Check out jonnyguru's reviews of the picoPSU's. Basically, they're shit. After reading them I'd never put a pico in any of my machines. Better to go with a lower wattage bronze or gold psu from a good company like seasonic. Get one with a big 120mm fan.
CPU performance of the E-350 is a real dog. I was looking forward to putting one in my home server but when I saw performance/watt numbers I went i3 instead. I got an i3-2100 + motherboard for $150 at newegg after combo and rebate. That was months ago when i3's and H61 boards were more expensive. Totally worth the extra $60 IMHO. P4 performance in 2011 is no deal even at $90 for cpu and board.
Your best option is an i3-2100T on a bare bones H61 motherboard. TDP for the i3-2100T is only 35 watts. It will run circles around Atom and AMD fusion solutions. The faster the cpu gets it's work done the faster it can get back into a low power sleep state. The i3 idles lower than Atom and every AMD chip. Put a good, large, low profile heatsink on the i3. You want one with a big, slow 120mm fan. Go with a low rpm 120mm yate loon fan for optimum quietness.
The real question is why in the world would any non-developer (and I use the term lightly) run a CPU burning, battery draining, GC requiring interpreted language on a mobile device in the first place? Python / Ruby / Perl / TCL, all of these are prototyping / utility languages. They're not designed to build low overhead / low cycle apps. I can see why developers who aren't proficient in C / C++ / Objective-C want them, but in the context of user experience, there's absolutely no net benefit to using these languages in creating apps for mobile devices.
Actually, there is. Most mobile devices are not rebooted frequently and have a relatively (to desktops) small amount of RAM. Also, many mobile apps are long running. An app might be run for weeks before being closed or before the device is rebooted. This is a recipe fore heap fragmentation. Garbage collected language runtimes don't fragment memory, or if they do they can clean it up very easily. Once a C malloc hands you a block of RAM, the OS and language runtime cannot move it around to reduce fragmentation.
I bet I could find a link on moveon or Democratic underground that proves he is a fascist.
My entire social circle (except for one guy) believes that Obama has proven himself to be a moderate republican. The other guy thinks he's a communist. It makes for many lulz.
I moved a small 4TB database from 24x 256G 15k SAS drives to 24x 240G OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 drives.
You should be fired. Seriously. OCZ is an "enthusiast" brand that has no place in industry. Intel, Seagate, Micron, and others offer ssd's that are appropriate for use in a business environment.
I think those disappearing islands would be better off digging up the top layer of dirt and raising their island with imported garbage, then cover with top soil and plants. I would think you only need 2 meters to keep their island homes above water, and the first world nations would likely cover the full cost just to be rid of the junk. Having a floating home won't do any good without a job to pay for it, you may as well move to somewhere dry.
The applicable international law(s) require that your land must be "naturally" above sea level. Once you fuck with a piece of land you cannot use it in your claims.
but the reality is that a person growing up poor, black and let's say blind is not going to have the same road to prosperity that somebody that's born black and sighted or black, sighted and rich wil.
Speaking only to the blind part, I was friends with a legally (not fully) blind dude from middle school into our 20's. When he was under 18 his parents got a few hundred bucks a month from social security. In his mid to late teens his parents allowed him to blow the majority of "The SSI Money" as he called it on the same trivial crap every other teenager spending his money on: CD's, stereo gear, computer stuff, videogames, etc. From the time he could read he got all the free books and periodicals he wanted from the library of congress. He had a dedicated teacher available to him for additional 1 on 1 instruction a few hours a week. When he turned 18 his social security money increased and became payable to him. While the rest of us were scraping by on nothing during college he had hundreds to blow every month on videogames and consumer electronics. He got special grant money to pay his college tuition bills. A year or two out of university his bills were completely paid off. When it came time to find a job he was swimming in offers.
I my opinion, he had a huge advantage over a fully sighted person.
Depends on what you are running. My favorite cheap servers to play around with at home are P3-based from about 500-750 Mhz or so. Those chips only draw about 15-20W, and you can get the entire system down to about 50W or so depending on what you have in it. I know an Atom draws less power, but the P3's are basically free and don't draw that much more power meaning the payback is many years.
