Finance is a big user of grid technology, and also of buying in capacity like this. There are distinct peaks of requirement during the day (close of business of the different international markets) where calculation demand spikes. The rest of the day demand is limited to intra-day valuations, ad-hoc pricing etc. which is of a much lower computational volume than the big market close 're-value everything' runs.
Sun are entering this marketplace late in the game. Not only that, but the pricing of $1 per CPU hour isn't even close to competitive in the current market. There are plenty of vendors that offer grid capacity on a 'peak demand' basis for a lot less than $1 per CPU hour.
Even using mordor or middleearth or similar can give away your interests, and thus possibly who you are to someone who knows your street well
Exactly. Take, for example, the SSID "PoopyYard" which is present in my neighbourhood. The guy who lives at the back of our house owns four dogs. Any guess where this SSID is being broadcast from?
I've got an FX 5900 non-ultra 128MB. Doom3 and Half-Life 2 are both my bitch.
Really? You can run both of those titles at maximum detail settings, at 1600x1200, with 16x oversampling and 8x full-screen anti-aliasing at 60fps+ on an FX5900? I've gotta get me one of those FX5900 cards, as my 6800GT basically turns into a thermonuclear device when I try those settings.
The point is that there are plenty of people out there who DO want to run their games at the maximum possible resolutions and image quality, and quite a few of those people are willing to spend the $500 plus necessary to get the performance they desire.
We're talking about an organization that's yet to be able to produce an electronic voting machine/scheme that isn't riddled with holes. Yeah, like I'D trust them to produce secure electronic cash!
I propose that any and all spammers be subject to possible castration when caught. No infrastructure required...
Not true. We'd need a national infrastructure of 6'8" muscle-bound Gorilla-guys each equipped with two house bricks. Maybe we could count the purchase of the house bricks as a tax write-off as they'd be performing a public service...
Is that truly the full cost, or just the cost of the launch itself? I thought I read somewhere that when you factor in the cost of refurbishing and repairing the launch vehicle post-mission that the true cost was closer to $1Bn? Of course, without some extensive Googling I've got absolutely nothing concrete to support my argument with, so I'm more than happy to go with your figure:)
I'm sure a few million $ to spend on keeping hubble operational could be found.
That's the problem though. In order to keep Hubble operational they need shuttle launches which at $1Bn a pop are not exactly a minor blip on the balance sheet. Plus of course George wants to spend that money on his daring bid for re-election^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMars instead. Of course, I'll believe that when I see it.
Hell, if they turn it round to face us, they could use to to find terrorists and stick it on the war against terror budget;)
Or just sell it to Mark Burnett and watch him create the latest greatest 'reality TV' show with it.
There really is no solution for the **AAs except to build more value into what they're offering. Doing world-simultaneous openings of stinkers like Matrix Revolutions in the hope of ripping of consumers doesn't cut it any more than re-releasing the same song in yet another different format/compilaton/variant.
First of all, this is not a "one-speaker" solution at all - it is several speakers in one box.
The unit producing the 'surround sound' effect is absolutely a one-speaker solution. The units that produce the sound are called drivers. A speaker is an enclosure which holds one or more drivers.
Of course, if you count the sub-woofer too then this is a two-speaker setup;-)
When I lived in the U.K. I was hit by one of these 'fscking idiots.' He had no road tax, no M.O.T. and no insurance. He was taken to court and had his license suspended again.
Even if this moronic scheme WERE introduced, I suspect that a good number of the 'fscking idiots' really wouldn't give a fsck!
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Finance is a big user of grid technology, and also of buying in capacity like this. There are distinct peaks of requirement during the day (close of business of the different international markets) where calculation demand spikes. The rest of the day demand is limited to intra-day valuations, ad-hoc pricing etc. which is of a much lower computational volume than the big market close 're-value everything' runs.
Sun are entering this marketplace late in the game. Not only that, but the pricing of $1 per CPU hour isn't even close to competitive in the current market. There are plenty of vendors that offer grid capacity on a 'peak demand' basis for a lot less than $1 per CPU hour.
My biggest complaints about using a PC is the soyware/adware
Damn those hippies and their meat-free code! Next think you know we'll have tofiruses and myco-soft.
Even using mordor or middleearth or similar can give away your interests, and thus possibly who you are to someone who knows your street well
Exactly. Take, for example, the SSID "PoopyYard" which is present in my neighbourhood. The guy who lives at the back of our house owns four dogs. Any guess where this SSID is being broadcast from?
I kid you not.
