You are missing the point here. Moore's law implies that the number of cores on the most cost effective processos will keep going up, so we'll cluster 256-cores machines at future, just like we cluster 64-cores machines now.
You're talking about clustered 256-core machines running Windows, and I'm missing the point?
Right, but what about when you need 1024 cores? 16 boxes with 64 cores each, or does it make more sense to get four 256 core boxes? Extrapolate to 4096, etc.
Extrapolate to "why the hell would someone even consider Windows for such an application?"
As a sound tech, I don't use Bose gear to drive a 5000 capacity room either.
What's more funny is that most of these are aerobic exercises. Just play soccer or something. I hope these fail, because this only makes the art of "fun exercise" less social.
But what if workout chains started installing networked Wii-like facilities?
I would pay good money to see a roomful of hot chicks storming the beaches of Normany on bicycles.
My problem is I'm always on the move, and rarely receive my card. However I have voted at every election by going to the proper poll for my neighborhood and presenting them with my driver's license and a current cable or phone bill.
I have also acted as an election scrutineer representing a candidate or party, who can challenge the validity of a voter, ballot, or the registration list. I've also done enumeration, where Elections Canada has people go around to every residence to update the list. Great way to meet chicks.
I hear ya. Lots of folks don't power down their idle quads at night, for example. However, an animation rendering farm of 50 dual cores sucks much more watts per work unit than a four-box cluster of 64 cores, which would be much more productive and occupy a small cabinet instead of a room.
I've seen a rendering farm in Toronto that was all Dell desktops, probably upwards of 50 of them spread between three rooms. Obviously some animator thought himself a network admin. They were even sitting on desks, as though someone would actually sit in front of them. Meanwhile the animators were rammed into cubicles...
the IBM Selectric - which, btw, at least had a decently engineered keyboard.
I hear ya there too. I'm typing on a late-80's NEC keyboard, haven't encountered a newer keyboard I can tolerate.
You are missing the point. You can BUY 8 cores right now for your grandma from Dell. This means that businesses are buying 64 core machines and up for things like graphics rendering, real-time image processing, and server loads. Hell, the place I work for has a 64 core machine for handling E-mail remotely.
Yes but once you go past 64 it probably makes more sense to cluster several boxen rather than put all your cores in one basket. Four 64-core boxes clustered can operate at 75% while updating each box independently, where one 256-core box comes to a grinding halt for every security update.
I think the problem is the immediacy of putting in a DVD vs even just booting up an HTPC (pardon the antiquated terminology, I'm a sound tech...). That's why it's so astounding to me that Blu-Ray movies have inescapable ads on insert. I'd much rather boot up an PC than watch any ad, much less one that's offensively obselete. 10 year shelf life my ass.
It's more likely that we're nearing the end of this DRM nonsense forever. Finally! Or am I too optimistic of their intelligence? History does weigh heavily against my hopefulness here.
Intelligent or not, either they will cave to market pressures, or the format will vaporize and another will take its place.
And there are benefits to a pirating marketplace. I am one of those people who would never buy a movie, but would rent/copy if the means are available to do so, rather than download. By doing so I am supporting the format and at least paying a royalty. I don't want the box or any extra crap anyway, just the movie to put in a binder, so I'm saving the cost and waste of the packaging, which are the most expensive components to manufacture (printing the artwork is #1).
I don't see why they don't just authorize the copying of rentals. Suppose a movie rental generates 30-40% as much revenue as a movie purchase for movie studios and the format developer. The format developer gets another piece when I purchase the blank media to copy onto. The studios could compel rental companies to let them track rentals to form a database of consumer activity that could be sold to marketing companies. Distribution costs would also come way down. Add those revenues and savings together plus a small rental fee hike, and you end up with the same revenue as hard-copy purchases, all without stuffing landfills with unwanted discs and cases.
Also, by owning a playback device of the movie format, I become a welcome recipient of bought movies as gifts. Over the years I think I've been bought about 30 DVD's, more revenue they would never have gotten if I did not support the format.