You may be shocked to find that a Sandy Bridge i3 on an H61 board can equal or beat the (watt) numbers you gave while completely destroying the PIII in every task. Oh, and you also get pretty damn respectable 3D acceleration too.
My home server, built in 1999, runs at a maximum of 80W. That means it takes 2 kW (about $0.20) per day, at most. For about $500 I could build a machine that draws 20W, for a monetary savings of about $0.15 per day. In about 10 years, I could break even on what I spent on the new server, but by then, the hardware would be 10 years old again. What I have serves my purposes.
Or you could head over to Craigslist, Freecycle, or the local thrift store and get a 5-7 year old machine for $0-25 and not have to put up with hardware that's 12 years old.
because I don't feel like entirely throwing away the big old TV.
Do what I did when it was time to say goodbye to my old non-HD big screen TV. I gave it away on Craigslist. A very grateful low income family picked it up the same day I posted. No guilt about trashing it. Happy new owners. Space in your house for a new TV. Everyone wins!
The $30-35 fanless 8400GS and GeForce 210 cards require it, but there are still lots of 5 year old motherboards used in semi-embedded systems which can't use them
And how many of those semi-embedded systems need to render 3D graphics? Does your industrial process control PC also run Quake? You do realize that 2D will still work...right?
Texas. Pious, tea bagging Red State. No gays allowed.
You've obviously never been to Austin. Check out 4th Street around 2am. You'll think you've been magically (and fabulously!) transported to The Castro in SF.
Am I the only person in the universe who likes gnome 3?
Nope! I love it.
I love the increased screen real estate for applications and I love the ease with which I can find and switch to windows on other virtual desktops. I typically work with eight virtual desktops, each one having multiple windows open. Gnome 3 lets me easily (and beautifully!) fly from one window to another across my different virtual desktops.
I love that all of my windows render faster. Compared to Gnome 2, Gnome 3 flies and every frame is picture perfect. No flickering. No tearing. I used to have video tearing in mplayer. Under Gnome 2 and the latest Xorg it's completely gone.
I also love how easy and fast it is to write Gnome 3 extensions that can change and manipulate literally anything in the Gnome 3 interface. Extensions use the same language and api that Gnome 3 is written in so user extensions are truly first class Gnome 3 code. Everything is html+css+javascript. Bang out some code, drop it in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/, hit alt-f2, type 'r', hit return. My extension is loaded and run without compiling, building packages, or even having to log out. There's even an REPL built in! You can try out Gnome 3 code snippets ala Lisp, Python, Ruby...
I don't understand the massive hate towards Gnome 3. The only things I can think of are: 1) Some people don't like change of any kind no matter how positive. 2) Some people have a strange bigotry against html, css, and javascript, viewing them as inferior "web only" technologies.
I think he meant $500 for everything. A quick visit to Newegg will show you that you can build a reasonably fast PC for $300:
$50 - motherboard
$30 - 4gb ddr3 ram
$80 - budget dual core processor that outperforms multicore arm chips by a mile
$60 - 1tb disk
$40 - case
$40 - power supply
Total: $300
That leaves $200 for monitor, mouse, and keyboard. You can get a good 21" LCD such as the Dell E2011H for $99. The remaining $100 buys a nice keyboard + mouse combo.
If you live near a Fry's or Microcenter you can get the motherboard for free. They have cpu with a free motherboard deals all the time.
The best part is that the case, power supply, and disk can be reused for about five years as you drop in new motherboard + cpu combos. DDR4 is projected to have only %50 uptake by 2015 so you have a number of years ahead when you can reuse your DDR3 sticks with upgraded cpu + mainboard as well.
Building a PC these days is cheeeeeap.
How many $500 tablets will the tablet guy burn through in that same timeframe? My guess is at least two. I don't see a long life ahead for a thin, delicate electronic device that's toted everywhere.
Java the language is dead to me. I could care less. What I do care about are JVM improvements that speed execution of the alternate JVM based languages: Scala, Rhino, jRuby, Clojure, Groovy, and to a much lesser degree Jython. The alternate languages are where all the action will be over the next ten years.
