The Thinkpads that IBM designed (hell a lot of things that IBM designed) were high water marks for the industry. Lenovo assembled them but they have not shown me that they, as a company, are anymore committed to producing such a high quality product now that they are responsible for the brand than are any of the other mainland shit companies.
I turned to HP for a while, they had something worth buying for a bit, but I'm at a loss for my next round.
I'm seeing a lot of shit right now. Kinda hoping that Mr Dell can pull off his buyback and make something worth buying.
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If the Bible was like Wikipedia, literal believers would all be aware that Jews don't need to be saved. That killing isn't a sin. That Paul was a misogynistic self-hating homosexual. Not hating - just saying that Christianity is a minority belief and that Wikipedia is an open system to everyone else that is aware of external ideas and evaluations.
Yeah I assume that a GPU miner is running an existing machine on off hours use (free) and my benchmark kWh is just what they charge me when I use more than normal, 9.5 per kWh over 400kWh and 11.5 per kWh over 800kWh.
I did what you did last time a bitcoin topic came up, same calculator.
I'd note however that I found a HardOCP review from summer of 2011, that estimated things a bit lower (~10% lower) than the calculator gave. TTAYW.
In any case I don't see the problem with trying to mine a few bucks with idle cycles on existing hardware. If they have the hardware already they can probably do the math and figure it out. It's a more transparent transaction than what I make per hour doing my day job.
There has been an expectation that dirt cheap ASICs would drive down the price once the work units to produce a bitcoin were adjusted for them. Personally I think there has been some monkey buisness going on here as shipping of them supposedly began in November-December of 2012. A $150 ASIC box is reported to produce 100x as much as a dedicated Videocard. Did that value get adjusted today? Finally?
IMO, the current value of a bitcoin has nothing to do with the cost to produce it or it would be in the $10-20 range, and that would still be a profit for the majority of people that mined them.
There is an article on the USA Today site regarding Bitcoin, what it is, and today's crash. USA Today is about as mainstream of coverage as you're going to get, so I would expect other mainstream newsources' articles and reports to be similar.
I read its tone as implying a $10 per bitcoin value (or less) as the norm with the recent spike attributed to horders and speculators that are purchasing coins. That article also mentions a boom/bust in 2011. However it also makes the case that the increasing difficulty at producing new bitcoins and the ultimately fixed number of bitcoins will continue to encourage hoarding rather than using bitcoins. As bitcoin reaches the conciousness of more people I would expect volitility to continue with many booms and busts.
I feel that as a product it is grossly overvalued at $120, but don't see any rationality on the horizon. I have little doubt that the price will climb again as new speculators get in line to buy en mas and crash as the old speculators cash out en mas.
In Georgia, I've seen a sign posted in both mechanics shops and computer repair shops that reads something to the effect...
Service Rates
To Fix your Machine $25/hr If you want to watch me work $50/hr If I have to talk to you while you watch $100/hr If you want me to explain to you what I'm doing while I talk to you while I fix your machine. $200/hr
I can't tell that effective or ineffective are the correct terms. But I can say that the navy started testing a laser in the 90's for the same claimed reason that this one will be tested. It's supposed to replace the Phalanx CIWS and Israel wants it to stop mortar and rocket attacks. The old one seemed capable in the latter capacity. But it was apparantly not ready for primetime. That laser (the THEL) was a joint project with Israel who ceased contributing funding in 2004. We shut down the project in 2005. This all coming from...
Certain frequency bands of IR radiation penetrate the air well and we can easily build lasers in those frequencies. Far-ish and Far UV radiation also has good atmospheric penetration but our ability to make those lasers isn't there yet. AFAIK.
Another laser was experimented with for about a decade in the role as a replacement for the even older Phalanx CIWS and "testing" was discontinued several years ago. Israel seemed rather upset that we discontinued the "testing". I suspect this one is a bit more powerful.
