The answer there is to have a distributed client. Set up a server or three to dole out portions of that space to Xboxen that have been moded and let a few hundred (or maybe even thousand) DDoS XBox Live.
So who's to say that all those autonomous functions aren't equivalent to multiplying a billion numbers in a second?
Just because it happens in an electro-chemical computational device instead of a purely electronic computational device, the number of chemical reactions required to fire all those neurons, recall memory, recognize phonetic structure, understand visuo-spatial organization, maintain proper breathing, heart rate, balance, and body temperature, fight infection, filter out the gazillion unimportant stimuli constantly received by every sense, subconsciously check proprioceptive senses (so you know where your foot is even when you can't see it), and on and on and on...IMO all that *OUTPERFORMS* a billion MUL instructions per second by a long shot.
And while I'm no expert, I know of NO evidence to prove those chemical reactions AREN'T genetic MUL instructions.
Heat does indeed tend to rise. But tell me, when designing this card, how can nVidia know which way is up? In a tower, the card will be mounted horizontally. In a desktop, vertically. I don't think they can necessarily count on up being where they think it is in the end-user's system. I'd hope their engineers are smart enough to think this through.
While I agree that working within the confines of a contained system is easier, they must know putting this card into any number of differently designed systems does not qualify as a contained system.
The card in their lab may work better this way, but they're relying on outside factors anyway. (Ambient room temp, clearance behind the PC, how much heat the CPU,HDD,PS, et. al. are generating, etc.)
I'm not so sure about that cooling system. Why put the intake right next to the output? Seems to me like it'll just be sucking that hot air right back in.
I'd think it would make more sense to use air inside the case and blow it out the back. With a grill/fan on the front of the PC, you're helping to improve the overall air-flow inside the system instead of just recycling your heat-wash.
Phase 1: A group of friends get together and develop a method to scour this service d/l-ing mp3 after mp3. Phase 2: Dump all d/l-ed files into a folder shared by eDonkey/KaZaA/etc. Phase 3: NO Profit
I can tell you've never been on the other end of this. When you run an IS organization for a large enterprise, you'd better not allow users to install software on their PCs.
Now, developers could be in a slightly different ruleset. There's no reason they cannot get a "fast-track" approval for software. Or perhaps what's best for them, being developers, is to be cordoned off into their own, isolated, little section of the LAN where they can install any damn thing they want with impunity so they can do their development and testing...BUT, they must know that those machines can and will be reset to IS approved configurations if necessary and anything lost because it was held locally is the developer's fault.
And not only that, but the policy would require those machines as being unsupported by the general IS infrastructure. The developers would have to support them themselves or a specific team would have to be dedicated as "lab" support.
I used to be a developer for a government agency and I wasn't allowed to move my PC. I could move the mouse and the keyboard a little...but that's it.
A lot of large organizations (gov't, hospitals, etc.) work like this. It may be a PITA for you as a developer, but it is manageable...and having an open policy, allowing anyone to install software on their PC is NOT manageable on a large scale.
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The answer there is to have a distributed client. Set up a server or three to dole out portions of that space to Xboxen that have been moded and let a few hundred (or maybe even thousand) DDoS XBox Live.
Sort of a fsck-msft-xbox-live@Home dealio...
What...Goatse Linucx?
So who's to say that all those autonomous functions aren't equivalent to multiplying a billion numbers in a second?
Just because it happens in an electro-chemical computational device instead of a purely electronic computational device, the number of chemical reactions required to fire all those neurons, recall memory, recognize phonetic structure, understand visuo-spatial organization, maintain proper breathing, heart rate, balance, and body temperature, fight infection, filter out the gazillion unimportant stimuli constantly received by every sense, subconsciously check proprioceptive senses (so you know where your foot is even when you can't see it), and on and on and on...IMO all that *OUTPERFORMS* a billion MUL instructions per second by a long shot.
And while I'm no expert, I know of NO evidence to prove those chemical reactions AREN'T genetic MUL instructions.
Cool. Then I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.
Heat does indeed tend to rise. But tell me, when designing this card, how can nVidia know which way is up? In a tower, the card will be mounted horizontally. In a desktop, vertically. I don't think they can necessarily count on up being where they think it is in the end-user's system. I'd hope their engineers are smart enough to think this through.
While I agree that working within the confines of a contained system is easier, they must know putting this card into any number of differently designed systems does not qualify as a contained system.
The card in their lab may work better this way, but they're relying on outside factors anyway. (Ambient room temp, clearance behind the PC, how much heat the CPU,HDD,PS, et. al. are generating, etc.)
I'm not so sure about that cooling system. Why put the intake right next to the output? Seems to me like it'll just be sucking that hot air right back in.
I'd think it would make more sense to use air inside the case and blow it out the back. With a grill/fan on the front of the PC, you're helping to improve the overall air-flow inside the system instead of just recycling your heat-wash.
No, but interestingly enough, it refuses to record Pearl Jam concerts...
palpatable (n.) - worthy of a pat on the back by a friend
Play on words...I meant both.
Yeah, I can see it now: goatse.kids.cx
Problem with this business model as I see it...
Phase 1: A group of friends get together and develop a method to scour this service d/l-ing mp3 after mp3.
Phase 2: Dump all d/l-ed files into a folder shared by eDonkey/KaZaA/etc.
Phase 3: NO Profit
Perhaps he can't find it because he's still looking for it on napster.
I can tell you've never been on the other end of this. When you run an IS organization for a large enterprise, you'd better not allow users to install software on their PCs.
Now, developers could be in a slightly different ruleset. There's no reason they cannot get a "fast-track" approval for software. Or perhaps what's best for them, being developers, is to be cordoned off into their own, isolated, little section of the LAN where they can install any damn thing they want with impunity so they can do their development and testing...BUT, they must know that those machines can and will be reset to IS approved configurations if necessary and anything lost because it was held locally is the developer's fault.
And not only that, but the policy would require those machines as being unsupported by the general IS infrastructure. The developers would have to support them themselves or a specific team would have to be dedicated as "lab" support.
I used to be a developer for a government agency and I wasn't allowed to move my PC. I could move the mouse and the keyboard a little...but that's it.
A lot of large organizations (gov't, hospitals, etc.) work like this. It may be a PITA for you as a developer, but it is manageable...and having an open policy, allowing anyone to install software on their PC is NOT manageable on a large scale.