Most newer cards with the desirable features consume lots of electricity and at this point in time actually as much as a refrigerator it would seem. They also generate an excessive amount of heat as well. Before purchasing make sure your power supply is up to the task or you will be in store for some interesting side effects.
When playing games, my i7 + GTX 660 system takes a whole 200W at the wall. My Pentium-4 with Nvidia 7800 used to take more like 350W.
Maybe you missed all the current computers with Core i3s and Core i5s?
Most or all desktop i5s are quads. Laptop i5s are duals with hyperthreading and 'turbo' mode. I think both desktop and laptop i3s are dual with hyperthreading.
So finding a dual-core that can't run four threads is becoming difficult.
The thing is, most serious gamers willing to plunk down $400 for a video card aren't going to skimp on upgrading the rest of the computer.
And a GTX 660 is not a $400 card, it's more like $200.
The real issue is that most games are designed to run on consoles with their ultra-crappy CPUs, so they do very little on the CPU even on a PC. I've rarely seen my i7 go over 20% CPU usage in any game I've played in Windows with the CPU monitor running.
UX designers and experts have been clamouring for simplification for years, but clients refused to change until everyone started asking "why doesn't this work on my phone/tablet".
That's because hiding all the useful options and calling it 'simplification' fscking sucks.
Which would be great, if you leave your car in the garage all day. Most of us drive around, so if the panels aren't on the car to keep it charged they're utterly useless to us.
You could stick a couple of square meters of solar panels on a typical car, which at 20% efficiency would give you about 240W on a sunny day. For a half-hour commute (fifteen minutes each way) and eight hours in the car park, that would give you about five horsepower if the battery is 100% efficient and you didn't need to use any other electrical items, like AC or headlights.
So it's potentially possible, but would be a really crappy drive.
It has not lost the business user, and probably never will.
The business user is sticking to Windows 7 and thinking 'WTF are they doing with this Windows 8 garbage? Can we find a sane OS to replace Windows with if they keep trying to turn our desktop PCs into tablets?'
I'm getting mine from reality. The Xbox division cost billions of dollars and has been making millions. Last I looked it was still years from repaying those costs and about to have to pay for a new generation of hardware if it doesn't want to be comically obsolete even compared to future tablets, let alone PCs.
In other words, the Xbox ecosystem makes the Windows platform stronger, not weaker.
Uh, no. The Xbox has helped to kill Windows gaming because the majority of new 'PC' games are crappy ports of crappy console games which barely touch the power of a high-end gaming PC.
I cannot believe this is getting posted here. I know Slashdot hates Microsoft but this is the equivalent of me saying that Apple will sell off the iPad because the iPhone didn't sell as well as they wanted it to. Or something like that.
The iPad makes shedloads of money. The Xbox has lost boxloads of money and they're about to have to throw billions more into the pit to produce a new version.
From your final paragraph I thought you must be a lawyer, but then I realised you mentioned ethics above it.
Ultimately, if they're human enough to demand rights they'll get them, and if ethical people don't do things like this it merely ensures that the only people doing it will be the unethical. It's going to happen before long, and plenty of other experiments which will make breeding Neanderthals look tame. First company to breed cat-girls is going to make a killing in the Japanese market.
BTW, the Soviets conducted experiments where they tried to breed female volunteers with apes, so I doubt there'll be much trouble with finding volunteers for this one.
Please explain how I can log into whatever service provides the remote kill if I can't log into my computer, my email account, or anything else. Keep in mind that I don't know my phone's MAC or SIM identification off the top of my head.
I wish I had mod points today... why is it Slashdot gives you them three times in a row, then none for months?
Having a password manager which can automatically fill in your passwords, and which is protected by a fingerprint, is quite doable with modern hardware, however.
Because it would be so difficult for a thief to get my fingerprints, considering they'll be smeared all over the touchscreen. And the fingerprint scanner has to be lax to ensure it has a very low rate of false negatives. And, if the phone has effectively become worth many thousands of dollars because it provides access to my bank account, credit cards, etc, the bad guys can't just hack the Flash inside the phone to change the fingerprint data.
We're safer now because if anyone ever tries to hijack a plane again, everyone on board will jump up and beat them to death with whatever object comes to hand rather than sit quietly and hope nothing bad happens.
I read a news article a while back about how some Al Qaeda guy under torture said their agents were stuffing explosives in birds' butts in Central Park, leading to the FBI running around looking for birds who were walking funny.
So I think we've already passed that point.
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I tried ZFS after mdraid decided to flag the good disk in my RAID as bad and the bad disk as good, but I couldn't get NFS exports to work because it's a user-space file system.
Repeat after me: Open Office is not written in Java, though it uses Java for some optional features. Yon don't even need Java installed to run Open Office, and disabling Java does reduce Open Office startup time since it no longer needs to start the JVM.
But it's a good meme to keep repeating, because when someone says 'Java sucks because Open Office is slow' and they're not talking about startup time, it's a very good indication that they have no clue.
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Most newer cards with the desirable features consume lots of electricity and at this point in time actually as much as a refrigerator it would seem. They also generate an excessive amount of heat as well. Before purchasing make sure your power supply is up to the task or you will be in store for some interesting side effects.
When playing games, my i7 + GTX 660 system takes a whole 200W at the wall. My Pentium-4 with Nvidia 7800 used to take more like 350W.
Maybe you missed all the current computers with Core i3s and Core i5s?
Most or all desktop i5s are quads. Laptop i5s are duals with hyperthreading and 'turbo' mode. I think both desktop and laptop i3s are dual with hyperthreading.
So finding a dual-core that can't run four threads is becoming difficult.
