[Styxx]

The clock frequency is no measure of computer power, it's just to please the masses, so in the current rates computers could still be crap by the time the Shivans invaded our systems.

And indeed the physical limits for standard transistor-based processor manufacturing are real close. Next generation computers (and by next-generation I really mean next generation, and not the next frequency level) will probably use Single Electron Transistors, while the next generations to come will probably evolve to multi-level logic, non-deterministic analogic processing, and quantum computing, in this order. And you don't get any faster than a quantum computer (as soon as you have the problem modelled on it, the answer will be instantaneous).


So, there you have an idea. The terrans could quite possibly be using quantum computers, but may have not been able to model a truly AI program, and hence the pilots are still needed. Or they may have stuck on the standard transistors and have the same computing power as today's processors, who knows...

[aldo_14]

Or possibly a whole different concept of computing would be used....

or maybe 'wetware', bio-organic components attempting to mimic the functions of the human brain (which is, after all, the mosrt powerful computing system on earth).

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Or possibly a whole different concept of computing would be used....

or maybe 'wetware', bio-organic components attempting to mimic the functions of the human brain (which is, after all, the mosrt powerful computing system on earth).

? really? tell me what 3343435x435.464648² is, in less than one second...

[DragonClaw]

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If I could go into the future, I would steal a computer from the GTVA time and come back before those damn Shivans come. Then I wouldn't have to keep upgrading my computer for every high-requirement game comes along!

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[Ace]

truly AI program, and hence the pilots are still needed.
In FS1 it is mentioned that the Tsunami space bomb does use an on-board quasi-AI system for tracking.

Overall, any AI system would be inherintly limited by it's creators by a set of rules or as Asimov wrote: "The laws of robotics."

A human is not bound by these rules and can adapt to situations to do what is right.

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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
 Like I said in my eariler reply:

Let's see..
18 months = One and a half years.

Number of years between here and GTVA time = 2365 - 2000 = 365 years

365 years / 1.5 = 243

Therefore, speed of GTVA computers would be something like this:

243 * 2 = 486 GHz.

But somehow, Carl had a different answer. Wonder why.....*scratches head*

365 years has 365*12 = 4380 months

4380/18  = 243 times comp speed will double barring physical limits

now take how many flops per second (calculations per second) the newest Cray can do and multiply it by 243.

its a simple geometric progression

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Originally posted by venom2506:
? really? tell me what 3343435x435.464648² is, in less than one second...

..... you try storing over 20 years of full quality video, sound, smell and taste in an area the size of a small melon... plus able to monitor a complex biological system with billions of parts (cells).... and able to create truly immmersive lifelike artificial environments - aka dreams.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
..... you try storing over 20 years of full quality video, sound, smell and taste in an area the size of a small melon... plus able to monitor a complex biological system with billions of parts (cells).... and able to create truly immmersive lifelike artificial environments - aka dreams.

for my part, I can't   I can't even remember what I did yesterday afternoon  

[Taristin]

As realistic as dreams may be, none of mine have ever been true to life enough. There is always something wrong with something in them. (i.e. My car will have different color seats, or my stereo will be made by a different company)  I think my CPU is busted.  

[Bobboau]

but do you notes it and does that make you think you are in a dream.

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[Unidan]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
Exactly.  365 years is too long to extrapolate modern technology.  If computer power advanced at the current rate, every ship in the GTVA would be automated drones capable of split-second reaction time.  But they're not, so obviously computers haven't gotten that powerful.

Exactly my thoughts!