there is also a method about testing if a stone is a real diamond or not. Just burn it, if it does it's indeed diamond.
I also remember the method to find out if a person was a witch or not.
Just dump her in water. if she floats, she is a witch, burn her. If not what a shame, damn she is drowned anyway.
The power brick in todays LCD's are usually inside the monitor. This new system just cuts the mains power input to its power brick with relays. Any inefficieny associated with the switching power supply's inability to provide low wattage is thus prevented. So no need for solar panels.
"Hmmmm....using video card GPUs for scientific number crunching. I wonder why no one has thought of that one..."
I know it's already been used. That's actually my point. Why still use cpu's to crunch numbers while a dedicated hardware can do it much much better, even a graphics card which is not specially designed for the job does it much faster.
The millions of watts of wasted energy for distiributed computing non-sense is pushing the earth to global warming.
[citation needed]
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Lets assume only 5 watts more is used for each computer which is far below the normal value. The difference between the load and idle is about 30 watts at least.
You do the math!!
Think of it. A 100 watts worth cpu which can do thousand points of worth job in a day. Why thousands? Because the CPU is capable of doing millions of other things, thats why it is build in the first place.
A 10 watts special equipment, build from FPGA's just for the job in interest. It can do million points* of worth job in a day.
Dont you feel stupid now?
Ati's 1950 cards can do 30 times much work then your super uber cpu. Dont you feel stupid now?
It's like trying to replace a tank with 100 fiat's. Tank's are created with wars in mind, they are built for that. Not fiat's.
The millions of watts of wasted energy for distiributed computing non-sense is pushing the earth to global warming. That wasted watts also mean wasted money, go give your money to a fund or university, so they could buy dedicated hardware and do the required job much quicker.
(* : numbers may be exagrated, but you get the idea)
If the computer is going to predict my next move, I might as well let the computer play the game. If the algorithm is using a neural network, the computer will become just like me as time passes.
The main difference between a good player and a normal one, is the difference from the nominal behaviour. Thus making this method of uterly useless.
So you havent heard of centrifugl force. A disk that big woulkd just snap over a given RPM, 7200RPM or even 5400 would be too high. Thus in turn will create really low seek times. Finally that harddisk would be too fragile.
is not H2O2, as i understand from the article, their solution is composed of some salty water which has lots of gaseous oxygen dissolved in it. This is not a chemical reaction, but a physical one.
Just like dissolving CO2 in water to get coke.
T think "cheap 30fps CMOS image sensors" simply refer to webcams.
From the quality i've seen, they might be in the order of 20$ per unit, which makes to whole camera array about 1000$.
Also those webcams do not produce thousand of megabytes, even at rates of 1MB/min you can get decent quality, which makes the video stream to be about 50MB/min.
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there is also a method about testing if a stone is a real diamond or not. Just burn it, if it does it's indeed diamond.
I also remember the method to find out if a person was a witch or not. Just dump her in water. if she floats, she is a witch, burn her. If not what a shame, damn she is drowned anyway.
The power brick in todays LCD's are usually inside the monitor. This new system just cuts the mains power input to its power brick with relays. Any inefficieny associated with the switching power supply's inability to provide low wattage is thus prevented.
So no need for solar panels.
"Hmmmm....using video card GPUs for scientific number crunching. I wonder why no one has thought of that one..." I know it's already been used. That's actually my point. Why still use cpu's to crunch numbers while a dedicated hardware can do it much much better, even a graphics card which is not specially designed for the job does it much faster. The millions of watts of wasted energy for distiributed computing non-sense is pushing the earth to global warming. [citation needed] http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/bp.php?project=19 active users: 273,168 Lets assume only 5 watts more is used for each computer which is far below the normal value. The difference between the load and idle is about 30 watts at least. You do the math!!
Think of it. A 100 watts worth cpu which can do thousand points of worth job in a day. Why thousands? Because the CPU is capable of doing millions of other things, thats why it is build in the first place. A 10 watts special equipment, build from FPGA's just for the job in interest. It can do million points* of worth job in a day. Dont you feel stupid now? Ati's 1950 cards can do 30 times much work then your super uber cpu. Dont you feel stupid now? It's like trying to replace a tank with 100 fiat's. Tank's are created with wars in mind, they are built for that. Not fiat's. The millions of watts of wasted energy for distiributed computing non-sense is pushing the earth to global warming. That wasted watts also mean wasted money, go give your money to a fund or university, so they could buy dedicated hardware and do the required job much quicker. (* : numbers may be exagrated, but you get the idea)
If the computer is going to predict my next move, I might as well let the computer play the game. If the algorithm is using a neural network, the computer will become just like me as time passes. The main difference between a good player and a normal one, is the difference from the nominal behaviour. Thus making this method of uterly useless.
So you havent heard of centrifugl force. A disk that big woulkd just snap over a given RPM, 7200RPM or even 5400 would be too high. Thus in turn will create really low seek times.
Finally that harddisk would be too fragile.
Putting online versions of people in to this 3D city remappings? Wow, somebody find me a Neo.
is not H2O2, as i understand from the article, their solution is composed of some salty water which has lots of gaseous oxygen dissolved in it. This is not a chemical reaction, but a physical one. Just like dissolving CO2 in water to get coke.
T think "cheap 30fps CMOS image sensors" simply refer to webcams. From the quality i've seen, they might be in the order of 20$ per unit, which makes to whole camera array about 1000$. Also those webcams do not produce thousand of megabytes, even at rates of 1MB/min you can get decent quality, which makes the video stream to be about 50MB/min.