Ah, my favourite ukrainian dumbass strikes again. First, Ukraine is not even able to build a second one, even though they had an unused airframe collecting dust for very much exactly 30 years. And second, the aircraft industry in Zimbabwe-upon-Dnieper is long dead. Their last breath was the An-148, a commercial failure thanks to shitty engines and also thanks to the Antonov's inability to actually build the goddamn airplane. Matter of fact, the vast majority of these airplanes were licence-built in Russia, and that won't continue due to political reasons and also because SSJ-100 is a much better aircraft.
Dude, I have news for you. The depression is caused by the people having just the bare minimum to live and not by their dependence on the government. Independent people who are piss-poor aren't really happy as well. Why do you think Russia had not one, but two revolutions in a single year a century ago? Hint: the government welfare was not the reason, mostly due to its absence.
Been lucky so far - got a new motherboard on aliexpress, no compatibility problems with Windows 10, SSDs or gaming whatsoever. For the next 3-4 years I'm good, and then we'll see, but I can imagine going for older server hardware again. It is seriously cheap, especially second hand.
Servers are noisy because their heatsinks and fans are tiny. With a decent heatsink that can dissipate 130w you can operate that old xeon without a fan, or, if you want to be sure, with a virtually silent 140mm fan.
Not really. On paper DDR4 seems fast, in reality it is barely faster than DDR3, but even the cheapest xeon motherboards support quad channel RAM and usually have twice as many DIMM slots. Also many benchmarks show that there is little speed difference between PCIe 3.0, 2.0 and 1.0 when it comes to gaming, because everything gets preloaded to video RAM anyway. So indeed blah blah blah it is. About the only thing you've got right is the power consumption.
Old Xeons are, in fact, far cheaper than modern Intel consumer CPUs with a similar performance. Take E5-2670 for example. It costs around 100 bucks, has 8 cores/16 threads and 20 megabytes of cache. For the same money you'll get a Core i3-7100 at best, which has a somewhat better single core performance, but is utterly outclassed in multicore.
My windows 10 installation was by no means forced, but when setting up a new ssd after the previous one died, i had the choice of installing windows 7 and spend two days applying patches from the horribly broken windows update or just installing windows 10. Yes, nowadays there is that patch rollup, but not back then.
You are just nitpicking. It is obvious to everyone who isn't an imbecile that 100% clean energy is physically not possible. Hence clean energy means "far cleaner than fossil fuel". And this is what counts, because waiting for a perfect solution that might never come while continuing to use a bad one is worse than continuously updating to a slightly better solution. And besides, IC production is very much the same "nightmare" as photovoltaic production but I see you posting on Slashdot, using a lot of semiconductor technology in the process. Looks like a double standard from here.
It happens sometimes. For example a soviet SF book written in the 1920ies described a device that is quite close to a laser weapon (a device that concentrates light in a coherent beam, construction close to a laser resonator), and, in fact, inspired the laser inventor. A pretty good book by the way, but somewhat difficult to read for a non-native russian speaker because of many obsolete words.
In many countries drivers for hire must have a professional driving licence and a professional car insurance. And don't give me the crap about the Uber insurance, it covers far less than even a private car insurance in several European countries. Feel enlightened already?
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And this excuses a murder exactly how?
Found another xenophobe, I'd say.
Neither is white skin, but you insist otherwise.
Holland is not a country, dumbass. It is a region and a former province. The Netherlands (the low countries) is exactly right.
Ah, my favourite ukrainian dumbass strikes again. First, Ukraine is not even able to build a second one, even though they had an unused airframe collecting dust for very much exactly 30 years. And second, the aircraft industry in Zimbabwe-upon-Dnieper is long dead. Their last breath was the An-148, a commercial failure thanks to shitty engines and also thanks to the Antonov's inability to actually build the goddamn airplane. Matter of fact, the vast majority of these airplanes were licence-built in Russia, and that won't continue due to political reasons and also because SSJ-100 is a much better aircraft.
Incidentally, this is how Europeans see the Americans.
Dude, I have news for you. The depression is caused by the people having just the bare minimum to live and not by their dependence on the government. Independent people who are piss-poor aren't really happy as well. Why do you think Russia had not one, but two revolutions in a single year a century ago? Hint: the government welfare was not the reason, mostly due to its absence.
Been lucky so far - got a new motherboard on aliexpress, no compatibility problems with Windows 10, SSDs or gaming whatsoever. For the next 3-4 years I'm good, and then we'll see, but I can imagine going for older server hardware again. It is seriously cheap, especially second hand.
Servers are noisy because their heatsinks and fans are tiny. With a decent heatsink that can dissipate 130w you can operate that old xeon without a fan, or, if you want to be sure, with a virtually silent 140mm fan.
Not really. On paper DDR4 seems fast, in reality it is barely faster than DDR3, but even the cheapest xeon motherboards support quad channel RAM and usually have twice as many DIMM slots. Also many benchmarks show that there is little speed difference between PCIe 3.0, 2.0 and 1.0 when it comes to gaming, because everything gets preloaded to video RAM anyway. So indeed blah blah blah it is. About the only thing you've got right is the power consumption.
Isn't an apple park usually called an orchard?
Old Xeons are, in fact, far cheaper than modern Intel consumer CPUs with a similar performance. Take E5-2670 for example. It costs around 100 bucks, has 8 cores/16 threads and 20 megabytes of cache. For the same money you'll get a Core i3-7100 at best, which has a somewhat better single core performance, but is utterly outclassed in multicore.
My windows 10 installation was by no means forced, but when setting up a new ssd after the previous one died, i had the choice of installing windows 7 and spend two days applying patches from the horribly broken windows update or just installing windows 10. Yes, nowadays there is that patch rollup, but not back then.
It is possible for smallish packets that weigh under 2 kg. Additional insurance for high value goods is also possible.
It is good that I am an atheist, then.
You jest, but Belarus does have a slacker tax:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
You are just nitpicking. It is obvious to everyone who isn't an imbecile that 100% clean energy is physically not possible. Hence clean energy means "far cleaner than fossil fuel". And this is what counts, because waiting for a perfect solution that might never come while continuing to use a bad one is worse than continuously updating to a slightly better solution.
And besides, IC production is very much the same "nightmare" as photovoltaic production but I see you posting on Slashdot, using a lot of semiconductor technology in the process. Looks like a double standard from here.
To be fair, burning coal for electrical power production is only a part of the coal indursty. The other part is steel production from iron ore.
It happens sometimes.
For example a soviet SF book written in the 1920ies described a device that is quite close to a laser weapon (a device that concentrates light in a coherent beam, construction close to a laser resonator), and, in fact, inspired the laser inventor.
A pretty good book by the way, but somewhat difficult to read for a non-native russian speaker because of many obsolete words.
not for the lack of trying
To be fair, that doesn't mean a citywide power failure. A broken trolleybus power line can do that easily.
But so is the whole petrochemical industry. Batteries are the lesser evil.
Remember that guy Breivik? He has a body count quite comparable to the worst islamic terror attacks on European soil.
In many countries drivers for hire must have a professional driving licence and a professional car insurance. And don't give me the crap about the Uber insurance, it covers far less than even a private car insurance in several European countries. Feel enlightened already?
Minimal regulations? Nice euphemism for shamelessly breaking the law.
I can, but since I seriously hate driving, public transport it is. My only grudge is that neither buses nor trains are reliably punctual all the time.