Your opinions on cap and trade have no relation to the physical reality of this world, do you realize that? I agree cap and trade sucks, yes it's engineered by Goldman Sachs, but in the way the price of CO2 will collapse, after they have made big bucks on it, so it will result both in Goldman et al. stealing incredible sums of money and global emissions still increasing. That's why we need carbon taxes instead.
Sadly nvidia's slowest graphics cards have a 29W TDP, and the chip he's talking of is a combined CPU+GPU at 18W TDP. Meaning no, there's no nvidia graphics in a netbook or tiny PC. And blaming the victim is lame, you can't change the graphics on a laptop with a GPU in the CPU. If you're arguing that no one should by affordable laptops, why not. I like using desktops (and CRT monitors).
We'll see if 22nm Atom is better (with something like Ubuntu 14.04 - not necessarily the main edition - if you want driver support out of the box). Still there could be framerate issues, as an inferior driver costs you CPU cycles.
Today's is/was Wednesday, which is French is 'mercredi', which is kid of a contraction for "Mercury's day". So dunno if a "Mercurial day" was a smug term for Wednesday.
Isn't USENET unavailable to the general public? In the 2000 I aways wanted to try it but it was a ten euros per month option at the ISP or a 3rd party provider, and with who knows what filtering and unavailable stuff. I don't know anyone who has ever used it. The paywall is a problem, you can't even access it and see what kind of discussions you can have there. If there are only US users from the 80s/90s that's interesting, but you can already interact with the neckbeards through IRC, slashdot and bug report comments. I don't want to pay 120 euros per year and find out no normal people will ever read my stuff or talk with me.
I'm not interested in binaries (i.e. porn and warez), just the text only stuff. I was always curious to know how you interact with the stuff, is it really billions of posts stuffed in a single hierarchy?, what's "a" newsgroup, how is it moderated/filtered (I think I heard of a "kill file") and why the paywall when web/irc/mail are free.
Do you really have some 1080p 120Hz content around? (not "3D"). As far as I know only video games on a PC will give you a 120Hz signal (at 1080p), and it's on a dual link DVI or displayport link (or a decade old CRT monitor on VGA, at 800x600 or 1024x768)
A 120Hz TV will actually take a 24Hz, 30Hz or 60Hz signal in and either show the same image multiple times (with maybe some kind of "scanning backlight" effect) or interpolate between frames to produce fake additional smoothness. Real 120Hz on 4K (or 3.8K) is desirable sure but we'll need a follow-up iteration.
But that tablet lacks wired ethernet and eSATA and all that shit (display, battery, acceleromter, GPS) is useless if you use it as a desktop or server.
Here's a $88 PC, it's an old model (still has a compact flash slot) but it is a small, self-contained IBM compatible PC that uses a handful watts. http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrsx/index.html
A $120 one which is much better (has a FPU for a start), a lot more RAM.. 512MB, and is bundled in a keyboard like an 8bit or 16bit computer. http://www.norhtec.com/products/surfboard/index.html Looks fun! But doesn't look powerful enough to play youtube videos (it will run any x86 stuff too, as long as it's not i686) Shipping cost is hell, though.
My router, provided by ISP and that I'm forced to use no matter what, does a lot of things already but not quite everything. What I want most is a ssh server with screen sessions. Eventually I'd hope to be able to wake the big PC up. Some "personal storage cloud" (bullshit for stuff that I can access from outside), even just some data on the computer's flash but 100% accessible, would be nice.
It safe to say it does not, as TSX is a Haswell feature and 4960X is an Ivy Bridge CPU. What you would need is the 4960X's successor, which is Haswell-E on a new socket called LGA 2011-3 with ddr4, and its server counterparts. Or get a vanilla 4770 or 4771.
Except GPU encoding sucks : it is fast but the quality is compromised. Some step is very GPU-unfriendly (stuff with a lot of branching and random access is) so it'd done in a simpler, quicker way or at a lower "profile". GPGPU encoding even becomes pointless if you have encoding hardware (Quicksync, NVENC) which gives you the same result but using a lot less energy, while CPU is where it's at if you want max quality for a given size.
