Posts by christopher

Multithreaded programming.

Help!

I want a 1000 monkeys to crank out shakespear's greatest work.

Any idea how long this will take?

I've got one of those.

My wife's face wilts everytime she has to pay the fucking leccy bill.

Missed a trick.

This sponsor is only offering support for the 30 DAY TRIAL version of the product.

Read the small print at the top of the sign in page.

Torrent

Cool- The file is still available for download. Thanks Tiscalli. :)

Don't worry.

If you do need a replacement keyboard then contact us by e-mail.

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@no optical boffin but..

There is a hidden variable effect when it comes to entagled particles such as photons. If you take two photons & split them into two different directions you will then be able to recreate what Einstien called "spooky action at a distance". This is where whatever you do to one particle the other will immediately take on the opposite property

Cheers

At last some common sense from an OEM.

Quantum Processing.

We are nearly there. Quantum computing actually solves the linear processing problem that hinders traditional Multithreading.

Just hope someone from the quantum world is reading this & can give us an estimate as to when we will see a prototype cell.

HP Vs Acer

If I were Acer I'd probably now check my rear end for bugging devices.

Sector 7G

I know just the man for the job.

Sorry! Just had to say it.

"Spooky action at a distance"

Einstein called out a strange quantum effect which he labelled "spooky action at a distance".

The effect is this... two travelling photons of light begin their journey in an entangled state.. thats to say they are travelling in the same direction in phase & in close proximity to each other. Identical in everyway. We then use an optical splitter to split those photons up in two different directions.

The "spooky action" means that whatever we do to one particle then the other will take on the opposite property. So lets say we polarise one horizontally then the other no matter how far away will instantly take on the vertical polarisation.

This allows for ultra secure information transmission, teleportation but not FTL or time travel. Google "spooky action at distance if you want to know more.

@Mark

Mark, Thats a good idea mate.

An Apple with a hole.

Is a sure sign of a worm. :p

Mines is the one with the sizable patch on the elbows

@XP.

Extreme Programming?

Fan chokes on Apple Core!

Sorry - i just had to get that in there.

This notebook looks cool but its damn expensive & kinda limited,

Surely Dell & Compaq ultra portables are better value for money?

I saw a rival ultraportable compared to the MBA on TV & you could play decent games on the rival.

Seriously though,

I think Apple should ditch their lead designer for a couple of months & bring in Jeremy Clarkson.(bring back the MacIntosh)

In the meantime...I'm going to reboot my big ugly XPS thats just crashed after 2 hours of Crysis. Bloody Windows Vista. :(

Quantum Games?

When and if we do solve this mystery what are we going to do with it???

Can I play Crysis on this machine?

@Timothy

Your talking about tachyons.

Its still only theory as the scientists methods could not survive mathematical scrutiny.

The only thing that was proven is that a quantum particle only exists when it is observed or interacts with another object.

In the time between transmission and observation the particle can be proven to exist at all points in space at any one time or all points in time at a specific point in space(but not both). i.e it collapses into existence.

Leaked Email???

How the hell..Doesn't this count as a restricted circular under the official secrets act?

I don't think the civil service culture can take this seriously.

Kylie is hot

If I was inside that Dalek costume they wouldn't need to stick on a ray gun.

I'd also do the locomotion. :P

Cable is fine.

Got a 20Mbit VM cable connection.

Typically used to only max about 7.2MBits and complained a couple of times to VM but they told me that I'd only ever see max speeds at 4am.

Ioverlooked several things though. :D While studying for a N+ decided it was best to ditch my wireless Netgear rangemax and try a "borrowed" cisco switch.

I then ditched the "mainstream" broadband testers in favour of a download manager & popular "legal" movie download site.(based in Russia although you have to pay $1.99 per movie :(...)

My next words were along the line "Holy flaking Christmas".

Downloaded a 690Mb AVI file in 4 Minutes 41 Seconds. :D That included about 20 seconds of sourcing time by the download manager.

Surely a fluke.

Tried it again with a different movie - exact same speed ~20MBits/second or roughly 2.5MBytes per second. Even during peak times.

Downloaded some MSDN software at a similar speed & just downloaded the ISO pointed out by Martin Richards above and it managed to build up to about 9Mbits/s before it finished through the download manager. I expect it could have gone higher as it found 19 sources but only managed to trigger 8 of them before the download completed(about 14 seconds).

Turns out my Netgear couldn't handle multiple connections.

Tried a belkin and it stopped responding when I sourced from 8 or more.

I thought I was tech savy but obviously I missed this one.