Finally, The Battle of Britain

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by nats

Computer technology is always being updated this is just another sign of the constant change that the industry goes through. IN a few more years after that it will be something else. There wont be anyone playing any current games in all likelihood by then anyway so the issue is irrelevant for CoD. And to be honest when the next generation of flight sims comes out, whatever they are, you wont be wanting to play rubbishy old technology like CoD. I am getting a six core upgrade in a few days and I doubt that will make me any more likely to play CoD over RoF or MSFSX than at the moment.

No, this is a far bigger and much farther reaching development. A Memristor is called "the missing link" in electrical circuits...well it has been found now, so hold on to your hat. The best hope that we have for our sim, is that memristor's find their way in to graffic card's, and memory slots fairly soon.
Memristor will change circuit design in the 21st century as radically as the transistor changed it in the 20th




One guys guess

"POSSIBLE INVENTIONS UTILIZING MEMRISTORS TIME


1. memory for cameras, cell phones, iPods, iPads, etc. 1 to 5 years 2. universal memory replacing hard drives, RAM, flash, etc. in all computer devices 5 to 10 years 3. complex self learning neural networks and hybrid transistor/memristor circuits 5 to 15 years 4. memristic logic circuits on par with CPUs and other transistor circuits 15 to 20 years 5. advanced artificial thinking brains 20 to 30 years? 6. artificial conscious brains ? 7. memory and brains capable of living millions of years ? 8. duty-cycle artificial conscious beings capable of interstellar travel ? 9. creation of a real god
I'm kidding! "

[hiro]

Memristor may help ClOD but it won't be a silver bullet for it, unless the devs knew about it already (well it was announced in 2008 )


The Memristor is the missing link for


Tr0n
Terminator
universal translator
Ghost in the Shell
p0rtal gun
Finding Nessie / sasquatch
Gravity Gun
optic camouflage
Cyberpunk / Steampunk
Nan07echnology
legit Space Travel
Fusion reactor
exploring the ocean completely
companion cube!
Making propeller as good as jet turbines
holodeck
Startrek / Starwars
People being barcoded
Post apocalyptic armageddon
Gun Katas
Flat-Space_technology
defeating invading alien races with pwnage technology
*
and . . . .


mecha *gangsta head nod*



*some of it will be because the Memristor will allow human and computer calculations which will allow development of quantum physics formulas

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[SlipBall]

[QUOTE=hiro;305647] unless the devs knew about it already


explain

[jimbop]

There's usually a substantial time lag between proof of concept in the lab and any commercial product, especially on the scale of personal computing. Will be interesting to watch but I think it is safe to do an upgrade now.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by JimmyGiro

I personally knew of super LCD display technologies in prototype back in the mid 90s, based on ferroelectric liquid crystals, that moved ten times faster than the present 'nematic' type of today. The reasons you don't see them for sale is that they cost about three times more to make the displays, and the companies are still selling the old technology at profit, so there's no economic incentive from their point of view to sell better stuff.

Ok. Now tell me if you call that "progress" or not.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by carguy_

Ok. Now tell me if you call that "progress" or not.

Of course. The technology is there for applications that need it whether now or in the future. The mass market isn't the only market but for mass production Good Enough tends to be the general rule even when Better is possible.