"nice to know a grammar nazi showed up"Well, for those of us that take the time to write clearly, it's a bit frustrating to read comments that read like t9-typed text messages.I know -my- writing is not perfect, but it's at least as good as most comments I've read. I'll be the first to admit that I've thrown down an ocassional 't3h' and 'l337', but in response to (fair) criticism, I don't anymore.Just write clearly. It makes it easy to discern 'tone'. All of us have (our should have) heard about the study that found that misreading tone leads to flaming. If more people wrote clearly, less 'nazi's' would complain, less people would flame, and the signal to noise would go up, and Digg would kick more ass.werd.
Yeah, sure. As long as the whole operating system was on this chip, yes. But wouldn't that also be true, if the whole operating system was on a ROM chip as well (EEPROM, or something)?And doesn't any current of electricity that would have to go though a computer cause a magnetic field? Wouldn't this require a new design of computers; that is - no wires? I suppose that's the least problematic; but the smaller the magnets, the less it takes to frak them up.
The only place where instant boot would be cool are in laptops.But being that most new laptops are 2.5 ghz or faster.Boot time is not much of a factor. If by adding this feature it causes a product cost Increase I could do without.My desktop machine is never turned off so I don't have to worry about boot time there ever.
"I think the "instantaneous boot" is probably a victim of poor tech reporting. They're describing a chip that "boots instantly", but they're not describing an operating system booting - they're describing power-on-to-ready time, which would only shave, most likely, nanoseconds off a computer's boot time.No - instantaneous boot on the desktop needs technologies like nvram, and solid-state (low-latency high throughput) storage"From Article: "Computers using the magnetic chips would boot up almost instantly. The magnetic chip's memory is nonvolatile, making it impervious to power interruptions, and it retains its data when the device is switched off."it states that COMPUTERS would boot up almost instantly, not just the chips themseles. Either way, seems very cool and they can cut down my boot time in any way, it's a good thing for me.
It also sounds like it would be lower on power consumption, due to the magnetic nature of it. Chips are the power-hogs of computers, after all, and if this thing uses less power, it makes it all the better for portable computing devices.
deepsubFeb 15, 2006
"nice to know a grammar nazi showed up"Well, for those of us that take the time to write clearly, it's a bit frustrating to read comments that read like t9-typed text messages.I know -my- writing is not perfect, but it's at least as good as most comments I've read. I'll be the first to admit that I've thrown down an ocassional 't3h' and 'l337', but in response to (fair) criticism, I don't anymore.Just write clearly. It makes it easy to discern 'tone'. All of us have (our should have) heard about the study that found that misreading tone leads to flaming. If more people wrote clearly, less 'nazi's' would complain, less people would flame, and the signal to noise would go up, and Digg would kick more ass.werd.
kaioshinFeb 15, 2006
Yeah, sure. As long as the whole operating system was on this chip, yes. But wouldn't that also be true, if the whole operating system was on a ROM chip as well (EEPROM, or something)?And doesn't any current of electricity that would have to go though a computer cause a magnetic field? Wouldn't this require a new design of computers; that is - no wires? I suppose that's the least problematic; but the smaller the magnets, the less it takes to frak them up.
zbeastFeb 15, 2006
The only place where instant boot would be cool are in laptops.But being that most new laptops are 2.5 ghz or faster.Boot time is not much of a factor. If by adding this feature it causes a product cost Increase I could do without.My desktop machine is never turned off so I don't have to worry about boot time there ever.
enogFeb 15, 2006Submitter
"I think the "instantaneous boot" is probably a victim of poor tech reporting. They're describing a chip that "boots instantly", but they're not describing an operating system booting - they're describing power-on-to-ready time, which would only shave, most likely, nanoseconds off a computer's boot time.No - instantaneous boot on the desktop needs technologies like nvram, and solid-state (low-latency high throughput) storage"From Article: "Computers using the magnetic chips would boot up almost instantly. The magnetic chip's memory is nonvolatile, making it impervious to power interruptions, and it retains its data when the device is switched off."it states that COMPUTERS would boot up almost instantly, not just the chips themseles. Either way, seems very cool and they can cut down my boot time in any way, it's a good thing for me.
matelotFeb 16, 2006
about bloody time
matxFeb 16, 2006
PCs are only as fast as the slowest conponent, so a hard drive would slow it down anyways
sanmanFeb 16, 2006
It also sounds like it would be lower on power consumption, due to the magnetic nature of it. Chips are the power-hogs of computers, after all, and if this thing uses less power, it makes it all the better for portable computing devices.
apokalypsenowJul 9, 2009
EIN REICH, EIN VOLK, EIN GRAMMATIK!