Well, Windows does occasionally just take over the processor from anywhere from 15ms to a 100ms randomly. Which is a killer when you are trying to blast data over 10Gbit ethernet, but limit you buffer sizes.
Farscape : Cancelled when it was the No. 1 rated show on the channel, because it was too expensive. How is it possible for your most popular show to be too expensive?
When Brian Henson and Rockne O'Bannon both said it cost way too much to make at Comic-Con 2004. I tend to believe them. They could have been toeing the party line, but it didn't seem like it. The sense was Farscape was a sort of loss leader and that they were pretty happy SciFi took the risk on it in the first place.
I remember reasong somewhere that one of the big problems with PowerPC emulation on the x86 was the fact that PPC chips had more registers than x86, thus forcing some of those registers to be used from RAM or swapped as appropriate, either of which caused a loss of all possible advantages of having registers.
Since those registers would be accessed often wouldn't the memory used for emulating them be perpetually in L1 cache? Still somewhat slower than a register, but not nearly as bad as DRAM.
Eat it or let it into your blood stream and then you are in trouble...
And, even then it probably won't do much since chemically it is hydrogen. Which I don't think your lungs absorb. Can't ingest in a pure form (it is a gas). Maybe as heavy water, but it would probably be diluted very quickly as you ingested and eliminated water through the normal course of life.
Maybe tritium bound in an amino acid could cause trouble, but now we are getting into malicious adversary land.
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But, using up accrued vacation or sick time should actually help earnings.
If you RTFA, they aren't trying to remove evolution from the curriculum at all. They just want all views to be allowed to coexist. There's absolutely nothing wrong with teaching both sides of a controversy.
Except, there is no controversy, except between real scientists and religious zealots. Of course they want to remove eveolution entirely. This is just step one to get the foot in the door, step two is to then make people think there is little scientific evidence for evolution. Once these children who are taught that it is controversial become adults they will be willing to believe that. Then, once that happens they can eliminate the teaching of eveolution entirely which is the real end goal.
DRAM die are made to be repairable. They have redundant rows and columns to replace defective rows and columns. Standard process is to test every die and repair said die. This test and repair is done before the die are cut from the wafer. Because it is not worthwhile to cut and package a bad die.
The article is really confusing because it doesn't seem to say at what point these untested DRAM are not being tested. Are the raw wafers being cut and packaged untested? Are the packaged die not being tested before being made into DIMMs? Or, are the assembled DIMMs not being tested?
Finally, we will hire top scientists to develop tracking chips so that we can ensure that 1) our children* are safe and 2) they aren't in danger of having evil thoughts.
And, I think of the episode where Cartman got a V-chip... implanted in his skull that shocked him whenever he was bad.
While what you wrote is probably true you missed one major point that no one seems to talk about, and woudl have prevented a lot of the problems in 2001. That is the 1100 megawatts that was offline during the main part of this crisis. On Jan 2, 2001 reactr 3 at San onofre Nuclear Power Plant was shutdown for refueling and routine maintenance. No big deal, since in January power requirements are pretty low. On Feb 3 when they turned it back ona fire in a switching room caused an automatice shutdown which resulted in the lubricant feed to the turbine shutting down. Damaging the turbine. This took until June to fix.
1,100 Megawatts is about 5% of total electricity demand in California. So, really without San Onofre down at that time there would have been plenty of electricity. So, while the system allowed people to game it, the down San Onofre reactor is what created the main shortage. And, in April a Diablo Canyon reactor was also down for refueling. Putting nearly 10% of California energy production offline.
To me this suggests the problem isn't insuffcient standard production capacity, but not enough backup capacity to deal with when the big nuke plants go down.
In the early days of consumer self-generation, the electric meters on your house, recorded the power flow in both directions, so that a residential customer both bought and sold power at retail price, now however if the utility know your capable of self-generation you get a different electric meter so that you buy at retail price, but sell at wholesale price. Again either way the utility makes money and therefore no need for a conspiracy.
Actually, in most states at least for residential scale self generation the meter does run both ways. They don't switch to the other method until the generation exceeds a certain amoutn at which point they treat you like a power plant and buy it wholesale.
We have a lot of information for conventional silicon photovoltaics. They are indeed very robust and seem to live forever unless physically damaged.
These panels, on the other hand, are quite different. Until we have some history of them installed under actual field conditions, we can only guess at the lifespan.
Giving the AC parent some notice because it is a worthwhile point, so if some moderation points see this give the parent a point if it is not already a 3.