If you're a Java-only guy and haven't looked at Scala, run don't walk! You will love it, especially if you've played with any of the functional languages at Uni or on your own time.
I can only hope that someone will do a JVM Haskell and that the OCaml-Java project will mature into a stable platform.
I have friend in Manhattan (NYC) whose only internet option is cable. He has a great speed on paper but he never sees it in real life. Packet loss is consistently high and the service goes down completely for a few minutes multiple time a week. In fucking Manhattan! If the US ISP's can't get internet right in Manhattan they don't deserve to exist. Hello! It's 2011. Every address on the island should be served by a 1Gbps fiber connection.
The incumbents + government have failed. I welcome Google into the ISP business with open arms, tracking or not.
Tracking by BUSINESS, CRIMINALS, AND GOVERNMENT (none of those are mutually exclusive) is inevitable.
Instead of avoiding tracking, exploit tracking to produce results you want opponents to see. Savor the game!
Opponents, human nature being what it is, tend to be made complacent by their own systems. Understand and manipulate them thereby.
This is Slashdot. Why is there even a need to point this out?
As far as I can tell BUSINESS, CRIMINALS, and GOVERNMENT are composed of the same people. They work in one for a while then the other...lather, rinse, repeat.
This is what you fail to understand: Religious people look very stupid and somewhat insane to the non-religious. How can anyone be expected to form a serious relationship with someone they view as stupid and insane? This is not a troll or a dig but simply a statement of fact. Whether it is fair or not, that's the way non-religious people feel.
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Check out jonnyguru's reviews of the picoPSU's. Basically, they're shit. After reading them I'd never put a pico in any of my machines. Better to go with a lower wattage bronze or gold psu from a good company like seasonic. Get one with a big 120mm fan.
CPU performance of the E-350 is a real dog. I was looking forward to putting one in my home server but when I saw performance/watt numbers I went i3 instead. I got an i3-2100 + motherboard for $150 at newegg after combo and rebate. That was months ago when i3's and H61 boards were more expensive. Totally worth the extra $60 IMHO. P4 performance in 2011 is no deal even at $90 for cpu and board.
Your best option is an i3-2100T on a bare bones H61 motherboard. TDP for the i3-2100T is only 35 watts. It will run circles around Atom and AMD fusion solutions. The faster the cpu gets it's work done the faster it can get back into a low power sleep state. The i3 idles lower than Atom and every AMD chip. Put a good, large, low profile heatsink on the i3. You want one with a big, slow 120mm fan. Go with a low rpm 120mm yate loon fan for optimum quietness.
The real question is why in the world would any non-developer (and I use the term lightly) run a CPU burning, battery draining, GC requiring interpreted language on a mobile device in the first place? Python / Ruby / Perl / TCL, all of these are prototyping / utility languages. They're not designed to build low overhead / low cycle apps. I can see why developers who aren't proficient in C / C++ / Objective-C want them, but in the context of user experience, there's absolutely no net benefit to using these languages in creating apps for mobile devices.
Actually, there is. Most mobile devices are not rebooted frequently and have a relatively (to desktops) small amount of RAM. Also, many mobile apps are long running. An app might be run for weeks before being closed or before the device is rebooted. This is a recipe fore heap fragmentation. Garbage collected language runtimes don't fragment memory, or if they do they can clean it up very easily. Once a C malloc hands you a block of RAM, the OS and language runtime cannot move it around to reduce fragmentation.
I bet I could find a link on moveon or Democratic underground that proves he is a fascist.
My entire social circle (except for one guy) believes that Obama has proven himself to be a moderate republican. The other guy thinks he's a communist. It makes for many lulz.
I moved a small 4TB database from 24x 256G 15k SAS drives to 24x 240G OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 drives.
You should be fired. Seriously. OCZ is an "enthusiast" brand that has no place in industry. Intel, Seagate, Micron, and others offer ssd's that are appropriate for use in a business environment.
