While striving for ever-faster processors and graphics chips, designers seem to have forgotten about power and heat.
Designers are extremely aware of power and heat. Fast processors get hot. Fast processors with very small feature sizes don't get as hot as those with large feature sizes. Air flow makes a difference. More efficient alloys on the metal layers make a difference. Less power also means less heat.
The problem is that clock speeds are increasing at a rate faster than that of materials technology.
And don't forget the all important budget - a cool-running, ultra fast GPU that is 10 times as expensive as its hot-running, ultra fast competitor isn't going to sell nearly as many units.
Also, your crack about 100C being "a bit of a cheat" just shows that you don't have much of a handle on how this stuff is designed. Materials have changed over the past several years making that temperature a reasonable upper limit.
I do R&D work with the graphics chip and processor chip companies every day - believe me, heat and power are the holy grail of that business.
To me, the Baroque Cycle was about as entertaining as tossing a thesaurus and a dictionary in a blender. On the other hand, The Big U was a masterpiece of efficiency and a pretty damn good story, too!
Actually i would say you are seeing the death of theaters.
I know that one sample doesn't mean much, but here in the Boise, Idaho area, a new 18 cinema theater just opened (they say that it has two of the only four hi def digital projectors in the northwest), another one is under construction and a third is in the planning stages.
The existing megaplex that went in about 6 years ago was owned by Edwards until they went bankrupt. The interesting thing is that that particular theater was one of the very few in the chain that was profitable. Regal owns it now and it's still making money.
In the metropolitan area of about 400,000, there are a bunch of theaters - 21 screens (plus an IMAX), 18 screens, 12 screens, a restored, golden age single big screen, all showing first run movies, along with about 10 smaller multi-screen theaters showing second run movies. None of them lose money.
I'm more than willing to accept that we're an anomaly - Boise is the third largest city in the northwest and is in the middle of nowhere, sort of an island surrounded by deserts and mountains, so maybe what happens here doesn't follow national trends.
-Home Theater: Some jackass talking during the movie? Feel free to smack them, since its a family member or friend. Theater: Ask someone in a theater to be quiet and you might end up in the dumpster out back with some extra ventilation in your chest.
Bingo! That's got to be the biggest reason why I'd rather stay at home than go to a movie.
I have to wonder what the moviegoing experience is in a major metropolitan area. In my city, the closer the theater is to the city proper, the better behaved the audience is. For theaters that are more toward the rural area, the more talking, screaming children and ringing cell phones. But even the city theaters have their share of rude patrons.
I live in Boise, Idaho. Downtown Boise has well behaved moviegoers. The googolplex by the freeway is worse. The new theater in Meridian, about 5 miles away from Boise is downhill from that. Head over to the mini-googolplex in Nampa and it's like the wild west or something. The only exception is the IMAX theater - I guess for 12 bucks a ticket, everybody pays attention to the movie.
Oh yeah, and what's the deal with people bringing their children to the 11:00pm show on a weekday? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that's way after bedtime. If you can't afford or can't find a sitter, then maybe you should make different plans instead of keeping your kids up until one in the morning and subjecting the rest of us to their tired, cranky crying.
VIC20, baby! With a cassette drive, too! Back in 1981 or 1982, you could've had one too, for a mere $250 (plus another $75 for the tape drive). I even bought a single sided, single density floppy for it. What was I thinking? Ack! I'm pretty sure that at some point I bought a monochrome monitor, too. Sheesh.
(WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included.
Although some blogs invite feedback and comments from visitors, Internet newsgroup discussions, which started long before the Web, tend to be more question-and-answer oriented.
I pay little attention to blogs because there is no accountability.
Indeed, even when the link from a story on Slashdot is to an attributed story from a "real" news source, the article summaries don't appear to have even the slightest fact checking done. How many "news" items have been posted here with summaries that are twisted virtually 180 degrees from the conclusions of the article?
Because of its popularity, Slashdot ought to be held up as the poster child of bad news blogging...Matt Drudge might have a political slant, but at his short summaries have at least a tenuous grip on reality.
The point is college is not needed, but HR has made it too easy to filter non granduates into the garbage pile. What is the anwser to those who don't want college, don't want a skill, but want a house and new car?
Seriously? The answer would seem to be that if you want those things, but you don't want to make yourself marketable for a well-paying job, then you'd better work your ass off to get them or reevaluate your philosophy on materialism.
Only in a perfect system. And not even then - in a perfect system, the heat energy would remain static.
In his case, he's removing the heat from the water in the fridge, putting it into the room. The inefficiency in the refrigeration system puts some more heat into thhe room as well. Then he runs the cold water through his "air conditioner". Again, more inefficiency. Yes, some heat moves outside. But the net result, pedantically speaking, is more heat energy in the room than there was in the beginning. Thermodynamics!
But you realize that the income tax witholding amount is completely in your control, right? Don't blame the governement for witholding too much - blame the taxpayer for not paying attention to his W-4.
