Who says it's only about work? I do things like this for a hobby, and I'm not going to waste money by buying YET another system when it's not necessary. Besides, the 8+ core Xeons tend to sacrifice clockspeed instead, making them less useful for when you need the single-threaded performance for some tasks.
As for the link, keep in mind, that's the energy just for a single still image. Multiply for every frame in an animation as necessary, and you can see where the savings pile up.
I did a crapton of 3D rendering and such back then, and AMD K6's were basically dead in the water as far as anyone doing it on a hobby level beyond mere dabbling or professionally was concerned, especially when you also had the issues with AMD's AGP support(which persisted even partially into late K7 revisions).
Ewwww, I remember K6. While not as horrible as the K5, if you did anything other than integer work, it was a pile of junk. K7 otoh was overall great(Barton revision was fantastic), with some fails(Thoroughbred revisions for example...), and K8 was fantastic for a while.
I own Sandy Bridge systems too, and there are some reasons why I am seriously looking at upgrading. A noticeable performance increase, with quite a bit of power saving is always nice. A swedish hardware site has taken up another metric for it, by calculating the amount of joules used in total to render the scene Island in Blender at a set resolution and quality level, minus the rounded off idle energy use by the 980 Ti used in their tests. All results in joule, lower is better:
Shouldn't be too hard to track down the cheapskates who decided to cut down on spending on warm water.
My grandmother had a problem a few years ago, when the "warm" water she got was barely 42C.... So I had to phone around, and after a day of arguing with the landlord, I finally called down the water utility inspector, the municipal health inspector and a medical health inspector from the Elderly Care board on their asses.
A relevant quote from a certain well-decorated US Marine Corps officer:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902â"1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
I don't know of a single ISP in Sweden that does that kind of caching. The only broadly similar thing I know of is ComHem with their NetFlix agreement, and in their case it's essentially stream relaying/reflection and not a fully local(to the ISP) cache.
A file download and upload can certainly be a priority task, like for example sending my father a clip of something at the same time I'm talking to him about what I've filmed, for example.
But it's also a convenience thing: As it is now, we can now decide on a movie we want to watch and then go and make tea, and when we get back, it's ready to watch, while with your approach, we'd have to schedule it hours or days ahead, which is just head-up-your-ass retarded.
Also, capacity reduces the time it takes to install games, or get patches, which is where some of the congestion comes from, especially games that use bittorrent, other things is stuff like manually triggered syncing of devices, such as my oldest kid sync'ing her school tablet with the school server to get some material for her homework, including video or sound clips.
You can claim wisdom all you want, but all you come across as is a miser who sees no value in anything other than your priorities.
I'm at 100Mbit/s nominal(110 down 105 up actual), and for my family, sometimes we actually congest it badly, especially now that the kids are getting older.
The ability to download a game at 80Mbit/s while there are 4 different HD streams going etc is a boon, for example. Or being able to send friends, family or work large files without needing an hour.
A friend of mine consistently gets high speeds both up and down on his 1gbit/s down/500Mbit/s up residential connection, here in Stockholm. He frequently does SCP/SFTP transfers to and from clients where he gets 900Mbit/s+ down and 480Mbit/s up, even during primetime. So it all depends on where you are, your ISP etc, and not generalize that just because ComCast and other US ISP's do something, the rest of the world is the same.
I found that Numion did not realistically measure my connection. In fact, when I do manual tests of my own, I easily reach 110Mbit/s on actual transfers(downloaded a game from GOG for example), at 15:09 Swedish time on a saturday, on a nominally 100Mbit/s connection. Upload, I get 105Mbit/s. However, running the Numion tests, it claims I only get 1Mbit/s.
And then the family must have constructed a very watertight background, all the way down to age 2. In reality, as opposed to your simple thoughts, those stories end up with all kinds of discrepancies. Point in case, one of the players talked about in this story was busted several years ago, precisely because of all the inconsistencies. He tried to fake a lot of symptoms etc on stream. Yet when he took his Adderall, he was displaying symptoms to the medicine utterly inconsistent with what someone with ADD or ADHD would get. In fact, he got, on stream, symptoms that someone without ADD or ADHD would get from Adderall or amphetamine.