In reply, yep no reliability data on the new photovoltaics.
The real interesting question will be how will the local governments and power utilities react to the sudden loss of revenue when people start dumping them? I could see protectionist regulations (all your electrons belong to us), use taxes on solar systems or very large increases on those remaining tied to the grid. Sooner or later we would reach a new production equilibrium but the infrastructure transition is going to be ugly. Lot of utilities have come to believe they have a right to exist and local government would have to replace the revenue. If these new $1/watt systems landed suddenly, you would see a lot of people cutting the cord. The rest of the technology for the home power cycle is already there.
The transition would be tough, but I would hope that they don't go to prtectionist. They need to switch to transmission, storage, night production, and middle man. Businesses use a lot more power than they have roof space, typically during the day when you are not home and your home system will be producing more power than you are using. So, the utilities job is to purchase that power (it can be in exchange for night power) and deliver it to businesses during the day. The utility would also provide power at night. If large scale storage is more efficient than local storage and the solar build out was big enough utilities would also become central storage such that they would store excess daytime production for delivery at night.
Likely (and it exists currently) you pay a connection fee and any excess power used. In the future, there will probably be a connection fee that encompasses storage if that is available, a rate for power to the home beyond what is generated, and perhaps the wholesale rate for when day generation exceeds night use that could defray the connection and storage charge. As businesses will be paying for that power a portion should go to the generator.
Seriously, solar power is ridiculously overrated. The energy density of sunlight at the earth's surface is simply too low to be practical. Way too much real estate would have to be used to make any realistic amounts of power, and at those scales, upkeep becomes prohibitively expensive.
And, how much land surface is destroyed mining coal to provide about 1/3 of US electricity consumption? You may find that amount to be startlingly close to what it would take to supply all US electricity from solar.
Your average solar panel is warrantied for 25 years. So, 10 years is less than half the warranty period of a typical solar panel. Oh, and there are installations that have been working for 30 years or more. Mostly national park stuff, or hand me downs for public operations. i.e. some company had the panels 30 years ago after 10-20 years they upgraded, and donated it to public parks or something where it has been sitting and working for 20 years or more.
So, yes we do not know the lifetime of a solar panel because there doesn't appear to be data for end of life failure of solar panels. That is an important distinction because there have likely been failures of solar panels, but end of life failure would see a lot of panels of the same installation time failing near the same time.
The whole thread is based on people complaining about licensing with dual core chips... Yes, you can toss hardware at an application to improve performance but your not getting the best bang for your buck.... You need to solve the root cause otherwise your just delaying the problem.
Wait, I think I realize where I messed up, it is the catch-22. If you write portable code now on the current platform throwing hardware at the problem results in an increase in both hardware and licensing costs with only the possibility of getting some benefit in the future because of no lock-in. Which I was confusing with the argument that switching to an application that ahas lower performance on the same hardware may make economic sense, if additional hardware performance is significantly cheaper than the licensing on the higher performing software on lower performance hardware.
Well, when you are on the floor you are moving in the direction the floor is spinning. So, when you jump up you continue to move in that direction and the floor is rotating in the same direction and up relative to you, so you will return to the floor. Depending on the radius of rotation and some other factors, you may noticeably not fall back to where you jumped. The trick isn't to jump up the trick is to jump in such a way that you cancel all the horizontal motion imparted to your body from your feet being on the rotating floor such that you hover while the floor moves under you. While an interesting thought experiment, since people typically live in rooms with walls contact with the wall could be somewhat violent.
Yeah, about that meiosis: we're going to have to ask you to stop. Do whatever it takes; we can even take care of the "problem" for you with a simple outpatient surgery.
While the poster specified testicles, many cells in the body divide. Let's take somethign that isn't a gene like a protein that is patented, oh and produced by every cell in the body. I have a simple surgery to stop this patent infringement, and you don't even have to leave your home. Simply, insert scalpel into heart, wiggle it around until you cannot anymore, patent infringement ended.
I wonder what the error bars are with respect to pointing to Mecca. If you are at Mars orbit or beyond praying towards the sun should be the general direction of Earth, give or take a few degrees. The farther out the more likely Earth, and hence Mecca would be in the field of vision if you just pray towards the Sun. I wonder if after a few thousand yearas of that a group of sun worshippers would emerge with the same belief set.
Not sure how to handle it when nearer to the sun than earth orbit. I guess you just have to figure out where earth is.
It drives me crazy when I see the GPL text and the "I Agree" button on the installer for a GPL'd program.
