Chris Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 10^12Hz... wow! Can you imagine the technical innovation needed to get a > machine where light only travels 0.3mm in a clock cycle? That's some > densely packed, erm, stuff... probably not silicon, the sort of thing > we probably can't conceive right now (electron obedience school?)... The technical term is "superconductor" and I can conceive it quite fine :-) (This will probably provoke more cryonics postings.) Room temp superconductors... or we can pull a star trek and use the warp drive to speed up the speed of light and thus the optical components inside the CPU. (This is how the computers on the NCC-1701-D supposedly work...if you don't believe me, read the technical manual, available at fine bookstores everywhere and on multimedia CD-ROM.) >...maybe every electronic device in my house will be squaring and >subtracting 2 in its idle time. I'd rather compute a Mersenne LL test. Failing that, I'd devote the idle cycles to exploring the Mandelbrot set, not some Julia set. And the Julia set in question here is the world's least interesting...just a line segment. Square and add i and you get something a tad more interesting... like from a storm chaser's lucid dreams. > I'm with Spike on this one. If E.T. does make the call, there are going > to be a lot of people dropping EVERYTHING. And even if we don't > have "Microsoft SpaceBender V1.1a SR3"... Now that would give a whole new meaning to "Internet Exploder". Can you spell "core breach"? Please, powers that be. DON'T TRUST *THAT* APP TO MICROSOFT! ANYONE BUT MICROSOFT! ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
