For another perspective, the 1.85MJ of energy is approximately 0.5 kWh, which is how much your boiler spends for a shower. So basically geeks that play with these lasers instead of showering spend roughly the same amount of energy.
Which is kind of surprising, considering turn-based games are much easier to make. Unfortunately, most people don't like thinking about one move for hours and prefer a continuously-engaging clickfest.
If you apply the first law to my smartphone, it would basically turn itself off and short the battery.
That would constitute "through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm". The phone knows that there's a possibility you'll be hurt somewhere remote, where your only hope is a call for help.
You are probably joking, but it's exactly the way most Americans approach elections. If it works for running the country, why shouldn't it work for computers?
With the EP.C workload on all twelve ARM cores, the average power consumption was 30.4 Watts for all six PandaBoards, which is in line with each PandaBoard burning through 5~6 Watts under load. When it comes to the performance-per-Watt, the EP.C test was yielding an average of 1.78 Mop/s per Watt, which was an increase over the single PandaBoard ES at 1.60 Mop/s per Watt.
Page 8 of TFA (yes, my quote was the entire text on that page) claims otherwise, that efficiency of the cluster is even better than that of a single board. I really have no idea how they managed that.
I must have been under a rock for the past few years, but are Ivy Bridge processors really more power-efficient than Atoms, Fusions and even ARMs? I thought they were designed more for speed than efficiency, while the others were made for low consumption. Was I wrong? On the internet?
I gave my two little sisters (third and first grade of elementary school) my old Lenovo laptop with Edubuntu installed. Most of the time, they play various flash games on the internet, watch Youtube, or play TuxKart or Neverball. As they're learning to write, they use LibreOffice as well.
I really don't think they're missing out on anything. I wouldn't give them shooting games anyway.
And to the original question, my vote goes for Lenovo as well.
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For another perspective, the 1.85MJ of energy is approximately 0.5 kWh, which is how much your boiler spends for a shower. So basically geeks that play with these lasers instead of showering spend roughly the same amount of energy.
A blind man teaching an android how to paint?
If anyone on the Enterprise should be teaching how to paint, it should be Picard. The line must be drawn here!
Which is kind of surprising, considering turn-based games are much easier to make. Unfortunately, most people don't like thinking about one move for hours and prefer a continuously-engaging clickfest.
the short answer is no, but it is whats inside that counts.
Not for Apple's patents.
I imagine the Googleplex is defended mostly by machine-gun turrets, moving platforms, and an all-seeing but emotionally unstable AI.
No, that would be Valve HQ. Google just shows you random YouTube comments.
C is so awful that nowbody would dare use it for any serious stuff, like kernels or drivers!!!
It looks like you have a point, but look at it this way:
PHP is so awful that nowbody would dare use it for any serious stuff, like business websites!!!
There really isn't a single CLI that an average person uses regularly.
Web browser.
If you apply the first law to my smartphone, it would basically turn itself off and short the battery.
That would constitute "through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm". The phone knows that there's a possibility you'll be hurt somewhere remote, where your only hope is a call for help.
Yes, just like whenever people see my GMail address I get tons of requests for Google+.
In the first episode of TNG, Riker has to dock the two parts of the Enterprise manually. Maybe the Chinese like Picard so much.
You are probably joking, but it's exactly the way most Americans approach elections. If it works for running the country, why shouldn't it work for computers?
https://xkcd.com/695/
With the EP.C workload on all twelve ARM cores, the average power consumption was 30.4 Watts for all six PandaBoards, which is in line with each PandaBoard burning through 5~6 Watts under load. When it comes to the performance-per-Watt, the EP.C test was yielding an average of 1.78 Mop/s per Watt, which was an increase over the single PandaBoard ES at 1.60 Mop/s per Watt.
Page 8 of TFA (yes, my quote was the entire text on that page) claims otherwise, that efficiency of the cluster is even better than that of a single board. I really have no idea how they managed that.
I must have been under a rock for the past few years, but are Ivy Bridge processors really more power-efficient than Atoms, Fusions and even ARMs? I thought they were designed more for speed than efficiency, while the others were made for low consumption. Was I wrong? On the internet?
And yet Phoronix managed to squeeze 16 pages out of it. Good job.
Wouldn't the devil say "what the heaven"?
but where do the wires go?
All the way down.
Or until it collides with an alien probe.
Universal translator. Or babelchip, if you prefer.
Remember the golden rule of Windows: "Skip every other version - because it's crap"
I remember it well, but I think you put an extra "other" in it.
How am I supposed to start new programs?
Does Alt+F2 work on Windows?
What makes you think it's positive?
I gave my two little sisters (third and first grade of elementary school) my old Lenovo laptop with Edubuntu installed. Most of the time, they play various flash games on the internet, watch Youtube, or play TuxKart or Neverball. As they're learning to write, they use LibreOffice as well.
I really don't think they're missing out on anything. I wouldn't give them shooting games anyway.
And to the original question, my vote goes for Lenovo as well.
Of course, it all makes sense now. The supernove killed all the turtles, so the Earth had no choice but to start rotating.
IIRC, there were some guys at the stock exchange, coincidentally in London.