Visusal Basic HAS "structures, classes, polymorphism, OO, etc.". My worst complaint about it is that I'm never sure when it is passing by reference or passing by value.
You've probably got a problem with typing your PIN number into an ATM machine too, don't you? Ever been to The La Brea Tar Pits? Where would the internet be without the TCP/IP protocol? When you've dealt with human stupidity as long as I have, it becomes no longer remarkable.
A valid point, this is similar to the buffering problem in computer communications. In essence, as long as it is possible to fill the buffering "bucket" at a rate greater than the rate at which you can empty it, then no size buffer is large enough -- it will eventually overflow, and in the meantime you are greatly slowing down communication by attempting to buffer large amounts of data instead simply discarding it and waiting for it to be retransmitted.
Applied to energy, you are correct -- no amount of storage can be definitively considered "enough". However, since energy consumption does generally follow 24 hour cycles, you can achieve some smoothing of demand through energy storage. Any cycles of longer duration must be filled by alternative energy generation, e.g. gas fired plants.
I disagree with the assertion that we will never be able to meet minimum demand purely with wind power, but I agree that we are nowhere near that point now, and that anybody that thinks wind is a single "silver bullet" solution to the energy problem is highly delusional.
It is not as easy as you make it appear. We already knew one would have to kill ALL T Cells (which can survive for 70 years) to make sure the virus was gone. Now they are saying you have to kill all the bone marrow cells too! In addition, you would then need to survive without any T Cells long enough to regrow your bone marrow, then you T Cells. So a pessimistic "good luck with that" is probably warranted. What holds better promise is gene therapy, to transfer the immunity possessed by HIV long term nonprogressors to others. Ultimately, I believe we will eventually wipe out this disease in a few generations through vaccination, much like Polio. However, I hold little hope for an actual cure for those that are already infected. Currently, anti-virals are effective in reducing viral load to undetectable levels in almost everyone (or at least everyone that can afford to spend $1000/month on meds). I pray that this continues to be true, so that people that have contracted the virus through no fault of their own (including some close family members of mine) can continue to lead "normal" lives.
Bulb efficiency chart is here The range for LED looks a little low to me; I think in theory they should eventually be able to get up to around 100 lumens per watt, which means they still will never beat a high pressure sodium lamp for efficiency. (White LED bulbs themselves can get up to 150 lumens/watt, but apparently there are some losses in converting the 120VAC to 5VDC to drive the LED.)
That is true. I've taking to installing 2 bulb fixtures with one incandescent and one CFL; the incandescent comes on immediately when you flip the switch, and the CFL takes a long time to catch up. It also gives you a slightly nicer spectrum.
I'm sure somebody will be working on one by the fall announcement, but they generally start small and build up over time to the 200,000+ CPUs needed for a high TOP500 ranking. From what people have said on here, this chip does appear designed to do well on a massively parallel Linpack test and many real world MPI applications as well.
I didn't say CFL, I said a 100W equivalentLED floodlight uses 10W to 15W. Hmm... yes I was incorrect, the cited page says LED 100W equivalent uses 17W and LED 50W equivalent uses 10W.
You are missing the point, which is that building a gas fired plant with only 10% utilization makes the electricity you get from the gas plant much more expensive per Watt, and that building wind farms does nothing to reduce the amount of gas fired plants necessary, since that is determined by the worst case scenario of maximum power demand during a time with no wind. Yes, this can be someone alleviated by shifting load between grids on the theory that it is always windy _somewhere_, but we don't currently have the grid superstructure to do that -- just try shifting load between Europe or the US.
Unless you have an effective way of storing the energy generated by wind turbines, wind power does nothing to reduce your peak demand for traditional power plants. However, it does reduce the average demand, making traditional plants less economically rewarding. Pretty much the same argument applies to solar. This might be the rationale behind desire for a hydrogen economy; use any excess wind and solar power to separate H20 into hydrogen and oxygen, then use fuel cells for power when it is dark and still (turning the H and O back into good ol' H20).
