" Because of that, the emerging technologies in this field won't target your requirements for a very long time."

My requirements have been able to be met since the 80s.

If these emerging technologies can't reach that level of 'advancement' they're doomed to failure in the first place.

Or, I'm using those GRID cards for something else, entirely. It's still supporting everything else out there. Massive simulations for photons, that is what I'm doing. Well, with ONE of those full systems, anyways. I've got a couple more on the way.

I spit loads of data, rapidly. I need those SSDs.

"Why does every solution need to fulfill oddball out of the way requirements?"

My oddball requirements would pretty much guarantee full energy independence for 99% of the general population and for 99% of the other 1%, with a proper solar panel array and one of those batteries + inverters per room. Even apartment complexes could utilize this, and so could many businesses. The benefit is expandability and over-storage so you're essentially guaranteed to not run out of power, ever. Modularity means instead of the whole house dying when your single-battery/inverter setup fails (in case your tie-in is faulty, some how,) the rest of the place can actually continue to operate.

Sure it'll be somewhat expensive, but the reduced strain on the battery packs by distributing it across many batteries and inverters will improve the lifespan of those components and reduce the lifetime maintenance costs. Those batteries might last well beyond their warranty period and still maintain a reasonable amount of charge level. The inverters are hopefully still good if they're of any quality.

MESSENGER was over-engineered with the expectation of one year of usefulness. We got more than that, way more. The Rovers were designed for what, six months? We got how long out of them?

Over-engineering is the way to go if you want something to last. Sure, it's expensive, but those savings will become quite apparent in the long run. The way technology is advancing, it's going to become an economic no-brainer soon enough.

"Your insane waste of electricity"

You don't even know what it's being used for, so how can you call it a waste?

" it sped up video playback to what I would expect (no stuttering on HD)."

How old is your hardware? I've been doing HD 1080p video on Pentium 4s for a LONG time, under Linux and Windows.

"Actually, I think you overestimate the amount of power used in many circumstances."

Actually, I think you're speaking for yourself when you don't have a clue what I have running in my home.

8 kWh computer (just mine, not including the other laptops and my SO's own computer.)
3 kWh in LED grow lights.
7.2 kWh A/C (this is California.)

And so on...

"Most rooms shouldn't chew anywhere close to a kilowatt of power. What are you idiots DOING"

My computer alone uses almost 8kWh. I can eat that power pack for lunch.

When I cook, I use at minimum three stovetop elements simultaneously. The Tesla battery pack would DIE under just my normal cooking conditions.

Plus inverters? No. Plus inverter. That pack, if you look at the specs and do some math, is good for a single ~20A 120V circuit, given that it's sustained discharge is ~2kWh and peak is 3kWh. Reality is more like 15A. I wouldn't trust that pack for more than one room of my home. One for each room and multiple for the kitchen given the power drain an electric stove does per burner, be it element, induction, or IR, microwaves, dishwasher, refrigerator...

"You forgot the people who actually drive trains. An old friend of mine is that kind of engineer. "

That still requires primarily math and a license requirement by the state, though.

Google's "This site may be hacked' is a long-known false flag that they refuse to remove from MenuetOS (because MenuetOS is beating their ass hands-down when it comes to making a REAL OS from scratch.)

"I'm pretty confident the winners of the competitions for the last few years (a) don't have the same flexibility for artists working with their demo engines as Square-Enix does and (b) would never be able to assemble enough assets and people to do the facial expression stuff with anywhere near the same quality (an area in which, AFAIK, Nvidia has been almost entirely pioneering.)"

Actually, they've had the assets and more for a LONG time. Procedural generation eliminates the need for a LOT of work, can be done with a HUGE degree of detail, takes up ungodly tiny amounts of space, and yes, we've had facial emotional animation in demoscene projects well matching up with stuff like LA Noire.

CB also appears to be very insecure spamming morons.

Good Job, CareerBuilder. Do you ever wonder why I tell people to avoid you like the plague?

"Still saddens me that one company that made a raytracer accelerator chip just sort of vanished."

That was Intel's Knights Landing coprocessor. I don't think Intel vanished. :)

Sorry, we've had graphics like this well before now in the Demoscene. At least since the 8*** series of nVidia GPUs - NINE GENERATIONS AGO.

Drop Linux, learn MenuetOS, don't worry about getting infected by this kind of crap, and enjoy INSTANT boot-up/reboot/shut down and about a 400% speed improvement over current Linux.

Sure, it's proprietary, but as long as you understand ASM, you can do anything you want, more than Linux can.