Think about it. Did DVD reach its peak profitability before or after CSS was cracked? I believe I'm one of a large enough market segment that will never buy a Blu-Ray player until I have the means to copy them, nor will I upgrade to an HDTV until then. I bet a movie media format cannot survive without supporting us, and TV manufacturers should really get behind this.
Holy shit. I can't believe how masterfully I just sent the exact polar opposite message I intended. What I was thinking was how Jews were "censored" for trying to censor Nazis. I KINDA SKIPPED THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.
The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through."
Were they wearing adequate protection?! What's the Vatican's position on astro-bortion?! Even astro-slut portals have rights!
Dude, I was mocking Star Trek: Enterprise. There are only two good things about that show and they're mounted on the upper frontal torso of Jolene Blalock.
Now we have PC Idol. Do not get me started on how American Idol has skewed the ambitions of budding musicians. Imagine a computer company/platform that has shyte hardware, shyte OS, but makes an iMac look like an iMutt. Imagine every non-IT educated consumer running to Walmart to buy them.
Think it can't happen? Imagine a Dick Cheney taking over Microsoft when Bill Gates hangs up his gloves. That's all it would take.
One thing I find tiring is the assumption that a president is unilaterally responsible for the economy during their term(s) of office, when in fact it's generally the complete opposite.
So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that presidents are willing to inflate the economy by going further into debt to remain in office. Reagan pushed the envelope harder than anyone prior, and he is one of the most heralded presidents in history.
And while it's easy to blame the Republicans, it should be noted that the trend should only be associated with the Republican party itself, and not conservative politics. It's easy to say conservatives screw up the economy and liberals fix it, but in Canada it's the exact opposite. Since we've had Trudeau as prime minister back in the Reagan years, it has traditionally been liberals screwing our economy and conservatives fixing it. (I know what's in the news, they say Harper has "sent us back into deficit", but Paul Martin only eliminated the deficit by diverting funds from health care, which now lies in ruin, and he didn't have troops in Afghanistan.)
Traditionally, the US is conservative-minded, and Canada is liberal-minded. Unfortunately our political bias does not determine the direction of our respective countries, it determines what politicians pitch to get elected, and that's all. Once elected, they do whatever they want.
Elections will never mean anything until elected officials are held accountable for fulfilling their election promises.
Bankrupt people can not pay their fees to the record companies, and neither can they (or will, probably) buy new music. It has been said before, but it seems like the record companies are shooting themselves in both their feet.
It's not like they're suing a large portion of their market, just making examples of a handful, well worth a scraped foot or two.
Mercury's eccentric orbit had many astronomers believing there was another planet in the solar system, which they named Vulcan. Then in 1915 Einstein dreamed up the Theory Of Relativity, which explained almost all the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit.
What most don't realize is that Albert Einstein was in fact a Zindi from the future, sent to annihilate Vulcan and substitute a fancy cover story so we would never make first contact.
many are largely unskilled and thus more likely to get caught and arrested.
Problem solved?
More like problem created. When 16-year-old criminals discover exactly how much less severe the punishment is for them than 18-year-olds, they all have the same thought: "Crap! I've got less than 2 years to get good at this!"
Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.
Better yet, go buy some audio equipment that doesn't suck. There use to be these things called "stereos" that were designed to reproduce a recording with reasonable fidelity. I have never heard any cel phone interference from any reasonable stereo.
"Computer speakers" are barely above telephone grade audio reproduction - yes, even the pricey ones with the dinky little box on the floor they call a subwoofer. Musicians work pretty hard to make those recordings, it'd be nice if people would give them a chance to not sound like crap.
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You are missing the point here. Moore's law implies that the number of cores on the most cost effective processos will keep going up, so we'll cluster 256-cores machines at future, just like we cluster 64-cores machines now.
You're talking about clustered 256-core machines running Windows, and I'm missing the point?
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Right, but what about when you need 1024 cores? 16 boxes with 64 cores each, or does it make more sense to get four 256 core boxes? Extrapolate to 4096, etc.
