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[QUOTE=lardycheese;17128932]Okay, imagine this: we're in the future, and you want to use your laptop right now. But who carries their laptop around all over the place? Well now you can with this new computer-cellphone technology. So you take out your phone with a 250GB hard drive and a dual core 3.5 gHZ processing unit and you plug it into one of the monitor kiosks at a mcdonalds (or a burger king or an airport or whatever). Your windows pops up and all of your files and games are displayed on the monitor. Presto, you can now access your computer anywhere.[/QUOTE]
Actually if this is the future we're talking about, you'll probably just own a fold-out AMOLED screen that can fold from the size of your wallet to a 22" screen and be paper thin. DAMMIT FUTURE, GET HERE SOONER.
You guys are extremely short minded.
If at all, desktop PCs will take a tiny share of the ways this technology could be used.
[QUOTE=Caboose17;17123360]Although this is great, faster and smaller computers, it kinda makes me wonder if we really need to go smaller. We have laptops that can almost fit into a cargo pocket, but there so small that there not very usable. Yea, it'd be great if we had a full tower that you can carry wherever you go, but until we get at least a 15" monitor that we can fold up and carry the same way, why would we need it?
It's still awesome though.[/QUOTE]
Fuck the need, we'll do this for [I][B]SCIENCE!!![/B][/I] :science:
When they say "computers", they don't mean PCs or laptops. This can be used on everything electronic.
[QUOTE=DPennington;17120815]Shrink tower size, increase monitor size, and get rid of all the wires and I'll be happy.[/QUOTE]
Fuck that shit, I want a computer which sucks all the power from the town.
And I like the tangle of cords behind my computer.
[QUOTE=Killuah;17129700]You guys are extremely short minded.
If at all, desktop PCs will take a tiny share of the ways this technology could be used.[/QUOTE]It depends on how affordable it becomes. They used to say the same thing about the first computers, but they got more affordable and were improved upon, and now look where they are.
We are coming to a point in the world of computers where we have no where else to expand and go. In a few years, microprocessors will be extremely too expensive to manufacture and sell, causing a halt in technology.
[QUOTE=Sloped;17123252]Some things are two far-fetched to even joke about :geno:[/QUOTE]
Ya rite.
I can run crysis very high all.
12gb ram
nvidia gtx 295
2tb hd
i7 core.
bye.
[QUOTE=Redcow;17144683]Ya rite.
I can run crysis very high all.
12gb ram
nvidia gtx 295
2tb hd
i7 core.
bye.[/QUOTE]
Good sir, I believe you sarcasm meter is malfunctioning.
Doesn't anyone think "optical processing" seems a bit wasteful.
Like, why use particles of light when you can use old-fashioned electrons.
Then again, i don't make this stuff.
[QUOTE=phill977;17154467]Doesn't anyone think "optical processing" seems a bit wasteful.
Like, why use particles of light when you can use old-fashioned electrons.[/QUOTE]
yeah, especially with prices of photons rising again this month
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;17154843]yeah, especially with prices of photons rising again this month[/QUOTE]
Dude, i don't know anything about how exactly computers work; but using light instead of electrical impulses to me seems a bit inefficient.
I bet that optical computers will be fun as hell to fix or assemble!
[QUOTE=Smirnoff Joe;17120390]Well, it's a start anyway. Hopefully it'll get more higher spped and more data over the next coupla years/decades.[/QUOTE]
How'd ya figure that one sherlock?
[QUOTE=phill977;17154467]Doesn't anyone think "optical processing" seems a bit wasteful.
Like, why use particles of light when you can use old-fashioned electrons.
Then again, i don't make this stuff.[/QUOTE]
It would eliminate heat, creating much more battery life since it's not wasting energy, and no other particle moves faster than light as we know.
Of course we need it smaller, soon we will be talking computer interface on our eyes (with contact linses) which reads your thoughts and you can then read information about stuff you see, 'terminator-style' vision.
At least that is what i hope, then you would be up to date ALL.THE.TIME!
[QUOTE=Beafman;17158242]Of course we need it smaller, soon we will be talking computer interface on our eyes (with contact linses) which reads your thoughts and you can then read information about stuff you see, 'terminator-style' vision.
At least that is what i hope, then you would be up to date ALL.THE.TIME![/QUOTE]
While a company is working on that, they still have a long ways to go before getting a interface.
