When I build systems for myself I usually get the best $100 graphics card available. Which will be light years beyond the LAST $100 graphics card I bought, a number of years before.
Yeah, but from the perspective of the non-geeks, it was finished and "turned on" just a few days ago.
"It cost 70 bazillions of dollars to build, and now it's BROKE? What, they never actually DID anything with it yet either? What a joke" they'll say.
From the perspective of the non-geeks, this thing is a perpetual money sink, a haven for nerds to tinker and fiddle with things that require unending tinkering and fiddling by design, with only a carrot of some potentially really great stuff that just might some day dribble out of the thing.
Think about it, whoever wrote the grants or whatever that got them all that money is a genius - "Ummm yes, I need 70 bazillion dollars. What does it do? Ummmmm, yes, it will have the potential to reveal to us the HIGGS BOSON! Yes. HIGGS BOSON. What good is the HIGGS BOSON? Ummmm, yes, the HIGGS BOSON promises to reveal to us the very SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE!
Go LHC! As a geek myself, I say we need more of these things!
I haven't been following the 6 core processors at all, but I'm waiting for Intel to do something really unexpected and clever.
Wouldn't it be good to take like 20 or 30 of those tiny little Atom processors and put them in one package in some way or another and get this multi-core stuff rolling?
6 cores? Meh. Lets go double digits and stop messing around.
People keep talking about how the Atom chips are nice but slow. Well, what about 4? 8? Heck, they're small and cheap and don't use much juice or make much heat, I'll take 20.
If it was purely about information and tech for the sake if information and tech, and they didn't need to pay the bills, then they would not do things like exclusivity deals... no?
I did a lot of HVAC systems in the past, and many
were large scale water source heat pump systems. This is, as expected, where the air handler cools the air in the space to, say, 55 F at the coil.
The fluids go to a condensing unit (compressor) which, instead of going to a coil with a fan directly to outside air, goes instead to a heat exchanger with water. The water runs throughout the building taking heat away from all of the water source heat pumps.
Typically, what I remember, the water will gain 10 degrees from the loop and dump 10 degrees at the cooler. The cooler will either be an evaporative cooling tower or a "fluid cooler" but it is basically always dumping 10 degrees of heat multiplied by however many gallons per minute of flow.
Yeah, the individual space gets a larger than 10 degree F temperature difference, and the SYSTEM gets "just" 10 degrees, but it's apples and oranges, different flow rates of fluids, CFM, BTU's, etc. Energy is energy, the temperature difference is only one part of the equation.
So, my point, and I do have one, is that ~20 degrees C or ~20 degrees F or whatever, it's enough if applied correctly.
Nah, man, a 21 degree dT is great. A typical cooling tower or hydronic HVAC operates at a 10 degree dT.
If they can force a 21 degree temperature drop to occur with some fancy plastic and some electricity... that's awesome. The challenge will be to APPLY this to a SYSTEM that will CAPITALIZE on the TECHNOLOGY.
Move it from the lab to the Walmart or the appliance store or the house or the car.
I read the biography of GL, that was also an analysis of star wars, that made it's rounds a few months back. I found his early career fascinating.
I think what GL needs again is what all talented and admittedly gifted artistic people need. Pressure. They create, they need to create, because that's all they got going for them. That's their tool, they use it because they have to. Pressure to create.
Yes, Yes, Inside job it was, young skywalker. You are advancing in the force, you are!
Reminds me of one time where my boss was in the field at a customer's factory. He had his "notebook" in which he writes everything down. (a paper notebook, old school, not a laptop)
He left it on a table in the break room for a couple hours and forgot about it. Later, when he remembered, it was gone.
A few hours LATER, it was back, pretty much where he left it.
Luckily it didn't have any pricing or other such things in it, but it still wasn't a good thing.
But Karma is interesting, this same customer a few months later set us an email which happened to have a high level very confidential spreadsheet attached, accidentally. It contained the companies strategic plan for the coming months - peoples salaries, names, locations, PLANT CLOSURE PLANS, savings from plant closures, all that stuff. "ummm, yes, there was a spreadsheet that you... shouldn't have got... can you please erase that? Right now? And not look at it? Thanks!"
My point is, and I have one, encryption is fine but it is no guarantee against mistakes and/or stupidity.
You gotta look deeper when someone wants to take on the herculean task of radically changing something that is globally pervasive... like the internet.
To me, when they say "security" and "other challenges" you know it's not "security" it's the "other challenges". And those other challenges are related to piracy. Who is behind this, the xxAAs?
No-one is going to seriously try to rebuild the internet due to viruses. Nor for Spam. Not for phishing. Nope. Not going to do it. The fact that they have government money for this tells me that the xxAAs have lobbied so extensively they actually got funding from the government to try and rebuild the intertubes with DRM built in. It's like Vista with the DRM built in. No-one will bite except those that get their new PCs with the intertubes2.0 already installed.
