Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.politics,alt.economy,alt.business,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Nvidia Replaces Intel on DOW Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:45:35 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <20241104104535.00006a33@gmail.com> References: <-zmdnTyXmLloRrr6nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20241104102013.0000358c@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:45:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="66d526abfeb7204318502339f256943c"; logging-data="1121999"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/B9zaHSsTNfP9iHPhMUjrE2FPXg4TLli0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:1lzFdnJNy9h+4EKb5FVGwECuCqo= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:60539 alt.business:10443 talk.politics.misc:1165381 On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:30:27 +0000 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > It may be that computing as we understand it is simply a mature > technology, and there isn't much more to actually do. You have to wonder - but businesses accustomed to getting cheap-as-free upgrades of ~2^N in raw compute every few years will doubtless still expect to scale their capabilities upward accordingly. When they can't, it's gonna be real interesting to see what kind of renewed interest there'll be in maximizing efficient use of the available resources, vs. the "throw a beefier computer at it" approach that has very much been standard practice for the last ~30 yrs.