If you have 100M computers in the EU and can reduce the power consumption of each one by 10%, you will reduce the total power consumption of those computers by 10%.
Hmm... My UPS shows how much is being drawn from it, and it has been a while since I've checked, but without using the graphics card at all except for rendering the desktop, and using about 70-80% of my CPU, it's pulling 450+ watts. I suspect if I loaded a game up, it would add another 200 watts on top of that.
Of course, you are correct when you say that most PSU's are crap, and the closer to their maximum rating you go the noiser they get (both in electrical noise and sound wise). PSUs are usually most efficient when running at ~50-60% maximum, so buying a larger PSU that is more efficient at your most common power draw would actually save you money in the long run. Also, quite a few PSUs maximum rating is divied up between differing rails and voltages, so being able to find one that exactly matches the amount of power draw you need on each rail and voltage rating is near impossible.
He was never going to be given a fair trial in the USA (as nobody who is extradited to the US ever gets - the cost of mounting a legal defence in the country makes that impossible) and was going to be part of a show trial to make an example of.
Oh really? Are you a lawyer that has ever had a case in the US? No? Have you ever been on trial in the US? No?
On what experience or proof do you fling your crap over the pond on the US Justice system?
Just another piece of eurotrash talking crap about jack they know. Granted, we got plenty of tards over here running their mouths about stuff they know jack diddly about too, but I correct them when I get a chance as well.
Dear Mr. Jon Leibowitz, Just because google is large should not make them above the law. As a congressman you SHOULD both know better and SHOULD be protecting the people from companies of ANY size. Shame on you!
Proof we need change in this country. Who elected this fool?
Erm, don't they sell search results? I mean isn't that what adwords are? You pay, and your result appears up on top of the result where it normally would not have been if you didn't pay?
You don't need 100% market share to wield monopoly power. You don't even need 50% to wield it in some cases.
Does google wield monopoly power in search? Yes. I don't think there is much of an argument there. They probably wield it in other segments too, but those may be less obvious.
Unfortunately, for most software, the answer is yes. Most software is single threaded, or very lightly using two threads. The most threads I've seen in use by any game is 4 (Supreme Command 2 I believe). You really won't see any benefit in running any of these apps until you start to overload the number of CPUs you have, which running a bunch of non-CPU intensive stuff in the background really won't affect any of them on a 4+ core CPU.
Most people get confused and see a bunch of CPUs all being used x%, and think their software is multithreaded, but in reality it's one single thread that is just getting bounced between all the cores. Disabling the extra cores won't speed up the program, or setting it to force the app to a specific core won't hinder it's performance either. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like photoshop, video encoding (Many of these are even limited to a certain number of cores, for example, Handbrake which uses x264 to do the heavy lifting won't use all 6 of my physical cores/12 hyperthreaded -- the decoding is single threaded and bottlenecks all the encoding threads -- effectively only using ~5 cores).
If you're using sex to develop code while you may be more satisfied than me but I susect I'm getting more done.
If you believe this, you need to see the movie swordfish for the proper way to have sex while coding. In some cases, it really can improve your coding speed!
Java can be used to write crappy applications for Linux, Windows, and OS X.
There, fixed that for you.
As for your statistics, 52% of all tablets currently are iPads, and they don't allow Java on the platform, so 66% is impossible. I would also like to point out that since iOS (XCode specifically) has 4 times the number of developers, it would seem to indicate that java for mobile use is a minority.
And yes, I know assembly (6502,680x0,80x86,IBM 3x0), pascal (also not used in decades), and C. And C++, C#, pilot (not used in decades), basic, cobol (not used in over a decade), vb.net, javascript, PHP, and a handful of others.
Well except that the 69% is still larger than the 90%+ of yesteryear. They keep selling more every year and revenues keep going up.
While I think Microsoft should do something big, they are far from "done" or diminishing. If they continue on the current path, they may actually start to decline in 10 years, but that is still a long ways off. Plenty of time for ballmer to get hit with a flying chair.
iOS for $100 you can get the developer kit and you can install any app you want. You can also install any mp3 or m4v onto your iDevice as well. Plenty of other devices work with iOS too, like my receiver from Pioneer, and my car stereo from Kenwood.