We know he meant it produced the equivalent light output of a 100W bulb, while consuming a lot less power. Unfortunately, the typical consumer is used to measuring light in Watts instead of Lumens, hence every compact florescent is marked as "60W bulb equvalent" or something simular, and hides the fact that actual power consumption is much less. The 100W equivalent LED floodlights typically use 10W to 15W of power. Unfortunately, LEDs are highly directional, thus they make a better replacement for a spotlight than for a standard bulb (diffusers waste power, lowering efficiency).
Agreed, this is targeted at the DataBase Engine and HPC markets, not at gamers. The frame rate remark was a bad attempt at humor. A much better question would have been, "How long will it take until a massively parallel collection of these gets top ranking on the TOP500 supercomputer list?" I'd give it 2 years.
Silly troll! 1) My parents don't currently own a garage. 2) I haven't lived in my parent's basement for over 30 years now. 3) My mother-in-law currently lives in my basement, which might be one of the reasons I can't afford something like this anyway.
Does it have the memory I/O bandwidth to keep up with the CPUs? When will I be able to actually buy a mother board with 8 of these 8 core CPUs, and what kind of a frame rate would Crysis get on that rig?
Web developers may be stuck maintaining two versions of their sites How is that any worse than what we have now, where developers are stuck maintaining a version of their site for IE, another for Netscape/Mozilla, and ignoring the fact that their site doesn't work on most other (e.g. mobile) browsers? At least a viable HTML 5 standard holds out the hope of eventually needing only a single version of each website. Google "browser detection" if you don't think supporting multiple browsers is already a problem today.
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Visusal Basic HAS "structures, classes, polymorphism, OO, etc.". My worst complaint about it is that I'm never sure when it is passing by reference or passing by value.
Nice rack!
You've probably got a problem with typing your PIN number into an ATM machine too, don't you? Ever been to The La Brea Tar Pits? Where would the internet be without the TCP/IP protocol? When you've dealt with human stupidity as long as I have, it becomes no longer remarkable.
We knew it could remain dormant in T Cells for 70 years. I believe knowing it could remain dormant in stem cells in bone marrow is a new development.
A valid point, this is similar to the buffering problem in computer communications. In essence, as long as it is possible to fill the buffering "bucket" at a rate greater than the rate at which you can empty it, then no size buffer is large enough -- it will eventually overflow, and in the meantime you are greatly slowing down communication by attempting to buffer large amounts of data instead simply discarding it and waiting for it to be retransmitted.
Applied to energy, you are correct -- no amount of storage can be definitively considered "enough". However, since energy consumption does generally follow 24 hour cycles, you can achieve some smoothing of demand through energy storage. Any cycles of longer duration must be filled by alternative energy generation, e.g. gas fired plants.
I disagree with the assertion that we will never be able to meet minimum demand purely with wind power, but I agree that we are nowhere near that point now, and that anybody that thinks wind is a single "silver bullet" solution to the energy problem is highly delusional.
It is not as easy as you make it appear. We already knew one would have to kill ALL T Cells (which can survive for 70 years) to make sure the virus was gone. Now they are saying you have to kill all the bone marrow cells too! In addition, you would then need to survive without any T Cells long enough to regrow your bone marrow, then you T Cells. So a pessimistic "good luck with that" is probably warranted. What holds better promise is gene therapy, to transfer the immunity possessed by HIV long term nonprogressors to others. Ultimately, I believe we will eventually wipe out this disease in a few generations through vaccination, much like Polio. However, I hold little hope for an actual cure for those that are already infected. Currently, anti-virals are effective in reducing viral load to undetectable levels in almost everyone (or at least everyone that can afford to spend $1000/month on meds). I pray that this continues to be true, so that people that have contracted the virus through no fault of their own (including some close family members of mine) can continue to lead "normal" lives.
Bulb efficiency chart is here The range for LED looks a little low to me; I think in theory they should eventually be able to get up to around 100 lumens per watt, which means they still will never beat a high pressure sodium lamp for efficiency. (White LED bulbs themselves can get up to 150 lumens/watt, but apparently there are some losses in converting the 120VAC to 5VDC to drive the LED.)
