...Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors in microprocessors will double every two years. Since the introduction of the personal computer in 1971 the number of transistors in the microprocessors that make up the CPU has roughly followed Moore’s Law. There have been times when it has progressed slightly slower and there have been times that it has progressed slightly faster but overall you could use Moore’s Law as a median average for growth from the first microprocessor to the present. Unfortunately if this growth progresses at this rate it will sooner or later become unviable as a constant. Partially because the fact that current technology is on a trend towards making things smaller so unless we develop quantum transistors then at some time in the future, I would venture that somewhere around 100 trillion transistors (which if Moore’s law continues to be the median average to predict those numbers would be in about 2041) that Moore’s law will become an unmaintainable trend. I personally am a little surprised that to this day Moore’s Law has stayed as the trend as it places a large demand on the makers of computers and other personal electronics to develop new technology to stack and put a lot more processors into the CPU in a relatively short amount of time. The amount of money that has to be poured into the research to do just that has to be enormous. The transistors have to continually get smaller and we have to be able so stack more and more of them without losing...
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...Count Basie William James Basie, also known as Count Basie, was an extremely popular pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer who was well known for his orchestra. Many big bands flourished during the swing era such as Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Chick Webb. These bands could swing, however, none of these legends could swing like the Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie proved that a big band could still swing, without losing it’s spontaneity. With his big band style, Basie was without a doubt one of the biggest influences of the swing era. Count Basie was born August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father was a coachman and caretaker for a judge, and his mother took in laundry, baked cakes for sale, and actually gave Basie his first piano lessons. Young William longed for a life in showbiz. School wasn’t right for Basie so he quit early on. Around the age of fifteen, Basie was already playing some resorts and amateur shows, and he eventually wound up in New York City. In 1924 Basie went to Harlem and met the great stride piano player Fats Waller. It was in Harlem, that he discovered his calling of ragtime and stride piano, mainly from his organ teacher, Waller. Fats taught Basie the intricacies of the organ and introduced him to other stride legends, James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith. These early influences greatly impacted Basie, helping to contribute to his minimalist style. Next, Basie began his professional music career in the vaudeville...
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...Students are facing with many issues in their lives, and because of the competing things for your attention, it’s hard to concentrate on studying. Studying can seem very boring when compared to any other exciting activity. You may even prefer doing non-sense things rather than to study your lessons. Too many people treat studying as the thing to do when you get around to it or have some spare time, too many people look at studying as necessary task, not an enjoyment or an opportunity to learn.( Grohol, 2006 ) Studying is important in our lives, especially to the lives of the students. Each student as unique individual has different abilities, approaches, ways of thinking, interests and ways of studying the lessons. These individual differences have significant influences on ones learning style and acquisition. Each student has different methods and ways of studying and these methods are sometimes helpful but some are not as effective as the others. (Oppapers, 2010) One reason we often don’t start studying until last possible minute is that we have misjudged how long it will actually take as to absorb and understand the material we are studying. If you are a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it is hard to make yourself settle down and study even when an important exam is coming up. Most student put off studying until the very last minute. The night before the exam you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no asleep at all...
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...September 2012 I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas. The first rule I knew intellectually, but didn't really grasp till it happened to us. The total value of the companies we've funded is around 10 billion, give or take a few. But just two companies, Dropbox and Airbnb, account for about three quarters of it. In startups, the big winners are big to a degree that violates our expectations about variation. I don't know whether these expectations are innate or learned, but whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in outcomes that one finds in startup investing. That yields all sorts of strange consequences. For example, in purely financial terms, there is probably at most one company in each YC batch that will have a significant effect on our returns, and the rest are just a cost of doing business. [1] I haven't really assimilated that fact, partly because it's so counterintuitive, and partly because we're not doing this just for financial reasons; YC would be a pretty lonely place if we only had one company per batch. And yet it's true. To succeed in a domain that violates your intuitions, you need to be able to turn them off the way a pilot...
