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Downloading hardware a possibility in the future?

lets examine your statement. Download means to transfer DATA over a network to your computer.... Data is software, not hardware, its physically impossible to download hardware. Now, maye u could buy really good hardware, but have to download the firmware to make it good depending on if u pay or something
 
Originally posted by: digitalsnare
wtf are you talking about?!
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Downloading hardware. I'm sure if you asked 200 years ago that we can fly, then people would say what you are saying....however now we have planes all over the place. Do you not have my back when I already said I have yours???
 
"Thank you for calling Starbucks, how can I help you?"
"Yes I'd like to download a venti Mocha with extra froth."
"coming right up, that'll be 4900 dollars please."
"Thank you."
 
Originally posted by: digitalsnare
well, I GUESS if they perfect teleportation..... that could work
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Well, let's say in the future you can buy a raw card or a raw chip. Then you can download something that tells how to arrange that raw card or raw chip to do something like display graphics or output sound or run a computer or something like that.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
"Thank you for calling Starbucks, how can I help you?"
"Yes I'd like to download a venti Mocha with extra froth."
"coming right up, that'll be 4900 dollars please."
"Thank you."
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only if im able to re-teleport it back into their faces if they fsck up.

"what the hell is this crap, i said extra froth"
*hits refuse download button*
"ahhhh im sorry sir ill get it right this time, extra froth coming right up once i get this boiling coffee right off my face and administer a first aid pill"
"thats right b!tch"
 
Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
Originally posted by: KLin
"Thank you for calling Starbucks, how can I help you?"
"Yes I'd like to download a venti Mocha with extra froth."
"coming right up, that'll be 4900 dollars please."
"Thank you."
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only if im able to re-teleport it back into their faces if they fsck up.

"what the hell is this crap, i said extra froth"
*hits refuse download button*
"ahhhh im sorry sir ill get it right this time, extra froth coming right up once i get this boiling coffee right off my face and administer a first aid pill"
"thats right b!tch"
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This is a SERIOUS thread...geez.
 
it isn't inconceivable. we have 3d printers now that are used for rapid prototyping in new product development. they use real plastics. someday we could have similar devices that printed circuit boards or electronic components. you could download the "blueprint" to a personal 3d printer.
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
it isn't inconceivable. we have 3d printers now that are used for rapid prototyping in new product development. they use real plastics. someday we could have similar devices that printed circuit boards or electronic components. you could download the "blueprint" to a personal 3d printer.
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Interesting....very interesting!

digitalsnare, you just got 0wned! 😛
 
So if we we can download hardwares, all of us (NOT EVEN ONE) would have a BFG 6800 Ultra or two. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: digitalsnare
well, I GUESS if they perfect teleportation..... that could work
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Well, let's say in the future you can buy a raw card or a raw chip. Then you can download something that tells how to arrange that raw card or raw chip to do something like display graphics or output sound or run a computer or something like that.
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Well, that wouldn't be hardware you are downloading now would it? 😕
 
In some sense, downloading new firmware for DVD players is like that. Perhaps you mean extending the concept to things like locked processors? (It would seem possible, considering how many processors, at least, are limited by the manufacuturer, rather than by physical constraints).

"Well, yes sir, right now you're only buying a Semperon, but you can go to www.amd.com later, and for a fee of just $85 you can download the code to make it a 64-bit processor."

Maybe the same thing could be said for unlocking various other pieces of hardware as well (perhaps a RAID controller on the mobo but unactivated by default?) It would all seem to depend on the economic gain from standardizing on one or two models, versus the cost of including capabilities that might go unused/un-upgraded.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: Yossarian
it isn't inconceivable. we have 3d printers now that are used for rapid prototyping in new product development. they use real plastics. someday we could have similar devices that printed circuit boards or electronic components. you could download the "blueprint" to a personal 3d printer.
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Interesting....very interesting!

digitalsnare, you just got 0wned! 😛
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So, you download the program for the prototyping machine to make you board but you still aren't downloading hardware. Not in the strictest sense of the word. Besides, those protyping printers are really expensive. You couldn't make semi-conductors in that manner though. Not without it costing millions of dollars.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: digitalsnare
well, I GUESS if they perfect teleportation..... that could work
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Well, let's say in the future you can buy a raw card or a raw chip. Then you can download something that tells how to arrange that raw card or raw chip to do something like display graphics or output sound or run a computer or something like that.
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Well, that wouldn't be hardware you are downloading now would it? 😕
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That's just a question of how you view "downloading" and "hardware". There could be a computer in the future with a raw drive, and you can download "hardware" to that raw drive to make things like I stated above. Maybe the raw drive has a fixed size, and each piece of "hardware" takes up a certain size. In that case, the raw drive is not unlike a hard drive. Things will happen in the future, probably just not the way you think that it will. When people imagined people flying, they probably didn't think you would be in a big metal chamber.
 
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