I think the point many people are making is that if one is concerned about it enough to take these steps for very minute power savings then maybe they should just not overclock at all, or, you know, turn off the computer when you aren't using it.
I'm pretty sure we have *some* effect, but I'm also pretty sure it's a minor one. Unfortunately, politics has taken over science and everyone is screaming "the sky is falling". Nobody likes to talk about how the IPCC report's abstract, summaries, and conclusions were written entirely by politicians.
It's just a power grab. Hey, we can tax CARBON EMMISSIONS! Great! That's an excellent way to reign in all that evil capitalism.
Mark my words, if the current hysteria persists they'll be talking about taxing us for breathing. After all, we exhale lots of CO2 (as to all aerobic respirators on our planet).
I prefer to eat a lot of meat, go on lots of joyrides, and burning a lot of brushwood from our semi-wooded yard. You see, we were going to move to North Carolina from Pittsburgh, but I figure it will be a lot less cheaper for me to just create as much volume of greenhouse gasses that I can so that global warming will just move the NC climate up this way.
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Good special effects does not a good movie make, and Transformers was evidence of that. It was average at best.
I've been a musician for close to 30 years and I understand that, but the symphony is NOT the place for non human 'musicians'. There is a place for electronic music, and the symphony hall is NOT it.
Nothing can stop companies from moving and incorporating somewhere outside the US. This is just election year 'feel good' politics even if we thought the President (any President, from any party) would actually use it against countries like China, Pakistan, or the US itself.
I enjoyed the series like I enjoyed "Friends". Mindless pap that was entertaining but really had no depth or value. She should be very thankful that she's richer than the Queen now and just shut the fuck up.
The automobile had no military value when it was first invented either. It was slow, cumbersome and weak. Now look at military transports and tanks today. As you said, "at least not in its present form". You've gotta start somewhere.
I think the essence is summed up in this snippet of the article:
"Rowling has nowhere to go and nothing to do now that the Harry Potter series is over. After all her literary borrowing, she shot her wad and she's flailing about trying to come up with something to do that means anything."
I tend to agree. I think she's being a huge self absorbed twit over this whole thing.
I'd be willing to place a small wager that the success to failure ratio is far more favorable to startups created by people with some life experience rather than those created by 20 year olds.
Actually you're probably correct. I should have said "all modern general purpose CPU's." My point was that VLIW style chips still use microcode. Different things.
He also keeps using a sample of one (life on Earth, the only life we currently know of) to extrapolate.
This article has very little to do with science. It's an opinion piece, almost like an Op-Ed. The author makes a lot of false assumptions based on scant evidence.
"computers are finally able to use any number of cores each to their maximum potential at the same time."
The main problem is the software can't use an arbitrarily high number of cores, not the 'computers'. We could put out 64 core PC's (say 16 quad cores) but software just isn't written to take advantage of that level of parallelism.
I guess we have different definitions of 'not easy' then. I found it almost trivial to find what I needed online and install OS X on my Hackintosh. The 'hacked' ISO's are painfully easy to find online and if you build your machine to the right specs installation is a breeze.
...if everyone just blocked that IP range entirely at their routers, shutting off their connectivity?
There was a time when the Internet was a 'small' enough place that it would have even been feasible. Kind of like blacklisting a Usenet server for spam.
I've been in the industry for over 15 years now. While I was purely a technical type I had plenty of fun. Project, people, and operations management brought all new headaches. There are days I hate my job and days I find pleasure in it, but it's a job. I make decent money and can provide well for my family while managing to save some.
I have plenty of hobbies, and some of them I am able to indulge in only because I have sufficient resources due to the job I sometimes hate. I also love and enjoy my family and friends. I've always doubted the whole finding fulfilment in your work motif. It happens to a lucky few, but the rest of us can enjoy life every bit as much.
I have worked extensively with such systems. The failsafes are pretty good. How many times have you heard of someone dying because their heart monitor failed? I can't think of any.
Save the ad hominem attacks. They are a waste of bandwidth.
You can now number yourself among most adults. Get over it, do what you have to do to take care of your family, and find joy in pursuits outside of work.
If you can support your family in a new career then talk to your spouse about it. Even if you *think* you can though, look at the current economic problems. If you're fairly secure in your job now it might not be smart to move on just yet.
" is it better to allow the botnet to continue unabated, or perhaps to risk crashing a computer controlling a heart monitor somewhere?"
I challenge the submitter to find one instance where a computer controlling a heart monitor has a worm infection. They are not even networked and they do not run Windows.
It's more about bragging rights and PR/marketing than about volume of chips sold. I doubt AMD is terribly worried as they have much bigger concerns right now.
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I think the point many people are making is that if one is concerned about it enough to take these steps for very minute power savings then maybe they should just not overclock at all, or, you know, turn off the computer when you aren't using it.
I'm pretty sure we have *some* effect, but I'm also pretty sure it's a minor one. Unfortunately, politics has taken over science and everyone is screaming "the sky is falling". Nobody likes to talk about how the IPCC report's abstract, summaries, and conclusions were written entirely by politicians.
