Oh for sure, can't wait for those new optical chips that are supposed to make current chips look ancient (at certain calculations). I expect quantum chips in like 20 years for home use. So eventually I imagine a PC will look like silicon CPU for general stuff with a GPU consisting of some sort of combo silicon optical chip, a quantum chip for encryption and communications with maybe some AI acceleration type stuff thrown in. Maybe a couple of TB of DDR9 or something fun.

I would like to see a quantum entanglement internet if that is possible in the future, would be nice to have crazy speeds like 1TB a second or something awesome.

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Compare the top end Radeon cards from 2005 to 2007... See for yourself. Literally 3X the performance in memory bandwidth alone and that ignores architectural improvements memory capacity improvements, CPU's did not just stand still during that 2 year period.

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Sorry if you spent a bunch of money on a PC in 2005 and expected it to remain top end for years to come...

Things have changed these days, if you got a top of the line machine 2019 your machine is still pretty good! Go back 14 years and things where vastly different, your top of the line machine would be lucky to be called mid range at best after 2 years, assuming by top of the line you mean literally the best hardware you could get and not "well it was close to the best one..." tech was moving insanely fast back then. RAM increased in capacity and speed, Moore's law was alive and kicking. (Doubling every 1.5 years... weird they literally called it a law...)

Vista launched in 2007 so your top end 2005 machine was literally already ancient at the time, back then if your machine was 6 months old the latest stuff was making huge jumps in performance.

Plus Vista liked some hardware, depending on the drivers, so my top end machine might have been a bit more compatible (I was working for Dell at the time.)

If you had a high end gaming PC when Vista came out (I was a beta tester) it was nice, had really cool features... But for people with midrange or god forbid a low end machine... Well it was probably pretty horrid. I think a lot of the improvement people experienced with Vista was that they ended up getting better PC's over time and well it worked better.

Kind of miss being able to have a whole movie as a background lol

My guess is they wouldn't use the second GPU for like SLI but more like encoding for streaming and other tasks? Maybe for ray trace acceleration?

I bet 99% of sexual predators have eaten fast food at some point, we should ban fast food...

I believe the newer iPhones are ditching the power port completely? I think they are going completely wireless charging? In a weird accidental way I guess this would eliminate that vulnerability?

Either way I think this story is one of those "If someone has physical access to something" security things.

If someone has physical access to almost anything, bad stuff can happen.

A lot of these "broadband" for low income homes have great prices, but a lot of the speeds that I have seen are so slow it really only is only useful for the most basic of web use these days. Video streaming classes would probably be too much for a lot of these? Good enough to put out resumes for jobs and finding jobs though so that's always good.

In my area the cost of 100Mbps is around 40 dollars for introductory prices and goes up to like 65 after a year or two. There are cheaper plans for 50Mbps too, I think the low income options are like 15 dollars a month but the speeds are like 5Mbps... I guess what I am saying is that for not much more you can get 10 times the speed for double the price but an extra 15 dollars isn't that much in a month for 10 times the speed.

This is probably why the program isn't being used much, unless your truly destitute and 15 dollars constitutes a real financial burden?

Nahhh just Glegaks highschool project.

Maybe it was the perfect candidate for other reasons.... a young star might develop life on it's planets, a star near the end of life is probably not going to develop the next ET.... Also they may actually desire stars about to go boom. Perhaps they have a way of harnessing that much energy for things we have no clue about yet.

I play some PS3 games on my PC, so when you mentioned shader compilation... It kind of clicked a bit (I will say I am far from understanding it completely but at least now I have a tentative grasp.)

Thank you!!!

Still amazing to me, computers are like endless magic for me :)

Hmmm maybe if they got some GPU action in there somehow.... That's pretty amazing to be honest.

I am trying to wrap my brain around that, but I just can't imagine how... I have some theories but they are uneducated guesses at best lol

In comparison to X86-64 desktop chips, ARM emulation is going to be a bit slower, Windows will probably run fine and basic apps, but games? I don't think it will be a good experience.

Native apps for ARM should be nice though, Apple is doing it's Apple thing.

I feel like the transition is going to be rough for Apple people, but in a few years when everything is ported and running natively they probably will enjoy fast, quiet and efficient PC's.

Should make syncing to an iPhone easy? (I only own one Apple product an Apple TV 4K box thing)

I was always told it's because they go from green to ripe to rotten very quickly VS just sitting out on the table, I don't know if this is true but maybe?

I like to use over ripe bananas in fruit smoothies, I peel them then break them into like 3rds then freeze them to use when I want them. Some frozen berries and bananas some almond milk and it's off to the races.

I really don't see a problem with text mode BIOS's.... It's not like you spend hours in the BIOS (lol well at least you hope and pray not to spend hours there...) A GUI on the BIOS really does seem sort of useless, if your lucky you might spend only a few minutes in the thing over the life span of the computer.

Or hell if they really want to get all pretty put it on a bootable USB thumb drive, with some sort of full mini OS on it... That way the BIOS on the PC could be stripped down to just the essentials and all the update goodies and pretty GUI and all that can be loaded from any old thumb drive (8GB minimum?)

This would help with all that F8 or Delete or what ever to enter the BIOS in the first place, just slap in the thumb drive and it boots right into it all auto like. Keys to the kingdom and all that.

Companies IT might like that one, with a thumb drive with keys to the BIOS for the machines so just anyone cant access the BIOS in the first place.