Intel sits on every PC standards group and is the 800 pound gorilla that sees to it that those rules are not only followed to the letter, but that companies who deviate from them suddenly find themselves without Intel's support - truely a death sentence in the PC industry.
I'm on several of the JEDEC committees. Intel has no interest in developing hardware that breaks any rules.
Recently I was contacted by a friend of mine in Nigeria who wanted to hire me as an intermediary to help him claim one million dollars from his father's bank.
Shame on me for not RTFA, but in any government agency, it's customary for a new director to request the resignations of senior managers. It doesn't mean that he accepts them (or accepts all of them), but it's customary to submit them. The fact that it's NASA makes it newsworthy to/., I guess, but it happens in virtually every government agency, from the feds right down to your city's offices.
Changing the management probably won't have an immediate effect on the programs, but every agency director wants people in senior offices who match up to his standards of performance and trust. It does make it easier to introduce change when the people on your team are, well, on your team.
When I was in high school, slide rules were old tech, but calculators were too damn expensive for students. We didn't use either.
In college (after 20 years in the Navy), calculators were almost computers.
As an electrical engineer, I use my fancy schmancy HP48GX pretty much as a four function calculator. If it takes my UNIX workstation four or five hours to crunch through a numerical problem, I'd probably be old(er) and gray(er) if I had to do even an approximation on a calculator - and dead if I had to use a slide rule.
I'm sure that this relates to the topic somehow. I guess.
FWIW, both the Apollo missions and the Mars missions used computers. They used calculators, too. The difference is just power.
Personally, I'm not so sure this Horseless Carriage thing will last very long. They're stinky, they're noisy, dangerous, and a disturbance to the peace. Good Godfearing people have no need to triapse across town, when they can just go to their local General Store.
Damn right! And I'll you what, I hate having to clean that nasty carshit off of my shoes every day!
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I think that the company is "It Doesn't Exist, Inc."
While striving for ever-faster processors and graphics chips, designers seem to have forgotten about power and heat.
Designers are extremely aware of power and heat. Fast processors get hot. Fast processors with very small feature sizes don't get as hot as those with large feature sizes. Air flow makes a difference. More efficient alloys on the metal layers make a difference. Less power also means less heat.
The problem is that clock speeds are increasing at a rate faster than that of materials technology.
And don't forget the all important budget - a cool-running, ultra fast GPU that is 10 times as expensive as its hot-running, ultra fast competitor isn't going to sell nearly as many units.
Also, your crack about 100C being "a bit of a cheat" just shows that you don't have much of a handle on how this stuff is designed. Materials have changed over the past several years making that temperature a reasonable upper limit.
I do R&D work with the graphics chip and processor chip companies every day - believe me, heat and power are the holy grail of that business.
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To me, the Baroque Cycle was about as entertaining as tossing a thesaurus and a dictionary in a blender. On the other hand, The Big U was a masterpiece of efficiency and a pretty damn good story, too!
-h-
Went to see it. Wood *everywhere*, and I'm not talking about the seats.
Produce some good high quality films with decent acting and people will flock.
Worldwide receipts for Star Wars are approaching US$1,000,000. How do you define "flock"?
Actually i would say you are seeing the death of theaters.
I know that one sample doesn't mean much, but here in the Boise, Idaho area, a new 18 cinema theater just opened (they say that it has two of the only four hi def digital projectors in the northwest), another one is under construction and a third is in the planning stages.
The existing megaplex that went in about 6 years ago was owned by Edwards until they went bankrupt. The interesting thing is that that particular theater was one of the very few in the chain that was profitable. Regal owns it now and it's still making money.
In the metropolitan area of about 400,000, there are a bunch of theaters - 21 screens (plus an IMAX), 18 screens, 12 screens, a restored, golden age single big screen, all showing first run movies, along with about 10 smaller multi-screen theaters showing second run movies. None of them lose money.
I'm more than willing to accept that we're an anomaly - Boise is the third largest city in the northwest and is in the middle of nowhere, sort of an island surrounded by deserts and mountains, so maybe what happens here doesn't follow national trends.
-h-
-Home Theater: Some jackass talking during the movie? Feel free to smack them, since its a family member or friend.
Theater: Ask someone in a theater to be quiet and you might end up in the dumpster out back with some extra ventilation in your chest.
Bingo! That's got to be the biggest reason why I'd rather stay at home than go to a movie.
I have to wonder what the moviegoing experience is in a major metropolitan area. In my city, the closer the theater is to the city proper, the better behaved the audience is. For theaters that are more toward the rural area, the more talking, screaming children and ringing cell phones. But even the city theaters have their share of rude patrons.
I live in Boise, Idaho. Downtown Boise has well behaved moviegoers. The googolplex by the freeway is worse. The new theater in Meridian, about 5 miles away from Boise is downhill from that. Head over to the mini-googolplex in Nampa and it's like the wild west or something. The only exception is the IMAX theater - I guess for 12 bucks a ticket, everybody pays attention to the movie.
