I'd like to write my Congressman, Lamar Smith, yet again on these issues, but seeing as how he is the motherfscking sponsor, it won't make any difference. He's always sponsoring these kinds of bills. He LOVES big media and ridiculous intellectual property laws. I will vote for "someone else" again.
Why are we so unwilling to admit that some kids are born smarter than others?
I think the real point is that environment can spoil natural intelligence if the intelligence is not fostered with a good work ethic. I doubt many on this forum would deny the genetic predispositions to intellect.
I'm with you. I can't wait to be a parent because in my mind, I get to duplicate all my knowledge that took me years to compile to someone who can pick it up in a short time.
It's great if it works out, but keep in mind your children may not have the same interests. I've run into that numerous times with my son. I should also say, as a rather patient person, that your child may not be nearly as patient as you are.:)
So, try not to go into it with too many expectations, that's all I'm saying.
But people chasing $90 in electricity is nearly trite compared to the real energy users: home heating and cooling and clothes washers and dryers.
Of course, people forget that computers cause air conditioners to cycle more frequently. Here in Austin, TX, that is a real issue. Sure, way up north, the heat is efficient in the sense of a space heater. We don't need those very often.:)
I ran the numbers and running my machine at home for my website, email, etc. was costing me more than running it on a cheap web hosting service mainly due to the cooling issue. I lost a small amount of flexibility, but gained a cooler home. Easy trade-off in this part of the country.
It's usually the cheap-o gi-normous ones that are heat islands. They can be designed, as you have discovered, to only pull juice when their parent device is plugged in. The problem is that this is more expensive to the manufacturer than the Chinese wall wart special which is why so many companies use the craptacular ones.
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As an omnivore who cooks for his vegetarian wife, I say "Amen!" to that. I've been barking up that tree for years now.
They obviously don't know any rich assholes who own Ferraris.
What is your point? I think it's fairly common knowledge you don't hear people who buy or review expensive sports cars complaining about gas mileage. Last time I read a review in Car and Driver, they mentioned the gas mileage but that was it.
Wasteful idiots, then. Yes, I would care about the electricity bill, for precisely the reason I outlined...
I happen to agree with you except why do you think PS3s are somehow better for this? Maybe your environmentalism has blinded you to caring about dumping more waste PS3s into our landfills after expensive manufacturing processes instead of using our existing hardware better? Furthermore, people who are reluctant to or unable to donate cash to a project but don't mind a nominally higher electricity bill can more easily contribute. Lastly, it distributes the weight on the various electrical grids rather than locally taxing specific areas.
Irrelevant. I know how to throttle individual apps if I have to, whether they have such settings or not.
If you know how to throttle processes, unless you use it on your lap for the vast majority of the time, then you're just a huge whiner if you won't bother throttling or shutting down a service when you're plugged in but using it on your lap. I mean, you wouldn't use a resource-intensive video game while on your lap, would you? You'd shut the game off first, let the system cool down, and then go about your poking in your email or whatever.
It's not about being fiscally constrained. It's about not being fiscally stupid.
Globally, it makes more sense to leverage widespread, existing resources rather than concentrated ones perhaps requiring more coal plants and manufacturing specialized hardware. Locally, it sucks (in the US/Canada anyway) that you cannot — yet — deduct your donation from your taxes.
Now, maybe you have run the numbers, and decided that this is a lot more efficient use of your money to help these projects. If so, good for you, and I'd again suggest it really only makes sense on a desktop, or (especially) a server. (I mentioned EC2 as a possibility -- Amazon won't charge you more money if you bump their electric bill that way.)
I'm not making anyone run this. Only you can decide for yourself whether it makes sense for you financially. However, the benefits of this research are far reaching and well worth the donation, IMNSHO, and I think for the vast majority of the targeted population (Americans and Europeans with disposable income), the difference in running it will be insubstantial.
Yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying: I can save power/heat if I don't run these applications.
My point is that if you have an 8 core desktop system (aka what this article is about), it is nigh pointless to use it as timidly as you suggest. As another poster said in this article, "You don't buy a Ferrari and then complain about the gas mileage". Anyone who will have the cash to shell out for one of these suckers is not going to give a crap about the electricity bill at the end of the month. In fact, they probably want to exploit the power of their new computational Ferrari.
As such, I think it is very reasonable to use its power for the good of mankind. Mind you, your donation is not (yet) tax deductible.
Lastly, you are a little outdated in your knowledge. World Community Grid has BOINC settings that allow you to throttle the usage as far down as you like. Only want 30% of CPU time on the project? No problem. 10%? No problem. Furthermore, it defaults to OFF when on battery.
