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FruityLoops and Reason compete with Garage Band too closely, application denied. Firefox competes with Safari, application delayed and then withdrawn...
Yes, it is a damn shame that Apple imposes its crazy App Store rules on the Mac as well. (I get what you're trying to say, but that's hardly the point of the post)
Crazy to think my $200 phone is now more powerful than my $1200 desktop Mac was only ten years ago. same old fallacy again. iPhone total cost is much more than $1200.
Crazy to think my $200 phone is now more powerful than my $1200 desktop Mac was only ten years ago. same old fallacy again. iPhone total cost is much more than $1200.
Crazy to think my $200 phone is now more powerful than my $1200 desktop Mac was only ten years ago. same old fallacy again. iPhone total cost is much more than $1200.
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What numbers did you base yourself on for the Toy Story claim? I'm curious.
That's the one piece I pulled out of my ass to conclude with a bit of hyperbole :-) I doubt a 2010 PC could render Toy Story 3 in a year if things are similar now to how they were with Toy Story 1 in 1995. I'd also be curious to see how modern PCs would cope with Toy Story 1 though.. [Update: If it helps rescue me, I found a page about the difference between rendering TS1 and TS3 in their respective times: http://wat…
You even had to run unapproved software on the 2000 iMac! How far we've come.
Crazy to think my $200 phone is now more powerful than my $1200 desktop Mac was only ten years ago. same old fallacy again. iPhone total cost is much more than $1200.
No matter what phone you use, you have to pay a monthly fee to use it... If you buy the hardware alone, it's less than $1200.
Apropos the prognostications about circa-2020 brain implants, when I was a twenty-something, back in the mid-1980s, I read Neuromancer . And I wanted to be the first guy on my block to have a cyberspace jack in his skull. Now I am middle-aged and cynical and slightly chewed-up by the dot-com 1.0 startup experience, I want to be the first guy on my block to have, for a brain implant ... a firewall! (One lesson I've dr…
Taking another stride forward, your brain implant in 2020 will, then, be faster than an i7, have 16GB of RAM, 2TB of storage, and be able to re-render the whole of Toy Story 3 in 10 minutes. Somehow, that doesn't even sound surprising to me anymore.
Except that it will not be an implant because individual neurons in the brain have an irritatingly low bandwidth of only a few bits per sec. Instead it is much cheaper and hassle-free to use the firehose connection that already exists into the brain: the eyes, for which even protocols for communication are established. Screens in contact lenses are my bet on where the future of computers are headed. That will with ti…
There's also the possibility of tapping in at the ears, the spinal cord, hell, it's entirely conceivable you could cut off a hand and attach an implant there. When you think about the amount of bandwidth that your mind has between your hand and your brain (seriously, move your hand a bit and think about how much data that is in absolute terms) there's a whole lot of bandwidth in established connections, especially for someone who has been maimed and has brain pathways lying dormant for controlling a limb.