NYC pretty much banned all weapons, the violent crime rate is low. The largest city in USA didn't even get in top 30, Detroit with CC is number one.
Explain Baltimore. It's right on the tails of Detroit, with a higher murder rate (I guess it's lacking elsewhere), and they pretty much banned guns there as well. It couldn't be that other factors come into play, could it? You wouldn't paint half a picture and tell us it's a masterpiece, would you? I lived in Baltimore for most of my life. First of all, neither NYC nor Baltimore have banned guns. While gun advocates my disagree the laws in NYC do not prevent anyone from owning guns, they just make it more of a pain in the ass. The difference between the two is how they deal with gun crimes. In NYC if you HAVE a gun and commit a crime (and are convicted) you are going to jail for a LONG time. In Baltimore you do the same thing and you may get jail time, you may not. Where Baltimore is particularly bad is in the situation where someone is held up at gunpoint and nobody is hurt. The criminal is willing to take the life of the victim but when convicted they will get a light sentence often on first time just probation. The message seems to be that it is not so bad to do this and it keeps happening until somebody dies. |
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They also don't tend to die while on, only when spinning up. So for a 24/7/365.24 machine, you really don't need to worry about it. Seriously, looking at 5+ years even at full speed before it dies (somewhat less if you have pets, and halve that if you smoke indoors).
The fan in an reference ATI video card might last five years of normal use in a CLEAN COOL environment, mining 24/7 is not normal use. Even normal clocks they simply will not last five years running constantly mining.. These fans seem to die based on how long they run over 50% speed, so one card on its own not overclocked will run a while, maybe years. Add in either overclocking or high constant heat from neighboring cards and you are looking at higher fan speeds and earlier death. I do not believe you can run most reference cards one year at full speed, let alone five years without failure. |
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Yes. A block party.
I'm in!
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I have one, probably too expensive though. It is brand new (but old stock), 15" lcd I think by RCA. It has component, composite and 15 pin BNC inputs as well as a now defunct analog TV tuner. $80 plus shipping.
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Heat is the enemy of most electronics including FPGA's. Overclock them 20% and increase their heat output by 50% and you are reducing their life. Properly cooled and stock speeds/specs and they should last more then ten years.
Stock clock for a miner, or stock clock as meant by chip mfg  Stock clock for chip mfg. If the FPGA based miner manufacturer (like Butterfly) has run the chip beyond manufacturer specs it is in effect overclocked and all bets are off on that ten year life. |
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Oil cooling is good for all metal items. It is bad when you add in some plastic items. Some plastic items will degrade in oil. It may take a month or a few months but something will go wrong. It is good for show in computing but not for anything long term unless it designed from the ground up for that purpose. I know of no computer parts 'rated' for oil. There are a lot of plastic items in a modern computer.
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btw, i put on a short of AAPL this past week. its at the end of a parabola and now with Jobs gone i can't see a path anywhere but down for the stock.
You had better tell the large middle class in China not to buy any more Apple stuff. Because they love it. With gross margins north of 50% Apple has a lot more cash to make around the world. Also with the high resale value of Apple stuff, owners of Apple products tend to go right out and purchase the latest model and sell their old one EVEN THOUGH THE OLD ONE IS PERFECTLY USABLE AND DID NOT NEED TO BE REPLACED. These leads to huge new sales on items like the iPad 3 and the iPhone 4s. The used sales seem to, instead of cannibalizing new sales, encourage new entrants into the world of Apple. These users end up getting hooked and become potential new product buyers as well. I had a substantial amount of AAPL, bought between 90 and 220. I have sold 1/2 of it so far (above $500) but I am not thinking short is a good idea. AAPL is still a money making machine. |
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what about this:
bitcointalk.org
-gpu
--software
--hardware
-fpga
--software
--hardware
or
-software
--fpga
--gpu
-hardware
--fpga
--gpu
I think that's too many subforums. Especially given that some mining software is compatible with both GPUs and FPGAs. My vote is for just the addition of one subforum for FPGAs, as a child to the Mining->Hardware subforum. Agreed. Too many. Software does not need to be broken out. I also think FPGA as a subforum either under hardware or under the parent mining. You could break out GPU but I do not think it is necessary. I think it would bring a little more order to the forums. |
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Heat is the enemy of most electronics including FPGA's. Overclock them 20% and increase their heat output by 50% and you are reducing their life. Properly cooled and stock speeds/specs and they should last more then ten years.
