The rate of growth of the desktop market is slowing down, yes. However, the desktop market is still growing in terms of number of units and is certainly not declining.
For the next few years/decades, there is a definately a market for desktop CPUs. So, yes, this article definately matters.
The major news networks have anything but a liberal slant. Where have you been hiding the past few years ? The news networks are nothing more than mouthpieces for Bush and the Republican party. When was the last time you heard any news critical of the Bush administration ?
I run anywhere from B50 to B100 (50% biodiesel/50% petro biodiesel to 100% biodiesel) in my stock 2002 VW New Beetle TDI. It's only $2.50/gallon, delivered to my door, taxes included. That's a cheap price to pay for "freedom fuel".
A little too much gloom and doom there, bub. I fuel my 2002 VW TDI with 100% Biodiesel made from virgin soybean oil and pay $2.50/gallon for it, unsubsidized. Click here and here for more details. Let me also throw in a few more facts:
1) We could power the entire USA on algae-based biodiesel with a combined landmass the size of Deleware for less than $2/gallon.
2) Biodiesel runs in every diesel made since about 1992 without any modifications.
3) It is a domestic, renewable, closed-carbon fuel.
I forgot to mention that my vehicle gets 45mpg+ in mixed city/highway driving. So, at $2.50/gallon, I'm paying:
45mpg/($2.50/gallon) = 18 miles per dollar
Now, assuming your vehicle gets 30mpg (does it ?), you'd have to get:
30mpg/(18 miles per dollar) = $1.67/gallon
To be even with me from a pure economic point of view. Also consider I paid only $17,000 for my brand-new 2002 VW TDI. How much does your vehicle cost ?
Also, what kind of dollar figure would put on supporting a domestic, renewable, clean-burning, CO2-neutral fuel that does NOT encourage wars or cause bloodshed ?
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Bravo ! I, too, bought a 40mpg+ vehicle, a VW TDI. To further cut my dependence upon Saudi oil, I use roughly a 30/70 blend of petro diesel/biodiesel. No modifications were required to run biodiesel, either. If I really wanted to go for it, I could cut out petro diesel altogether, but that would require installing an in-line heater to keep the biodiesel from gelling. I may do actually do that, now that I talk about it.
Unfortunately, I did not receive any tax breaks on my TDI. I don't even get any tax breaks on the biodiesel, either. I get charged full price from my local commercial supplier.
However, I can rightly claim that I get over 100mpg of petroleum diesel:)
Biodiesel is here now and can be run in existing vehicles without any modifications, such as the VW line of diesel-powered vehicles, including the Golf, New Beetle, Jetta, and Jetta wagon.
Furthemore, it can be had in many parts of the US for not much more than regular diesel. I live in the Atlanta area and get mine in 55 gallon drums, delivered to my door, for $2.50/gallon, taxes and transport costs included.
I wish the media would quit griping about future alternative fuel sources. A renewable, domestic, practical, affordable solution is here, now.
This article pays homage to future alternative fuels such as hydrogen and bioethanol, but does not even mention the most practical, affordable, and widely used alternative fuel : biodiesel. Biodiesel is commonly blended with petroleum diesel and is used in school buses, trucking fleets, and by individuals like myself. I run commercial-grade biodiesel in my non-modified (straight off the showroom floor) VW TDI. I even have it delivered to my garage door in 55 gallon drums for $2.50/gallon, all taxes and transport included.
This article is just one in a long line of many that only pays attention to trendy, non-practical technologies like fuel cells (a battery-powered car is still cheaper and faster than any fuel cell car) and bioethanol, while completely ignoring the practical, relevant, and current technologies like biodiesel.
A good gasoline engine is 30% thermodynamically efficient. A good diesel engine is around 43%. There's a reason why trucks pulling 80,000+ lbs. over long distances are diesel-powered rather than gasoline-powered : diesel gives better miles per gallon than gasoline.
I like your sig. Indeed, what kind of asshole buys an SUV during an oil war ? The whole Gulf War II talk over a year ago prompted me to put my money where my mouth and beliefs were and upgrade from 0%/30 to 78%/50 renewable/MPG. I bought a 50mpg VW New Beetle TDI (diesel) and fill it with 78% renewable (22% of the energy currently comes from natural gas) biodiesel.
No more money going over there. All my fuel money stays in the USA.