ADD/ADHD does not mean that you become inattentive at everything. One of the things with ADD/ADHD is that if something DOES catch your attention, you can do it for hours on end, particularly if it stimulates the brain. It's the mundane routine stuff that tends to be discarded, like household chores etc.
In my personal experience, Strattera interferes with my ability to perform in some sports, while it helps with my daily life, such as doing household chores.
Once again, that's a standard situation that students are taught as a matter of basic instruction. The impulse control, memory etc are things that no matter of hard conviction can affect. Also, as I mentioned, there's the interview with family etc, including childhood behaviour etc.
Also, broad spectrum screening is standard in serious testing.
"Again, those tests give the same results for ADD and stress. If you weren't diagnosed with ADD/ADHD when you were 6, as an adult is an "undiagnosable" condition."
And you are wrong on both counts, once again. Some types of stress have some symptoms that overlap with ADD(far less for ADHD). However, with the battery of tests I mentioned, as well as blood tests etc, you get completely different aggregate profiles. Also, various neurological disorders can appear or disappear with major metabolism changes associated with age, and if you couple that with an unhealthy living style, of course the risks are increased.
Also, EEG has been used for decades, and CAT or similar scans have been used for the really difficult cases for at least a decade, so you are not as up-to-date as you like to believe.
Unless you belong to a group that is less than a percent of the population, catching someone pretending is pretty easy for a serious tester, since a serious test battery includes memory, reaction and impulse control tests for example, interviews with family, blood tests etc. Here in Sweden, EEG etc are slowly getting used for testing too.
Now, if you just go to an average US clinic, on the other hand, yeah, then it gets easier, since they earn more the more patients they prescribe to etc, but that's a completely different issue altogether than what you alluded to.
Actually, there are a whole lot of tests other than just the questionnaire, when performed by serious testers: Impulse control tests, memory tests, reaction tests etc etc.
Gamers who have actual ADD/ADHD would benefit from not taking meds when competing in games like these, since these games are heavily dependant on fast reflexes, and those with ADD/ADHD have their reaction/impulsiveness slowed down as one of the effects of these meds due to the different neurochemistry, while those who don't have ADD/ADHD benefit from taking these substances, because they react faster/become more impulsive(and more aggressive)
Gah, thanks for reminding me... My father being a train buff, and his father working on the railroad for 45 years, I should have remembered to bring that up.
Such techniques are used in live environments today, such as factories, oil platforms etc. In fact, I'd be surprised if SpaceX DIDN'T have at least 6+ microphones or other vibration sensors relaying telemetry, and baselines from previous launches to compare with. With that baseline, you can tell if it happens to be a turbopump that malfunctions. Hell, if a strut or something would break in my brothers boat, we hear it immediately, because the overall vibration and thus overall boat noise will be altered.
Also, they clearly have decent bandwidth to the rocket during launch, given that they can have video feeds etc, and you can easily get multiple audio telemetry feeds to take less bandwidth than even a low-res video feed.
Using sound to probe structures, materials and devices is a pretty ancient technique, it's just advanced with the tools available. Stonemasons used to check blocks of stone to locate faults by tapping on them and listening for sounds that would indicate cracks or other faults. One of my grandfathers tried to teach me how to listen for potential rot zones in wooden walls when I was a kid also. Now, with modern tools, we can just do it much faster, and with more precision.
The Super Tucano for example. A modernized Bronco would also have been useful.
You would not have the 30mm penis extender, true, but instead you get a lower stall-speed, better combat radius, each plane is cheaper to build, own and run, less noisy, FAR better avionics, simpler maintenance, requiring fewer service hours, and the pilot has better visibility.
The lower stall speed is important because that allows you to target and lay down fire more accurately, the improved visibility for the pilot lets you pick out targets more easily and reduce the risk of friendly fire etc.
But for every situation where the A-10 has done "well", there have been cheaper, more easily maintained options, with better time-on-station. Also, with better night operations capabilities etc. In a situation like Syria, the A-10 would have been outmatched, and the syrian conflict hasn't exactly involved state-of-the-art anti-air assets.
Most of the love for the A-10 is just wanking over the gun, and that just gets in the way of reasonable decisions.
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Who says it's only about work? I do things like this for a hobby, and I'm not going to waste money by buying YET another system when it's not necessary. Besides, the 8+ core Xeons tend to sacrifice clockspeed instead, making them less useful for when you need the single-threaded performance for some tasks.