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...The Count of Monte Cristo: One love, a betrayal, one revenge Alexandre Dumas, one of the most widely read French authors in the world, wrote during the late 19th century a prominent romantic historical novel; love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption convert the story of The Count Of Monte- Cristo in one of the most renowned classics of all time. It is considered an extraordinary novel because of its shocking characters, theme, and drive to vengeance. Alexandre Dumas was born on July 1802 in Villers Cotterets in Picardy, France. He was the only true quadroon, the only grandchild of a Negro (Lazen 1506). He was born as the illegitimate son of the famous novelist Thomas Dumas. Dumas was raised by his seamstress mother, Catherine Labay, until the elder Dumas legally recognized his paternity and assumed responsibility for his son’s care in 1831. He was the only man with wooly hair, and deficient calves, and black pigment in the creases of the joints of his fingers, whoever gained a considerable place in the literature of the world (Parini 1506). He secured his own fame in 1852 with the production of La dame aux camellias, a drama based on his novel by the same name. This work, which faithfully portrayed the life of a Parisian, introduced realism to the modern French stage. Dumas subsequently made important contributions to the theater in his self-proclaimed role as a social reformer: using the stage as a tribunal for such contemporary social problems as adultery and divorce, he...
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...The first company to produce a processor chip with 2 billion transistors on it was? Yeah- you guessed it, Intel. In 2010, Intel released their quad-core Itanium Tukwila. 1- Is the growth reasonable? I believe it is. Why? Computer technology has improved in leaps and bounds over the years and there is no slowing it down. So long as we find new and exciting ways to use its application then it’ll grow more and more! 2- Is the growth surprisingly fast? No. Considering that every two years the transistors double on a chip I’d have to say it’s moving along at a great pace. Refer to Moore’s law : Moore's law" is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corporation, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit. In 1975, he revised the forecast doubling time to two years. His prediction has proven to be accurate, in part because the law now is used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research and development. The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: quality-adjusted microprocessor prices, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. All of these are improving at roughly exponential rates as well. This exponential...
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...Informational Speech Making it count in surgery Purpose: To prevent retained items in Surgical Procedures Thesis: My goal is to inform my audience the importance of counting the instruments and sterile supplies for Surgical Procedures. Organizational Pattern: Topical I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Have you ever heard of someone having a sponge left inside them from surgery? When this happens, it’s because staff did not count correctly. A retained object can cause a patient pain, severe infection, additional surgical procedures and even death. B. Relevance: According to Joint Commission statistics, Retained Surgical Items are the most reported sentinel events C. Credibility: I’ve been an Operating Room nurse for 22 years. In that time I have been a was a charge nurse for 6 years, O.R. Clinical Instructor for 8 years and have spent the past year as head nurse. D. Thesis: My goal is to tell you of the steps we take in surgery to prevent a Retained Surgical Item (RSI). E. Preview: Let me explain what puts the patient at risk for this adverse event and what steps we take to prevent harm to our patients. Transition: First you should know that unless the case is emergent, the Operating Room staff counts all of the items that will be used in a surgical procedure before that patient ever comes into the operating room. II. Body A. There are a few situations that we are aware of that predisposes...
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...Extra Counting Practice 1. A fair coin is tossed 10 times. (i) Find the probability of getting exactly three heads. (ii) Find the probability of getting 3 or fewer heads. SOLUTION: We set it up by counting how many things are in the sample space, then count how many ways of getting the three heads. For each of the 10 coin tosses, we have either a head (H) or a tail (T). Therefore, there are 210 strings in the sample space (and each is equally likely). To count how many ways we get exactly three heads, we might think about the number of ways of selecting three out of 10 slots- Those we will take to be the H, the rest will be T. This is 10 . Overall, 3 10 3 210 ≈ 0.117 From this, the solution to part (ii) will be: 10 10 10 10 + + + 3 2 1 0 210 ≈ 0.17 2. A class consists of 15 boys and 30 girls. Ten students are selected at random for a special committee. Find the probability that exactly three boys are selected. SOLUTION: First, how many “objects” are in the sample space? We are choosing 10 students from the 45, so: 45 . 10 Now we need three boys, and the number of ways of selecting them will be 15 3 . If we could not tell the girls apart, we’d be done- But of course we can choose them apart. Therefore, we also need to account for the number of ways we can put 7 girls on the committee, which is 30 . 7 Altogether: 15 3 30 7 45 10 ≈ 0.29 3. We will deal all the cards of a standard deck (52 cards) to 4 players (so...