As for Mac OS...I didn't realize there was any restrictions on what you could load on it, care to elaborate?
If it is a walled garden, it's a pretty low wall with tons of holes unless you are specifically referring to the iTunes App Store. In that case, I guess Microsoft has walled gardens with Microsoft Update, and the XBox marketplace too.
I think you mean testing isn't practical. It is testable, just it's almost inconceivable that we will at any time in the near future be willing to put forth the effort to do so.
The article is specifically about a bank, but lordlucless wasn't speaking about the bank specifically. He took one example then expanded it to encompass basically every company on the planet.
As for your post: 1) Banks are hardly "built on IT". Not much more so than any other company out there. You walk into a store and the "computers are down" (this included McDonalds), and either they do the same thing, take your money have hand you bank a handwritten slip, or they are just closed. Like most companies, the computers make doing things there more efficient, but they are hardly necessary to actually complete the work. Banks existed before them, and if they disappeared off the face of the planet, they would still be around (after everyone rioted and burned them to the ground). 2) There is very little reason why the day to day activities of a bank and it's tellers etc need to be run by an in house IT. The bank isn't in business of buying/selling computers. Sure you need a highly secure network for the money transactions, etc., but are you suggesting that billy bob down IT guy who grew up down the street from the bank is better than companies with experts in the field that build highly secure banking networks 1000 times before? 3) Banks do a hell of a lot more than just process your deposits and withdraws and keep a tally on them. Most do investments (Stocks, Bonds, IRAs, Treasury Certificates, etc), loans (Personal, Car, Mortgage), credit cards (Visa, Mastercard), etc etc. 4) If I'm banking at a small mom and pop bank (Actually I don't, but I did for many years, they just got sucked up into Chase -- but there are many reasons for wanting a smaller bank), then as someone who actually worked on clustering and high availability systems (building, and writing clustering drivers), I'd rather they spend it on other more important things like backups. I can deal with the infrequent computers being down problem. What I don't want it my account hacked, or financial records being completely lost (unless of course, I only have a mortgage with them, then please lose everything!)
That sounds grossly naive. What company over the size of 0 employees doesn't have one of the following: Medical records, Credit card details, or financial records? Every single company has those, even companies that have 1 part time person in it. I seriously don't think there is enough IT professionals in the entire world worth a damn that you could have 1 at every single company.
Outsourcing isn't the problem with data breaches. Outsourcing to companies that back up their promises with financial guarantees and fines is the problem. These companies that do outsourcing need to have a well trained staff that can actually do security well and they need to have a vested financial interest in doing it well. You would find less data breaches by having all the worlds "sensitive" information in a few dozen companies who actual responsibility to keep to safe than to have it in hundreds of thousands of companies who are totally incompetent.
Actually, the rule is people will fall under one of two major categories: loop_start: When change N+1 comes, they will: A) complain about how change N+1 breaks from change N, but will upgrade/use change N+1 because they are "forced to" by IT/parents/peers/contracts/compatibility with "others" and then go to loop_start B) refuse to upgrade/use change N+1 because of either mass hysteria because it doesn't work for a very vocal 1% of the target market even though it doesn't affect them or most users can't afford to upgrade to change N+1 so they rationalize the refusal by regurgitating the mass hysteria, and wait for change N+2 that has useless sparklies in it and then upgade/use N+2. Then they will say how great the changes are in N+2, when 90% of those changes were actually present in change N+1 that they refused to upgrade/use all while saying they dislike the new sparklies and how they should have been more sparkly. Go to loop_start
Windows is typically more of the B variety. Apple products also are more of the B variety because of the cell contracts. Microsoft Office is more the A variety.
while real science languishes in the land of budget cuts and resource shortages
Are you trying to insinuate that this someone is lacking in "real science"? Are you trying to say that things like being able to launch things into space inexpensively doesn't benefit all of mankind? Like GPS satellites? A lot of technology and know how is being done that will transfer over to other areas that will benefit everyone. Saying that this is solely for space tourism for the rich is doing a disservice and extremely simplistic.
