When the hardware has idle seconds in the cloud they can mine cryptocurrency!
> On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the graphics > processing to the cloud means....what? > > I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware. > It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a data > center where compute loads can be managed. > > Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto the > network? What am I not seeing? > > -Adam > > > On 3/27/2019 10:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. >> >> Holy bandwidth, Batman! >> >> It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were >> electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. Not >> just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb or a >> 3 gallon toilet. >> >> Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important thing >> (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone faster >> and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of leaving >> the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If someone >> suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed at. So >> don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 Mbps of >> video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to join the >> game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the people >> putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in their >> living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News to >> every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to room … >> which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each screen gets >> its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same show. >> >> I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation >> movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces me >> we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong. >> >> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On >> Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson >> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now >> >> Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system. >> >> Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. >> >> Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native. >> >> This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting >> graphics to your local screen. >> >> > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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