Hmmm... Interesting thought although it shouldn't say you are agreeing to the GPL, could it say, "I agree I received this software in accordance with the GPL" Or, perhaps it could be considered GPL public relations... "I understand that there are things I can do with this GPL software I can't do with other software."
Or, if as the GPL distributor perhaps you are looking for fame and want as much distirbution as possible, so forcing people to read the GPL may get them to copy and distirbute to more people.
I am sure that is not what is intended by the installers you have seen, but I thought there might be some interesting reasons not even related to Use for putting a GPL dealy in an installer.
So if you have a dual Xeon 3.6Ghz, you're likely to get better performance than a machine with a single dual core 3.6Ghz.
This comes down to cores having to wait for access to resources, etc.
I think you are not saying what you think you are saying. In the case of Intel they should be nearly identical, since Intel shares the memory bu between two processors whether the cores are on one piece of silicon or two. AMD wil be an interesting study since a dual opteron can have memory for each processor, and each has its own connection to the peripherals. Weras all other thngs being equal a dual core Opteron would have only one memory bus for both cores and share a connection to the peripherals.
You can get equivalent performance to a dual core Sun Sparc IV 1.25Ghz with a single 1.8Ghz Fujitsu Sparc processor.
This suggests you are thinking single core higher clock vs two processors (dual core or separate). Which can often be true depending on the software.
How frequently am I forced to support 'portable' applications that are performance hogs? Too often thats for sure.
I may not contribute much here, but if the ability to put 4-8-16-32...512 processors into a computer pushes the database performance into the stratosphere at a low enough price it might make sense to give up some performance in order to have greater portability and hence more leverage in licensing. I think to sum up it may be less costly to buy more hardware and have the ability to switch databases easily, than to risk being locked into a database where the ability to get additional perfomance from hardware is too costly due to the licensing scheme.
Billions of Chinese, Japanese, and to a lesser extent Europeans via their central banks are floating the entire American financial house of cards, which is the only reason Social Security even stands today.
Hmmmm.... And, we are about nearly a trillion more in hock to those same people since Bush took office. At least with Social Security we are in hock to ourselves.
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Well, Windows does occasionally just take over the processor from anywhere from 15ms to a 100ms randomly. Which is a killer when you are trying to blast data over 10Gbit ethernet, but limit you buffer sizes.
Farscape : Cancelled when it was the No. 1 rated show on the channel, because it was too expensive. How is it possible for your most popular show to be too expensive?
When Brian Henson and Rockne O'Bannon both said it cost way too much to make at Comic-Con 2004. I tend to believe them. They could have been toeing the party line, but it didn't seem like it. The sense was Farscape was a sort of loss leader and that they were pretty happy SciFi took the risk on it in the first place.
(Yes, a lot of reading between the lines.)
Given that southeast Asia has real sea piracy, I actually was not 100% certain what kind of piracy you meant until I clicked the link.
I remember reasong somewhere that one of the big problems with PowerPC emulation on the x86 was the fact that PPC chips had more registers than x86, thus forcing some of those registers to be used from RAM or swapped as appropriate, either of which caused a loss of all possible advantages of having registers.
Since those registers would be accessed often wouldn't the memory used for emulating them be perpetually in L1 cache? Still somewhat slower than a register, but not nearly as bad as DRAM.
Eat it or let it into your blood stream and then you are in trouble...
And, even then it probably won't do much since chemically it is hydrogen. Which I don't think your lungs absorb. Can't ingest in a pure form (it is a gas). Maybe as heavy water, but it would probably be diluted very quickly as you ingested and eliminated water through the normal course of life.
Maybe tritium bound in an amino acid could cause trouble, but now we are getting into malicious adversary land.
But, using up accrued vacation or sick time should actually help earnings.
If you RTFA, they aren't trying to remove evolution from the curriculum at all. They just want all views to be allowed to coexist. There's absolutely nothing wrong with teaching both sides of a controversy.
Except, there is no controversy, except between real scientists and religious zealots. Of course they want to remove eveolution entirely. This is just step one to get the foot in the door, step two is to then make people think there is little scientific evidence for evolution. Once these children who are taught that it is controversial become adults they will be willing to believe that. Then, once that happens they can eliminate the teaching of eveolution entirely which is the real end goal.
I recently rented the whole series via netflix and enjoyed it even more the 2nd time around...
It helps to watch it in order.
DRAM die are made to be repairable. They have redundant rows and columns to replace defective rows and columns. Standard process is to test every die and repair said die. This test and repair is done before the die are cut from the wafer. Because it is not worthwhile to cut and package a bad die.
