Only if they equip it with a handy coffee warming plate that doubles as a heat sink for the processor.
We have a cluster of 3 dual G5 Xserves. You could reheat food from the output ports of the blower. I'm looking into plenum cable for the network jacks because the vinyl jackets are already getting soft.
At least with a big flat screen you have plenty of places to shoot jets of hot air away from the user.
That said, by G4 ibook isn't all that bad in the heat department. Most of the time the unit manages to operate without the fan. But I think that had a lot to do with IBM seriously re-engineering the chip for low-power operation.
It is very possible to have a solution that is far more complex than the problem it was trying to solve. Ask an EE to work the control equations for an inverted pendulum some time. Now, take said control equations and try to implement it in real life.
What sounds like simple physics (just create a force opposite gravity) turns out to be a nasty control problem. And once you work out the theory, there are a whole lot of problems you run into implementing the theory. The solution to this problem is to this day the subject of Masters and Doctorate thesis. You have to take into account the position of the mass, the speed at which it is traveling, the lag between your control signal and the actual change in current in the motor, harmonic motion, and the fact that your pendulum, despite your best efforts, moves in 3 dimensions and not 2.
Most of the great solutions in history solved complex problems with simple solutions. Why are cups round? Is it because round shapes are easy for a potter to make? Is it because round shapes are easy for the human hand to hold? No one knows. They simply made round cups, and solved 2 problems at once.
You can have my berkies when you pull them off my cold lifeless feet!
In a hundred years we will have software that does what a manager does today. But man will always need geeks. Yes, what is complex today is simple tomarrow. But tomarrow there will new complex problems to solve!
For starters, the United States is a Representational Republic, not a Democracy. A Democracy doesn't scale beyond a few thousand people.
One man's lack of rioting and civil war is another man's lack of rioting and civil war. GWB got in on a technicality. About half the country hates him for it. The other half hates the first half for being sore losers. And half of both sides really couldn't tell you what the president REALLY does anyway.
The Constitution is less about rights than about the orderly functioning of Government. Every handover of power in the US has been peaceful. No matter how bitterly contested, never has the victor been decided by shots fired in anger. (Ok, there was that massive civil war where the North basically burned the South to the ground... but that's merely an inconvient fact in an otherwise perfect theory...)
Compete? What part of spank them and stole their lunch money does x86 fail to understand.
We have a dual p4 server, the damn thing sounds like a gas turbine when it's on. Really, I've used quieter air compressors.
Our dual-G5s from apple are quiet, sleek, and each processor gets it's own block of RAM. Granted, the ASIC for the memory controller gets it's own heat sink. But man, you crack it open and you wonder where the rest of the server is. It's literally 2 giant blocks for the processors, the ASIC that handles memory management, and a wee little chip on the end of the mobo that looks like a bus controller.
What I love is the fact that fundimentalists really don't grasp the idea that the Bible can be be ambigious on certain issues.
How did Judas die? In one Gospel, he hung himself. In another Gospel, he jumped off a cliff. Which is right? Doesn't matter. The important fact is that he died by his own hand.
And this is just one trivial example. The others touch on areas that don't really fit in a slashdot post. Nor does it touch on non-canonical texts like the Gospel of Thomas.
There is a reason there are 4 Gospels (4 canonical, that is. A fifth was attributed to Thomas, but it didn't make the cut.) They all tell roughly the same story, but each is a little different on the details. Does that make one right, and the others wrong? No. Does that mean we have to bend the facts to make all the others consistent at the same time? NO!
It just means that with all history you have to remeber that there is always more to the story. AND you always have to take into account WHO is telling the story. People have different motivations. People notice different things. People interpret facts in different ways.
It's not right or wrong. It just is. (And if the Fundies would kindly pull their head our of their ass, they would see that there is quite a room for interpretation in the scriptures.)
(One interesting note, the only reference to Abortion in the bible states that if a pregnant woman is assaulted and the fetus is killed, the perpetrator pays a hefty fine. It's buried in Leviticus.)
Plus: What did Jesus serve to his disciples at the last supper? Wine. What part of and then he took the wine, gave it to his disciples and said "This is my blood that is shed for you and for all sinners. Take and drink."
My non-drinking Father-in-law (who is a Baptist Minister) claims that when the Bible speaks of "wine" it's a mistranslation from "strong grape juice."
