[Splinter]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=61203

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Splinter
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=61203

Originally posted by Steve Iriwin
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[Corsair]

That's fast.

[Bobboau]

"10 GHz"
****!

[kasperl]

eh?

i don't get it, electronic signals should be going at the speed of light, right?

[Taristin]

That's... fast alright. Too bad it's intel... (and I'm not trying to start one of those threads, but I just don't like intel)

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by kasperl
i don't get it, electronic signals should be going at the speed of light, right?

no

[Splinter]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
That's... fast alright. Too bad it's intel... (and I'm not trying to start one of those threads, but I just don't like intel)

lol dont worry niether do I

[Carl]

perty darned fast. fedration starships have mini warp drives on their computers than allow data to be transfered at FTL speeds. the cardassians can even do it as high as warp 2.

[Rictor]

I see someone's been getting ready for Doom 3.

[Flipside]

< starts saving >

iirc the standard actual 'speed' of electricity is 6cm per second. The reason it seems so fast though is because of the Newtons Cradle effect, i.e, one electron hits one end and pushes another electron out the other...though it's been donkey's years since I tried to remember

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Carl
perty darned fast. fedration starships have mini warp drives on their computers than allow data to be transfered at FTL speeds. the cardassians can even do it as high as warp 2.

huhyousaidwhat?

It'll still bottleneck at the hard drive, until solid state drive become gigantic and cheap like modern disk-based drives.

[Singh]

O_o

Mamamia!!!!!!! That eez one fast thingamajig!!!!!!!!

[Jiggyhound]

mwhu..

Wonder when theyll be distributed.

[Janos]

I look forward to the astonishing military innovations this will bring us.

[Jiggyhound]

problem is, It wont get any faster now

[TopAce]

It is faster than a snail with a low-maintance afterburner.

[Flipside]

Hard drive bottlenecks will be reduced considerably once someone writes an OS that doesn't need a massive chunk of it regardless of how much memory you have.
Most games 'should' be capable of running without accessing the Hard Drive at any point except at the very start of missions etc.
USB Ramdrives are pretty useful, if you assign that whole drive as your virtual memory

[Martinus]

Originally posted by kasperl
eh?

i don't get it, electronic signals should be going at the speed of light, right?

[color=66ff00]To elaborate on Bob's answer; electronic signals are the result of a flow of electrical current which consists of moving electrons which are particles. Light is an electromagnetic wave, it consists of an integrated magnetic and electric field so it's nature is completely different, EM fields can propogate without the need for solid matter but electricity requires a conducter and electrons. The conductive material itself impedes the electron flow due to electrons colliding with the atoms in the conducter and hence you get an overall slowing effect. This is the basis for electrical resistance BTW.
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[aldo_14]

Ah.  I've been wondering when a light-based alternative would be developed...... methinks it's been prophesied as long as 10/20 years ago that we'd need to change transmission medium to get the desired speed levels.