The thing is, most serious gamers willing to plunk down $400 for a video card aren't going to skimp on upgrading the rest of the computer.
And a GTX 660 is not a $400 card, it's more like $200.
The real issue is that most games are designed to run on consoles with their ultra-crappy CPUs, so they do very little on the CPU even on a PC. I've rarely seen my i7 go over 20% CPU usage in any game I've played in Windows with the CPU monitor running.
We have 2.4GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed because nobody else wanted to use them because they're inherently poor choices for radio propagation.
Which is exactly what you want for a home wireless system, so it won't interfere too badly with your neighbours.
UX designers and experts have been clamouring for simplification for years, but clients refused to change until everyone started asking "why doesn't this work on my phone/tablet".
That's because hiding all the useful options and calling it 'simplification' fscking sucks.
I presume he really means xubuntu, lubuntu or kbuntu, not unitysucksbuntu.
The format is well documented and surely you have backups.
He said they were in The Cloud. Why would he need backups?
Which would be great, if you leave your car in the garage all day. Most of us drive around, so if the panels aren't on the car to keep it charged they're utterly useless to us.
Since it has no cost for fuel, I don't think we can compare it that way and get any real meaning.
Yeah, because solar panels and batteries to store power for when there's not enough sun are free.
And typically get most of their power from coal.
You could stick a couple of square meters of solar panels on a typical car, which at 20% efficiency would give you about 240W on a sunny day. For a half-hour commute (fifteen minutes each way) and eight hours in the car park, that would give you about five horsepower if the battery is 100% efficient and you didn't need to use any other electrical items, like AC or headlights.
So it's potentially possible, but would be a really crappy drive.
Good luck driving to work in a solar-powered car.
It has not lost the business user, and probably never will.
The business user is sticking to Windows 7 and thinking 'WTF are they doing with this Windows 8 garbage? Can we find a sane OS to replace Windows with if they keep trying to turn our desktop PCs into tablets?'
I'm getting mine from reality. The Xbox division cost billions of dollars and has been making millions. Last I looked it was still years from repaying those costs and about to have to pay for a new generation of hardware if it doesn't want to be comically obsolete even compared to future tablets, let alone PCs.
In other words, the Xbox ecosystem makes the Windows platform stronger, not weaker.
Uh, no. The Xbox has helped to kill Windows gaming because the majority of new 'PC' games are crappy ports of crappy console games which barely touch the power of a high-end gaming PC.
Games is one of the serious reasons why people won't upgrade their OS though.
Who in their right mind ever 'upgrades' to a new version of Windows? 99.9% of Windows users get whatever version of Windows is on the new PC they buy.
Microsoft have screwed themselves by helping to trash the PC gaming market which was the main driver for buying new PCs.
I cannot believe this is getting posted here. I know Slashdot hates Microsoft but this is the equivalent of me saying that Apple will sell off the iPad because the iPhone didn't sell as well as they wanted it to. Or something like that.
The iPad makes shedloads of money. The Xbox has lost boxloads of money and they're about to have to throw billions more into the pit to produce a new version.
A saner company would have dumped it long ago.
From your final paragraph I thought you must be a lawyer, but then I realised you mentioned ethics above it.
Ultimately, if they're human enough to demand rights they'll get them, and if ethical people don't do things like this it merely ensures that the only people doing it will be the unethical. It's going to happen before long, and plenty of other experiments which will make breeding Neanderthals look tame. First company to breed cat-girls is going to make a killing in the Japanese market.
BTW, the Soviets conducted experiments where they tried to breed female volunteers with apes, so I doubt there'll be much trouble with finding volunteers for this one.
Please explain how I can log into whatever service provides the remote kill if I can't log into my computer, my email account, or anything else. Keep in mind that I don't know my phone's MAC or SIM identification off the top of my head.
I wish I had mod points today... why is it Slashdot gives you them three times in a row, then none for months?
Having a password manager which can automatically fill in your passwords, and which is protected by a fingerprint, is quite doable with modern hardware, however.
Because it would be so difficult for a thief to get my fingerprints, considering they'll be smeared all over the touchscreen. And the fingerprint scanner has to be lax to ensure it has a very low rate of false negatives. And, if the phone has effectively become worth many thousands of dollars because it provides access to my bank account, credit cards, etc, the bad guys can't just hack the Flash inside the phone to change the fingerprint data.
Does Google want one authentication for everything, so that easier to identify everyone?
That was my assumption. Like Microsoft before them, they want to become the One Authentication System To Rule Them All.
Because it certainly doesn't make sense if you actually care about security.
Because I totally want anyone who steals my phone to be able to access every other site I use.
We're safer now because if anyone ever tries to hijack a plane again, everyone on board will jump up and beat them to death with whatever object comes to hand rather than sit quietly and hope nothing bad happens.
The TSA is irrelevant in comparison.
I read a news article a while back about how some Al Qaeda guy under torture said their agents were stuffing explosives in birds' butts in Central Park, leading to the FBI running around looking for birds who were walking funny.
So I think we've already passed that point.
I tried ZFS after mdraid decided to flag the good disk in my RAID as bad and the bad disk as good, but I couldn't get NFS exports to work because it's a user-space file system.
Open Office is slow as hell.
Repeat after me: Open Office is not written in Java, though it uses Java for some optional features. Yon don't even need Java installed to run Open Office, and disabling Java does reduce Open Office startup time since it no longer needs to start the JVM.
But it's a good meme to keep repeating, because when someone says 'Java sucks because Open Office is slow' and they're not talking about startup time, it's a very good indication that they have no clue.