"Last I checked, CPU upgrades don't necessitate RAM and motherboard changes."
You didn't check hard enough, then. Suddenly upgrading the CPU from one core to 3 or 4 removes the bottleneck from the CPU and puts it elsewhere - likely the RAM (we're not including harddrives for the sake of the argument,) or it's entirely possible the motherboard can only handle 2 of those 3 or 4 cores.
It'd have to be a student. Only students are used to carrying such insanely large loads on their backs.
It's a wonder I never developed a compacted spinal column due to the regular 50 pounds of books I'd carry in my backpack, every single day, and was able to grow to a happy six feet tall.
"Since HDMI can transfer up to 10.2 gigabits per second of data, I don't think these "perfect digital copies" are going to be made any time soon. 1920x1080x60 + 8 channels of uncompressed audio == lots of bandwidth"
25-50GB of space used no matter what doing a fully perfect Blu-Ray rip right from the cable.
"Music comes from your highly trained muscle memory and your limbic system. There's practically no thinking involved at all."
And that is where you're full of shit. Go take some music theory classes.
The response is scornful because WE'VE BEEN IN THIS INDUSTRY where it is entirely apparent that you have not stepped foot into it, and you opened your mouth upon a subject in which you have no real training.
Highly trained muscle memory. Yea, right, that's why the best guitarists and violinists still stare at their instrument now and then while they play, eh?
"It's sort of dead obvious once you think about it. It doesn't take a heck of a lot of water to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground, but producing a similar amount of ethanol from corn will require a lot of water for irrigation, and we're already straining our freshwater water resources."
We've cut the water usage up to 99% using a fully-enclosed sealed system for production of algae. We've already done such with sheds of wheatgrass, which typical per acre outdoors requires 100,000 gallons of nutrient water, however in our sheds, you only need 1,000 gallons of water.
"The trouble with using LEDs or any other artificial light sources to grow algae is that algae are at best about 5% efficient in converting light energy into stored chemical energy (though this is much better than any land plant)."
No, the problem with using LEDs is the photosynthetic flux density drops DRAMATICALLY the second the light hits the surface of the water.
This is remedied by using high-output SMDs with a narrow emission angle.
BTW, we're already at the stage where we can produce plants (this includes certain algae species,) without needing light at all.
Too bad NASA seems 100% uninterested, as this is THE method to provide food and nutrition for humans and livestock in space with an absolute minimum of power required.
You would be wrong, sir. UV is used by several plants as a photosynthetic and photomorphological power source, just like several new discoveries have shown that certain plants also utilize IR light for primary photosynthesis or for supplementary (Emerson Effect.)
PAR only covers visible-range and does nothing to cover the effects of other wavelengths of EM radiation.
"Never heard of anyone getting the runs from spirulina"
You've never heard of babyfurs, and thank GOD you haven't. You don't want to know what their preferred use for high-chlorophyll content flora involves.
Spirulina is their preferred 'diaper-messing' source.
I had a website, hosting for that went tits-up. I could easily teach you how to garden indoors, and hydroponics is not as complex as people try to make it seem. If you can maintain a pool, or an aquarium, you can do hydroponics with ease.
Feel free to contact me if you wish - my e-mail is right next to my UID.
INSANELY low, I can't give an exact figure as it varies per crop type. The only thing that power is used for in the dark sheds is climate control and nutrient flow, which makes it easy to build a shed that runs completely on solar power.
As another example, an acre of barley grass takes about 100,000 gallons of water to produce on regular land, and about two weeks for usable animal fodder harvest. Newer systems I work on cut that down to about 1500 gallons, it happens in 7 days, and we don't even need ANY source of light. We grow it in completely dark sheds.
And we have these already in production for growing biofuel-producing algae, so your assumption would be somewhat wrong. The Middle East is one of my bigger clients.
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"You have no idea how business works, much less how semiconductor manufacturing works."
Hi, I'm actually a pro in both areas you just mentioned.
And you're full of shit.
"Scenario one, you buy a 3GHz processor that has 512K cache, and it's not upgradeable. You pay $99.
Scenario two, you buy a 3GHz processor that has 512K cache for $99. You can pay $50 to upgrade it to 3.2GHz and 1M cache.
I defy you to logically explain how scenario one is better."
Scenario one doesn't involve MAFIA TACTICS and breaking the law, nor does it involve a 50% markup for MOST CERTAINLY NOT 50% performance increase.
Which is why my company threw their support 100% behind AMD when we heard of this.
Now sit down and shut up, real professionals are having a discussion.
"Last I checked, CPU upgrades don't necessitate RAM and motherboard changes."
You didn't check hard enough, then. Suddenly upgrading the CPU from one core to 3 or 4 removes the bottleneck from the CPU and puts it elsewhere - likely the RAM (we're not including harddrives for the sake of the argument,) or it's entirely possible the motherboard can only handle 2 of those 3 or 4 cores.
All kinds of things can go wrong.
What do you think an on-die cache is? Dedicated RAM for the core to process instructions.
Firebombs make great imprisonment devices. Just make sure all exits are covered.
