Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner folks. This is the answer. You need to have a tickless kernel otherwise the tick timer keeps the CPU from ever making it to those deep C states for any decent amount of time. In effect, the kernel keeps asking everything,"got anything for me". The CPU equivalent of "are we there yet" or "can you hear me know".
In all fairness, it should be noted that for years Qwest offered a unified phone service to an extent. You told people to call you on your home phone number, and if you didn't answer, it would auto-roll over to your Qwest cell phone. In theory, you should only end up with voice mails on your cell phone number. But Qwest doesn't even offer their own cell phone service anymore, so who knows if they still offer the roll-over.
You need to know when they left after their last visit. So if an illegal visits in Jan 01 and again in Jan 09 after having left in Dec 08. You have no idea if they over stayed their visa on the first trip in order to block them the second time in unless you knew when they left.
Also, how can this be about illegal immigrants if they are going to scan US citizens??? Can you say Police State?:-)
The computers are not being left *solely* for the purposes of the cluster. The policy of the university admins is to leave them overnight for updates, and anyway the users don't like to turn them off (so they don't have to wait for the computer to boot up in the morning).
The issue is there are far more efficient means of patching systems without leaving them on. Granted, I have no problem with the cluster setup and your taking advantage of idle systems, the issue is the machines are still being left on for no good purpose.
You are absolutely wrong.
A system like that is the exact opposite of efficient if you are leaving the PCs on *solely for the purposes of the cluster*. Grid computing is only efficient when you take what is under utilized and put it to work. The energy in any PC (server or desktop) can be split into two parts. Overhead and active. All of the overhead is what the PC consumes when it is idle (~0% utilization). All of the active is the power between idle and max consumption. On your typical desktop PC, more than 60-70% of the energy is wasted overhead (conversion losses and platform power). By amortizing that overhead between TWO tasks, and putting the CPU/GPU to work when sitting there idle, you are far more efficient than when simply at idle. ie; You are still benefitting from the idle by having a ready PC to compute your next command AND the work performed for the cluster. But you are not more efficient per work unit than a super computer with it's low relative overhead when only running ONE task, the cluster computing. This is because super computers have more overhead but they can amortize that overhead over a large number of CPUs with a high compute capacity.
Freedom of speech includes the right to waive that freedom in particular cases. NDA's for example.
This is not censorship or a ban on free speech.
This is a questionable practice, it's doomed to fail because anonymity makes it unenforceable, it's counter productive, it's idiotic, but it is not a violation of freedom of speech.
But if the doctor is paid in any way by medicare/medicaid or any other government funded source, they can not force this clause.
It's called corporate personhood. The GP poster is absolutely correct, despite your protestations, that corporations are people in the eyes of the law. They can't vote, but that is one of a very short list of things they can't do.
Well, not really. The sound of the gas expansion is muffled, but not anywhere near eliminated. The gun still cycles and the action makes one heck of a racket when it does that. This BS James Bond "pfft" type sounds are patently false. There is plenty of sound. On any round that is supersonic (any centerfire rifle) there is still a crack.
Don't assume because you saw it in a movie, that that is how it is. Suppressors/cans are not evil and are not that effective. It just makes it a little more of a thud, basically taking the top end off the sound
That was one great, common sense judgement. Instead of allowing the executive branch to run free, they clearly stated it was up to the legislature to make a decision first. Imagine if the feds had judges this good. States and municipalities wouldn't be running around seizing just about anything their heart desired during arrests for everything from drugs to DUI abusing a vague and misguided statute when seen in it's intended form, and one that is beyond comprehension in how it has been applied.
No, most likely the magazine deal is they suck you in for the first year @ $2 per mag, and presumably in the future you will re-up the subscription at some "full" rate, which is less than news-stand prices, because you see how cool the mags are. You are probably OK in this case, but there is no such thing as a free lunch, period.
Working on it.
See http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=revisions.settop_box_spec
STB OEMs who don't power down will have a tough time making the tier 2 spec. As it is, in tier 1, DVRs and other ancillary functions need to get shut down to make the grade. We designed it that way.
There has to be a lot of slack for them to be able bring up both ends and not require massive amounts of force or cause stress on the ends. I wonder if they lay the cable not straight but in shallow s-turns back and forth to introduce slack into the system.
