Interestingly I have a dell D600 laptop where you can put it in standby and swap the battery and it doesnt loose its memory contents (no AC connected). I'm not sure if its a feature, or the RAM just happens to retain its contents for the 5 seconds or so it takes to swap the battery.
It probably just backs the RAM up to HD.
You are correct, they plan to transition from silicon to unobtainium.
No, probably Gallium arsenide (GaAs). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
GaAs has a lattice constant that's about the same as Silicon's (Si is 0.54 nm, GaAs is about 0.57 nm), so at 4nm feature size you'd still have transitors of ~10 atoms wide, depending on the direction you're measuring in.
Maybe Intel is thinking of some other, yet to be thought of design?
True as it may be, the subject is called really "Informatics" in Bulgaria (I should know, it's my high school major, and I am Bulgarian coincidentally). It is not Computer Science as you understand it, because we didn't study much about e.g. networks, compilers, operating systems and such, but we concentrated really on the fundamentals and theory of programming and related mathematics - writing and testing algorithms, building and testing low-level code in e.g. Pascal or BASIC (on paper, too). Great starter for future programmers, I tell you that. If you haven't written your standard issue quicksort or a customized implementation of Newton's method in 10th grade for a homework assignment, then you wouldn't understand.
This is actually what most computer science curriculum covers in the US - the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of programming.
since all south korean online banking is done with windows computers, friday will seriously suck.
That's what VMware, Parallels, and Virtual Box are for. Just roll back to a snapshot that isn't infected.
You could probably accomplish the same thing with Deep Freeze (or a similar) product if all you have is straight Windows.
(Of course these are simply workarounds, and not treating the actual root cause of the issue.)
And then everyone can go on a spending spree, because once the virus hits their debts will all get rolled back anyway!
the reason people on the net generally refuse to pay 0.99 for things (like porn sites) is not thrift, but fear. Usually, it's a scam. Pandora is not a scam, so I'll gladly pay.
Or maybe because it is available free by other means. Pandora is a little different because you can make the argument that you're paying for the recommendation service.
The way textbooks are pushing above $100, I'm not surprised. Publishers have made a mint and have tried their best to hamper the second hard market. This is a positive change.
How is this positive? With DRM now they can charge what they want, and all you get is a PDF that expires in a year, that you can't read without lugging a laptop and charger wherever you go.
Also, has anyone actually tried to read books on a computer? It's pretty painful after a while.
When did eyes start processing sound as well as light?!? Or is this some sort of next-generation eye that will work with these glasses we won't need for the 3D laptops which don't yet exist?
I have synaesthesia, you insensitive clod!
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
