a) Alienware was never about price/performance b) It doesnt use the fastest GPU solution, but the second fastest. So it obviously sucks and all (not that it would have any better price/performance if it used the more expensive sli version) c) They account the difference in the kribibench score as "the Geforce makes the difference". Sorry, mr not-the-brightest-bulb. Kribibench is a CPU only benchmark. Next try. d) Any site that comes with those nice "submit this article to slashdot/digg/assfaggot" bottoms should be banned per default. Its just arcticle spamming taken to the next level.
Maybe you should just donate the fucking money (there is your tax reduction) and allow them to build a nice custom computer that will be much faster and better for the workload than those ugly hacks of clients that spend more time for fancy interface and screensavers and communication lag than they actually do something useful?
Sorry, but the memory archtitecture is what makes cell suck, relatively. Its _extremely_ brain-swelled as a cpu (i.e. many execution units, relatively sucky bandwidth and latency).
And if even a small number of those 100 million playstations will be added to the computation pool and thus needlessly be running 24/7 instead when games are played then you are going to need a few more powerplants just for them.
Short answer:no Longer answer: you are a attention whore logest answer: please read around a bit, and know what the fuck you are takling about, becasuse right now you dont.
No, its not such a new and great idea. Schneider was building a project "laser tv" 15 years ago.
and
No, they are missing one thing: Brighness still does need power. While lasers have become more efficient, and the lifetime of blue ones doesnt suck anymore (thanks to lots of $$ invested by storage companies), there is still physics to play with:
with a perfect display screen, you need at least 15W (rough estimate, dont care to converte the lumens right now) of photon power per m^2 to get a usable picture. That of course would mean you would need those 15W in Laser emitters. As tubes are prohibitively expensive, that means diods. Diods are a _bit_ heat sensitive (they die like flies if anything is not to their liking), and i havent seen 5W or higher diods without a good cooling solution (because they will still protuce 2 times as much heat as light, and that in a very small volume.
Not to mention the little fact that a single 1W blue laser diode right now would be more expensive than a HD-Dlp beamer (plus it would degrade quickly to unusability).
Not to mention that you have to upload it, too, which is usually a order of magnitude slower.
Plus you have to upload it more than once (a LOT more than once if you want to be sure) to avoid emberassing "the important last piece of my backup was on the old 486 of a hobo that got thrown away" situations. Learning from normal P2P, if you want to get it back after a year, there should be at least a 10-20 factor of redundancy. Which leads to another point: those redundancy of course is incredibly wasteful. Just imagine if everybody used 10Gbyte for backups, he would need to provide 100Gbyte for others to keep up the ratios...
Its sort of going gold, with the exception that the latency is MUCH longer. So even if a perfect, working design tapes out, it will take at least 3months until happy little chips come out at the other end of the factory. Of course, failures, bad yields or bugs that only manifest themself in the physical design can delay this further.
Could be right out of a voyager episode or something. I really hope they reverse their shield polarity when attackign that wormhole, or it could trigger a tachyon cascade....
Its not. Its not even deadly, as most dogs immune system will be able to supress the infection in a matter of months. Those "external tumor infections" have all the weaknesses of living cells without the protection a normal cancer cell has by being hard to distinguish from "good" cells. (while prions are just a pain in the ass to kill)
Amps Amps Amps. using 48V, you would need to route 100s of Ampere to each rack. Even miliohms of contact resiance would point-weld your connectors, not to mention the cables heating up if they arent x-box size (and thus unconvenient and expensive)
Oh, if you are such an avid search engine user, there WILL be something to ID you. And then, all those 100s of searches for addresses and people will become perfect data-mining ore for your personal profile.
You have to understand: The average user doesnt comprehent that searching _for_ something actually sends this something into the internet. He will think: "hm. Lets make sure nobody got my SSN in the internet. I will search for it, and if i dont get any hits, nobody has stolen it!" and believe it to be a good idea.
Did you, for chance, notice that updates on the frontpage seem to happen every 30 minutes or so, day and night? Doesnt that kinda stick as odd if there would posting those stories the moment they accept them, as you seem to have illusions of them doing? Hint: maybe this story was already in the "to the frontpage" list when you submitted it. Just dont be a dick about it.
