At one point I was actually looking at set dual xeon's for my workstation. I went with a i7 skylake instead. While I've been satisfied with the performance of the i7, I'm still wondering about the path not taken.
Nothing like the sound of a fan boy going down in flames. Don't worry, I'm not mocking you. I'm in the same boat. My last build from AMD, a 8150 and 8350, didn't quite live up to my expectations. Thus my workstation is now a intel system
But I'm not ready to rule AMD out all together. I'm going to keep an eye on them and see what the new processors do. So far I haven't ruled AMD out for low end jobs and secondary systems. I'm looking to rebuild my virtual machine host this year. These new cpu's might just be what I'm looking for.
Can anyone name a single real-world benefit of doing this?
The most remotely thing I can think of would be video encoding with h.264/h.265. Even then I believe that you would accomplish this better with distributive encoding across multiple platforms.
Asus was around back then, and we also sold them, but they required manual jumper settings, and most of the kids didn't want to mess with jumpers
My first home built was with a ASUS mb. I accidentally overclocked a AMD '486/133 mhz to a 150Mhz. Damn thing was fast as hell but stable as a pig on stilts. You can still see my bogomips report for the beast on old bogomips reports for that time.
To get any kind of stability out of it I had to back it down to 120mhz.
That seems to be the default policy for the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at
With more and more SSD's replacing HDD in the work place I can see where this would become the default policy. Where a good defragging can help the performance on a HDD its just the opposite with a SSD. Defragging a SSD will accomplish nothing as far as speeding up access to the files. But what it will do is shorten the lifespan of a SSD and can even damage it in the long run.
My two-year-old work laptop with an SSD card has never ever ran defragger.
Nor should it ever. A SSD might look like a HDD to the OS and perform the same operation but under the hood the technology is completely different. Running a defragger can even damage the SSD and shorten the life of the device.
I use i7-6700K for both audio processing and flight simulation. It seems to get the job done rather well. I couldn't see myself needing a 5ghz for this.
Your needs may differ from mine but I don't see an extra ghz worth the trouble or the expense.
It's not dead yet but when it is I will be the first in line with the shovel to bury it. I made a lot of money off AIX but I'm glad that I no longer have to suffer it.
Does Bitcoin hold any value because it also seems to be a decent way to launder money?
Bitcoin holds value the same way all modern currency have value. It has value because some people say it has value. So as long as its worth something to someone it will hold that value.
But I would like to note unlike digital currency has a use after people lose faith in it. You can still wipe your ass with it.
I just upgraded from the S4 to the S7 and it's by far the best phone I've had. Samsung pay is accepted 95% of the places I use it. The battery life is much better and the sound quality is good. The camera is almost perfect for a point and shoot. Its the first phone camera that is concisider good enough for photography use.
No, you should always fear constant surveillance because at some point everyone does something wrong. Even if they don't mean too.
Some point you might be in a chat room and some crazy fuck shoots up a night club full of innocent people with a AR-15. You casually remark 'god damn '. Well now your guilty of a hate crime. Then you say we should line all those fuckers up against the wall and shoot them. Now you're guilty of plotting terrorism or some such BS.
Point is if you are being constantly watched all the time, you will eventually do something wrong.
This stuff doesn't work like geostationary satellites, you can just point it in one direction and expect in a million years when you get the reply that they will be in the same spot. Honestly the radio search for ET life is pointless, you would think a bunch of scientists and mathematicians would avoid spending their careers playing the lottery
Why? Sounds like a pretty career choice to me. They get paid lots of money to look for something that may or may not exist. And nobody really holds it against them if they don't produce anything. They just say they have to keep looking longer or we are just not looking in the right place to me.
We spend that money looking for survivors. Believe it or not people do survive plane crashes. I find it hard to believe the original poster didn't think of this. I have to question his thinking on this.
"Oh another plane went down. There might be survivors but fuck'em. We don't need to be wasting fuel looking for them."
Anther reason is we want to know why the plane crashed. Was it pilot error, terrorism, or some thing wrong with the design of the plane. If there is a flaw in the plane, we need to know if this affects the whole fleet. Not just that one.
I pay my own power bill and my computers are on 24/7. One of them is a server though but the other is my workstation. Like most true geeks just about everything I do involves a computer in some way and even with a high speed SSD it still take way to long to boot. I like the option of just walking by, taping the keyboard and seeing what I need to see.
The only computer in my house that goes off when not in use is the htpc. Even then it just goes to sleep.
