BINGO. Now I think you have said something. Althouh it may mean something totally different to me than it does to you.
My feeling is that this world we are engineering for ourselves is not in any way sustainable. An exponential growth in everything has to go "POP" sometime soon. And then the few of us that survive are back to the stone age. But worse off becasue there are no resources to be easily had anymore.
I feel that deep down everyone has realized this although they dare not say it. As a result the plan is to "consume, consume, consume..." (To paraphrase Viv Nicholson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spend_Spend_Spend )To hell with the consequences let's party till we drop.
I agree, exponential growth is not sustainable, and we are approaching the limits of growth now. That is in large part responsible for the current economic situation. The cost of energy, food, and raw materials has been steadily climbing, and will continue to do so until some changes are made. At the present time we have the resources to provide a comfortable standard of living for the entire world. What we are lacking is the political and economic system to distribute those resources in a fair and equitable manner.
AT 40.6 degrees centigrade, the brain fails due to heat stroke. Without providing a stable electrical grid and a/c to homes throughout the 3rd world, we may suddenly see a downsize in population. And it seems that if Greenland keeps melting, much of Florida will be taken back by the aligators and the Manhattan subways will require flood walls around the island.
Meanwhile, the pundits are thinking that a better eight-core processor for an iPhone just might get the world agenda pointed in the right direction. We are not suffering from shortages of anything except jobs, sound political will, and common sense. The meek may never survive long enough to inherit the earth.
Qualcomm may indeed have a superior product, but selling a few million of them is going to be a challenge in these headwinds.
The sex of an alligator is entirely determined by the temperature of its egg incubation. Temperatures less than 30 °C producing all females, temperatures greater than 34 °C yielding all males.
So in your scenario at 40.6 degrees all the alligators born will be males and soon alligators are extinct.
The sex of an alligator is entirely determined by the temperature of its egg incubation. Temperatures less than 30 °C producing all females, temperatures greater than 34 °C yielding all males.
So in your scenario at 40.6 degrees all the alligators born will be males and soon alligators are extinct.
...and that's why I love this forum! At least if we stray (a bit) off topic, it's always useful information!! What a great ice breaker for a dinner party!
The Qualcomm exec was clearly talking about microprocessors, not microcontrollers. There are obvious benefits to multi-core microcontrollers, particularly when those cores take over the typical roles of hard-wired controller circuitry, such as serial, SPI, and external interrupts. So no, he wasn't picking on the Propeller.
There is a school of thought that micro*processor* companies have stalled out on innovation because all they're doing now is adding more cores, rather than improve the internal architecture of the chip to better performance. That may be partly true, but economies are such that we've always favored the quick fix, especially when it works and delivers other advantages. Being able to shut down a core to conserve power when it's not needed is a valid argument. Cylinder shut-off is all the rage now in cars.
Qualcomm calls out eight-core processors as 'dumb'
He is only partly right, and rather confused in his metaphor.
He is right, only if some of those 8 cores, end up doing nothing at all, or so little as to waste silicon.
He is wrong, if the market-spin, dictates that users will only buy 8 cores, as somehow better than fewer.
In that case, his stockholders will have a very different take on who is 'dumb'.
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That depends on how many acres you have to mow...
C.W.
I agree, exponential growth is not sustainable, and we are approaching the limits of growth now. That is in large part responsible for the current economic situation. The cost of energy, food, and raw materials has been steadily climbing, and will continue to do so until some changes are made. At the present time we have the resources to provide a comfortable standard of living for the entire world. What we are lacking is the political and economic system to distribute those resources in a fair and equitable manner.
Meanwhile, the pundits are thinking that a better eight-core processor for an iPhone just might get the world agenda pointed in the right direction. We are not suffering from shortages of anything except jobs, sound political will, and common sense. The meek may never survive long enough to inherit the earth.
Qualcomm may indeed have a superior product, but selling a few million of them is going to be a challenge in these headwinds.
The sex of an alligator is entirely determined by the temperature of its egg incubation. Temperatures less than 30 °C producing all females, temperatures greater than 34 °C yielding all males.
So in your scenario at 40.6 degrees all the alligators born will be males and soon alligators are extinct.
...and that's why I love this forum! At least if we stray (a bit) off topic, it's always useful information!!
-Tor
There is a school of thought that micro*processor* companies have stalled out on innovation because all they're doing now is adding more cores, rather than improve the internal architecture of the chip to better performance. That may be partly true, but economies are such that we've always favored the quick fix, especially when it works and delivers other advantages. Being able to shut down a core to conserve power when it's not needed is a valid argument. Cylinder shut-off is all the rage now in cars.
He is only partly right, and rather confused in his metaphor.
He is right, only if some of those 8 cores, end up doing nothing at all, or so little as to waste silicon.
He is wrong, if the market-spin, dictates that users will only buy 8 cores, as somehow better than fewer.
In that case, his stockholders will have a very different take on who is 'dumb'.