The effect is well in line with the natural distribution of the local gravity constant. Meaning it should be in the 0.01 m/s^2 range.
For the simple reason that if it were anymore, the earth would deform to counter that imbalance (molten core, you know). That, btw, also limits the height of mountains to about 10-12Km on earth (compare to mars, where to lower gravity constant allowed much larger volcanos)
Its an order of mangnitude more, so still compareable. Just try to calculate how much electricity 4000 workstations need. You will easily enter the 1M$ range per year, too.
So yes, you need a "power plant". And? Even my university, who isnt really that wealthy (and sure as hell doesnt have a billion $ budget) has one.
And extending the bridging time isnt that hard. The only difference between 10 minutes and 10 days is just how many diesel tanks you have in the basement. (although for simple reasons of mechanical wear most are only certified for a 2-digit hour interruption time)
Yeah, i remember seeing an OLD computer in a radar facility. It had the computing power of a pocket calculator, but used 10kW 3phase power. (not kidding. It was from the late 60s.) But nobody threw it out because it was directly communicating with some other equipment via propritary interfaces...
Or nipplegate. Enough said, right? You americans seem to have zero problems shitting on that precious "no law against free speech" if instead of death, gore and murder a single piece of anatomy is visible (outside a mutilated corpse, of course. Corpses are always fine).
This computer, like all the previous (md)grape generations, is a central force potential calculation accelerator.
it does nothing but calculate 1/sqrt(dx^2+dy^2+dz^2)*variable, but really really often.
Grape 6, 5 years or so ago, was already running at 200Mhz, had a throughput of one force calculation per pipleline and 6 pipelines on once chip. So it counts as 1.2 billion force calculations, each being (1* inverse, 1 sqrt, 3 adds, 3 squares, 2 fmul, ect). A lot of flops, but totally useless as general purpose computers.
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Maybe he uses mozilla...
a) Alienware was never about price/performance
b) It doesnt use the fastest GPU solution, but the second fastest. So it obviously sucks and all (not that it would have any better price/performance if it used the more expensive sli version)
c) They account the difference in the kribibench score as "the Geforce makes the difference". Sorry, mr not-the-brightest-bulb. Kribibench is a CPU only benchmark. Next try.
d) Any site that comes with those nice "submit this article to slashdot/digg/assfaggot" bottoms should be banned per default. Its just arcticle spamming taken to the next level.
Maybe you should just donate the fucking money (there is your tax reduction) and allow them to build a nice custom computer that will be much faster and better for the workload than those ugly hacks of clients that spend more time for fancy interface and screensavers and communication lag than they actually do something useful?
Sorry, but the memory archtitecture is what makes cell suck, relatively.
Its _extremely_ brain-swelled as a cpu (i.e. many execution units, relatively sucky bandwidth and latency).
And if even a small number of those 100 million playstations will be added to the computation pool and thus needlessly be running 24/7 instead when games are played then you are going to need a few more powerplants just for them.
Short answer:no
Longer answer: you are a attention whore
logest answer: please read around a bit, and know what the fuck you are takling about, becasuse right now you dont.
No, its not such a new and great idea. Schneider was building a project "laser tv" 15 years ago.
and
No, they are missing one thing: Brighness still does need power. While lasers have become more efficient, and the lifetime of blue ones doesnt suck anymore (thanks to lots of $$ invested by storage companies), there is still physics to play with:
with a perfect display screen, you need at least 15W (rough estimate, dont care to converte the lumens right now) of photon power per m^2 to get a usable picture.
That of course would mean you would need those 15W in Laser emitters. As tubes are prohibitively expensive, that means diods. Diods are a _bit_ heat sensitive (they die like flies if anything is not to their liking), and i havent seen 5W or higher diods without a good cooling solution (because they will still protuce 2 times as much heat as light, and that in a very small volume.
Not to mention the little fact that a single 1W blue laser diode right now would be more expensive than a HD-Dlp beamer (plus it would degrade quickly to unusability).
Sorry, but stargate should have been canceled YEARS ago, while there was still something left besides stupid rehashes and lack of ideas.
"So far I've only skimmed Part III, "Playing with Routers"."
dear danny,
Next time, wait until you actually READ the book before writing a review.
Not to mention that you have to upload it, too, which is usually a order of magnitude slower.