1) $33/hr is about 3 times more expensive than $9.50/hr. Therefor, $5B in America does not equal $5B in India. Try $5B in India and $15B here or $1.67B in India and $5B here.
2) Money does not grow on trees. Someone is paying their (your) salary. Their (your) company just slashed their labor costs by 66%, thus saving money. If they had not, they might have:
(a) gone bankrupt, putting everying out of a job
or
(b) laid off 66% of the workforce to cut costs, in which case they (you) would still be out of a job
3) Remember that your $0.99 fries from McDonald's is possible mostly because the dude/dudette frying them up is getting paid minimum wage, not $33/hr. At $33/hr, those fries would probably cost about $4 or $5. The point is that cheap labor benefits the consumer of the product of that labor. You are a consumer. You do benefit from cheap labor.
4) They (you) are not entitled to $33/hr. They (you) have to _earn_ their (your) pay.
If (when) someone hacks the system, they will be able to effectively steer the plane by placing a "soft wall" in its path in such a way to make it avoid the "soft wall" and steer in the direction they want to steer it.
Now the terrorists don't even have to die to complete their mission, they can steer the plane from the ground.
Earthlink is my ISP and I have had no problems with NAT. I am, however, ticked off that they keep releasing my DHCP IP address, forcing me to renew it and get a new one.
Static IPs (layer 3) have nothing to do with the transmission medium (layer 1). Rather, the decision to support static IPs or not is up to your service provider. Perhaps the Cable service provider(s) in your area don't support static IPs while the DSL provider(s) do. In my area, I'm already using a static IP Cable Modem setup with Cox.
It's called QoS - Quality of Service. This feature was introduced into DOCSIS 1.1. While all of the major Cable Modem equipment vendors have DOCSIS 1.1 equipment to sell, the cable companies have no economic incentive to replace their existing DOCSIS 1.0 or older equipment with DOCSIS 1.1 equipment. Hence, adaptation to DOCSIS 1.1 has been slow, but it's happening. It will be quite a few years before the majority of cable modem equipment is capable of supporting DOCSIS 1.1+.
1) Natural gas, not oil, is used in making commercial fertilizer.
This is an important point from the USA's point of view, since the vast majority of our natural gas comes from domestic sources and Canada.
2) Most natural fuel does NOT use more (fossil) fuel than it produces (in natural fuel).
Corn-based ethanol is the evil fuel you're speaking of. It is indeed a huge energy sink. The only reason it exists is because of huge government subsidies. Biodiesel, on the other hand, is 78% solar-powered. That is, only 22% of the energy in virgin soybean oil-derived biodiesel comes from fossil fuels.
Also consider that animal waste (pig crap) based methanol can be used in place of natural gas, thus completely removing fossil fuels from the biodiesel equation. However, this is not going to happen until one or both of the following happen:
1) consumers demand environmentally-friendly fuel by refusing to use fossil fuels
and/or
2) the demand for oil exceeds the easily-extractable supply of oil, thus raising the economic costs of extracting fossil fuel high enough to where bio-fuels can compete
Of these two alternatives, (2) is the most likely. Already, biodiesel can purchased for a little over $2/gallon in bulk, state fuel taxes included. I give it another 10 years before the increasing world energy demand outstrips its soon-to-peak supply.
As for myself, I drive a 2002 VW New Beetle TDI, which is in stock form (no fuel mods) and is powered by biodiesel. While the biodiesel is more expensive than regular diesel, the fuel economy of my vehicle is high enough (50 mpg) that I still enjoy fuel savings when compared to my gasoline-powered brethren.
In an ideal world, yes. However, ISPs will not hesitate to gouge you additional IP addresses. Furthermore, NAT boxes also provide a de-facto firewall. I do not believe IPv6 will cause NATs to fade away. They are here to stay.
It seems that only the most obvious, hormone-driven responses to this article have been modded up. I am sorely disappointed, but not surprised, by the Slashdot moderating.
It's pretty obvious there's quite a few (the vast majority, even of) Slashdotters who are single males with little or no respect for the true sexuality of the female half of the population. This probably explains why they're on Slashdot and not with a woman.
Think about this, does society consider mags like GQ "immature"? No ?
GQ panders to adolescents boys, which are anything but mature. Just like GQ, most computer games are immature because their target audience is immature.