And to think that at work our company had to fight to convince comcast come in to our industrial park, because the ONLY available ISP was actually worse.
We're talking pretty bad here, reliability issues, speed issues, way high price, and when you call to complain they're rude and say "well, we are your only option so... live with it."
Now that comcast is digging the trenches and running the copper, they have been a bit more responsive...
This is a semi-rural industrial park, no cable, no DSL, dialup yes, T1 yes, ($800/mo) and line-of-sight wireless. the LOS is pretty speedy and HAS been somewhat reliable for about 2 months. The first outage was yesterday, it was down for about 3 hours Friday afternoon. I got a live person to call me back and say they were climbing the tower to fix the wirelss equipment. Impressive!
So, the question will become, which is better - an arrogant local ISP that is overpriced, or comcast? hmmmm....
x2. I was using a walmart grade linksys router on the LAN at work. It was for like 6 users, mixed wireless and wired, and a NAS with a switch for wired users. Low budget, low cost, low reliability, low performance.
It required periodic reboots, which I eventually narrowed down to being most likely router DNS table problems. Now, we are using a Zyxel wireless router provided by our new ISP, on a much better network (real switches, a rack, everything).
Yeah, it's pretty much a consumer grade router on a pro-grade setup but it does the job of being a WAP and a firewall, and hasn't been flaking out. I'll take it.
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When I build systems for myself I usually get the best $100 graphics card available. Which will be light years beyond the LAST $100 graphics card I bought, a number of years before.
Tinfoil hat on top of his mind-reading army hat?
Yeah, but from the perspective of the non-geeks, it was finished and "turned on" just a few days ago.
"It cost 70 bazillions of dollars to build, and now it's BROKE? What, they never actually DID anything with it yet either? What a joke" they'll say.
From the perspective of the non-geeks, this thing is a perpetual money sink, a haven for nerds to tinker and fiddle with things that require unending tinkering and fiddling by design, with only a carrot of some potentially really great stuff that just might some day dribble out of the thing.
Think about it, whoever wrote the grants or whatever that got them all that money is a genius - "Ummm yes, I need 70 bazillion dollars. What does it do? Ummmmm, yes, it will have the potential to reveal to us the HIGGS BOSON! Yes. HIGGS BOSON. What good is the HIGGS BOSON? Ummmm, yes, the HIGGS BOSON promises to reveal to us the very SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE!
Go LHC! As a geek myself, I say we need more of these things!
I haven't been following the 6 core processors at all, but I'm waiting for Intel to do something really unexpected and clever.
Wouldn't it be good to take like 20 or 30 of those tiny little Atom processors and put them in one package in some way or another and get this multi-core stuff rolling?
6 cores? Meh. Lets go double digits and stop messing around.
People keep talking about how the Atom chips are nice but slow. Well, what about 4? 8? Heck, they're small and cheap and don't use much juice or make much heat, I'll take 20.
If it was purely about information and tech for the sake if information and tech, and they didn't need to pay the bills, then they would not do things like exclusivity deals... no?
The AC is probably the author.
They came first for those who downloaded 3000 songs, and I didn't speak up because I didn't download any.
Then they came for those who downloaded 1000 songs, and I didn't speak up because I didn't download any.
Then they came for those who downloaded 100 songs, and I didn't speak up because I didn't download any.
Then they came for those who downloaded 1 song, and I didn't speak up because I didn't download any.
Then they came for me,
And everyone complained because I stopped seeding the torrents
I did a lot of HVAC systems in the past, and many were large scale water source heat pump systems. This is, as expected, where the air handler cools the air in the space to, say, 55 F at the coil.
The fluids go to a condensing unit (compressor) which, instead of going to a coil with a fan directly to outside air, goes instead to a heat exchanger with water. The water runs throughout the building taking heat away from all of the water source heat pumps.
Typically, what I remember, the water will gain 10 degrees from the loop and dump 10 degrees at the cooler. The cooler will either be an evaporative cooling tower or a "fluid cooler" but it is basically always dumping 10 degrees of heat multiplied by however many gallons per minute of flow.
Yeah, the individual space gets a larger than 10 degree F temperature difference, and the SYSTEM gets "just" 10 degrees, but it's apples and oranges, different flow rates of fluids, CFM, BTU's, etc. Energy is energy, the temperature difference is only one part of the equation.
So, my point, and I do have one, is that ~20 degrees C or ~20 degrees F or whatever, it's enough if applied correctly.
Nah, man, a 21 degree dT is great. A typical cooling tower or hydronic HVAC operates at a 10 degree dT.
