I calculate about 5 million cubic meters of gold in all the world's oceans. In comparison, all the gold ever mined is estimated at around 8 thousand cubic meters. So yes, there is a lot of gold in the oceans - but only because the oceans are big. Whether you can extract it profitably is another question entirely.
That actually happened to Portugal and Spain, back when they were world powers with vast colonies in the Americas. Their explorers found gold, and sizable expenditures were made to set up colonies and operations to mine it. They thought they were generating wealth, but they were mostly just inflating their medium of exchange.
It's was not such a bad thing for them. They were inflating the value of gold as a currency, but since they were the ones mining the gold, they got to spend it first before the value got (further) diluted. Similar thing today, where the banks and the government get to spend the newly printed dollars first before they too get diluted in value.
A 95W chip in a cramped shuttle case? You know what that thing will sound like under load?
I'd get one of the 45W AMD chips for socket AM3 (there are a few you can pick from, from single core Semprons to a triple core), put it in a larger case where slow moving large case fans will be adequate to keep it quiet. Should be nearly silent, and if you're willing to spend the money on a fanless power supply and one of those massive passive CPU coolers you could probably keep the thing cool with just one case fan if you wanted to.
Yeah, you can play tricks like that with C, but generally speaking you're not going to find that kind of thing unless someone is trying to make intentionally obfuscated code.
Knowing Intel I doubt you could use it in a Xeon motherboard (in any case I don't think it does ECC). Since it's Socket 1156 you're stuck putting it into a last-generation motherboard.
Actually, convention was for storage devices kilo meant 1024, mega was 1024*1024, etc. This was a bend of the rules, but as "byte" is still not a SI unit (unlike, say, "Hertz"), people kind of let it slide. Later in the game, the hard drive manufacturers realized that they could use the other definition of mega to make their hard drives look larger than they really are by intentionally confusing people, and the rest is history.
Also, Linux and Mac still have your so-called "bug". If you don't believe me, ask either OS how much ram is available.
The problem with raiding them is that is that now you're only really protected against hardware failure. What if a power surge takes out the computer, or virus wipes out your files, or a thief steals the computer? Now all your data is gone. If you're only going to buy two drives, you're best off getting one of them external, syncing them regularly, and storing the external away from the PC.
Of course, hard drives now are so ridiculously cheap that I just do both - buy three, raid two of them, put the third in an external enclosure.
For some reason though, they are still selling that LGA 1156 Gulftown Extreme Edition for $1000. I have no idea who would buy it at this point at that price, but I guess people are.
The enterprise SSDs may do exactly that, but my experience is that the consumer-level drives can get very slow and stutter a lot when performing writes they get below about 5% free space. Especially on a disk that has been used for a while and therefore is probably very fragmented down at the block level. But as always, your mileage will vary.
You're talking about a BMW here. Parts are outrageously expensive, at least in the US. It's not unfeasible that older cars will be scrapped just because they have a headlight go out on them.
They are pointed right in every manufacturer installed case. The whole HID hate thing is fueled by a logical fallacy - the only HIDs you ever notice are the ones that are aimed wrong, so you assume all HIDs are as bad as that, when the truth is that nearly every HID on the road is aimed right and just looks like any other headlight.
The thing is, a mis-aligned standard halogen or sealed beam headlight is not nearly as blinding as a mis-aligned HID headlight. That's why the mis-aligned HID headlights are the ones that get noticed, while the other types don't get as noticed when they are out of alignment.
The no-names like that are a gamble. Some of them are perfectly fine - I've had some that have run no problems for years, and others of them are garbage. And you really don't have any way to know without buying and seeing what happens. Generally I don't want to gamble with my power supplies, so I'm willing to spend a few extra bucks to get a decent one.
Curb computers aren't generally too useful nowadays, if you're considering rebuilding them into new computers. The power supply is almost certainly a 20 pin, and probably also lacks the extra 4-pin most boards require so it's useless. The hard drive and optical drives are IDE, and many inexpensive boards are SATA only too, so chances are they are also useless. Ditto for the floppy drive. The video card, if it has one, is almost certainly AGP and is therefore useless. At best you'll get a ATX case with a fan or two that you can reuse. If anything, curb computers are more useful just to use as-is if it works, or for parts to fix other curb computers if it doesn't. Though by now any curb collector probably has more IDE/AGP/DDR era machines than they know what to do with by now.
