Where's My 10 Ghz PC?

An anonymous reader writes "Based on decades of growth in CPU speeds, Santa was supposed to drop off my 10 Ghz PC a few weeks back, but all I got was this lousy 2 Ghz dual processor box -- like it's still 2001...oh please! Dr. Dobbs says the free ride is over, and we now have to come up with some concurrency, but all I have is dollars... What gives?"

Don't complain.

[inertia187]

People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.

Please, captain...

[salvorHardin]

...I cannae change the laws'a'physics!

Least of your worries

[dunsurfin]

According to most predictions we were meant to be enjoying lives of leisure by this point - working a 5-hour week in the paperless office, and driving to work in our hovercars.

Legal Tender

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

we now have to come up with some concurrency, but all I have is dollars... What gives

CONcurrency is short for Confederate Currency. Your ancestors used the old notes to light cigars after the Civil War.

Then again, you might need to use laundered money. That's also called concurrency.

In the backseat of my...

[UncleRage]

flying car.

Where else would it be?

Re:Engineering within limits brings great results

[AviLazar]

So I can run four instances of CS and p0wn3d everyone in my single player, multi-character clan.
Viva la VM-Ware

Re:Asymptotic

[justforaday]

Are you referring to some sort of paradigm shift or something?

Re:Engineering within limits brings great results

[Anonymous Coward]

but without a higher number of mhz on my CPU how will my penis get larger?

Two birds, one stone

[Tackhead]

> According to most predictions we were meant to be enjoying lives of leisure by this point - working a 5-hour week in the paperless office, and driving to work in our hovercars.

Judging from these pictures of the Intel retail boxed heatsink [impress.co.jp] for the Pentium 4 560J (3.6 GHz), by the time we get 10 GHz PCs, the hovercar problem will take care of itself.

where is it?

[Fr05t]

"Based on decades of growth in CPU speeds, Santa was supposed to drop off my 10 Ghz PC a few weeks back, but all I got was this lousy 2 Ghz dual processor box"

Santa was unable to deliver your 10Ghz system this year for the following reasons:

1) Santa's Flying Car has not arrived

2) Santa could not use his sleigh because it failed the new FCC saftey requirements for subobital ships (something about flaming reindeer poo falling from the sky).

3) The OS for the new 10Ghz computer is Duke Nukem Forever which isn't currently available - maybe next year or decade.

Yeah

[Aggrazel]

And for that matter, where's my Mr. Fusion, Hovercar conversion, Jaws 17 and perfected weather service? Aren't those supposed to be done by 2015?

Your 10ghz is waiting..

[nurb432]

Just click here.. and send me your CC number, name and billing address ill get it shipped right out to you.

Free shipping if you act in 24hours..

But wait.. theres more..

Re:Asymptotic

[abigor]

Well, not unless he's able to leverage it, because it's impacting the story we have to tell.

Re:We need a faster bus

[mirko]

Maybe the guy who promised him a 10GHz PC was counting in binary ?

Re:Asymptotic

[CmdrGravy]

I think it's going to take a lot of imagineering to fully appreciate the tectonics of a potential paridigm shift.

Re:Please, captain...

[cnettel]

Bah, just use a tachyon burst followed by a concentrated tetryon beam.

Re:Asymptotic

[Wordsmith]

Mods don't find marketspeak funny, apparently.

Re:Leave Moore's law out of this, please

[nospmiS remoH]

On the other hand, saying that we're not seeing 10 ghz processors, so Moore's law is broken is wrong.

Er, huh?

** Preemptive response to my post follows **

Re:Leave Moore's law out of this, please (Score:3, Funny)

by Future_Child_Poster (723) on Friday January 07, @11:15AM)
You're new here aren't you?

BeOS

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that the only way up is through more CPU's, I think it's time that the inherently multithreaded BeOS makes a big comeback.

Yay BeOS!

Re:dual cpu systems

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, with a system like that you should be able to move past the Courier typeface.

Re:Asymptotic

[ConceptJunkie]

Worse, they think it's insightful.

Re:Asymptotic

[Strange Ranger]

Like sands through the hourglass so go the chips on our dies. Thus, in order to birth a silcon sea change we need to get down to the granular level with the design schema.

Re:Please, captain...

[91degrees]

Anyone ever felt that was a bit rich coming from a TV series where the whole premise was based on changing the laws of physics?

Re:Asymptotic

[rizzo]

Thankfully we've got some proactive synergies and tremendous upside.

Re:A Good Thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahhh - your "back in my day" rants are so refreshing to read as I lounge on the piles of money I make writing java.

Mods: since I flamed this post, it is flamebait, no?

Re:Asymptotic

[Casca]

Don't forget the symbiosis present with VARs and results oriented customers.

Re:Asymptotic

[dschoettlin]

So far we have been exploiting the fruits of fundamental material science, physics and chemistry research done in the 60-es (if not earlier), 70-es and to a small extent in the 80-es. There has been nothing fundamentally new done in the 90-es. A lot of nice engineering - yes. A lot of clever manufacturing techniques silicon of insulator being a prime example - yes. But nothing as far as the underlying science is concerned.

We haven't been able to develop new "underlying science" because the aliens haven't returned. Duh.

Re:Asymptotic

[halivar]

If we put our brains together synergistically, and I'm sure we can reach a solution.

Re:Asymptotic

[bdcrazy]

Results oriented customers.... vs what? the customers that don't really care and will buy anything? oh, i get it. n/m me.

Re:Asymptotic

[scovetta]

For God's sake, please stop the business-speak!

Re:Asymptotic

[AJWM]

Sure, you'd need the chain down the 15K rpm SCSI version,

Heh, reminds me of those reports of possible antigravity effects with spinning superconductor magnets. Do you suppose if you manage to write the right bit pattern to every sector on the drive you could get it to lift off?

Re:Asymptotic

[halivar]

Mods don't find marketspeak funny, apparently.

Probably because it has nothing to do with Communism, old people, Beowulf clusters or setting up bombs.

But then...

[sczimme]

For God's sake, please stop the business-speak!

But then how are we supposed to leverage our synergies going forward to create a win-win situation? You are generating negative ROI in this incumbent conversation, and have become a cromulent addition to the team. You will be capsized^W rightsized immediately.

Re:Asymptotic

[Kurt Gray]

I'll add that to my list of action items that way we can pick the low hanging fruit by the time we close the books on Q4.

Re:Well Moore's Law is not a law...

[Anonymous Coward]

"that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits"

Make those integrated circuit higher. They will have the same base size but a bigger volume.

It's a good Moore's law hack.

Re:Asymptotic

[Anonymous Coward]

In soviet russia, laser makes YOU die.

Re:Asymptotic

[Anonymous Coward]

Jigga what?
Jigga please!

Re:Asymptotic

[SpecBear]

Fine, we'll take this offline. Just make sure to touch base regarding the status of your action items by EOB. We can't afford to lose momentum.