There are only minutes - sometimes seconds - to react, and the incoming weapons are traveling faster than the speed of sound.

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Gallium arsenide switches ten times faster than silicon All of a sudden,I've got a clock speed ten times faster with no change in design.

砷化镓启动的速度是硅的10倍,突然，我得到了10倍快的时钟速度,但是设计没有发生任何改变。

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Even though a hard drive spins at 7200 times per minute or even faster, that's relatively slower than the speed of light.

即使一个硬盘驱动器的转速达到每分钟7200次,甚至更快，仍然比光速慢。

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Well the problem is that the problems grow faster than the computers speed up.

问题就在于我们要处理的问题的复杂度,比计算机提速还要快。

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