Manhole covers are round because square ones could drop down the shaft. With round ones, this is impossible, thus improving security and easyness of handling.
Sorry, but these annoucements arent much more optimistic than the ones that were made before the launch of the G5. Lets see IBM actually roll out those babies, and look what yields they get, how cool they really run and in what ways the design has suffered to allow them to reach that kind of clockspeeds.
Please forget them. They are shit, will never work, and every argument he made in his blog-post was unscientific bullshit aimed into collecting disposable venture capital.
If the product will ever be released (i dont think so), it will be at a point of time when the stated specs (if reached at all) will be laughably outdated. And even then its much likely to be another click-of-death fiasco, because the whole technology is DOA.
The power distribution in a modern notebook is EXTREMELY dependent on usage and the special model you look at.
Averaged, the biggest power-draw of a modern notebook is the display, followed by the cpu. (this may of course vary if the notebook has a very small display. With equal brightness, power-draw of course increases with display size, until it dominates everything else with those 17" 200cm/m^2 display). After that is chipset and GPU (of course depending on with model you use).
2.5" HDs are actually not very power-hungry. Typical power-draw figures are 5W during spinup, and about 2W while in use (dropping to 0.5W or so during spindown).
The FLASH drive mentioned draws about 0.6W in use, so in average you might gain 1.5W thats about 3-5% of the average power-draw of a modern notebook, and should give you about 10-15 minutes or so more.
Sorry, you dont really get more economy of scale than flash already has.
There are improvements ahead with further process shrinks, but to get the same storage than a decent big HD has, you need roughly all chips of a 20cm wafer.
And creating 100s of cm^2 of memory-quality dice isnt cheap.
Because the 30$ a months are neglectable and merely pay for the infrastructure. The real money comes from ads, ads and ads. Which people wont watch if they cherrypick their downloads.
Usenet is useless shit, in my oppinion. I thought it sucked when i first used it back in 1993, and still havent found any newsreaders that wasnt total fuckshit.
I personally actually LIKE the diffraction patters around overbright objects.
Because it makes the pictures "sort of" HDR. They contain a lot of brightness range that would otherwise simply be clipped by the conversion from countrate to colour.
I know that M31 is nothing special per se, but the resolution is. You can see every H2 region, the interaction with the collision partner, the starburst activity, everything. And then you have to realize: All this is just one of trillions...
Sorry, but the pillars of creation actually DO manage to get old. Its a great picture, both in scope and quality, but its not the "best ever". There is just so much other stuff out there.
My personal favority currently is the ultra-highres mosaic of M31 from hubble.
I actually knew somebody who preordered it in 1998. Even back then, the delays were notorious, but he found a software-shop who promised him it would be available till chrismas...
I dont agree with those two examples. The 2nd one, well go to MODIS and you can download 1000s of pictures like that. There is simply nothing that distinguishes it.
Same for the Man in Space picture. Its above average in terms of composition, but there are scores of similar ones.
because that was JUST the argument in the first bubble: "well, they only burn money without revenue. But its a totally different market, so lets boost them further!!!".
We are again reaching the point where decorated turds get market capitalisations in the 100s of millions. And still, they simply arent worth it.
Speed of electricity =! speed of light. speed of light insite a metal =! c.
In copper lanes like on modern cpus, the speed is about 30-35% of c. Photonic crystals and optical fibers, otoh, can have a permiability that allows speeds of near C for photons.
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Manhole covers are round because square ones could drop down the shaft.
With round ones, this is impossible, thus improving security and easyness of handling.
Sorry, but these annoucements arent much more optimistic than the ones that were made before the launch of the G5.
Lets see IBM actually roll out those babies, and look what yields they get, how cool they really run and in what ways the design has suffered to allow them to reach that kind of clockspeeds.
You should never forget that those power5 values are "slightly" boosted by the fact that they use 128Mbyte l3 cache....
Well, the world is a better place knowing geniuses like you are roaming at ./ and shitting mental bullshit into postings.
What the fuck are you trying to tell me with that gibberish of post?
