Well I don't know about computer heat, but it seems to me that any heat produced by a space heater couldn't be considered waste heat. Couldn't any device achieve 100% energy efficiency so long as you redefine the device's task to include providing heat?
Sorry but you are very wrong on this one. According to this site driving on the right side of the road is the majority both by population and by number of countries.
The idea is that these resources are already generating profit in the form of sales. They have to pay administrators already. However, if they make use of the idle time they can get at least a little more money out of their stores. I'm betting that $0.15 per computer hour is slightly lower than the normal rate for this sort of thing since they are really just doing this to subsidize their stores.
Because you have to set them up and pay people to administer them. Gateway already pays these costs for other reasons (ie to let potential customers play with them) so this is much cheaper than doing it yourself for limited supercomputing. However, if you know that you are going to need to use this much processing power regularly into the foreseeable future, doing it yourself would be wise since you would get save money on it after a reasonable period of time.
Of course, in this case you might be better off seeing if you could buy a used Department of Energy system that they've lost interest in after getting a new massivelier parallel system to do their simulations on. Or something like that anyway.
I would imagine that all of these computers are already connected to the internet so people can try them out. I know the Gateway store I went to was like this. They definitely had some sort of broadband or better connection too.
If I recall correctly coffee is supposed to be heated to 170 degrees in order to properly absorb all of the wonderful things in the coffee grinds. The water shouldn't be boiling when it touches the coffee but it has to be fairly close to it. 170 degrees is quite sufficient to cause burns so it doesn't seem to me that the risk incurred by the coffee at this McDonald's could have been that much greater than any other cup of coffee.
No, no, no. It's easier to implement a compiler or runtime environment which guarantees safety than it is to search thousands of programs for buffer overflows. I understand that every system will probably involve C, C++, or assembly at some level, but we should try to minimize the extent to which they are used in order to reduce the number of places where buffer overflows and other such problems can pop up. It wouldn't completely eliminate security problems, but if more programs were written in safer languages we could come close to eliminating the most common security problems.
One would think that a team of programmers who are trying to create a set of high-security tools wouldn't _ever_ have a buffer overflow.
It seems to me that it has been thoroughly proven that programmers are incapable of handling memory management on their own. The number of problaems that buffer overflows, memory leaks, and other such problems have caused is staggering. I don't care how great you think you are, you shouldn't be doing your own memory management. Given enough time you'll fuck something up.
It's here. You need to follow the "Configure display" link and set it to "Unicode (UTF-8)" or "Unicode (UTF-8) with precombined accents". Neither of these printed properly for me. Interestingly enough, Unicode with precombined accents isn't displaying properly under Windows even though I'm using the same font.
I guess I phrased it wrong. I don't have any problem with CUPS. I should have said that CUPS alone is not enough. It solves one problem, but not the deeper problems caused by having two completely different systems for video and printing. It may be possible to modify Ghostscript to fix these problems, but I think that the possibility of creating a new printing architecture from scratch needs to be considered.
CUPS isn't enough. Last night I suffered the fury of a thousand hells when I tried to get a document document from Perseus to print properly. Postscript fonts can't handle unicode and Ghostscript doesn't handle TrueType fonts well. The best I was able to do was to get it to print the unaccented characters, but that was only a third or so of the characters in the document. It displayed perfectly using a unicode TrueType font, but Ghostscript couldn't do it right even when I set it up to print with the same font it was displayed with.
Ghostscript is also very slow loading TrueType fonts. Since it looks like TrueType fonts are going to continue to dominate desktop computing, Ghostscript needs to handle them better. Your printouts will never look the same as what's on your screen if Ghostscript can't render all of the fonts that X can.
Take a look at this. The word emulate means to try to equal. There is no reason that the word emulate can only be used to describe implementing hardware in software.
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No. Simply being reminded that it exists makes me cringe. I will not rest until every last trace of it has been eradicated. Even after that, I'm going to need some intensive therapy to get over my memories of the time before I freed the world from the tyranny of that vile comic strip.
Yeah, but I like the lack of structure. If everything is in one pile then you always know where everything is. Things that install to/opt irritate the hell out of me.
The problem with the Destination was that the display only did 640x480 and the TV quality was rather poor. It was rather expensive, but I imagine that it's problems came from the fact that they had to reduce their costs to keep it from being even more expensive. I think that if they were to try again today they might be able to do better.
I'm talking about the dictators before Julius Caesar. Things just broke down (you could say that about many aspects of Rome). However, there was a time in Rome when dictators would relinquish their power after they had handled whatever crisis they were needed for.
