Not just per capita, largest outright. Now China's IS growing much faster, but that doesn't mean it is the largest NOW, it means it may (probably will...) become the largest at some point in the future.
Humidity also plays a role, the more humid it is the more energy is required to heat a given volume of air to a specific temperature. The heat index is generally as high or even higher in parts of Florida than it is in Arizona...
The only way Akamai would even NOTICE slashdot would be if someone here posted a link to a truly huge file they hosted and most of the people clicked on it. A 250K shockwave file isn't going to cut it, comparing a/.ing to Akamai's daily traffic is a joke. When you consider that about 90% of real ISPs have a local Akamai node, it isn't even REALLY internet bandwidth being consumed.
Good post and all, but protons most certainly DO have mass... I think you mean photons, except that particular particle accellerator is known as a flashlight...or any other light source. Photons can ONLY travel at the speed of light because they ARE light (or at least "light" is a subset of the wavelengths possible for photons...).
Since marijuana is a pretty decent treatment for glaucoma and nerds are less likely to partake in illicit substances that could be part of the problem.
I guess it is time for us nerds to smoke up!!! We're doing it for our health after all!
My take on these type of awards is that the cash prize is just there to try to encourage both the small and inventive teams as well as help pay back some of the bills accrued by the big teams. The real reward will come a few years AFTER the competition, but the award will help keep the company solvent from point A to B.
Basically, this isn't like a lottery or something where if you spend $11 to make $10 you loose, instead you got to do $11 worth of science for only $1 and more importantly you might be able to move your company/team towards a future where you can make 10x-100x times the award per year or more...
You haven't looked very hard, have you? The last two generations of ATi cards all support a DVI to component adapter that ATI sells on their website for $15-$20(I THINK that the all in Wonder brands come with them, but I could be wrong) and of course, if you have DVI input, you could use that...or any other DVI-enabled card. I think the last few of NVidia's do too, but I haven't kept up with them (since it isn't what I have...).
Have you actually compared Edwards' record to what the NeoCon goofballs are saying, or are you just spouting their talking points?
Comparing lawyers who sue over online coupons to personal injury lawyers in the first place is stupid. Some personal injury lawyers really are the scum of the Earth (read that as ambulance chasers), but some serve a definite place in society. Remember your stance on personal injury lawyers the next time you are hit hard by a drunk driver, spend some time in the hospital, find out the other driver doesn't have insurance and due to some stupid clause in your insurance clause they aren't going to cover it either...even though you had uninsured driver coverage. You know who you call? a personal injury lawyer to sue both your own insurance agency and the other person. How about you go to see a doctor to have a simple operation, but the surgeon is actually intoxicated/drugged at the time (doesn't happen often, but DOES happen) and ends up messing up badly. Do you just accept that you were dealt bad cards or do you sue the hospital and doctor?
What does the CPU have to do with it? When the original XBox came out, it's CPU was noticably slower than high-end PCs, but the graphics onboard was faster than anything out until GForce 4 (it was a sort of combo 3/4).
Yea, any Mac game you want to play plays just fine on your Mac. No shit. Think about what you just said. This is talking about porting CURRENT PC GAMES, not low req or older games. There are games other than FPS that need high end GFX. Right now I'm playing Warhammer 30K:Dawn of War, which is an RTS and definitely needs more GFX horsepower than any current Mac provides. Most roleplaying games are going first person as well and are getting more and more demanding along the way.
When the XBox2 comes out, it will almost certainly be more powerful than current PC hardware (just following history here...) for at least 3-6 months and more powerful than the most powerful Mac hardware for at least a year and a half.
I run Gentoo, but don't really give a rat's ass about most compiler flags... It's just the first distribution I installed where I was able to setup the system EXACTLY how I wanted it and be able to easily maintain it. I know there are others out there that do it fine, but this is the first one I found and so I never uninstalled it.
Now, the reason I replied, you should update to the newest version of Portage. It is MUCH faster, an emerge -Dup world took me 10-12 minutes to calculate last week and now it is about 2 minutes after upgrading.
How again are you supposed to drink something that will cause third degree burns on your legs?
