If you used less power then you would not need any fancy routing schemes. It does not matter how the power gets to the chips it still ends up being consumed and turned into heat.
When it comes to gaming etc, price and performance will always be considered more important than power saving (except for battery devices). $10 on a retail price is somehow more real than an extra $5 per month on the power bill (which is probably being payed for by someone else anyway). So if a graphics card maker could shave off half the power by spending another $2 it just won't happen.
This makes all those "Green PC" claims a joke. I remember my first PC. It wasn't a "Green PC", but it had a 100W power supply, no heatsinks etc. My latest PC is a "Green PC" but has a 400W power supply. I'm not sure how a 400W-based system is greener than a 100W based system, but hey it says Green so it has got to be good right?
No. Don't work for 4 grains. Provide something more valuable than commodity engineering. Add more skills and services and you're soon worth 10 or more grains per day!
Heat dissipation is only a significant issue in a very small number of CPUs like x86s and PowerPCs. Most CPUs you'll encounter in your average day (phone, car, mouse, PDA, refridgerator, washing machine, air conditioner,...) use very little power and you don't heat up that you can notice.
You're fully welcome to your point of view. However don't be suprised when the CFO finds it easier to deal with an offshorer that doesn't mind being corn-holed for five grains of rice a day.
If you want to be just a commodity engineer with a job description then don't cry when your job goes to China/India/whatever. To stay competitive, you have to add value beyond working to a job description. Welcome to the new millenium. Get over it.
That they use terms like "allow" still shows their arrogance, and that they really have not learnt how to play nice, and they really do need to get a smack down by the EU and DOJ.
If they really want to show that they have learnt then they need to soften their position, as well as say things in a way that sounds at least half genuine.
In an interesting experiment in the 80s, a controller based on fuzzy chips degraded gracefully.
The system was designed around a set of fuzzy computing boards. When one of the boards was removed, the control degraded, but still continued to function. Of course if some critical boards (eg direct attached to outputs) were removed, the system would fail immediately.
When CEOs negotiate their pay, they typically do this taking a whole-career stance. If a CEO gets hired by a high risk company, then he risks giving himself a bad name. Thus, a company in bad shape (that has a high risk of tainting the CEOs name) will have to pay more to attract a CEO.
I do stuff in embedded space using IAR or GreenHills and gcc. For the most part, the proprietary vendors are losing ground to gcc. The proprietary advantage is shrinking, especially with more modern micros and as gcc improves. For the most part, code that comes out of gcc is no worse than code coming out of IAR or GreenHills. Where the priopritary guys have a real advantage is in better Clib implementations. The Clib, and newlib, that are normally used with gcc are huge and bloaty in comparison.
You set up a blog and write about yourself etc and feel important when people respond. Podcasters are pretty much the same. It's that whole 15 minutes of fame thing, only longer and more visual.
Bloggers & podcasters get seriously up themselves and eachother about this.
Reduction is a way more important first step than switching. Once people have reduced their energy needs, then current, as well as future, alternatives are more viable.
Wall St is a catwalk for business fashions. Like clothing fashions, the business fashions that drive business decision making are seldom rooted in practical thinking. If you're performing well, then you can ignore the business fashions. If you're performance is sub-stellar then you need to conform otherwise Wall St starts to get nasty. The current fashions seem to be cost reduction and focussing on core business (conservative mindsets that go with current political thinking) resulting in RIFs and dumping the PXA chips etc. Previous fashions included outsourcing/offshoring etc (so you better have mentioned outsourcing/offshoring at your investor conference calls).Next year maybe the Wall St fashion becomes hiring or diversification and Intel might just go out and buy a whole lot more businesses.
If true, 80% is a very high confidence number for a software release. Nobody will really change their thinking because you just plug in to the MS machine and accept where it takes you.
The major reason to shift the date bar is so that people can change their budgeting and roll their expected Vista expenditure into next year.
any more than a Ford is a Mercedes. Galileo is the name of the EU system. GPS is the name of the USA system. Both are examples of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems).