[QUOTE=lardycheese;17128932]Okay, imagine this: we're in the future, and you want to use your laptop right now. But who carries their laptop around all over the place? Well now you can with this new computer-cellphone technology. So you take out your phone with a 250GB hard drive and a dual core 3.5 gHZ processing unit and you plug it into one of the monitor kiosks at a mcdonalds (or a burger king or an airport or whatever). Your windows pops up and all of your files and games are displayed on the monitor. Presto, you can now access your computer anywhere.[/QUOTE]
That's reliant on more than the phones of today. What if there weren't public monitor kiosks, you're be stuck with a finicky little thing that's squashed and irritating to use, which goes back to my point about the laptops, it gets too small, especially for the keyboard setup for laptops, you're being made to use a smaller typing space while keeping the same sized hands it just doesn't work.
You could also imagine, were the monitors a reality, would they really be that readily available? Or would there always be someone on it? Would it really be that much more convenient?
[QUOTE=phill977;17154917]Dude, i don't know anything about how exactly computers work; but using light instead of electrical impulses to me seems a bit inefficient.[/QUOTE]
Well, light travels faster than the 'flow' of electricity so really it's more efficient.
[QUOTE=phill977;17154467]Doesn't anyone think "optical processing" seems a bit wasteful.
Like, why use particles of light when you can use old-fashioned electrons.
Then again, i don't make this stuff.[/QUOTE]Light's faster and smaller to put it very, very simply. Electrons in a circuit don't travel at the speed of light, that's electromagnetic fields.
Feel free to bash your brains out on the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computer]wiki article.[/url]
Quantum computers like this can do some really, really weird stuff, the prime factors thing you guys are mocking is incredibly difficult to do using normal computers, but with quantum computers it is far easier.
Some of the core encryption methods used all over the world rely on the fact that calculating prime factors for large numbers takes so long using modern computers that it is impractical. Quantum computers can calculate them [i]exponentially[/i] faster, and so soon many of the 'uncrackable' codes used all round the world will be easily breakable by optical quantum computers like these, that's what you get when your computer can be in a whole load of states at the same time.
[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17736-codebreaking-quantum-algorithm-run-on-a-silicon-chip.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Hivemind;17177203]Quantum computers like this can do some really, really weird stuff, the prime factors thing you guys are mocking is incredibly difficult to do using normal computers, but with quantum computers it is far easier.
Some of the core encryption methods used all over the world rely on the fact that calculating prime factors for large numbers takes so long using modern computers that it is impractical. Quantum computers can calculate them [i]exponentially[/i] faster, and so soon many of the 'uncrackable' codes used all round the world will be easily breakable by optical quantum computers like these, that's what you get when your computer can be in a whole load of states at the same time.
[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17736-codebreaking-quantum-algorithm-run-on-a-silicon-chip.html[/url][/QUOTE]
So I guess that means that the most logical step would be to harness the brain power of grade school kids to use in computers?
I jest, I jest.
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I love that book
[QUOTE=Hallucinate;17120316]I don't think computers really need to be smaller. I was looking for a laptop the other day and some are so small they're actually difficult to use now.[/QUOTE]
Um, no. Computers will get smaller and that's a good thing. Desktop computer monitors aren't attached to the tower :downs: therefore, the size of the tower doesn't matter. You can always hook it up to a 50" monitor.
That's quite a [b]bright[/b] idea.
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[QUOTE=Stopper;17194254]Um, no. Computers will get smaller and that's a good thing. Desktop computer monitors aren't attached to the tower :downs: therefore, the size of the tower doesn't matter. You can always hook it up to a 50" monitor.[/QUOTE]
Laptops should not get any smaller, although desktop towers should like you said.
It's not like we are shrinking computers for convenience sake. Hell, they are already too small to use with our big, grubby fingers. This is more of an engineering standpoint. If you want to make a fast and accurate processor, it has to fit a lot of logic into a small area, otherwise clock drift, clock skew, and voltage sinks will make it prone to errors. If you increased the size of any of today's processors, they would definitely not run nearly as fast, nor efficiently. Building a cpu out of light would make most of these implementation problems disappear. Hell, I've been predicting the photonic CPU as the next big breakthrough in computers for a while.
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I wonder how they did it. Did they represent a bit of data as a 180-degree phase-shift relative to a reference beam? I'm pretty sure you can make logic gates that work on this, not to mention a powerful and easy implementation ready for super-dense holographic memory.
I wonder if they can combine this with those new-fangled slime computers I heard about ...
[QUOTE=AwesomeDino;17120181]i bet it cant show furry porn :frown:[/QUOTE]
lost my buy. :frown:
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[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;17157269]I bet that optical computers will be fun as hell to fix or assemble![/QUOTE]
my god... it's full of stars
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