The article is really confusing because it doesn't seem to say at what point these untested DRAM are not being tested. Are the raw wafers being cut and packaged untested? Are the packaged die not being tested before being made into DIMMs? Or, are the assembled DIMMs not being tested?
Finally, we will hire top scientists to develop tracking chips so that we can ensure that 1) our children* are safe and 2) they aren't in danger of having evil thoughts.
And, I think of the episode where Cartman got a V-chip... implanted in his skull that shocked him whenever he was bad.
While what you wrote is probably true you missed one major point that no one seems to talk about, and woudl have prevented a lot of the problems in 2001. That is the 1100 megawatts that was offline during the main part of this crisis. On Jan 2, 2001 reactr 3 at San onofre Nuclear Power Plant was shutdown for refueling and routine maintenance. No big deal, since in January power requirements are pretty low. On Feb 3 when they turned it back ona fire in a switching room caused an automatice shutdown which resulted in the lubricant feed to the turbine shutting down. Damaging the turbine. This took until June to fix.
1,100 Megawatts is about 5% of total electricity demand in California. So, really without San Onofre down at that time there would have been plenty of electricity. So, while the system allowed people to game it, the down San Onofre reactor is what created the main shortage. And, in April a Diablo Canyon reactor was also down for refueling. Putting nearly 10% of California energy production offline.
To me this suggests the problem isn't insuffcient standard production capacity, but not enough backup capacity to deal with when the big nuke plants go down.
In the early days of consumer self-generation, the electric meters on your house, recorded the power flow in both directions, so that a residential customer both bought and sold power at retail price, now however if the utility know your capable of self-generation you get a different electric meter so that you buy at retail price, but sell at wholesale price. Again either way the utility makes money and therefore no need for a conspiracy.
Actually, in most states at least for residential scale self generation the meter does run both ways. They don't switch to the other method until the generation exceeds a certain amoutn at which point they treat you like a power plant and buy it wholesale.
We have a lot of information for conventional silicon photovoltaics. They are indeed very robust and seem to live forever unless physically damaged.
These panels, on the other hand, are quite different. Until we have some history of them installed under actual field conditions, we can only guess at the lifespan.
Giving the AC parent some notice because it is a worthwhile point, so if some moderation points see this give the parent a point if it is not already a 3.
In reply, yep no reliability data on the new photovoltaics.
The real interesting question will be how will the local governments and power utilities react to the sudden loss of revenue when people start dumping them? I could see protectionist regulations (all your electrons belong to us), use taxes on solar systems or very large increases on those remaining tied to the grid. Sooner or later we would reach a new production equilibrium but the infrastructure transition is going to be ugly. Lot of utilities have come to believe they have a right to exist and local government would have to replace the revenue. If these new $1/watt systems landed suddenly, you would see a lot of people cutting the cord. The rest of the technology for the home power cycle is already there.
The transition would be tough, but I would hope that they don't go to prtectionist. They need to switch to transmission, storage, night production, and middle man. Businesses use a lot more power than they have roof space, typically during the day when you are not home and your home system will be producing more power than you are using. So, the utilities job is to purchase that power (it can be in exchange for night power) and deliver it to businesses during the day. The utility would also provide power at night. If large scale storage is more efficient than local storage and the solar build out was big enough utilities would also become central storage such that they would store excess daytime production for delivery at night.
Likely (and it exists currently) you pay a connection fee and any excess power used. In the future, there will probably be a connection fee that encompasses storage if that is available, a rate for power to the home beyond what is generated, and perhaps the wholesale rate for when day generation exceeds night use that could defray the connection and storage charge. As businesses will be paying for that power a portion should go to the generator.
Seriously, solar power is ridiculously overrated. The energy density of sunlight at the earth's surface is simply too low to be practical. Way too much real estate would have to be used to make any realistic amounts of power, and at those scales, upkeep becomes prohibitively expensive.
And, how much land surface is destroyed mining coal to provide about 1/3 of US electricity consumption? You may find that amount to be startlingly close to what it would take to supply all US electricity from solar.
Your average solar panel is warrantied for 25 years. So, 10 years is less than half the warranty period of a typical solar panel. Oh, and there are installations that have been working for 30 years or more. Mostly national park stuff, or hand me downs for public operations. i.e. some company had the panels 30 years ago after 10-20 years they upgraded, and donated it to public parks or something where it has been sitting and working for 20 years or more.
