Er.. you get the point wrong. The very fact that they are IO bound makes the via stuff a problem. (think of pci implementations, ect. HDs have 40-50MByte STR, but you need bandwith for the LAN, too. Add to this a typical 60-70MByte/s pci implementation of a VIA chipset (thats for desktop ones, those mini-things could be worse) you couldnt handle one modern HD via Gbit ethernet with one of those boards...
So you think just throwing away a printing head with each ink-tank is BETTER than replacing the ink head every year or two? Why?
Actually, in the end you just shot your argument in the foot: is was exactly those "all inclusive" inktanks you like that became so expensive that buying a new printer often was cheapter than a complete refill for the old one...
You simply dont know anything but cheap consumer crap.
1. Cheap crappy paper, or paper and printing profile not compatible. Most common reason: using cheap crap 2. Cheap papter, cheap inks, bad combination (with many papers, the ink is supposed to perclorate the uppermost layer and dry beneath the surface, which seals it). There are also solutions available that seal the print after the ink has been applied. Again: solution for the problem: not using cheap crap.
Come on! "New Way to Print" my ASS. This is just corporate newspeak saying "we are taking over the technique our closest competitors have been using since 1995".
Single ink tanks&co arent innovative in any way. The same with permanent printing heads. It was just HPs idea of product marketing up to now to maximize running costs by making everything disposable.
And you have to add: The branch predictors are fucking great, nowadays. Real world prediction rates >98% are not unheard of, meaning only 1/2 or 1/3 clock additional execution time per jump instruction in average.
Because moving around 200 pounds bike+driver+crap is SOOOOOOO much more difficult than moving 180 pounts bike+driver without crap... wait, its only 12% or so... that means that if you cannot get it moving with 20pounds extra load, you are obviously to weak to move you body at all, armchair hero.
Funny thing is, aside from several hype-postings (like the slashdot article), i never seen any review/hands-on info about the orions... Did they even produce anything yet or is it still vapourware?
If you are using aplications from the start menue SO often that you have them "in muscle memory", than maybe you should put them in the quicklaunch tray?
ACtually, less than you might think... While fans became louder and louder, every generation of harddiscs became more silent (with execptions).
I actually HAVE a system here, with 8HDs. And its quite enough that its not noticable if you dont actually try to hear it. (its samsungs, decoupled from the case because they sit on the hot-swap trays)
And even 8 loud HDs (like the maxtors) would still by less loud than one of those turbo-GPUs with stock fan.
Oh yeah great. My latest firefox made a BSOD, too. Who needs uptime? Or unsaved documents? Grrr (note to self: never click on stupid links because you think "firefox wont crash, because its good open sourse" )
Well, captain obvious... Without electromagnetism is would be impossible, but even with it its really damn hard... Dont forget: if you wanna store large amounts of anitmatter, you can forget positon only storage simply because of colomb forces... 300ug positrons or antiprotons would ruin any attempts to trap them... So you need anti-hydrogen atoms. Doable, but still tricky. Because now, you have to use higher order fields to trap. Something like a penning-trap. Of course now, you can get spin-flips that will result in the flipping atom to be accelerated to the walls... causing gamma photons... now those can travel through the contained material and wreck all kinds of havoc, ect...
Its not as easy as its sounds, ESPECIALLY if its should be small enough to be packed on a rocket... (storing antimatter in a large storage ring is a whole lot easier)
Hold your horses... You dont seem to know your physics THAT well.. First: 5g antimatter wont destroy the earth. In fact, it would be more like a medium sized hydrogen bomb-> it doesnt even make dent in any bigger mountain.
Second: Antimatter is a storage only device. Every bit of energy created by a detonation has to be produced by other means, first (in fact, 1000 times or more, because of abysmal efficiencies). So to even have the _possibility_ of creating planet_buster or armageddon-device amount of antimatter, you need energy sources that could do it anyway...
Without so much more technological breakthroughts (who will of course make that whole project pointless, because totally new options would arise), building a antimatter rocket will be impossible.
First: containment-> Its hard getting long livetimes in a nice good storage ring that doesnt suffer massive accelerations and other nasty stuff launching from earth brings with itself.
Second: containment part two: To power it, you would need a energy source of such capacity that could feed an ion drive or equivalent just fine without the need for antimatter.
