Went and bought a 2.0 machine not knowing there was a difference.

Ended up returning it the next day... also bought a Mr. Coffee K-cup machine.

Way to fail, Keurig.

I'm currently bidding out a pretty hefty workstation (128GB RAM, RAID 5 disk array, highly parallel workload).

From what I'm seeing, AMD is pretty competitive on price/performance. Our work load is integer heavy, and I can get a dual 16-core 2.8ghz AMD machine for $2500 cheaper than a dual 10 core 3.2ghz Intel machine. Even if you assume the AMD is 20-30% slower per core, it stacks up quite nicely.

The MBs are cheaper, the processors are cheaper, and the registered DDR3 DIMMs are waaaaay cheaper than the DDR4 RDIMMs that Haswells seem to love.

Sam

This is the most sadly insightful thing I've ever read on Slashdot.

Insightful.

And sad.

Correlation is not causation?

What do you think came first, the high crime rate, or the restrictive gun laws?

Agreed. What's more, modern energy-efficient fridges use smaller compressors and run them longer than older ones.

I just replaced my old brick with an LG refrigerator (a big one, too) with their linear compressor. Because it's essentially a continuously variable displacement compressor, there's no big startup inrush current like the older style compressors. Instead, it just starts gently until it gets up to full speed. And the compressor doesn't even need to run a full power, it cycles around 50% most of the time.

Sam

Hah! In the movie they shaped it like a regular cartridge, with a shoulder on the casing and everything... except that the "motor" is on the back of the cartridge, meaning the entire thing is actually a huge bullet.

I hope this wasn't something that was supposed to be able to be fired from a regular rifle in the movie!

We don't have time to go to Starbucks now.

You know he means NO as in Nitric Oxide, not an emphatic "no," right?

NOx would be better though, since it's really a mixture of a bunch of things.

I thought LagFix just executed an SSD TRIM.

Wow, that guy just kept causing problems. That he eventually strangled himself on a bed pulley system of his own design seems like a pretty fitting (and ironic) end to his life.

I would enroll in Netflix just for more Better off Ted. C'mon, Lem and Phil are my favorite TV duo! That episode where they have the timer set to switch which one is in charge every couple minutes is frigging genius.

Sam

What's epic, is that I just tried inputting cursive and had 100% recognition success (although I was writing extra carefully to play with it).

Sam

As would sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial.

You're right! Argh!

Bing Maps is like what you'd get if you updated the old version of Google Maps, but made it better instead of worse.

I feel so dirty now :(

Sam

"super magnetic levitation motor"

I wonder what that means.