The Facespaces evolved into an ad serving vehicle for corporations, but they still serve as a point of casual contact for people you know.
VERY early on, like when it was in beta still, Twitter was being commented on by people who were already very famous and popular and who really should not have heard of it yet unless they were insiders involved its creation.
Twitter was created purely as a way to serve "recomendations" to fans of famous people. "I'm reading book X." "I'm listening to song Y" "My cantidate is Senator Blarginsworth" "My favorite thing is...". IF they (the twitterers) get paid to post a specific recommendation then it stands that they'd get paid more if they have more followers. Fake followers seem like a high value scam of the system since the only work that needs to be done is creating the account and following people that pay for it. Those same companies that do SEO and Social Media Marketing have to put a lot more work when they blogspam and shill on forums.
My opinion of the value of a bitcoin is based on who uses it. Bitcoin is the "gold piece" of the silk road. Its value is market driven and as long as it appears to be as good of a way for illicit goods to be purchased as untracably as cash, as long as it isn't just made illegal wherever you live, and as long as its completely anonymous and unknown "regulator" doesn't just walk away with the money in it, it will prosper as a way to buy Oxycontin on the net.
For future valuation I would suggest that there are probably as many druggies learning about it as there are coins available, so I'd think it's value will continue to rise, until when using a bitcoin get's the same kind of legal treatment as buying a new car with a bunch of VISA giftcards.
Oh and it looks like using the GPU side of an AMD A10 processor is ~80MH/s, but that still loses money on a 200W system. You could maybe still make a profit with an AMD Laptop though
There's a chart further down that page that compares different capacities to produce bitcoins.
The $150 Jalopeno box (ASIC) is rated at 4500 MH/s. The $600 BitForce Single (FPGA) does 832 MH/s. An ATI Radeon 5870 does 420 MH/s. No mention of a vanilla CPU. But, HardOCP rated an i7 2600K (4.8GHz) at 4.4 MH/s in 2011. They rated the 5870 at only 380 MH/s.
So, using the calculator and assuming a 2 year old i7 2600K system (no GPU) using 200 Watts at 9 cents per Kilowatt meter rate...
I would lose $12 per month. (Assuming a system value of $0)
And with the new Haswell it looks like I'd be losing $9 per month (plus the cost of the system)
In Bioshock 1 I felt that way. No hints, you just survive a planewreck. The plot felt clumbsy and contrived, though if you make towards the end it attempts to explain the rail-shooter experience.
In Infinite I'm seeing hints that you are there for a reason from the arguing couple that rows you ashore in the beginning and their reappearance throughout the game, so far. I'm not far into it, but given the trailers I'm guessing this is going to be a fate vs freewill thing.
I didn't notice a U-Turn into racist land. They hint that their society is founded on pure racism pretty early on, and with the statue of John Wilkes Booth and the rant against Lincoln (when the guys in the KKK hoods attack you) pretty much seal the deal. Even the Irish aren't white enough (no specific reference to the evils of the papists yet...) So far it's like killing Nazi's in Wolfensteine
The plot line is better than Bioshock and the world is friggen awesome.
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The Thinkpads that IBM designed (hell a lot of things that IBM designed) were high water marks for the industry. Lenovo assembled them but they have not shown me that they, as a company, are anymore committed to producing such a high quality product now that they are responsible for the brand than are any of the other mainland shit companies.
I turned to HP for a while, they had something worth buying for a bit, but I'm at a loss for my next round.
I'm seeing a lot of shit right now. Kinda hoping that Mr Dell can pull off his buyback and make something worth buying.
--
If the Bible was like Wikipedia, literal believers would all be aware that Jews don't need to be saved. That killing isn't a sin. That Paul was a misogynistic self-hating homosexual. Not hating - just saying that Christianity is a minority belief and that Wikipedia is an open system to everyone else that is aware of external ideas and evaluations.
https://products.butterflylabs.com/
Though I'd note it looks like they raised the price of their cheapest unit. It's US$274 now for a 5000MH/S unit.