Please forget them. They are shit, will never work, and every argument he made in his blog-post was unscientific bullshit aimed into collecting disposable venture capital.
If the product will ever be released (i dont think so), it will be at a point of time when the stated specs (if reached at all) will be laughably outdated. And even then its much likely to be another click-of-death fiasco, because the whole technology is DOA.
The power distribution in a modern notebook is EXTREMELY dependent on usage and the special model you look at.
Averaged, the biggest power-draw of a modern notebook is the display, followed by the cpu. (this may of course vary if the notebook has a very small display. With equal brightness, power-draw of course increases with display size, until it dominates everything else with those 17" 200cm/m^2 display). After that is chipset and GPU (of course depending on with model you use).
2.5" HDs are actually not very power-hungry. Typical power-draw figures are 5W during spinup, and about 2W while in use (dropping to 0.5W or so during spindown).
The FLASH drive mentioned draws about 0.6W in use, so in average you might gain 1.5W thats about 3-5% of the average power-draw of a modern notebook, and should give you about 10-15 minutes or so more.
Sorry, you dont really get more economy of scale than flash already has.
There are improvements ahead with further process shrinks, but to get the same storage than a decent big HD has, you need roughly all chips of a 20cm wafer.
And creating 100s of cm^2 of memory-quality dice isnt cheap.
Because the 30$ a months are neglectable and merely pay for the infrastructure.
The real money comes from ads, ads and ads.
Which people wont watch if they cherrypick their downloads.
Just a piece of info about the second one (to understand why its SO GREAT):
The ORIGINAL source is the head of a guy, and the two kanji the other sources show are a rather famous expression attributed to this man.
Use your brain.
The total sum off ALL ratios is 1. If ANYBDOY has more than 1, somebody got to have less than one.
If one kid uses the gigabit connetion of his university to seed everything he gets, others wont be able to upload.
Usenet is useless shit, in my oppinion.
I thought it sucked when i first used it back in 1993, and still havent found any newsreaders that wasnt total fuckshit.
I rather have any kind of webforum.
The only real way to "trim down" the requirements of wikipedia would be by cutting pageviews.
So why dont you just set a good example by stopping to use it?
I personally actually LIKE the diffraction patters around overbright objects.
Because it makes the pictures "sort of" HDR. They contain a lot of brightness range that would otherwise simply be clipped by the conversion from countrate to colour.
I know that M31 is nothing special per se, but the resolution is.
You can see every H2 region, the interaction with the collision partner, the starburst activity, everything.
And then you have to realize: All this is just one of trillions...
Sorry, but the pillars of creation actually DO manage to get old.
Its a great picture, both in scope and quality, but its not the "best ever". There is just so much other stuff out there.
My personal favority currently is the ultra-highres mosaic of M31 from hubble.
Go somewhere and DIE. Please. You will do the world a favour.
Just be reducing the average retardation of the world.
I actually knew somebody who preordered it in 1998. Even back then, the delays were notorious, but he found a software-shop who promised him it would be available till chrismas...
I dont agree with those two examples. The 2nd one, well go to MODIS and you can download 1000s of pictures like that. There is simply nothing that distinguishes it.
Same for the Man in Space picture. Its above average in terms of composition, but there are scores of similar ones.
because that was JUST the argument in the first bubble: "well, they only burn money without revenue. But its a totally different market, so lets boost them further!!!".
We are again reaching the point where decorated turds get market capitalisations in the 100s of millions.
And still, they simply arent worth it.
yeah, the same as it is with google.
They will also scan your emails and your searches, create a profile and use if for the ads.
No, during idle you are doing NOTHING with it.
If you actually get it to do something, it needs as much as 6-7 old pcs
A Geforce 8800 uses more power in idle alone than 3 386 computers with 14" b/w monitors...
What part of "DEMO" didnt get into your tiny, preoccupied with "back then games were better", mind?
Speed of electricity =! speed of light.
speed of light insite a metal =! c.
In copper lanes like on modern cpus, the speed is about 30-35% of c.
Photonic crystals and optical fibers, otoh, can have a permiability that allows speeds of near C for photons.