As for the link, keep in mind, that's the energy just for a single still image. Multiply for every frame in an animation as necessary, and you can see where the savings pile up.
I did a crapton of 3D rendering and such back then, and AMD K6's were basically dead in the water as far as anyone doing it on a hobby level beyond mere dabbling or professionally was concerned, especially when you also had the issues with AMD's AGP support(which persisted even partially into late K7 revisions).
Ewwww, I remember K6. While not as horrible as the K5, if you did anything other than integer work, it was a pile of junk. K7 otoh was overall great(Barton revision was fantastic), with some fails(Thoroughbred revisions for example...), and K8 was fantastic for a while.
I own Sandy Bridge systems too, and there are some reasons why I am seriously looking at upgrading. A noticeable performance increase, with quite a bit of power saving is always nice. A swedish hardware site has taken up another metric for it, by calculating the amount of joules used in total to render the scene Island in Blender at a set resolution and quality level, minus the rounded off idle energy use by the 980 Ti used in their tests. All results in joule, lower is better:
http://cdn.sweclockers.com/art...
Shouldn't be too hard to track down the cheapskates who decided to cut down on spending on warm water.
My grandmother had a problem a few years ago, when the "warm" water she got was barely 42C.... So I had to phone around, and after a day of arguing with the landlord, I finally called down the water utility inspector, the municipal health inspector and a medical health inspector from the Elderly Care board on their asses.
A relevant quote from a certain well-decorated US Marine Corps officer:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902â"1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
I don't know of a single ISP in Sweden that does that kind of caching. The only broadly similar thing I know of is ComHem with their NetFlix agreement, and in their case it's essentially stream relaying/reflection and not a fully local(to the ISP) cache.
He's not just talking about traffic shaping. He's also talking about personal priorities and behavioural patterns.
A file download and upload can certainly be a priority task, like for example sending my father a clip of something at the same time I'm talking to him about what I've filmed, for example.
But it's also a convenience thing: As it is now, we can now decide on a movie we want to watch and then go and make tea, and when we get back, it's ready to watch, while with your approach, we'd have to schedule it hours or days ahead, which is just head-up-your-ass retarded.
Also, capacity reduces the time it takes to install games, or get patches, which is where some of the congestion comes from, especially games that use bittorrent, other things is stuff like manually triggered syncing of devices, such as my oldest kid sync'ing her school tablet with the school server to get some material for her homework, including video or sound clips.
You can claim wisdom all you want, but all you come across as is a miser who sees no value in anything other than your priorities.
I'm at 100Mbit/s nominal(110 down 105 up actual), and for my family, sometimes we actually congest it badly, especially now that the kids are getting older.
The ability to download a game at 80Mbit/s while there are 4 different HD streams going etc is a boon, for example. Or being able to send friends, family or work large files without needing an hour.
A friend of mine consistently gets high speeds both up and down on his 1gbit/s down/500Mbit/s up residential connection, here in Stockholm. He frequently does SCP/SFTP transfers to and from clients where he gets 900Mbit/s+ down and 480Mbit/s up, even during primetime. So it all depends on where you are, your ISP etc, and not generalize that just because ComCast and other US ISP's do something, the rest of the world is the same.
I found that Numion did not realistically measure my connection. In fact, when I do manual tests of my own, I easily reach 110Mbit/s on actual transfers(downloaded a game from GOG for example), at 15:09 Swedish time on a saturday, on a nominally 100Mbit/s connection. Upload, I get 105Mbit/s. However, running the Numion tests, it claims I only get 1Mbit/s.
And then the family must have constructed a very watertight background, all the way down to age 2. In reality, as opposed to your simple thoughts, those stories end up with all kinds of discrepancies. Point in case, one of the players talked about in this story was busted several years ago, precisely because of all the inconsistencies. He tried to fake a lot of symptoms etc on stream. Yet when he took his Adderall, he was displaying symptoms to the medicine utterly inconsistent with what someone with ADD or ADHD would get. In fact, he got, on stream, symptoms that someone without ADD or ADHD would get from Adderall or amphetamine.