On the other hand, curb CRT monitors generally still work if fresh and everything still have a VGA port so they can still be useful. Curb LCDs usually are dead but most are easily repaired if you can resolder bad caps.
Nowadays, the memory controller is located in the CPU, so ECC support is more about the CPU now than it is about the motherboard and chipset. Because of this, if you want ECC and don't want to pay through the nose your only option really is AMD because Intel only enables ECC support on their expensive Xeons which also tend to require equally expensive server/workstation motherboards.
With that said, you can't always just grab any old AMD-compatible board and some ECC memory and expect it to work, because the ECC functionality requires some extra traces that the motherboard manufacturer may just decide to omit. But if an AMD-compatible motherboard is advertising that it works with ECC memory my guess is that it should work.
I calculate about 21 trillion Hindenburgs worth of air. Sounds like a lot, but as someone else posted it's about 3,000 Hindenburgs per person with a global population in the billions. Given 3 gallons of gasoline per Hindenburg you can drive about 200-250k miles with a typical car before you've "used up" your allotment of air, so to speak.
I guess the other question is, how many Hindenburgs worth of other various carbon sinks (such as the oceans) do we have?
Or maybe if you weren't a moron you would realize he must be talking about the amount of time that would pass for the passengers on the ship and not that amount of time that would pass for a stationary observer. And if you do the math, 6.58 years is the correct answer.
I use them for light duty Linux/FreeBSD servers. They have plenty of oomph for what I want, and the 3D acceleration isn't even a factor, and for the time being it keeps them out of the landfill. Also, as I mentioned they are free whereas the i3 is is at least $150 just for the chip and a board.
I don't like it because I have to actually go read the text in the bread crumb, mentally identify the folder that is one up before I can click on it. The toolbar button I can just click on without thinking about it. Plus if the folder name is long and/or the window is small you don't actually get the bread crumb without clicking on the little expand menu button thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think the breadcrumb was a good idea, but I think removing the go up one folder button was premature.
Well, they already removed the "Go up one folder" button in Vista, so I'm actually a bit more concerned about what they are planning on removing entirely as opposed to what gets regulated to the non-home tabs.
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I calculate about 5 million cubic meters of gold in all the world's oceans. In comparison, all the gold ever mined is estimated at around 8 thousand cubic meters. So yes, there is a lot of gold in the oceans - but only because the oceans are big. Whether you can extract it profitably is another question entirely.
It's was not such a bad thing for them. They were inflating the value of gold as a currency, but since they were the ones mining the gold, they got to spend it first before the value got (further) diluted. Similar thing today, where the banks and the government get to spend the newly printed dollars first before they too get diluted in value.
A 95W chip in a cramped shuttle case? You know what that thing will sound like under load?
I'd get one of the 45W AMD chips for socket AM3 (there are a few you can pick from, from single core Semprons to a triple core), put it in a larger case where slow moving large case fans will be adequate to keep it quiet. Should be nearly silent, and if you're willing to spend the money on a fanless power supply and one of those massive passive CPU coolers you could probably keep the thing cool with just one case fan if you wanted to.
Yeah, you can play tricks like that with C, but generally speaking you're not going to find that kind of thing unless someone is trying to make intentionally obfuscated code.
This is how you get a Gulftown processor for $1000: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115079
Knowing Intel I doubt you could use it in a Xeon motherboard (in any case I don't think it does ECC). Since it's Socket 1156 you're stuck putting it into a last-generation motherboard.
Are you seriously saying that you didn't even read my post before hitting the reply button?
Actually, convention was for storage devices kilo meant 1024, mega was 1024*1024, etc. This was a bend of the rules, but as "byte" is still not a SI unit (unlike, say, "Hertz"), people kind of let it slide. Later in the game, the hard drive manufacturers realized that they could use the other definition of mega to make their hard drives look larger than they really are by intentionally confusing people, and the rest is history.
Also, Linux and Mac still have your so-called "bug". If you don't believe me, ask either OS how much ram is available.
The problem with raiding them is that is that now you're only really protected against hardware failure. What if a power surge takes out the computer, or virus wipes out your files, or a thief steals the computer? Now all your data is gone. If you're only going to buy two drives, you're best off getting one of them external, syncing them regularly, and storing the external away from the PC.
