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Comment Re:transistors held back by manufactures.. (Score -1) 183

right. far below the 20-30 billion they should have. calculate it yourself:

Moore's law is 18 months, transistor counts double.

154 months since Athlon T-bird with 34 million transistors introduced.

8 and a half generates later under Moore's Law: 17.408 billion

Consumer level processors have been sitting at quad core since 2007 when the Core 2 Quad was introduced. Haven't hardly advanced since and sit at the same 1 billion mark we have in 2014 (except for the server grade Extreme Edition, which has 2 billion).

Server processors are being lend back but not as much. GPUs have 4-6 billion still far from their potential.

If I look at Moore's Law over time I see it has never been in effect since it's conception. Transistor counts didn't rise on time ever. The potential is there but who is using it? Only the gods of the universe make use of it I'm sure; the military.

I also go back in time and I see that older generation of manufacturing processes were capable of far more than they were used for in the consume world, at times being used years down the road for far more advanced things than when they were brought to the table.

Comment transistors held back by manufactures.. (Score -1, Interesting) 183

If you calculate Moore's law from 2000 to 2014 you find it to have been held back and not honored. Manufactures basically capped consumer level processors at 1 billion and quad cores and refused to push it hardly any further except in military technology. In 2000 the Athlon Thunderbird had 34 million transistors and after applying Moore's law in 2014 our desktop rigs should have at least 30 billion. Instead they have 1 billion.

Also the first 1 billion transistor CPU was an Intel Itanium.. Built in 2006 on 90nm year 2002 fab technology showing you what could have been done in 2002 but took till 2006 due to laziness and bad product designs being used for the consumer level market.

I think the military plays a role in all this because theoretically they would be designing transistor based applications without these limitations perhaps including single CPUs 512 times faster than the consumer level counterparts. Making me think the old adage about the military being up to 30 years ahead of the civilian technology is true. It is certainly true when their quantum level remote brain reading / manipulation technology gets looked at; nothing compares or even does a part of it in the consumer market but it does exist. Why would the military hold the technology back or deliberately cripple the consumer level stuff? Engineering profits is one factor of the manufactures but another issue is to keep weapons out of the civilian populations hands, and also to give the exclusive upper hand to the military. Previously DOD would claim even the PS2 was a weapon and this is the logic I apply to all computer technology as either weapons can be designed faster or new electronic weapons automated and engineered using the held back technologies .. Many technologies are legit being held back and have been held back for decades as a result of these policies.

More details at http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Comment damn (Score -1, Offtopic) 76

if they have telescopes that can detect whether or not the atmosphere of another planet many lights years away has oxygen or not...

imagine what they can observe by pointing a military satellite with this same or more advanced resolution right at us. I mean, couldn't they technically observe whether my brain has neurons and electrons in it using tomography, or electron spin resonance, then create an EEG map with it, feed it into a brain-computer interface or neural decoder, and get all my thoughts? we know they tap cables and computer emissions like this, why not the human emissions and communications that are identical?

I mean they can image things at the quantum level from space and long ranges these days so why the fuck not?

In fact I did some dirt digging and found out major DOD/CIA/NSA/US DOJ whistleblowers have participated and disclosed details about designing such a system. Dr. Robert Duncan, PhD from Harvard, MIT, and Dartmouth with degrees in A.I. and robotics participated in designing said system, and wrote books and created a website disclosing it's illegal covert use on a global scale (books: Project Soul Catcher, The Matrix Deciphered, and How to Tame a Demon). http://www.obamasweapon.com/ Yet no one takes notice that's it's a piece of cake to do and think it's all crazy talk. :D

Comment damn (Score -1) 99

problem is the bastards use the mental health system like it's to assault and terrorize a person. so if the nuts who actually make use of this program self report something their psychiatrists will have them locked up in a nut ward, whereby they lose their freedom to live. also drugging and damaging these peoples brains is common ...

if I was a schizophrenic why the fuck would I volunteer to participated in some quack's program of 24/7 remote surveillance for this type of shit?

http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Comment optogenics worseless (Score 0) 44

I read the article and was impressed by the retarded idiocy of the research. What these idiot researchers are doing is making the nerons glow through genetic modification in optogenics in new spectrums. However neurons always glowed prior to modification in lower frequencies when observed with the right technology because neurons full of electrons generate electromagnetic frequencies and neurons can be observed as on or off known as evokes potentials.

Using a radar machine in the military or a technique called electron spin resonance one can illuminate the brain with radar, or frequencies between 1MHz and 100THz and map out unpaired electrons thus whole brain electrical activity. Once this is done full EEG maps of the brain can be created and active an inactive neurons distinguished through electron mapping. The military has had this technology since 1974.

What's more is we can monitor individual synapses with this technology or individual parts of atomic structure not just whole neurons. It's fully patented by Robert Malech a DOD contractor too (1974).

