Earth's core only remains at the current temperatures because it is heated by the sun. If the sun were to stop shining tonight, tomorrow we would all be on a frozen rock. So the planet is, in effect a heatsink, absorbing the energy that is radiated by the sun and dissipating it.
Why burn coals? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to build a few wind turbines and drive electrolyzers directly with those, rather than setting up a coal power plant and paying for coal (and the mining of it)? Is it just me, or is everyone here really hooked on fossil fuels?;)
I do, provided the energy used to power the electrolysis comes from renewables. You invest in a windmill park and some electrolyzers, storage tanks and transportation infrastructure (+ maintenance), and you get fuel without having to pay directly for the energy you used to create it.
The heat comes from the direct conversion of electrical energy to heat inside the chip. Almost every other electrical appliance converts the electrical energy. For instance a light bulb converts it to heat and light. A drill converts it to mechanical energy.
The CPU however doesn't physically do anything, the transistors just flip which requires electrical energy, which is afterwards converted into: heat!
That's why every bit of energy that goes into your CPU will come out again under the form of heat, which we need to get rid of to keep the chip working.
And do you think end users installing a Xeon will give a rats ass that it uses 36 bits addressing? Opteron uses 40 bits for the record;) Those major improvements you are seeing are more likely related to the extra registers and other tweaks AMD provides in 64 bits mode.
I'm not an Intel fanboy, I'm just trying to get you people to understand that there is no magic going on here;) 64 bits means mostly bigger address space, and do they deliver? Yes they do. Intel slams on some extra hardware, so does AMD, end of story.
If you consider AMD64 to be "true 64 bits", then so is EMT64. They are both just an extension of the 32-bit instruction set and processing units with 64-bit equivalents.
Don't think AMD is so moch more innovative than Intel, they just grabbed good ole K7, stuck some goodies on there and called it K8. In other words, they both need a good smacking.
Ever smelled that smell.. smelly feet? Where do you think that comes from? It's nothing but toxins trying to exit your body... You sweat about half a pint per foot per day, and those shoes just absorb it while your body heat keeps it warm. That must be very healthy, no wonder it smells so good.
Why do people have deformed feet, bear claws so to speak? It's because their shoes keep their feet in a specific form, the shape of the shoe. How many people are there that don't have the 4th and/or 5th toe curled down, because it is stuck in a shoe? My grandmother had seriously deformed feet because she wore high heels her entire life.
Meanwhile, acupuncture uses your feet to control so many variables. The deformed nature of your feet changes your entire posture, which can create stress on specific organs. Go take a look at the pictures in the article, it's surprising;)
What happens if a vehicle has a failure before reaching the intersection, then slows and comes to a stall in the midst of all the traffic that was supposted to just "pass it by" as it cruised along the intersection? We can't just have 'em all hit the breaks, because collisions would be unavoidable at these proximity rates, no?
Don't you people understand... It is not possible for Netcraft to gather any statistical data on how many BSD machines are being used, simply because no one is *forced* to make their machine identify as a BSD machine!
Quote from :
"There are some, even large, companies that use BSD as routers, firewalls and even servers, without people noticing. That is a reason why no one can give current usage statistics for BSD, because no one is forced to say he is using BSD at all, or in which number." http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/?bsd-intro
Drawing conclusions from statistical date without proper knowledge on the subject is Bad Practice..
Of course they do, that's because they were designed a few years ago, designed for a target audience consisting of pure n00bz:)
IRC is rather old, and most clients that are developed for it don't bother with designing a n00b-interface for these n00bz.
Eventually they end up using some IM program, and that's when the real smalltalk starts. You have the most intriguing conversations in a channel...
IRCnet still a chat network? It must be the biggest warzone of kiddies struggling to split a few servers and gain operator status on some channel (thanks to that wonderful idea of nick/channel delay). I mean, if there is one network that's hardly still usable for the purpose of having a chat, it MUST be IRCnet!:P
My God, what an idiot. In case you didn't realise it yet, open source is a *good thing*, Microsoft is the Bad Thing(TM);)
Oh, and uh, Java has been around since years before they even had.NET plans, and you're wondering whether it's Java that's in.NET's leage? Too funny, today's crack monkeys:D
What is UP with all these friggen' Linux freaks?! See, I don't know if the community knows, but if you keep on rattling about something too much, people actually begin to repell it instead of growing closer to it.
At first I wanted to learn how to work with Linux, and then I found out what a bitch it was, how hard it is to learn to work with and especially how hard it is to find good documentation and not waste your money when buying a distro (if you already know you won't be able to install it..)
Besides, most people (including me) think MacOS X is about the most revolutionary OS of today. Linux? What is this Linux crap you are blabbering about woman? C'est rien, c'est rien du tout! OS X is one tightly integrated working whole, where Linux is just a bunch of thrown together software components that 'should' work together, but do they? Without excessive manual sysadmin tuning?
That's the nice thing about it.. we don't CARE that it replaces microsoft shit! My vision on linux as a whole is fading from a powerfull system to nothing more than a stupid toy to fight microsoft these days.. FUCK IT! I prefer BSD now, if only because its not such a wannabe OS!
Wauw, how leet! Another anti-microsoft being on this planet, and this one even came straight from microsoft! That's so great! Another one that hates microsoft but loves linux! The shitty microsoft-alternative that's a fucker to install! It just rocks my desktop! Yup, making some nice progress here! Bunch of kids..
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Earth's core only remains at the current temperatures because it is heated by the sun. If the sun were to stop shining tonight, tomorrow we would all be on a frozen rock. So the planet is, in effect a heatsink, absorbing the energy that is radiated by the sun and dissipating it.
So you really believe we have the space and time to have a bunch of bacteria squirt out millions of barrels of oil per night? Kudos to that mate..
