Get an SSD. Local storage is a must for performance. iscsi cannot hold a candle to local SSDs. In a lab you won't need to share the storage with multiple machines anyway.
Yes, which is why I suggested making it so no one has a nationwide network. Instead a bunch of smaller easier to manage networks that are forced to allow devices from other carriers to use their resources.
The reality is real competition cannot exist without something lowering the barriers to entry.
Do we have any evidence that competition in such fields works as it normally does?
Judging from the US mobile market I have to say it does not look likely.
Real competition would have to be regulated into existence. Force compatibility of technology and radios, force cross network compatibility and legislate costs for using other networks. We would probably also have to set a maximum subscriber count or region limits. Might even be easier to just make the actual gear owned by a non-profit and let the profit seeking enterprises act only as MVNOs.
Another big one that goes along with what you are describing is "learned helplessness".
On the other hand, the three year old likely uses a computer quite differently than you or I. I doubt he writes a lot of code, or really produces much of anything. For him it is probably a device for consumption of games and video. While I could learn EMACS, I have spent so many years with VIM that installing it and ignoring EMACS is the more rational thing to do. The three year old would have no use for that kind of text editor.
You are forgetting that other than old foggies everyone has their smartphone/tablet with them at the doctors office. The old geezers will die, and the rest will laugh about how they used to have to read old copies of newsweek instead of playing video games while waiting for the doctor who at noon is already an hour behind in appointments.
What necessary number crunching? It gets nothing real done. It just gives you some fake money. No cancer is cured, no one gets a new tv, just lost value from the real economy.
Maybe because those people have studied the alternatives. The alternatives are deflation, money hoarding, unemployment and in general the impacts are felt worst by those at the bottom. Our Gold Standard years were boom and bust. The boom enriched the rich and the bust killed poor folks. That sort of thing leads to violent revolution.
Mining is yet another flaw of this currency. It turns real value, electricity and your time into something currently worthless. You could do a lottery to assign bitcoins, have the same outcome and save everyone a ton of real money and time.
All the ones not driving SUVs? They love big cars. Like I said old ladies and bangers. They love v8s that are totally pointless since they produce about as much power as a modern 4 banger. Which is fine, since you are going to drive 45mph on the freeway.
The top of the line motor in the car made 295hp, which is less than 100hp per liter. Pretty low performance by modern standards. I cannot understand the nostalgia people have for engines that have high fuel consumption and relatively low performance. The northstar is not quite antiquated, but many of its brethren are.
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Get an SSD.
Local storage is a must for performance. iscsi cannot hold a candle to local SSDs. In a lab you won't need to share the storage with multiple machines anyway.
You do realize they last like 20 years, right?
Please explain why you think someone would be foolish to buy a longer lived and nearly as efficient device?
And spend more money than the cost of the bulb to keep it lit, and I get to replace them all once a year.
I loved CFLs, but LEDs are all I buy now. Why bother changing lightbulbs?
My example is not like yours. Games could run on linux, or any other OS. I am talking about fundamental design type stuff.
Yes, which is why I suggested making it so no one has a nationwide network. Instead a bunch of smaller easier to manage networks that are forced to allow devices from other carriers to use their resources.
The reality is real competition cannot exist without something lowering the barriers to entry.
In this case, UK English, tariff is not referring to a tax. The "tariff" is what americans would likely call a cell phone "plan".
Do we have any evidence that competition in such fields works as it normally does?
Judging from the US mobile market I have to say it does not look likely.
Real competition would have to be regulated into existence. Force compatibility of technology and radios, force cross network compatibility and legislate costs for using other networks. We would probably also have to set a maximum subscriber count or region limits. Might even be easier to just make the actual gear owned by a non-profit and let the profit seeking enterprises act only as MVNOs.
Sticking with what works is practicality not fanaticism.
Windows is only recently even functional headless, they finally added a proper shell fairly recently. At some point maybe they will even reinvent ssh.
Another big one that goes along with what you are describing is "learned helplessness".
On the other hand, the three year old likely uses a computer quite differently than you or I. I doubt he writes a lot of code, or really produces much of anything. For him it is probably a device for consumption of games and video. While I could learn EMACS, I have spent so many years with VIM that installing it and ignoring EMACS is the more rational thing to do. The three year old would have no use for that kind of text editor.
You are forgetting that other than old foggies everyone has their smartphone/tablet with them at the doctors office. The old geezers will die, and the rest will laugh about how they used to have to read old copies of newsweek instead of playing video games while waiting for the doctor who at noon is already an hour behind in appointments.
Yeah, but if they considered than an option why did they not go that route already?
The dollar is sinking and will eventually rise. Either way they are spendable.
Bitcoins are rising as no one is spending them, that does not bode well for the future.
Even if you were 100% correct, it would be better to buy them directly than pay the power company for them.
How long do you think that will last?
They have enough cash in the bank to keep making devices that don't sell?
Note the risk part.
Those two are headed for bankruptcy. If Nokia is very lucky MS will buy them out for a pittance. Likely it will not as killing them is just as good.
Computers at idle use far less power than when run 100% busy.
You will lose money if you try to mine bitcoins now with any approach other than FPGAs. Which require you to spend some money up front.
Save your time and money, buy gold if you want to be a weirdo.
What necessary number crunching?
It gets nothing real done. It just gives you some fake money. No cancer is cured, no one gets a new tv, just lost value from the real economy.
Maybe because those people have studied the alternatives. The alternatives are deflation, money hoarding, unemployment and in general the impacts are felt worst by those at the bottom. Our Gold Standard years were boom and bust. The boom enriched the rich and the bust killed poor folks. That sort of thing leads to violent revolution.
Mining is yet another flaw of this currency. It turns real value, electricity and your time into something currently worthless. You could do a lottery to assign bitcoins, have the same outcome and save everyone a ton of real money and time.
At this point you are too late in the game. You will be spending more on the electric bill that you get out of bitcoins.
This is another major flaw with bitcoins, that the supporters somehow think is a good thing.
You can pay taxes with them, or if you get physical copies burn them for heat
How do you throw an operating system?
Is burning an iso to DVD and tossing it good enough or do you have to use an official disk?
All the ones not driving SUVs? They love big cars. Like I said old ladies and bangers. They love v8s that are totally pointless since they produce about as much power as a modern 4 banger. Which is fine, since you are going to drive 45mph on the freeway.
The top of the line motor in the car made 295hp, which is less than 100hp per liter. Pretty low performance by modern standards. I cannot understand the nostalgia people have for engines that have high fuel consumption and relatively low performance. The northstar is not quite antiquated, but many of its brethren are.
That is why I said they run a high fraction on road fuel.
I seriously doubt the grizzled old basterds I am thinking of are posers.
So short of hooking them up to an o-scope, what reliable metric is there?
I don't like using brands, as they can easily drop quality for a little more profit with no warning, or just do less QA.
A dent?
Like all those iphones, ipads and macbook airs I keep seeing around here?
This is how it starts. MS did this to DEC and now by thinking like you they are risking their own hides.