Comment One-sided deal it seems (Score 1) 421
And what do Google and co. get out of it? Make big media pay, and pay big.
And what do Google and co. get out of it? Make big media pay, and pay big.
They plugged in data on international relations prior to World War II and got almost perfect predictions on how the Axis and Allied alliances formed.
They'll be able to reload the image of your stellar evolution simulation in a few seconds after the guy doing nuclear weapons simulations has had his time. Never mind that the two simulations don't even run under the same OS.
Sounds like the supercomputer in Greg Egan's short story Luminous. It was basically built from light and was reconfigured specifically for each different application.
$ host -t AAAA google.com
google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:c004::68
This file will self-destruct in five minutes.