When I had my flirtation with getting a pilot's license, weather proved to be far more significant than I imagined. Even a "safe" consumer plane like the Cessna 172 can only fly when the weather permits. Guess what? The weather does not permit on anything like a regular schedule. People commute in their cars through the traditional rain, sleet and snow. Wind is never a consideration. Wind is huge to something like a Cessna. Even on beautiful warm days, the updrafts from the heat can make flying bumpy beyond anything that's desirable. A small prop plane is utterly at the whims of mother nature. If you can be very, very flexible in your schedule or you just love to fly, it makes sense. If you need to be somewhere at a specific time, fly commercial or drive.
I couldn't help but think of the episode where the computer on Red Dwarf became dramatically smarter at the expense of lifespan. This computer is tremendously fast, but it has to be backed up and rebuilt all the time. It seems to be the reliance on thousands of off the shelf parts that creates this problem. I wonder if it is always the case with supercomputers or if this problem can be overcome with improvements like flash storage?
The new Mac Pro is an 8 core system. When Tom's Hardware says there is no competition, I think it left out the Mac Pro. Skulltrail gives PC enthusiasts an alternative to it.
I wish there were a chip or a piece of software that could automatically allocated processes or parts of processes to multiple cores. Then something like Skulltrail would be very useful.
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Sure, sure. The technology works so well no one will ever be able to lie again.
Came here for this. Thanks.
When I had my flirtation with getting a pilot's license, weather proved to be far more significant than I imagined. Even a "safe" consumer plane like the Cessna 172 can only fly when the weather permits. Guess what? The weather does not permit on anything like a regular schedule. People commute in their cars through the traditional rain, sleet and snow. Wind is never a consideration. Wind is huge to something like a Cessna. Even on beautiful warm days, the updrafts from the heat can make flying bumpy beyond anything that's desirable. A small prop plane is utterly at the whims of mother nature. If you can be very, very flexible in your schedule or you just love to fly, it makes sense. If you need to be somewhere at a specific time, fly commercial or drive.
The only reason to upgrade from a K1 to a K2 is the text to speech. The lack of an SD slot in the K2 is a real step backwards.
It uses thermocouples to turn heat into electricity.
It is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
I couldn't help but think of the episode where the computer on Red Dwarf became dramatically smarter at the expense of lifespan. This computer is tremendously fast, but it has to be backed up and rebuilt all the time. It seems to be the reliance on thousands of off the shelf parts that creates this problem. I wonder if it is always the case with supercomputers or if this problem can be overcome with improvements like flash storage?
The new Mac Pro is an 8 core system. When Tom's Hardware says there is no competition, I think it left out the Mac Pro. Skulltrail gives PC enthusiasts an alternative to it. I wish there were a chip or a piece of software that could automatically allocated processes or parts of processes to multiple cores. Then something like Skulltrail would be very useful.