How the heck are they spending 1 billion for 650k students? That's $1500 per ipad. If the average class size is 26 that's $39,000 per class. There are so many better ways this money could be spent.
Cpu:Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 12 core - $2,524.00
Motherboard: ASUS Z9PA-U8 - $277.99
64GB 16x4 (4 slots still free) - $720
PCIe ssd:480 GB - $1007
Power supply 1500 Watt - $374
Case: $274
Video cards: ??? not currently available
Total: $5,176
Apple with similar specs: $7,899
So that leaves $2,723 for video cards, I can't find any suggested prices on the D500 or D700, except that Apple charges $300 per card to upgrade from D500 to D700.
Of course if you wanted 12 cores you could save a bundle and just get a dual socket board and 2 6 core cpus. Also the MB supports a lot more ram etc, but is a lot bigger.
I checked and it's not on Steam, same with Battlefield 3, looks like EA is trying to force that Origin crap down on people, oh well one less sale for them.
Except the initial investment was a tiny amount of CPU time. The person who wrote the original software made a ton of BC when it took no cost to create them.
And who created the bitcoin software? We don't know but I'm sure they are having fun selling off coins they got for free to suckers who just finished eating their tulip bulbs.
Yeah, someone should invent "echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled" and maybe make the default a config option or something... oh, wait.
Except that crappy workaround doesn't fix it, you have to set it to never as a workaround or simply disable transparent huge pages on boot.
If you want to find primes of other types try http://www.primegrid.com/ you can find 200k+ digit primes rather easily. They also have GPU support for some of the projects.
That is not how you get a green card! The amount of time is largely dependent on the visa bulletin dates. Presently the wait is up to 10+ years depending on your country of birth. The "line" to get the green cards has been getting longer and longer.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_5856.html
Whoops sorry listed the wrong router model, I did get the AC model you listed. It's also fun how they list 1.75Gbit on the box, but it's really 1.3gbit if you use 5ghz and 450mbit if you use 2.4ghz.
I just got a Asus 802.11AC (RT-N66U) router and their AC66 PCIE adapter last night.
The performance through one wall about 20 feet from the router is a claimed 1.3GBIT however transfer rates so far are 8 megabytes a second. I know it's still in draft blah blah but it's quite sad how slow it is in the real world.
Same here, had two of them in crossfire and it was always super unsmooth even though it claimed high frame rate 120+. I switched to NVIDIA and it's night and day.
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I'd mod you up if I had points, had the exact same thought.
Any employee dumb enough to fall for a phish should be fired.
How the heck are they spending 1 billion for 650k students? That's $1500 per ipad. If the average class size is 26 that's $39,000 per class. There are so many better ways this money could be spent.
Crap the Apple price was for a 16GB of ram add another $1,200 to the apple price my bad...
Here is a breakdown of diy.
:Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 12 core - $2,524.00 :480 GB - $1007
Cpu
Motherboard: ASUS Z9PA-U8 - $277.99
64GB 16x4 (4 slots still free) - $720
PCIe ssd
Power supply 1500 Watt - $374
Case: $274
Video cards: ??? not currently available
Total: $5,176
Apple with similar specs: $7,899
So that leaves $2,723 for video cards, I can't find any suggested prices on the D500 or D700, except that Apple charges $300 per card to upgrade from D500 to D700.
Of course if you wanted 12 cores you could save a bundle and just get a dual socket board and 2 6 core cpus. Also the MB supports a lot more ram etc, but is a lot bigger.
Sources:
CPU: http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=BX80635E52697V2&vid=211&src=14
MB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131915
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147307
HDD: http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Drive-Series-Express/dp/B0058RECOU/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1388118274&sr=8-9
PSU: http://www.amazon.com/SILVERSTONE-ST1500-CrossFire-Certified-Modular/dp/B002BH3Z84/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388118413&sr=8-2&keywords=1500watt+power+supply
Case: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Obsidian-Series-Performance-CC-9011035-WW/dp/B00EB6O4N8/ref=sr_1_1?srs=2529199011&ie=UTF8&qid=1388118511&sr=8-1
I checked and it's not on Steam, same with Battlefield 3, looks like EA is trying to force that Origin crap down on people, oh well one less sale for them.
So much snark!
Except the initial investment was a tiny amount of CPU time. The person who wrote the original software made a ton of BC when it took no cost to create them. And who created the bitcoin software? We don't know but I'm sure they are having fun selling off coins they got for free to suckers who just finished eating their tulip bulbs.
Yeah, someone should invent "echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled" and maybe make the default a config option or something... oh, wait.
Except that crappy workaround doesn't fix it, you have to set it to never as a workaround or simply disable transparent huge pages on boot.
Still no fix for khugepaged killing your system :(
Did they include Xbox and windows CE devices?
You angle your side monitors to avoid some of that.
I heat my apartment calculating prime numbers. I have electric heat so I'd rather have the power go to something interesting than heating up a wire.
If you want to find primes of other types try http://www.primegrid.com/ you can find 200k+ digit primes rather easily. They also have GPU support for some of the projects.
Just make friends with people who have google fiber :)
Retro share: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ friend to friend private open source file sharing.
That is not how you get a green card! The amount of time is largely dependent on the visa bulletin dates. Presently the wait is up to 10+ years depending on your country of birth. The "line" to get the green cards has been getting longer and longer. http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_5856.html
Whoops sorry listed the wrong router model, I did get the AC model you listed. It's also fun how they list 1.75Gbit on the box, but it's really 1.3gbit if you use 5ghz and 450mbit if you use 2.4ghz.
I just got a Asus 802.11AC (RT-N66U) router and their AC66 PCIE adapter last night. The performance through one wall about 20 feet from the router is a claimed 1.3GBIT however transfer rates so far are 8 megabytes a second. I know it's still in draft blah blah but it's quite sad how slow it is in the real world.
Same here, had two of them in crossfire and it was always super unsmooth even though it claimed high frame rate 120+. I switched to NVIDIA and it's night and day.
Since this Slashdot the title should really be storage containers as the obvious assumption is a storage unit stores data!
At 55 seconds that looks like the halo shard gun or whatever it's called?
Caching, is that a sly way of saying they are copying what others did or just a fortunate typo?
Based off the title it is unclear if this is about a star that devours planets or a planet that devours stars.
He is a Program manager so, great journalism zdnet