, documents, program files, etc) doesn't use that much space and it's not even a squeeze, and you need more than 80GB anyway to store media.
As I understand the main cost are the Flash chips themselves, so a half sized disk shouldn't cost much more than $300, and 40GB is certainly enough for non-media data for an individual desktop.
Well, it would and it wouldn't. This BBC News article from a couple of weeks ago sums up the complex relationship with Pakistan very well.
Given their lack of co-operation regarding Iran's nuclear program (not giving up Khan) I think a nuclear deal like India's with Pakistan is completely off the table for now.
But if democracy takes off, the Taliban are shunned, and Afghanistan clears up it could be back on the table surprisingly quickly. (Or never.. They're at a crossroads right now and I think a lot is at stake.)
You charged me exactly what it said in the contract I signed said you would! How dare you.
Well it's clearly ridiculous.. In fact my parents rocked up a 4-figure bill when they went well over the limit for an entire year using the OzEmail internet service provider.
They signed up to get basic net access with very low limits and high over-limit fees when we first moved over to Australia, but forgot to change it, and a massive bill was racked up when everyone in the house got wired up to use the net.
OzEmail were kind enough to drop the bill down to a more realistic figure, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to.
Unless it really cost them that amount to provide the data no-one should have to pay a huge amount just because they chose the wrong plan.
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Depends; we don't yet know how to commercially make graphene. This is a shame because in addition to ultracapacitors it could also be used to make integrated circuits. It's the same problem as with nanotubes; lots of great uses already found, now we just need to figure out how to make them.
It'd sure make things simpler for their government
It doesn't tackle those subjects yet you always see those lumped into evolutionary discussions.
You're absolutely right; people act as if it's creationism vs evolution, but it's actually creationism vs the whole of science. If creationism is right we've got geological science wrong, the science of star and planet formation wrong, the speed of light wrong, radioactive decay rates, the universe's rate of expansion, the doppler shift's effect on light, the cause of the background x-ray radiation, etc, etc.
If it was just creationism vs evolution creationists wouldn't be so hypocritical when they accept the parts of science which they think fit.
The key difference is that L2 cache, memory controllers, FPUs, they all need to interact closely with the CPU.
GPUs generally just take data from the CPU and get rendering, so unless they start sending data back to the CPU much more there's no real reason for them to merge.
Another difference; graphics cards benefit from being updated every now and then. Another; GPUs use a lot of transistors, and because of their parallel nature the more transistors the better, it's not something that will get so small that it can be tacked onto the CPU as a nice extra. There are probably more.
Either that or the writers screwed up..
Under the Randi Challenge? A million dollars.
The real psychics don't care for such material wealth. The truly powerful only use their powers for good, to catch criminals and fight The Empire, and aren't interested in personal gain.
But is it a gift... or a curse?
Ubuntu has quite a bit more momentum behind it though
i disagree. i think there are a lot more competent programmers out there than there are visionary individuals.
Obviously we're getting into a debate about what "visionary" is. The GP was probably just saying "there are more ideas than people to implement them", which is very true.
I have first hand experience with an FOSS project of my own which gets absurd numbers of feature requests and absurdly ambitious ideas.
Not sure what to make of your comment, because I've been told by others that standard model stuff generally isn't taught at BSc level. (I mean what would we use it for?)
But yes we do quantum mechanics, that's not sub-atomic.
Also as I understand it's completely mathematical, so taking the mathematical "bits" on faith is like taking the whole lot on faith.
I've had nothing but trouble finding good information between the "BLACK HOLES, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!", the idiot reporters doing "human interest" style pieces about it, and the incomprehensible (to me) physics-babble.
I'm almost at the end of a physics BSc and we don't touch on sub-atomic (sub-nuclear) physics (I guess it's not yet practical enough), so the details are incomprehensible to the vast majority of people. You need to be a phd to stand a chance, which is a shame (especially for me). :-(
Of course :-/
Also when you block cookies from a site or set them to session only that still leaves the site on a list of blocked/session only sites. Fine if you're worried about privacy on the server end, not so good if you're worried about privacy on the client end (and that's what I gather the reason for the new privacy tabs are).
the wrong hands being laid on it
Yep terrorists living on a lunar colony might use the spent fuel for a dirty bomb.. A dirty bomb, on an inherently radiation shielded space-colony, salvaged and detonated by space terrorists... On the moon.
What about all the radiation it emits though?! We don't want radioactive franken-fuel releasing harmful radiation into our pristine solar system.
It will only take one incident to loose any cost savings by an order of magnitude.
Seriously, you can't get into any of your machines for an hour, how much does that cost? the machines start doing the wrong thing?
The people who put these systems in place know what they are doing, and aren't throwing money out of the window needlessly.. These aren't machines in the server room down the hall, these are machines in unmanned installations, which may need constant monitoring.
Let's burn it!
Textbook prices are very high, but that has nothing to do with people needing to be certified. Are the companies which hire you going to do a tests equivalent to the ones you take over the course of a full education to ensure you've got the right skill-set? Learning a full syllabus and receiving a qualification on completion is pretty logical.
Isn't Chrome the only browser out there which does this? And doesn't it actually just do it with separate processes and not individual threads?
Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem incredibly shameful to me.
Yeah, that's totally secure.. Great accountability.
The fact that so many algorithms take into account disk based storage, and attempt to serialize reads and writes, I don't think the benchmarks (which are close in most cases between SSDs and HDDs) reflect the potential gains of SSDs.
That's $600 for an 80GB one. I hope among the range they're selling we get a more reasonably priced ~20-30GB one.
My OS (, documents, program files, etc) doesn't use that much space and it's not even a squeeze, and you need more than 80GB anyway to store media.
As I understand the main cost are the Flash chips themselves, so a half sized disk shouldn't cost much more than $300, and 40GB is certainly enough for non-media data for an individual desktop.
Well, it would and it wouldn't. This BBC News article from a couple of weeks ago sums up the complex relationship with Pakistan very well.
Given their lack of co-operation regarding Iran's nuclear program (not giving up Khan) I think a nuclear deal like India's with Pakistan is completely off the table for now.
But if democracy takes off, the Taliban are shunned, and Afghanistan clears up it could be back on the table surprisingly quickly. (Or never.. They're at a crossroads right now and I think a lot is at stake.)
You charged me exactly what it said in the contract I signed said you would! How dare you.
Well it's clearly ridiculous.. In fact my parents rocked up a 4-figure bill when they went well over the limit for an entire year using the OzEmail internet service provider.
They signed up to get basic net access with very low limits and high over-limit fees when we first moved over to Australia, but forgot to change it, and a massive bill was racked up when everyone in the house got wired up to use the net.
OzEmail were kind enough to drop the bill down to a more realistic figure, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to.
Unless it really cost them that amount to provide the data no-one should have to pay a huge amount just because they chose the wrong plan.
Why not put them underground instead? Or tethered to a balloon filled with helium? Why not?
This must be some kind of karma whoring bot?