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Comment Reuse of electrons. (Score 1) 118

As I understand reversible computing it's basically a recycling of data to preserve electrons before they are allowed to disappate as heat. The idea being that the more you reuse an electron the less heat a chip will create. The problem is not so much that the chips aren't designed this way today its got more to do with how fast chips lose electrons as heat due to the fabrication technology they are built with. As most hardware savy people know, the smaller the chip the less space between transistors there is for electrons to be lost as heat. So as fab tech improves it requires less energy to keep a chip running because less energy is being lost between transistors [just keeping the chip functioning without data corruption]. As fab tech improves we will get to a point where it becomes feasible to use reversible computing because there will be so little energy being lost in this way. In other words more heat will be being produced not from the current leakage of a chip but from data waste caused when a bit is no longer needed. Last I heard, that's around the 5nm mark. There is also reversible computation, the software equivilant of this which is an interesting read imo.

Comment but but (Score 1) 134

If you made a game with the word nestle in it you would expect to be sued. That's just a word, there's a lot more in a game. However, I doubt copyright is strong enough to defend a game on look and feel. They need specifics and for that you can't go past patents. Atari have clearly changed, is this an act of desparation on their behalf, are they this desparate for cash?

Comment Re:Lemme guess (Score 1) 149

The real problem is that Australia is a large country with a small population by comparison to countries like the US. This makes the cost per head very high as you want every single person to enjoy broadband here. Australia is, like many other countries putting up satelittes as a way to reduce having expensive fibre going out very long distances to serve very few people, however you can't expect people living in no where's land to have recievers for these. So NBN now becomes about having numberous solutions that weren't fully thought through from day one. I wouldn't call it bad management per se, its coped its fare share of bad publicity because a healthy some of people weren't hooked up for stupid little reasons, like a plug wasn't pushed in and it took them a week to get a technican out and fix it, as was the case with me. Crap like this happens.

Comment Yeah right (Score 1) 98

Problem I'm having with microsoft these days is that they do things that make you go 'yay that's really good' then you wonder for how long. Its just another carrot on a string to attract foolish developers over only to be forced one day later to have to adapt to some microsoft propriatery way of doing it to sap money out of you.

Comment I want it to use more memory. (Score 1) 213

The thing that seems to be slowing down firefox more than anything for me is the bookmarks toolbar at the top. I love my bookmarks toolbar but as it get filled up with more and more links it really bogs down Firefox. If you right click on one of you links in the horizontal bookmarks bar at the top > properties > delete the name = nice simple icon in the bookmark bar. I've go nearly 50 of them now running along the top of firefox and its just sooo handy but you feel it when it comes to performance. This needs heavy optimization imo.

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