The NVidia chip as used in the XBox is basically a GeForce3, which is not anywhere near the performance of a decent GeForce4, much less an ATi Radeon 9700.
I just don't see D3 on an XBox looking decent.
"MBTE is a great way to meet emissions goals!"(too bad it pollutes the water table faster than you can say 'aquifer', and is a known carcinogen. Next time you fill up, look for that nice little "this gas may contain MTBE" sticker. Do a search on "MTBE health hazards" on google some time. That electric car looking better all of the sudden?)
No, but biodiesel sure is. Cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and renewable. Now, pray tell, where are we going to get the electricity from to power all of these electric and/or fool cell cars ?
I'd prefer those billions of dollars of MY taxpayer money be spent on multiple, un-manned projects, thereby reaping a much better return on investment.
As if 80 watts isn't already enough !! For the vast majority of CPU consumers, 1GHz is more than enough. I wish the CPU manufacturers would focus more on power consumption (which generates heat) and less on raw speed. They are starting to do that, but I would like to see them focus even more on that. I am not looking forward to the day when my computer consumes half the elecricity in my house !
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For the next few years/decades, there is a definately a market for desktop CPUs. So, yes, this article definately matters.
The major news networks have anything but a liberal slant. Where have you been hiding the past few years ? The news networks are nothing more than mouthpieces for Bush and the Republican party. When was the last time you heard any news critical of the Bush administration ?
I'm there, too. Been burning biodiesel for over a year now in my 2002 VW New Beetle TDI and love it !! Great stuff.
I run anywhere from B50 to B100 (50% biodiesel/50% petro biodiesel to 100% biodiesel) in my stock 2002 VW New Beetle TDI. It's only $2.50/gallon, delivered to my door, taxes included. That's a cheap price to pay for "freedom fuel".
1) We could power the entire USA on algae-based biodiesel with a combined landmass the size of Deleware for less than $2/gallon.
2) Biodiesel runs in every diesel made since about 1992 without any modifications.
3) It is a domestic, renewable, closed-carbon fuel.
Feel a little better ?
45mpg/($2.50/gallon) = 18 miles per dollar
Now, assuming your vehicle gets 30mpg (does it ?), you'd have to get:
30mpg/(18 miles per dollar) = $1.67/gallon
To be even with me from a pure economic point of view. Also consider I paid only $17,000 for my brand-new 2002 VW TDI. How much does your vehicle cost ?
Also, what kind of dollar figure would put on supporting a domestic, renewable, clean-burning, CO2-neutral fuel that does NOT encourage wars or cause bloodshed ?
Unfortunately, I did not receive any tax breaks on my TDI. I don't even get any tax breaks on the biodiesel, either. I get charged full price from my local commercial supplier.
However, I can rightly claim that I get over 100mpg of petroleum diesel :)
Furthemore, it can be had in many parts of the US for not much more than regular diesel. I live in the Atlanta area and get mine in 55 gallon drums, delivered to my door, for $2.50/gallon, taxes and transport costs included.
I wish the media would quit griping about future alternative fuel sources. A renewable, domestic, practical, affordable solution is here, now.
This article is just one in a long line of many that only pays attention to trendy, non-practical technologies like fuel cells (a battery-powered car is still cheaper and faster than any fuel cell car) and bioethanol, while completely ignoring the practical, relevant, and current technologies like biodiesel.
A good gasoline engine is 30% thermodynamically efficient. A good diesel engine is around 43%. There's a reason why trucks pulling 80,000+ lbs. over long distances are diesel-powered rather than gasoline-powered : diesel gives better miles per gallon than gasoline.
No more money going over there. All my fuel money stays in the USA.
1) $33/hr is about 3 times more expensive than $9.50/hr. Therefor, $5B in America does not equal $5B in India. Try $5B in India and $15B here or $1.67B in India and $5B here.
2) Money does not grow on trees. Someone is paying their (your) salary. Their (your) company just slashed their labor costs by 66%, thus saving money. If they had not, they might have:
(a) gone bankrupt, putting everying out of a job
or
(b) laid off 66% of the workforce to cut costs, in which case they (you) would still be out of a job
3) Remember that your $0.99 fries from McDonald's is possible mostly because the dude/dudette frying them up is getting paid minimum wage, not $33/hr. At $33/hr, those fries would probably cost about $4 or $5. The point is that cheap labor benefits the consumer of the product of that labor. You are a consumer. You do benefit from cheap labor.