At this rate they will nail the Extenze scam by 2015 and Head On by 2020. If they can't shut these things down fast enough, the amount of money they make is still vastly larger than any fine, so the fine and shutdown is just a cost of doing business. They need to be more proactive.
Those with power don't relinquish power without a fight. They won't roll it back. They will just claim that since they are responsible, they won't abuse that power the way their predecessors did. Faux News or not, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
Yeah, it's not like the US government would ever stoop to things such as this. This is like spying on citizens without any sort of warrant, due process or chance for redress. That would *never* happen...
And this is somehow different than what I said how? You used an example of a 0F location in semi-arid conditions. Living in a temperate climate, I am always thinking of ways to remove humidity. Your example assumes no spring, summer or fall and may as well be inside the arctic circle. You still made my point, You need to run some sort of device to modify the humidity levels.
Actually it is a very good question and no one really knows the answer. Most of our IT equipment standards are derived from telecom standards from years ago. It may very well be that the tolerances are too tight and we can move away from highly controlled environments, but not enough is known about today's equipment at high or low (static problems) humidities to understand the consequences of doing so.
As for dust, which is a known issue in anything with moving parts or things that don't do well with interrupted air flow, but the tighter that filter is, the air pressure needs to go up and therefore the energy needed to move air through it goes up too.
Two more words, uncontrolled humidity.... Yes, there are efficiency gains to be had everywhere, but none of them are free, only less costly as in bringing in moist outside air will require that air to be dehumidified, at a cost obviously. If you go with a heat exchanger, the amount of cooling decreases significantly and so you need more of them, and each one DOES require energy to operate (aka; move air/liquid/whatever through).
And ban the "owner" from ever serving on a corporate board. If he wants to run a business, he can run the local qwiki-mart. In fact, even that is likely an s-corp. Maybe he can run a lemonade stand.
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Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner folks. This is the answer. You need to have a tickless kernel otherwise the tick timer keeps the CPU from ever making it to those deep C states for any decent amount of time. In effect, the kernel keeps asking everything,"got anything for me". The CPU equivalent of "are we there yet" or "can you hear me know".
In all fairness, it should be noted that for years Qwest offered a unified phone service to an extent. You told people to call you on your home phone number, and if you didn't answer, it would auto-roll over to your Qwest cell phone. In theory, you should only end up with voice mails on your cell phone number. But Qwest doesn't even offer their own cell phone service anymore, so who knows if they still offer the roll-over.
So did MCI with the ONE program.
Linux PC: $400 Monthly Internet fee: $50 You finally get a lead story published on /. and it has a typo: Priceless
A $1???? Try $15.68 per MB. I just got back from Toronto and upon arrival, I got a text message stating that as the rate for data if I used it.
You need to know when they left after their last visit. So if an illegal visits in Jan 01 and again in Jan 09 after having left in Dec 08. You have no idea if they over stayed their visa on the first trip in order to block them the second time in unless you knew when they left. Also, how can this be about illegal immigrants if they are going to scan US citizens??? Can you say Police State? :-)
But that's hard...
The computers are not being left *solely* for the purposes of the cluster. The policy of the university admins is to leave them overnight for updates, and anyway the users don't like to turn them off (so they don't have to wait for the computer to boot up in the morning).
The issue is there are far more efficient means of patching systems without leaving them on. Granted, I have no problem with the cluster setup and your taking advantage of idle systems, the issue is the machines are still being left on for no good purpose.
You are absolutely wrong. A system like that is the exact opposite of efficient if you are leaving the PCs on *solely for the purposes of the cluster*. Grid computing is only efficient when you take what is under utilized and put it to work. The energy in any PC (server or desktop) can be split into two parts. Overhead and active. All of the overhead is what the PC consumes when it is idle (~0% utilization). All of the active is the power between idle and max consumption. On your typical desktop PC, more than 60-70% of the energy is wasted overhead (conversion losses and platform power). By amortizing that overhead between TWO tasks, and putting the CPU/GPU to work when sitting there idle, you are far more efficient than when simply at idle. ie; You are still benefitting from the idle by having a ready PC to compute your next command AND the work performed for the cluster. But you are not more efficient per work unit than a super computer with it's low relative overhead when only running ONE task, the cluster computing. This is because super computers have more overhead but they can amortize that overhead over a large number of CPUs with a high compute capacity.
