Fonzie Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Be afraid....Be VERY afraid...The first step is at hand!!! Especially if the new AI computers team up with the Zombies, aliens & government black op's....We're DOOMED!!! Gotta find my foil helmetThought all the techy geeks on here would find this interesting. Found on another board.........http://h71028.www7.hp.com/eNewsletter/cache/599441-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=em_di_384562_US_US_0_000&diaid=di_hpc_us_637441_US&dimid=1002410100&dicid=taw_July08&mrm=1-4BVUPResearchers at HP Labs have taken a huge step forward in computing technology, by solving a decades-old mystery that proves the existence of a fourth basic element in electrical circuits. The new component is called a memristor, short for “memory resistor”. Until recently, the circuit element had only been described in a series of mathematical equations written back in 1971 by Leon Chua, who at the time was an engineering student and is now a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California Berkley. Chua described and named the memristor, arguing that it should be included along with the resistor, capacitor and inductor as the fourth fundamental circuit element since the memristor has unique properties that cannot be duplicated by any combination of the other three elements.Although Chua knew the circuit element should exist and described how it would work, neither he nor the rest of the engineering community could come up with a physical example that proved the memristor’s existence. The fourth element becomes realityFast-forward to the early 1990s, when a group of researchers at HP Labs were studying the electrical properties of different nanotech materials and came across several that behaved suspiciously like Chua’s hypothetical memristor. Suspecting that the mythical circuit was real, HP researchers set out to invent one, and eventually were able to create exactly what Chua had theorized decades earlier.A mathematical model and a physical example appear in a paper published in the April 30 issue of the scientific journal Nature.According to Stan Williams, one of the four scientists at HP Labs' Information and Quantum Systems Lab who made the discovery, the most interesting characteristic of a memristor device is that it “remembers” the amount of charge that flows through it. By providing a mathematical model for the memristor, the team has made it possible to develop integrated circuit designs that take advantage of the memristor’s ability to retain information.But apart from causing a sensation among techie types and scientific bloggers, what exactly can this memristor do and how will we see it functioning in the future? Let’s look at the PC as an example. Engineers could now develop a new kind of computer memory that would enhance and eventually replace today's commonly used dynamic random access memory (D-RAM). Computers using D-RAM don’t have the ability to retain information once they are turned off; so when turned back on, a slow, energy-consuming "boot-up" process must take place.With the memristor’s amazing memory, it has the potential to load key start-up data far faster. That means you won't have to boot-up your computer or wait around for large files to open. Likewise, the considerable amount of energy used by computers on memory operations could be dramatically reduced.The memristor could also have uses in computing, mobile phones, video games, or anything that requires a lot of memory.The rise of truly ‘intelligent’ computers?So what about the most exciting potential of the memristor – the idea of computers that can think like humans? Memristor technology could one day lead to systems that can remember and associate patterns, allowing computers to make decisions by understanding past patterns of data it has collected – similar to human brains collecting and understanding a series of events.While it probably won’t lead to a Matrix-like scenario any time in the foreseeable future, this technology could be used to improve facial recognition technology, or to develop complex biometric recognition systems."Part of what's going to come out of this is something none of us can imagine yet," says HP Labs’ Williams. "But what we can imagine in and of itself is actually pretty cool." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max power Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 That made my brain hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 it's just non-volatile ram, no biggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezel Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 It's The End Of The World!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!!!!eleventy!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonavabeech Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 NO !!! Not 1 11 eleventy !! NO! That's the day I'll be 100% vested and I'ze can take alls my 401's wit me! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! The HORROR !!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fonzie Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 PERFECT picture John.......Exactly what I was thinkin' of when I posted this!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezel Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 well then why the heck didnt you post it!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonzie Posted July 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 well then why the heck didnt you post it!?Don't know where you guys find half the shit that gets posted on hereDidn't feel like googlin' it......Then sorting through 50 pages of images hoping to find what I wanted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 google image search knows all.i searched for terminator war and it was on the first page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleCock Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 thanks for the picture because there were a lot of words in that "article" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 interestingly enough, this was also on the first page of results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleCock Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 interestingly enough, this was also on the first page of results quoted for hilarity but it also makes sense. the topper is saying "wwwwwwaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 they are making love not war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbarron77 Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 Robot porn.....never thought to look that one up...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonzie Posted July 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 Robot porn.....never thought to look that one up......I just thought he was "servicing" her with a "lube job" & checking to make sure her tolerances were still tight & within spec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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