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...1.0 PENGENALAN STRATEGI HEADCOUNT 1 MANUAL PENGURUSAN HEADCOUNT AKADEMIK DI SEKOLAH NEGERI JOHOR 1.0 PENGENALAN STRATEGI HEADCOUNT Strategi headcount akademik memberi fokus kepada data secara diskrit dalam melihat pencapaian dan perkembangan murid. Maklumat tersebut dianalisis sepanjang murid berada di sesebuah sekolah supaya prestasi mata pelajarannya dapat dikenalpasti. Pengesanan ini berkait rapat dengan usaha meningkatkan potensi murid, pencapaian mata pelajaran dan pencapaian sekolah secara keseluruhan. Istilah Headcount bermaksud :“An inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.”; yakni mengenal pasti bilangan individu dalam sesebuah kumpulan, organisasi atau institusi. Dalam konteks strategi akademik; Headcount didefinisikan sebagai satu proses mengenal pasti potensi akademik dan potensi kerjaya setiap murid mulai tahun satu hingga tahun enam di sekolah rendah dan tingkatan satu hingga tingkatan enam di sekolah menengah. Berdasarkan strategi tersebut pengukuran dan penilaian dianalisis secara terperinci dan menyeluruh dengan tujuan untuk mengesan perkembangan potensi murid dalam penguasaan bidang akademik. Pengesanan tersebut disusuli dengan menentukan pendekatan pengajaran yang boleh membantu ke arah penambahbaikan pembelajaran murid. 1.1 ISTILAH DAN ASAS HEADCOUNT TOV (Take Off Value) bermaksud nilai letak kerja seseorang murid berdasarkan potensi sedia ada seperti hasil pembelajaran (pencapaian akademik) dalam setiap mata pelajaran. ...
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...Yarkina Svetlana 45 gr. The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas Edmond Dantès, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship in Marseilles after its captain died en route home. As a reward, Dantès is promised a captainship, but before he can claim his new post and be married to his fiancée, Mercédès, a conspiracy of four jealous and unsavory men arrange for him to be seized and secretly imprisoned in solitary confinement in the infamous Chateau d'If, a prison from which no one has ever escaped. The four men responsible are Fernand Mondego, who is jealous of Mercédès love for Dantès; Danglars, the purser of the Pharaon, who covets Dantès promised captainship; Caderousse, an unprincipled neighbor; and Villefort, a prosecutor who knows that Dantès is carrying a letter addressed to Villefort's father; the old man is a Bonapartist who would probably be imprisoned by the present royalist regime were it not for his son's, Villefort's, influence. For many years, Dantès barely exists in his tiny, isolated cell; he almost loses his mind and his will to live until one day he hears a fellow prisoner burrowing nearby. He too begins digging, and soon he meets an old Abbé who knows about a fortune, one that used to belong to a wealthy Italian family. From the Abbé, Dantès learns history, literature, science, and languages, but when at last they are almost free, the Abbé dies. Dantès hides his body, then sews himself in...
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...Summary of The Count of Monte Cristo Monte Cristo had two goals- to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father, and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment and suffering with a slow and painful punishment. To have spent fourteen years barely surviving in a dungeon, it was the most demandingly cruel and prolonged castigation of his life. The Count of Monte Cristo is set within the nineteenth century of France in large and populous cities. This was a time of great disruption. The main character name is Edmond Dantes. He was a sailor who, at the prime of his life and career, was betrayed by close friends because of their jealousy. There was confusion all over the land in regards to who led France, King Louis or Napoleon at that time. The citizens of France became divided by the two ruling parties, Royalists and the Bonaparte’s. They cut at each other’s throats in order to declare that their ruler was more supreme. Dante’s' enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonaparte’s, therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If. The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends. His shipmate, Danglars, coveted his designation as the captain of the mighty Pharon. Ferdinand Mondego (friend) wanted to wed Mercedes, who was affianced...