GPU still have to take over a lot of tasks (why not some kinds of audio processing) and be used more often, each generation getting a bit more useful and easier to use for computing tasks. But they aren't able to do everything or do it efficiently.
Actually, the i7 3820 is cheaper than 2600K and 3770K, the i7 4820K will be cheaper than 3770K and 4770K I think (even just 20 euros). This is more than offset by the cost of the motherboard though.
Apple gets away, actually. They just use pixel doubling, so no blurries and it's dead simple to implement. Other, arbitrary scaling is available too.
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You obviously don't know what you're doing, and it's your fault for choosing junk, uncommon hardware. BTW, real men use a PS/2 mouse rather than new fangled USB thing. The cursor stays responsive in swap hell when it doesn't have to go through a USB stack.
After using Gnome 2, LXDE, Mate, LXDE, an Xfce streak recently I'm back to Mate, using the default, single panel Linux Mint 15 layout with two virtual desktops next to the start menu and "show desktop" and that's all. Nice fresh air using something without tweaking it for once. To be fair I've hated them all, discovering niceties and nasties and in the end.. back to gnome 2 instead of its clones. No CPU/RAM indicator yet but I ran out because my top panel was so fugly. With Xfce I had a nice top panel with indicators and shortcuts and crap.. wasting a few tens pixel height. So for now I'll keep to top and free -m.
KDE? It feels like an operating system, not a DE, what with all its apps requiring the whole mess. I don't want to install 47281 packages on my system, even if it's all automatic, thanks. Mate is something I think I can give to XP users, Xfce is close too, LXDE doesn't support creating shortcuts and it is frozen (till a rebirth when distros ship with QT 5.1, I'll be curious to see if it has support for user created shortcuts then)
dunno what your needs really are but if you want a crapload of connectors you can look like at a 990FX chipset mobo like the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, you can plug in lots of PCIe 4x or 8x or 1x cards in that, ergo additional SATA and LAN controllers. Drop an old 1MB or 2MB vid card in the PCI slot if all you want is a display for installing it, else a radeon 5450 or geforce 6200 or 210 in a PCIe 16x slot will do.
for a relatively low power CPU, well lol you can go with an Athlon II X2, even though that's a 2009 CPU, else a FX 6300 has more threads and has AES NI for crypto acceleration - which Intel cripples away unless you get a high end i5 or i7.
So I'll take the "lack-luster support" then, rather than the bugs. Funny how nvidia's approach with free open source drivers is working better, nvidia doesn't collaborate at all so the devs are all on their own, in the end they have to figure everything out themselves and everything gets supported, with no non-free dependency and no graphical corruption in a fucking window manager.
Something's wrong with your wattage figures, like you're taking the whole system's power use when stressing the CPU with a burn program, likewise with the GPU (with something like Furmark) The point still stands, but to me the more annoying point is paying for the electrical utility bill.
To min/max the game what you need to do is build an Intel system with a lowest end mobo (around $50), Intel 3770 or 4770 or 4570, a good 300W or 350W PSU, stock cooler, max it out at 16GB. You can't run your 4170 on a low end mobo (or you suffer throttling, or are stuck at 800MHz), while the Intel system will be 100% stable due to not using much power.
Such a low wage would be unacceptable unless you supplement it with welfare, $1000 per month no string attached would be about decent if you want people to live in a society with no minimum wage, fire at will etc. ; don't forget the Medicare equivalent, too.
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That's why he said "standalone" databases, to exclude sqlite. I never knew about Berkeley DB though, lol. It has been seized by Oracle in 2006.
Your opinions on cap and trade have no relation to the physical reality of this world, do you realize that?
