Someone needs to build a card that draws single digit wattage and will drive 2048x1536 displays, and they will sell loads of them. I cannot be the only one sick of the jet engine noise and space heater performance.
Ya know, like an Mac Mini, only with high resolution.
Anything you are working on, 1000 other people have thought of but didn't FINISH. Being secretive gets you nowhere, doing stuff does.
Anything you design will not be what users wants until you show them your prototype and then ASK THEM what they really want. You are a geek, not a user you cannot possibly comprehend what they want, so stop trying.
And most important, a stealth startup can't get you laid.
First of all, don't hold your breath. Running distributed computing apps on a console == running arbitrary code. We update these programs all the time behind the scenes. So you will only see these apps on consoles if you see these companies let you run any code you want - not going to happen. Never.
And, if that happens, consoles will all be busy as spam zombies, not as helpers to us. Bad news - that's where all the serious black hat money is these days.
That said, I may or may not know first hand that apps like d.net suck on game consoles, and things like Folding@home rock on them with the minor problem that game consoles don't care so much about accurate floating point, just fast floating point. You can see where that might be a tiny little problem for scientists?
And yes, as many people have mentioned, electricity is not free when the only jobs left are at Walmart. Non-geeks actually care about stuff like that. Um, but you should all be running folding@home! Go, go now;)
Jim seems to imply that SETI was first *sigh* will they never learn?
Actually, if you are a real business, the fees are tiny.
Payal and company only rip you off because such a huge number of transactions are fraud, since that's what they are really useful for, not asking any questions and all.
Picture it... A "confirm" button... surrounded by 427 text ads for related products.
I already have to goto at least page 3 to find anything, because the first few pages of google results are fake sites, keyword bait, and crap not even containing the words I used.
Lets not forget what Google is, an ADVERTISING company, that want to know everything about everythign you have done and ever will do, so they can sell YOU to companies.
No, Google past the "big brother" line long ago, now they want to be a bank too? They will force Ebay to stop taking 15% of all transactions, and that's good, but Google is getting seriously scary.
That's only 92 cores short of chips we're starting to use TODAY.
The scientific and hardcore computational people are almost oblivious to this whole Intel vs. AMD vs. PPC thing, and those that aren't are forgetting about it fast.
Noone with a choice would ever use GCC for a _release_ version of anything. It's just too slow. Intel cmopiler kicks it ass in every respect except price.
Good thing for that T-shirt, becasue at 4500/summer, that's about $865/hr (assuming only 40hr/week for 13 weeks). After self-employment taxes, you're better off in a McJob.
Of course, if you live in India or China, that's a fortune. But I'd say any US college student should be able to do MUCH better interning.
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How long before we have a Congressional equivalent?
Dah, never. A sith on the other hand, too many to count...
Fool me once, shame on you...
:)
Fool me twice, use an encrypted filesystem fool...
Was that so hard? And random bits are so much fun
Why back in my day peoples annoying stories about their cats were in ASCII and they were 1KB...
Then came the web, and peoples stories about their cat got pictures, and it was 100KB, and still noone cared.
Then came the podcast about the cat, at 10MB, still annoying, but for broadband.
Now comes the video about the cat, 100MB, but now even the cat is pissed off.
How is this progress???
... that this is gonna stop their jobs from being outsourced over the internet, they sure have a big clue on the way! ;)
I never said anything about 3D...
This is for work machines, just a mass of pixels, none of them changing very often really.
100 watts... joy.
Someone needs to build a card that draws single digit wattage and will drive 2048x1536 displays, and they will sell loads of them. I cannot be the only one sick of the jet engine noise and space heater performance.
Ya know, like an Mac Mini, only with high resolution.
Hrm, you mean a router? ;)
That's so naive it's cute. This is America, congress does what it's paid to do.
You're thinking of one of those axis of evil countries where people can vote and they hold government accountable, like England or something.
Anything you are working on, 1000 other people have thought of but didn't FINISH. Being secretive gets you nowhere, doing stuff does.
Anything you design will not be what users wants until you show them your prototype and then ASK THEM what they really want. You are a geek, not a user you cannot possibly comprehend what they want, so stop trying.
And most important, a stealth startup can't get you laid.
Stealth = bad.
Well now, something I can really comment on ;)
;)
First of all, don't hold your breath. Running distributed computing apps on a console == running arbitrary code. We update these programs all the time behind the scenes. So you will only see these apps on consoles if you see these companies let you run any code you want - not going to happen. Never.
And, if that happens, consoles will all be busy as spam zombies, not as helpers to us. Bad news - that's where all the serious black hat money is these days.
That said, I may or may not know first hand that apps like d.net suck on game consoles, and things like Folding@home rock on them with the minor problem that game consoles don't care so much about accurate floating point, just fast floating point. You can see where that might be a tiny little problem for scientists?
And yes, as many people have mentioned, electricity is not free when the only jobs left are at Walmart. Non-geeks actually care about stuff like that. Um, but you should all be running folding@home! Go, go now
Jim seems to imply that SETI was first *sigh* will they never learn?
Great, now all the freaks and pedophiles and psycho freaks will be roaming the normal people channels.
At least when they were off in the freak places the law knew where to look for them.
Aim gun at foot, pull trigger.
Oh hush, this is Slashdot, Google is god here.
;)
Pointing out facts about the banking system, and the very close eye governments keep on such things will get you nowhere
Actually, if you are a real business, the fees are tiny.
Payal and company only rip you off because such a huge number of transactions are fraud, since that's what they are really useful for, not asking any questions and all.
Picture it... A "confirm" button... surrounded by 427 text ads for related products.
I already have to goto at least page 3 to find anything, because the first few pages of google results are fake sites, keyword bait, and crap not even containing the words I used.
Lets not forget what Google is, an ADVERTISING company, that want to know everything about everythign you have done and ever will do, so they can sell YOU to companies.
No, Google past the "big brother" line long ago, now they want to be a bank too? They will force Ebay to stop taking 15% of all transactions, and that's good, but Google is getting seriously scary.
That's not Funny, it's Insightful.
California state taxes are the highest in the nation - 9.3%
Lets see, order the best computer/OS combo, from the company that treats anyone without a commercial service contract like complete shit.
Not gonna happen!
Won't happen.
Whatever google buys they have to be able to put their standard crapload of ads into. There are too many ad-less VoIP clients out there.
Not a good match.
Almost 1/2 a Folding@home, I'm 1/2 impressed ;)
Holy interconnect batman!
Too late by over a year. We passed the majority are non-human players a while ago.
Of course, the same applies to the stock markets now, erasing volitility as far as the eye can see.
You have to type VERY fast to even notice either doing anything. What I want to know is how you can type that fast without the keyboard melting???
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That's only 92 cores short of chips we're starting to use TODAY.
The scientific and hardcore computational people are almost oblivious to this whole Intel vs. AMD vs. PPC thing, and those that aren't are forgetting about it fast.
Noone with a choice would ever use GCC for a _release_ version of anything. It's just too slow. Intel cmopiler kicks it ass in every respect except price.
But that's not the point. The point is it's FREE.
Sorry, but this completely invalidates any metric including the word "performance".
IBM's C compiler should be used on the Mac side (OSX now uses GCC 4.x BTW), Intels C compiler on the AMD64 side.
Do that, and try again.
Repeat after me - "GCC is crossplatform - performance sucks on all eequally".
Good thing for that T-shirt, becasue at 4500/summer, that's about $865/hr (assuming only 40hr/week for 13 weeks). After self-employment taxes, you're better off in a McJob.
Of course, if you live in India or China, that's a fortune. But I'd say any US college student should be able to do MUCH better interning.