Seems to me that this CPU MHz race makes no sense at all: until we're stuck with PCI bandwith limitations these little monsters will only do more idle cycles, while waiting for data... I really hope that the big players will find a new architecture, but something more interesting than the ridicolous Rambus thing: maybe they will come out with a solution like Sun's S-BUS, this would really change the PC market! In fact, if I remember well, S-Bus is not really a bus but each slot has a point-to-point connection to a dedicated controller that handles data without CPU usage: this would be a real change! (but correct me if I'm wrong)
It's incredible: I'm reading these comments and seeing that a lot of people is going to lose one of the most satisfying pleasures in life just to avoid losing a little time to cook something decent... I'm shocked! Maybe it's just that I'm Italian, but I can't live without good food: even when I can't leave my computer to finish some code I'll take a break to cook a good pasta dish by myself (my mother taught me well:) and I'm sure my brain will work much better just because I'm feeding it with more sensorial stimulations; imagine someone coding all day in a white room with no windows, sound-proof, eating these shitty Dilberitos... soon he'll be completely mad! And for $3 I'll get much more nutritional value from natural homegrown stuff I buy directly from farmers (tomatoes, pepperoni, pork & cow meat, salami etc.) than one of these snacks. Eat Italian stuff, your life will be better!
Yes, hydrogen is dangerous but fuel cells have a beehive-like structure with micro cells containing the fuel, so an explosion is very unlikely to occur: they made this kind of design specifically to avoid danger. Also, I'm not sure but I think the water comes out as vapor and in very small amounts, so it doesn't have a noticeable effect. I read all this stuff on a Wired article last year, so take this with a grain of salt... also, I don't know if they use the same technology in building fuel cells.
I found this average wrong, at least here in Italy: the real average here is around 40 hours/week, which means 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday; the bad thing is that for employers is better having 1 person working 60 hours than 2 persons working 30 hours each, because they pay less taxes this way! personally I think that spare time is quickly becoming a luxury, especially now that you can do your work online almost everywhere and everytime. As a system administrator, I refused to work outside the usual work time (9:30 to 17:30) and to use pagers or similar for emergencies unless they tripled my salary, and obviously they didn't... All this because I find my private life much more important than work, which gives me the money to live and some sort of gratification when I do a good job, but nothing else! After all, working less hours and having more free time should be considered a kind of social progress... and in Y2K we should be a little more advanced in this field, considering that we're stuck into that 40 hours since 1960.
Just some points to fix, IMHO: 1) To be suspected does not mean to be guilty: investigations about anyone should be kept into strict bounds. 2) If you have a locked safe and you don't give the key, they'll simply break it open: the problem here is that without the (digital) key they have no means of decrypting your data, thus leading to that sorry fascist law. 3) Big bucks players here like banks, insurances and the like don't give any data about their big bucks customers, for any reason including police investigations: why an individual should be treated in a different way? Simple: because no money = no freedom! No, I'm not worrying about my warez or mp3 or whatever (they can trace me remotely in a snap if I'm suspected of publishing/selling pirate stuff and they can use the logs as a proof), I just care about my privacy: now that we have an effective mean to protect our private data governments around the world are starting to make laws to break this... not good. I just hope that here in Italy, given the slowness of our government in getting conscious of the new technologies, they will not come out with anti-democratic laws like this one until 2-3 years. Cheers.
Yup.. and even that monster rendering farm wasn't able to render Bugs Life in real time!!! Not to mention the complex post-production effects applied to the rough rendered image. PSII will likely be fine, but that kind of hype is ridicoulous!
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Seems to me that this CPU MHz race makes no sense at all: until we're stuck with PCI bandwith
limitations these little monsters will only do more idle cycles, while waiting for data...
I really hope that the big players will find a new architecture, but something more interesting than the ridicolous Rambus thing:
maybe they will come out with a solution like Sun's S-BUS, this would really change the PC market!
In fact, if I remember well, S-Bus is not really a bus but each slot has a point-to-point connection to a dedicated controller
that handles data without CPU usage: this would be a real change! (but correct me if I'm wrong)
It's incredible: I'm reading these comments and seeing that a lot of people is going to lose one of the most :)
satisfying pleasures in life just to avoid losing a little time to cook something decent... I'm shocked!
Maybe it's just that I'm Italian, but I can't live without good food: even when I can't leave my computer to finish some code
I'll take a break to cook a good pasta dish by myself (my mother taught me well
and I'm sure my brain will work much better just because I'm feeding it with more sensorial stimulations;
imagine someone coding all day in a white room with no windows, sound-proof, eating these shitty Dilberitos... soon he'll be completely mad!
And for $3 I'll get much more nutritional value from natural homegrown stuff I buy directly from farmers (tomatoes, pepperoni, pork & cow meat, salami etc.) than one of these snacks.
Eat Italian stuff, your life will be better!
Yes, hydrogen is dangerous but fuel cells have a beehive-like structure with micro cells containing the fuel,
so an explosion is very unlikely to occur: they made this kind of design specifically to avoid danger.
Also, I'm not sure but I think the water comes out as vapor and in very small amounts, so it doesn't have a noticeable effect.
I read all this stuff on a Wired article last year, so take this with a grain of salt... also, I don't know if they use the same technology in building fuel cells.
I found this average wrong, at least here in Italy: the real average here is around 40 hours/week, which means 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday;
the bad thing is that for employers is better having 1 person working 60 hours than 2 persons working 30 hours each, because they pay less taxes this way!
personally I think that spare time is quickly becoming a luxury, especially now that you can do your work online almost everywhere and everytime.
As a system administrator, I refused to work outside the usual work time (9:30 to 17:30) and to use pagers or similar for emergencies unless they tripled my salary, and obviously they didn't...
All this because I find my private life much more important than work, which gives me the money to live and some sort of gratification when I do a good job, but nothing else!
After all, working less hours and having more free time should be considered a kind of social progress... and in Y2K we should be a little more advanced in this field, considering that we're stuck into that 40 hours since 1960.
Just some points to fix, IMHO: 1) To be suspected does not mean to be guilty: investigations about anyone should be kept into strict bounds. 2) If you have a locked safe and you don't give the key, they'll simply break it open: the problem here is that without the (digital) key they have no means of decrypting your data, thus leading to that sorry fascist law. 3) Big bucks players here like banks, insurances and the like don't give any data about their big bucks customers, for any reason including police investigations: why an individual should be treated in a different way? Simple: because no money = no freedom! No, I'm not worrying about my warez or mp3 or whatever (they can trace me remotely in a snap if I'm suspected of publishing/selling pirate stuff and they can use the logs as a proof), I just care about my privacy: now that we have an effective mean to protect our private data governments around the world are starting to make laws to break this... not good. I just hope that here in Italy, given the slowness of our government in getting conscious of the new technologies, they will not come out with anti-democratic laws like this one until 2-3 years. Cheers.
Yup.. and even that monster rendering farm wasn't able to render Bugs Life in real time!!! Not to mention the complex post-production effects applied to the rough rendered image. PSII will likely be fine, but that kind of hype is ridicoulous!