perhaps it's good that efforts have been made to design around energy limitations. while i'm all for better power supplies, designing circuits that use as little power as possible to do a given task means that less is wasted. just look at the amount of excess processing power we have in our computers and how much unnecessary code there is in a standard application.
engineering around power limitations means smart, efficent designs, not wasteful products that just suck up energy. i think these limitations helped designers innovate.
There are a few things that most geeks can agree on. That is that google, and linux are the best, the world is round, and we all hate the RIAA/MPAA/DMCA.
I've always been sort of intrigued by Top500 Has there ever been a good comparison written about the similarities/differences between a 'supercomputer' and the regular pc sitting on my desk running Linux/2k? At what point does the computer in question earn the title "Super"?
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perhaps it's good that efforts have been made to design around energy limitations. while i'm all for better power supplies, designing circuits that use as little power as possible to do a given task means that less is wasted. just look at the amount of excess processing power we have in our computers and how much unnecessary code there is in a standard application. engineering around power limitations means smart, efficent designs, not wasteful products that just suck up energy. i think these limitations helped designers innovate.
Here is a larger image of it.
Here is another scale replica of the Saturn V for anyone who doesnt know what it looks like.
There are a few things that most geeks can agree on. That is that google, and linux are the best, the world is round, and we all hate the RIAA/MPAA/DMCA.
If I didn't know the difference between quantum superposition and tachyons, I'd probably have found that funny too.
I've always been sort of intrigued by Top500 Has there ever been a good comparison written about the similarities/differences between a 'supercomputer' and the regular pc sitting on my desk running Linux/2k? At what point does the computer in question earn the title "Super"?