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Well I don't know about computer heat, but it seems to me that any heat produced by a space heater couldn't be considered waste heat. Couldn't any device achieve 100% energy efficiency so long as you redefine the device's task to include providing heat?
You must be kidding me. I've seen more convincing characters on Dragon Ball Z.
Sorry but you are very wrong on this one. According to this site driving on the right side of the road is the majority both by population and by number of countries.
170 degrees Fahrenheit.
The idea is that these resources are already generating profit in the form of sales. They have to pay administrators already. However, if they make use of the idle time they can get at least a little more money out of their stores. I'm betting that $0.15 per computer hour is slightly lower than the normal rate for this sort of thing since they are really just doing this to subsidize their stores.
Because you have to set them up and pay people to administer them. Gateway already pays these costs for other reasons (ie to let potential customers play with them) so this is much cheaper than doing it yourself for limited supercomputing. However, if you know that you are going to need to use this much processing power regularly into the foreseeable future, doing it yourself would be wise since you would get save money on it after a reasonable period of time.
Of course, in this case you might be better off seeing if you could buy a used Department of Energy system that they've lost interest in after getting a new massivelier parallel system to do their simulations on. Or something like that anyway.
I would imagine that all of these computers are already connected to the internet so people can try them out. I know the Gateway store I went to was like this. They definitely had some sort of broadband or better connection too.
If I recall correctly coffee is supposed to be heated to 170 degrees in order to properly absorb all of the wonderful things in the coffee grinds. The water shouldn't be boiling when it touches the coffee but it has to be fairly close to it. 170 degrees is quite sufficient to cause burns so it doesn't seem to me that the risk incurred by the coffee at this McDonald's could have been that much greater than any other cup of coffee.
He said O(n) in space, not time, dipshit.
It's not like declining second declension nouns is all that difficult. It's one of the first things you learn when studying Latin.
No, no, no. It's easier to implement a compiler or runtime environment which guarantees safety than it is to search thousands of programs for buffer overflows. I understand that every system will probably involve C, C++, or assembly at some level, but we should try to minimize the extent to which they are used in order to reduce the number of places where buffer overflows and other such problems can pop up. It wouldn't completely eliminate security problems, but if more programs were written in safer languages we could come close to eliminating the most common security problems.
LOoks like you've got the denotation of the word "professional" covered, but perhaps you might consider it's connotations.
Which is ultimately a better show than anything else that anyone has mentioned.
It seems to me that it has been thoroughly proven that programmers are incapable of handling memory management on their own. The number of problaems that buffer overflows, memory leaks, and other such problems have caused is staggering. I don't care how great you think you are, you shouldn't be doing your own memory management. Given enough time you'll fuck something up.
It's here. You need to follow the "Configure display" link and set it to "Unicode (UTF-8)" or "Unicode (UTF-8) with precombined accents". Neither of these printed properly for me. Interestingly enough, Unicode with precombined accents isn't displaying properly under Windows even though I'm using the same font.
I guess I phrased it wrong. I don't have any problem with CUPS. I should have said that CUPS alone is not enough. It solves one problem, but not the deeper problems caused by having two completely different systems for video and printing. It may be possible to modify Ghostscript to fix these problems, but I think that the possibility of creating a new printing architecture from scratch needs to be considered.
Ghostscript is also very slow loading TrueType fonts. Since it looks like TrueType fonts are going to continue to dominate desktop computing, Ghostscript needs to handle them better. Your printouts will never look the same as what's on your screen if Ghostscript can't render all of the fonts that X can.
Take a look at this. The word emulate means to try to equal. There is no reason that the word emulate can only be used to describe implementing hardware in software.
No. Simply being reminded that it exists makes me cringe. I will not rest until every last trace of it has been eradicated. Even after that, I'm going to need some intensive therapy to get over my memories of the time before I freed the world from the tyranny of that vile comic strip.
Yeah, but I like the lack of structure. If everything is in one pile then you always know where everything is. Things that install to /opt irritate the hell out of me.
The problem with the Destination was that the display only did 640x480 and the TV quality was rather poor. It was rather expensive, but I imagine that it's problems came from the fact that they had to reduce their costs to keep it from being even more expensive. I think that if they were to try again today they might be able to do better.
Physicists have been doing this for a long time.
Actually that comic isn't just a web comic. It gets pritned in my local paper.
Actually that should be Marduk.
I'm talking about the dictators before Julius Caesar. Things just broke down (you could say that about many aspects of Rome). However, there was a time in Rome when dictators would relinquish their power after they had handled whatever crisis they were needed for.