That is true. I've taking to installing 2 bulb fixtures with one incandescent and one CFL; the incandescent comes on immediately when you flip the switch, and the CFL takes a long time to catch up. It also gives you a slightly nicer spectrum.
Hey! Sex with my mother-in-law is NOT incest! However, sex with the anonymous coward's mom might qualify as bestiality...
I'm sure somebody will be working on one by the fall announcement, but they generally start small and build up over time to the 200,000+ CPUs needed for a high TOP500 ranking. From what people have said on here, this chip does appear designed to do well on a massively parallel Linpack test and many real world MPI applications as well.
I didn't say CFL, I said a 100W equivalentLED floodlight uses 10W to 15W. Hmm... yes I was incorrect, the cited page says LED 100W equivalent uses 17W and LED 50W equivalent uses 10W.
You are missing the point, which is that building a gas fired plant with only 10% utilization makes the electricity you get from the gas plant much more expensive per Watt, and that building wind farms does nothing to reduce the amount of gas fired plants necessary, since that is determined by the worst case scenario of maximum power demand during a time with no wind. Yes, this can be someone alleviated by shifting load between grids on the theory that it is always windy _somewhere_, but we don't currently have the grid superstructure to do that -- just try shifting load between Europe or the US.
Unless you have an effective way of storing the energy generated by wind turbines, wind power does nothing to reduce your peak demand for traditional power plants. However, it does reduce the average demand, making traditional plants less economically rewarding. Pretty much the same argument applies to solar. This might be the rationale behind desire for a hydrogen economy; use any excess wind and solar power to separate H20 into hydrogen and oxygen, then use fuel cells for power when it is dark and still (turning the H and O back into good ol' H20).
We know he meant it produced the equivalent light output of a 100W bulb, while consuming a lot less power. Unfortunately, the typical consumer is used to measuring light in Watts instead of Lumens, hence every compact florescent is marked as "60W bulb equvalent" or something simular, and hides the fact that actual power consumption is much less. The 100W equivalent LED floodlights typically use 10W to 15W of power. Unfortunately, LEDs are highly directional, thus they make a better replacement for a spotlight than for a standard bulb (diffusers waste power, lowering efficiency).
Agreed, this is targeted at the DataBase Engine and HPC markets, not at gamers. The frame rate remark was a bad attempt at humor. A much better question would have been, "How long will it take until a massively parallel collection of these gets top ranking on the TOP500 supercomputer list?" I'd give it 2 years.
Silly troll! 1) My parents don't currently own a garage. 2) I haven't lived in my parent's basement for over 30 years now. 3) My mother-in-law currently lives in my basement, which might be one of the reasons I can't afford something like this anyway.
Does it have the memory I/O bandwidth to keep up with the CPUs? When will I be able to actually buy a mother board with 8 of these 8 core CPUs, and what kind of a frame rate would Crysis get on that rig?
And of course, the classic: "Mommy, why do these tomatoes taste like shit?" "Shut up and fill this self-sterilizing bag!"
Why does Daryl McBride carry a Peepoo around on his shoulder? Because "two heads are better than one!"
What's the difference between a Peepoo and a Windows fanboyz brain? The sack!
What did the fly say when he saw the Peepoo? "That's some good shit, man!"
Who named this product? The inventor's two year old child?
Why? Are you planning on lighting them on fire on people's doorsteps, ringing their door bell, and running away?
Hell, if you do it right, it's not even supposed to smell. Excuse me, but my shit doesn't stink, you insensitive clod!
No shit?!? You wouldn't shit me, would you? This is some good shit!
Have you tried turning "SafeSearch filtering" off first?
Isn't most of that functionality already available in DHTML?
Web developers may be stuck maintaining two versions of their sites How is that any worse than what we have now, where developers are stuck maintaining a version of their site for IE, another for Netscape/Mozilla, and ignoring the fact that their site doesn't work on most other (e.g. mobile) browsers? At least a viable HTML 5 standard holds out the hope of eventually needing only a single version of each website. Google "browser detection" if you don't think supporting multiple browsers is already a problem today.