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- Duffle, on 04/19/2009, -18/+185That means less waiting for the following:
xkcd
Mountain goats
Cats
Porn
Bacon
Porn
Bacon
Bacon - 2Six119, on 09/10/2009, -7/+171Thank God. That 45 seconds was a pain in my ass.
- x70x, on 04/18/2009, -28/+146In related news... I have an Instant On in my pants
- sir1real, on 04/19/2009, -4/+87This technology is not necessary for instant booting. My Commodore 64 could do it and that was 25 years ago.
- Duffle, on 04/19/2009, -3/+75The Bacon Bay. Free bacon and none of that DRM crap. Plus you can get cracks for the high end stuff or the rare types you can't usually get. Sometimes you'll find stuff that hasn't been released to the public, but of course it's not complete. On occasion you'll find one that's got a virus in it but just read the comments before downloading. Sometimes a pig farmer will send them a letter telling them to take their bacon down, too bad they don't host any of it.
- TheKitchenSinkX, on 04/19/2009, -5/+76THESE COMMENTS ARE HIGHLY RESPECTABLE AND OF THE UTMOST QUALITY
- kerplunk, on 04/19/2009, -4/+71Sure, I'll be that *****:
45 seconds? Damn, time for a hardware upgrade! - mynameistux, on 04/19/2009, -0/+55"Thank God. That 45 seconds was a pain in my ass."
that's what she said - oepapel, on 04/19/2009, -4/+50My 1977 Commodore PET boots in ~1 second already. We really don't need to invent new technology since we had this over 30 years ago.
- CeeJayDK, on 04/19/2009, -5/+49@ TheKitchenSinkX :
A+++++++ COMMENT ! WOULD READ AGAIN. - Funnylink, on 04/19/2009, -3/+39How am I going to get my Windows to work if i can't reboot? :(
- SniperZero, on 04/19/2009, -3/+37Please link me to where you get the bacon from.... do you get good transfer rates?
- tahseenm, on 04/19/2009, -6/+38mine isn't even in my pants :)
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -3/+34Just like windows 3.1 !
- egthareal, on 04/19/2009, -6/+35*Golf Clap*
- linksus, on 04/19/2009, -1/+28You have to wait?
I thought the most time consuming part was actually pressing on and typing my password. - xdevit, on 04/19/2009, -4/+30Some of you need to thin outside the box..
Id love my car pc to boot instantly.. waiting ~20-40 seconds sometimes sucks.
There are also many other applications that instant on would be really nice.. hell even your fancy DVR. - Zcrubby, on 04/19/2009, -0/+26You're doing it wrong.
- Aaronthethird, on 04/19/2009, -0/+24No, 45 seconds x 365 days = 16,425 seconds
16,425 seconds = 273.75 MINUTES, not hours
273.75 minutes = 4.5625 HOURS
You were only off by about 11 days worth of time. - Paulish, on 04/19/2009, -0/+24Could this be useful to reduce server downtime?
- Allstarn08, on 04/19/2009, -3/+26The computers OS is WAY to bloated and has to load up a ton of meaningless processes.
- yuutokun, on 04/19/2009, -2/+25Interesting how the PS3 loads the OS almost instantly when many computers with inferior specs do not.
Can someone explain why this is as I am a computer wetard. - ElbowGeek, on 04/19/2009, -1/+23So the PC has finally caught up to the Commodore 64. Awesome.
- ChromaVita, on 04/19/2009, -2/+21It'd be great to be able to completely turn off the computer ever time you left the keyboard and not have to worry about it.
- aliguana, on 04/19/2009, -0/+17the Wii too. My phone takes a while to load though. Strange.
- nikki2300dk, on 04/19/2009, -0/+15Because RAM is the most important factor in determining boot times.
/s - aliguana, on 04/19/2009, -1/+15you can boot into Linux shell almost instantly too, which is the nearest comparison.
Difference with most OSs is that you can boot up and be browsing in Firefox before you managed to rewind the cassette on your C64. - Lynxpro, on 04/19/2009, -0/+14
His comment isn't irrelevant because the tech of old influences the tech of today and the future and only the ignorant do not understand this.
Case point... USB is the successor of the Atari SIO port from 1979. Both were invented by the same engineer.
Hell, you think the Nintendo Wii WiiFit board is cutting edge? Because it's not in the least because Amiga did it first back in 1982 with the Joy Board for the Atari 2600. - pentalive, on 04/19/2009, -0/+13Cloud Computing = My Data / Someone Else's Machine = NO WAY.
- Ruefus, on 04/19/2009, -0/+13Finally someone bothers to think for themselves, rather than bash it 'cause that's the trend. Every computer using standy-by is using energy to hold it there. Instant-on would negate the need for such things - maximizing battery life on laptops, datacenters would undoubtedly save energy costs.
Imagine this technology combined with an SSD. Using your computer - and energy saving - is as simple as flipping on a light switch. - lancedice, on 04/19/2009, -2/+14Windows would still take 5 seconds to boot...
- robharper, on 04/19/2009, -5/+17***** finally.
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -1/+12ok
- MattBD, on 04/19/2009, -0/+11Great for netbooks in particular - when you're on the go you don't want to wait to boot up.
- hove, on 04/19/2009, -0/+10A light year is a unit of distance, not time.
- grat2001, on 04/19/2009, -0/+10So why does she call it software?
- chogie, on 04/19/2009, -2/+12Im on a p3 1GHz and it only took me 27 secs to boot windows xp
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -1/+11That is standby/hibernate mode, not actual booting.
- sir1real, on 04/19/2009, -0/+10Cloud computing is mostly bu||*****, especially your scenario. The way storage capacity is increasing and becoming smaller and getting cheaper it will always be way more practical to take it with you.
- f3rg, on 04/19/2009, -0/+9This has been promised for the last decade and still hasn't ever happened.
- BurgerDST, on 04/19/2009, -0/+9Those 45 seconds prevent people from turning off their computer which wastes power.
- dragossh, on 04/19/2009, -0/+9Exactly. People are so hyped up by a 20 second boot off an SSD that they forget we could freaking do it 20 years ago. The only problem is bloat. How can Haiku boot in 5 seconds under a virtual machine? How can Amiga boot instantly?
- fluxion, on 04/19/2009, -0/+9the "instant" is misleading. it takes roughly 2 seconds, then creates a wormhole and travels back in time 2 seconds
- Yondelldude, on 04/19/2009, -1/+9I haven't seen a mountain goat on digg in a while, vroom is slacking.
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -0/+8Mainframe on crack ? :(
But I agree the concept of cloud computing takes too much control away from us, it will be as fun as using the computers at work or school. - iwod, on 04/19/2009, -1/+9If we are only just having this discovered then it would be another 10 - 15 years before we actually see this in consumers hand.
But in 3- 5 years time SSD will be twice as fast while half as expensive and may be double the capacity. Special Software and optimization would bring boot up in less then 5 sec anyway. - mksmothers, on 04/19/2009, -0/+7Yeah, tech support really needs to figure out which processes are hung up. Just restart the machine.
- Pyehole, on 04/19/2009, -1/+8That would be a great innovation, a computer that remembers what was in it the last time it was on. I'm so tired of having to retype the entire windows code base every time I turn my effing computer on.
You utter nitwit. - digifuzz, on 04/19/2009, -0/+7http://bacolicio.us/http://www.digg.com
- waspbr, on 04/19/2009, -19/+26In soviet Russia OS boots you!!!
*I know, awful, I won't blame your for burying me. -
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