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- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -0/+22I liked punch cards.
- hugoguzman, on 12/07/2007, -3/+22One day, we'll look at today's laptops and hand-held devices and wonder how we ever managed with such archaic devices...
- PJBovoNox, on 12/07/2007, -0/+18Yesteryears supercomputers ARE the size of laptops now. What has changed?
- zweben, on 12/07/2007, -1/+19My cell phone will make calls for me.
My computer will calculate to the end of pi.
My TV will let me move the camera around myself.
And the internet will finally let me smack people in the face.
There, I tried. - lordmetroid, on 12/07/2007, -1/+15"Survival is insufficient" - Seven of Nine, Star Trek Voyager
- LimeParrot, on 12/07/2007, -2/+15But will they run Crysis?
- adraft, on 12/07/2007, -3/+14Well wouldn't a guy from like 1950 look at our desktops/laptops today as supercomputers? If anything there'll be small light computers for consumers and giant light computers to work as supercomputers. But that's just me being a little picky about the description.
- ashtonium, on 12/07/2007, -0/+10"Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop"
Way to go, Captain Obvious. - patch6, on 12/07/2007, -2/+11Just try to imagine how primitive current tech will seem in 10 years. You can't.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -0/+9When today's supercomputer can fit in the size of a laptop. They will still stack them up in rack cabinets filling an entire room.
- dandonia, on 12/07/2007, -0/+8"You are with out a doubt a true geek!" Dandonia, Digg.com
- robotto, on 12/07/2007, -1/+9No you need a quantum computer for that
- Macuyiko, on 12/07/2007, -0/+8A quantum computer plays every possible game at the same time, until you look at the screen, then you might end up playing Crysis, or Pong. ;-)
- eerbin13, on 12/07/2007, -0/+7Um he didn't say anything about "survival." I do believe the exact quote was "...wonder how we ever managed with such archaic devices..." MANAGED. Big difference there, buddy. Just proves that people see what they want to see.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -3/+9I, for one, don't think thats funny any more.
- Rtsight, on 12/07/2007, -0/+6Supercomputers will always be huge, but supercomputers today may be the size of laptops tomorrow.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -2/+8You mean to type "research by Cray", since they're the ones who came up with the whole idea of fibre-interchange for low level bitstream communication between local computational nodes. In 1998.
- blackmage439, on 12/07/2007, -0/+6You're a very hate-filled person, aren't you? Did you have a ThinkPad that was a Lemon or something?
Anyway, your conclusions are all wrong. Improvement in the storage, memory, and processing industry has been anything but slow and steady recently. Why, I can remember just last year that dual core CPUs were the fad, and a DOUBLE quad core on the same motherboard was unheard of. Well, dual cores are now the standard, and Apple has their shiny, god-like powered MacPro's with the double quad core chips. Last year, the terabyte hard drive was insanely expensive, and solid-state (flash) drives were just a rumor. Well, TB drives can be found for about $250, and SS drives are the latest craze.
Re-check your facts before you put up OR (not OF) shut the f... well you know. - titlesaysitall, on 12/07/2007, -0/+5I, for one, value my opinion over everyone else.
- gak001, on 12/07/2007, -0/+5IBM has an incredible amount of research and development products and I'd love to see them return as an industry leader again.
- blackb0x, on 12/07/2007, -0/+4yes, but without Aero.
- keruha, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator. Nice name.
- zantos420, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2i cannot wait until they come out with something like iGlasses, which would be a pair of glasses that when enabled would display a computer screen in the lens only viewable to the wearer and have a digitally projected keyboard that you could conjure up. hell yeah.
- c0ld, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1And the rise of Skynet.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1 Well if you look at super computers of the past you can say a super computer is already the size of a laptop.
- cquinnd, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1you can't even misquote it right.
- antisoc, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Supercomputers will never be the size of a laptop because when they get that small they *will* be laptops.
From Wikipedia:
A supercomputer is a computer that is considered, or was considered at the time of its introduction, to be at the frontline in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.
It would mean that the fastest computers in the world would be as small as a laptop. - inactive, on 12/07/2007, -2/+3Wow, 1100 computers smashed into 1 laptop?
- zeyad, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1It's not. He's trying to be funny. Just like all other people that have made a Duke Nukem Forever comment recently.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -2/+2And that is related... how?
- LimeParrot, on 12/07/2007, -1/+1lol =D you got me!
- Verz, on 12/07/2007, -1/+1What if you shine a flashlight at it?
Corrupt data, ftl. - mthe0ry, on 12/24/2007, -0/+0By this logic, when quantum computers become a reality we should award the patents to dead people because 'they came up with the whole idea' in 1940.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -2/+1As cool as this is, technology is getting scarier by the day. =/
Weren't the singularity theorists talking about this? Where humans are bound by the speed electrical signals are sent throughout the body, computers will be limited by the signaling between processors/chips?
Maybe I'm just talking a buncha hubba jubba. - khyberkitsune, on 12/07/2007, -2/+1We have supercomputers about the size of a laptop - PS3.
- qwertycopter, on 12/07/2007, -3/+2"Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop" is going to become the new "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- socioclick, on 12/07/2007, -2/+1Will it run Vista for me properly?
- ThantiK, on 12/07/2007, -2/+1648k should be enough for anybody!
- SomaSynth, on 12/07/2007, -1/+0Stone Axe > Modern computer. A caveman would agree. Not so with this device, he would find it's optical bus just awesome.
- baalzebub, on 12/07/2007, -8/+5the human race survived for many thousands of years without electricity or electronic devices, what is the big deal, people survive without plumbing or electricity even today, survival is one thing, having fancy electronic devices is only a convenience (not necessary for survival)...
- mrmacky, on 12/07/2007, -5/+2You fools are all concerned about it running your fancy games like Crysis, and your new fangled operating systems like Vista, but you all overlook the /real/ question at hand here. Will the super computer laptops blend?
- Shirly, on 12/07/2007, -6/+1But will it blend?
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -10/+5I, for one, welcome our laptop supercomputer overlords.
- baalzebub, on 12/07/2007, -8/+3maybe Duke Nukem Forever will finally make it afterall ;D
- sorrillo, on 12/07/2007, -9/+0Sure.
And Trucks one day might be the size of a car. What a great technological society we have! - inactive, on 12/07/2007, -11/+2I'm so sick of hearing this ***** about "someday soon we're gonna be able to have 500TB micro-hard drives and multi peta-Hertz cpus with 1024000 cores". Hitachi, IBM and Seagate are the biggest *****-talkers in this field. They should put up of shut the ***** up. The slow predictable trickle of improvement and enhancement will continue because their businesses depend on it.
Stop trying to boost stagnant share price with talk of lab work that you'll never release anyway because disruptive products destabilize your markets and upset shareholders.
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