I think those disappearing islands would be better off digging up the top layer of dirt and raising their island with imported garbage, then cover with top soil and plants. I would think you only need 2 meters to keep their island homes above water, and the first world nations would likely cover the full cost just to be rid of the junk. Having a floating home won't do any good without a job to pay for it, you may as well move to somewhere dry.
The applicable international law(s) require that your land must be "naturally" above sea level. Once you fuck with a piece of land you cannot use it in your claims.
This is the problem:
10 There is a local shortage of guys who know technology X.
20 Companies complain that they cannot find people to work with technology X.
30 There exists a large pool of unemployed / under-employed guys who would love to work with technology X.
40 Companies say "Great! Submit a resume!"
50 Applicants find that all job requirements require 3-5 professional experience with technology X.
60 Eager and enthusiastic potential applicants sulk away in frustration.
70 GOTO 10
but the reality is that a person growing up poor, black and let's say blind is not going to have the same road to prosperity that somebody that's born black and sighted or black, sighted and rich wil.
Speaking only to the blind part, I was friends with a legally (not fully) blind dude from middle school into our 20's. When he was under 18 his parents got a few hundred bucks a month from social security. In his mid to late teens his parents allowed him to blow the majority of "The SSI Money" as he called it on the same trivial crap every other teenager spending his money on: CD's, stereo gear, computer stuff, videogames, etc. From the time he could read he got all the free books and periodicals he wanted from the library of congress. He had a dedicated teacher available to him for additional 1 on 1 instruction a few hours a week. When he turned 18 his social security money increased and became payable to him. While the rest of us were scraping by on nothing during college he had hundreds to blow every month on videogames and consumer electronics. He got special grant money to pay his college tuition bills. A year or two out of university his bills were completely paid off. When it came time to find a job he was swimming in offers.
I my opinion, he had a huge advantage over a fully sighted person.
Do you care about your fellow man who was born with less privilege than you?
For the majority of humans the answer is "no."
Citation: All of human history.
Depends on what you are running. My favorite cheap servers to play around with at home are P3-based from about 500-750 Mhz or so. Those chips only draw about 15-20W, and you can get the entire system down to about 50W or so depending on what you have in it. I know an Atom draws less power, but the P3's are basically free and don't draw that much more power meaning the payback is many years.
You may be shocked to find that a Sandy Bridge i3 on an H61 board can equal or beat the (watt) numbers you gave while completely destroying the PIII in every task. Oh, and you also get pretty damn respectable 3D acceleration too.
2kWh costs only 18 cents where I live.
My home server, built in 1999, runs at a maximum of 80W. That means it takes 2 kW (about $0.20) per day, at most. For about $500 I could build a machine that draws 20W, for a monetary savings of about $0.15 per day. In about 10 years, I could break even on what I spent on the new server, but by then, the hardware would be 10 years old again. What I have serves my purposes.
Or you could head over to Craigslist, Freecycle, or the local thrift store and get a 5-7 year old machine for $0-25 and not have to put up with hardware that's 12 years old.
because I don't feel like entirely throwing away the big old TV.
Do what I did when it was time to say goodbye to my old non-HD big screen TV. I gave it away on Craigslist. A very grateful low income family picked it up the same day I posted. No guilt about trashing it. Happy new owners. Space in your house for a new TV. Everyone wins!
How long has PCIe 2.0 been out? 4 years?
The $30-35 fanless 8400GS and GeForce 210 cards require it, but there are still lots of 5 year old motherboards used in semi-embedded systems which can't use them
And how many of those semi-embedded systems need to render 3D graphics? Does your industrial process control PC also run Quake? You do realize that 2D will still work...right?
Texas. Pious, tea bagging Red State. No gays allowed.
You've obviously never been to Austin. Check out 4th Street around 2am. You'll think you've been magically (and fabulously!) transported to The Castro in SF.
You forgot monoprice!
Am I the only person in the universe who likes gnome 3?
Nope! I love it.
I love the increased screen real estate for applications and I love the ease with which I can find and switch to windows on other virtual desktops. I typically work with eight virtual desktops, each one having multiple windows open. Gnome 3 lets me easily (and beautifully!) fly from one window to another across my different virtual desktops.