Third: containment part three: if it fails it will give the a real nice flash. ok, with such a small one this doesnt matter (a normal rocked exploding is also devastating, but a bigger one would be like a nuke on steroids).
Fourth: Production of anitmatter: current efficiency of antimatter creation is somewhere around absolute zero... dont know the the exact numbers (the article was a few years old), but with current technology it could very well take the energy production of the whole USA to create that much anitmatter... for a year or so...
All those points dont mean that it wont be possible (or even desirable) to build an antimatter engine, but the needed advancements are THAT far away, that every kind of basic studies now are pointless.
I would attribute it to "not looking at the market" , complete management failure and stupid product directions, all this for over half a decade without rest.
But ok, with piss in direction to redmond, you can always get +5 here. I
The problem really is that even the large systems have rapidly losing ground.
12 years or so ago, an onyx with an infinite reality II graphics pipeline was in another universe compared to anything else... Nowadays, there are so much less situations where systems of those kind can play out their advantages...
I mean, we have now GAMING cards that can run 19xx *1400 in 32 bit, while pushing 10million+polygones pre frame...
Im seriously surprised its that much. Think about it: the chance for a hit droppes massivlely with the size of an object. Statistically, there are 100s of chances for a collision with a real bad boy (in the km range) before one of the unstoppable kind is to be expected.
And we have 100s of nukes in the MT range literally lying around. With that calculation, 5MTs a year ahead should be enough.
Even if the guiding isnt perfect, ect, just send 10 of them (or 20), with enough time intervall to observe object delta_v (lets say a day). With that redundancy it should be able to work. (plus it would allow control of the trajectory)
Deep impact showed that it IS possible to hit an comet well away with current technology and a payload equivalent to a well-sized nuke. So the rest is just a matter of commitment.
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Er.. you get the point wrong.
The very fact that they are IO bound makes the via stuff a problem. (think of pci implementations, ect. HDs have 40-50MByte STR, but you need bandwith for the LAN, too. Add to this a typical 60-70MByte/s pci implementation of a VIA chipset (thats for desktop ones, those mini-things could be worse) you couldnt handle one modern HD via Gbit ethernet with one of those boards...
So you think just throwing away a printing head with each ink-tank is BETTER than replacing the ink head every year or two?
Why?
Actually, in the end you just shot your argument in the foot: is was exactly those "all inclusive" inktanks you like that became so expensive that buying a new printer often was cheapter than a complete refill for the old one...
You simply dont know anything but cheap consumer crap.
1. Cheap crappy paper, or paper and printing profile not compatible. Most common reason: using cheap crap
2. Cheap papter, cheap inks, bad combination (with many papers, the ink is supposed to perclorate the uppermost layer and dry beneath the surface, which seals it). There are also solutions available that seal the print after the ink has been applied.
Again: solution for the problem: not using cheap crap.
Come on! "New Way to Print" my ASS.
This is just corporate newspeak saying "we are taking over the technique our closest competitors have been using since 1995".
Single ink tanks&co arent innovative in any way. The same with permanent printing heads. It was just HPs idea of product marketing up to now to maximize running costs by making everything disposable.
ahhh.
How droll. A AC bitching about the ID of another poster...
And you have to add:
The branch predictors are fucking great, nowadays.
Real world prediction rates >98% are not unheard of, meaning only 1/2 or 1/3 clock additional execution time per jump instruction in average.
Because moving around 200 pounds bike+driver+crap is SOOOOOOO much more difficult than moving 180 pounts bike+driver without crap...
wait, its only 12% or so...
that means that if you cannot get it moving with 20pounds extra load, you are obviously to weak to move you body at all, armchair hero.
And posts like the greatparente make me feel that maybe a week between AC postings would be a good lower limit.
Funny thing is, aside from several hype-postings (like the slashdot article), i never seen any review/hands-on info about the orions...
Did they even produce anything yet or is it still vapourware?
If you are using aplications from the start menue SO often that you have them "in muscle memory", than maybe you should put them in the quicklaunch tray?
Thats the way wars and soldiers work, you know?
ACtually, less than you might think...
While fans became louder and louder, every generation of harddiscs became more silent (with execptions).
I actually HAVE a system here, with 8HDs. And its quite enough that its not noticable if you dont actually try to hear it.
(its samsungs, decoupled from the case because they sit on the hot-swap trays)
And even 8 loud HDs (like the maxtors) would still by less loud than one of those turbo-GPUs with stock fan.
