I know people who spend more for their wires of their hifi system.
Power cable? Oxygen free copper, shielded, 100$/m spdif cable? Must be high-end, because the bits must be "warm" and "round", not "fuzzy" or "edgy". 350$/m. spikes for the speakers? Hand make, 50$ apice...
There are enough people who would look at you in digust if you tell them that another solution would be cheaper. Simply because they want things to be expensive...
IMHO 99% of this people just overcompensate the limitations of their ears. "if its expensive it must be better even if i cant really hear it". It really sucks that much people who can afford high end equipment dont hear anything above 14-16 kHz simply because of their age...
because splitting water and recombining it in a fuel cell is a magnitude more efficient than charging batteries.
Plus you dont need several hundered kg of potential toxic batteries costing $20000+.
Btw:Because of all those "hydrogen bomb car" people who think hydrogen tanks are bombs on wheels:i wonder what would happen if there is a car crash with one of the cars powered by lithium-ion batteries. Would be a nice firework if someone tries to put out a fire with water...
If you want someone to read you mod up wish, why post as AC? (remember, many people browse at 1+ Or do you want posts modded up you dont want to be associated with?
Well, im quite a bit older than 15 but have to agree with the original poster.
Nowadays i end up watching around 30 minutes tv per week, mostly news. I dont like commercials, i dont like crappy sitcoms and i have better use for my free time.
I got my pc silent enough that at night (its running 24/7 in my bedroom (beeing a student sucks:) ) i have to hold be breath to hear it. But its still not transparent. I still feel the noise in the room. Its just isnt annoying anymore.
A normal pc is totally ok if you are at a workplace or during the day, if your typing or gaming. But as a constant background, it should be as low as possible.
My solution: Watercooled CPU with passiv Radiator, 2 12cm case fans at 5V, one cooling 5 hot swap bays with 1 seagate barracuda and 4 Spinpoint V60. And while the hds were unhearable at first, now i can hear how many drives are running( at least if the barracude is running, there is a hearable difference...)
To bad that the thermal solution of every hardisc is optimized to transfer heat to the sides. The botton wont have any contact with the aluminium because of the circuit board, thus cutting off airflow and heating the chips even further, while the top of the HD consists of a thin sheet of metal that doesnt get much heat.
It would be MUCH more useful to use some heatsink stripes like from an amp, but them on both SIDES of the drive and put it into a 5.25" bay.
if you are EVER in need of external coolant to keep up the cooling circuit, you are so deep in the shit it doesnt matter if you need to get sodium or water.
I also gave up as i read that he didnt even test them in the same machine. Hell, if its 3 times the cpu frequence, its not even the same chipset and pci bridge.
Well, the data may be last after a few years, because it is only protected by a few um cover, but the disc itself will take more then a few millenia to disapear in a landfill.
This bench sure looks like he had his data on the original IDE disk, heaviliy fragmented, and copied it over to the scsi disc, thus defragmentating it.
Every performance advantage >5 has to be taken with a truckload of salt, especially it its that poorly documented. He didint even tell what was in his maildir
Too bad itamium isnt a miserable failure, but the fastest CPU on the planet. At least the latest incarnation. Dont bitch that they run hot and are huge. Name any alpha that wasnt >300 mm^2 and a power-sucker... Compare it to the first alphas(21064): They sucked too, in a way. Needed 3 times the clock speed to archive comparable performance to other processors. Sounds like p4 ?:) They really began to "rule" years later with the 21164, running at (at that time insane) 500Mhz. Compare with I2.
And it took another few years to leave PA-risc and MIPS finally in the dust with the EV6. I wonder what power IA64 CPUs (or the K9, btw) will have in 2 or 3 years.
Intel has integrated the alpha engineers in their own development teams years ago. Or why do you think that nifty features like SMT (planed for EV7) premiered in intel cpus? There is no such thing as a design team left. They have been working for years to make the opponents of alpha better....
Alpha is dead. There are so many years of missing research and development in that architecture that intel (if they wanted) could create another one from scratch with the same effort.
