Comment Re:The Atoms (Score 1) 362
Yes, but that is 100 processors with no hard disk, RAM or motherboard.
Comment Re:The Atoms (Score 2, Informative) 362
The computational power of the human brain, which uses only 25 watts, is estimated to be between 10^13 and 10^23 instructions per second [1]. This means the human brain is 100 to 10^12 times more powerful than a high-end desktop. So computers still have a way to go before they could possibly approach any physical limits.
1. Merkle, 1989: 10^13-10^16 IPS; Maravec, 1997: 10^14 IPS; Thagard, 2002: 10^23 IPS; Modha, 2009: 3.8*10^16 IPS.
Comment Skeptical (Score 1) 1
Stuff like this leads me to believe that any “net neutrality” legislation that passes will be subtly crafted to benefit insiders.
Submission + - Google Responds to Net Neutrality Reviews (blogspot.com) 1
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Google has written a defense of their joint Net Neutrality proposal with Verizon, responding to criticism like the EFF's recent review. Google presents its arguments as a list of myths and facts, but too many of them look like this one: 'MYTH: This proposal would eliminate network neutrality over wireless. FACT: It's true that Google previously has advocated for certain openness safeguards to be applied in a similar fashion to what would be applied to wireline services. However, in the spirit of compromise, [...]'. The silver lining here is that Google doesn't seem to employ any skilled liars."
Comment Re:This is pretty much what I've been telling peop (Score 1) 973
It really depends on what kind of extrapolating function you use. The way I see it, in 70 million years we will be small rodent-like lizards again.