I've got an FX 5900 non-ultra 128MB. Doom3 and Half-Life 2 are both my bitch.
Really? You can run both of those titles at maximum detail settings, at 1600x1200, with 16x oversampling and 8x full-screen anti-aliasing at 60fps+ on an FX5900? I've gotta get me one of those FX5900 cards, as my 6800GT basically turns into a thermonuclear device when I try those settings.
The point is that there are plenty of people out there who DO want to run their games at the maximum possible resolutions and image quality, and quite a few of those people are willing to spend the $500 plus necessary to get the performance they desire.
...will this become SwarmPorning or PornStreaming do you think?
It's his TITLE, not his first name! It's how you address judges in the U.K. "Mr. Justice insert family name here"
Apparently one of the other test pilots got to put his moms ashes on this flight. Creepy.
It was Burt Rutan's mothers ashes.
Maybe it was "I am knot a Physicist" and had an implicit IANAEM postpended to it (I am not an English Major)
Photovoltaics would be more expensive (20K UKP expensive).......at night the grid would actually have to pay us!
I'm no physicist, but I think I may have found a flaw in your reasoning.
Why can't Mandrake-the-Linux-company claim that they're named after the root long thought of as magical by certain cultures?
The Linux distro that shrieks when you try to uninstall it.
We're talking about an organization that's yet to be able to produce an electronic voting machine/scheme that isn't riddled with holes. Yeah, like I'D trust them to produce secure electronic cash!
I propose that any and all spammers be subject to possible castration when caught. No infrastructure required...
Not true. We'd need a national infrastructure of 6'8" muscle-bound Gorilla-guys each equipped with two house bricks. Maybe we could count the purchase of the house bricks as a tax write-off as they'd be performing a public service...
Since Bush's State of the Union address.
Yeah, but people were using fast-forward with that one, not rewind!
Is that truly the full cost, or just the cost of the launch itself? I thought I read somewhere that when you factor in the cost of refurbishing and repairing the launch vehicle post-mission that the true cost was closer to $1Bn? Of course, without some extensive Googling I've got absolutely nothing concrete to support my argument with, so I'm more than happy to go with your figure :)
I'm sure a few million $ to spend on keeping hubble operational could be found.
;)
That's the problem though. In order to keep Hubble operational they need shuttle launches which at $1Bn a pop are not exactly a minor blip on the balance sheet. Plus of course George wants to spend that money on his daring bid for re-election^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMars instead. Of course, I'll believe that when I see it.
Hell, if they turn it round to face us, they could use to to find terrorists and stick it on the war against terror budget
Or just sell it to Mark Burnett and watch him create the latest greatest 'reality TV' show with it.
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How does it help you take your data to a secure offsite location in case of disaster?
That's what the Office of Homeland Security is for, isn't it?
Why isn't it cheaper than just buying a second hard drive and mirroring it?
I already have enough RAM thank you.
Why would anyone use this except people who still run win98?
Come on! I upgraded to Windows ME six months ago!
Even those losers could buy a cheap removable hard drive cage and an IDE raid controller, then even take the drive off site.
What's IDE?
Worst thing was, she went off and slept with his friend at the Christmas party!
I, for one, welcome our new Singleton(); overlord (sorry couldn't resist).
;-)
That should read "I, for one, welcome our Singleton.getInstance() overlord"
Sorry, couldn't resist
There really is no solution for the **AAs except to build more value into what they're offering. Doing world-simultaneous openings of stinkers like Matrix Revolutions in the hope of ripping of consumers doesn't cut it any more than re-releasing the same song in yet another different format/compilaton/variant.
The studio's beg to differ...
Right, no ice for beer on the moon, everyone off to mars... ...leaving the moon to be colonised by the British, home brewers, and real-ale enthusiasts!
Excellent! Sign me up!
First of all, this is not a "one-speaker" solution at all - it is several speakers in one box.
;-)
The unit producing the 'surround sound' effect is absolutely a one-speaker solution. The units that produce the sound are called drivers. A speaker is an enclosure which holds one or more drivers.
Of course, if you count the sub-woofer too then this is a two-speaker setup
There was NO second Highlander movie.
CLEAR?
...said exactly the same thing 16 years ago. Makes you wonder who's going to be saying it in 2019, doesn't it?
When I lived in the U.K. I was hit by one of these 'fscking idiots.' He had no road tax, no M.O.T. and no insurance. He was taken to court and had his license suspended again.
Even if this moronic scheme WERE introduced, I suspect that a good number of the 'fscking idiots' really wouldn't give a fsck!