[extropy-chat] more moore

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:20:58AM -0700, Zero Powers wrote:

> Those who think we don't need faster CPU's must be using a
> non-Micro$oft OS.  Have you read what Redmond has planned for the next

What has CPU speed to do with user experience? My slowest machine (G4 iBook)
has the best user experience by a far margin. My fastest machine (Athlon64)
bites the bag both with XP and FC2 x86_64.

> version of Windows?  A completely new file system, all-graphics all

WinFS won't be in Longhorn. But, then, Reiser4 takes even more CPU than
Reiser3.

Why are we still having file systems, for god's sake? This is 2004. Hello?

> the time, active security and God-knows-what-all constantly churning

Smart packet filters take up essentially no CPU. At least, at GBit Ethernet
data rates.

> up CPU cycles in the background, and that doesn't even take into
> account the resource hogging changes they probably have planned for
> the next Office suite.

Yeah, gimme the paperclip in 3d, and a 3d desktop with rotating translucent
windows. Not.
 
> But, for now, you're right.  I have a 2.53 ghz P4 with a gig of RAM
> that can handle voice recognition, email, web surfing, word

I am yet to see something one could call voice recognition. If I'm lucky,
we'll have real voice recognition a decade downstream. Make that rather two
decades.

> processing, PIM and time and billing software all cranking away
> simultaneously with no problem.  But has anyone else noticed it seems

Why are there video drops if the terminal scrolls? Why do I notice I/O in
stuff requiring QoS? This is a solved problem since early 1960s.

> like Moore's law is starting to slow down.  Wasn't it supposed to

No, Moore's on track. You must be confusing something here.

> double processing power every 18 months or so?  I bought my 2.53 ghz

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FOR A CHANGE NOT CONFUSE MOORE WITH COMPUTER PERFORMANCE?
THANKS. I realize this list has lost its last traces of geek cred half a
decade ago, but we at least we can make the effort, can't we?

That was a rhetorical question, unfortunately. All the people who'd care have
left long ago.

> box from Dell about 2 years ago.  Where are the 5 ghz chips??  Last I
> checked they had barely cracked 3.5 ghz.  My rule of thumb is I can't
> by a new PC until they're selling CPU's that run at twice the clock
> speed of my current machine.  Yeah, my computer does what I need but I

What has clock speed to do with computer performance?

> admit it, I'm a speed freak.  Maybe next time I'll get a dual monitor
> and see just how many things I can *really* do at the same time...

How do you think Doom 3 fares with a 600 dpi 21"?

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