For the stove to do it's designed purpose it HAS to get hot enough to cause you third degree (actually far worse...but hey) burns. The coffee on the other hand CAN'T do it's designed purpose until it cools off somewhat. It was kept too hot according to both logic AND the law. Department of health laws are there to protect both the consumer and the business, if a company is within the law and a customer is hurt by food (burns or food poisoning) the business will be a LOT more likely to win a lawsuit. On the other hand, if the company is breaking the law, they deserve to be sued.
The next time you order something containing eggs, poultry, ground beef or one of many other possibly dangerous foods, hope that the business was following the law in regards to preparing the food because you are after all eating a potentially very dangerous food.
I'm on the other side of the coin, never done any physics but work in a sequencing lab:)
Really, most of the space needed for sequencing is temp space. There is a hell of a lot of overlap in a typical shotgun sequence read, but once you start making large contigs you can throw the overwhelming majority of the data out. I don't do much of the computer side, so I don't know real numbers (I'm just a biologist that can code a bit of Perl, which in my tiny local neighborhood makes me a God...to at least three or four people;), but I've never generated enough data to fill up our small drive array which is about 500 GB or so. We aren't a large sequencing center, but we do keep a copy of the whole Ensembl database, so outside of a few places (Wustl and Rice come to mind...) I doubt anyone has more than a TB of data and most of that is either temp stuff that only they are interested in or mirrors of other databases.
I can't wait until the large telescope (well, large CCD) that was posted a month or so ago comes online. The discussion was of hundreds of terabyte (maybe even exabyte range) per night of captures... That alone will require some radical changes in the storage paradigm...
This may be a bit off topic, but molecular biology databases aren't really all that huge. There is a lot of processing needed for things like complex searches, but that is about all. Particle physics on the other hand generates HUGE piles of data, as does radio astronomy...more like on the order of terabytes.
Well, ultimately everything gets turned into heat, but to say that 100% of the energy going into the CPU is released as heat is massively inaccurate, actually it violates several laws of physics. If the CPU was capable of turning 100 W of electricity into 100 W of heat while also doing any work at all (much less the very significant work a CPU does) using that initial energy would obviously be rather impossible.
They are, just the performance is a hell of a lot higher and so the power usage goes up as well.
Check out the power usage figures on a modern G5...they might be less than a Prescott (so is a curling iron, for that matter), but they aren't much better than an Athlon64.
Oh, definitely I agree. Especially for the more extreme SE states (I assume you meant SE and not SW, as they don't get much rain at ALL;). I was just discussing preconceived notions people have. Basically, most people would think it rains far more in the northwest than it really does (except for a small area where it REALLY does rain, over 100 inches a year in some places) because it is overcast there a LOT.
I've noticed the same preconceptions people have about rain at various places. For instance, most of the southeast US gets at least 50 inches of rain a year (far more around the Gulf coast...), but it is sunny for much of the year. The northwest coast though generally gets much less rain (outside of a very small line right on the coast) but is generally not very sunny. If you were to ask most people though, they would tell you that it is far more "rainy" in Portland, OR (1029 mm or 40.5 inches) than it is in Memphis, TN (1244 mm or 49 inches) or even New Orleans, LA (1574 mm or 62 inches).
Personally I would have thought that London would have received more rain than Sydney OR Melbourne. To learn that London is actually pretty DRY definitely shatters some preconceptions I had...
Nvidia DOES make 4 head cards, look at the NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI graphics card. Just because you can't walk into Fry's and buy it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. After all, I don't think a single Matrox board is still stocked in the mainstream stores...
That's funny because my wife and I said the exact same thing, probably at the exact same instant. Did you happen follow that up with "what a dumbass" ? =)
How about instead of buying an expensive exhaust system for a POS car, you save up and buy a REAL car? Civics, Golfs, etc don't get faster when they get louder, they just sound like buzzbombs...
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Not just per capita, largest outright. Now China's IS growing much faster, but that doesn't mean it is the largest NOW, it means it may (probably will...) become the largest at some point in the future.