I love that all of my windows render faster. Compared to Gnome 2, Gnome 3 flies and every frame is picture perfect. No flickering. No tearing. I used to have video tearing in mplayer. Under Gnome 2 and the latest Xorg it's completely gone.
I also love how easy and fast it is to write Gnome 3 extensions that can change and manipulate literally anything in the Gnome 3 interface. Extensions use the same language and api that Gnome 3 is written in so user extensions are truly first class Gnome 3 code. Everything is html+css+javascript. Bang out some code, drop it in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/, hit alt-f2, type 'r', hit return. My extension is loaded and run without compiling, building packages, or even having to log out. There's even an REPL built in! You can try out Gnome 3 code snippets ala Lisp, Python, Ruby...
I don't understand the massive hate towards Gnome 3. The only things I can think of are: 1) Some people don't like change of any kind no matter how positive. 2) Some people have a strange bigotry against html, css, and javascript, viewing them as inferior "web only" technologies.
I think he meant $500 for everything. A quick visit to Newegg will show you that you can build a reasonably fast PC for $300:
$50 - motherboard
$30 - 4gb ddr3 ram
$80 - budget dual core processor that outperforms multicore arm chips by a mile
$60 - 1tb disk
$40 - case
$40 - power supply
Total: $300
That leaves $200 for monitor, mouse, and keyboard. You can get a good 21" LCD such as the Dell E2011H for $99. The remaining $100 buys a nice keyboard + mouse combo.
If you live near a Fry's or Microcenter you can get the motherboard for free. They have cpu with a free motherboard deals all the time.
The best part is that the case, power supply, and disk can be reused for about five years as you drop in new motherboard + cpu combos. DDR4 is projected to have only %50 uptake by 2015 so you have a number of years ahead when you can reuse your DDR3 sticks with upgraded cpu + mainboard as well.
Building a PC these days is cheeeeeap.
How many $500 tablets will the tablet guy burn through in that same timeframe? My guess is at least two. I don't see a long life ahead for a thin, delicate electronic device that's toted everywhere.
Java the language is dead to me. I could care less. What I do care about are JVM improvements that speed execution of the alternate JVM based languages: Scala, Rhino, jRuby, Clojure, Groovy, and to a much lesser degree Jython. The alternate languages are where all the action will be over the next ten years.
If you're a Java-only guy and haven't looked at Scala, run don't walk! You will love it, especially if you've played with any of the functional languages at Uni or on your own time.
I can only hope that someone will do a JVM Haskell and that the OCaml-Java project will mature into a stable platform.
I'm perfectly happy with my 25mbit/25mbit connection.
25/25 connection... Lucky you! Sadly, the overwhelming majority of us are not so lucky.
I have friend in Manhattan (NYC) whose only internet option is cable. He has a great speed on paper but he never sees it in real life. Packet loss is consistently high and the service goes down completely for a few minutes multiple time a week. In fucking Manhattan! If the US ISP's can't get internet right in Manhattan they don't deserve to exist. Hello! It's 2011. Every address on the island should be served by a 1Gbps fiber connection.
The incumbents + government have failed. I welcome Google into the ISP business with open arms, tracking or not.
Tracking by BUSINESS, CRIMINALS, AND GOVERNMENT (none of those are mutually exclusive) is inevitable.
Instead of avoiding tracking, exploit tracking to produce results you want opponents to see. Savor the game!
Opponents, human nature being what it is, tend to be made complacent by their own systems. Understand and manipulate them thereby.
This is Slashdot. Why is there even a need to point this out?
As far as I can tell BUSINESS, CRIMINALS, and GOVERNMENT are composed of the same people. They work in one for a while then the other...lather, rinse, repeat.
This is what you fail to understand: Religious people look very stupid and somewhat insane to the non-religious. How can anyone be expected to form a serious relationship with someone they view as stupid and insane? This is not a troll or a dig but simply a statement of fact. Whether it is fair or not, that's the way non-religious people feel.
Bye, bye karma!
Agreed. Some people have Sinophobia. China this, China that everyday. A 3TB drive is only $100. We should be happy.
Where the hell are you guys buying 3TB disks for $100???