Freedom of speech includes the right to waive that freedom in particular cases. NDA's for example.
This is not censorship or a ban on free speech.
This is a questionable practice, it's doomed to fail because anonymity makes it unenforceable, it's counter productive, it's idiotic, but it is not a violation of freedom of speech.
But if the doctor is paid in any way by medicare/medicaid or any other government funded source, they can not force this clause.
It's called corporate personhood. The GP poster is absolutely correct, despite your protestations, that corporations are people in the eyes of the law. They can't vote, but that is one of a very short list of things they can't do.
Well, not really. The sound of the gas expansion is muffled, but not anywhere near eliminated. The gun still cycles and the action makes one heck of a racket when it does that. This BS James Bond "pfft" type sounds are patently false. There is plenty of sound. On any round that is supersonic (any centerfire rifle) there is still a crack. Don't assume because you saw it in a movie, that that is how it is. Suppressors/cans are not evil and are not that effective. It just makes it a little more of a thud, basically taking the top end off the sound
I am pretty sure you are very, very wrong. They are covered under the NFA and are legal in 30+ states.
That was one great, common sense judgement. Instead of allowing the executive branch to run free, they clearly stated it was up to the legislature to make a decision first. Imagine if the feds had judges this good. States and municipalities wouldn't be running around seizing just about anything their heart desired during arrests for everything from drugs to DUI abusing a vague and misguided statute when seen in it's intended form, and one that is beyond comprehension in how it has been applied.
No, most likely the magazine deal is they suck you in for the first year @ $2 per mag, and presumably in the future you will re-up the subscription at some "full" rate, which is less than news-stand prices, because you see how cool the mags are. You are probably OK in this case, but there is no such thing as a free lunch, period.
Working on it. See http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=revisions.settop_box_spec STB OEMs who don't power down will have a tough time making the tier 2 spec. As it is, in tier 1, DVRs and other ancillary functions need to get shut down to make the grade. We designed it that way.
There has to be a lot of slack for them to be able bring up both ends and not require massive amounts of force or cause stress on the ends. I wonder if they lay the cable not straight but in shallow s-turns back and forth to introduce slack into the system.
At this rate they will nail the Extenze scam by 2015 and Head On by 2020. If they can't shut these things down fast enough, the amount of money they make is still vastly larger than any fine, so the fine and shutdown is just a cost of doing business. They need to be more proactive.
It is good to see they are not excluding things from the Nazi Era. That is as important historically as any other period and should not be forgotten.
No, there are specific items to look for, only that it is not known which ones on which days.
Those with power don't relinquish power without a fight. They won't roll it back. They will just claim that since they are responsible, they won't abuse that power the way their predecessors did. Faux News or not, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
Yeah, it's not like the US government would ever stoop to things such as this. This is like spying on citizens without any sort of warrant, due process or chance for redress. That would *never* happen...
And this is somehow different than what I said how? You used an example of a 0F location in semi-arid conditions. Living in a temperate climate, I am always thinking of ways to remove humidity. Your example assumes no spring, summer or fall and may as well be inside the arctic circle. You still made my point, You need to run some sort of device to modify the humidity levels.
Actually it is a very good question and no one really knows the answer. Most of our IT equipment standards are derived from telecom standards from years ago. It may very well be that the tolerances are too tight and we can move away from highly controlled environments, but not enough is known about today's equipment at high or low (static problems) humidities to understand the consequences of doing so. As for dust, which is a known issue in anything with moving parts or things that don't do well with interrupted air flow, but the tighter that filter is, the air pressure needs to go up and therefore the energy needed to move air through it goes up too.
Two more words, uncontrolled humidity.... Yes, there are efficiency gains to be had everywhere, but none of them are free, only less costly as in bringing in moist outside air will require that air to be dehumidified, at a cost obviously. If you go with a heat exchanger, the amount of cooling decreases significantly and so you need more of them, and each one DOES require energy to operate (aka; move air/liquid/whatever through).
And ban the "owner" from ever serving on a corporate board. If he wants to run a business, he can run the local qwiki-mart. In fact, even that is likely an s-corp. Maybe he can run a lemonade stand.