I agree cap and trade sucks, yes it's engineered by Goldman Sachs, but in the way the price of CO2 will collapse, after they have made big bucks on it, so it will result both in Goldman et al. stealing incredible sums of money and global emissions still increasing. That's why we need carbon taxes instead.
Sadly nvidia's slowest graphics cards have a 29W TDP, and the chip he's talking of is a combined CPU+GPU at 18W TDP. Meaning no, there's no nvidia graphics in a netbook or tiny PC. And blaming the victim is lame, you can't change the graphics on a laptop with a GPU in the CPU.
If you're arguing that no one should by affordable laptops, why not. I like using desktops (and CRT monitors).
We'll see if 22nm Atom is better (with something like Ubuntu 14.04 - not necessarily the main edition - if you want driver support out of the box). Still there could be framerate issues, as an inferior driver costs you CPU cycles.
But you may be storing digital files on tapes.
Today's is/was Wednesday, which is French is 'mercredi', which is kid of a contraction for "Mercury's day". So dunno if a "Mercurial day" was a smug term for Wednesday.
Isn't USENET unavailable to the general public? In the 2000 I aways wanted to try it but it was a ten euros per month option at the ISP or a 3rd party provider, and with who knows what filtering and unavailable stuff. I don't know anyone who has ever used it. The paywall is a problem, you can't even access it and see what kind of discussions you can have there. If there are only US users from the 80s/90s that's interesting, but you can already interact with the neckbeards through IRC, slashdot and bug report comments. I don't want to pay 120 euros per year and find out no normal people will ever read my stuff or talk with me.
I'm not interested in binaries (i.e. porn and warez), just the text only stuff.
I was always curious to know how you interact with the stuff, is it really billions of posts stuffed in a single hierarchy?, what's "a" newsgroup, how is it moderated/filtered (I think I heard of a "kill file") and why the paywall when web/irc/mail are free.
I guess so, but I have absolutely no need to.
Do you really have some 1080p 120Hz content around? (not "3D"). As far as I know only video games on a PC will give you a 120Hz signal (at 1080p), and it's on a dual link DVI or displayport link (or a decade old CRT monitor on VGA, at 800x600 or 1024x768)
A 120Hz TV will actually take a 24Hz, 30Hz or 60Hz signal in and either show the same image multiple times (with maybe some kind of "scanning backlight" effect) or interpolate between frames to produce fake additional smoothness.
Real 120Hz on 4K (or 3.8K) is desirable sure but we'll need a follow-up iteration.
But that tablet lacks wired ethernet and eSATA and all that shit (display, battery, acceleromter, GPS) is useless if you use it as a desktop or server.
Here's a $88 PC, it's an old model (still has a compact flash slot) but it is a small, self-contained IBM compatible PC that uses a handful watts.
http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrsx/index.html
A $120 one which is much better (has a FPU for a start), a lot more RAM.. 512MB, and is bundled in a keyboard like an 8bit or 16bit computer.
http://www.norhtec.com/products/surfboard/index.html
Looks fun! But doesn't look powerful enough to play youtube videos (it will run any x86 stuff too, as long as it's not i686)
Shipping cost is hell, though.
My router, provided by ISP and that I'm forced to use no matter what, does a lot of things already but not quite everything. What I want most is a ssh server with screen sessions. Eventually I'd hope to be able to wake the big PC up. Some "personal storage cloud" (bullshit for stuff that I can access from outside), even just some data on the computer's flash but 100% accessible, would be nice.
Now I'm waiting for big robots in affordable agriculture, I'm trying to work out what that means or looks like but it sure sounds cool and promising.
It safe to say it does not, as TSX is a Haswell feature and 4960X is an Ivy Bridge CPU.
What you would need is the 4960X's successor, which is Haswell-E on a new socket called LGA 2011-3 with ddr4, and its server counterparts. Or get a vanilla 4770 or 4771.