4) They (you) are not entitled to $33/hr. They (you) have to _earn_ their (your) pay.
If (when) someone hacks the system, they will be able to effectively steer the plane by placing a "soft wall" in its path in such a way to make it avoid the "soft wall" and steer in the direction they want to steer it. Now the terrorists don't even have to die to complete their mission, they can steer the plane from the ground.
It Canada trying to get itself invaded ? You know how Gee Dub feels about "repressive regimes" that just "happen" to sit on a fuck-ton of oil.
Earthlink is my ISP and I have had no problems with NAT. I am, however, ticked off that they keep releasing my DHCP IP address, forcing me to renew it and get a new one.
Static IPs (layer 3) have nothing to do with the transmission medium (layer 1). Rather, the decision to support static IPs or not is up to your service provider. Perhaps the Cable service provider(s) in your area don't support static IPs while the DSL provider(s) do. In my area, I'm already using a static IP Cable Modem setup with Cox.
It's called QoS - Quality of Service. This feature was introduced into DOCSIS 1.1. While all of the major Cable Modem equipment vendors have DOCSIS 1.1 equipment to sell, the cable companies have no economic incentive to replace their existing DOCSIS 1.0 or older equipment with DOCSIS 1.1 equipment. Hence, adaptation to DOCSIS 1.1 has been slow, but it's happening. It will be quite a few years before the majority of cable modem equipment is capable of supporting DOCSIS 1.1+.
1) Natural gas, not oil, is used in making commercial fertilizer.
This is an important point from the USA's point of view, since the vast majority of our natural gas comes from domestic sources and Canada.
2) Most natural fuel does NOT use more (fossil) fuel than it produces (in natural fuel).
Corn-based ethanol is the evil fuel you're speaking of. It is indeed a huge energy sink. The only reason it exists is because of huge government subsidies. Biodiesel, on the other hand, is 78% solar-powered. That is, only 22% of the energy in virgin soybean oil-derived biodiesel comes from fossil fuels.
Also consider that animal waste (pig crap) based methanol can be used in place of natural gas, thus completely removing fossil fuels from the biodiesel equation. However, this is not going to happen until one or both of the following happen:
1) consumers demand environmentally-friendly fuel by refusing to use fossil fuels
and/or
2) the demand for oil exceeds the easily-extractable supply of oil, thus raising the economic costs of extracting fossil fuel high enough to where bio-fuels can compete
Of these two alternatives, (2) is the most likely. Already, biodiesel can purchased for a little over $2/gallon in bulk, state fuel taxes included. I give it another 10 years before the increasing world energy demand outstrips its soon-to-peak supply.
As for myself, I drive a 2002 VW New Beetle TDI, which is in stock form (no fuel mods) and is powered by biodiesel. While the biodiesel is more expensive than regular diesel, the fuel economy of my vehicle is high enough (50 mpg) that I still enjoy fuel savings when compared to my gasoline-powered brethren.
Here are some interesting links:
Biodiesel Now
Biodiesel
TDI Club
In an ideal world, yes. However, ISPs will not hesitate to gouge you additional IP addresses. Furthermore, NAT boxes also provide a de-facto firewall. I do not believe IPv6 will cause NATs to fade away. They are here to stay.
It's pretty obvious there's quite a few (the vast majority, even of) Slashdotters who are single males with little or no respect for the true sexuality of the female half of the population. This probably explains why they're on Slashdot and not with a woman.
Married 5 years and VERY happy. What about you ?
GQ panders to adolescents boys, which are anything but mature. Just like GQ, most computer games are immature because their target audience is immature.
The NVidia chip as used in the XBox is basically a GeForce3, which is not anywhere near the performance of a decent GeForce4, much less an ATi Radeon 9700. I just don't see D3 on an XBox looking decent.
I'd prefer those billions of dollars of MY taxpayer money be spent on multiple, un-manned projects, thereby reaping a much better return on investment.
As if 80 watts isn't already enough !! For the vast majority of CPU consumers, 1GHz is more than enough. I wish the CPU manufacturers would focus more on power consumption (which generates heat) and less on raw speed. They are starting to do that, but I would like to see them focus even more on that. I am not looking forward to the day when my computer consumes half the elecricity in my house !