I am not joking. This whole system is entirely classified because the government uses it to warrantless spy on and covertly hack and attack people. More details at including the radar patent http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Dr. Robert Duncan is a DoD and CIA and US DOJ whistleblower / surveillance architect who likes to leak details about it. Info on the above site including full interviews and his books .

HAARP machinea and satellites remain the most advanced radar on earth above what any researcher is using in the public. Essentially MRI etc are toys compared to what the government has tucked away and pointed at us in secret.... XD

Comment why this might succeed (Score 0) 61

Because they already have the same infrastructure plus the large physical goods market place that all the other big players possess. In my books Amazon is Google's only equivalent.

Next we should expect them to competitively price their devices below their competitors Samsung and Apple just like was done with the Kindle HD. Kindle cost half what other tablets did at the time of launch selling for $199 whereas competitors sold their tablets for $500.

In the smartphone realm device cost $220 to manufacture yet sell for $700 unlocked price. This gives Amazon room to adjust the price and features competitively. Perhaps selling the device fully loaded for $200 unlocked and making up for lost revenue through sales of Services and goods. I would rather pay $200 for a device then $700 for example as the market has shifted away from selling contract lines. Also under contract might see the phone sell for zilch or better even when just launched brand new.

Comment Re:Ow, the ignorance (Score 0) 186

30Hz display would work but with high refresh rate. He's talking about motion looking like shit, bleeding together, or looking as if it's not smooth.

It's noticeable especially when you play games and use your mouse. Video not so noticeable because it's 30fps except in HD at 60fps where motion is fast like sporting and action shots.

Moving a screen around on your desktop fast will have noticeable jumpiness when done rapidly. Anything where motion happens fast.

Comment Re:Display Port (Score 1, Interesting) 186

DisplayPort is actually Intel's and Dell's thing. They invented it.

AMD and Apple picked it up because it's the only replacement for DVI which is capped at 1600x1200 at 60Hz or 1200p at 60Hz. One display only. Requires dual-link for higher resolutions. Has large outdated connector.

DisplayPort supports up to 8K and 4K 3D or two 4K displays per connector at 60Hz. Or 4K at 120Hz which is what I want on my display. :P

You can drive multiple DisplayPort monitors by daisy chaining them together rather than using multiple ports, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Comment Re:32 GB isn't enough for even one BD (Score -1) 75

Um, 1 32GB SDHC card = 1 game. Buy one memory stick per game or reload the game.

And in actuality, most PC/steam games are between 5 and 20GB. The very modern games are 15GB to 20GB installation. Older games are between 5GB and 10GB or very old games are even just 1GB to 2GB.

Also they make 128GB SDXC cards and 128GB microSDXC cards that sell for $60 for an SDXC and $120 for a microSDXC (price drops over the next year should get it down to about $70). 256GB SDXC exist now but cost about $400 (expecting big price drops within 1 year; the price on these cards is always nearly double for the first 6 months to 12 months, then it drops as competition and availability increases).

My beef with this device is the small 5" screen. I'd like it to be bigger at 5.7" like my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which is al almost perfect size screen for a game console.. Either than or full 6".

5" like on my Galaxy S4 is too small IMO..

Comment Re:another solution (Score -1) 69

my rules also say that patents are now invalid and no one owns ideas or content or information any more.

likewise even child porn is ok as long as the kids didn't feel they were raped or forced into participating when they made the content. >:)

obviously if a video of a rape was made it would be public because it fits under the rule that it documented one point in time as it was really happening.

and censorship is bad, mkay.

but it might lead to prosecuting to the perps who did the assault :P..

Comment another solution (Score 0) 69

just remove all restrictions all together and get rid of censorship and copyright and trademarks and privacy rules and classification and secret law.

"don't create data that shouldn't be made available to everyone" becomes the new rules.

and don't worry about that content being made of you because it's just capturing reality as it was at one point.

make the rules so that nothing can be hidden or kept secret.

http://www.obamasweapon.com/

Comment IPv6 already massively deployed (Score -1) 305

IPv6 is already massively deployed in the United States.

Example: all major hosting providers support IPv6.
All major consumer level ISPs support IPv6: Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile (mobile phones all connect IPv6, Android as of 4.4 ships with only IPv6), Road Runner (Time Warner Cable), AT&T, Sprint, etc..

All major backbones support it. Major services like CDNs and Shell hosting and Shared web hosting providers support it (1and1, dreamhost, hostgator, ramnode, etc). Major websites like Yahoo, YouTube, Google, and Facebook fully support it.

http://www.comcast6.net/
http://www.verizon.com/Support...
http://www.timewarnercable.com...
http://support.t-mobile.com/me...
http://www.att.com/esupport/ip...
http://www.myaccount.charter.c...
https://www.sprint.net/index.p...

I am not checking international websites but I'm sure they are using IPv6 too.

Are there any countries NOT using IPv6 at all? Because as far as I'm concerned it's here and being utilized in all the areas of the world that matter.

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