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This always bothered me too. Both when computers were expensive to me and now cheap. I get paid a good amount of money during the day to use a computer to com
by x43b 8y ago
This always bothered me too. Both when computers were expensive to me and now cheap. I get paid a good amount of money during the day to use a computer to compute things, display/interface with me, to communicate to humans and other computers. Then my computer is idle/sleep when I am not there. This feels inherently wrong to me. How is that I cannot come up with something useful for my computer to do when I am not there to make real contributions when I resume work? (disclaimer, engineer who programs but not a computer scientist)
- skykooler 8y agoDepends on what you do. When 3d modeling, I'll spend the day working on a project, then have it render overnight.
- jandrese 8y agoIsn't this the point of Folding@Home, SETI, etc...?
- stykepoints 8y agoI think serverless computing attempts to address this issue. You have an image that you can doing up whenever and access like a normal desktop, but when it isn't in use the resources go back into a pool that I managed by some authority. It is then the reposnsibility of the authority to load balance the resources and ideally optimize out wasted resources. This makes it cheaper for everyone.