Plus you have to upload it more than once (a LOT more than once if you want to be sure) to avoid emberassing "the important last piece of my backup was on the old 486 of a hobo that got thrown away" situations.
Learning from normal P2P, if you want to get it back after a year, there should be at least a 10-20 factor of redundancy.
Which leads to another point: those redundancy of course is incredibly wasteful. Just imagine if everybody used 10Gbyte for backups, he would need to provide 100Gbyte for others to keep up the ratios...
So?
How many kbit do you exactly get at itunes?
If those videos have 128kbit or better audio, why should one every buy the corresponding song on itunes?
Splitting streams is rather easy...
Its sort of going gold, with the exception that the latency is MUCH longer.
So even if a perfect, working design tapes out, it will take at least 3months until happy little chips come out at the other end of the factory. Of course, failures, bad yields or bugs that only manifest themself in the physical design can delay this further.
Read the rules:
Either the archive has to be self extracting, or to be tarred with the decompressor.
You are not the first genius to get that idea...
Could be right out of a voyager episode or something.
I really hope they reverse their shield polarity when attackign that wormhole, or it could trigger a tachyon cascade....
Its not.
Its not even deadly, as most dogs immune system will be able to supress the infection in a matter of months.
Those "external tumor infections" have all the weaknesses of living cells without the protection a normal cancer cell has by being hard to distinguish from "good" cells. (while prions are just a pain in the ass to kill)
Amps Amps Amps.
using 48V, you would need to route 100s of Ampere to each rack. Even miliohms of contact resiance would point-weld your connectors, not to mention the cables heating up if they arent x-box size (and thus unconvenient and expensive)
Oh, if you are such an avid search engine user, there WILL be something to ID you.
And then, all those 100s of searches for addresses and people will become perfect data-mining ore for your personal profile.
You have to understand: The average user doesnt comprehent that searching _for_ something actually sends this something into the internet.
He will think: "hm. Lets make sure nobody got my SSN in the internet. I will search for it, and if i dont get any hits, nobody has stolen it!" and believe it to be a good idea.
Did you, for chance, notice that updates on the frontpage seem to happen every 30 minutes or so, day and night?
Doesnt that kinda stick as odd if there would posting those stories the moment they accept them, as you seem to have illusions of them doing?
Hint: maybe this story was already in the "to the frontpage" list when you submitted it. Just dont be a dick about it.
The effect is well in line with the natural distribution of the local gravity constant.
Meaning it should be in the 0.01 m/s^2 range.
For the simple reason that if it were anymore, the earth would deform to counter that imbalance (molten core, you know).
That, btw, also limits the height of mountains to about 10-12Km on earth (compare to mars, where to lower gravity constant allowed much larger volcanos)
Its an order of mangnitude more, so still compareable.
Just try to calculate how much electricity 4000 workstations need. You will easily enter the 1M$ range per year, too.
So yes, you need a "power plant". And?
Even my university, who isnt really that wealthy (and sure as hell doesnt have a billion $ budget) has one.
And extending the bridging time isnt that hard. The only difference between 10 minutes and 10 days is just how many diesel tanks you have in the basement. (although for simple reasons of mechanical wear most are only certified for a 2-digit hour interruption time)
Yeah, i remember seeing an OLD computer in a radar facility.
It had the computing power of a pocket calculator, but used 10kW 3phase power. (not kidding. It was from the late 60s.)
But nobody threw it out because it was directly communicating with some other equipment via propritary interfaces...
Or nipplegate.
Enough said, right?
You americans seem to have zero problems shitting on that precious "no law against free speech" if instead of death, gore and murder a single piece of anatomy is visible (outside a mutilated corpse, of course. Corpses are always fine).
This computer, like all the previous (md)grape generations, is a central force potential calculation accelerator.
it does nothing but calculate 1/sqrt(dx^2+dy^2+dz^2)*variable, but really really often.
Grape 6, 5 years or so ago, was already running at 200Mhz, had a throughput of one force calculation per pipleline and 6 pipelines on once chip. So it counts as 1.2 billion force calculations, each being (1* inverse, 1 sqrt, 3 adds, 3 squares, 2 fmul, ect).
A lot of flops, but totally useless as general purpose computers.
They finally cought up to the product of an extremely lazy software company that only releases a new os version twice a decade...