There are plenty of costs beyond the actual computer, including power, power conditioning, battery backup, heat removal, etc... that make up most of the cost.
If you still decide to build your own hardware, then pay close attention to
1. Compatibility with your chosen software, i.e. the best system in the world is worthless if it does not run the software that you want. You may be building your own software, then you will still need to consider OS, compiler, libraries, etc
2. Ability of the operating system to provide enough resources to your software, in the 'good old days' Windows only provided a limited amount of RAM to processes, even in today's world Windows system swap aggressively and may not give you the RAM performance that you may see in the Enterprise *nixes
3. Internal bus structure of the system you choose, The biggest growth in PC hardware has been the internal bus width and speed. Look around, but for cost's sake, you will probably be using a variety of PCIe from Intel. You will probably also see better integration with the PCIe bus with Intel chips. If you are using GPU accelerators, that is a whole 'nother kettle of fish that will affect your other decisions above and below
4. Methods provided for disk access, used to be the Fibre-Channel was the King, but times have changed with iSCSI making inroads, and local disk architecture provides the greatest bang for the buck with SATA starting to edge out SCSI. If you go the SAN or iSAN routes, it will have additional costs for rackspace, power and cooling.
5. Disk system that you choose, most people would suggest butt-loads of local SSD, after RAM, solid state drives will probably be your highest costs
Just my two bits, plus I completely ignored tape system vs spinning-disk hard drives for backup, which would add more rack space, power supply and cooling to anything that you try and put together. Try and put together a realist estimate for purchasing and supporting your hardware for a couple of years and compare it to cloud cost for similar resources
It does lend itself to the idea of western ranchers aiding in the "War on Space Junk"(TM) by providing range-fed beef to be launched into orbit, where they will act like sponges mopping up vast swaths of orbital trash, then burn up like fireworks as they fall back to Earth, with the various metallic particles each providing a different color of light.
I can even see an aged Marlborough Man-esque figure getting all sentimental over his herd giving their all to save the space-men then turning it into a piece of insightful Cowboy poetry
Not so much fight, just ignore, until......there is some tragedy and they get a chance to declare a "War on Space Junk", then they will go into full gear, setting up shell corporations to suck up government funding while accomplishing very little beyond what would normally deorbit due to atmospheric drag. We might even get lucky and create an even more dangerous situation by placing tons of gear into orbit attempting to 'clean up'
Of course they will declare victory early on and then blame a subsequent administration for abandoning their efforts, defaming everybody who fell in the battle against space junk and cow-towing to the effects of inertia and gravity
Because she claims to have been involved in the transport or concealment of documents that were removed from the custody of US intelligence organizations
I am not really all that surprised by the outcome, frankly she seems to be blowing smoke if she is surprised as well
Having a terribly ineffective enemy to show as a scarecrow, that keeps the civilian population from protesting military spending and foreign money coming in, is a strategy that both the Israeli and American warmongers depend on
Moving Iran into a position of peaceful trade works against both parties and I would expect them to do everything possible to scotch the deal
Yes, Jar Jar had a vaguely Jamaican accent, but his antics brought to mind the worst of Jerry Lewis, Jim Carey, Lucille Ball or any number of physical comedians, who in my recollection were mostly white. But then, I am too young to have been exposed to any of the black-face BS that the article refers to.
I always found the self-debasing form of 'comedy' to be profoundly embarrassing, and decidedly un-funny. The Star Wars arc was smeared with the use of such techniques. I suppose that if they same techniques were used to debase people along racial lines, then Star Wars deserves a few dings for that as well.
No, the thing that matters is to execute those actions which keep the machine of government moving along
Sometimes you work against your immediate interests in order to promote your long-term interests
The Tea Party members of Congress are unable to do this, that is why were only see small bits of legislation being originated in the House and most of it has to do with killing the ACA, which at this point is little more than an old campaign platform that has little bearing on the current issues that the country faces
No, the problems arise when voters fall for the call to 'clean house' and keep putting new people into office who have heartfelt agendas that keep them from negotiating
The biggest problem with the people placed into office with the Tea Party has been that they only have a couple of rallying calls that they will beckon to and the actual process of legislating is far too muddy for them to deal with
So, we get a smattering of votes to defund the government or kill the ACA and nothing else
They have been slandered endlessly, but 'real' legislators like Ted Kennedy are what kept things moving along, even when the "opposition" party held the White House
We are running out of fuel for RTGs and will not have any more until we start producing a lot of weapons grade Plutonium because the fuel is a byproduct of the process. It make a lot of sense to develop alternatives
The entire process is not entirely dependent on natural gas, just the Hydrogen that it can supply
The natural gas is used to supply the Hydrogen (H), while the Nitrogen (N) is pulled from the atmosphere to produce Ammonia (NH3)
The Haber-Bosch process has been implemented with Coal as the H source, which would seem to leave the door open for using Hydrogen Gas derived from Solar or Nuclear electric processes
I do not know what the 'buffer' is for Ammonium production and how many years lead time it would take to produce adequate amounts with hydrogen gas as a source
What I have seen is the fossil fuel companies attempt to wring every last dollar out of their investments before willingly losing market position, particularly to solar or nuclear power
So, what exactly does this do to the Open Source movement?