This might show where some of the OSS **vendors** are located, but it does not show where the people writing the code are.... and it freaks me that New Zealand and half of Oz are not on the map. I live in NZ and I've written my share of OSS!
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I wonder how easy it is to hack the Monopoly reader to do skimming etc?
If you used less power then you would not need any fancy routing schemes. It does not matter how the power gets to the chips it still ends up being consumed and turned into heat.
This makes all those "Green PC" claims a joke. I remember my first PC. It wasn't a "Green PC", but it had a 100W power supply, no heatsinks etc. My latest PC is a "Green PC" but has a 400W power supply. I'm not sure how a 400W-based system is greener than a 100W based system, but hey it says Green so it has got to be good right?
No. Don't work for 4 grains. Provide something more valuable than commodity engineering. Add more skills and services and you're soon worth 10 or more grains per day!
Heat dissipation is only a significant issue in a very small number of CPUs like x86s and PowerPCs. Most CPUs you'll encounter in your average day (phone, car, mouse, PDA, refridgerator, washing machine, air conditioner, ...) use very little power and you don't heat up that you can notice.
You're fully welcome to your point of view. However don't be suprised when the CFO finds it easier to deal with an offshorer that doesn't mind being corn-holed for five grains of rice a day.
If you want to be just a commodity engineer with a job description then don't cry when your job goes to China/India/whatever. To stay competitive, you have to add value beyond working to a job description. Welcome to the new millenium. Get over it.
FTFA "We've learnt humility...". So how can we believe anything if he says this?
Most of them just go over to the newsfeed (Reuters etc), highlight some text and hit Ctl-C then over to their text editor and hit Ctl-V.
If they really want to show that they have learnt then they need to soften their position, as well as say things in a way that sounds at least half genuine.
$4242 is cheap. Cheaper than the $170k previous one maybe, but not likely to be in every hacker's living room any time soon.
The system was designed around a set of fuzzy computing boards. When one of the boards was removed, the control degraded, but still continued to function. Of course if some critical boards (eg direct attached to outputs) were removed, the system would fail immediately.
Performance has little to do with it.
I do stuff in embedded space using IAR or GreenHills and gcc. For the most part, the proprietary vendors are losing ground to gcc. The proprietary advantage is shrinking, especially with more modern micros and as gcc improves. For the most part, code that comes out of gcc is no worse than code coming out of IAR or GreenHills. Where the priopritary guys have a real advantage is in better Clib implementations. The Clib, and newlib, that are normally used with gcc are huge and bloaty in comparison.
Bloggers & podcasters get seriously up themselves and eachother about this.
Reduction is a way more important first step than switching. Once people have reduced their energy needs, then current, as well as future, alternatives are more viable.
If MS continues the way they are, by then they will be the government.
Wall St is a catwalk for business fashions. Like clothing fashions, the business fashions that drive business decision making are seldom rooted in practical thinking. If you're performing well, then you can ignore the business fashions. If you're performance is sub-stellar then you need to conform otherwise Wall St starts to get nasty. The current fashions seem to be cost reduction and focussing on core business (conservative mindsets that go with current political thinking) resulting in RIFs and dumping the PXA chips etc. Previous fashions included outsourcing/offshoring etc (so you better have mentioned outsourcing/offshoring at your investor conference calls).Next year maybe the Wall St fashion becomes hiring or diversification and Intel might just go out and buy a whole lot more businesses.
What a bargain!
until the aircraft is 6km away, then it becomes easy to shoot down.
NASA seems to loose more launch vehicles, and definitely more people, per launch than anyone else
The major reason to shift the date bar is so that people can change their budgeting and roll their expected Vista expenditure into next year.
any more than a Ford is a Mercedes. Galileo is the name of the EU system. GPS is the name of the USA system. Both are examples of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems).
This might show where some of the OSS **vendors** are located, but it does not show where the people writing the code are.... and it freaks me that New Zealand and half of Oz are not on the map. I live in NZ and I've written my share of OSS!