As long as you don't have a monitor running removing the card saves virtually nothing.
Do you have a source for that? In my world, I don't see how turning the monitor off (or rather having the OS put the monitor to standby/off/whatever), would do anything to lower the power usage. Anything still drawing to the screen (a screen saver, a game or something) would still be active with the monitor in standby/off so how would that lower the power used? Or nowadays when you have folding@home or similar using the GPU for processing, it would definitely still use a lot of power?
From TFA: "Braidwood, which is expected to offer anywhere from 4GB to 16GB capacity,..." - In what way would it even compete with the SSD market? I'll stick to my separate 250 gig SSD drives for a while longer methinks.
True, but very few of the 571534 computers contributing to BOINC are using the Core i7 processors (or even anything close to them). The average seem to be about 5 GFlops per computer.
Well, you're both correct. Blizzard used to be owned by Vivendi Games, who in turn was fully owned by Vivendi (a French company).
Vivendi Games and Activision merged to form the publicly traded Activision Blizzard. Vivendi currently own 54% of Activision Blizzard ( http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/-Group- ).
How many of us have tried to walk away from an ATM with our card still in it because we were distracted?
No one I hope?
That's why (at least in Sweden), the ATMs give the card back before giving out any money (and no, you don't get any money until you remove the card).
You're not likely to forget your money, are you?
Explain to me why they need a 10,000 sq. ft. datacenter for three racks worth of servers? Yeah, I know, AC, UPS, generators, all that stuff takes up room, but I could fit a lot more than 300TB in a 10k sq. ft. datacenter. I'm just guessing here, but the fact that they use the datacenter for rendering on the 5000 CPU's he mentions in the video-tour and not just for storage might have something to do with it.
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As long as you don't have a monitor running removing the card saves virtually nothing.
Do you have a source for that? In my world, I don't see how turning the monitor off (or rather having the OS put the monitor to standby/off/whatever), would do anything to lower the power usage. Anything still drawing to the screen (a screen saver, a game or something) would still be active with the monitor in standby/off so how would that lower the power used? Or nowadays when you have folding@home or similar using the GPU for processing, it would definitely still use a lot of power?
From TFA: "Braidwood, which is expected to offer anywhere from 4GB to 16GB capacity, ..." - In what way would it even compete with the SSD market? I'll stick to my separate 250 gig SSD drives for a while longer methinks.
Wasteful perhaps, but not really affecting game play (for the vast majority of players).
True, but very few of the 571534 computers contributing to BOINC are using the Core i7 processors (or even anything close to them). The average seem to be about 5 GFlops per computer.
Well, you're both correct. Blizzard used to be owned by Vivendi Games, who in turn was fully owned by Vivendi (a French company). Vivendi Games and Activision merged to form the publicly traded Activision Blizzard. Vivendi currently own 54% of Activision Blizzard ( http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/-Group- ).
Yes, there will always be a market, but having a billion potential customers instead of "just" millions, makes it a lot more attractive segment.
How many of us have tried to walk away from an ATM with our card still in it because we were distracted?
No one I hope? That's why (at least in Sweden), the ATMs give the card back before giving out any money (and no, you don't get any money until you remove the card). You're not likely to forget your money, are you?
No, Helsinki is.
There are already products out there which use liquid lenses to provide cheap classes to people in developing countries.
_ 2, a swedish popular science magazine).
http://www.adaptive-eyecare.com/ comes to mind (link from an article in Illustrerad Vetenskap http://www.illvet.se/Crosslink.jsp?a=1218&id=7354
But what if that part of the plane ends up on the other side of the island?