While that is all true, having rigorous IT compliance to SOX means that our auditors don't feel it necessary to do as deep a dive into our financial statements saving us about as much in auditing fees as our entire IT budget (which is not small for our company size). They have set a threshold for audit failures on the IT side and if we were to fail enough high priority controls they would have to do some serious forensic accounting which would be extremely labor intensive since it would have to be completed before our next SEC statement..
That's correct, in many climates you would spend more energy trying to maintain humidity then you would save by not running the AC system. For larger systems many have a "freecool" option which runs the waste stream through the heat exchanger without running the compressors thus saving ~80% of the energy.
Omega-3 is easy to get in forms that won't clog your arteries, and I doubt the factory raised eggs contain much anyways (one article says free range chicken eggs contain up to 14 times more, but I can't find an article that specified mg per standard large egg). Walnuts and salmon happen to be my favorite sources.
Nope, most commercially available LED bulbs are no more efficient on a lumens/watt basis than CFL's (~60) and are MUCH worse on a lumens/dollar basis, this loaded study notwithstanding.
Yeah I'm specifically thinking of things like exotic meats like Bison, Elk, Ostrich, etc and super premium products like Kobe beef. It would suck to have beef tenderloin in that category as you can get it today for relatively cheap if you shop carefully but it would probably be inevitable.
Nor can you pick up a PS3 for under $200, the slim is $300. More info, the QS22 provides 3 TFLOPS of double precision performance, the PS3 only 15GFLOPS, so you would need 200 PS3's to equal one QS22 for double precision math. The QS22 lists for $10,000 so with standard discounts ~$5,000 for a savings of ~$55,000 per QS22 =) Now if they are using single precision math it's a different story, the PS3 is rated at 1.2TFLOPS and the QS22 only 6.4TFLOPS so it's cheaper to go the PS3 route, though the QS22 might still have a lower 5 year TCO due to lower power and cooling requirements.
That's what I was thinking, WTF are they buying PS3's with all the associated gaming hardware when the QS22 blades offer better MIPS/watt and MIPS/dollar when you are buying at those kinds of quantity.
Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware that Fab 1's other line wasn't on 300mm yet. Global will have a LOT of capacity next year then with a second 300mm line and Fab 2 coming online at 28nm 300mm, wonder if both lines at Fab 2 will be at full capacity by the end of the year.
Actually the process node is known as 40/45nm in the industry, they are the same basic technology and thanks to the IBM cross licensing agreements they also have access to SOI and strained silicon though they might not be using the latter in this generation.
Brown's been on the good side of technology legislation for a LONG time, when he was over in the House he served on the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and was almost always on the side of the citizenry. Every time I've written him about issues concerning me I have received a detailed and thought-out response, some signed by him personally. I've also had the pleasure to meet him in person on numerous occasions and even had the chance to follow-up on some of those letters. He remembered details of my correspondence so I'm fairly certain they were not simply responded too by staffers. He might not be as approachable today as a senator has significantly more constituents but I doubt he cares less about them.
That's why I'm looking at a HD5750 with passive cooling when they come down to ~$100, lower power bills and no noise but it will still play just about anything at 1920*1080.
More like an art wall, the percentage of total cost of development for art resources in modern games is incredibly higher than it was back in say the 90's. Budgets for AAA titles have ballooned to nearly Hollywood levels.
Wal-Mart is capitalism in action, for all the good and bad that entails. A recent study showed that Wal-Mart has save the mean family $3k/year and the median family $650/year in the last two years. They have also kept wages depressed around the world.
Yeah but it's going to require one hell of a crossbar configuration to connect those chips all to each other at decent speeds. Guess someone better pull the SGI and Cray patents out of mothballs.
Actually Bilski basically rules out method patents Respondents filed in the Patent Office an application for an invention which was described as being related "to the processing of data by program and more particularly to the programmed conversion of numerical information" in general purpose digital computers....The claims were not limited to any particular art or technology, to any particular apparatus or machinery, or to any particular end use. They purported to cover any use of the claimed method in a general purpose digital computer of any type.
Yes, but that should dramatically reduce your attack surface, well except for stupid Flash Player and Acrobat, Adobe can't code their way out of a paper bag.
i don't know, if I give a flower delivery service a name and city and give them a big tip I'm sure they would do much of the same type of sleuthing. Does having the guesswork be performed by a computer make it a novel invention?
The problem of resolution is normally one of data, not modeling power. The reason forecast's aren't much good past 7-10 days is that the points between data collection stations leads to too much future randomness that no amount of additional processing power will eliminate.
There ARE other fields that can take advantage of every bit of processing power you can find, molecular chemistry, proteomics, among others.
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While that is all true, having rigorous IT compliance to SOX means that our auditors don't feel it necessary to do as deep a dive into our financial statements saving us about as much in auditing fees as our entire IT budget (which is not small for our company size). They have set a threshold for audit failures on the IT side and if we were to fail enough high priority controls they would have to do some serious forensic accounting which would be extremely labor intensive since it would have to be completed before our next SEC statement..
