FingerMeElmo87 said:

Are you also planning on buying a server board too? That will never see a desktop.

S_U_P_E_R X_P said:
Give it about 30 years.

FingerMeElmo87 said:

As I have said. Intel say there comes a point where you can have too many cores and performance is not greater than a lower amount. Intel put the sweat spot at 16 cores.

With AMD right behind. This will never stop. The year is 2050, We have Quantum Computers running off Plasma relays. with over 1 Billion threads per second

Quantum computers... or DNA computers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing)

I don't like the idea of downloading our minds onto a main frame computer capable of storing something like 1 Billion Trillion of Gigs

S_U_P_E_R X_P said:

Me too.

I'd have to disagree with Super and Brendon, I think there would be a definate benefit to society in general if certain "minds" could be preserved.
The mind is more than just the sum total of information or data, but also the thought processes or algorithms used in order to manipulate the data.
I personally have very good retention, but as most here at HWA can attest, I am far from brilliant.
It is the process of accessing this data and the inferences that can be drawn that make folks like Hawking, Einstien, Newton, et.al geniuses.
If we could "capture" the thought processes of Newton, and algorithmicly recreate them, just think what could be accomplished given the new data available to us today!
On the other hand there are certain brains that should be "blacklisted" (Bush, Cheney, Bin-Laden, Yakov Smirnov, etc.).
This isn't a soul download, just a recreation of the synaptical "wiring" so to speak.

Gerritt

Gerritt said:
Wha? :'(

Make a computer creative and it will surpass them all...

How about some quick wit, eh? Quick wit = faster?

Just get some McFly DNA in there. XD

FordGT90Concept said:

Sorry, probably a misspelling of the name...he is a Russian/Soviet comedian, that during the 1980s defected to the US, and his whole routine was based around how Cleveland was so close to the USSR that he wasn't sure he had left his country.....A one trick pony.
Mayhap on further review, smarter than the others mentioned in the same posting.....

Gerritt

I like Yakov Smirnoff. His jokes are clean and yes, it has a lot to do with the former USSR because that was an enormous part of his life. Sure, he won't appeal to everyone but he's better than most.

Ford,
I beg your fogiveness for including him with the others.....
I get a kick out of the fact that NO ONE has questioned the BLACKLISTING of the rest.
I included Yakov as a litmus test.....
I'm glad you caught it!

Gerritt

ROFL!

Well... bin Laden is good at getting people's support (but for the wrong reasons), Cheney is a good puppet master (especially Bush), and Bush who is steadfast in what he believes (but quite the class clown). They all have their high points and low points. I was most offended (too a very minuscule degree) about Smirnoff. In any respect, no one has the right to foretell what someone is capable of as that is prejudice. Brain simulation isn't a field that should be ventured into for the reproduction of present or past great minds. That literally takes the human factor out of it and ultimately starts a major decline of the human race.

I do see this DNA computing as a good thing for what it is stated as: repairing organic structures using organic material. It would eliminate several of the problems associated with nanomachines such as rejection and power supply. It's a very crude technology and it's yet to be determined how far it will go.

Now the last thing we need is our minds downloaded, next thing you know the government will probably use your knowledge to control you in a negative way, or even take advantage of you.

Unless they download you into a movable robot or something & you have the right to your own destiny, I don't thing it’s a good idea.

Now Back to watching Battlestar Galactica

Hmm, downloading my mind into a robot frame... i could dig that, as long as I'm 30 meters tall. Mecha FTW

Can you imagine

i'd rather they just keep my head alive, futurama style... lol

anyone else see the one when nixon get's his head put on a giant robot? , o-yeah!

Finally! Someone else who finally likes that show besides myself.

if you can some how clone the human brain and use it as a cpu, how fast do you think it would be?