Mining bitcoins using GPU is the most power consuming operation, mining BTC in general is a waste of power what little BTC you can get that requires a ton of electrical power to do so.
Alton Brown's Good Eats had an episode that shows what it takes to brew good coffee and it is not that hard to make a good cup but the Keurig is the wrong way to brew.
Any of those reusable K-cups is also big fail on coffee brewing. Good coffee takes time, the brewing process requires the right water temp, filter, and the right grind to extract flavors. There are no shortcuts.
I'm tired of seeing Star Wars being made into futuristic Kung Fu movie. Why can't they just let people fight naturally like how a real skilled swordsman would use a light saber. None of this acrobatic martial arts shit.
Imo, while Pluto is an interesting planet to check out. It has less promising details than other planets. For all we know it could be very well just a bigger dwarf planet.
There's definitely more action around Jupiter and Saturn because these giants have so many moons that are like a mini solar system.
SSD isn't the answer when you have majority of work data on the network. I've proven to management that their hope that SSD can solve their problem isn't the solution when I show them benchmarks of work desktops running on SSD vs ones running HDs.
Bootups are faster on SSD but many apps that are ODBC based and network dependent show marginal improvements with SSDs.
I lose track the number of IT security gurus I work with and the minute they go through a list of security apps that we need to install the more I lose confidence in them.
Time and time again I can prove that Antivirus software doesn't work, none of their malware apps can blocks simple phishing and fresh email exploits that clueless users just love clicking on.
The only thing security software does is make companies like Symantec steady cashflow.
Other dumb policies like changing passwords every 30 days does nothing but give helpdesk daily password resets for users. A true password protection is one that uses multi-factor. A password phishing attack can get passwords well before the 30 day window.
Which is why big banks and companies keeps getting hacked because they have clueless overpaid security guys working.
Amazon is simply paying up now instead of delaying and have to pay interest on owed taxes. If you or I does this, we be arrested on tax evasion. This is just another form of tax evasion at a global level and Amazon feels it's earned enough to pay now instead of being forced to pay more with additional penalties later.
Instead of sinking billions into Blackberry, why not spend $500mil on making higher quality apps on the Marketplace store? I bet if they create enough high quality apps/games and then making them free it would pay much higher dividend than acquire another niche mobile device maker.
Haven't they learned already that Nokia was a dying ship? The Tmobile Sidekick/Danger was another dying ship before their acquisition.
Looks like Microsoft behind the trolling, first they went after Apple for Foxconn slave workers then Samsung got hit too and now they hit Sony with the PS4.
The Sithlords of Microsoft is finally revealed.
Mfg using Chrome to offload their stockpile of outdated early 2000 parts like 1366x768 netbook screens. These are $150 netbooks being repackaged as new Chromebooks. It's working, a lot of Google fans are buying these cheap internet terminals.
They're also holding back high quality screens from being mass produced.
Windows 8 sales are very good because there are tons of deals with Win8 for under $40 initially and corporate subscription advantage requires annual Windows upgrade purchases or the so called Microsoft tax. The problem is Microsoft hope to lure people over to use Windows Marketplace to buy apps and services but people are either not using Windows 8 or simply not even using the Metro UI.
The recent Simcity requiring online DRM check backfired when their system could not keep up with the load caused major outages and non-MMORPG gamers are not used outages.
For over a decade geeks keep touting the inferiority of MS products while business is as usual at Redmond.
So who's got it right and wrong?
I like how geeks keep saying this is better and that's better than MS but yet Windows is still on 89% of all desktops.
Actually, I make more than that person. The person that sits next to me is a peer but makes less because I was hired more recent and negotiated better.
The "neat-freak" guy has a habit of creating complex "processes" to doing the same tasks that I perform.
At meetings, clearly he isn't very organized his thoughts are a mess. Takes him 3-4 sentences to get to the point where I like to keep things concise.
I do believe there are neat folks that succeed very well but often its the use of organization to simplify work not making it more work.
