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To: shades who wrote (52650)	6/20/2006 9:09:41 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

Chinese Students' Cheating Techniques - Don't Try at Home slashdot.org Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 20, @09:46AM from the smart-people-bad-government dept. corbettw writes "According to a wire report on Yahoo! news, competition for university admissions in China are so intense that people are coming up with new, and sometimes dangerous, ways to cheat. The methods include microscopic earphones and wireless devices. In some cases, students are required surgery to recover from their cheating attempts. If there are that many people that desperate to get into a university, the obvious question would be, why don't they just open more schools?"

To: shades who wrote (52650)	6/20/2006 10:52:36 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Mish how much relevance is this going to make to you - can you read SI any faster than you already do? Can you post blogs faster than you already do? What would you use all this extra power for? My machines already sit around most of the time wasting clock cycles waiting on me. Please be serious. ggg This supercomputing will be used to F me out of every last dime in my trading. Imagine the extended power of real time running of stops in both directions not once a day but once every 15 minutes. Mish

To: shades who wrote (52650)	6/21/2006 2:22:21 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

On the other hand, my own work in the past 25 years has always been in need of additional power, where 10x or 100x would be very handy indeed. The target machines of my project's software "gets by" on dual core 3.7 GHz processors with 4 GB of RAM, and our customer really would like something 5x to 10x faster right now. Their "needs" continue to escalate beyond the available technology, both in storage, network, and PC capability. The NSA I'm sure can use a cluster of 500 GHz computers -- perhaps they only monitor phone call databases now, but actually doing intelligent parsing of all language in all phone calls in on the horizon, and in time, every word you ever speak into a phone will be recorded in that database. And then they'll have clusters of computers processing that database for whatever reason they dream up. My PC strains a bit under the weight of 6.1 MP RAW image files. In 10 years, I'm sure the norm will be 20 Megapixels. The processing req. will be at least 4-8x to easily manipulate those images. 10 MP is common now for 35mm, and in another 5 years, 4.5x6.0cm equivalent 30 MP cameras will be common. I saw some spectacular 8x10 view camera prints last week in S.F. -- those film images would be on the order of 250-400 megapixels. That level of digitization should be here in perhaps 15 years, maybe sooner. And that should be about when I'm running a 200 GHz desktop computer with 32 GBytes of RAM (perhaps via 4 or 8 core processor). And I'll still be looking online for how I could upgrade my machine <g>