Oh yeah great.
My latest firefox made a BSOD, too.
Who needs uptime? Or unsaved documents? Grrr
(note to self: never click on stupid links because you think "firefox wont crash, because its good open sourse" )
God. i know people on slashdot are slow to get humor, but come on, he even WROTE IT IN THE POST that its supposed to be an ironic joke...
Well, captain obvious...
Without electromagnetism is would be impossible, but even with it its really damn hard...
Dont forget: if you wanna store large amounts of anitmatter, you can forget positon only storage simply because of colomb forces... 300ug positrons or antiprotons would ruin any attempts to trap them...
So you need anti-hydrogen atoms. Doable, but still tricky. Because now, you have to use higher order fields to trap. Something like a penning-trap. Of course now, you can get spin-flips that will result in the flipping atom to be accelerated to the walls... causing gamma photons... now those can travel through the contained material and wreck all kinds of havoc, ect...
Its not as easy as its sounds, ESPECIALLY if its should be small enough to be packed on a rocket... (storing antimatter in a large storage ring is a whole lot easier)
Hold your horses...
You dont seem to know your physics THAT well..
First: 5g antimatter wont destroy the earth. In fact, it would be more like a medium sized hydrogen bomb-> it doesnt even make dent in any bigger mountain.
Second: Antimatter is a storage only device. Every bit of energy created by a detonation has to be produced by other means, first (in fact, 1000 times or more, because of abysmal efficiencies). So to even have the _possibility_ of creating planet_buster or armageddon-device amount of antimatter, you need energy sources that could do it anyway...
Same could be said for locks on doors...
People could abduct others and LOCK THEM IN!!!
Imagine the possibilites for abuse!
Lets regulate them!
Without so much more technological breakthroughts (who will of course make that whole project pointless, because totally new options would arise), building a antimatter rocket will be impossible.
First: containment-> Its hard getting long livetimes in a nice good storage ring that doesnt suffer massive accelerations and other nasty stuff launching from earth brings with itself.
Second: containment part two: To power it, you would need a energy source of such capacity that could feed an ion drive or equivalent just fine without the need for antimatter.
Third: containment part three: if it fails it will give the a real nice flash. ok, with such a small one this doesnt matter (a normal rocked exploding is also devastating, but a bigger one would be like a nuke on steroids).
Fourth: Production of anitmatter: current efficiency of antimatter creation is somewhere around absolute zero... dont know the the exact numbers (the article was a few years old), but with current technology it could very well take the energy production of the whole USA to create that much anitmatter... for a year or so...
All those points dont mean that it wont be possible (or even desirable) to build an antimatter engine, but the needed advancements are THAT far away, that every kind of basic studies now are pointless.
I would attribute it to "not looking at the market" , complete management failure and stupid product directions, all this for over half a decade without rest.
But ok, with piss in direction to redmond, you can always get +5 here. I
The problem really is that even the large systems have rapidly losing ground.
12 years or so ago, an onyx with an infinite reality II graphics pipeline was in another universe compared to anything else...
Nowadays, there are so much less situations where systems of those kind can play out their advantages...
I mean, we have now GAMING cards that can run 19xx *1400 in 32 bit, while pushing 10million+polygones pre frame...
Im seriously surprised its that much.
Think about it: the chance for a hit droppes massivlely with the size of an object. Statistically, there are 100s of chances for a collision with a real bad boy (in the km range) before one of the unstoppable kind is to be expected.
And we have 100s of nukes in the MT range literally lying around. With that calculation, 5MTs a year ahead should be enough.
Even if the guiding isnt perfect, ect, just send 10 of them (or 20), with enough time intervall to observe object delta_v (lets say a day). With that redundancy it should be able to work. (plus it would allow control of the trajectory)
Deep impact showed that it IS possible to hit an comet well away with current technology and a payload equivalent to a well-sized nuke. So the rest is just a matter of commitment.
If we were really to send up "live"nukes to counter an extinction even, it simply wouldnt matter.
Isnt that the whole point of a justice system? Making bad boys become good boys?
>>Of course kids that does violent crimes should be tried as adult (maybe not sent to an adult prison).
Please explain!
I mean, you say everybody who does a "bad" crime is automatically adult?
Well, i guess i missunderstood you.
My point was that yes, there are plenty of uses for Power still left, but this particular cores were more like hand-tailored for apple...