Posts by Pascal Monett 16741 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
So, despite it being already openly stated that cloud does not savo you money, you expect to save not only millions, but hundreds of millions, by going to The CloudTM.
I await the follow-up on how you are desperately trying to waive an enormous bill of $700 million.
Good luck.
I disagree.
Hackers cannot make something do a thing it wasn't designed to do.
Hackers make things do something that the original maker did not intend, but included the functionality anyway and didn't think about it.
A hacker cannot make an RPi shoot a laser beam, but he can eventually reprogram it to take over the local network, and maybe access the CCTV records.
A hacker is not a wizard, he's just someone who looks at the equipment available and disregards whatever artificial constraints the maker thought he was imposing.
What you call "nuclear" is currently Pressure Water Reactors.
The only reason this technology is employed is because, at the end of WWII, the governments wanted plutonium to make bombs.
There are other types of "nuclear", notably Thorium reactors. They leave an almost insignificant amount of radioactive waste (compared to PWR) and, more to the point, the security is passive.
With a PWR reactor, you need active surveillance, an experienced team 24/7, and maintenance costs are through the roof.
With a Thorium reactor, you can have one engineer on standby with a pager. If anything goes wrong, the salt plug at the bottom of the reactor basic melts and the entire radioactive basin is emptied into cooldown basins - the reaction stops. No risk of hydrogen buildup or explosions of any kind. All you need to do is wait until you can put everything back together again, with another salt plug.
The thing is, Thorium reactors do not generate plutonium. I couldn't care less. We have enough bombs, we don't need more.
We want to transition 100% of the current vehicle parc into electric vehicles. Solar and wind will not suffice.
Thorium is the future - at least until we have a reliable fusion reactor.
Look it up.
Nuclear does not come in only one flavor.
You can deactivate that in the BIOS. Of course, you need to be sure your cooling system works.
I did liquid cooling way back when I had my first AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I bought an aquarium pump (because silence), the special CPU connector, a humongous radiator and the tubing and miscellaneous connectors that were necessary.
I set it all up, turned the pump on, turned the PC on, and got the No Fan warning. Hunting around in the BIOS, I found that you could disable that warning. Restarted the PC and, from that point on, on got the most silent computing experience of my life, and all the performance as a bonus.
Liquid cooling today is widespread. It's on motherboards by default (though not for DIMMs), graphics cards all use it (see here) and liquid cooling modules for all versions of CPUs are commonplace.
It's a bit more noisy than it used to be, but it's still better than having an air-cooled system.
When are we going to start counting atoms ?
And hey, promising better performance in the next revision when you're not done building the first one ?
I think the industry needs to stop behaving like there hasn't been 50 years of progress. We're practically at atomic scale. I've always read that, at that scale, having a functional gate is much more difficult because electrons have a tendancy to not understand barriers.
Now, I'm not saying this is a problem that cannot be solved. I'm sure there are many people much more intelligent than me who are looking at ways to solve that, but we're getting real, real close to the physical limits of the Universe here, so you might want to dial down the hyperbole a bit.
How does that work exactly ? You still have to buy the product, right ? Or is this an open invitation to steal stuff and bring it to Moscow ?
So, Putin is trying to get around all the bans. Twitter is fined ? Great, but Twitter can't pay the fine because Russia is cut off of SWIFT. Besides, Twitter couldn't care less.
Zuckerberg is banned from entering Russia indefinitely ? Pah, he can barely get to Washington D.C. for a congressional hearing.
Of course Putin is going to encourage piracy, he supports hackers.
There was a time where the banner of El Reg contained the words "Biting the hand that feeds IT".
El Reg is full of people who are intelligent and competent, and the incompetence that Borkzilla regularly demonstrates is just insufferable.
So we vent.
But don't worry, Apple gets its share, as does IBM, Intel, and any other company that makes an incredible blunder.
We're not in 1980 anymore.
Improvements are incremental these days. 10% in the best of cases.
Exascale is not just the CPU, it's the memory, the interconnects, the bandwidth.
I don't know what bandwidth exascale has at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it'll be a while before it gets 10 times faster.
Certainly not by next year but, hey, I'm willing to be proven wrong.
A contract is a contract.
You can't go changing the terms of the contract on your own.
Unless, of course, this is just a click-and-you-agree deal, in which case it is everything wrong with business on the Internet.
If said customers say no, then what ?
I don't see Borkzilla just cutting them off.
In the end, a program is nothing but a series of instructions to the CPU.
If you remove a swath of available instructions from your OS, someone savvy will put them back in.
And that is not a problem, because contrary to ads (looking at you, SatNad), only the people who want the thing will get it.
What a great idea. I'm sure Texas has a lot of space, but what it doesn't have is water for an industry that is very thirsty.
1,500 jobs ? Maybe.
1.2 million wafers a month ? I don't think so.
There won't be enough water to satisfy the neeeds of all the chip plants that are being built in Texas.
Gotta start stockpiling the popcorn.
Re-read the article.
A cryptocurrency has no value until people flock to it. The more people flock to it, the more value it gets, until there aren't any newcomers, some start selling short or somesuch, and the funny money crashes like the dead bird it is.
"Luna, wiped $40 billion off the system when it crashed"
How many more billions lost will you need to understand ?
I didn't want to be part of Hangouts, but Google made it mandatory at one point when signing in to Gmail.
I have no use for Chat, won't use it and don't want it.
I have one question : will I absolutely have to be signed in if I want to use my Gmail ?
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