"Let us assume these computers are using 300W power suplies and as a worst case senario, let us assume that all 300W that the PS is capable of supplying is being used in each machine."
That's a pretty stupid assumption.
Considering a 300w PS usually means PEAK watts. (Which means if you run it at 300w for more than a minute, magic smoke appears!)
Lets be generous and say 75 watts operating average.
7$ to run your cluster for 24 hours. If you can afford the space and the 66 machines, you can afford this.
Healthy active lifestyle? Most people don't have that sort of thing, let alone geeks.
I moved into my apartment in May. I've tried to get to know the neighbors. They're not interested. They DO send their kids over to try and sell me stuff however.
The Internet is a colossal waste of time? Since when is paying bills, doing research, applying patches to buggy programs, job hunting and web programming a waste of time?
I'd love to have the income to blow on lapdances or purchase overpriced drinks for drunken bar girls. I don't. Some of us are struggling to find an entry-level job that doesn't require 4 years of experience.
Yeah, having a wired apartment sounds like an extra, but these people are going to do it ANYWAY. They were wondering if it's possible to find places that are already wired. And you freak out. For someone that's leading a more balanced lifestyle, you're certainly not acting healthier.
What are you going to do with all those weapons? Bomb the power company? Nuke Chicago?
Completely destroy the infrastructure that the military REQUIRES to keep funded and functional?
If even 25% of the population decides to cause a ruckus, that's 75 MILLION people. What are you going to do? Kill them? Do you have any idea what kind of damage that would do to the economy? The population of our three biggest cities only comes to about HALF of that number.
Oh, by the way, the military is all volunteer. You think you get them to play along in your little scenario without resistance, you'd be wrong.
It's supposed to be used as a database system here, but it can't handle the load. So we put in our changes and it proccesses them overnight. Things that would take a few minutes on a real DB take days in Peoplesoft.
Taking away THEIR freedoms? Hooo boy, I haven't had a belly laugh like that in a long time.
Osama was just going for power. He doesn't give a damn about anything unless it increases his power base. As far as he's concerned, his followers are so much cannon fodder.
Unless, of course, it's 9% interest.
And what do they charge for power in Austrailia anyways? And what ARE the operating costs for heating air with sunlight? I'm sure buying "Windex" in bulk will help, but beyond turbine maintanence and monitoring, I don't see many cost sinks.
At the full 200MW they're making 10,000 an hour. Too bad they didn't give a better analyis of the power output.
"Arnie didn't so much as blink, he just smiled a big toothy smile and said, friendly but firm, "We're mostly doing American TV just now, guys." And that was it. The issue was closed."
Sheesh, I thought you guys knew stuff about computers. Just because the guy was working on the chip, doesn't mean he handled the IT portion of the company.
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Um, for the past 8 years the military has been doing nothing BUT trimming down.
The biggest cost sink in the government today is social security. Maybe we should kill that program eh?
Do a google search on "The forbidden Stitch". I used:
Blind the forbidden stitch
So, after spending hundreds of dollars in equipment, casing the store and memorizing the numbers, your reward is:
Books!
Cans of Paint!
Socks!
The risk/reward here is pathetic. They would be better off stuffing things into their oversized coats during the holiday rush.
We actually don't see the 6 species being lost a day either. It's a guess.
Wanna guess how many new species are being made a day?
"Let us assume these computers are using 300W power suplies and as a worst case senario, let us assume that all 300W that the PS is capable of supplying is being used in each machine."
That's a pretty stupid assumption.
Considering a 300w PS usually means PEAK watts. (Which means if you run it at 300w for more than a minute, magic smoke appears!)
Lets be generous and say 75 watts operating average.
7$ to run your cluster for 24 hours. If you can afford the space and the 66 machines, you can afford this.
Healthy active lifestyle? Most people don't have that sort of thing, let alone geeks.
I moved into my apartment in May. I've tried to get to know the neighbors. They're not interested. They DO send their kids over to try and sell me stuff however.
The Internet is a colossal waste of time? Since when is paying bills, doing research, applying patches to buggy programs, job hunting and web programming a waste of time?
I'd love to have the income to blow on lapdances or purchase overpriced drinks for drunken bar girls. I don't. Some of us are struggling to find an entry-level job that doesn't require 4 years of experience.
Yeah, having a wired apartment sounds like an extra, but these people are going to do it ANYWAY. They were wondering if it's possible to find places that are already wired. And you freak out. For someone that's leading a more balanced lifestyle, you're certainly not acting healthier.
Yes.
What are you going to do with all those weapons? Bomb the power company? Nuke Chicago?
Completely destroy the infrastructure that the military REQUIRES to keep funded and functional?
If even 25% of the population decides to cause a ruckus, that's 75 MILLION people. What are you going to do? Kill them? Do you have any idea what kind of damage that would do to the economy? The population of our three biggest cities only comes to about HALF of that number.
Oh, by the way, the military is all volunteer. You think you get them to play along in your little scenario without resistance, you'd be wrong.
Yeah, that's why you see so many computers today that are really a bunch of 4 bit processors running in parallel. Cause it's so much cheaper.
Really? And all this time I thought it was the bugs made the game unplayable.
Peoplesoft? Peoplesoft!?
I'm using Peoplesoft right now as part of my job.
My god.
It's supposed to be used as a database system here, but it can't handle the load. So we put in our changes and it proccesses them overnight. Things that would take a few minutes on a real DB take days in Peoplesoft.
Yeah, they're telling you something. They're saying that the UN is barely worth the trouble.
Heh, it's about time someone stood up for "Dead planet rights"
"The war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with US law. It has to do with fanatics crashing planes into buildings and killing lots of people."
That isn't against the law?
It's against the law, we had no other recourse, so we start up the war machine.
Or a tornado! Or meteors! What if a big drooly dog gets ahold of his computer and drools all over it!?
My god man! The set up you've described here isn't much better than nothing!
(I hate slashdotters that can only point out flaws and never conceed on good points.)
"Backing up" DVDs
So when are you getting yours?
Actually, if you bothered to read the article, they've been going after this group for several years.
Do you have ANY idea how the government works?
Taking away THEIR freedoms? Hooo boy, I haven't had a belly laugh like that in a long time.
Osama was just going for power. He doesn't give a damn about anything unless it increases his power base. As far as he's concerned, his followers are so much cannon fodder.
Well, go ahead. Nobody's stopping you.
"So, what should we put on the list this year?"
"Anything from Japan"
Unless, of course, it's 9% interest.
And what do they charge for power in Austrailia anyways? And what ARE the operating costs for heating air with sunlight? I'm sure buying "Windex" in bulk will help, but beyond turbine maintanence and monitoring, I don't see many cost sinks.
At the full 200MW they're making 10,000 an hour. Too bad they didn't give a better analyis of the power output.
Might hurt the COWS?! Bwahaha!
You mean, those cows that you're going to slaughter? THOSE cows?
"Arnie didn't so much as blink, he just smiled a big toothy smile and said, friendly but firm, "We're mostly doing American TV just now, guys." And that was it. The issue was closed."
Huh? That's an answer? I don't get it.
Off site backup of the data.
Sheesh, I thought you guys knew stuff about computers. Just because the guy was working on the chip, doesn't mean he handled the IT portion of the company.
Heh, humanity doomed due to proper data storage.
Woah, they already have the time travel tech. It would be interesting if they used it in a battlefield setting.