removing the nitrogen and capturing the carbon dioxide require energy input. This can't help the efficiency of the power generation plant, which means they have to burn that much more fuel per MWh. There has to be a better solution...
Large corporations back up servers on tape. Good tapes and tape drives are expensive. Including support, maintenance and replacement costs, $5 per gigabyte probably isn't that bad.
You're obviously not writing software, doing CAD work, or any kind of computational modeling. It's easy to have that much data -- my source tree alone is 2GB.
What's wrong with that. Intel has sold defective processors for years, either binning them at a lower clock speed or trimming out chunks of cache and selling them as Celerons. If it can serve a purpose, does the job you need to get done, and it's available cheap... I don't see a problem here.
we've been using binary since the start, now we have to start in trinary ?
You need to be more flexible. I seem to recall from my Number Theory class that the base you choose can be somewhat arbitrary. In fact, I've heard that a lot of people use a Base 10 system!
The AMD Phenom comes in a 3 core variety (which may or may not be a "broken" 4 core chip). The Xbox 360 has a 3 core processor. The cell processor used in the Sony Playstation 3 and IBM blade servers is a 9 core (granted only 1 is a full core). There's no good reason for limiting yourself to powers of 2...
Please don't hold me to the dates, I'm pulling them from memory. AFCI (arc-fault circuit interrupter) is required by code in the US, beginning in 2003(?). Any circuit (including ceiling lamps) going into a bedroom must have an AFCI breaker. As of 2008(?) Series AFCI is required.
I've just bought an old house and am beginning the remodel... got a notebook full of tasks to be done. Since a panel upgrade and rewire are in order, I have been checking into the code requirements.
You might want to check with your local codes compliance office to determine what year code book they will hold you to (they're still using the 2005 version where I live) and at what point you have to meet the new code requirements. For example, if I'm adding a new circuit to an existing panel I am only required to meet the old rules; but, they'd prefer I follow the new ones if possible. Unfortunately, I need a new panel; so, I must upgrade to the current code requirements.
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I don't know why, but you made me think of this:
Dr. Egon Spengler: There is something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Do not cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I am fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, bad?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That is bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
At one point the French were claiming that there were numerous satellites, which they had identified, which were not on the USSTRATCOM list. Of course, the US said that they knew nothing about them and that the French must have "mis-identified" the objects in question. You draw your own conclusions...
It has more to do with what can be tracked. Objects too small to track with ground based radar, smaller than about an inch across, aren't tracked because we simply can not see them.
It's a BGA. The GPU might have anywhere from 500-1500 pins, I actually don't know; but that information is available on the data sheet or in the reference design docs.
You solder BGAs using pre-formed solder balls, heating the board and IC, in stages, to bond the solder to the pads. It's a delicate operation; doing it by hand your chances of success aren't too good. I do work with small BGA packages (50-100 pins) and have used hot plates and hot air to reflow them
This is/. for crying out loud. We're all supposed to be geeks, right? This sounds like a solder problem; so, just re-solder the damn chip if it fails. Problem solved... or do we need to revoke a few geek cards?
You should be asking, what's more cost effective: putting in an aircon unit for the server room, or replacing the equipment that is going to fail because your input air temp is 30C? Not to mention, when it does fail, it might take your last few hours/days data with it.
Seriously.
A couple thousand dollars should be enough to cover an air conditioner for a small business server room(which I assume you are since you're sweating $600).
Might want to consider consolidating servers as well. Look at the system CPU and memory utilization -- I bet you can consolidate a couple of machines into one box. This will reduce the heat being pumped into the room.
Intel chipset also supports ATI Crossfire. so there's no "teaming" intended apparently. Some software is already heavily optimized for AMD vs Intel cpu and nVidia vs ATI gpu.
how many stars are in the Milky Way? 200 billion? So, if only one in a million produces an Earth like planet, then there are 200,000 Earth like planets in the Milky Way.
Not that it matters since there is no way for us to get to, or communicate with, even the nearest stars.... right now.
Sure it makes sense. Via's constantly having to chase Intel and AMD in order to license the interconnect bus changes. On several occasions Via's had to reverse engineer the bus without a license; and, as a result, run into trouble. It's in Intel's best interest not to keep advance specification updates flowing to the 3rd party chipset manufacturer's because it gives them a head start with their own chipset. Same applies to AMD. Intel and AMD have seen the light and are now producing chipsets targetting enthusiast. They should be able to optimize the chipset solution better than a 3rd party due to inside engineering knowledge. Via will never be able to keep up.
