that transistor count include an enourmous amount of on-die cache, 1 billion transistors is impressive when you consider that it's just the core, not L2 cache.
Cats are simply evil... You come home, your kernel has been recompiled and your logs are gone... Worse part of it is that the cat will try to blame it on your dog.
IIRC, neutrinos have 0 radius and therefore 0 volume (please correct me if I'm wrong), so wouldn't neutrinos having mass mean that they have infinite density?
We "won" the space race, the arms race and the cold war... We're the richest country in the world, and the most successful space program... Now Russia's doing commercial space tourism, and the best we can do is keep sending probes, cutting NASA's budget and reducing manned spaceflights. It's just sad...
The problem with.999c is that friction (space isn't a perfect vacuum) would melt/vaporize all known materials, so how do you construct a ship/probe that can handle that speed? IIRC, at.3C all known materials melt due to friction...
You make a good point, but all I'm saying is that it's going to be pretty funny for all the earthy-crunchy types when they lead expensive and prohibitive lifestyles trying to make the world a better place, and suddenly we get hit by an asteroid, a plague, or China gets frisky with nuclear weapons...
I hate to sound nihilistic, but in the end, we're just another species on this planet that will eventually go extinct. This is regardless of whether a global catastrophe will be directly caused by human activity, or whether it's caused by something completely out of our hands. We won't live forever, all we can do is make the best out of the time we are given in this pebble. Compulsive worrying about environmentalism is counterproductive, and environmentalism is only good as long as it enhances our quality of life without constrictively depriving us of our whatever creature comforts we deem to be necessary. So let me save you the suspsense, pack your shit folks, we're all going away.
SGI has been slowly collapsing like flan on a cupboard for the past 6 years. They haven't achieved much other than injecting their necrotic agent into once-successful companies like Cray, MIPS and others they have absorbed throughout the years. They are overly-diversified and unfocused, which a pathetic excuse for a new workstation won't help.
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Does anyone have experience with Raidmax power supplies?
Low cost hardware doesn't sound like Sun's schtick, now does it?
Because much like Star Wars, no matter how cheesy or contrived it might be, together they are arguably the cornerstone of our generation's childhood.
that transistor count include an enourmous amount of on-die cache, 1 billion transistors is impressive when you consider that it's just the core, not L2 cache.
Cats are simply evil... You come home, your kernel has been recompiled and your logs are gone... Worse part of it is that the cat will try to blame it on your dog.
IIRC, neutrinos have 0 radius and therefore 0 volume (please correct me if I'm wrong), so wouldn't neutrinos having mass mean that they have infinite density?
And then the left side of my brain looked at the right side of my brain and said "it's dark in here, and we may die".
We "won" the space race, the arms race and the cold war... We're the richest country in the world, and the most successful space program... Now Russia's doing commercial space tourism, and the best we can do is keep sending probes, cutting NASA's budget and reducing manned spaceflights. It's just sad...
The problem with .999c is that friction (space isn't a perfect vacuum) would melt/vaporize all known materials, so how do you construct a ship/probe that can handle that speed? IIRC, at .3C all known materials melt due to friction...
You make a good point, but all I'm saying is that it's going to be pretty funny for all the earthy-crunchy types when they lead expensive and prohibitive lifestyles trying to make the world a better place, and suddenly we get hit by an asteroid, a plague, or China gets frisky with nuclear weapons...
I hate to sound nihilistic, but in the end, we're just another species on this planet that will eventually go extinct. This is regardless of whether a global catastrophe will be directly caused by human activity, or whether it's caused by something completely out of our hands. We won't live forever, all we can do is make the best out of the time we are given in this pebble. Compulsive worrying about environmentalism is counterproductive, and environmentalism is only good as long as it enhances our quality of life without constrictively depriving us of our whatever creature comforts we deem to be necessary. So let me save you the suspsense, pack your shit folks, we're all going away.
SGI has been slowly collapsing like flan on a cupboard for the past 6 years. They haven't achieved much other than injecting their necrotic agent into once-successful companies like Cray, MIPS and others they have absorbed throughout the years. They are overly-diversified and unfocused, which a pathetic excuse for a new workstation won't help.
Somehow this feels oddly familiar to the Fleischmann & Pons scare of '89