32 thousand CDs, using slim jewel cases at 5mm thickness, means you have a CD tower 160 metres tall. Given a standard height of three metres per floor, your CD stack is over 53 stories high.
You only need 1.21 gigawatts to travel back in time, buy Bitcoins at USD$0.008, become the most powerful company on the planet and simply buy out any and all competitors before they become a threat.
I think even video encoding would require less processing power than Java or VMS. It's normal that you don't get the 10 hours that Apple gets in normal usage benchmarks.
I tried reading W3C "documentation" a few times. It's so dry and devoid of real-life example as to be useless. It may be the way engineers write documents but it's not the kind of references I'm used to read as a programmer.
That'll teach you not to have 36 tabs opened at the same time!
Seriously, how are you guys managing more than a dozen tabs opened at once? What are you doing that requires you to leave all these tabs opened? Ever heard of bookmarks, bookmark groups, etc?
That's because you kept using the commercial side of the Internet.
There's still forums for specific interests like arcade cabinets, 3D printing, RC airplanes, etc. The "old Internet" is alive and well in most of those communities.
12 cents for one kilowatt for one hour. 150W means 0.018 cents per hour. 3600 seconds per hour, so USD$0.018 / 3600 = 0.000005 cent per second.
Let's say you're generous and let them mine on your computer for ten minutes. That's USD$0.003, less than half a cent.
Yes, damn those damn crypto-mining scripts! I let my guard down for a whole 10 minutes and they cost me less than one-third of a cent! And that's if crypto-mining actually was able to draw 150W from your CPU, using all cores at 100%.
So in the grand scheme of things, what would you prefer:
1. Ads that requires multiple address lookups, slow down your connection, add more delays for viewing the actual content you're trying to read and just be totally annoying to look at, distracting you and preventing you from reading?
2. Crypto-mining in the background, a single thread of our multi-core processors, at maybe 20~50% capacity of that one core out of two/four/eight+ cores?
I would rather mine for 20 seconds than to pick which image is a car or what a street sign is.
The real problem for OCD people like is that those damn street signs are frequently not quite completely in the damn boxes, so I never know if I should click on those boxes too. It's like someone is doing a really crappy job at "slicing" those images, whatever the term is.
I'm still under the shock that code can appear magically out of thin air, without wires, at speeds thousands of times faster than loading from an audio tape.
I'm still baffled that we have "web pages" with images that dozens if not hundred of times the maximum amount of RAM our 8-bit computers hard. I remember the first time I saw the power of EGA graphics in 320x200, 16 colours. It was the best computer graphics I had ever seen*.
I'm still amazed that computers are fast enough to not only playback CD-quality music files, but they're compressed 11 times smaller and it only requires a tiny percentage of the processor power to do all that. I remember my first Sound Blaster, 8-bit mono at 11.025KHz was a miracle*.
* and then a friend of mine showed me games on his Amiga 1000...
And now I can buy a 32-bit microcontroller for less than $10 that's dozens/hundreds of times as powerful as my first desktop computer. We have smartphones more powerful than our desktop computers from a decade ago (and we use all this power watch Oww my ball! and send emojis because kids can't write anymore)
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You could at least give direct links to the Disney princesses pages.
If those trucks can hit roads then surely they can hit pedestrians too.
Actually not a bad idea to make the noise user-customizable, otherwise jaywalkers will simply learn to tune out this new warning noise.
Every physical object produced has a mass, doesn't it?
I remember King's Quest... something... had around 14 floppies.
That's the one thing I couldn't understand about their whole system. Thank you.
32 thousand CDs, using slim jewel cases at 5mm thickness, means you have a CD tower 160 metres tall. Given a standard height of three metres per floor, your CD stack is over 53 stories high.
Did you account for the titles of the songs? Names of the albums?
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You only need 1.21 gigawatts to travel back in time, buy Bitcoins at USD$0.008, become the most powerful company on the planet and simply buy out any and all competitors before they become a threat.
And that explains how these ACs can cool our homes in the summer. It's very cold in Russia!
I'm pretty sure my Cherry 2000 sexbot is impenetr... oh wait.
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Whatâ(TM)s wrong with the summary?
There's already a lot of crypto-currencies that could easily be used for micro-transactions such as Reddcoin, Dogecoin, etc.
I think even video encoding would require less processing power than Java or VMS. It's normal that you don't get the 10 hours that Apple gets in normal usage benchmarks.
I tried reading W3C "documentation" a few times. It's so dry and devoid of real-life example as to be useless. It may be the way engineers write documents but it's not the kind of references I'm used to read as a programmer.
Maybe the A12 will integrate Monero crypto-mining features.
Monero is supposed to be anti-ASICs.
That'll teach you not to have 36 tabs opened at the same time!
Seriously, how are you guys managing more than a dozen tabs opened at once? What are you doing that requires you to leave all these tabs opened? Ever heard of bookmarks, bookmark groups, etc?
That's because you kept using the commercial side of the Internet.
There's still forums for specific interests like arcade cabinets, 3D printing, RC airplanes, etc. The "old Internet" is alive and well in most of those communities.
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Let's go with U.S.A. electricity prices since they're more or less in the middle.
Let's also say you have a higher-than-average computer, with an Intel Core i7 3970X Extreme Edition at 150W.
12 cents for one kilowatt for one hour. 150W means 0.018 cents per hour. 3600 seconds per hour, so USD$0.018 / 3600 = 0.000005 cent per second.
Let's say you're generous and let them mine on your computer for ten minutes. That's USD$0.003, less than half a cent.
Yes, damn those damn crypto-mining scripts! I let my guard down for a whole 10 minutes and they cost me less than one-third of a cent! And that's if crypto-mining actually was able to draw 150W from your CPU, using all cores at 100%.
So in the grand scheme of things, what would you prefer:
1. Ads that requires multiple address lookups, slow down your connection, add more delays for viewing the actual content you're trying to read and just be totally annoying to look at, distracting you and preventing you from reading?
2. Crypto-mining in the background, a single thread of our multi-core processors, at maybe 20~50% capacity of that one core out of two/four/eight+ cores?
The real problem for OCD people like is that those damn street signs are frequently not quite completely in the damn boxes, so I never know if I should click on those boxes too. It's like someone is doing a really crappy job at "slicing" those images, whatever the term is.
45 years old programmer here.
I'm still under the shock that code can appear magically out of thin air, without wires, at speeds thousands of times faster than loading from an audio tape.
I'm still baffled that we have "web pages" with images that dozens if not hundred of times the maximum amount of RAM our 8-bit computers hard. I remember the first time I saw the power of EGA graphics in 320x200, 16 colours. It was the best computer graphics I had ever seen*.
I'm still amazed that computers are fast enough to not only playback CD-quality music files, but they're compressed 11 times smaller and it only requires a tiny percentage of the processor power to do all that. I remember my first Sound Blaster, 8-bit mono at 11.025KHz was a miracle*.
* and then a friend of mine showed me games on his Amiga 1000...
And now I can buy a 32-bit microcontroller for less than $10 that's dozens/hundreds of times as powerful as my first desktop computer. We have smartphones more powerful than our desktop computers from a decade ago (and we use all this power watch Oww my ball! and send emojis because kids can't write anymore)
And get off my artificial lawn!
Monero is not viable on GPU? You do know there's Monero mining software for both AMD and NVIDIA, right?