Extrapolate to "why the hell would someone even consider Windows for such an application?"
As a sound tech, I don't use Bose gear to drive a 5000 capacity room either.
I'd say this though, as a former alarm engineer - if you really have something to protect, the best security is physical, not an alarm.
Another occasion to bring up lock bumping .
What's more funny is that most of these are aerobic exercises. Just play soccer or something. I hope these fail, because this only makes the art of "fun exercise" less social.
But what if workout chains started installing networked Wii-like facilities?
I would pay good money to see a roomful of hot chicks storming the beaches of Normany on bicycles.
My problem is I'm always on the move, and rarely receive my card. However I have voted at every election by going to the proper poll for my neighborhood and presenting them with my driver's license and a current cable or phone bill.
I have also acted as an election scrutineer representing a candidate or party, who can challenge the validity of a voter, ballot, or the registration list. I've also done enumeration, where Elections Canada has people go around to every residence to update the list. Great way to meet chicks.
I hear ya. Lots of folks don't power down their idle quads at night, for example. However, an animation rendering farm of 50 dual cores sucks much more watts per work unit than a four-box cluster of 64 cores, which would be much more productive and occupy a small cabinet instead of a room.
I've seen a rendering farm in Toronto that was all Dell desktops, probably upwards of 50 of them spread between three rooms. Obviously some animator thought himself a network admin. They were even sitting on desks, as though someone would actually sit in front of them. Meanwhile the animators were rammed into cubicles...
the IBM Selectric - which, btw, at least had a decently engineered keyboard.
I hear ya there too. I'm typing on a late-80's NEC keyboard, haven't encountered a newer keyboard I can tolerate.
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You are missing the point. You can BUY 8 cores right now for your grandma from Dell. This means that businesses are buying 64 core machines and up for things like graphics rendering, real-time image processing, and server loads. Hell, the place I work for has a 64 core machine for handling E-mail remotely.
Yes but once you go past 64 it probably makes more sense to cluster several boxen rather than put all your cores in one basket. Four 64-core boxes clustered can operate at 75% while updating each box independently, where one 256-core box comes to a grinding halt for every security update.
I think the problem is the immediacy of putting in a DVD vs even just booting up an HTPC (pardon the antiquated terminology, I'm a sound tech...). That's why it's so astounding to me that Blu-Ray movies have inescapable ads on insert. I'd much rather boot up an PC than watch any ad, much less one that's offensively obselete. 10 year shelf life my ass.
It's more likely that we're nearing the end of this DRM nonsense forever. Finally! Or am I too optimistic of their intelligence? History does weigh heavily against my hopefulness here.
Intelligent or not, either they will cave to market pressures, or the format will vaporize and another will take its place.
And there are benefits to a pirating marketplace. I am one of those people who would never buy a movie, but would rent/copy if the means are available to do so, rather than download. By doing so I am supporting the format and at least paying a royalty. I don't want the box or any extra crap anyway, just the movie to put in a binder, so I'm saving the cost and waste of the packaging, which are the most expensive components to manufacture (printing the artwork is #1).
I don't see why they don't just authorize the copying of rentals. Suppose a movie rental generates 30-40% as much revenue as a movie purchase for movie studios and the format developer. The format developer gets another piece when I purchase the blank media to copy onto. The studios could compel rental companies to let them track rentals to form a database of consumer activity that could be sold to marketing companies. Distribution costs would also come way down. Add those revenues and savings together plus a small rental fee hike, and you end up with the same revenue as hard-copy purchases, all without stuffing landfills with unwanted discs and cases.
Also, by owning a playback device of the movie format, I become a welcome recipient of bought movies as gifts. Over the years I think I've been bought about 30 DVD's, more revenue they would never have gotten if I did not support the format.
Think about it. Did DVD reach its peak profitability before or after CSS was cracked? I believe I'm one of a large enough market segment that will never buy a Blu-Ray player until I have the means to copy them, nor will I upgrade to an HDTV until then. I bet a movie media format cannot survive without supporting us, and TV manufacturers should really get behind this.
