It also depends very much on what your definition of "oil" is, which went from crude to crude+condensate to crude+condensate+biofuels to "all liquid fuels" today. Clearly, by moving the goalposts peak oil has been pushed out.
This. I just built a new workstation around an Asus mobo (Crosshair V) and a Bulldozer with ECC RAM. I would have gone with Intel but non-ECC RAM is a no-no for work for me unless it's a laptop that works basically as a thin client.
Yes they used to do that in the old days when employees at Fry's would slap a bare drive on the counter right in front of you too. But I recently bought some drives at Newegg and they came in a styrofoam shell with more than an inch thick bubble wrap around them. No complaints here, and I worked for a disk drive company and had to deal with shocked drives more than I care to remember.
I don't know what you call extreme climate but Memphis in summer apparently doesn't qualify. I had to screen and rework some product for three days there. No AC of course. At least they had free water, otherwise they would have needed ambulances nearby.
Bah, they're just making this up. After all, they're all gubmint scientists and we all know they fake their data to impress their worldview upon us. Where is the TV weatherman to debunk this? Can we have a dump of all their emails?
I hope they took the time dilation from moving the atomic clocks into account. But then that's so basic that anybody who forgot that should give their nerd card back.
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Because Flash is the biggest malware vector out there, that's why.
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Occupy the beer, yay. Or... I noticed I'm writing this at 16:20.
Just ask your local representative critter what they think of software patents and keep that in mind in the next election. And if the answer is not what you like make it public in social media. "Representative X is a fool/an a-hole/is not helping society but only lining his/her own pockets because..."
You need surface to move heat away since heat flow is proportional to area and delta T. A given transistor technology needs a fixed amount of energy to switch state plus a fixed amount of power for leakage current. So... the number of transistors you can cool is proportional to area. That's why 3D is a bad idea, unless you're talking about tech that's not power intensive. But even newer Flash chips get warm. Maybe for memristors which don't need static power consumption.
Amen. Debian stable is as stable as CentOS/RedHat. If you need something more recent, you get it from sid and if you need something really new you get it from testing or even experimental, and it's seamless. It's like RedHat/CentOS, epel, Fedora and Rawhide rolled into one. Maybe you can do that with those distros too but I never felt compelled to figure it out.
But making stuff and food takes a lot of energy and fertilizer, both of which come from fossil fuels today and the time for large scale change has passed. We are following the worst case trajectories from Limits To Growth and the IPCC.
The question isn't why you should switch, the question is why you should pay a pile of money for the software on your next system. And that's assuming that you won't have trouble with malware.
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Bravo. Fortunately I was able to swallow my coffee before LOLing.
It also depends very much on what your definition of "oil" is, which went from crude to crude+condensate to crude+condensate+biofuels to "all liquid fuels" today.
Clearly, by moving the goalposts peak oil has been pushed out.
This.
I just built a new workstation around an Asus mobo (Crosshair V) and a Bulldozer with ECC RAM. I would have gone with Intel but non-ECC RAM is a no-no for work for me unless it's a laptop that works basically as a thin client.
And most of all you want a video chip that supports IPMI. A server without IPMI is not up to contemporary standards IMHO.
In an alternate Universe, software would be released not before it's done, bug-free, and not need updates other than to add functionality.
Sounds like Debian stable to me. Almost.
Yes they used to do that in the old days when employees at Fry's would slap a bare drive on the counter right in front of you too. But I recently bought some drives at Newegg and they came in a styrofoam shell with more than an inch thick bubble wrap around them. No complaints here, and I worked for a disk drive company and had to deal with shocked drives more than I care to remember.
I don't know what you call extreme climate but Memphis in summer apparently doesn't qualify. I had to screen and rework some product for three days there. No AC of course. At least they had free water, otherwise they would have needed ambulances nearby.
Bah, they're just making this up. After all, they're all gubmint scientists and we all know they fake their data to impress their worldview upon us. Where is the TV weatherman to debunk this? Can we have a dump of all their emails?
I hope they took the time dilation from moving the atomic clocks into account. But then that's so basic that anybody who forgot that should give their nerd card back.
Because Flash is the biggest malware vector out there, that's why.
Occupy the beer, yay.
Or... I noticed I'm writing this at 16:20.
Why would you want to kill a steak? It's already dead cow.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth"?
Depends on the humidity. 50C dry is tolerable, 50C at high humidity will kill you.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only improper clothing. If you feel hot at 20C you're wearing too much.
It could be worse - it could be an article about Agile.
Most of all they're about lock-in => $$$ => Larry's yachts.
Just ask your local representative critter what they think of software patents and keep that in mind in the next election.
And if the answer is not what you like make it public in social media. "Representative X is a fool/an a-hole/is not helping society but only lining his/her own pockets because..."
I woulda, as I'm sure many here woulda.
A Slashdot with pictures, a la 4chan, I can see it now. Nerd porn at its finest!
And it would be a great way to keep tuitions in check.
You need surface to move heat away since heat flow is proportional to area and delta T. A given transistor technology needs a fixed amount of energy to switch state plus a fixed amount of power for leakage current. So... the number of transistors you can cool is proportional to area. That's why 3D is a bad idea, unless you're talking about tech that's not power intensive. But even newer Flash chips get warm. Maybe for memristors which don't need static power consumption.
Amen.
Debian stable is as stable as CentOS/RedHat. If you need something more recent, you get it from sid and if you need something really new you get it from testing or even experimental, and it's seamless. It's like RedHat/CentOS, epel, Fedora and Rawhide rolled into one. Maybe you can do that with those distros too but I never felt compelled to figure it out.
But making stuff and food takes a lot of energy and fertilizer, both of which come from fossil fuels today and the time for large scale change has passed. We are following the worst case trajectories from Limits To Growth and the IPCC.
The question isn't why you should switch, the question is why you should pay a pile of money for the software on your next system. And that's assuming that you won't have trouble with malware.