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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by tybris on Thursday April 16, 2009 @12:25PM (#565370)
The server will get further and further behind, but you can not give it work it will never finish.
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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by trjordan on Thursday April 16, 2009 @01:00PM (#565424)
Sure, you can. The work is "handle 350 requests per hour".
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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by dhs on Thursday April 16, 2009 @01:35PM (#565488)
Turing's computer was an idealized human - to him, computers were humans who did computations for a living - who were granted infinite time and tape - that's the idealization - to solve exactly one problem. Anything that talks about "x problems per hour" has nothing to do with what he said.
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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by tybris on Friday April 17, 2009 @06:46AM (#566642)
Where did you get the time dimension from?
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