Payback's a bitch.
No, they directly targeted the load balancers, which is much more effective.
Wider area of splash damage.
It'd have to be a student. Only students are used to carrying such insanely large loads on their backs.
It's a wonder I never developed a compacted spinal column due to the regular 50 pounds of books I'd carry in my backpack, every single day, and was able to grow to a happy six feet tall.
"Blu-ray movies have a coating that offers incredible protection from wear and tear."
Tell that to my PS3, which has already scratched 5 of my games.
"brute force is infeasible."
Not if you intelligently and systematically create sections for individual cracking efforts, and distribute it.
Hello, BOINC project.
"Since HDMI can transfer up to 10.2 gigabits per second of data, I don't think these "perfect digital copies" are going to be made any time soon. 1920x1080x60 + 8 channels of uncompressed audio == lots of bandwidth"
25-50GB of space used no matter what doing a fully perfect Blu-Ray rip right from the cable.
I've seen nearly 30x that MPG in the SAE Supermileage Competition, built by HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
And that was several years ago.
"when that stuff hits your stomach bam the acid denatures the enzymes."
A large majority of your gastric juices are enzymes.
Not all enzymes solve in acidic solutions.
This is like basic biology AND basic chemistry.
Umm, pay per view? duh? it is more than possible to do at home.
"Music comes from your highly trained muscle memory and your limbic system. There's practically no thinking involved at all."
And that is where you're full of shit. Go take some music theory classes.
The response is scornful because WE'VE BEEN IN THIS INDUSTRY where it is entirely apparent that you have not stepped foot into it, and you opened your mouth upon a subject in which you have no real training.
Highly trained muscle memory. Yea, right, that's why the best guitarists and violinists still stare at their instrument now and then while they play, eh?
"And the cost of CREATING content exceeds them both."
Speaking as a musician, you're full of it.
Any and ALL presidential issues get handled by the Secret Service.
"It's sort of dead obvious once you think about it. It doesn't take a heck of a lot of water to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground, but producing a similar amount of ethanol from corn will require a lot of water for irrigation, and we're already straining our freshwater water resources."
We've cut the water usage up to 99% using a fully-enclosed sealed system for production of algae. We've already done such with sheds of wheatgrass, which typical per acre outdoors requires 100,000 gallons of nutrient water, however in our sheds, you only need 1,000 gallons of water.
"The trouble with using LEDs or any other artificial light sources to grow algae is that algae are at best about 5% efficient in converting light energy into stored chemical energy (though this is much better than any land plant)."
No, the problem with using LEDs is the photosynthetic flux density drops DRAMATICALLY the second the light hits the surface of the water.
This is remedied by using high-output SMDs with a narrow emission angle.
BTW, we're already at the stage where we can produce plants (this includes certain algae species,) without needing light at all.
http://imgur.com/rIdIw.jpg
Too bad NASA seems 100% uninterested, as this is THE method to provide food and nutrition for humans and livestock in space with an absolute minimum of power required.
No, plants can only use about 5% of the energy that falls upon them.
Chlorophyll is like a battery bank - you can only charge it up so much before it won't take any more charge.
This is why we have light movers.
You would be wrong, sir. UV is used by several plants as a photosynthetic and photomorphological power source, just like several new discoveries have shown that certain plants also utilize IR light for primary photosynthesis or for supplementary (Emerson Effect.)
PAR only covers visible-range and does nothing to cover the effects of other wavelengths of EM radiation.
"Never heard of anyone getting the runs from spirulina"
You've never heard of babyfurs, and thank GOD you haven't. You don't want to know what their preferred use for high-chlorophyll content flora involves.
Spirulina is their preferred 'diaper-messing' source.
It's about the only major thing they advocate.
If you go by energy costs, payback happens within two years. If you go only by financial costs, payback is roughly 8-14 months.
We wouldn't encase the algae in glass, we pump it through a thin tube with LEDs in direct contact (avoid as much loss as possible) and recirculate.
Wish my pal Chris was on this site, he'd be able to explain a bit better than I. I just make the lights.
I had a website, hosting for that went tits-up. I could easily teach you how to garden indoors, and hydroponics is not as complex as people try to make it seem. If you can maintain a pool, or an aquarium, you can do hydroponics with ease.
Feel free to contact me if you wish - my e-mail is right next to my UID.
INSANELY low, I can't give an exact figure as it varies per crop type. The only thing that power is used for in the dark sheds is climate control and nutrient flow, which makes it easy to build a shed that runs completely on solar power.
You would think that, but I've been working on systems to produce far more while consuming far less.
http://imgur.com/TOgCX.jpg
As another example, an acre of barley grass takes about 100,000 gallons of water to produce on regular land, and about two weeks for usable animal fodder harvest. Newer systems I work on cut that down to about 1500 gallons, it happens in 7 days, and we don't even need ANY source of light. We grow it in completely dark sheds.
http://imgur.com/TYJUR.jpg
And we have these already in production for growing biofuel-producing algae, so your assumption would be somewhat wrong. The Middle East is one of my bigger clients.