Not all algorithms can be parallelized that easily. Imagine e.g. a parser: You cannot parse text by having a million processors looking at one character each.
and most of the reviews out there are positive, regarding the ribbon.
I guess if the ribbon had been introduced in some OSS program instead, there would be loud complaints from all sides how the author could only be so stupid to break with the long-known standard, and would stress the importance of consistency, which obviously and blatantly is violated by those new ribbons...
Of course, you also have to oppose antibiotic medicine. Think of it: You are killing millions of bacteria just to save your own single life. What is it that you consider your single life more valuable than those millions of lives? Would you also kill millions of people to save your life? Probably not. But with those poor little bacteria you don't care, just because they are different enough from yourself. Bacteria have rights as well! Save the bacteria! Stop antibiotics! SCNR:-)
Ok, let's do the math for some realistic example: Say, you want to generate energy from the waste heat of an Athlon 64 3000+ (I've taken this model because that's the first one I've found the required technical data..
Now the maximum temperature allowed for this procesor is 65C (that's 149F, according to Google), or 338K. Now let's assume that it's in a room with 18C (64.4F, according to Google), or 291K. Now let's assume you attach an ideal heat engine to your Athlon 64 (i.e. a heat engine which converts as much heat into usable energy as is allowed by the laws of thermodynamics). Such a heat engine has an efficiency of (338K - 291K)/291 K = 16%. Given that the thermal design power of this processor is 28W to 35W, you'd get an energy output of 4.5W to 5.6W. But note that this assumes
that you constantly run your processor at maximum allowed temperature (which certainly isn't a good idea; note that lowering the processor's temperature to a more reasonable 40C (104F) would about already halve the ideal efficiency),
that the heat engine would have a waste heat output of about 24W to 29W, which would inevitably heat up the heat engine's heat sink and thus again reduce the efficiency (unless you do a really good cooling, which probably eats up most of the energy you originally won), and finally
that you can actually use an ideal heat engine, and a real heat engine would have an even less efficiency (indeed, I'd be surprised if half the theoretical efficiency could be reached).
In short: It's simply not worth the effort.
(BTW, Slashdot ate all my degree signs; it's not my fault that they are missing.)
One scary place this could be used was to check religious beliefs, in some countries you are prohibited to believe anything else than what the state dictates.
Now, what would happen if it turned out that the religious leader actually doesn't believe it?:-)
No. But the box will come with the computer in a superposition between working and broken, and only after opening the box it will be decided. That's how they get around your demanding the money back: When you got it, it wasn't yet broken, you broke it when opening the box!
Do you also have a good advice about how to get all that extra money to buy all those additional boxes?:-) Note that probably the main reason why someone uses old hardware is not some emotional attachment, but simply the lack of money to buy a new one.
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What code search engines don't tell us is sometimes the code you get just sucks... or is poorly adapted to your need.
And what text search engines don't tell us is sometimes the text you get just sucks... or is only remotely relevant to your need.
Which doesn't mean those search engines are not useful.
When following your link, I get "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." While I agree that not seeing the code is indeed a major obstacle to reusing it, I strongly doubt that it's what you meant to link to.
I think in order to be really useful for not reinventing the wheel, it should allow intelligent searching for licensing. That is, it should allow to restrict your search to codes with certain licenses, or even better, to code under a license compatible with any given license (or set of licenses).
For example, if you are working on code which you want to release as BSD, it's not much help if you find code licensed under the GPL, even if that code on its own is great. Likely, if you are writing GPLed code, you are not interested in code under licenses incompatible with the GPL (like e.g. the MPL).
Of course, the search engine cannot make a guarantee that the license will fit your needs, but then, it cannot guarantee that about the code's functionality either.
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Not all algorithms can be parallelized that easily. Imagine e.g. a parser: You cannot parse text by having a million processors looking at one character each.
Cooling beyond the boling point of nitrogen (-195,8 deg. C) would already cause major problems.
Whoosh!
Of course that only works if you know the exact title of the article you are searching.
Maybe because in general companies don't like it when the competition can edit their ads
I guess if the ribbon had been introduced in some OSS program instead, there would be loud complaints from all sides how the author could only be so stupid to break with the long-known standard, and would stress the importance of consistency, which obviously and blatantly is violated by those new ribbons
What are the other two words?
Of course, you also have to oppose antibiotic medicine. Think of it: You are killing millions of bacteria just to save your own single life. What is it that you consider your single life more valuable than those millions of lives? Would you also kill millions of people to save your life? Probably not. But with those poor little bacteria you don't care, just because they are different enough from yourself. Bacteria have rights as well! Save the bacteria! Stop antibiotics! :-)
SCNR
Now the maximum temperature allowed for this procesor is 65C (that's 149F, according to Google), or 338K. Now let's assume that it's in a room with 18C (64.4F, according to Google), or 291K. Now let's assume you attach an ideal heat engine to your Athlon 64 (i.e. a heat engine which converts as much heat into usable energy as is allowed by the laws of thermodynamics). Such a heat engine has an efficiency of (338K - 291K)/291 K = 16%. Given that the thermal design power of this processor is 28W to 35W, you'd get an energy output of 4.5W to 5.6W. But note that this assumes
In short: It's simply not worth the effort.
(BTW, Slashdot ate all my degree signs; it's not my fault that they are missing.)
Now, what would happen if it turned out that the religious leader actually doesn't believe it?
That may turn out as a pipe dream ...
The RIAA won't like it when QBitTorrent quantum-teleports the music directly onto your hard disk ...
I'd guess some Quantum programming language.
No. But the box will come with the computer in a superposition between working and broken, and only after opening the box it will be decided. That's how they get around your demanding the money back: When you got it, it wasn't yet broken, you broke it when opening the box!
Are you sure that not "Eurpoean moves" is an NP in it's own right, combining with "some" to a larger NP?
See, I've corrected the subject for you.
I'd like to support not reinventing the wheel. Can anyone tell me where I can get a current XMosaic?
Do you also have a good advice about how to get all that extra money to buy all those additional boxes? :-)
Note that probably the main reason why someone uses old hardware is not some emotional attachment, but simply the lack of money to buy a new one.
Which doesn't mean those search engines are not useful.
When following your link, I get "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." While I agree that not seeing the code is indeed a major obstacle to reusing it, I strongly doubt that it's what you meant to link to.
I think in order to be really useful for not reinventing the wheel, it should allow intelligent searching for licensing. That is, it should allow to restrict your search to codes with certain licenses, or even better, to code under a license compatible with any given license (or set of licenses).
For example, if you are working on code which you want to release as BSD, it's not much help if you find code licensed under the GPL, even if that code on its own is great. Likely, if you are writing GPLed code, you are not interested in code under licenses incompatible with the GPL (like e.g. the MPL).
Of course, the search engine cannot make a guarantee that the license will fit your needs, but then, it cannot guarantee that about the code's functionality either.
Of course a black hole has an internal structure, struct black_hole::internal; it's nature is that of a C++ class: Well encapsulated.