My desk is cluttered, my windows desktop is cluttered. Yet, I get more work done than the guy sitting next to me who is a clean freak. He spends hours cleaning and fixing his desk as well as daily organizing his files, managing his windows desktop, and productivity goes towards it.
During meetings, he depends on documenting everything while you ask him in the hallway and he has no recollecting of any topics discussed unless he referred to his notes.
What I realize is the clean freaks are spending too much processes on organizing not much on substance.
So far I think the BC's content is large but short on quality. Lots and tons of new gear but re-colored items with no new graphics. Some new epic gear has some of the wackiest artwork, doesn't have the consistent quality of many pre-BC designs.
Most of the quests are way too easy for certain classes, while certain classes are dependent on others to help them grind quests. They have yet to fix class imbalances and looks like it got worst. Some classes have scaled so far ahead of others that they don't even need a party to help grind elite quests. Its a bit unfair there.
I say BC was a bit rushed overall, lots of repetitive quest grinds and nothing new to the game, many class specific changes only benefit those classes and Blizzard has remained silent about changes, not giving anyone a shred of hope that they would fix them.
Perhaps LOTR Online, here we come?
Application Virtualization is cooler than OS VMs.
Microsoft has recently acquired Softricity so lets see they are going to incorporate into Windows Server or as an add-on.
No, what's ridiculous is that most non-gamers have been successfully brainwashed that they don't even need a $300 card. They can keep using their $99-199 card because the game developers keep serving up dated tech and dated graphics to support the lowest common denominator.
Sure a cheapo FX5700 can run Quake4, HL2, or Doom3 because the developers made it so the non-gamer could buy it and then they went online and realized they were getting whipped by 14 yr olds when it is really their video card and broadband slowing them down.
A properly built gaming PC does not need a $500 card, a $250~300 card will play last gen well and the next gen good.. Much better value than a $99 card that only plays last gen ok and the next gen barely ok and you have to get rid of it because AGP is done.
As an IT pro in a fortune 500 company, our IT staff globally is in the 20,000. Here at our regional office exist 800 IT workers.
I recently quit and found a job in a medium size firm. The reason why in many IT depts fail in large organizations because there are simply too much politics and incompetant management.
At the end of the day my manager wants me to perform ridiculous tasks such as writing documents such as how to turn on a monitor for the users and sell that to the business as good productive work. I've been in the industry for over 10 yrs and have performed difficult tasks such as an Active Directory migration and managed Exchange Servers.
In a big company, the IT dept is like the government, they leech the business creates all sort of red tape to cover themselves from doing actual work and waste lots of money and resource on endless meetings. Some meetings are about other meetings and never about who actually does the work.
Many times the work is never done and they simply hire consultants to do it.
The reason why many IT pros defect from big companies because you simply become dumber and dumber.
Most Mac fans just won't understand the *business* in today's IT.
Big businesses pay top dollars to IT professionals to lock down and make Windows even uglier, less creative, and even more boring. The goal is for uniformity, easier support, and better security for the corporate desktops.
Apple make their OSes too colorful, too much fancy stuff, it confuses the bosses because OS X look like a kid's desktop OS, rather than a business desktop OS.
That's where the money is Steve Jobs!!
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However, the maximum video resolution over Memory stick is limited compared to the maximum video resolution over UMD. Sony crippled the MS video playback just to make us buy UMD movies or find mods to remove that limit.
Watched the Demo Disc Vol 1, the video quality is simply amazing, trumps on the PDAs out there including the Creative Media Center.
I've owned 3 ipods that I had to get rid of because of consistent freezing and deteriorating battery life. My iRiver iHP-120 over 1 yr just performs rock solid. Yes, it is not white so noobs thinks its not a MP3 player but I don't have to take out of my pocket and finger circle to find songs. Just 1-2 clicks on the iRiver remote control does a dandy job.
Now with people working on modding the firmware this little gem of a MP3 player is like the Linux of MP3 player and Ipod is the Windoze.