Humidity also plays a role, the more humid it is the more energy is required to heat a given volume of air to a specific temperature. The heat index is generally as high or even higher in parts of Florida than it is in Arizona...
Yea, he said he supported the name NOT chosen by Debian because it is nice and vendor neutral...
The only way Akamai would even NOTICE slashdot would be if someone here posted a link to a truly huge file they hosted and most of the people clicked on it. A 250K shockwave file isn't going to cut it, comparing a /.ing to Akamai's daily traffic is a joke. When you consider that about 90% of real ISPs have a local Akamai node, it isn't even REALLY internet bandwidth being consumed.
Good post and all, but protons most certainly DO have mass... I think you mean photons, except that particular particle accellerator is known as a flashlight...or any other light source. Photons can ONLY travel at the speed of light because they ARE light (or at least "light" is a subset of the wavelengths possible for photons...).
Since marijuana is a pretty decent treatment for glaucoma and nerds are less likely to partake in illicit substances that could be part of the problem.
I guess it is time for us nerds to smoke up!!! We're doing it for our health after all!
My take on these type of awards is that the cash prize is just there to try to encourage both the small and inventive teams as well as help pay back some of the bills accrued by the big teams. The real reward will come a few years AFTER the competition, but the award will help keep the company solvent from point A to B.
Basically, this isn't like a lottery or something where if you spend $11 to make $10 you loose, instead you got to do $11 worth of science for only $1 and more importantly you might be able to move your company/team towards a future where you can make 10x-100x times the award per year or more...
You haven't looked very hard, have you? The last two generations of ATi cards all support a DVI to component adapter that ATI sells on their website for $15-$20(I THINK that the all in Wonder brands come with them, but I could be wrong) and of course, if you have DVI input, you could use that...or any other DVI-enabled card. I think the last few of NVidia's do too, but I haven't kept up with them (since it isn't what I have...).
Sorry...I had just had a very similiar argument with someone who WASN'T joking and my anger carried over :/
Have you actually compared Edwards' record to what the NeoCon goofballs are saying, or are you just spouting their talking points?
Comparing lawyers who sue over online coupons to personal injury lawyers in the first place is stupid. Some personal injury lawyers really are the scum of the Earth (read that as ambulance chasers), but some serve a definite place in society. Remember your stance on personal injury lawyers the next time you are hit hard by a drunk driver, spend some time in the hospital, find out the other driver doesn't have insurance and due to some stupid clause in your insurance clause they aren't going to cover it either...even though you had uninsured driver coverage. You know who you call? a personal injury lawyer to sue both your own insurance agency and the other person. How about you go to see a doctor to have a simple operation, but the surgeon is actually intoxicated/drugged at the time (doesn't happen often, but DOES happen) and ends up messing up badly. Do you just accept that you were dealt bad cards or do you sue the hospital and doctor?
What does the CPU have to do with it? When the original XBox came out, it's CPU was noticably slower than high-end PCs, but the graphics onboard was faster than anything out until GForce 4 (it was a sort of combo 3/4).
Yea, any Mac game you want to play plays just fine on your Mac. No shit. Think about what you just said. This is talking about porting CURRENT PC GAMES, not low req or older games. There are games other than FPS that need high end GFX. Right now I'm playing Warhammer 30K:Dawn of War, which is an RTS and definitely needs more GFX horsepower than any current Mac provides. Most roleplaying games are going first person as well and are getting more and more demanding along the way.
When the XBox2 comes out, it will almost certainly be more powerful than current PC hardware (just following history here...) for at least 3-6 months and more powerful than the most powerful Mac hardware for at least a year and a half.
I run Gentoo, but don't really give a rat's ass about most compiler flags... It's just the first distribution I installed where I was able to setup the system EXACTLY how I wanted it and be able to easily maintain it. I know there are others out there that do it fine, but this is the first one I found and so I never uninstalled it.
Now, the reason I replied, you should update to the newest version of Portage. It is MUCH faster, an emerge -Dup world took me 10-12 minutes to calculate last week and now it is about 2 minutes after upgrading.
How again are you supposed to drink something that will cause third degree burns on your legs?
