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"More CPU cores / improved parallelism" are useless when the algos are crappy.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
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...algorithm code is going to run really slow in an under-powered processor. 
However, the assumption was that we could continue to keep the existing components, and upgrade what we desire for. In which case, more CPU cores look like the best option to me.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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...as opposed to deceased?
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Indeed! 
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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need of "spill checker"
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I see "more CPU cores" has more votes than "faster processor speed".
But faster processor speed is strictly more powerful than more cores - a CPU that is twice as fast is as good as two CPU's when there are at least 2 CPU-heavy tasks, but it will also help with just 1 CPU-heavy task (by far the more common scenario)
I'd even take a 1.2 times faster CPU over "double the number of cores". Mostly because it would help more with the things I typically do, but also because of the GPGPU trend - parallel tasks are moving off to the GPU so your CPU doesn't have to be good at it.
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With most of the daily tasks that we do, the processing speed of our brain is far more than sufficient. This may be an exception, only if you need super-fast reaction times, like if you were a fighter jet pilot, or part of a special ops force, etc. But even with that, it looks like the bottle necks are not with the brain, but with the neurons that transmits signals to other parts of the body, or the very fact that other body parts cannot possibly react at "thought-speed". If I push my body parts to react at the speed of my brain, then that would be an incredible feat, but if my brain becomes even more quicker, then the old neurons and the old body parts now form a bigger bottleneck. There are certainly other cases where I could benefit from faster processing speed of the brain, but it isn't so in most cases, because I'm a normal person.
But more CPU cores means the ability to get more work done in a parallel manner, and my money is on that! I'd take a couple more cores, instead of 1.2 times faster brain, and that way I could write code faster, concentrating on two different parts of the problem at the same time, because my brain is now TRULY multi-cored! Now I could debug this multi-threaded nightmare with one core of my brain (each core is trained to work with multi-threaded code), WHILE I play chess with my 12 year old nephew.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I don't usually run programs in my brain, but I would if I could
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While you were busy writing this answer, I've serialized and completed many more tasks, due to my brilliant-super-fast brain. 
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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But while writing that post, I also finished modeling a Universe simulation game in a parallel manner. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: I also finished modeling a Universe simulation game in a parallel manner
I actually did it (OnIdle method). 
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Wow, that 1 vote on your post was a heavy one. My 5 vote brought it to 3.23 only!
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Thanks
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Cloud computing - Using other peoples brains for your work
Peer To Peer Technology - Social interaction
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MarqW wrote: Cloud computing - Using other peoples brains for your work
That's already a popular trend. Only if you have seen one of these posts: GIMME DA CODZE, URGNZ PLEAZ.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Very good point there, Rajesh!
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We (the Apple Wannabe) need another option: the sexy outfit...
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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MarqW wrote: Cloud computing - Using other peoples brains for your work
You've never met my co-workers: cloud computing would definitely decrease my productivity.
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Inceased long term storage... I'd like mine increased, not ceased!! 
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It's a bitch getting old; things that happenned yesterday are transient memories, and those that happenned decades ago become crystal clear. Except for the names...
I can picture the faces of friends and coworkers I knew 20 - 30 years ago as clear as if they were standing in front of me now, but can't for the life of me remember their full names, or where I met them. Just last weekend, while shopping at Home Depot in Kingman, AZ, I was assisted by a man who looked so familiar and whose voice and mannerisms were so well known to me that I knew in advance every line he spoke. I knew him long ago, knew him well, but I could not recall where we spent time together until a day later when it finally dawned on me. We were friends in my past life, in Crestline, PRC, and his wife and I used to work the Sunday LA Times crossword together in the bar where she worked. That was 23 years ago, and I haven't seen either since, but I should have remembered that instantly! 
I think Robert Heinlein got this one right in his Lazarus Long tales. According to Lazarus, long term memory becomes a problem of long life, because life's experiences grow linearly, but the cross-connections between the memories grow geometrically. One new experience can easily grow to 1,000 or more associative cross references, quickly absorbing all available space for storage. Now that normal people live much longer than they were designed to last, I expect to see this becoming a much larger social issue.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm only 26 and this has happened to me. I'm terrible with names. I saw this girl the other day who I definitely knew. I recognized her face and could even recall what her laugh was like. Took me about 5 minutes to realize where I knew her from and her name. Even right now, I forgot her name again, but at least now I remember where I know her from.
Also, this girl on Facebook friended me the other day. She seemed positively ecstatic to see one of the redheads she knew from high school. Unfortunately, I have no idea who she is.
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But more important to me would be to actually get back what I swap out to the pagefile. 
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