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Mining bitcoins using GPU is the most power consuming operation, mining BTC in general is a waste of power what little BTC you can get that requires a ton of electrical power to do so.
Alton Brown's Good Eats had an episode that shows what it takes to brew good coffee and it is not that hard to make a good cup but the Keurig is the wrong way to brew. Any of those reusable K-cups is also big fail on coffee brewing. Good coffee takes time, the brewing process requires the right water temp, filter, and the right grind to extract flavors. There are no shortcuts.
I'm tired of seeing Star Wars being made into futuristic Kung Fu movie. Why can't they just let people fight naturally like how a real skilled swordsman would use a light saber. None of this acrobatic martial arts shit.
Imo, while Pluto is an interesting planet to check out. It has less promising details than other planets. For all we know it could be very well just a bigger dwarf planet. There's definitely more action around Jupiter and Saturn because these giants have so many moons that are like a mini solar system.
Apple has become more about marketing than technology these days.
SSD isn't the answer when you have majority of work data on the network. I've proven to management that their hope that SSD can solve their problem isn't the solution when I show them benchmarks of work desktops running on SSD vs ones running HDs. Bootups are faster on SSD but many apps that are ODBC based and network dependent show marginal improvements with SSDs.
I lose track the number of IT security gurus I work with and the minute they go through a list of security apps that we need to install the more I lose confidence in them. Time and time again I can prove that Antivirus software doesn't work, none of their malware apps can blocks simple phishing and fresh email exploits that clueless users just love clicking on. The only thing security software does is make companies like Symantec steady cashflow. Other dumb policies like changing passwords every 30 days does nothing but give helpdesk daily password resets for users. A true password protection is one that uses multi-factor. A password phishing attack can get passwords well before the 30 day window. Which is why big banks and companies keeps getting hacked because they have clueless overpaid security guys working.
Amazon is simply paying up now instead of delaying and have to pay interest on owed taxes. If you or I does this, we be arrested on tax evasion. This is just another form of tax evasion at a global level and Amazon feels it's earned enough to pay now instead of being forced to pay more with additional penalties later.
Instead of sinking billions into Blackberry, why not spend $500mil on making higher quality apps on the Marketplace store? I bet if they create enough high quality apps/games and then making them free it would pay much higher dividend than acquire another niche mobile device maker. Haven't they learned already that Nokia was a dying ship? The Tmobile Sidekick/Danger was another dying ship before their acquisition.
Looks like Microsoft behind the trolling, first they went after Apple for Foxconn slave workers then Samsung got hit too and now they hit Sony with the PS4. The Sithlords of Microsoft is finally revealed.
Mfg using Chrome to offload their stockpile of outdated early 2000 parts like 1366x768 netbook screens. These are $150 netbooks being repackaged as new Chromebooks. It's working, a lot of Google fans are buying these cheap internet terminals. They're also holding back high quality screens from being mass produced.
Windows 8 sales are very good because there are tons of deals with Win8 for under $40 initially and corporate subscription advantage requires annual Windows upgrade purchases or the so called Microsoft tax. The problem is Microsoft hope to lure people over to use Windows Marketplace to buy apps and services but people are either not using Windows 8 or simply not even using the Metro UI.
The recent Simcity requiring online DRM check backfired when their system could not keep up with the load caused major outages and non-MMORPG gamers are not used outages.
For over a decade geeks keep touting the inferiority of MS products while business is as usual at Redmond. So who's got it right and wrong? I like how geeks keep saying this is better and that's better than MS but yet Windows is still on 89% of all desktops.
Just like McDonalds you can Super size for $0.30 more that gives you more than you actually need to consume.
Harvard is no different than Phoenix University Online that sells degrees.
Actually, I make more than that person. The person that sits next to me is a peer but makes less because I was hired more recent and negotiated better. The "neat-freak" guy has a habit of creating complex "processes" to doing the same tasks that I perform. At meetings, clearly he isn't very organized his thoughts are a mess. Takes him 3-4 sentences to get to the point where I like to keep things concise. I do believe there are neat folks that succeed very well but often its the use of organization to simplify work not making it more work.