Why is it okay for the very wealthy to build yachts in space while poor people starve and wonder if they'll be able to afford the medication they need to stay alive
Because one doesn't necessarily exclude the other. Building private spaceships doesn't have any effect on people starving unless you plan on instituting some law that says if you have over x dollars you must give away all your extra to help the poor. Personally, I would also like to know why hard working people have to give money in order to feed a bunch of baby makers that are having babies for the sole purpose of getting more handouts. Perhaps you should turn your attention that way? Solve the waste (both monetary and human) plaguing the planet first. That money could have been used better to feed people who are actually trying and in need.
Change #2 to removing the gas subsidies. That includes the costs of wars spent on trying to keep the middle east from imploding on themselves.
And fourth, build a high speed highway system with higher speed limits (80-120MPH) that require a new class of license that keeps bad drivers off the damn road.
Those 4 things will actually shift the real cost of the owning a gas inefficient car back to those who want to drive them (fairly), while encouraging more efficient mass-transit, eco-friendly green initiatives to flourish (electric/hydro/fart powered).
I'm no eco-freak -- I believe in nuclear power, don't own a hybrid (but I've thought of buying an all electric car -- but it didn't make financial sense), but I also don't believe in subsidizing things that are eco-hostile like coal and gas either. Show people the true cost of their choices, create an environment that helps long term research feasible, and let the consumer decide. Making bad choices cheaper harms the country as a whole and should be stopped when ever possible.
You have no right to anything from any website. If they choose to only allow people who are willing to put up with ads to help defer some of the cost of running their website, that is their choice. Your choices are to: A) Put up with the ads and get the content. B) Go somewhere else. C) Try and block the content and hope the website isn't smart enough to detect it. D) Whine with your self-entitlement buddies.
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A lot.
The 3930k can be had for under $700, under $600 even.
If you have 100M computers in the EU and can reduce the power consumption of each one by 10%, you will reduce the total power consumption of those computers by 10%.
Yes, but is it webscale?
Hmm... My UPS shows how much is being drawn from it, and it has been a while since I've checked, but without using the graphics card at all except for rendering the desktop, and using about 70-80% of my CPU, it's pulling 450+ watts. I suspect if I loaded a game up, it would add another 200 watts on top of that.
Of course, you are correct when you say that most PSU's are crap, and the closer to their maximum rating you go the noiser they get (both in electrical noise and sound wise). PSUs are usually most efficient when running at ~50-60% maximum, so buying a larger PSU that is more efficient at your most common power draw would actually save you money in the long run. Also, quite a few PSUs maximum rating is divied up between differing rails and voltages, so being able to find one that exactly matches the amount of power draw you need on each rail and voltage rating is near impossible.
He was never going to be given a fair trial in the USA (as nobody who is extradited to the US ever gets - the cost of mounting a legal defence in the country makes that impossible) and was going to be part of a show trial to make an example of.
Oh really? Are you a lawyer that has ever had a case in the US? No? Have you ever been on trial in the US? No?
On what experience or proof do you fling your crap over the pond on the US Justice system?
Just another piece of eurotrash talking crap about jack they know. Granted, we got plenty of tards over here running their mouths about stuff they know jack diddly about too, but I correct them when I get a chance as well.
Whoops, that should have been addressed to Jared Polis.
Dear Mr. Jon Leibowitz,
Just because google is large should not make them above the law. As a congressman you SHOULD both know better and SHOULD be protecting the people from companies of ANY size. Shame on you!
Proof we need change in this country. Who elected this fool?
Erm, don't they sell search results? I mean isn't that what adwords are? You pay, and your result appears up on top of the result where it normally would not have been if you didn't pay?
You don't need 100% market share to wield monopoly power. You don't even need 50% to wield it in some cases.
Does google wield monopoly power in search? Yes. I don't think there is much of an argument there. They probably wield it in other segments too, but those may be less obvious.
Is single threaded the normal use-case
Unfortunately, for most software, the answer is yes. Most software is single threaded, or very lightly using two threads. The most threads I've seen in use by any game is 4 (Supreme Command 2 I believe). You really won't see any benefit in running any of these apps until you start to overload the number of CPUs you have, which running a bunch of non-CPU intensive stuff in the background really won't affect any of them on a 4+ core CPU.
