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Comment Re:Desktop (Score 1) 285

The 3930K seems the one exception, but it's Sandy Bridge, and LGA 2011 chipset is borderline consumer! For Ivy Bridge, the newer architecture, it only goes up to 4 cores. And for the next architecture, Haswell, not even released yet, Wikipedia has the following feature to say: "Mainstream up to quad-core.".

I'm curious why Intel went from 1 core to 4 cores in a short period of time, and then remains stuck at 4 cores for more than half a decade.

Comment That square thingie (Score 1) 43

What's up with that square object they need to put on top of it and move around to see some small personalized part? It doesn't seem practical if you need to place something on top of it just to view something...

Comment Re:Other civilisation may not be mamals (Score 1) 686

They won't mammals, but also not reptiles, insects, birds, amphibia, fishes or anything else we know. Because, those are the things that happened to evolve on our particular planet, but what would evolve on another planet could be anything randomly different and probably would have a completely different path where different terminology than "mammal" and "reptile" would be needed.

Comment Re:Paging Lawrence Fishburn (Score 1) 267

I've never seen The Core, but saw its trailer just now. What I wonder is this:

They say they can't make the core start spinning again because it's so big and requires so much force. That makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense to me, is that they did manage to stop it, which would cost the exact same energy. Why was stopping easy and starting not? Really stupid...

Comment Spheres (Score 1) 53

Interesting... first I thought molecules indeed looked like a bunch of spheres, just like in the drawings.

Then I realized that since an atoms location is more like a statistical function than an actual position, that molecules probably look nothing like those drawings in reality.

But now here's a photo of a molecule and it looks like a bunch of spheres? Who would have thought!

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