no, I did not mean the power consumption of the cooling, I meant the ratio of waste heat vs the actual computation. Theoretically computation uses almost no power (just the difference in having the bits moved from one state to the other in the FINAL result), most of the energy that goes into a computing device is disposed of as heat...
It would be *way* better to have a system that does not use such enormous amounts of power in the first place, the computations take up almost no power at all, the rest is heat !
I run www.camarades.com, a large (very large) webcam community. Since a little while we are part of the European Imode network. We supply a 'return' path of webcam content to the cellphones, however there are no 'Imode' handsets with cameras in them available yet... It does allow for all kinds of nice applications, such as keeping an eye on your kid through your phone while you're visiting the neighbours.
This kind of software if it would escape the lab (and the past has proven more than enough that anything that can escape will escape, remember those missing harddrives) combined with the pc's that you can buy at fry's in a few years time will allow any rogue nation to design their own without wisening anybody else because they no longer have to test their stuff in order to reach a high level of confidence that it will work in practice. Now at least we KNOW that Pakistan and India have the bomb (they probably wanted us to know, but there are some that do not want you to know until they hit you).
Every worm has a payload, you can make a signature of the payload packets, then you could instruct several backbone routers to drop packets that match that signature. This would move the response to virii from the end user to the maintainers of the backbone, and it would slow down the propagation of a worm or virus once detected.
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no, I did not mean the power consumption of the
cooling, I meant the ratio of waste heat vs
the actual computation. Theoretically computation
uses almost no power (just the difference in
having the bits moved from one state to the other
in the FINAL result), most of the energy that goes
into a computing device is disposed of as heat...
It would be *way* better to have a system that does
not use such enormous amounts of power in the
first place, the computations take up almost
no power at all, the rest is heat !
war on terrorism: mission nail Osama failed...
let's go for an easier target so people will forget
hmm.... Iraq ?
I run www.camarades.com, a large (very large) webcam community. Since a little while we are part of the
European Imode network. We supply a 'return' path of webcam content to the cellphones, however there
are no 'Imode' handsets with cameras in them available yet... It does allow for all kinds of
nice applications, such as keeping an eye on your
kid through your phone while you're visiting the neighbours.
http://www.snopes2.com/religion/jesusday.htm
old probably... pathetic ? no, don't think so :)
:)
Actually, we found a way to access the 2nd 32k
of ram too
Canadian eh ? Canadian wannabe on this end
hm, errr speed up your TRS80 COCO or Dragon by a factor of two by telling the memory controller to clock twice as fast ???
This kind of software if it would escape the lab (and the past has proven more than enough that anything that can escape will escape, remember those missing harddrives) combined with the pc's that you can buy at fry's in a few years time will allow any rogue nation to design their own without wisening anybody else because they no longer have to test their stuff in order to reach a high level of confidence that it will work in practice. Now at least we KNOW that Pakistan and India have the bomb (they probably wanted us to know, but there are some that do not want you to know until they hit you).
Every worm has a payload, you can make a signature
:)
of the payload packets, then you could instruct
several backbone routers to drop packets that
match that signature. This would move the response to virii from the end user to the
maintainers of the backbone, and it would slow
down the propagation of a worm or virus once
detected.
Of course such a system could also be hacked
at www.clustercompute.com I thought I had the previous highest density record... not any more :)