Thats a simplifcation, tirebiter.
Of the original targets in Anonymous announcement were taxi drivers, and those are usually working with the cartel under duress.
Maybe Anonymous backed down, maybe not. But mostly they changed from original tactic to avoid bloodshed of innocent thirdparties.
And blinded by his superior taste in book stores, wirth a snob move, this asshat decided to pull up a single anecdotal bookstore, ignoring that it runs counter to the larger trend. Way to go, "Miles".
Well, the reason wealthy republican interest groups that sponsor politicians get vilified, is because they are enemies of the people. They buy influence to allow the poisoning of air and water, undermining the health of the population, deny the population health care and other such lovely things.
People don't care for enemies of the people.
They don't get vilified for who they are. They get vilified for WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, KEEP ON DOING, AND WANT TO DO AGAIN
And sometimes, when we find out WHO supports a certain position, we have to look at it closer, because it means someone who has a nasty history of doing horrible things, is trying to do something nasty again.
I don't know if someone who calls himself Anonymous Coward should be walking around calling kettles black.
That's a very idealistic and naive view of the world.
Power will always win out.
Often truth will win out, but not always.
In wars, the victor wins the privilege to write history.
The winners of historical wars are chronicled, their strategic decisions studied and declared genious.
The losers of same wars are given shallow graves if lucky, and they do not get to hire scribes to chronicle their side of things.
Sometimes truth survives, and is carried through history, but more often, it is buried with said losers of wars.
compilers are mostly CPU bound. secondarily I'd say they are memory bound, that is memory bandwidth, not memory size.
that ht gives as much as 70% speedup isd proof that it is not 100% cpu bound. if it was 100%, I'd expect very little speedup. 70% speedup tells you that we have exactly the kind of workload ht and other mt was invented for. in old days without multithreading, a core would do only one operation per cycle, in between the pipeline, staging, bus requests etc. every time it missed a cachge lookup,ba page fault, we had to context switch, and wait until next cycle to try an operation. with ht,bwe have always multiple pipelines lined up, and when he is out because of page faulkt another is ready to go. basically, wghat my does, is to allow a core to be 100% utilized. that's why some workload see improvement with ht, while a few even see degradation. a workload that is truly 100% CPU bound might see degradation. workloads that are mosrptly cvpu and memory, will see greatest improvermernt. in the case above, they might benefit from even more than 8 threads, if thecore is not 100% utilized yet. it depends how much cpu bound vs memory bound the process is. now the core would be idle in those cases where more than 4 threads had a page fault in same clock cycle. now you understand why processor cache vsize is so important. ram access is extrermerly slow compared to CPU clock cycles.
dead tree books are buggy whips. if you haven't noticed, a lot of book stores have closed shop. borders are gone. and it is not just because of amazxon. when is the last time you looked up in a dictionary or a lexicon?
if they are state that only 1 in 25 don't listen to radio every week, theyre lying. my car had as radio, but thastsd because I've been to busy to replaced with a digital media player. I only listened to that radio maybe 5 weeks per year, and only npr, and never music. I know lots of others who also don't have as radio in the house. radio is as retro format like vinyl.
As much as we want?
If you compare world food procdution to world oil production, and keep in mind that many already do not have enough food, and also keep in mind that modern agriculture is a large fuel consumer, you would have to eat those words. There would nothing else for dinner.
Thats what the grid is for.
If the grid is powerful enough, you will export your excess to the grid when your storage is full and import from the grid when your reservoir is gone.
If there are some hydroplants on the grid, excess solar power could be used to pump water back to the reservoi during daytime when the turbines are running at a tricke, and crank the turbines up to full load at night when all the solars are down.
Excess energy could be used to produce hydrogen or methanol for fuell cells. Maybe a generator per household would be overkill, but one per neighborhood oughta do.
Energy storage is not trivial, but it is a far cry from impossible.
I can imagine an energy coop would want to have a
If the purp0se of the website is to recruit suicide bombers and bloodthirsty killers to attack innocent 3rd parties, then you can consider it part of the infrastructure of a hostile army, and a first class target for anyone wanting to interrupt such monsters. If you go all meta and pedantic, you have already lost grasp on reality, and need a brain check.
Data warehousing?
Realtime realistic light an texture 3d graphics rendering?
Hosting dozens of virtual machines? This on i find most likely, especially if needing tet, dev, demo env etc, or if need to simulate large complex sw running across several servers. A mid range x86 desktop can easily outrun yesteryears refrigerator sized unix servers.
Single host massive denial of server attacks?
Or just absolutey useless waste of time an money.
Or just a pack of lies.
Personally i have set up servers with more than 1 tb ram, but they werea actually needed for a specific workload.
I can say the same about my i3, or even your average cell phone chip that has ony 2 cofes, eacch being only 1 5th as powerful as an i3.
Disk io, network io, mory bandwidth are sill the most common bottlenecks. If a regular desktop user has bad response times due to cpu shortage, there is probably a software bug, or misconfiguration.
The dirty little secret that is shared by everyone who has a chttp://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Slik-smugles-folk-til-Europa-7809354.htmllue, is that the cpu hardly matters anymore, except for a few applictions.
Your regular dick jane and joe that walks into bestbuy getting outfitted for college or needing a machine to do their acconting and surf the web shoould not even be looking at the cpu model. Theyd run just fine on an atom or celeron, or a pentium Ii from the 90.s.
All that proves is that hyperthreading helps. It would still be just 4 cores.
Bah.
Not interested in the quad core stuff.
The only thing i want from this family is as powerful as possibe dual core chips.
Dual core xeons are pretty much extinct by now , but there are a few servers sold with core i3 and i5 instead of xeons.
You see the licensing pricing struture for software such as oracle db, tuxedo, weblogic, and others are per core. So it has become tricky to source a mainstream server model and ke ep the layered product licensing under $100ks of dollars. Since the recent x86 cores are 10-20x as strong as some old unix cores , you can replace an old refrigeratior sized unix hog that cost a million dollars, with a single x86 blade module for a couple of thousand dolllars. But you still end up paying big $$ to oracle.
And dont tell me we need to roll our own hw. We have to pick from mainstream server models that can be sourced and supported in evey country.
Solving this challengeis is where the big money is right now. Being able to scale down hw for commercial software to take advatage of these fast cores. There are solutions, but none are optimal, and often come in conflict with the client company's irrational and rigid rigid it policies. Scaling up is laughably simple. Scaling down is a real head scratcher now that eveything is getting bigger.
Friction is a drag.