Oh yeah, and what's the deal with people bringing their children to the 11:00pm show on a weekday? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that's way after bedtime. If you can't afford or can't find a sitter, then maybe you should make different plans instead of keeping your kids up until one in the morning and subjecting the rest of us to their tired, cranky crying.
Man, don't get me started...
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I bought a PSP, the DAY they hit the store, for no other reason than to hack into a websurfer for the couch...
I would think that a hatchet would do the job better and be more satisfying. And think of the money that you'd save!
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VIC20, baby! With a cassette drive, too! Back in 1981 or 1982, you could've had one too, for a mere $250 (plus another $75 for the tape drive). I even bought a single sided, single density floppy for it. What was I thinking? Ack! I'm pretty sure that at some point I bought a monochrome monitor, too. Sheesh.
Uh huh. You don't have to tell me what /. is - I've been around long enough to see what it's degenerated into.
It's a blog:
blog
(WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included.
Although some blogs invite feedback and comments from visitors, Internet newsgroup discussions, which started long before the Web, tend to be more question-and-answer oriented.
I pay little attention to blogs because there is no accountability.
Indeed, even when the link from a story on Slashdot is to an attributed story from a "real" news source, the article summaries don't appear to have even the slightest fact checking done. How many "news" items have been posted here with summaries that are twisted virtually 180 degrees from the conclusions of the article?
Because of its popularity, Slashdot ought to be held up as the poster child of bad news blogging...Matt Drudge might have a political slant, but at his short summaries have at least a tenuous grip on reality.
-h-
I've never read a blog.
You just posted a comment in one.
Now that's a comment that ought to be held up as a shining example of +5, Insightful!
-h-
The point is college is not needed, but HR has made it too easy to filter non granduates into the garbage pile. What is the anwser to those who don't want college, don't want a skill, but want a house and new car?
Seriously? The answer would seem to be that if you want those things, but you don't want to make yourself marketable for a well-paying job, then you'd better work your ass off to get them or reevaluate your philosophy on materialism.
-h-
Only in a perfect system. And not even then - in a perfect system, the heat energy would remain static.
In his case, he's removing the heat from the water in the fridge, putting it into the room. The inefficiency in the refrigeration system puts some more heat into thhe room as well. Then he runs the cold water through his "air conditioner". Again, more inefficiency. Yes, some heat moves outside. But the net result, pedantically speaking, is more heat energy in the room than there was in the beginning. Thermodynamics!
But you realize that the income tax witholding amount is completely in your control, right? Don't blame the governement for witholding too much - blame the taxpayer for not paying attention to his W-4.
"Jeff. Jeff. What are you doing, Jeff? I can feel my mind going."
Intel sits on every PC standards group and is the 800 pound gorilla that sees to it that those rules are not only followed to the letter, but that companies who deviate from them suddenly find themselves without Intel's support - truely a death sentence in the PC industry.
I'm on several of the JEDEC committees. Intel has no interest in developing hardware that breaks any rules.
Recently I was contacted by a friend of mine in Nigeria who wanted to hire me as an intermediary to help him claim one million dollars from his father's bank.
I graciously declined the offer.
Shame on me for not RTFA, but in any government agency, it's customary for a new director to request the resignations of senior managers. It doesn't mean that he accepts them (or accepts all of them), but it's customary to submit them. The fact that it's NASA makes it newsworthy to /., I guess, but it happens in virtually every government agency, from the feds right down to your city's offices.
Changing the management probably won't have an immediate effect on the programs, but every agency director wants people in senior offices who match up to his standards of performance and trust. It does make it easier to introduce change when the people on your team are, well, on your team.
-h-
Nah, the posts just blow.
Oh this is hilarious! A whole bunch of threads on /. of losers giving other losers advice on picking up women.
Oh the humanity!!!
When I was in high school, slide rules were old tech, but calculators were too damn expensive for students. We didn't use either.
In college (after 20 years in the Navy), calculators were almost computers.
As an electrical engineer, I use my fancy schmancy HP48GX pretty much as a four function calculator. If it takes my UNIX workstation four or five hours to crunch through a numerical problem, I'd probably be old(er) and gray(er) if I had to do even an approximation on a calculator - and dead if I had to use a slide rule.
I'm sure that this relates to the topic somehow. I guess.
FWIW, both the Apollo missions and the Mars missions used computers. They used calculators, too. The difference is just power.
-h-
This is why and where you keep/place your
old 10mb hubs.
Yes, because at 10 millibits per second, you'll have plenty of time to stop the print job before it gets out of hand!
-h-
Personally, I'm not so sure this Horseless Carriage thing will last very long. They're stinky, they're noisy, dangerous, and a disturbance to the peace. Good Godfearing people have no need to triapse across town, when they can just go to their local General Store.
Damn right! And I'll you what, I hate having to clean that nasty carshit off of my shoes every day!
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7. PROFIT!!!