Nope, my wife owns a streetlight and it's nothing more than 3x long life 100W bulb's.
Yeah except the Income Tax people are just loony since the 16th amendment to the constitution allows congress to levy the tax.
Uh, with 8 million requests in a year I'd say it's already very 1984ish. Wonder if this overrides the '911 only' setting on many handsets?
That's correct, in many climates you would spend more energy trying to maintain humidity then you would save by not running the AC system. For larger systems many have a "freecool" option which runs the waste stream through the heat exchanger without running the compressors thus saving ~80% of the energy.
Omega-3 is easy to get in forms that won't clog your arteries, and I doubt the factory raised eggs contain much anyways (one article says free range chicken eggs contain up to 14 times more, but I can't find an article that specified mg per standard large egg). Walnuts and salmon happen to be my favorite sources.
Nope, most commercially available LED bulbs are no more efficient on a lumens/watt basis than CFL's (~60) and are MUCH worse on a lumens/dollar basis, this loaded study notwithstanding.
Egg Beaters is nothing but egg whites separated from yolks. It's better because it doesn't contain the cholesterol or sulphur that are in the yolks.
Yeah I'm specifically thinking of things like exotic meats like Bison, Elk, Ostrich, etc and super premium products like Kobe beef. It would suck to have beef tenderloin in that category as you can get it today for relatively cheap if you shop carefully but it would probably be inevitable.
Since people keep stating that Sony is selling the PS3 at a loss and hoping for game attach rates I think you would be.
Nor can you pick up a PS3 for under $200, the slim is $300. More info, the QS22 provides 3 TFLOPS of double precision performance, the PS3 only 15GFLOPS, so you would need 200 PS3's to equal one QS22 for double precision math. The QS22 lists for $10,000 so with standard discounts ~$5,000 for a savings of ~$55,000 per QS22 =) Now if they are using single precision math it's a different story, the PS3 is rated at 1.2TFLOPS and the QS22 only 6.4TFLOPS so it's cheaper to go the PS3 route, though the QS22 might still have a lower 5 year TCO due to lower power and cooling requirements.
That's what I was thinking, WTF are they buying PS3's with all the associated gaming hardware when the QS22 blades offer better MIPS/watt and MIPS/dollar when you are buying at those kinds of quantity.
Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware that Fab 1's other line wasn't on 300mm yet. Global will have a LOT of capacity next year then with a second 300mm line and Fab 2 coming online at 28nm 300mm, wonder if both lines at Fab 2 will be at full capacity by the end of the year.
Actually the process node is known as 40/45nm in the industry, they are the same basic technology and thanks to the IBM cross licensing agreements they also have access to SOI and strained silicon though they might not be using the latter in this generation.
Brown's been on the good side of technology legislation for a LONG time, when he was over in the House he served on the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and was almost always on the side of the citizenry. Every time I've written him about issues concerning me I have received a detailed and thought-out response, some signed by him personally. I've also had the pleasure to meet him in person on numerous occasions and even had the chance to follow-up on some of those letters. He remembered details of my correspondence so I'm fairly certain they were not simply responded too by staffers. He might not be as approachable today as a senator has significantly more constituents but I doubt he cares less about them.
I really wonder why AMD uses TSMC when GlobalFoundries has mature 45nm 300mm SOI tech?
That's why I'm looking at a HD5750 with passive cooling when they come down to ~$100, lower power bills and no noise but it will still play just about anything at 1920*1080.
More like an art wall, the percentage of total cost of development for art resources in modern games is incredibly higher than it was back in say the 90's. Budgets for AAA titles have ballooned to nearly Hollywood levels.
Wal-Mart is capitalism in action, for all the good and bad that entails. A recent study showed that Wal-Mart has save the mean family $3k/year and the median family $650/year in the last two years. They have also kept wages depressed around the world.
Yeah but it's going to require one hell of a crossbar configuration to connect those chips all to each other at decent speeds. Guess someone better pull the SGI and Cray patents out of mothballs.
Actually Bilski basically rules out method patents ...The claims were not limited to any particular art or technology, to any particular apparatus or machinery, or to any particular end use. They purported to cover any use of the claimed method in a general purpose digital computer of any type.
Respondents filed in the Patent Office an application for an invention which was described as being related "to the processing of data by program and more particularly to the programmed conversion of numerical information" in general purpose digital computers.
Yes, but that should dramatically reduce your attack surface, well except for stupid Flash Player and Acrobat, Adobe can't code their way out of a paper bag.
Isn't this what NX is supposed to stop, execution of arbitrary data as code?
i don't know, if I give a flower delivery service a name and city and give them a big tip I'm sure they would do much of the same type of sleuthing. Does having the guesswork be performed by a computer make it a novel invention?
The problem of resolution is normally one of data, not modeling power. The reason forecast's aren't much good past 7-10 days is that the points between data collection stations leads to too much future randomness that no amount of additional processing power will eliminate. There ARE other fields that can take advantage of every bit of processing power you can find, molecular chemistry, proteomics, among others.