Yeah, but most companies are run by idiots. Seriously. They think nothing of dropping $100,000 on ISO9660 consultants, $100,000 on "efficiency experts", etc, etc.
When your revenue is several tens of million a year (for a mid sized company), 100,000 looks cheap, even if it is something that could be handled a lot cheaper.
One thing I've noticed, people are resistant to change generally. But if that change comes from highly overpaid consultants, people are more willing to change the way they do things. Of course that doesn't much address the problem of stagnant employees and managers.
You are right about that. Nader is a political outcast now, the Green party won't even have him anymore. I doubt he will have much support now that he has been exposed as a fraud.
I guess the question is, will we ever be able to go back to the days when the actual computer power supply did the supplying of power, rather than having a second power supply on the motherboard?
Or are the extremely low voltages and high currents involved with modern CPUs going to always tie us to the motherboard, due to the necessary wires gauges to carry that sort of power at low voltage?
This is such a joke. It's not like the Democrats or Republicans really differ enough on important issues to matter!
Democrats: For bigger government, to help the chillins, i.e. make more handouts and create useless government charity bureaucracies. Republicans: For bigger government, to help "defend out nation", i.e. create subsidized military jobs.
Democrats: For free trade when it's convienent Republicans: Same
The list goes on. On pretty much every issue, the difference is very minor.
The opposite problem is more likely, they are handing out huge blocks of IPv6 space to people that don't need it now.
If you give each person an allocation the size of the IPv4 address space (32 bits), then we'll run out real quick. We need to give people less addresses, not more. People don't need 2 billion fucking IP addresses.
There's no other politics.slashdot.org, so there's no need for the distinction.
I don't understand why there is so much bitching and whining about this. If I read a German tech news site frequently, I wouldn't be surprised if they opened a politics section that talked only about German politics, I'd expect it!
There is a company making "Sidstations" from NOS SID chips. They are about $1000 each, and I think they are out of surplus chips, so very limited edition.
This sort of finger pointing is coming to a fever pitch.
Vendors that are selling specialized Windows systems for high end software, or with high end hardware for example. They usually have full service contracts, and they totally freak out if you modify they system on your own.
So they have their list of properly vetted MS patches that they have pre-approved, but because MS is so damn slow to fix problem in the first place, adding another 3 months to the patch deployment schedule is downright dangerous.
One such managed box we had here at work, we just had to say "fuck it" and install the MS security patches without approval, when active viruses started coming out for things we weren't yet patched for. It's getting that bad.
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Heat pumps are more than 100% efficient in these terms though.:)
Of course, they aren't really, but they appear to be since they pump heat energy in from outside, getting better than pure resistive heat efficiencies. So it's still better to spend 1 watt on your heat pump than it is on your CPU.
He was talking about engineering workstations, not LAN party boxes. When you say bleeding-edge video, it seems to imply something like an ATI 9800 or higher, when that sort of card is of little use for an engineer of any type.
I agree, the G5 have huge cooling systems. People talk about AMD running hot, but damn, I mean the new 2.5s have huge radiator blocks and water cooling. If you were to put a reasonably sized heat sink and fan on a G5, it'd probably run hotter than any AMD chip.
I don't think there's any way they could put those beasts in a laptop either. Especially if they don't want it to sound like a pulsejet.
It's easy to slide though, from "good enough", to "complex mess of inefficient crap".
An example, a major database we have at work, a legacy database with fixed fields and field lengths. It's slowly becoming less and less useful as people abuse the fields, using them for things they weren't intended for. Yes, it gets the job done, since they can query on the new, unplanned for, data, but it's digging us into a hole, since there's no data validation, no consistancy, it's making it harder and harder to migrate off this system (a job I'm currently charged with, through reimplementation into a web based system).
So sometimes, most of the time, "just getting the job" done can really destroy you in the long run, since it implies a bunch of band-aids and half-assed solutions, in place of sound engineering with foresight.
If they were to close off all those ports, they would risk all the clueless sysadmins screaming on MS forums that SP2 breaks everything, even basic windows sharing facilities.
I think the main point here is that MS has tried to appeal to people by saying that it's easy to be a sysadmin, that anyone can set up a network and run it. Real sysadmins all over the place freaked out, with good reason. They were accused of being set in their ways, etc, etc.
Now all those things that the skillful have said would happen, have happened. Rampant security problems, etc.
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have power consumption through the roof (most of it waste, of course).
Ah, always nice to see someone talk about "conservation", who doesn't even understand thermodynamics.
100% of the energy consumed in your CPU is converted to heat, not just "most of it".
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The contest really had little to do with the languages involved, since the judges never even ran the contestant's code!
The judges just ran the output from the contestant's code through a simulator.
for a variety of reasons, we've decided that Java is the future of the group
So, in other words, you bought into the hype. Have fun running your computations with an interpreted language running on an emulator.
Yes, I'm an idiot.
... meant... yeah... to do.
:)
Or you can take it as some clever joke. That I
(Of course I mean ISO 9000/9001, et al)
Yeah, but most companies are run by idiots. Seriously. They think nothing of dropping $100,000 on ISO9660 consultants, $100,000 on "efficiency experts", etc, etc.
When your revenue is several tens of million a year (for a mid sized company), 100,000 looks cheap, even if it is something that could be handled a lot cheaper.