So, while you yourself may be so fiscally constrained that you cannot afford the electricity or you are worried about global warming more than AIDS or dengue virus, not all of the rest of us fit in those categories and we may wish to donate our Ferraris as we please.
When I was a teenager we could run our Taco Bell with 3 people. Not "well", mind you, but it would run until close. I seriously doubt eliminating the warmed-up sauce allowed them to cut jobs.
When they added "Mexican Pizza" to the menu, I knew it was all down hill from there.
Not to mention running something like World Community Grid. I love using my idle processor time to tackle AIDS, Cancer, Muscular Dystrophy, Dengue, etc.
Yes, the news is not "IBM Invents Solar Recycling", but that they found a better way of erasing their Intellectual Property from the wafers so they can be recycled more readily.
The news is that IBM has developed a new way to erase data (read: "Intellectual Property") from the wafers, not the recycling in and of itself. However, "IBM Invents New Way to Erase Data" is a less sexy title and was not very likely to be greenlit, though the summary specifies the actual news in the first sentence "IBM has developed a process for scrubbing waste silicon wafers clean, allowing the otherwise highly secret waste to be sold."
I am not a professional writer or editor, though I think that's a reasonable description. However, I can see that it could be read as there never having been recycling before, which was not my intended meaning.
The Sichuan pepper is not a real pepper. It's these little brown/black hull looking things that Sichuan chefs drown their ma-la food in. Frankly, I don't find having a numb mouth a pleasant experience while dining, though I do enjoy hot Chinese food.
Speaking of...why doesn't taco bell every bring back the 'Wild' Sauce they used to wheel out every summer or so awhile back.
It was cheaper and faster to switch to prepackaged sauce versus the warmed-up sauce in the back (which frankly tasted better... not that Taco Bell is "good"). The preparers don't have to manage the sauce in the back any more and can crank out however many items they need faster.
Eliminating the old-style green sauce is what stopped my parents going to Taco Bell.
Let me get this straight: You want to power a drill/submarine with RTGs? Can you explain how big these will need to be to produce the power to drill, excavate, dive, and transmit to an orbiter?
See, the trick is to take some luggage that is large enough to pull with you but small enough that no one forces you to check it until you get to the gate. Then, try to board the plane and they'll make you check it. No problem! All the other baggage has already been loaded by this point and yours will be some of the earliest to deboard, though keep in mind you have to drag it through the airport.
I fly cheap, small planes and this happens all the time. -l
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I'd like to write my Congressman, Lamar Smith, yet again on these issues, but seeing as how he is the motherfscking sponsor, it won't make any difference. He's always sponsoring these kinds of bills. He LOVES big media and ridiculous intellectual property laws. I will vote for "someone else" again.
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Just send me five or six of those octopus surge protector dealies and I'll be happy.
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I think the real point is that environment can spoil natural intelligence if the intelligence is not fostered with a good work ethic. I doubt many on this forum would deny the genetic predispositions to intellect.
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It's great if it works out, but keep in mind your children may not have the same interests. I've run into that numerous times with my son. I should also say, as a rather patient person, that your child may not be nearly as patient as you are. :)
So, try not to go into it with too many expectations, that's all I'm saying.
Cheers,
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Environment can spoil natural intelligence. I think that's the real lesson here.
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Of course, people forget that computers cause air conditioners to cycle more frequently. Here in Austin, TX, that is a real issue. Sure, way up north, the heat is efficient in the sense of a space heater. We don't need those very often. :)
I ran the numbers and running my machine at home for my website, email, etc. was costing me more than running it on a cheap web hosting service mainly due to the cooling issue. I lost a small amount of flexibility, but gained a cooler home. Easy trade-off in this part of the country.
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It's usually the cheap-o gi-normous ones that are heat islands. They can be designed, as you have discovered, to only pull juice when their parent device is plugged in. The problem is that this is more expensive to the manufacturer than the Chinese wall wart special which is why so many companies use the craptacular ones.
-l
As an omnivore who cooks for his vegetarian wife, I say "Amen!" to that. I've been barking up that tree for years now.
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... who owns Symbian! Crazy!
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What is your point? I think it's fairly common knowledge you don't hear people who buy or review expensive sports cars complaining about gas mileage. Last time I read a review in Car and Driver, they mentioned the gas mileage but that was it.
I happen to agree with you except why do you think PS3s are somehow better for this? Maybe your environmentalism has blinded you to caring about dumping more waste PS3s into our landfills after expensive manufacturing processes instead of using our existing hardware better? Furthermore, people who are reluctant to or unable to donate cash to a project but don't mind a nominally higher electricity bill can more easily contribute. Lastly, it distributes the weight on the various electrical grids rather than locally taxing specific areas.