For the stove to do it's designed purpose it HAS to get hot enough to cause you third degree (actually far worse...but hey) burns. The coffee on the other hand CAN'T do it's designed purpose until it cools off somewhat. It was kept too hot according to both logic AND the law. Department of health laws are there to protect both the consumer and the business, if a company is within the law and a customer is hurt by food (burns or food poisoning) the business will be a LOT more likely to win a lawsuit. On the other hand, if the company is breaking the law, they deserve to be sued.
The next time you order something containing eggs, poultry, ground beef or one of many other possibly dangerous foods, hope that the business was following the law in regards to preparing the food because you are after all eating a potentially very dangerous food.
I'm on the other side of the coin, never done any physics but work in a sequencing lab :)
;), but I've never generated enough data to fill up our small drive array which is about 500 GB or so. We aren't a large sequencing center, but we do keep a copy of the whole Ensembl database, so outside of a few places (Wustl and Rice come to mind...) I doubt anyone has more than a TB of data and most of that is either temp stuff that only they are interested in or mirrors of other databases.
Really, most of the space needed for sequencing is temp space. There is a hell of a lot of overlap in a typical shotgun sequence read, but once you start making large contigs you can throw the overwhelming majority of the data out. I don't do much of the computer side, so I don't know real numbers (I'm just a biologist that can code a bit of Perl, which in my tiny local neighborhood makes me a God...to at least three or four people
I can't wait until the large telescope (well, large CCD) that was posted a month or so ago comes online. The discussion was of hundreds of terabyte (maybe even exabyte range) per night of captures... That alone will require some radical changes in the storage paradigm...
This may be a bit off topic, but molecular biology databases aren't really all that huge. There is a lot of processing needed for things like complex searches, but that is about all. Particle physics on the other hand generates HUGE piles of data, as does radio astronomy...more like on the order of terabytes.
Well, ultimately everything gets turned into heat, but to say that 100% of the energy going into the CPU is released as heat is massively inaccurate, actually it violates several laws of physics. If the CPU was capable of turning 100 W of electricity into 100 W of heat while also doing any work at all (much less the very significant work a CPU does) using that initial energy would obviously be rather impossible.
They are, just the performance is a hell of a lot higher and so the power usage goes up as well.
Check out the power usage figures on a modern G5...they might be less than a Prescott (so is a curling iron, for that matter), but they aren't much better than an Athlon64.
Are you saying that "consumer" nuclear fission reactors lead to nuclear bomb research?
Oh, definitely I agree. Especially for the more extreme SE states (I assume you meant SE and not SW, as they don't get much rain at ALL ;). I was just discussing preconceived notions people have. Basically, most people would think it rains far more in the northwest than it really does (except for a small area where it REALLY does rain, over 100 inches a year in some places) because it is overcast there a LOT.
NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI graphics card, why the hell would you assume it ISN'T a PCI card?
I'm not even sure why the hell I bother posting if people can't even SKIM the post before writing a reply.
I've noticed the same preconceptions people have about rain at various places. For instance, most of the southeast US gets at least 50 inches of rain a year (far more around the Gulf coast...), but it is sunny for much of the year. The northwest coast though generally gets much less rain (outside of a very small line right on the coast) but is generally not very sunny. If you were to ask most people though, they would tell you that it is far more "rainy" in Portland, OR (1029 mm or 40.5 inches) than it is in Memphis, TN (1244 mm or 49 inches) or even New Orleans, LA (1574 mm or 62 inches).
Personally I would have thought that London would have received more rain than Sydney OR Melbourne. To learn that London is actually pretty DRY definitely shatters some preconceptions I had...
Nvidia DOES make 4 head cards, look at the NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI graphics card. Just because you can't walk into Fry's and buy it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. After all, I don't think a single Matrox board is still stocked in the mainstream stores...
That's funny because my wife and I said the exact same thing, probably at the exact same instant. Did you happen follow that up with "what a dumbass" ? =)
How about instead of buying an expensive exhaust system for a POS car, you save up and buy a REAL car? Civics, Golfs, etc don't get faster when they get louder, they just sound like buzzbombs...