It was my understanding that Java had been open sourced and that made what Android did allowable, and long as the open source agreement lived on is Androids code
Now we see Oracle applying copyright law to Java... So... did Oracle remove Java from open source? Are the parts of Java that Oracle claims copyright over not open source? Has Open Source just been ignored (and invalidated) by the federal court system?
They had just gotten a tight long-range picture of it and were switching between that and the shot from inside the second stage when the long shot went all star-bursty
Long silence from the commentator on the space-x broadcast, probably shut off all the mikes while they cursed a blue streak
That has an effect over hundreds of thousands or millions of years, it is possible that an artificial atmosphere would remain usable to us in human timescales without leaching away
High energy particles from the Sun would be another matter.
Without magnetic fields to prevent them from hitting the surface they would continue to be a threat to us an our electronics
One of the biggest issues in the UK is prion disease, and the US, Canada, New Zealand, Poland, etc... restrict blood donations from people who have spent a significant amount of time in the UK or France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Blood donations that have expired in the US are frequently shipped to the UK for use since they are in dire need of blood that is guaranteed to be prion disease free
Maybe they do a better job of screening their contractors so that they don't get the little twats walking out the front door with their secrets on a thumb drive
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There are plenty of costs beyond the actual computer, including power, power conditioning, battery backup, heat removal, etc... that make up most of the cost.
If you still decide to build your own hardware, then pay close attention to
1. Compatibility with your chosen software, i.e. the best system in the world is worthless if it does not run the software that you want. You may be building your own software, then you will still need to consider OS, compiler, libraries, etc
2. Ability of the operating system to provide enough resources to your software, in the 'good old days' Windows only provided a limited amount of RAM to processes, even in today's world Windows system swap aggressively and may not give you the RAM performance that you may see in the Enterprise *nixes
3. Internal bus structure of the system you choose, The biggest growth in PC hardware has been the internal bus width and speed. Look around, but for cost's sake, you will probably be using a variety of PCIe from Intel. You will probably also see better integration with the PCIe bus with Intel chips. If you are using GPU accelerators, that is a whole 'nother kettle of fish that will affect your other decisions above and below
4. Methods provided for disk access, used to be the Fibre-Channel was the King, but times have changed with iSCSI making inroads, and local disk architecture provides the greatest bang for the buck with SATA starting to edge out SCSI. If you go the SAN or iSAN routes, it will have additional costs for rackspace, power and cooling.
5. Disk system that you choose, most people would suggest butt-loads of local SSD, after RAM, solid state drives will probably be your highest costs
Just my two bits, plus I completely ignored tape system vs spinning-disk hard drives for backup, which would add more rack space, power supply and cooling to anything that you try and put together. Try and put together a realist estimate for purchasing and supporting your hardware for a couple of years and compare it to cloud cost for similar resources
Fry trying to profess his love to Leela
He has such a hard time with that
But, but, but there are ice cubes in my freezer!
It does lend itself to the idea of western ranchers aiding in the "War on Space Junk"(TM) by providing range-fed beef to be launched into orbit, where they will act like sponges mopping up vast swaths of orbital trash, then burn up like fireworks as they fall back to Earth, with the various metallic particles each providing a different color of light.
I can even see an aged Marlborough Man-esque figure getting all sentimental over his herd giving their all to save the space-men then turning it into a piece of insightful Cowboy poetry
My first post was "Funny", my SECOND post was "Flame Bait"
Just thought you would benefit from the demonstration
*golf claps*
When you crap out a doozy like that, it is no wonder you don't have to intestinal fortitude to use you own UID
You must be so proud
Not so much fight, just ignore, until... ...there is some tragedy and they get a chance to declare a "War on Space Junk", then they will go into full gear, setting up shell corporations to suck up government funding while accomplishing very little beyond what would normally deorbit due to atmospheric drag. We might even get lucky and create an even more dangerous situation by placing tons of gear into orbit attempting to 'clean up'
Of course they will declare victory early on and then blame a subsequent administration for abandoning their efforts, defaming everybody who fell in the battle against space junk and cow-towing to the effects of inertia and gravity
So, business as usual
In drone-filled American, skeet shoot YOU!