Bullhockey. The effects of "strong grape juice" are pretty well documented in the various stories. In the case of the "water to wine" miracle, the father of the bride scolded the servents for saving the best stuff for last. The implication was that everyone was getting bombed, and you really won't taste the difference between the cheap shit and the good stuff. Not only that, but it was COMMON PRACTICE TO DO SO.
Actually I would think that business managers would be more inclined to buy the WAY more expensive option. Isn't that Microsoft's and Oracle's bailywick already?
Glad I work for a non-profit. Saving money is actually important. If only to have some fudge room for all the IT disasters other departments insist on having.
I run a volunteer website, and people being the completely inept carbon bags of mostly water, they can't remember a password more complicated than their birthday.
Well some folks, despite explicit instructions, type their birthdate in using 2 digit years. Depending on what mood the various scripting and database components are in, the system turns 47-05-12 into either 2047-05-12 or 1947-05-12. Of course, Finagle's law being what it is, the system seems to default to the mode that reaks the most havok on the system.
Of course I managed to run the system for years with no problems. It's just this year that I started getting a crop of 2 digit dummies.
Better yet. Lets to a comparison between a MAC truck and a station wagon. We are going to include tests like parallel parking, zero to 60mph speed, and braking distance.
Ignoring completely, of course, that they are two different vehicles designed for 2 completely different purposes.
I learned the truth at seventeen, that code was meant for blue machines, and high school kids with pasty smiles who started dot coms then retired The valentines I never knew the Friday night deep coding foos were spent on one more professional at seventeen I learned the truth
And those of us with ravaged faces lacking in the social graces deperately remained at home exchanging patches on the phone to add new bits to the feature tree and murmured vague obscenities they weren't all it seems at seventeen
A brown eyed girl in hand me downs whos name I never could pronounce said pity please the ones who code they always seem to get the chode the soft and cushy m.s.c.e. who cannot't buy what is for free gets paid by the company which is a haven for the elderly
So remember those who win the game lose the love they sought to gain in debentures for quality and dubious integrity the small-town eyes will gape at you in dull surprise when payment due exceed benefits recieved at sevententeen
(Instrumental)
To those of use who knew the pain of valentines that never came and those whose names where never called when choosing sides for basketball it was long ago and far away the world was younger than today when code was all they gave out for free to ugly duckling geeks like me
We all play the game, and when we dare we cheat ourselved at solitaire submitting patches over the phone repenting other lives unknown to ask for new bits to the feature tree and murmur vague obscenities at ugly geeks like me, at seventeen
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We have a cluster of 3 dual G5 Xserves. You could reheat food from the output ports of the blower. I'm looking into plenum cable for the network jacks because the vinyl jackets are already getting soft.
At least with a big flat screen you have plenty of places to shoot jets of hot air away from the user.
That said, by G4 ibook isn't all that bad in the heat department. Most of the time the unit manages to operate without the fan. But I think that had a lot to do with IBM seriously re-engineering the chip for low-power operation.
Boss, I need 2 tickets to Tahiti for a code review.
To finally find a beast that is harder to maintain than PERL written by a 14 year old?
Though 30 in computers does pretty much mean you are heading for the old folks home.
controllable by tweaking the parameters of a few of the other systems
eliminated by governing said factor through artificial means.
negligable or correctable by an error compensating device
It is very possible to have a solution that is far more complex than the problem it was trying to solve. Ask an EE to work the control equations for an inverted pendulum some time. Now, take said control equations and try to implement it in real life.
What sounds like simple physics (just create a force opposite gravity) turns out to be a nasty control problem. And once you work out the theory, there are a whole lot of problems you run into implementing the theory. The solution to this problem is to this day the subject of Masters and Doctorate thesis. You have to take into account the position of the mass, the speed at which it is traveling, the lag between your control signal and the actual change in current in the motor, harmonic motion, and the fact that your pendulum, despite your best efforts, moves in 3 dimensions and not 2.
Most of the great solutions in history solved complex problems with simple solutions. Why are cups round? Is it because round shapes are easy for a potter to make? Is it because round shapes are easy for the human hand to hold? No one knows. They simply made round cups, and solved 2 problems at once.