If you want to play the UID game, have a look at mine. I've pretty much been here since day 1. Starting with the Columbine killings and 9/11 terrorist acts that have impacts on society have always been on/.
This is news that matters because if they backwards nutjobs have their way we will all be back herding goats and the only education we will have will come from a really old book of superstition. Yeah, that goes for both Muslim and Christians.
I don't believe there is any way places like silkroad will be able to totally rule out undercover moles. The very anonymity that makes it work counts against it in this manner. Unless you are the only person running the show.
Another reason that you need to encrypt your device with strong encryption. This would at least make the police have to get a warrant before they can search your shit. Not actually a warrant for searching the phone but a court order, for you to refuse, to barf up the password.
What I'm going to say will probably not be very popular but I believe that NASA is an organization that has out lived its usefulness. Back in the 50' and 60' when NASA was first formed it had a goal, to get us to the moon. An it did that goal very well.
But since then it hasn't really had a goal. It has had projects of which most of them it has pulled off spectacularly. The hunt for extra solar planets, probes to the outer planets, and rovers on Mars. But it hasn't had an organized goal for the whole organization. With out a clear and visible goal nobody cares. People lose interest, and without the people having interest congress starts looking for other places to send money.
I believe its time for NASA to be repuposed from a active research and exploration to a regulatory agency. Much like the FAA They set the regulations for safety in manned space craft like the FAA does. Nasa should also be in charge of tracking satellites and setting orbits for them.
Most of its former duties for space exploration could be handed over to private industry now. NASA could keep a small hand in exploration I believe but most of that could be handed over to private universities.
Israel is not our friend. They are only nice to us because we give them money and keep other nations from stomping them flat. If they where truly our friends then why have they spied on us and stolen military secrets, executed US citizens in cold blood, sold military plans and equipment to nations hostel to the US. Israel as committed acts of piracy on the high seas against US and ships of other nations. In 1967 Israel committed an act of war against the United States when it attacked the USS Liberty in international water.
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I've been using linux for 20+ years now and I've never heard of some of the choices.
At one point I was actually looking at set dual xeon's for my workstation. I went with a i7 skylake instead. While I've been satisfied with the performance of the i7, I'm still wondering about the path not taken.
Nothing like the sound of a fan boy going down in flames. Don't worry, I'm not mocking you. I'm in the same boat. My last build from AMD, a 8150 and 8350, didn't quite live up to my expectations. Thus my workstation is now a intel system
But I'm not ready to rule AMD out all together. I'm going to keep an eye on them and see what the new processors do. So far I haven't ruled AMD out for low end jobs and secondary systems. I'm looking to rebuild my virtual machine host this year. These new cpu's might just be what I'm looking for.
Step 1. Stick head between legs
Step 2. Kiss your sweet ass good bye
Did I miss anythin?. Probably something about a lot of crying and praying. Maybe a step about shitting yourself.
Amen on that. I had to go out and buy a proper startmenu.
Can anyone name a single real-world benefit of doing this?
The most remotely thing I can think of would be video encoding with h.264/h.265. Even then I believe that you would accomplish this better with distributive encoding across multiple platforms.
Outside of that I see no practical use for it.
Asus was around back then, and we also sold them, but they required manual jumper settings, and most of the kids didn't want to mess with jumpers
My first home built was with a ASUS mb. I accidentally overclocked a AMD '486/133 mhz to a 150Mhz. Damn thing was fast as hell but stable as a pig on stilts. You can still see my bogomips report for the beast on old bogomips reports for that time.
To get any kind of stability out of it I had to back it down to 120mhz.
That seems to be the default policy for the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at
With more and more SSD's replacing HDD in the work place I can see where this would become the default policy. Where a good defragging can help the performance on a HDD its just the opposite with a SSD. Defragging a SSD will accomplish nothing as far as speeding up access to the files. But what it will do is shorten the lifespan of a SSD and can even damage it in the long run.
Friends don't let friends defrag thier SSD.
My two-year-old work laptop with an SSD card has never ever ran defragger.
Nor should it ever. A SSD might look like a HDD to the OS and perform the same operation but under the hood the technology is completely different. Running a defragger can even damage the SSD and shorten the life of the device.
I use i7-6700K for both audio processing and flight simulation. It seems to get the job done rather well. I couldn't see myself needing a 5ghz for this.
Your needs may differ from mine but I don't see an extra ghz worth the trouble or the expense.
This is not to say AIX is dead by any means
It's not dead yet but when it is I will be the first in line with the shovel to bury it. I made a lot of money off AIX but I'm glad that I no longer have to suffer it.