If you know how to throttle processes, unless you use it on your lap for the vast majority of the time, then you're just a huge whiner if you won't bother throttling or shutting down a service when you're plugged in but using it on your lap. I mean, you wouldn't use a resource-intensive video game while on your lap, would you? You'd shut the game off first, let the system cool down, and then go about your poking in your email or whatever.
Globally, it makes more sense to leverage widespread, existing resources rather than concentrated ones perhaps requiring more coal plants and manufacturing specialized hardware. Locally, it sucks (in the US/Canada anyway) that you cannot — yet — deduct your donation from your taxes.
I'm not making anyone run this. Only you can decide for yourself whether it makes sense for you financially. However, the benefits of this research are far reaching and well worth the donation, IMNSHO, and I think for the vast majority of the targeted population (Americans and Europeans with disposable income), the difference in running it will be insubstantial.
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Yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying: I can save power/heat if I don't run these applications.
My point is that if you have an 8 core desktop system (aka what this article is about), it is nigh pointless to use it as timidly as you suggest. As another poster said in this article, "You don't buy a Ferrari and then complain about the gas mileage". Anyone who will have the cash to shell out for one of these suckers is not going to give a crap about the electricity bill at the end of the month. In fact, they probably want to exploit the power of their new computational Ferrari.
As such, I think it is very reasonable to use its power for the good of mankind. Mind you, your donation is not (yet) tax deductible.
Lastly, you are a little outdated in your knowledge. World Community Grid has BOINC settings that allow you to throttle the usage as far down as you like. Only want 30% of CPU time on the project? No problem. 10%? No problem. Furthermore, it defaults to OFF when on battery.
So, while you yourself may be so fiscally constrained that you cannot afford the electricity or you are worried about global warming more than AIDS or dengue virus, not all of the rest of us fit in those categories and we may wish to donate our Ferraris as we please.
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Of course you're donating power to the project. However, what's the point in owning an 8 core system at home if you're not going to use it????
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Just had to get in a "me too" comment for Ultima VII. Hot damn I loved that game.
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When I was a teenager we could run our Taco Bell with 3 people. Not "well", mind you, but it would run until close. I seriously doubt eliminating the warmed-up sauce allowed them to cut jobs.
When they added "Mexican Pizza" to the menu, I knew it was all down hill from there.
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Not to mention running something like World Community Grid. I love using my idle processor time to tackle AIDS, Cancer, Muscular Dystrophy, Dengue, etc.
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Uh... I think that was the joke...
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Yes, the news is not "IBM Invents Solar Recycling", but that they found a better way of erasing their Intellectual Property from the wafers so they can be recycled more readily.
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The news is that IBM has developed a new way to erase data (read: "Intellectual Property") from the wafers, not the recycling in and of itself. However, "IBM Invents New Way to Erase Data" is a less sexy title and was not very likely to be greenlit, though the summary specifies the actual news in the first sentence "IBM has developed a process for scrubbing waste silicon wafers clean, allowing the otherwise highly secret waste to be sold."
I am not a professional writer or editor, though I think that's a reasonable description. However, I can see that it could be read as there never having been recycling before, which was not my intended meaning.
-l
The Sichuan pepper is not a real pepper. It's these little brown/black hull looking things that Sichuan chefs drown their ma-la food in. Frankly, I don't find having a numb mouth a pleasant experience while dining, though I do enjoy hot Chinese food.
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In pepper spray's defense, the watery eyes may yield just enough time to kick you in the nads and run away. That's really the point isn't it?
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It was cheaper and faster to switch to prepackaged sauce versus the warmed-up sauce in the back (which frankly tasted better... not that Taco Bell is "good"). The preparers don't have to manage the sauce in the back any more and can crank out however many items they need faster.
Eliminating the old-style green sauce is what stopped my parents going to Taco Bell.
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I thought that cosmic rays impacting the Earth's atmosphere created micro-black holes but that they immediately disintegrate due to Hawking radiation.
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That's awesome. Just tip over one of the RTGs, wait until it melts through the surface, dive in, Profit!
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Let me get this straight: You want to power a drill/submarine with RTGs? Can you explain how big these will need to be to produce the power to drill, excavate, dive, and transmit to an orbiter?
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See, the trick is to take some luggage that is large enough to pull with you but small enough that no one forces you to check it until you get to the gate. Then, try to board the plane and they'll make you check it. No problem! All the other baggage has already been loaded by this point and yours will be some of the earliest to deboard, though keep in mind you have to drag it through the airport.
I fly cheap, small planes and this happens all the time.
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