Most people get confused and see a bunch of CPUs all being used x%, and think their software is multithreaded, but in reality it's one single thread that is just getting bounced between all the cores. Disabling the extra cores won't speed up the program, or setting it to force the app to a specific core won't hinder it's performance either. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like photoshop, video encoding (Many of these are even limited to a certain number of cores, for example, Handbrake which uses x264 to do the heavy lifting won't use all 6 of my physical cores/12 hyperthreaded -- the decoding is single threaded and bottlenecks all the encoding threads -- effectively only using ~5 cores).
If you're using sex to develop code while you may be more satisfied than me but I susect I'm getting more done.
If you believe this, you need to see the movie swordfish for the proper way to have sex while coding. In some cases, it really can improve your coding speed!
Java can be used to write crappy applications for Linux, Windows, and OS X.
There, fixed that for you.
As for your statistics, 52% of all tablets currently are iPads, and they don't allow Java on the platform, so 66% is impossible. I would also like to point out that since iOS (XCode specifically) has 4 times the number of developers, it would seem to indicate that java for mobile use is a minority.
And yes, I know assembly (6502,680x0,80x86,IBM 3x0), pascal (also not used in decades), and C. And C++, C#, pilot (not used in decades), basic, cobol (not used in over a decade), vb.net, javascript, PHP, and a handful of others.
Well except that the 69% is still larger than the 90%+ of yesteryear. They keep selling more every year and revenues keep going up.
While I think Microsoft should do something big, they are far from "done" or diminishing. If they continue on the current path, they may actually start to decline in 10 years, but that is still a long ways off. Plenty of time for ballmer to get hit with a flying chair.
iOS for $100 you can get the developer kit and you can install any app you want. You can also install any mp3 or m4v onto your iDevice as well. Plenty of other devices work with iOS too, like my receiver from Pioneer, and my car stereo from Kenwood.
As for Mac OS...I didn't realize there was any restrictions on what you could load on it, care to elaborate?
If it is a walled garden, it's a pretty low wall with tons of holes unless you are specifically referring to the iTunes App Store. In that case, I guess Microsoft has walled gardens with Microsoft Update, and the XBox marketplace too.
I think you mean testing isn't practical. It is testable, just it's almost inconceivable that we will at any time in the near future be willing to put forth the effort to do so.
The article is specifically about a bank, but lordlucless wasn't speaking about the bank specifically. He took one example then expanded it to encompass basically every company on the planet.
As for your post:
1) Banks are hardly "built on IT". Not much more so than any other company out there. You walk into a store and the "computers are down" (this included McDonalds), and either they do the same thing, take your money have hand you bank a handwritten slip, or they are just closed. Like most companies, the computers make doing things there more efficient, but they are hardly necessary to actually complete the work. Banks existed before them, and if they disappeared off the face of the planet, they would still be around (after everyone rioted and burned them to the ground).
2) There is very little reason why the day to day activities of a bank and it's tellers etc need to be run by an in house IT. The bank isn't in business of buying/selling computers. Sure you need a highly secure network for the money transactions, etc., but are you suggesting that billy bob down IT guy who grew up down the street from the bank is better than companies with experts in the field that build highly secure banking networks 1000 times before?
3) Banks do a hell of a lot more than just process your deposits and withdraws and keep a tally on them. Most do investments (Stocks, Bonds, IRAs, Treasury Certificates, etc), loans (Personal, Car, Mortgage), credit cards (Visa, Mastercard), etc etc.
4) If I'm banking at a small mom and pop bank (Actually I don't, but I did for many years, they just got sucked up into Chase -- but there are many reasons for wanting a smaller bank), then as someone who actually worked on clustering and high availability systems (building, and writing clustering drivers), I'd rather they spend it on other more important things like backups. I can deal with the infrequent computers being down problem. What I don't want it my account hacked, or financial records being completely lost (unless of course, I only have a mortgage with them, then please lose everything!)