Except GPU encoding sucks : it is fast but the quality is compromised. Some step is very GPU-unfriendly (stuff with a lot of branching and random access is) so it'd done in a simpler, quicker way or at a lower "profile". GPGPU encoding even becomes pointless if you have encoding hardware (Quicksync, NVENC) which gives you the same result but using a lot less energy, while CPU is where it's at if you want max quality for a given size.
GPU still have to take over a lot of tasks (why not some kinds of audio processing) and be used more often, each generation getting a bit more useful and easier to use for computing tasks. But they aren't able to do everything or do it efficiently.
Actually, the i7 3820 is cheaper than 2600K and 3770K, the i7 4820K will be cheaper than 3770K and 4770K I think (even just 20 euros). This is more than offset by the cost of the motherboard though.
Intel segments shit like AES NI, Vt-d and "TSX" as well (Haswell?). Not available on your i3.
I think a FX6300 is half decent, esp. if you want to play with virtualisation with Vt-d. You had the worst of the bunch with that FX 4100.
Apple gets away, actually. They just use pixel doubling, so no blurries and it's dead simple to implement. Other, arbitrary scaling is available too.
You obviously don't know what you're doing, and it's your fault for choosing junk, uncommon hardware. BTW, real men use a PS/2 mouse rather than new fangled USB thing. The cursor stays responsive in swap hell when it doesn't have to go through a USB stack.
After using Gnome 2, LXDE, Mate, LXDE, an Xfce streak recently I'm back to Mate, using the default, single panel Linux Mint 15 layout with two virtual desktops next to the start menu and "show desktop" and that's all. Nice fresh air using something without tweaking it for once.
To be fair I've hated them all, discovering niceties and nasties and in the end.. back to gnome 2 instead of its clones.
No CPU/RAM indicator yet but I ran out because my top panel was so fugly. With Xfce I had a nice top panel with indicators and shortcuts and crap.. wasting a few tens pixel height. So for now I'll keep to top and free -m.
KDE? It feels like an operating system, not a DE, what with all its apps requiring the whole mess. I don't want to install 47281 packages on my system, even if it's all automatic, thanks.
Mate is something I think I can give to XP users, Xfce is close too, LXDE doesn't support creating shortcuts and it is frozen (till a rebirth when distros ship with QT 5.1, I'll be curious to see if it has support for user created shortcuts then)
dunno what your needs really are but if you want a crapload of connectors you can look like at a 990FX chipset mobo like the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, you can plug in lots of PCIe 4x or 8x or 1x cards in that, ergo additional SATA and LAN controllers. Drop an old 1MB or 2MB vid card in the PCI slot if all you want is a display for installing it, else a radeon 5450 or geforce 6200 or 210 in a PCIe 16x slot will do.
for a relatively low power CPU, well lol you can go with an Athlon II X2, even though that's a 2009 CPU, else a FX 6300 has more threads and has AES NI for crypto acceleration - which Intel cripples away unless you get a high end i5 or i7.
But software bugs != lack-luster support
So I'll take the "lack-luster support" then, rather than the bugs. Funny how nvidia's approach with free open source drivers is working better, nvidia doesn't collaborate at all so the devs are all on their own, in the end they have to figure everything out themselves and everything gets supported, with no non-free dependency and no graphical corruption in a fucking window manager.
Something's wrong with your wattage figures, like you're taking the whole system's power use when stressing the CPU with a burn program, likewise with the GPU (with something like Furmark)
The point still stands, but to me the more annoying point is paying for the electrical utility bill.
To min/max the game what you need to do is build an Intel system with a lowest end mobo (around $50), Intel 3770 or 4770 or 4570, a good 300W or 350W PSU, stock cooler, max it out at 16GB. You can't run your 4170 on a low end mobo (or you suffer throttling, or are stuck at 800MHz), while the Intel system will be 100% stable due to not using much power.
Such a low wage would be unacceptable unless you supplement it with welfare, $1000 per month no string attached would be about decent if you want people to live in a society with no minimum wage, fire at will etc. ; don't forget the Medicare equivalent, too.