Of course, hard drives now are so ridiculously cheap that I just do both - buy three, raid two of them, put the third in an external enclosure.
For some reason though, they are still selling that LGA 1156 Gulftown Extreme Edition for $1000. I have no idea who would buy it at this point at that price, but I guess people are.
The enterprise SSDs may do exactly that, but my experience is that the consumer-level drives can get very slow and stutter a lot when performing writes they get below about 5% free space. Especially on a disk that has been used for a while and therefore is probably very fragmented down at the block level. But as always, your mileage will vary.
You're talking about a BMW here. Parts are outrageously expensive, at least in the US. It's not unfeasible that older cars will be scrapped just because they have a headlight go out on them.
The thing is, a mis-aligned standard halogen or sealed beam headlight is not nearly as blinding as a mis-aligned HID headlight. That's why the mis-aligned HID headlights are the ones that get noticed, while the other types don't get as noticed when they are out of alignment.
The no-names like that are a gamble. Some of them are perfectly fine - I've had some that have run no problems for years, and others of them are garbage. And you really don't have any way to know without buying and seeing what happens. Generally I don't want to gamble with my power supplies, so I'm willing to spend a few extra bucks to get a decent one.
Curb computers aren't generally too useful nowadays, if you're considering rebuilding them into new computers. The power supply is almost certainly a 20 pin, and probably also lacks the extra 4-pin most boards require so it's useless. The hard drive and optical drives are IDE, and many inexpensive boards are SATA only too, so chances are they are also useless. Ditto for the floppy drive. The video card, if it has one, is almost certainly AGP and is therefore useless. At best you'll get a ATX case with a fan or two that you can reuse. If anything, curb computers are more useful just to use as-is if it works, or for parts to fix other curb computers if it doesn't. Though by now any curb collector probably has more IDE/AGP/DDR era machines than they know what to do with by now.
On the other hand, curb CRT monitors generally still work if fresh and everything still have a VGA port so they can still be useful. Curb LCDs usually are dead but most are easily repaired if you can resolder bad caps.
Nowadays, the memory controller is located in the CPU, so ECC support is more about the CPU now than it is about the motherboard and chipset. Because of this, if you want ECC and don't want to pay through the nose your only option really is AMD because Intel only enables ECC support on their expensive Xeons which also tend to require equally expensive server/workstation motherboards.
With that said, you can't always just grab any old AMD-compatible board and some ECC memory and expect it to work, because the ECC functionality requires some extra traces that the motherboard manufacturer may just decide to omit. But if an AMD-compatible motherboard is advertising that it works with ECC memory my guess is that it should work.
Maybe it's this one?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366441
Most old monitors also don't accept analog TV video either. They are strictly VGA only.
Actually, I would be amazed if NASA could build a substantial structure on the moon for only 21 billion dollars. I say go for it.
I calculate about 21 trillion Hindenburgs worth of air. Sounds like a lot, but as someone else posted it's about 3,000 Hindenburgs per person with a global population in the billions. Given 3 gallons of gasoline per Hindenburg you can drive about 200-250k miles with a typical car before you've "used up" your allotment of air, so to speak.
I guess the other question is, how many Hindenburgs worth of other various carbon sinks (such as the oceans) do we have?
Why doesn't Intel use their own integrated video? Granted, they are still crap but I see little reason why Intel would have to use a Matrox chip.
Or maybe if you weren't a moron you would realize he must be talking about the amount of time that would pass for the passengers on the ship and not that amount of time that would pass for a stationary observer. And if you do the math, 6.58 years is the correct answer.
I use them for light duty Linux/FreeBSD servers. They have plenty of oomph for what I want, and the 3D acceleration isn't even a factor, and for the time being it keeps them out of the landfill. Also, as I mentioned they are free whereas the i3 is is at least $150 just for the chip and a board.
I don't like it because I have to actually go read the text in the bread crumb, mentally identify the folder that is one up before I can click on it. The toolbar button I can just click on without thinking about it. Plus if the folder name is long and/or the window is small you don't actually get the bread crumb without clicking on the little expand menu button thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think the breadcrumb was a good idea, but I think removing the go up one folder button was premature.
Well, they already removed the "Go up one folder" button in Vista, so I'm actually a bit more concerned about what they are planning on removing entirely as opposed to what gets regulated to the non-home tabs.