So, yes we do not know the lifetime of a solar panel because there doesn't appear to be data for end of life failure of solar panels. That is an important distinction because there have likely been failures of solar panels, but end of life failure would see a lot of panels of the same installation time failing near the same time.
I make my code easy to read for my own sanity. I've lived out this bash.org quote way too many times.
Yes, but if it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
GRIN!
The whole thread is based on people complaining about licensing with dual core chips... Yes, you can toss hardware at an application to improve performance but your not getting the best bang for your buck.... You need to solve the root cause otherwise your just delaying the problem.
Wait, I think I realize where I messed up, it is the catch-22. If you write portable code now on the current platform throwing hardware at the problem results in an increase in both hardware and licensing costs with only the possibility of getting some benefit in the future because of no lock-in. Which I was confusing with the argument that switching to an application that ahas lower performance on the same hardware may make economic sense, if additional hardware performance is significantly cheaper than the licensing on the higher performing software on lower performance hardware.
Well, when you are on the floor you are moving in the direction the floor is spinning. So, when you jump up you continue to move in that direction and the floor is rotating in the same direction and up relative to you, so you will return to the floor. Depending on the radius of rotation and some other factors, you may noticeably not fall back to where you jumped. The trick isn't to jump up the trick is to jump in such a way that you cancel all the horizontal motion imparted to your body from your feet being on the rotating floor such that you hover while the floor moves under you. While an interesting thought experiment, since people typically live in rooms with walls contact with the wall could be somewhat violent.
Yeah, about that meiosis: we're going to have to ask you to stop. Do whatever it takes; we can even take care of the "problem" for you with a simple outpatient surgery.
While the poster specified testicles, many cells in the body divide. Let's take somethign that isn't a gene like a protein that is patented, oh and produced by every cell in the body. I have a simple surgery to stop this patent infringement, and you don't even have to leave your home. Simply, insert scalpel into heart, wiggle it around until you cannot anymore, patent infringement ended.
I wonder what the error bars are with respect to pointing to Mecca. If you are at Mars orbit or beyond praying towards the sun should be the general direction of Earth, give or take a few degrees. The farther out the more likely Earth, and hence Mecca would be in the field of vision if you just pray towards the Sun. I wonder if after a few thousand yearas of that a group of sun worshippers would emerge with the same belief set.
Not sure how to handle it when nearer to the sun than earth orbit. I guess you just have to figure out where earth is.
It drives me crazy when I see the GPL text and the "I Agree" button on the installer for a GPL'd program.
Hmmm... Interesting thought although it shouldn't say you are agreeing to the GPL, could it say, "I agree I received this software in accordance with the GPL" Or, perhaps it could be considered GPL public relations... "I understand that there are things I can do with this GPL software I can't do with other software."
Or, if as the GPL distributor perhaps you are looking for fame and want as much distirbution as possible, so forcing people to read the GPL may get them to copy and distirbute to more people.
I am sure that is not what is intended by the installers you have seen, but I thought there might be some interesting reasons not even related to Use for putting a GPL dealy in an installer.
So if you have a dual Xeon 3.6Ghz, you're likely to get better performance than a machine with a single dual core 3.6Ghz.
This comes down to cores having to wait for access to resources, etc.
I think you are not saying what you think you are saying. In the case of Intel they should be nearly identical, since Intel shares the memory bu between two processors whether the cores are on one piece of silicon or two. AMD wil be an interesting study since a dual opteron can have memory for each processor, and each has its own connection to the peripherals. Weras all other thngs being equal a dual core Opteron would have only one memory bus for both cores and share a connection to the peripherals.
You can get equivalent performance to a dual core Sun Sparc IV 1.25Ghz with a single 1.8Ghz Fujitsu Sparc processor.
This suggests you are thinking single core higher clock vs two processors (dual core or separate). Which can often be true depending on the software.
How frequently am I forced to support 'portable' applications that are performance hogs? Too often thats for sure.
I may not contribute much here, but if the ability to put 4-8-16-32...512 processors into a computer pushes the database performance into the stratosphere at a low enough price it might make sense to give up some performance in order to have greater portability and hence more leverage in licensing. I think to sum up it may be less costly to buy more hardware and have the ability to switch databases easily, than to risk being locked into a database where the ability to get additional perfomance from hardware is too costly due to the licensing scheme.
Billions of Chinese, Japanese, and to a lesser extent Europeans via their central banks are floating the entire American financial house of cards, which is the only reason Social Security even stands today.
Hmmmm.... And, we are about nearly a trillion more in hock to those same people since Bush took office. At least with Social Security we are in hock to ourselves.