From: Robert Comer 

>with a negative temporal
>displacement facility built in.

I want one of those, it would make life so much nicer!

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Bob Comer



On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:45:48 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
>message news:460ee727$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Start here 
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>> Adam
>
>cpu time dilation
>
>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/01/cpu_time_dilation/
>
>
>It's no wonder we need to upgrade our computers on a regular basis. Not only
>are chip companies regularly releasing ever-faster microprocessors, but new
>research has revealed that modern CPUs actually lose megahertz over time.
>
>This startling conclusion follows a five-year research programme carried out
>by the Illyria University's Information Technology department.
>
>"Five years ago, we activated a dozen new, freshly-purchased
systems," said
>Computer Science Professor Asteio Artikolos. "Since then we have measured,
>on average, a 10-15 per cent reduction in the machines' clock speeds over
>that time. It's as if each machine's stock of megahertz were somehow leaking
>away.
>
>"Each year, we have added new, faster machines. Not only have these seen a
>similar reduction over time in the number of processing cycles available
>each second, but the rate of decrease is greater than older, slower
>microprocessors."
>
>So far Artikolos and his team have been unable to explain the phenomenon.
>One possibility is that the effect is related to the time dilation effect
>discovered by Einstein. Any moving body operates on a different temporal
>frame of reference than a static one, said Artikolis. As processors are
>clocked higher, so their transistors move more quickly, altering their
>apparent speed when measured by benchmarkers in a state frame of reference.
>
>"It's certainly the case that many computer users notice a decrease in
>performance over time," Artikolos told Register Hardware. "A
machine that
>seemed incredibly fast on the day of purchase seems torpid within three
>years. Traditionally, this was blamed on reduced free hard drive space and
>the increased memory requirements of software updates. Our research suggests
>a more fundamental problem, one that centres on the very way modern
>microprocessors operate."
>
>Artikolos' findings pose an interesting question: where exactly are all
>these megahertz ending up? More research, he said, was needed.
>
>Intel was unavailable for comment. AMD, however, claimed to be well aware of
>the problem and to be already designing processors capable of working beyond
>the limits of Einsteinian mathematics - with a negative temporal
>displacement facility built in.
>
>"It's why all our processors appear two years ahead of the other guys'
>stuff," a spokesman said
>

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