Does Bitcoin hold any value because it also seems to be a decent way to launder money?
Bitcoin holds value the same way all modern currency have value. It has value because some people say it has value. So as long as its worth something to someone it will hold that value.
But I would like to note unlike digital currency has a use after people lose faith in it. You can still wipe your ass with it.
I just upgraded from the S4 to the S7 and it's by far the best phone I've had. Samsung pay is accepted 95% of the places I use it. The battery life is much better and the sound quality is good. The camera is almost perfect for a point and shoot. Its the first phone camera that is concisider good enough for photography use.
No, you should always fear constant surveillance because at some point everyone does something wrong. Even if they don't mean too.
Some point you might be in a chat room and some crazy fuck shoots up a night club full of innocent people with a AR-15. You casually remark 'god damn '. Well now your guilty of a hate crime. Then you say we should line all those fuckers up against the wall and shoot them. Now you're guilty of plotting terrorism or some such BS.
Point is if you are being constantly watched all the time, you will eventually do something wrong.
This stuff doesn't work like geostationary satellites, you can just point it in one direction and expect in a million years when you get the reply that they will be in the same spot. Honestly the radio search for ET life is pointless, you would think a bunch of scientists and mathematicians would avoid spending their careers playing the lottery
Why? Sounds like a pretty career choice to me. They get paid lots of money to look for something that may or may not exist. And nobody really holds it against them if they don't produce anything. They just say they have to keep looking longer or we are just not looking in the right place to me.
Seems like a pretty cushy job to me.
Well I'm going to call it a good day. I've been waiting 15 years to hear this news.
We spend that money looking for survivors. Believe it or not people do survive plane crashes. I find it hard to believe the original poster didn't think of this. I have to question his thinking on this.
"Oh another plane went down. There might be survivors but fuck'em. We don't need to be wasting fuel looking for them."
Anther reason is we want to know why the plane crashed. Was it pilot error, terrorism, or some thing wrong with the design of the plane. If there is a flaw in the plane, we need to know if this affects the whole fleet. Not just that one.
I pay my own power bill and my computers are on 24/7. One of them is a server though but the other is my workstation. Like most true geeks just about everything I do involves a computer in some way and even with a high speed SSD it still take way to long to boot. I like the option of just walking by, taping the keyboard and seeing what I need to see.
The only computer in my house that goes off when not in use is the htpc. Even then it just goes to sleep.
I guess you missed my UID.
If you want to play the UID game, have a look at mine. I've pretty much been here since day 1. Starting with the Columbine killings and 9/11 terrorist acts that have impacts on society have always been on /.
This is news that matters because if they backwards nutjobs have their way we will all be back herding goats and the only education we will have will come from a really old book of superstition. Yeah, that goes for both Muslim and Christians.
I don't believe there is any way places like silkroad will be able to totally rule out undercover moles. The very anonymity that makes it work counts against it in this manner. Unless you are the only person running the show.
Another reason that you need to encrypt your device with strong encryption. This would at least make the police have to get a warrant before they can search your shit. Not actually a warrant for searching the phone but a court order, for you to refuse, to barf up the password.
What I'm going to say will probably not be very popular but I believe that NASA is an organization that has out lived its usefulness. Back in the 50' and 60' when NASA was first formed it had a goal, to get us to the moon. An it did that goal very well.
But since then it hasn't really had a goal. It has had projects of which most of them it has pulled off spectacularly. The hunt for extra solar planets, probes to the outer planets, and rovers on Mars. But it hasn't had an organized goal for the whole organization. With out a clear and visible goal nobody cares. People lose interest, and without the people having interest congress starts looking for other places to send money.
I believe its time for NASA to be repuposed from a active research and exploration to a regulatory agency. Much like the FAA They set the regulations for safety in manned space craft like the FAA does. Nasa should also be in charge of tracking satellites and setting orbits for them.
Most of its former duties for space exploration could be handed over to private industry now. NASA could keep a small hand in exploration I believe but most of that could be handed over to private universities.
Hi. Damn I have been here along time.
Israel is not our friend. They are only nice to us because we give them money and keep other nations from stomping them flat. If they where truly our friends then why have they spied on us and stolen military secrets, executed US citizens in cold blood, sold military plans and equipment to nations hostel to the US. Israel as committed acts of piracy on the high seas against US and ships of other nations. In 1967 Israel committed an act of war against the United States when it attacked the USS Liberty in international water.
No, Israel is not our friend.
I have satellite internet and I can reach a satellite in geo orbit with 1w. So depending on how effecent the reciever is, the answer is "not much."