Add to that the obvious pairings:
Intel chipset optimized for Intel processor
ATI/AMD chipset optimized for AMD processor
Nvidia chipset for best performance with Nvidia GPU.
What does VIA offer? Nothing.
Honestly, I think this is the right move for them -- it allows VIA to concentrate limited resources on VIA's embedded processors and the chipset optimized for use with the VIA processors.
God I hope you're making a joke because almost all of the electric energy eventually gets turned into heat. Point of fact, it would effectively increase Earth's solar insolation by a small fraction.
Thank you. And another possibility is accelerator driven subcritical reactors. Not only does it burn all of the fuel, it is safer -- turn off the particle accelerator and the reactor shuts down.
I agree with your list, in general; however I'd like to make three points.
Minor nit-pick, Tidal can not be used as base-load. Because of it's cyclic nature there are two points during the day when tidal produces zero energy; so, you'd have to have stored energy or another source to fill the hole.
There are things you can do to make nuclear more palatable. We are still using, what is effectively, a 50 year old reactor design. There are currently available, more modern designs which are safer and "burn" a higher percentage of the available fuel. There is research being done which could lead to significantly higher percentage "burn", reducing the waste to something with half-life of decades instead of millenium, which would resolve most of the storage issues. Finally, there are techniques which can effectively poison the fuel for weapons use.
If we look at the sum total of all energy usage (including transportation), based on what I have read, I don't believe there's enough wind, solar, and hydro power to replace all of the fossil fuels. We will still need a mix of fossil (or bio-fuel) and/or other forms of stored energy for peak usage and will have to have nuclear plants for base-load.
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removing the nitrogen and capturing the carbon dioxide require energy input. This can't help the efficiency of the power generation plant, which means they have to burn that much more fuel per MWh. There has to be a better solution...
Large corporations back up servers on tape. Good tapes and tape drives are expensive. Including support, maintenance and replacement costs, $5 per gigabyte probably isn't that bad.
You're obviously not writing software, doing CAD work, or any kind of computational modeling. It's easy to have that much data -- my source tree alone is 2GB.
What's wrong with that. Intel has sold defective processors for years, either binning them at a lower clock speed or trimming out chunks of cache and selling them as Celerons. If it can serve a purpose, does the job you need to get done, and it's available cheap... I don't see a problem here.
we've been using binary since the start, now we have to start in trinary ?
You need to be more flexible. I seem to recall from my Number Theory class that the base you choose can be somewhat arbitrary. In fact, I've heard that a lot of people use a Base 10 system!
The AMD Phenom comes in a 3 core variety (which may or may not be a "broken" 4 core chip). The Xbox 360 has a 3 core processor. The cell processor used in the Sony Playstation 3 and IBM blade servers is a 9 core (granted only 1 is a full core). There's no good reason for limiting yourself to powers of 2...
Please don't hold me to the dates, I'm pulling them from memory. AFCI (arc-fault circuit interrupter) is required by code in the US, beginning in 2003(?). Any circuit (including ceiling lamps) going into a bedroom must have an AFCI breaker. As of 2008(?) Series AFCI is required.
I've just bought an old house and am beginning the remodel... got a notebook full of tasks to be done. Since a panel upgrade and rewire are in order, I have been checking into the code requirements.
You might want to check with your local codes compliance office to determine what year code book they will hold you to (they're still using the 2005 version where I live) and at what point you have to meet the new code requirements. For example, if I'm adding a new circuit to an existing panel I am only required to meet the old rules; but, they'd prefer I follow the new ones if possible. Unfortunately, I need a new panel; so, I must upgrade to the current code requirements.
I don't know why, but you made me think of this:
Dr. Egon Spengler: There is something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Do not cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I am fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, bad?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That is bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
At one point the French were claiming that there were numerous satellites, which they had identified, which were not on the USSTRATCOM list. Of course, the US said that they knew nothing about them and that the French must have "mis-identified" the objects in question. You draw your own conclusions...
It has more to do with what can be tracked. Objects too small to track with ground based radar, smaller than about an inch across, aren't tracked because we simply can not see them.