My desk is cluttered, my windows desktop is cluttered. Yet, I get more work done than the guy sitting next to me who is a clean freak. He spends hours cleaning and fixing his desk as well as daily organizing his files, managing his windows desktop, and productivity goes towards it. During meetings, he depends on documenting everything while you ask him in the hallway and he has no recollecting of any topics discussed unless he referred to his notes. What I realize is the clean freaks are spending too much processes on organizing not much on substance.
So far I think the BC's content is large but short on quality. Lots and tons of new gear but re-colored items with no new graphics. Some new epic gear has some of the wackiest artwork, doesn't have the consistent quality of many pre-BC designs. Most of the quests are way too easy for certain classes, while certain classes are dependent on others to help them grind quests. They have yet to fix class imbalances and looks like it got worst. Some classes have scaled so far ahead of others that they don't even need a party to help grind elite quests. Its a bit unfair there. I say BC was a bit rushed overall, lots of repetitive quest grinds and nothing new to the game, many class specific changes only benefit those classes and Blizzard has remained silent about changes, not giving anyone a shred of hope that they would fix them. Perhaps LOTR Online, here we come?
Application Virtualization is cooler than OS VMs. Microsoft has recently acquired Softricity so lets see they are going to incorporate into Windows Server or as an add-on.
No, what's ridiculous is that most non-gamers have been successfully brainwashed that they don't even need a $300 card. They can keep using their $99-199 card because the game developers keep serving up dated tech and dated graphics to support the lowest common denominator. Sure a cheapo FX5700 can run Quake4, HL2, or Doom3 because the developers made it so the non-gamer could buy it and then they went online and realized they were getting whipped by 14 yr olds when it is really their video card and broadband slowing them down. A properly built gaming PC does not need a $500 card, a $250~300 card will play last gen well and the next gen good.. Much better value than a $99 card that only plays last gen ok and the next gen barely ok and you have to get rid of it because AGP is done.
As an IT pro in a fortune 500 company, our IT staff globally is in the 20,000. Here at our regional office exist 800 IT workers. I recently quit and found a job in a medium size firm. The reason why in many IT depts fail in large organizations because there are simply too much politics and incompetant management. At the end of the day my manager wants me to perform ridiculous tasks such as writing documents such as how to turn on a monitor for the users and sell that to the business as good productive work. I've been in the industry for over 10 yrs and have performed difficult tasks such as an Active Directory migration and managed Exchange Servers. In a big company, the IT dept is like the government, they leech the business creates all sort of red tape to cover themselves from doing actual work and waste lots of money and resource on endless meetings. Some meetings are about other meetings and never about who actually does the work. Many times the work is never done and they simply hire consultants to do it. The reason why many IT pros defect from big companies because you simply become dumber and dumber.
Most Mac fans just won't understand the *business* in today's IT. Big businesses pay top dollars to IT professionals to lock down and make Windows even uglier, less creative, and even more boring. The goal is for uniformity, easier support, and better security for the corporate desktops. Apple make their OSes too colorful, too much fancy stuff, it confuses the bosses because OS X look like a kid's desktop OS, rather than a business desktop OS. That's where the money is Steve Jobs!!
However, the maximum video resolution over Memory stick is limited compared to the maximum video resolution over UMD. Sony crippled the MS video playback just to make us buy UMD movies or find mods to remove that limit. Watched the Demo Disc Vol 1, the video quality is simply amazing, trumps on the PDAs out there including the Creative Media Center.
I've owned 3 ipods that I had to get rid of because of consistent freezing and deteriorating battery life. My iRiver iHP-120 over 1 yr just performs rock solid. Yes, it is not white so noobs thinks its not a MP3 player but I don't have to take out of my pocket and finger circle to find songs. Just 1-2 clicks on the iRiver remote control does a dandy job. Now with people working on modding the firmware this little gem of a MP3 player is like the Linux of MP3 player and Ipod is the Windoze.