Because she claims to have been involved in the transport or concealment of documents that were removed from the custody of US intelligence organizations
I am not really all that surprised by the outcome, frankly she seems to be blowing smoke if she is surprised as well
Having a terribly ineffective enemy to show as a scarecrow, that keeps the civilian population from protesting military spending and foreign money coming in, is a strategy that both the Israeli and American warmongers depend on
Moving Iran into a position of peaceful trade works against both parties and I would expect them to do everything possible to scotch the deal
Yes, Jar Jar had a vaguely Jamaican accent, but his antics brought to mind the worst of Jerry Lewis, Jim Carey, Lucille Ball or any number of physical comedians, who in my recollection were mostly white. But then, I am too young to have been exposed to any of the black-face BS that the article refers to.
I always found the self-debasing form of 'comedy' to be profoundly embarrassing, and decidedly un-funny. The Star Wars arc was smeared with the use of such techniques. I suppose that if they same techniques were used to debase people along racial lines, then Star Wars deserves a few dings for that as well.
No, the thing that matters is to execute those actions which keep the machine of government moving along
Sometimes you work against your immediate interests in order to promote your long-term interests
The Tea Party members of Congress are unable to do this, that is why were only see small bits of legislation being originated in the House and most of it has to do with killing the ACA, which at this point is little more than an old campaign platform that has little bearing on the current issues that the country faces
No, the problems arise when voters fall for the call to 'clean house' and keep putting new people into office who have heartfelt agendas that keep them from negotiating
The biggest problem with the people placed into office with the Tea Party has been that they only have a couple of rallying calls that they will beckon to and the actual process of legislating is far too muddy for them to deal with
So, we get a smattering of votes to defund the government or kill the ACA and nothing else
They have been slandered endlessly, but 'real' legislators like Ted Kennedy are what kept things moving along, even when the "opposition" party held the White House
We are running out of fuel for RTGs and will not have any more until we start producing a lot of weapons grade Plutonium because the fuel is a byproduct of the process. It make a lot of sense to develop alternatives
Doctors ALWAYS know what is best for their patients /snark
The entire process is not entirely dependent on natural gas, just the Hydrogen that it can supply
The natural gas is used to supply the Hydrogen (H), while the Nitrogen (N) is pulled from the atmosphere to produce Ammonia (NH3)
The Haber-Bosch process has been implemented with Coal as the H source, which would seem to leave the door open for using Hydrogen Gas derived from Solar or Nuclear electric processes
I do not know what the 'buffer' is for Ammonium production and how many years lead time it would take to produce adequate amounts with hydrogen gas as a source
What I have seen is the fossil fuel companies attempt to wring every last dollar out of their investments before willingly losing market position, particularly to solar or nuclear power
So, what exactly does this do to the Open Source movement?
It was my understanding that Java had been open sourced and that made what Android did allowable, and long as the open source agreement lived on is Androids code
Now we see Oracle applying copyright law to Java...
So... did Oracle remove Java from open source?
Are the parts of Java that Oracle claims copyright over not open source?
Has Open Source just been ignored (and invalidated) by the federal court system?
Yeah, and you didn't manage to work Kardashians into it because, you know, every news items has something to do with Caitlin and the girls
WTF is up with a media cycle that cannot handle observation and analysis when there are conclusions to be jumped to and blame to be spread around
They had just gotten a tight long-range picture of it and were switching between that and the shot from inside the second stage when the long shot went all star-bursty
Long silence from the commentator on the space-x broadcast, probably shut off all the mikes while they cursed a blue streak
A mighty wind?
More like a methane-y gust
Aside from throwing a couple of names out there, what information do yo provide to make, much less back up any of your claims?
Or, is this some 'clever' scheme from Ted Cruz to push Pace-X into changing the x into a cross on all of their logos?
Why not?
That has an effect over hundreds of thousands or millions of years, it is possible that an artificial atmosphere would remain usable to us in human timescales without leaching away
High energy particles from the Sun would be another matter.
Without magnetic fields to prevent them from hitting the surface they would continue to be a threat to us an our electronics
One of the biggest issues in the UK is prion disease, and the US, Canada, New Zealand, Poland, etc... restrict blood donations from people who have spent a significant amount of time in the UK or France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Blood donations that have expired in the US are frequently shipped to the UK for use since they are in dire need of blood that is guaranteed to be prion disease free
Maybe they do a better job of screening their contractors so that they don't get the little twats walking out the front door with their secrets on a thumb drive
You are assuming that the object is solid enough to be nudged from a single point
I would much rather that we look into splattering it with a bunch of white material
This will significantly alter the pressure that it receives from the sun and deflect every single piece of it that you can get 'paint' on