Remember, you need to restart the machine three times.
Yeah I assume that a GPU miner is running an existing machine on off hours use (free) and my benchmark kWh is just what they charge me when I use more than normal, 9.5 per kWh over 400kWh and 11.5 per kWh over 800kWh.
I did what you did last time a bitcoin topic came up, same calculator.
I'd note however that I found a HardOCP review from summer of 2011, that estimated things a bit lower (~10% lower) than the calculator gave. TTAYW.
In any case I don't see the problem with trying to mine a few bucks with idle cycles on existing hardware. If they have the hardware already they can probably do the math and figure it out. It's a more transparent transaction than what I make per hour doing my day job.
There has been an expectation that dirt cheap ASICs would drive down the price once the work units to produce a bitcoin were adjusted for them. Personally I think there has been some monkey buisness going on here as shipping of them supposedly began in November-December of 2012. A $150 ASIC box is reported to produce 100x as much as a dedicated Videocard. Did that value get adjusted today? Finally?
IMO, the current value of a bitcoin has nothing to do with the cost to produce it or it would be in the $10-20 range, and that would still be a profit for the majority of people that mined them.
There is an article on the USA Today site regarding Bitcoin, what it is, and today's crash. USA Today is about as mainstream of coverage as you're going to get, so I would expect other mainstream newsources' articles and reports to be similar.
I read its tone as implying a $10 per bitcoin value (or less) as the norm with the recent spike attributed to horders and speculators that are purchasing coins. That article also mentions a boom/bust in 2011. However it also makes the case that the increasing difficulty at producing new bitcoins and the ultimately fixed number of bitcoins will continue to encourage hoarding rather than using bitcoins. As bitcoin reaches the conciousness of more people I would expect volitility to continue with many booms and busts.
I feel that as a product it is grossly overvalued at $120, but don't see any rationality on the horizon. I have little doubt that the price will climb again as new speculators get in line to buy en mas and crash as the old speculators cash out en mas.
In Georgia, I've seen a sign posted in both mechanics shops and computer repair shops that reads something to the effect...
Service Rates
To Fix your Machine $25/hr
If you want to watch me work $50/hr
If I have to talk to you while you watch $100/hr
If you want me to explain to you what I'm doing while I talk to you while I fix your machine. $200/hr
I've seen the same sign in Utah and California.
I can't tell that effective or ineffective are the correct terms. But I can say that the navy started testing a laser in the 90's for the same claimed reason that this one will be tested. It's supposed to replace the Phalanx CIWS and Israel wants it to stop mortar and rocket attacks. The old one seemed capable in the latter capacity. But it was apparantly not ready for primetime. That laser (the THEL) was a joint project with Israel who ceased contributing funding in 2004. We shut down the project in 2005. This all coming from...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_High_Energy_Laser
I'd hope a newer laser (something not 15 years old) would be lighter, more powerfull, and/or less bulky.
I think they were playing Battlefield 3 and said, "hey this would be awesome with a laser!"
Funny thing is the USS Ponce is a landing ship and the whole back of the ship opens where the fantail would be.
But it is a landing ship and lightly armed as navy ships go, so running away seems a viable tactic.
Certain frequency bands of IR radiation penetrate the air well and we can easily build lasers in those frequencies. Far-ish and Far UV radiation also has good atmospheric penetration but our ability to make those lasers isn't there yet. AFAIK.
Another laser was experimented with for about a decade in the role as a replacement for the even older Phalanx CIWS and "testing" was discontinued several years ago. Israel seemed rather upset that we discontinued the "testing". I suspect this one is a bit more powerful.
The Facespaces evolved into an ad serving vehicle for corporations, but they still serve as a point of casual contact for people you know.
VERY early on, like when it was in beta still, Twitter was being commented on by people who were already very famous and popular and who really should not have heard of it yet unless they were insiders involved its creation.
