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just for fun, i just checked how many transistors compose my cpu + gpu;
the total comes out to 1 982 000 000; almost 2 billion. incredible!
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I just wonder where they find all of those microscopic people to soldier them all together.
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it's done with genetically engineered microbes, along with some ultra secret magical formulas to increase work precision. it's also said that they, like cows, like Mozart and that increases production.
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Mozart? Hmmm. I would of thought Lady Gaga.
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i wanted to try my new scientific calculator, so i took the number of transistors in both my cpu and gpu (Q6600 G0 + Nvidia GTX 280) and converted those to a set of tubes that would be separated one from another by 2.5 in. on a board (around 25 tubes per square ft.)
a board containing all those 1 982 000 000 tubes would occupy a space of 2.84 square miles. in my pc, the total area of those transistors occupy only a few square inches.
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Great post, Alan! Makes me think of the 1,000+ LP's I left behind on the Mexican border 20 years ago. I miss them only as period pieces, nothing more. I don't miss their acquired noises. I don't miss moving them in milk crates @ 40 lb. ea. (that's about 2 stone for Canadians). I had a Rega, Planar 3 with that cool 7 lb. glass platter.
And I miss fold-outs, die-cuts, 24 x 36" posters, 12 x 12" photo booklets, printed lyrics for which an electron microscope is not necessary, etc. It'd kill me to lay out twice as much for a new release on vinyl than it costs on CD. And I'm gonna miss them, too, when they go away.
Downloads are just not sexy.
Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.
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I'm resistant to the download idea. Don't care for it at all. I've never done it, and probably never will.
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Brian, we're both pushin' 60! I don't think anyone expects us to welcome any changes kindly, and I don't plan on disappointing any of them. You in?
I don't think there's a single company whose R & D demographics breakout includes Bucket-listers.
We're just supposed to buy the very latest in geriatrica that they show us on TV.
My next big purchase is a defibrolator, and I'm gonna learn to to use it on myself.
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I just bought my own version of defibrillator today. It's called the Shakira: En Vivo Desde Paris concert video.
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2 stone? That's in the U.K., you nut! Ha, ha. We're metric up here, which I've accepted very reluctantly. I still think in pounds, inches, yards and miles. Thanks for your nice comments.
Loved the cool Rega glass platter. So true about downloads.
Alan
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