It's just a power grab. Hey, we can tax CARBON EMMISSIONS! Great! That's an excellent way to reign in all that evil capitalism.
Mark my words, if the current hysteria persists they'll be talking about taxing us for breathing. After all, we exhale lots of CO2 (as to all aerobic respirators on our planet).
I prefer to eat a lot of meat, go on lots of joyrides, and burning a lot of brushwood from our semi-wooded yard. You see, we were going to move to North Carolina from Pittsburgh, but I figure it will be a lot less cheaper for me to just create as much volume of greenhouse gasses that I can so that global warming will just move the NC climate up this way.
Good special effects does not a good movie make, and Transformers was evidence of that. It was average at best.
I've been a musician for close to 30 years and I understand that, but the symphony is NOT the place for non human 'musicians'. There is a place for electronic music, and the symphony hall is NOT it.
Now get off my lawn.
Let's replace all the musicians as well then with robots who play each note perfectly just as the composer envisioned. No?
This is a bad thing for music, not a good thing, and a cheap publicity stunt.
Nothing can stop companies from moving and incorporating somewhere outside the US. This is just election year 'feel good' politics even if we thought the President (any President, from any party) would actually use it against countries like China, Pakistan, or the US itself.
I enjoyed the series like I enjoyed "Friends". Mindless pap that was entertaining but really had no depth or value. She should be very thankful that she's richer than the Queen now and just shut the fuck up.
The automobile had no military value when it was first invented either. It was slow, cumbersome and weak. Now look at military transports and tanks today. As you said, "at least not in its present form". You've gotta start somewhere.
I think the essence is summed up in this snippet of the article:
"Rowling has nowhere to go and nothing to do now that the Harry Potter series is over. After all her literary borrowing, she shot her wad and she's flailing about trying to come up with something to do that means anything."
I tend to agree. I think she's being a huge self absorbed twit over this whole thing.
I'd be willing to place a small wager that the success to failure ratio is far more favorable to startups created by people with some life experience rather than those created by 20 year olds.
Actually you're probably correct. I should have said "all modern general purpose CPU's." My point was that VLIW style chips still use microcode. Different things.
He also keeps using a sample of one (life on Earth, the only life we currently know of) to extrapolate.
This article has very little to do with science. It's an opinion piece, almost like an Op-Ed. The author makes a lot of false assumptions based on scant evidence.
"computers are finally able to use any number of cores each to their maximum potential at the same time."
The main problem is the software can't use an arbitrarily high number of cores, not the 'computers'. We could put out 64 core PC's (say 16 quad cores) but software just isn't written to take advantage of that level of parallelism.
I guess we have different definitions of 'not easy' then. I found it almost trivial to find what I needed online and install OS X on my Hackintosh. The 'hacked' ISO's are painfully easy to find online and if you build your machine to the right specs installation is a breeze.
No. All processors have microcode, including the most infamous VLIW chip the Itanic. You're confusing yourself.
It is either open or it isn't.
...if everyone just blocked that IP range entirely at their routers, shutting off their connectivity?
There was a time when the Internet was a 'small' enough place that it would have even been feasible. Kind of like blacklisting a Usenet server for spam.
I've been in the industry for over 15 years now. While I was purely a technical type I had plenty of fun. Project, people, and operations management brought all new headaches. There are days I hate my job and days I find pleasure in it, but it's a job. I make decent money and can provide well for my family while managing to save some.
I have plenty of hobbies, and some of them I am able to indulge in only because I have sufficient resources due to the job I sometimes hate. I also love and enjoy my family and friends. I've always doubted the whole finding fulfilment in your work motif. It happens to a lucky few, but the rest of us can enjoy life every bit as much.
I have worked extensively with such systems. The failsafes are pretty good. How many times have you heard of someone dying because their heart monitor failed? I can't think of any.
Save the ad hominem attacks. They are a waste of bandwidth.
You can now number yourself among most adults. Get over it, do what you have to do to take care of your family, and find joy in pursuits outside of work.
If you can support your family in a new career then talk to your spouse about it. Even if you *think* you can though, look at the current economic problems. If you're fairly secure in your job now it might not be smart to move on just yet.
Yes, but those are not the same thing, and the primary machine still has alerts that sound (quite loudly) if something goes amiss.
" is it better to allow the botnet to continue unabated, or perhaps to risk crashing a computer controlling a heart monitor somewhere?"
I challenge the submitter to find one instance where a computer controlling a heart monitor has a worm infection. They are not even networked and they do not run Windows.
Sure, but posting actual facts doesn't give the same cheap karma boost as posting something anti-war or anti-nuclear.
Then again, I'm sure people would rather see us blowing up actual bombs as tests rather than simulating them (sarcasm).
It's more about bragging rights and PR/marketing than about volume of chips sold. I doubt AMD is terribly worried as they have much bigger concerns right now.