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I do a lot of internet marketing, and am a bit of a webmaster on the side. As a result, I have a couple of dozen Amazon t1.micro instances with very low CPU utilization that other people are paying me to keep running.
Since I'm already paying for the servers and CPU utilization is not metered, I'm looking for a linux cpuminer that I can use to more fully utilize the processing power at my disposal. It is important that this not overtax the CPU to the detriment of the webserver, though - are there any tools out there that will help me constrain resource utilization to under, say, 80% total across all processes?
I looked through the stickies, and it doesn't look like it will be an issue setting up the miners, I just need to be pointed in the right direction to learn how to keep it out of the way of the actual "work" being done on the systems.
I doubt you will get enough bitcoins out of it to justify it with cpu mining. Spend that time doing more of what you do best and you will make more money. Buy BTC with that money instead. Guys... look. I understand I'm not going to make significant money with this. If I make .05 BTC / week, I'd be suprised. It is bothering me that I'm paying for CPU time and not using it, when I could be using it to (trivially) be more involved in supporting Bitcoin. If I don't do it, it's going to bother the hell out of me. You realize that is 25 cents a week? If it causes ANY problems at all with your paid customers you blew it. |
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By that information, most people who have received product, could have purchased a 5970 ($450?) with that money and paid half of it off with average electricity prices. Three month delivery time with money paid up front really hurts the payback. |
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I do a lot of internet marketing, and am a bit of a webmaster on the side. As a result, I have a couple of dozen Amazon t1.micro instances with very low CPU utilization that other people are paying me to keep running.
Since I'm already paying for the servers and CPU utilization is not metered, I'm looking for a linux cpuminer that I can use to more fully utilize the processing power at my disposal. It is important that this not overtax the CPU to the detriment of the webserver, though - are there any tools out there that will help me constrain resource utilization to under, say, 80% total across all processes?
I looked through the stickies, and it doesn't look like it will be an issue setting up the miners, I just need to be pointed in the right direction to learn how to keep it out of the way of the actual "work" being done on the systems.
I doubt you will get enough bitcoins out of it to justify it with cpu mining. Spend that time doing more of what you do best and you will make more money. Buy BTC with that money instead. |
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$300 a month. Wheee. I'll keep my day job, thanks  Clearly your day job is not in finance... else you'd see that OP is making a 100% operating profit and it's just a matter of scale before quitting a day job would be a reality.  GPUs don't scale linearly unless you live somewhere where it is cold year round for free cooling, and you have a lot of space. True. One rig = 100% profit. Ten and you need to pay for cooling, and maybe space as well. You will see failures. Sure, there are some people who have a place to put in 10 GPU's and not pay for cooling.... but most can not. |
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What cards do you have lying around?
ill buy wtv card works best.. the point is, will having an out dated motherboard hurt my hash rate? No. If the card and the motherboard work together it will not hurt the hashrate. |
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I am starting to wonder whether GPU miners will keep going at it or not. Then the market will be flooded with 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs driving the prices way down. In the future there will be those with free electricity, and those with FPGAs.
What are your opinions?
Pick the right card and there is reasonable resale value. I have sold most of my cards for near what I paid for them, after making money mining on them. The gaming market does put a floor on the resale value even if it is low. I paid $689 for my 6990, it still sells on ebay for an average of $550 even though I have make more then the cost of the card already. At the reward drop time, I will have made a considerable profit even if I turned off all of the hardware and threw it out. Now a person using a FPGA mining card has a long payback time and uncertain resale value. Maybe FPGA is the future after the reward drop.... but people buying now may never even pay off the gear. |
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CPU mining on someone elses hardware is like ripping out copper pipes from a house. You steal it to get $100 and cause $10,000 in damage.
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#2 According to the article, Tradehill sold off Bitcoin.com. For $1M. Which is part of what they're suing Dwolla for. What???
My understanding from what I've read and reading between the lines is that Tradehill got control of the Bitcoin.com domain for a $1million equity stake in Tradehill (don't know what % stake that was or what Tradehill was valued at) and control of the Bitcoin.com domain was contingent on using it to run an exchange. When the exchange business ended the control of the domain had to go back to the original owerners. Anyone know who owns the bitcoin.com domain? When was it first registered? take from it what you will: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9442.0;alldomain tools has a pay service that lets you see the past registrar information as well. http://www.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/?page=results&q=bitcoin.com |
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The bags are being printed and I should have them next week, ready to fill with stuff!
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