Twitter was created purely as a way to serve "recomendations" to fans of famous people. "I'm reading book X." "I'm listening to song Y" "My cantidate is Senator Blarginsworth" "My favorite thing is...". IF they (the twitterers) get paid to post a specific recommendation then it stands that they'd get paid more if they have more followers. Fake followers seem like a high value scam of the system since the only work that needs to be done is creating the account and following people that pay for it. Those same companies that do SEO and Social Media Marketing have to put a lot more work when they blogspam and shill on forums.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
"mamy Democratic politicians here are members"
LOL. Do they wear blackface makeup too?
I think Superintelligent Shades of the Color Blue keep them (HQPs) as pets.
It would be interesting to discuss the legal ramifications of a few hundred thousand people in a community manipulating the value of a bitcoin.
My opinion of the value of a bitcoin is based on who uses it. Bitcoin is the "gold piece" of the silk road. Its value is market driven and as long as it appears to be as good of a way for illicit goods to be purchased as untracably as cash, as long as it isn't just made illegal wherever you live, and as long as its completely anonymous and unknown "regulator" doesn't just walk away with the money in it, it will prosper as a way to buy Oxycontin on the net.
For future valuation I would suggest that there are probably as many druggies learning about it as there are coins available, so I'd think it's value will continue to rise, until when using a bitcoin get's the same kind of legal treatment as buying a new car with a bunch of VISA giftcards.
Oh and it looks like using the GPU side of an AMD A10 processor is ~80MH/s, but that still loses money on a 200W system. You could maybe still make a profit with an AMD Laptop though
I was reading a forum discussion yesterday regarding mining bitcoins with a 17w Haswel (the new i7 CPU) and wound up on a bitcoin calculator here...
https://bitclockers.com/calc
There's a chart further down that page that compares different capacities to produce bitcoins.
The $150 Jalopeno box (ASIC) is rated at 4500 MH/s.
The $600 BitForce Single (FPGA) does 832 MH/s.
An ATI Radeon 5870 does 420 MH/s.
No mention of a vanilla CPU. But, HardOCP rated an i7 2600K (4.8GHz) at 4.4 MH/s in 2011. They rated the 5870 at only 380 MH/s.
So, using the calculator and assuming a 2 year old i7 2600K system (no GPU) using 200 Watts at 9 cents per Kilowatt meter rate...
I would lose $12 per month. (Assuming a system value of $0)
And with the new Haswell it looks like I'd be losing $9 per month (plus the cost of the system)
Good god fearing people in the US know that barbers are all Satanists. That why they ban barber poles.
There are a couple of games I'd pay to see just remade with modern graphics. SS would be one.
Well yeah, even Oblivion looked shitty on a 360. We're what, 3 generations down the line now for Videocards?
In Bioshock 1 I felt that way. No hints, you just survive a planewreck. The plot felt clumbsy and contrived, though if you make towards the end it attempts to explain the rail-shooter experience.
In Infinite I'm seeing hints that you are there for a reason from the arguing couple that rows you ashore in the beginning and their reappearance throughout the game, so far. I'm not far into it, but given the trailers I'm guessing this is going to be a fate vs freewill thing.
I didn't notice a U-Turn into racist land. They hint that their society is founded on pure racism pretty early on, and with the statue of John Wilkes Booth and the rant against Lincoln (when the guys in the KKK hoods attack you) pretty much seal the deal. Even the Irish aren't white enough (no specific reference to the evils of the papists yet...) So far it's like killing Nazi's in Wolfensteine
The plot line is better than Bioshock and the world is friggen awesome.
Solid 10 so far.
If not you're probably going to hate it.
Well the first parts of the playthrough are already up on Youtube. Not as good as demo, but it'd give you a taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ATQ0wPXFM
He obviously saw Money Ball and was channeling the character Peter Brand.