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This is a link post Hacker/Nerds deconstruct the Skynet scenario in the Terminator-verse
and advise that if you have a programme that can blow up the world, have a better user interface than 'y/n'.

Would. you. like. to. play. a. game?
(I helped save b3ta! the_log_knows ..to pay cheeses, to the leopards in your head, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:22, Reply)
This is a normal post It's "Asoos"? Well what do you know.

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This is a normal post nerds they may be
but they're not very bright ones.

Isn't a flop a floating point operation.

Hence a terraflop would be 10^12 flops.

edit: yes, it is - www.thefreedictionary.com/gigaflop
 (Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:35, Reply)
This is a normal post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
teraflop = 10^12

You got your gigs and your teras all confuddled!


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS stupid b3ta...



Edit: Also 50 teraflops isn't even that fast, a Intel Core 2 Duo can do that. A single NVIDIA 8800gtx doing GPGPU can do 300~ teraflops.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-O1NULjNQ

LOL!
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:43, Reply)
This is a normal post oops, fixed

(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:53, Reply)
This is a normal post oh the irony....
Look at the scale in your link, now YOU're getting tera and giga confused...
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This is a normal post I was going to point that out
but thought better of it after my last slip up.

Also, the video is 3 years old, but Wikipedia says something like 300GFLOPS (last column)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series#Technical_summary_2
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This is a normal post oh yeah!
hahaha

fucker!

I think I have flopyslexia
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 16:22, Reply)
This is a normal post wait a sec...
Wasnt the PS3 touted as being capable of 1 teraFLOPS (FLOPS being FLoating Operations Per Second, though FLOPs per second is still correct)? So this thing is as powerful as 60 PS3s? Not really that impressive.

As a comparison, GIMPS (the internet mersenne prime search) sustains 27 teraFLOPS, SETI@home gets 528 TFLOPS, Folding@home gets 8 petaFLOPS (8000 TFLOPS). As far as we know none of these are self aware, though since one is responsible for looking at aliens, and one is steadily learning most of out biology, they may just be biding their time.

Even in terms of single computers, not that impressive, the latest ATI graphics cards are capable of 2.4 teraFLOPS, and supercomputers have supassed 1 petaFLOP.

In fact, were skynet a single computer, 60 TFLOPS would put it about 42nd in the world, behind many of the other computers owned by the military
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This is a normal post Shitting fuck
I wonder what it's doing to require 8 petaflops!?

Probably trying to work out if Michael Jackson is white or black.
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This is a normal post working out which shoes to wear to the dance
naturally
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This is a normal post There is still a mistake made in the movie...
You hear the operator say 'Teraflops per second.'

In other words he's saying 'Trillion floating point operations per second per second'.

A bit like asking someone to input their 'PIN number'.
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