It's a BGA. The GPU might have anywhere from 500-1500 pins, I actually don't know; but that information is available on the data sheet or in the reference design docs.
You solder BGAs using pre-formed solder balls, heating the board and IC, in stages, to bond the solder to the pads. It's a delicate operation; doing it by hand your chances of success aren't too good. I do work with small BGA packages (50-100 pins) and have used hot plates and hot air to reflow them
Oh, and I was kidding...
This is /. for crying out loud. We're all supposed to be geeks, right? This sounds like a solder problem; so, just re-solder the damn chip if it fails. Problem solved... or do we need to revoke a few geek cards?
Oh, that's right he said it has to be legal...
Aw crap. I hadn't seen that article yet. I wish I could find the link to the article which was, obviously, incorrect.
You should be asking, what's more cost effective: putting in an aircon unit for the server room, or replacing the equipment that is going to fail because your input air temp is 30C? Not to mention, when it does fail, it might take your last few hours/days data with it.
Seriously.
A couple thousand dollars should be enough to cover an air conditioner for a small business server room(which I assume you are since you're sweating $600).
Might want to consider consolidating servers as well. Look at the system CPU and memory utilization -- I bet you can consolidate a couple of machines into one box. This will reduce the heat being pumped into the room.
Intel chipset also supports ATI Crossfire. so there's no "teaming" intended apparently. Some software is already heavily optimized for AMD vs Intel cpu and nVidia vs ATI gpu.
Maybe they got a CSI interconnect license from Intel in return for the SLI technology.
that's exactly what was reported during IDF, Intel wouldn't license CSI interconnect unless it was part of a cross-license for nVidia SLI.
how many stars are in the Milky Way? 200 billion? So, if only one in a million produces an Earth like planet, then there are 200,000 Earth like planets in the Milky Way.
Not that it matters since there is no way for us to get to, or communicate with, even the nearest stars.... right now.
No.
Sure it makes sense. Via's constantly having to chase Intel and AMD in order to license the interconnect bus changes. On several occasions Via's had to reverse engineer the bus without a license; and, as a result, run into trouble. It's in Intel's best interest not to keep advance specification updates flowing to the 3rd party chipset manufacturer's because it gives them a head start with their own chipset. Same applies to AMD. Intel and AMD have seen the light and are now producing chipsets targetting enthusiast. They should be able to optimize the chipset solution better than a 3rd party due to inside engineering knowledge. Via will never be able to keep up.
Add to that the obvious pairings:
Intel chipset optimized for Intel processor
ATI/AMD chipset optimized for AMD processor
Nvidia chipset for best performance with Nvidia GPU.
What does VIA offer? Nothing.
Honestly, I think this is the right move for them -- it allows VIA to concentrate limited resources on VIA's embedded processors and the chipset optimized for use with the VIA processors.
Dominion VA Power beat them to it with the North Anna upgrade.
God I hope you're making a joke because almost all of the electric energy eventually gets turned into heat. Point of fact, it would effectively increase Earth's solar insolation by a small fraction.
Thank you. And another possibility is accelerator driven subcritical reactors. Not only does it burn all of the fuel, it is safer -- turn off the particle accelerator and the reactor shuts down.
previous /. discussion. The new wings are very flexible... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/27/1723251&from=rss
I agree with your list, in general; however I'd like to make three points.
Minor nit-pick, Tidal can not be used as base-load. Because of it's cyclic nature there are two points during the day when tidal produces zero energy; so, you'd have to have stored energy or another source to fill the hole.
There are things you can do to make nuclear more palatable. We are still using, what is effectively, a 50 year old reactor design. There are currently available, more modern designs which are safer and "burn" a higher percentage of the available fuel. There is research being done which could lead to significantly higher percentage "burn", reducing the waste to something with half-life of decades instead of millenium, which would resolve most of the storage issues. Finally, there are techniques which can effectively poison the fuel for weapons use.
If we look at the sum total of all energy usage (including transportation), based on what I have read, I don't believe there's enough wind, solar, and hydro power to replace all of the fossil fuels. We will still need a mix of fossil (or bio-fuel) and/or other forms of stored energy for peak usage and will have to have nuclear plants for base-load.
You do realize that he's paraphrasing Agent Smith from the movie, The Matrix, don't you?