That sounds grossly naive. What company over the size of 0 employees doesn't have one of the following: Medical records, Credit card details, or financial records? Every single company has those, even companies that have 1 part time person in it. I seriously don't think there is enough IT professionals in the entire world worth a damn that you could have 1 at every single company.
Outsourcing isn't the problem with data breaches. Outsourcing to companies that back up their promises with financial guarantees and fines is the problem. These companies that do outsourcing need to have a well trained staff that can actually do security well and they need to have a vested financial interest in doing it well. You would find less data breaches by having all the worlds "sensitive" information in a few dozen companies who actual responsibility to keep to safe than to have it in hundreds of thousands of companies who are totally incompetent.
Actually, the rule is people will fall under one of two major categories:
loop_start:
When change N+1 comes, they will:
A) complain about how change N+1 breaks from change N, but will upgrade/use change N+1 because they are "forced to" by IT/parents/peers/contracts/compatibility with "others" and then go to loop_start
B) refuse to upgrade/use change N+1 because of either mass hysteria because it doesn't work for a very vocal 1% of the target market even though it doesn't affect them or most users can't afford to upgrade to change N+1 so they rationalize the refusal by regurgitating the mass hysteria, and wait for change N+2 that has useless sparklies in it and then upgade/use N+2. Then they will say how great the changes are in N+2, when 90% of those changes were actually present in change N+1 that they refused to upgrade/use all while saying they dislike the new sparklies and how they should have been more sparkly. Go to loop_start
Windows is typically more of the B variety. Apple products also are more of the B variety because of the cell contracts. Microsoft Office is more the A variety.
Are you trying to be funny, or just dense?
while real science languishes in the land of budget cuts and resource shortages
Are you trying to insinuate that this someone is lacking in "real science"? Are you trying to say that things like being able to launch things into space inexpensively doesn't benefit all of mankind? Like GPS satellites? A lot of technology and know how is being done that will transfer over to other areas that will benefit everyone. Saying that this is solely for space tourism for the rich is doing a disservice and extremely simplistic.
Why is it okay for the very wealthy to build yachts in space while poor people starve and wonder if they'll be able to afford the medication they need to stay alive
Because one doesn't necessarily exclude the other. Building private spaceships doesn't have any effect on people starving unless you plan on instituting some law that says if you have over x dollars you must give away all your extra to help the poor. Personally, I would also like to know why hard working people have to give money in order to feed a bunch of baby makers that are having babies for the sole purpose of getting more handouts. Perhaps you should turn your attention that way? Solve the waste (both monetary and human) plaguing the planet first. That money could have been used better to feed people who are actually trying and in need.
Change #2 to removing the gas subsidies. That includes the costs of wars spent on trying to keep the middle east from imploding on themselves.
And fourth, build a high speed highway system with higher speed limits (80-120MPH) that require a new class of license that keeps bad drivers off the damn road.
Those 4 things will actually shift the real cost of the owning a gas inefficient car back to those who want to drive them (fairly), while encouraging more efficient mass-transit, eco-friendly green initiatives to flourish (electric/hydro/fart powered).
I'm no eco-freak -- I believe in nuclear power, don't own a hybrid (but I've thought of buying an all electric car -- but it didn't make financial sense), but I also don't believe in subsidizing things that are eco-hostile like coal and gas either. Show people the true cost of their choices, create an environment that helps long term research feasible, and let the consumer decide. Making bad choices cheaper harms the country as a whole and should be stopped when ever possible.
Not in my experience. I've been on the Metra in Chicago and we've had to wait for freight trains to go by. It's not often, but it happens.
You are right. I don't know of any fast food restaurants that offer all you can eat, 24 hours a day, for $80 per month.
That would explain why I've never heard of it:
Illinois no law no law no law
Lol. Sounds like someone has entitlement issues.
You have no right to anything from any website. If they choose to only allow people who are willing to put up with ads to help defer some of the cost of running their website, that is their choice. Your choices are to:
A) Put up with the ads and get the content.
B) Go somewhere else.
C) Try and block the content and hope the website isn't smart enough to detect it.
D) Whine with your self-entitlement buddies.
or some combination of the above.