Original poster said that additional CPU power requirment doesnt matter compared to hard drive power requirment.
Statement is wrong. proven in my first post.
Of course a non-spinning disc is better than a spinning one. 1 have 6HDs in my pc, and i distributed all my stuff so that in normal operation, all but one sleep...
For everybode with their RIAA jokes, i guess this kind of work is used to pave the way to use the LHC. With Petabytes of Data each year, a normal internetconnection simply doesnt cut it.
Want to give the data of a single experiment to some guys on the other side of the atlantic? Just send 100GB...
A multi-petabyte storagenet like the proposed storagetank does only make sense if the infrastucture allows to actually transfer the data with such speed.
but all of the RC challanges are pointless. Why try to show that a brute force approach is succesful? Of couse it is. It simply doesnt matter. Same with RC72. Why didnt they use 128bit instead? Its standart for years now... But i guess an ETA in the year 73000 would have slowed the enthusiasm of the users...
And how does this kind of stuff matter for any oppressed people?
To prove an algorithm secure or not is work to be done by mathematicans, not brute force testing.
Yeah, but how about 100.000s of idiots spending $1 million+ electricity on cracking an idiotic 64 bit key to get a $5000 price?
If they ever finish RC72, they will most likely have spend the a few years output of a nuke power plant on it.
I really think there are useful projects worth the waste of electricity, but cracking codes you can exactly calculate how many years youll need? only to start the next after finishing that needs 256 times longer?
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I know people who spend more for their wires of their hifi system.
Power cable? Oxygen free copper, shielded, 100$/m
spdif cable? Must be high-end, because the bits must be "warm" and "round", not "fuzzy" or "edgy". 350$/m.
spikes for the speakers? Hand make, 50$ apice...
There are enough people who would look at you in digust if you tell them that another solution would be cheaper. Simply because they want things to be expensive...
IMHO 99% of this people just overcompensate the limitations of their ears. "if its expensive it must be better even if i cant really hear it". It really sucks that much people who can afford high end equipment dont hear anything above 14-16 kHz simply because of their age...
Believe me, in the audio rack both would look like shit.
because splitting water and recombining it in a fuel cell is a magnitude more efficient than charging batteries.
Plus you dont need several hundered kg of potential toxic batteries costing $20000+.
Btw:Because of all those "hydrogen bomb car" people who think hydrogen tanks are bombs on wheels:i wonder what would happen if there is a car crash with one of the cars powered by lithium-ion batteries. Would be a nice firework if someone tries to put out a fire with water...
If you want someone to read you mod up wish, why post as AC? (remember, many people browse at 1+
Or do you want posts modded up you dont want to be associated with?
And old saying in my faculty is:
:) )
If using a calculator allows you to cheat, then you do isnt mathamatics, but calculating.
(i guess it doesnt translate really well to english
Well, im quite a bit older than 15 but have to agree with the original poster.
Nowadays i end up watching around 30 minutes tv per week, mostly news. I dont like commercials, i dont like crappy sitcoms and i have better use for my free time.
Well, at night all but the system drive are powered down, so it doesnt matter if there are zero or 4 drives sleeping, at least noise-wise....
Zalman GPU cooler. Big, bad, silent. :) ...
A Gfx card with one attached feels like a system component of a railgun
some people have good ears. And dont like noise.
:) ) i have to hold be breath to hear it.
I got my pc silent enough that at night (its running 24/7 in my bedroom (beeing a student sucks
But its still not transparent. I still feel the noise in the room. Its just isnt annoying anymore.
A normal pc is totally ok if you are at a workplace or during the day, if your typing or gaming. But as a constant background, it should be as low as possible.
My solution: Watercooled CPU with passiv Radiator, 2 12cm case fans at 5V, one cooling 5 hot swap bays with 1 seagate barracuda and 4 Spinpoint V60.
And while the hds were unhearable at first, now i can hear how many drives are running( at least if the barracude is running, there is a hearable difference...)