If they can force a 21 degree temperature drop to occur with some fancy plastic and some electricity... that's awesome. The challenge will be to APPLY this to a SYSTEM that will CAPITALIZE on the TECHNOLOGY.
Move it from the lab to the Walmart or the appliance store or the house or the car.
Jezza, is that you?
I read the biography of GL, that was also an analysis of star wars, that made it's rounds a few months back. I found his early career fascinating.
I think what GL needs again is what all talented and admittedly gifted artistic people need. Pressure. They create, they need to create, because that's all they got going for them. That's their tool, they use it because they have to. Pressure to create.
Naw, that's just a legend.
Lucas needs something more plausible.
I've had drug tests for certain jobs, even professional level engineery types. Typically the larger companies.
Typically the smaller co's I've worked for have no drug testing policy.
One, I found out why they did not have a drug policy - it's because many of the people there used, and it wasn't a secret.
Yes, Yes, Inside job it was, young skywalker. You are advancing in the force, you are!
... shouldn't have got... can you please erase that? Right now? And not look at it? Thanks!"
Reminds me of one time where my boss was in the field at a customer's factory. He had his "notebook" in which he writes everything down. (a paper notebook, old school, not a laptop)
He left it on a table in the break room for a couple hours and forgot about it. Later, when he remembered, it was gone.
A few hours LATER, it was back, pretty much where he left it.
Luckily it didn't have any pricing or other such things in it, but it still wasn't a good thing.
But Karma is interesting, this same customer a few months later set us an email which happened to have a high level very confidential spreadsheet attached, accidentally. It contained the companies strategic plan for the coming months - peoples salaries, names, locations, PLANT CLOSURE PLANS, savings from plant closures, all that stuff. "ummm, yes, there was a spreadsheet that you
My point is, and I have one, encryption is fine but it is no guarantee against mistakes and/or stupidity.
These are not the packets you are looking for.... (wave hand)
Don't see anything about AMD/ATI products having widespread fatal flaws. I mean, the one they had recently wasn't fatal and they fixed it anyway...
Just Sayin'...
YouTube has ads? I honestly didn't realize that. Haven't ever seen any...
You gotta look deeper when someone wants to take on the herculean task of radically changing something that is globally pervasive... like the internet.
To me, when they say "security" and "other challenges" you know it's not "security" it's the "other challenges". And those other challenges are related to piracy. Who is behind this, the xxAAs?
No-one is going to seriously try to rebuild the internet due to viruses. Nor for Spam. Not for phishing. Nope. Not going to do it. The fact that they have government money for this tells me that the xxAAs have lobbied so extensively they actually got funding from the government to try and rebuild the intertubes with DRM built in. It's like Vista with the DRM built in. No-one will bite except those that get their new PCs with the intertubes2.0 already installed.
And to think that at work our company had to fight to convince comcast come in to our industrial park, because the ONLY available ISP was actually worse.
We're talking pretty bad here, reliability issues, speed issues, way high price, and when you call to complain they're rude and say "well, we are your only option so... live with it."
Now that comcast is digging the trenches and running the copper, they have been a bit more responsive...
This is a semi-rural industrial park, no cable, no DSL, dialup yes, T1 yes, ($800/mo) and line-of-sight wireless. the LOS is pretty speedy and HAS been somewhat reliable for about 2 months. The first outage was yesterday, it was down for about 3 hours Friday afternoon. I got a live person to call me back and say they were climbing the tower to fix the wirelss equipment. Impressive!
So, the question will become, which is better - an arrogant local ISP that is overpriced, or comcast? hmmmm....
x2. I was using a walmart grade linksys router on the LAN at work. It was for like 6 users, mixed wireless and wired, and a NAS with a switch for wired users. Low budget, low cost, low reliability, low performance.
It required periodic reboots, which I eventually narrowed down to being most likely router DNS table problems. Now, we are using a Zyxel wireless router provided by our new ISP, on a much better network (real switches, a rack, everything).
Yeah, it's pretty much a consumer grade router on a pro-grade setup but it does the job of being a WAP and a firewall, and hasn't been flaking out. I'll take it.
Nana... Nanner ... Hmmm, potassium based circuitry? With a dose of fiber? Sounds futuristic!
When the UMPC's started coming out using the atom processor, a few things really stood out to me.
It seems to me that the die is very small, physically, and it is obviously a low power consumption and low heat chip.
It also isn't all that fast.
But what if you had, like, 10? 100? 1000, like the TFA says? NOW we're talkin.
Very insightful...
It was probably on after Beavis and Butthead back when I was in college from '93 to '97.
[X] We're ALIENS! We dont HAVE ears, you ignorant clod!
That's true, I've seen it in some movies and on Stargate SG-1.
Awwww, come on, people! This is the best comment in the thread! The first video played on MTV was "video killed the radio star".
Come on, mods!