Pretty soon we're going to need reheat units attached to the coolers to break up the ice that collects on them then we'll need moisture collectors to manage the condensors and another power supply to run the whole thing which will generate more heat. and so on.
There has got to be a better way - make CPU's that run colder.
Size is weight and weight is money. A large organization could save bundles of cash on the shipping alone for large quantities of these units. Reduced warehouse costs and fewer people to manage them. Moreover smaller packages means fewer damaged units, fewer parts to track, fewer configuration problems caused by fewer upgrades and fewer field staff to manage what is effectively a closed box.
That sez it all. Stressed out soccer mom yakking on the phone, swatting at her ADHD babbling kids who are fighting, while the family Ford Erection SUC (sport utility copter) jamms in traffic.
Somebody carooms out of the KFC flyby w/o looking on a right bank.
BOOM.
Traffic gets all honked up. Tempers flare. The rockets red glare. Dozens die film at a 11.
Where I live the traffic gurus have decided that the longer the light the better. 6,7,8 minutes are the norm. No Joke. 8 minute red lights. Get stuck at a few of them and you can see why people blow through them. You might not make it home in time for dinner, or next week for that matter.
And then we have this zero tolerance nonsense where cops only roost to write tickets where and if local neighbors complain regardless of the actual traffic situation. Since the cops are 'invited' there they write everyone for any violation - 2-3mph over is the thresshold.
So the net effect is that higway drivers are at least 15mph over the limit on average (and the limit around here is 65-70) and local traffic is stopped. Just stopped. Total complete endless refugee gridlock.
IA64 will have the edge for about 6 months. After that Power4 (next rev) will leap over IA64 with a minimum of disruption because it is already 64 bit.
Then Intel will go back to their day job of manufacturing chips in incremental 25% improvements. Intel will reach the limits of power consumption before they reach the manufacturing tolerance limit.
People ARE violent. Games are not going to mitigate or ameliorate that. You know why we are violent? Because for 2 million years we've killed, eaten and dominated all comers.
Our ONLY evolutionary advantage is not big brains or stereoscopic vision or opposable thumbs. It's aggression. It's our unquenchable lust to be the last one standing, dripping with someone else's blood.
So what is it? You don't think FARC is a terrorist group or is it that you don't know don't care and simply fall back your impression of Free Speech?
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If I took the screen and keyboard off my laptop, removed the battery and the built in speakers it would be barely larger than a cell phone. The form factor of the harddrive and the bay for the cdrom are what would make the remainder boxy.
All I'm saying is that a core pc could be made as something little larger than a dongle on the powercord that connects to it.
Yeah you forgot to include a cute orphan who will make the perfect adopted child for whichever character has the most baffling emotional problems and/or agonized past.
And I do hope they're flying on a ship that can be crippled by 99 cent technology once in a while and/or it runs on a kind of fuel that's based on living material or some such fragile dangerous scenario.
Dot Bombs are built and then dismembered by VC firms which is a fancy way of saying lawyers. That's what lawyers do - they make harsh sounding documents to protect their interests forever and ever under all circumstances against any all things in the universe.
But companies that are bankrupt or soon to be don't have the time or the interest in suing ex employees unless said ex employees have stolen actual money or cheated or defrauded them.
And if you want to 'share' a broadband uplink I'm almost sure they will figure out a way to embed licence control and DRM. Which is really the point anyway, isn't it?
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Gee what a frickin brainstorm. Overengineerd hardware company makes overengineered PCs with 'value added' free OS. Can you imagien the service charges???? I can - they will suck.
And it costs nearly zero. It's called software emulation. I have an old PDP 11 and a Vax 1180 as well as a Univac 1180/82E running Octal around here somewhere. Oh and again it's in software.
Honestly if you build something out of used/junk parts it's because you need a cheap limited purpose server to do some mindless task quietly in the corner. Not that this is bad thing. I have a house full of Frankenclones for routers, firewalls, mail servers and so on.
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At the office:
Shorts or jeans, golf shirt (not tucked in), Airwalks, socks.
At the home office:
What-ever.
It must be great but I don't know because no matter many updates I install there's always one more for anything that needs to be played.
Ever.
Really - dozens and dozens of QT updates and it's never enough. What's the fucking point?
I've always told people to simply email all their mp3's back to the RIAA since they believe we shouldn't own them.
Sorry but PPC is already 64b. The 1.8Ghz is the new part.
Pretty soon we're going to need reheat units attached to the coolers to break up the ice that collects on them then we'll need moisture collectors to manage the condensors and another power supply to run the whole thing which will generate more heat. and so on.