In a hundred years we will have software that does what a manager does today. But man will always need geeks. Yes, what is complex today is simple tomarrow. But tomarrow there will new complex problems to solve!
One man's lack of rioting and civil war is another man's lack of rioting and civil war. GWB got in on a technicality. About half the country hates him for it. The other half hates the first half for being sore losers. And half of both sides really couldn't tell you what the president REALLY does anyway.
The Constitution is less about rights than about the orderly functioning of Government. Every handover of power in the US has been peaceful. No matter how bitterly contested, never has the victor been decided by shots fired in anger. (Ok, there was that massive civil war where the North basically burned the South to the ground... but that's merely an inconvient fact in an otherwise perfect theory...)
But not before voting the guy who ushered in Democracy banished.
(Cough) Dell rackmount (cough)
The naked truth, as we know it.
Though I think Monty Python would be cooler. Though, maybe a bit too constricting.
We have a dual p4 server, the damn thing sounds like a gas turbine when it's on. Really, I've used quieter air compressors.
Our dual-G5s from apple are quiet, sleek, and each processor gets it's own block of RAM. Granted, the ASIC for the memory controller gets it's own heat sink. But man, you crack it open and you wonder where the rest of the server is. It's literally 2 giant blocks for the processors, the ASIC that handles memory management, and a wee little chip on the end of the mobo that looks like a bus controller.
Solaris.
The Playstation 2 is actually 128 bit. But that doesn't really count as an OS...
How did Judas die? In one Gospel, he hung himself. In another Gospel, he jumped off a cliff. Which is right? Doesn't matter. The important fact is that he died by his own hand.
And this is just one trivial example. The others touch on areas that don't really fit in a slashdot post. Nor does it touch on non-canonical texts like the Gospel of Thomas.
There is a reason there are 4 Gospels (4 canonical, that is. A fifth was attributed to Thomas, but it didn't make the cut.) They all tell roughly the same story, but each is a little different on the details. Does that make one right, and the others wrong? No. Does that mean we have to bend the facts to make all the others consistent at the same time? NO!
It just means that with all history you have to remeber that there is always more to the story. AND you always have to take into account WHO is telling the story. People have different motivations. People notice different things. People interpret facts in different ways.
It's not right or wrong. It just is. (And if the Fundies would kindly pull their head our of their ass, they would see that there is quite a room for interpretation in the scriptures.)
(One interesting note, the only reference to Abortion in the bible states that if a pregnant woman is assaulted and the fetus is killed, the perpetrator pays a hefty fine. It's buried in Leviticus.)
My non-drinking Father-in-law (who is a Baptist Minister) claims that when the Bible speaks of "wine" it's a mistranslation from "strong grape juice."
Bullhockey. The effects of "strong grape juice" are pretty well documented in the various stories. In the case of the "water to wine" miracle, the father of the bride scolded the servents for saving the best stuff for last. The implication was that everyone was getting bombed, and you really won't taste the difference between the cheap shit and the good stuff. Not only that, but it was COMMON PRACTICE TO DO SO.
Except with imaginary money, multiplying a negative imaginary my a negative imaginary actually yields a postive amount.
Blessed are the geek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Glad I work for a non-profit. Saving money is actually important. If only to have some fudge room for all the IT disasters other departments insist on having.
But how do you explain the Republican party in the US? Or the Christian Right?
There is an entire class of gullible people, who even when exposed to the truth, insist the propoganda they were fed was true.
I just need to figure out how to tap they stupidity for my own purposes...
I run a volunteer website, and people being the completely inept carbon bags of mostly water, they can't remember a password more complicated than their birthday.
Well some folks, despite explicit instructions, type their birthdate in using 2 digit years. Depending on what mood the various scripting and database components are in, the system turns 47-05-12 into either 2047-05-12 or 1947-05-12. Of course, Finagle's law being what it is, the system seems to default to the mode that reaks the most havok on the system.
Of course I managed to run the system for years with no problems. It's just this year that I started getting a crop of 2 digit dummies.
I HATE USERS!!!!
Ignoring completely, of course, that they are two different vehicles designed for 2 completely different purposes.
there will be no justice in this world until the last lawyer is strangled with the entrails of the last marketing droid
Now I don't have to do any math to figure out I've been married for ... 4 years.