Yes, and thankfully this new process doesn't increase the amount of leakage, which is where a great deal of the heat comes from. Though it doesn't reduce leakage either, and the chips will still be hot.
Why do I care about heat output? The reasons are many. One, heat output is wasted energy. The Opteron is a more effecient chip -- it does more using 30 fewer watts. I pay for electricity. So does the environment. Having to evacuate the heat from the room is also a pain, and without air condition, the summer becomes an unpleasant time to compute. It's not tribalism, it's logic.
Gee, now if they could only intersperse these new transistors that can only store zeroes with some transistors that can only store ones, we could make an effective storage medium. Congratulations, we just invented ROM again.:)
I'm waiting for Intel to reduce heat output by 30%. 130 watts for a top end P4 is pretty insane, when a top end Opteron is only 100 watts. I don't care how small it is.
Probably not, actually. Most programs being assembled with make never have 96 possible concurrent builds... it's usually a couple dozen at most, and quite often just a handful. Also remember that almost everything depends on something else that must be built first. Building Gentoo is actually quite linear. So for the major components of Gentoo, such as glibc and your basic windowing system libraries, you probably wouldn't notice a massive increase in speed. You might notice some benefit when compiling many userspace apps at once, but for the most part, you'd be better off with a few fast CPUs in something like a 4-way Opteron system.
No, what customers need is the ability to run all the new software being currently released. There were many games and other pieces of software that would not run in Windows XP. XP is a resources pig, too. So many people stuck with 98. Well, have you tried to install Office 2003 on 98? It doesn't. Bingo, compatability ditched.
The *only* compelling upgrade for me from 2000 to XP was the thumbnails view in Explorer. Other than that, it was a downgrade in some things, like the new wizard crap for control panels and searching and whatnot.
Back in my experimenting days, one of the most interesting effects of having smoked marijuana was smooth eye movements. Instead of an instant jerk, my field of vision would slowly track across the room or whatever I was looking at.
Hardly. Fdisk just modifies the partition table, and it's nearly trivial to recover that information if you know the sizes of the paritions and their types. On the other hand, fsck will actually modify filesystems, and quite possibly severly corrupting them if the wrong parameters are given.
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Yes, and thankfully this new process doesn't increase the amount of leakage, which is where a great deal of the heat comes from. Though it doesn't reduce leakage either, and the chips will still be hot.
Why do I care about heat output? The reasons are many. One, heat output is wasted energy. The Opteron is a more effecient chip -- it does more using 30 fewer watts. I pay for electricity. So does the environment. Having to evacuate the heat from the room is also a pain, and without air condition, the summer becomes an unpleasant time to compute. It's not tribalism, it's logic.
The word "sure" was posted in an earlier article summary today, and Hemos was trying to avoid a dupe. We can't blame him for trying, can we?
Gee, now if they could only intersperse these new transistors that can only store zeroes with some transistors that can only store ones, we could make an effective storage medium. Congratulations, we just invented ROM again. :)
I'm waiting for Intel to reduce heat output by 30%. 130 watts for a top end P4 is pretty insane, when a top end Opteron is only 100 watts. I don't care how small it is.
Probably not, actually. Most programs being assembled with make never have 96 possible concurrent builds... it's usually a couple dozen at most, and quite often just a handful. Also remember that almost everything depends on something else that must be built first. Building Gentoo is actually quite linear. So for the major components of Gentoo, such as glibc and your basic windowing system libraries, you probably wouldn't notice a massive increase in speed. You might notice some benefit when compiling many userspace apps at once, but for the most part, you'd be better off with a few fast CPUs in something like a 4-way Opteron system.
No, what customers need is the ability to run all the new software being currently released. There were many games and other pieces of software that would not run in Windows XP. XP is a resources pig, too. So many people stuck with 98. Well, have you tried to install Office 2003 on 98? It doesn't. Bingo, compatability ditched.
It's a Great Feature, Silly. Whatever it does, I want it now!
And you, sir, had no fun as a teenager behind the wheel ;)
... one could route the bass frequency from one's car stereo into the suspension to get that extra bass feel?
:D
It would sure beat doing the brake-gas tap dance to headbang in sequence with the music while driving
The *only* compelling upgrade for me from 2000 to XP was the thumbnails view in Explorer. Other than that, it was a downgrade in some things, like the new wizard crap for control panels and searching and whatnot.
The RIAA has no jurisdiction! It's just an organisation/coalition of business. To say that is somehow has governmental powers is absurd!
Ahahaha... that was good. Now if only I had mod points ;)
I'm afraid that you won't be able to run it many places yet -- 128 bit computers to meet its RAM requirements are rare.
Back in my experimenting days, one of the most interesting effects of having smoked marijuana was smooth eye movements. Instead of an instant jerk, my field of vision would slowly track across the room or whatever I was looking at.
lmao.
Naw, Linux will probably come out of the closet and start dating the BSD Devil.
Hardly. Fdisk just modifies the partition table, and it's nearly trivial to recover that information if you know the sizes of the paritions and their types. On the other hand, fsck will actually modify filesystems, and quite possibly severly corrupting them if the wrong parameters are given.
Sorry, I was sitting at an MS-DOS terminal. A rather frightening experience, I must add.
Right. There's absolutely nothing wrong with, say, sending OpenGL down the wire and have the client's graphics system render it. :)
Reading that makes me let out a heartfelt "awww". It's touching, really, that technology can do such wonderful things.
Actually, he's right :)
Who the fdisk modded that offtopic? I thought it was a highly relevant reply to my comment ;)
I'm a nerd and I'm fat, though I am not a gamer.
Ugh!! *shudders* That Evil Yellow Face is definitely far more Evil!
So maybe the hords of fat gamers making their way to this convention is the cause of this ;)