ADD/ADHD does not mean that you become inattentive at everything. One of the things with ADD/ADHD is that if something DOES catch your attention, you can do it for hours on end, particularly if it stimulates the brain. It's the mundane routine stuff that tends to be discarded, like household chores etc.
In my personal experience, Strattera interferes with my ability to perform in some sports, while it helps with my daily life, such as doing household chores.
Once again, that's a standard situation that students are taught as a matter of basic instruction. The impulse control, memory etc are things that no matter of hard conviction can affect. Also, as I mentioned, there's the interview with family etc, including childhood behaviour etc.
Also, broad spectrum screening is standard in serious testing.
"Again, those tests give the same results for ADD and stress. If you weren't diagnosed with ADD/ADHD when you were 6, as an adult is an "undiagnosable" condition."
And you are wrong on both counts, once again. Some types of stress have some symptoms that overlap with ADD(far less for ADHD). However, with the battery of tests I mentioned, as well as blood tests etc, you get completely different aggregate profiles. Also, various neurological disorders can appear or disappear with major metabolism changes associated with age, and if you couple that with an unhealthy living style, of course the risks are increased.
Also, EEG has been used for decades, and CAT or similar scans have been used for the really difficult cases for at least a decade, so you are not as up-to-date as you like to believe.
Unless you belong to a group that is less than a percent of the population, catching someone pretending is pretty easy for a serious tester, since a serious test battery includes memory, reaction and impulse control tests for example, interviews with family, blood tests etc. Here in Sweden, EEG etc are slowly getting used for testing too.
Now, if you just go to an average US clinic, on the other hand, yeah, then it gets easier, since they earn more the more patients they prescribe to etc, but that's a completely different issue altogether than what you alluded to.
Actually, there are a whole lot of tests other than just the questionnaire, when performed by serious testers: Impulse control tests, memory tests, reaction tests etc etc.
Gamers who have actual ADD/ADHD would benefit from not taking meds when competing in games like these, since these games are heavily dependant on fast reflexes, and those with ADD/ADHD have their reaction/impulsiveness slowed down as one of the effects of these meds due to the different neurochemistry, while those who don't have ADD/ADHD benefit from taking these substances, because they react faster/become more impulsive(and more aggressive)
Gah, thanks for reminding me... My father being a train buff, and his father working on the railroad for 45 years, I should have remembered to bring that up.
Such techniques are used in live environments today, such as factories, oil platforms etc. In fact, I'd be surprised if SpaceX DIDN'T have at least 6+ microphones or other vibration sensors relaying telemetry, and baselines from previous launches to compare with. With that baseline, you can tell if it happens to be a turbopump that malfunctions. Hell, if a strut or something would break in my brothers boat, we hear it immediately, because the overall vibration and thus overall boat noise will be altered.
Also, they clearly have decent bandwidth to the rocket during launch, given that they can have video feeds etc, and you can easily get multiple audio telemetry feeds to take less bandwidth than even a low-res video feed.
Using sound to probe structures, materials and devices is a pretty ancient technique, it's just advanced with the tools available. Stonemasons used to check blocks of stone to locate faults by tapping on them and listening for sounds that would indicate cracks or other faults. One of my grandfathers tried to teach me how to listen for potential rot zones in wooden walls when I was a kid also. Now, with modern tools, we can just do it much faster, and with more precision.
The Super Tucano for example. A modernized Bronco would also have been useful.
You would not have the 30mm penis extender, true, but instead you get a lower stall-speed, better combat radius, each plane is cheaper to build, own and run, less noisy, FAR better avionics, simpler maintenance, requiring fewer service hours, and the pilot has better visibility.
The lower stall speed is important because that allows you to target and lay down fire more accurately, the improved visibility for the pilot lets you pick out targets more easily and reduce the risk of friendly fire etc.
If an airspace is contested enough to keep the AC-130's out, it's contested enough to keep the A-10's out.
Any AA from the 80's or later will kill them easily.
But for every situation where the A-10 has done "well", there have been cheaper, more easily maintained options, with better time-on-station. Also, with better night operations capabilities etc. In a situation like Syria, the A-10 would have been outmatched, and the syrian conflict hasn't exactly involved state-of-the-art anti-air assets.
Most of the love for the A-10 is just wanking over the gun, and that just gets in the way of reasonable decisions.