Holy shit. I can't believe how masterfully I just sent the exact polar opposite message I intended. What I was thinking was how Jews were "censored" for trying to censor Nazis. I KINDA SKIPPED THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.
I have no excuse. I apologize profusely.
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
Six million Jews would doubt you, but don't worry, they've been censored REAL well.
OMFG, stupidest post ever, I'm drunk... be merciful...
Six million Jews would doubt you, but don't worry, they've been censored REAL well.
The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through."
Were they wearing adequate protection?! What's the Vatican's position on astro-bortion?! Even astro-slut portals have rights!
Dude, I was mocking Star Trek: Enterprise. There are only two good things about that show and they're mounted on the upper frontal torso of Jolene Blalock.
Now we have PC Idol. Do not get me started on how American Idol has skewed the ambitions of budding musicians. Imagine a computer company/platform that has shyte hardware, shyte OS, but makes an iMac look like an iMutt. Imagine every non-IT educated consumer running to Walmart to buy them.
Think it can't happen? Imagine a Dick Cheney taking over Microsoft when Bill Gates hangs up his gloves. That's all it would take.
there has to be a pretty impresive reason why any of the other less complicated and faster ways of breaking in wouldn't be useful.
#1 - making it look like an inside job
The way the economy is going and with info on bump keys circulating, expect burglaries to go up. Way up.
One thing I find tiring is the assumption that a president is unilaterally responsible for the economy during their term(s) of office, when in fact it's generally the complete opposite.
If you take another look at the federal debt by presidency chart, and compare it with this chart showing the employment recessions of the past 60 years, you might notice another trend. When people lose their jobs, they vote in another president.
So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that presidents are willing to inflate the economy by going further into debt to remain in office. Reagan pushed the envelope harder than anyone prior, and he is one of the most heralded presidents in history.
And while it's easy to blame the Republicans, it should be noted that the trend should only be associated with the Republican party itself, and not conservative politics. It's easy to say conservatives screw up the economy and liberals fix it, but in Canada it's the exact opposite. Since we've had Trudeau as prime minister back in the Reagan years, it has traditionally been liberals screwing our economy and conservatives fixing it. (I know what's in the news, they say Harper has "sent us back into deficit", but Paul Martin only eliminated the deficit by diverting funds from health care, which now lies in ruin, and he didn't have troops in Afghanistan.)
Traditionally, the US is conservative-minded, and Canada is liberal-minded. Unfortunately our political bias does not determine the direction of our respective countries, it determines what politicians pitch to get elected, and that's all. Once elected, they do whatever they want.
Elections will never mean anything until elected officials are held accountable for fulfilling their election promises.
Bankrupt people can not pay their fees to the record companies, and neither can they (or will, probably) buy new music. It has been said before, but it seems like the record companies are shooting themselves in both their feet.
It's not like they're suing a large portion of their market, just making examples of a handful, well worth a scraped foot or two.
Mercury's eccentric orbit had many astronomers believing there was another planet in the solar system, which they named Vulcan. Then in 1915 Einstein dreamed up the Theory Of Relativity, which explained almost all the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit.
What most don't realize is that Albert Einstein was in fact a Zindi from the future, sent to annihilate Vulcan and substitute a fancy cover story so we would never make first contact.
Man, would that ever make for a bad TV series!
Problem solved?
More like problem created. When 16-year-old criminals discover exactly how much less severe the punishment is for them than 18-year-olds, they all have the same thought: "Crap! I've got less than 2 years to get good at this!"
Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.
Better yet, go buy some audio equipment that doesn't suck. There use to be these things called "stereos" that were designed to reproduce a recording with reasonable fidelity. I have never heard any cel phone interference from any reasonable stereo.
"Computer speakers" are barely above telephone grade audio reproduction - yes, even the pricey ones with the dinky little box on the floor they call a subwoofer. Musicians work pretty hard to make those recordings, it'd be nice if people would give them a chance to not sound like crap.
The simple thing to do is just keep them occupied with more duties so you can control their...
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