There has got to be a better way - make CPU's that run colder.
Size is weight and weight is money. A large organization could save bundles of cash on the shipping alone for large quantities of these units. Reduced warehouse costs and fewer people to manage them. Moreover smaller packages means fewer damaged units, fewer parts to track, fewer configuration problems caused by fewer upgrades and fewer field staff to manage what is effectively a closed box.
That sez it all. Stressed out soccer mom yakking on the phone, swatting at her ADHD babbling kids who are fighting, while the family Ford Erection SUC (sport utility copter) jamms in traffic.
Somebody carooms out of the KFC flyby w/o looking on a right bank.
BOOM.
Traffic gets all honked up. Tempers flare. The rockets red glare. Dozens die film at a 11.
I dunno but all those Chinese computers have viruses that screw up the displays - makes em all look like chicken scratch. I wonder ? Hmmmmm?
WTF sense does this make. You want mt DNA? OK scratch some skin, take some blood.
Where I live the traffic gurus have decided that the longer the light the better. 6,7,8 minutes are the norm. No Joke. 8 minute red lights. Get stuck at a few of them and you can see why people blow through them. You might not make it home in time for dinner, or next week for that matter.
And then we have this zero tolerance nonsense where cops only roost to write tickets where and if local neighbors complain regardless of the actual traffic situation. Since the cops are 'invited' there they write everyone for any violation - 2-3mph over is the thresshold.
So the net effect is that higway drivers are at least 15mph over the limit on average (and the limit around here is 65-70) and local traffic is stopped. Just stopped. Total complete endless refugee gridlock.
IA64 will have the edge for about 6 months. After that Power4 (next rev) will leap over IA64 with a minimum of disruption because it is already 64 bit.
Then Intel will go back to their day job of manufacturing chips in incremental 25% improvements. Intel will reach the limits of power consumption before they reach the manufacturing tolerance limit.
People ARE violent. Games are not going to mitigate or ameliorate that. You know why we are violent? Because for 2 million years we've killed, eaten and dominated all comers.
Our ONLY evolutionary advantage is not big brains or stereoscopic vision or opposable thumbs. It's aggression. It's our unquenchable lust to be the last one standing, dripping with someone else's blood.
So what is it? You don't think FARC is a terrorist group or is it that you don't know don't care and simply fall back your impression of Free Speech?
If I took the screen and keyboard off my laptop, removed the battery and the built in speakers it would be barely larger than a cell phone. The form factor of the harddrive and the bay for the cdrom are what would make the remainder boxy.
All I'm saying is that a core pc could be made as something little larger than a dongle on the powercord that connects to it.
Yeah you forgot to include a cute orphan who will make the perfect adopted child for whichever character has the most baffling emotional problems and/or agonized past.
And I do hope they're flying on a ship that can be crippled by 99 cent technology once in a while and/or it runs on a kind of fuel that's based on living material or some such fragile dangerous scenario.
Dot Bombs are built and then dismembered by VC firms which is a fancy way of saying lawyers. That's what lawyers do - they make harsh sounding documents to protect their interests forever and ever under all circumstances against any all things in the universe.
But companies that are bankrupt or soon to be don't have the time or the interest in suing ex employees unless said ex employees have stolen actual money or cheated or defrauded them.
I wouldn't worry.
Yeah can you imagine a home LAN wireless router with an MS embedded OS? Holy bloated hardware batman!!
So What
How is it Nokia's business what I do? I already buy their firewalls, one would think they would think this is a good thing.
And if you want to 'share' a broadband uplink I'm almost sure they will figure out a way to embed licence control and DRM. Which is really the point anyway, isn't it?
Gee what a frickin brainstorm. Overengineerd hardware company makes overengineered PCs with 'value added' free OS. Can you imagien the service charges???? I can - they will suck.
How does MS see themselves making money from it?
It's not about compliance or the the law or the record companies or about repression.
It's about money.
So who will pay MS for technology or the service that is supported by it?
Will 'content owners'? How much will they pay? Will Digital Rights Management suddenly turn into $31 CD management.
I think so.
And it costs nearly zero. It's called software emulation. I have an old PDP 11 and a Vax 1180 as well as a Univac 1180/82E running Octal around here somewhere. Oh and again it's in software.
Honestly if you build something out of used/junk parts it's because you need a cheap limited purpose server to do some mindless task quietly in the corner. Not that this is bad thing. I have a house full of Frankenclones for routers, firewalls, mail servers and so on.
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I'm in comp security. Every day the sky is falling and I couldn't be happier.
Anything that can be used for sex and something else, will be used for sex.