One heated day I punched an object that ought not be punched. Little finger swelled up and didn't quite work correctly. A few hours later said finger was bandaged, and holding a bill for $3,400. No medication. Just looked at, x-ray'd, and bandaged into recovery position. $3,400. US. It would have been cheaper to fly back to the UK and have it looked at - three times over!
Most Americans dont see that as normal, healthcare is one of the top political issues in this country. However, the true costs of healthcare are extremely opaque. I'd guess the cost of the little anger incident above would be an order of magnitude less with insurance.
To add another anecdote, I got a kidney stone ~5 years ago. The cost for ER admission, a CT scan, some lab work, prescriptions, etc was about "$20,000". However, nobody paid anybody $20,000. I paid something like $1000 and my guess is my insurance via their negotiated rates paid something like another $1000 on top of that. How we got there as a country is a long, complicated story.
Which industry are you talking about? I have not seen a single workstation with more than 1-2 GPUs. You are talking about 8 * ~250W common pro GPUs, 2KW that is going to be absolutely nightmare to cool/quiet in a normal workstation case.
I am absolutely curious as to what you're talking about because I have never seen this before, please correct me because I want to learn more.
Apple is talking about prosumers, not the rendering firms that need such massive GPU workloads. They'd be better off using server farms to render that much work. No one is going to work next to a noisy workstation with fans that has to disperse 2,000 watt worth of heat at full load.
I found that comment bizarre, someone correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I've seen in my own experience and other people in my field (3D CG) multi-GPUs seem to scale ridiculously well.
Seemed more of a case that no one wants to actually code for OpenCL on AMD...
Depends on the tools. RedShift for instance told us right after 10xx Nvidia cards came out that if we have lots of vertices (> 1 or 10 million - I don't remember exactly), you benefit from more RAM so get a Titan X. If you want to render anything with less, get more GPUs since you can't share RAM anyways, but the number of cores will help you.
DDOS is indeed normally conducted by botnets; however, Anonymous uses a tool called LOIC‡ to carry out DDOS attacks.
Unlike a normal DDOS attack, people actively coordinate the attack (ie: it's not automated), and apparently, do so from their own systems.
I suspect a lot of the people who participate either aren't aware of the technical particulars, figure they'll be masked by large amounts of traffic, or just don't care.
He writes an enormous quantity of harrowingly insane music and Mike P from Planet Mu releases it all. And he has a good agent. It seems to work. Even if it does occasionally involve imagining that he's a pigeon on top of the hungarian national opera house.
One heated day I punched an object that ought not be punched. Little finger swelled up and didn't quite work correctly. A few hours later said finger was bandaged, and holding a bill for $3,400. No medication. Just looked at, x-ray'd, and bandaged into recovery position. $3,400. US. It would have been cheaper to fly back to the UK and have it looked at - three times over!