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...1. Search the Internet using keywords such as “Intel Processor Transistor Count.” 2. Create a table that presents the processor model, year and transistor count for Intel processors from 1971 to the present. 1982 Intel 286 Processor 134K Transistors 1982 Intel 286 Processor 134K Transistors 1978 Intel 8086 Processor 29K Transistors 1978 Intel 8086 Processor 29K Transistors 1974 Intel 8080 Processor 4500 Transistors 1974 Intel 8080 Processor 4500 Transistors 1972 Intel 8008 Processor 3500 Transistors 1972 Intel 8008 Processor 3500 Transistors 1971 Intel 4004 Processor 2300 Transistors 1971 Intel 4004 Processor 2300 Transistors 2003 Intel Pentium M Processor 55 Million Transistors 2003 Intel Pentium M Processor 55 Million Transistors 2001 Intel Xeon Processor 42 Million Transistors 2001 Intel Xeon Processor 42 Million Transistors 2000 Intel Pentium 4 Processor 42 Million Transistors 2000 Intel Pentium 4 Processor 42 Million Transistors 1999 Intel Pentium III Processor 9.5 Million Transistors 1999 Intel Pentium III Processor 9.5 Million Transistors 1998 Intel Celeron Processor 7.5 Million Transistors 1998 Intel Celeron Processor 7.5 Million Transistors 1995 Intel Pentium Pro Processor 5.5 Million Transistors 1995 Intel Pentium Pro Processor 5.5 Million Transistors 1997 Intel Pentium II Processor 7.5 Million Transistors 1997 Intel Pentium II Processor 7.5 Million Transistors 1993 Intel Pentium...
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...The Count of Monte Cristo 1) Three ethical issues revealed in the film are vengeance, mercy and honesty. Each is interwoven throughout the film to develop characters and the plot. Once Edmond Dantes is innocently placed in prison, he believes his future consists of one action: vengeance. He must punish those who have hurt him such as Fernand Mondego and Monsieur De Villefort. As he suffers in prison, he rejects the idea of God and mercy inscribed on the prison wall, and lets his hatred and need for revenge overwhelm his soul. Once he is taken under the wing of Priest, this need for vengeance begins to slowly fade away, as evident in his decision not to kill Jacopo during the knife fight. However, his need for vengeance always simmers, such as when he becomes wealthy by finding vast amounts of gold and is asked what he wants to buy, and he replies “revenge”. He also takes small measures of emotional vengeance when he denies his identity to Mercedes, when he won’t let Villefort kill himself and when he places the pawn in the chest for Mondego to find. His decision to offer mercy to Mondego at the end almost costs Mercedes her life, as she is shot by a fleeing Mondego. But, in the end, he realizes Priest and Mercedes were correct and it is best to give mercy to one’s enemies. With the themes of vengeance and mercy, the theme of honesty is also experienced throughout the movie. Villefort lies about the murder charges against Dantes, which causes his father to commit suicide...
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...story begins with the announcement of the death of Mr. Mallard. After she hears of his death, his wife goes upstairs alone to her room to grieve. Yet she does not grieve; instead, she feels relief. A woman in her position has been married her whole life and has gone from father’s possession to husband’s possession. “She said it over and over under her breath: ‘free, free, free!’” (197). She understands that this is not what she is supposed to feel, yet she cannot help but feel it at the bottom of her soul. She realizes that she loved her husband, but she also realizes that she was imprisoned by their love and marriage. “And yet she had loved him sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in fact of this possession of self assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! ‘Free! Body and soul free!’...
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...“The Burial of Count Orgaz” analysis The Burial of Count Orgaz is a painting by famous renaissance artist El Greco. The painting is sixteen by eleven feet and was drawn with oil on canvas. The painting depicts a burial scene of Count Orgaz and a heaven scene with Christ above them. This painting is the most intriguing for El Greco’s use of two focal points. In El Greco’s career The Burial of Count Orgaz is widely accepted as his greatest work. In describing the painting itself it is divided into two sections, one being a burial scene of Count Orgaz in the lower half portion of the artwork, and a scene of heaven with Christ and the saints swirling overhead among thin silky clouds. The two distinct sections of this artwork give the painting two focal points, which the eyes are drawn towards. The section of the artwork depicting heaven has Christ as a focal point, he is centered at the very top of the painting with virtually every figure around him looking up with some motioning towards him. Christ is dressed in white robe, and the figures surrounding Christ vary from Saints to musicians, angles, multitudes of followers, and the Virgin Mary. The figures all seem to be swirling among silky clouds around Christ which gives each figure a distinct position and proportion in the painting, some closer up and distinctive, other more further away and faded. The burial scene directly below the heavens has the Count Orgaz as the focal point and he is positioned near the lowest part...
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