To bad that the thermal solution of every hardisc is optimized to transfer heat to the sides. The botton wont have any contact with the aluminium because of the circuit board, thus cutting off airflow and heating the chips even further, while the top of the HD consists of a thin sheet of metal that doesnt get much heat.
It would be MUCH more useful to use some heatsink stripes like from an amp, but them on both SIDES of the drive and put it into a 5.25" bay.
if you are EVER in need of external coolant to keep up the cooling circuit, you are so deep in the shit it doesnt matter if you need to get sodium or water.
I also gave up as i read that he didnt even test them in the same machine. Hell, if its 3 times the cpu frequence, its not even the same chipset and pci bridge.
Well, the data may be last after a few years, because it is only protected by a few um cover, but the disc itself will take more then a few millenia to disapear in a landfill.
This bench sure looks like he had his data on the original IDE disk, heaviliy fragmented, and copied it over to the scsi disc, thus defragmentating it.
Every performance advantage >5 has to be taken with a truckload of salt, especially it its that poorly documented. He didint even tell what was in his maildir
What is the die size and power requirement of a ev68 or ev7?
They are now, they are huge, they need 100+W power
Too bad itamium isnt a miserable failure, but the fastest CPU on the planet. At least the latest incarnation. .. :)
Dont bitch that they run hot and are huge. Name any alpha that wasnt >300 mm^2 and a power-sucker.
Compare it to the first alphas(21064): They sucked too, in a way. Needed 3 times the clock speed to archive comparable performance to other processors. Sounds like p4 ?
They really began to "rule" years later with the 21164, running at (at that time insane) 500Mhz. Compare with I2.
And it took another few years to leave PA-risc and MIPS finally in the dust with the EV6. I wonder what power IA64 CPUs (or the K9, btw) will have in 2 or 3 years.
Intel has integrated the alpha engineers in their own development teams years ago. Or why do you think that nifty features like SMT (planed for EV7) premiered in intel cpus? There is no such thing as a design team left. They have been working for years to make the opponents of alpha better....
Alpha is dead. There are so many years of missing research and development in that architecture that intel (if they wanted) could create another one from scratch with the same effort.
no, i dont think it.
But lesser evil doesnt equal a good thing
Yes, because million died in secondary wars fueled by both countrys to avoid a big atomic one.
of couse they compress their hdtv, its just a matter of bitrate.
Well, 4GB mem per machine and NETWORK cost. Infiniband cards cost more than 100$, and switching architecture with 1100 ports isnt cheap, either...
because 8.11a will half the running time of your pda and wont work at all with your cell-phone?
Original poster said that additional CPU power requirment doesnt matter compared to hard drive power requirment.
Statement is wrong.
proven in my first post.
Of course a non-spinning disc is better than a spinning one.
1 have 6HDs in my pc, and i distributed all my stuff so that in normal operation, all but one sleep...
For everybode with their RIAA jokes, i guess this kind of work is used to pave the way to use the LHC.
With Petabytes of Data each year, a normal internetconnection simply doesnt cut it.
Want to give the data of a single experiment to some guys on the other side of the atlantic? Just send 100GB...
A multi-petabyte storagenet like the proposed storagetank does only make sense if the infrastucture allows to actually transfer the data with such speed.
but all of the RC challanges are pointless.
Why try to show that a brute force approach is succesful?
Of couse it is.
It simply doesnt matter.
Same with RC72. Why didnt they use 128bit instead? Its standart for years now...
But i guess an ETA in the year 73000 would have slowed the enthusiasm of the users...
And how does this kind of stuff matter for any oppressed people?
To prove an algorithm secure or not is work to be done by mathematicans, not brute force testing.
Yeah, but how about 100.000s of idiots spending $1 million+ electricity on cracking an idiotic 64 bit key to get a $5000 price?
If they ever finish RC72, they will most likely have spend the a few years output of a nuke power plant on it.
I really think there are useful projects worth the waste of electricity, but cracking codes you can exactly calculate how many years youll need? only to start the next after finishing that needs 256 times longer?