One thing I've noticed, people are resistant to change generally. But if that change comes from highly overpaid consultants, people are more willing to change the way they do things. Of course that doesn't much address the problem of stagnant employees and managers.
You are right about that. Nader is a political outcast now, the Green party won't even have him anymore. I doubt he will have much support now that he has been exposed as a fraud.
I guess the question is, will we ever be able to go back to the days when the actual computer power supply did the supplying of power, rather than having a second power supply on the motherboard?
Or are the extremely low voltages and high currents involved with modern CPUs going to always tie us to the motherboard, due to the necessary wires gauges to carry that sort of power at low voltage?
This is such a joke. It's not like the Democrats or Republicans really differ enough on important issues to matter!
Democrats: For bigger government, to help the chillins, i.e. make more handouts and create useless government charity bureaucracies.
Republicans: For bigger government, to help "defend out nation", i.e. create subsidized military jobs.
Democrats: For free trade when it's convienent
Republicans: Same
The list goes on. On pretty much every issue, the difference is very minor.
The opposite problem is more likely, they are handing out huge blocks of IPv6 space to people that don't need it now.
If you give each person an allocation the size of the IPv4 address space (32 bits), then we'll run out real quick. We need to give people less addresses, not more. People don't need 2 billion fucking IP addresses.
It seems you haven't seen the movie then, Gay Niggers from Outer Space.
Look it up on imdb.
Yes, immune because there's no free market to drive innovation. They get their paycheck even if they suck, bad.
Holding onto a century-plus system with no regard of advances elsewhere is bound to have a huge number of flaws.
You are correct. The whole teacher-lecture style of learning is thousands of years obselete!
There's no other politics.slashdot.org, so there's no need for the distinction.
I don't understand why there is so much bitching and whining about this. If I read a German tech news site frequently, I wouldn't be surprised if they opened a politics section that talked only about German politics, I'd expect it!
I think you've gotten things all mixed up.
I met an amish guy on IRC once actually. :)
He said he had a special permission to have a computer and Internet, I guess it was one of the more permissive groups of amish.
There is a company making "Sidstations" from NOS SID chips. They are about $1000 each, and I think they are out of surplus chips, so very limited edition.
Viruses?
This sort of finger pointing is coming to a fever pitch.
Vendors that are selling specialized Windows systems for high end software, or with high end hardware for example. They usually have full service contracts, and they totally freak out if you modify they system on your own.
So they have their list of properly vetted MS patches that they have pre-approved, but because MS is so damn slow to fix problem in the first place, adding another 3 months to the patch deployment schedule is downright dangerous.
One such managed box we had here at work, we just had to say "fuck it" and install the MS security patches without approval, when active viruses started coming out for things we weren't yet patched for. It's getting that bad.
Heat pumps are more than 100% efficient in these terms though. :)
Of course, they aren't really, but they appear to be since they pump heat energy in from outside, getting better than pure resistive heat efficiencies. So it's still better to spend 1 watt on your heat pump than it is on your CPU.
You are missing my point. My point isn't about MS, it's about half-assed solutions holding back innovation.
It's impossible to quantify the amount of things that "could have been" if people weren't held back by "good enough" software systems.
I only attempt to relate to you some examples I have come across. I can't argue in any definite terms about how things would be different otherwise.
I hear the mouse only has one button too, and there's no parallel port either!
He was talking about engineering workstations, not LAN party boxes. When you say bleeding-edge video, it seems to imply something like an ATI 9800 or higher, when that sort of card is of little use for an engineer of any type.
I agree, the G5 have huge cooling systems. People talk about AMD running hot, but damn, I mean the new 2.5s have huge radiator blocks and water cooling. If you were to put a reasonably sized heat sink and fan on a G5, it'd probably run hotter than any AMD chip.
I don't think there's any way they could put those beasts in a laptop either. Especially if they don't want it to sound like a pulsejet.
It's easy to slide though, from "good enough", to "complex mess of inefficient crap".
An example, a major database we have at work, a legacy database with fixed fields and field lengths. It's slowly becoming less and less useful as people abuse the fields, using them for things they weren't intended for. Yes, it gets the job done, since they can query on the new, unplanned for, data, but it's digging us into a hole, since there's no data validation, no consistancy, it's making it harder and harder to migrate off this system (a job I'm currently charged with, through reimplementation into a web based system).
So sometimes, most of the time, "just getting the job" done can really destroy you in the long run, since it implies a bunch of band-aids and half-assed solutions, in place of sound engineering with foresight.
MS really is in a bind here.
If they were to close off all those ports, they would risk all the clueless sysadmins screaming on MS forums that SP2 breaks everything, even basic windows sharing facilities.
I think the main point here is that MS has tried to appeal to people by saying that it's easy to be a sysadmin, that anyone can set up a network and run it. Real sysadmins all over the place freaked out, with good reason. They were accused of being set in their ways, etc, etc.
Now all those things that the skillful have said would happen, have happened. Rampant security problems, etc.
have power consumption through the roof (most of it waste, of course).
Ah, always nice to see someone talk about "conservation", who doesn't even understand thermodynamics.
100% of the energy consumed in your CPU is converted to heat, not just "most of it".