Nope, anything produced out of biomatter can never serve our daily energy needs, so wave goodbye to ethanol in your car already...
Why burn coals? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to build a few wind turbines and drive electrolyzers directly with those, rather than setting up a coal power plant and paying for coal (and the mining of it)? Is it just me, or is everyone here really hooked on fossil fuels? ;)
I do, provided the energy used to power the electrolysis comes from renewables. You invest in a windmill park and some electrolyzers, storage tanks and transportation infrastructure (+ maintenance), and you get fuel without having to pay directly for the energy you used to create it.
However, these devices use the movement of waves to generate electricity, a movement which is essentially created by wind (most of the time).
The heat comes from the direct conversion of electrical energy to heat inside the chip. Almost every other electrical appliance converts the electrical energy. For instance a light bulb converts it to heat and light. A drill converts it to mechanical energy. The CPU however doesn't physically do anything, the transistors just flip which requires electrical energy, which is afterwards converted into: heat! That's why every bit of energy that goes into your CPU will come out again under the form of heat, which we need to get rid of to keep the chip working.
And since the MMU with Intel is still in the Northbridge, you have no point as to why it's not integrated into the CPU.
The IOMMU is part of the memory controller, of course it's not in the CPU...
And do you think end users installing a Xeon will give a rats ass that it uses 36 bits addressing? Opteron uses 40 bits for the record ;) Those major improvements you are seeing are more likely related to the extra registers and other tweaks AMD provides in 64 bits mode.
I'm not an Intel fanboy, I'm just trying to get you people to understand that there is no magic going on here ;) 64 bits means mostly bigger address space, and do they deliver? Yes they do. Intel slams on some extra hardware, so does AMD, end of story.
If you consider AMD64 to be "true 64 bits", then so is EMT64. They are both just an extension of the 32-bit instruction set and processing units with 64-bit equivalents. Don't think AMD is so moch more innovative than Intel, they just grabbed good ole K7, stuck some goodies on there and called it K8. In other words, they both need a good smacking.
Ever smelled that smell.. smelly feet? Where do you think that comes from? It's nothing but toxins trying to exit your body... You sweat about half a pint per foot per day, and those shoes just absorb it while your body heat keeps it warm. That must be very healthy, no wonder it smells so good. Why do people have deformed feet, bear claws so to speak? It's because their shoes keep their feet in a specific form, the shape of the shoe. How many people are there that don't have the 4th and/or 5th toe curled down, because it is stuck in a shoe? My grandmother had seriously deformed feet because she wore high heels her entire life. Meanwhile, acupuncture uses your feet to control so many variables. The deformed nature of your feet changes your entire posture, which can create stress on specific organs. Go take a look at the pictures in the article, it's surprising ;)
What happens if a vehicle has a failure before reaching the intersection, then slows and comes to a stall in the midst of all the traffic that was supposted to just "pass it by" as it cruised along the intersection? We can't just have 'em all hit the breaks, because collisions would be unavoidable at these proximity rates, no?
Don't you people understand... It is not possible for Netcraft to gather any statistical data on how many BSD machines are being used, simply because no one is *forced* to make their machine identify as a BSD machine! Quote from : "There are some, even large, companies that use BSD as routers, firewalls and even servers, without people noticing. That is a reason why no one can give current usage statistics for BSD, because no one is forced to say he is using BSD at all, or in which number." http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/?bsd-intro Drawing conclusions from statistical date without proper knowledge on the subject is Bad Practice..
Of course they do, that's because they were designed a few years ago, designed for a target audience consisting of pure n00bz :)
IRC is rather old, and most clients that are developed for it don't bother with designing a n00b-interface for these n00bz.
Eventually they end up using some IM program, and that's when the real smalltalk starts. You have the most intriguing conversations in a channel...
IRCnet still a chat network? It must be the biggest warzone of kiddies struggling to split a few servers and gain operator status on some channel (thanks to that wonderful idea of nick/channel delay). I mean, if there is one network that's hardly still usable for the purpose of having a chat, it MUST be IRCnet! :P
My God, what an idiot. In case you didn't realise it yet, open source is a *good thing*, Microsoft is the Bad Thing(TM) ;)
Oh, and uh, Java has been around since years before they even had .NET plans, and you're wondering whether it's Java that's in .NET's leage? Too funny, today's crack monkeys :D
What is UP with all these friggen' Linux freaks?! See, I don't know if the community knows, but if you keep on rattling about something too much, people actually begin to repell it instead of growing closer to it. At first I wanted to learn how to work with Linux, and then I found out what a bitch it was, how hard it is to learn to work with and especially how hard it is to find good documentation and not waste your money when buying a distro (if you already know you won't be able to install it..) Besides, most people (including me) think MacOS X is about the most revolutionary OS of today. Linux? What is this Linux crap you are blabbering about woman? C'est rien, c'est rien du tout! OS X is one tightly integrated working whole, where Linux is just a bunch of thrown together software components that 'should' work together, but do they? Without excessive manual sysadmin tuning?
Oh yeah, great idea, why did they change one of the names to Firebird then? Never heard of the database? (http://www.firebirdsql.org/)
That's the nice thing about it.. we don't CARE that it replaces microsoft shit! My vision on linux as a whole is fading from a powerfull system to nothing more than a stupid toy to fight microsoft these days.. FUCK IT! I prefer BSD now, if only because its not such a wannabe OS!
Wauw, how leet! Another anti-microsoft being on this planet, and this one even came straight from microsoft! That's so great! Another one that hates microsoft but loves linux! The shitty microsoft-alternative that's a fucker to install! It just rocks my desktop! Yup, making some nice progress here! Bunch of kids..