I genuinely can't tell if the OP is trolling or just some pseudo-intellectual wannabe. But it's very entertaining either way 
Has Fdev considered building an optical computer?
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If you wanted to build hardware to view the results and whatnot you technically could... A pure optical computer has always been possible. It's a matter of making all the equipment to do it. You can if you really want to.
To be fair to OP, it's made me look into this subject.I genuinely can't tell if the OP is trolling or just some pseudo-intellectual wannabe. But it's very entertaining either way
Unfortunately I think he is serious, he really thinks he is a 'designer par excellence' which is really kind of sad because everyone else is just taking the absolute micky out of him now.I genuinely can't tell if the OP is trolling or just some pseudo-intellectual wannabe. But it's very entertaining either way
SO... you're going to farm it out to an electornic computer via another transducer, and ut the data in a harddrive? OR you're gonna take the light and keep it flowing to store your data.
BTW this aint infinite power...
...And since electrons and photons are almost interchangeable, I doubt doing this with fibre optic cables is going to create an infinite loop to store photons in it.
If you can go and capture 1 or even 10,000 photons, and store them in a loop as you say, and retreive them from that loop, without disturbing their data (wavelength/frequence/colour) you'll get a nobel science prize, simple as. And when you do, that will trump all the forum flaming you are getting here. If it ever happens.
Much more likely is I'm gonna live out the second half of my life, and never hear of anyone doing this sort of stuff and quietly confirming my suspicions you are little more than an entitled kid with an imagination that is only outgunned by your egotistical self belief that you alone are the true god of technology and as such your "ideas" are the best thing to hit technology since cave man first mastered fire.
BTW this aint infinite power...
...And since electrons and photons are almost interchangeable, I doubt doing this with fibre optic cables is going to create an infinite loop to store photons in it.
If you can go and capture 1 or even 10,000 photons, and store them in a loop as you say, and retreive them from that loop, without disturbing their data (wavelength/frequence/colour) you'll get a nobel science prize, simple as. And when you do, that will trump all the forum flaming you are getting here. If it ever happens.
Much more likely is I'm gonna live out the second half of my life, and never hear of anyone doing this sort of stuff and quietly confirming my suspicions you are little more than an entitled kid with an imagination that is only outgunned by your egotistical self belief that you alone are the true god of technology and as such your "ideas" are the best thing to hit technology since cave man first mastered fire.
I think you can do both of those original things. Becuase you could simplifiy the data down to image data and possibly simplify the method of manipulating it quite a bit. It's a matter of how much. I assumed people could throw out the software side pretty easily. These sorts of conversations used to be pretty common. There are logical ways to reduce the data and specific ones to the hardware...SO... you're going to farm it out to an electornic computer via another transducer, and ut the data in a harddrive? OR you're gonna take the light and keep it flowing to store your data.
BTW this aint infinite power...
...And since electrons and photons are almost interchangeable, I doubt doing this with fibre optic cables is going to create an infinite loop to store photons in it.
If you can go and capture 1 or even 10,000 photons, and store them in a loop as you say, and retreive them from that loop, without disturbing their data (wavelength/frequence/colour) you'll get a nobel science prize, simple as. And when you do, that will trump all the forum flaming you are getting here. If it ever happens.
Much more likely is I'm gonna live out the second half of my life, and never hear of anyone doing this sort of stuff and quietly confirming my suspicions you are little more than an entitled kid with an imagination that is only outgunned by your egotistical self belief that you alone are the true god of technology and as such your "ideas" are the best thing to hit technology since cave man first mastered fire.
I haven't heard you or anyone else go into a single side of the software of the specifics. Why are you so sure there aren't ways. The point of a conversation is usually to explore ideas. And there are usually lots of other ones you haven't gone over. I'm technically the one being reasonable in the thread.
Maybe if you explored the specifics you would find out it's not as simple as you think. I gaurantee it can get farther than you think one way or the other. The fact you are laughing so hard at this demonstrates that. It's usually interesting to see how much farther we have to go to do something regardless.
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To be fair, the idea that the people who gave us Powerplay, Engineers, and the FSS, are the ones to implement this is pure genius.
Well, Braben is involved with the Raspberry Pi
Brilliant!!! That made me laugh so hard me head hurts now!
I'll get my OTDR. You want 2K 1550 or just Ruby?Feel free to shed some light on the matter...
I'll get my coat. o7
I don't think anyone is being unreasonable.
The problem is that you are expounding an idea in a way that goes like this:
'I have this idea which will be really great and works like [insert tecnodrivel] and is my idea which is great [more technodrivel]', because.
With zero explanations other than 'specialised equipment', and 'easy to do', and, and, and.
You've written the technical equivalent of War and Peace, yet so far you haven't actually said anything.
Still, it's given us all something to read.
Seeing as you are acting like a twelve year old, I'll play nicely for a bit... and give you a homework assignment to see the flaw in your storage solution of sending optical informaiton back and forth into the electronic domain numerous times. You can do this as a thought experiment, and or as a practical experiment, and there is no danger of you getting hurt doing this experiment, no chemicals, power tools, energy sources etc, or exposure to cyber attacks or anything malicious, its just gonna be you using or imagining using every day consumer electronics in a slightly bizzare way.
Do you have a webcam, or a tablet with a camera, or a laptop with a camera, or a digital camera...?
On your computer, Load a picture, any picture, for this to work best make it an image that doesn't completely fill your screen, something where the files native resolution is a quarter or a half of the screens resolution works best. This image can be from your library of memes, or google, or clipart, or a page from an eBook or doccument.
With the image you chose now displayed on your computers screen, use the camera photograph the section of the computer screen showing the test image.
Load that picture you just took of your screen into your computer, open it so the picture you just took is now on screen and roughly the same size as the original image was. Then photograph it again, with any camera, but even better would be a different camera than the first photo you took of the computer screen displaying that image.
Do this five times, each time using the photo you took in the last iteration, as the image displayed on screen in your photograph. So 2nd iteration you photo the computer screen displaying the first photo you took, 3rd iteration photo the computer displaying the 2nd photo etc...
Now load up the last photo you took as part of this experiment, and look at the resultant 5th/6th generation photo (of a photo of a photo etc....) side by side with your original test picture, How do you think its going to look?
Now imagine the picture you end up with is the output of a photonic computer of your design working on a file sent to it through a computer monitor, one that updated regularly, hence the repeated reading/writing we emulated above.
Okay, being serious for a moment. The OP is full of ideas but very short on reality, does he honestly expect:
- Industry to spend billions of dollars in developing an entirely new computing system that currently is only a theory?
- Industry to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to now take that new technology and shrink it down etc so it suddenly becomes affordable the average member of the public?
- Software industry spending billions of dollars either modifying or creating new operating system for the new technology so the average member of the public can use it?
- FD spending millions to completely rewrite the code for ED based on this new technology knowing they just alienated two thirds of their playbase - the console users?
No, he expects FDev to do all of those things...
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Me neither.
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