Hang on. LPAR is available straight away. It's only the dynamic aspect that will not be there - you will need to reboot to change partition sizes.
Whilst we're on the subject it's worth mentioning that Regatta allows partitions down to a granularity of 1 CPU (and I/O slot) - StarCat does not. This is aimed firmly at the consolidation market, and I suspect to keep people migrating away from SP environments happy.
I'd be very very nervous about resizing partitions/domains on the fly in the kind of environment this is aimed at - irrespective of whether the capability was there!
Zack
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It looks very good. I just wonder what you would use 160 PCI slots for?
It is very good - and that list doesn't even include the ability to run Linux in an LPAR, which is also possible.
Don't think of it as 160 slots - think of it as 10 slots per LPAR. Suddenly it looks a lot less.
$1bn is small change to IBM - revenue was $20bn for the last quarter.
The point is, there is a market perception that if it's good enough for Big Blue, it's good enough for the boardroom, and that's where Linux really stands to gain. Shame about that 16-way CPU limitation though.
IBM have the jump on HP/Compaq by at least a year - and that is where the latter stand to lose.
Even from the side it's not *that* bad, it was able to pick up much of the lip reading scene in 2001.
I hope it didn't think they were talking about it.
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Big Blue can crunch through, something like, millions of moves a second (sorry I don't have the figure to hand) and Kasparov can do a couple a second. Number crunching is not interlligence as you imply with your 'Moores Law' statement.
...the other difference being that Kasparov doesn't evaluate a couple of moves a second - he evaluates a couple of strategies a second, or a couple of instances of "well, I could do -this-..." without actually looking at it in terms of moves. This is, of course, bloody difficult to implement using standard software methods.
Or at least I hope so, I certainly beat the handheld a lot more often now I've stopped looking at actual moves too closely.:)
Does anyone know if there has been any research into more holistic artifical chess-playing? You could teach a neural-network model the rules of chess and then get it to improve by simply playing a -lot- of chess, without ever actually teaching it any strategies...
...who has co-written many books on exobiology and extra-terrestial life origin theories with, er, Chandra Wickramasinghe. So none of this is anything new.
I found "Diseases in Space" on a second-hand book stall a few months ago, and just finished reading it. It's utter bollocks. And it's certainly not good science.
ISTR Life Cloud was pretty shoddy too, read that about 15 years ago. This is the same old crap that these two have been producing for years.
It's interesting that the cost of recording classical CDs has been mentioned. Can someone please explain why [in the UK, YMMV] the average classical CD is about half the cost or less of the average Metallica CD (to pick an example at random:> ) ?
Online classical music sales are a different proposition to pop music. Because MP3 is, quite frankly, shite when it comes to sound reproduction. Also, classical music listeners want to listen in their lounge, not at their PC.
I'm old fashioned; if I want to listen to something but don't want to pay the ridiculous price, I copy the CD.
And given that even using a WAP phone is a pain in the butt, what use would internet access on a watch be? How the hell are you gonna conduct a conversation with someone on a watch? What about power?
Keyboard? How quaint!
Why not simply speak into the damn thing? After all, mobile phones have already progressed to the point (at least in the UK, YMMV) already dial numbers and navigate around your voice mailbox using only your voice. (See Orange's Wildfire, for example.)
Mobiles have already shrunk to wristwatch size - I know Toshiba at least have produced such a toy. Using a WAP phone is a pain because most of the current products have been rushed to market without any real thought going into them. (As usual. Sigh.)
I think you're guilty of the same sin as the NYT - you're not thinking far enough out of the box.
To address the comment about losing these items, well, I already think nothing of walking around with £150 worth of mobile in one pocket and £200 of palmtop in the other. (Plus god knows how much valuable data on it.) And of course keys to £15,000 worth of house contents...
No-one in England uses UKOL, because in true US-ego-a-go-go style, it's called still called AOL even over here. Now that's branding. (Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have affected their market share...)
If somebody sues Freeserve I will laugh myself silly. And probably contribute to the fees.
ObOnTopic: Can I sue Laurence Godfrey for the difference between the cost of my Demon subscription now and the cost it will be when they pass the $400,000 on to me, the customer?
Incidentally, the BBC World Service quoted the financial figure in dollars without even mentioning the sterling amount, which I found a little bit odd since it was a British company reporting on a British trial.
The X-box has a hard drive, as you say. And a fan. And all the other bits and bobs that any bastardised box based on PC technology will have.
This means that it is heavy, noisy, susceptible to heat problems, and certainly not anywhere near indestructible or ultra-portable - which is why I will continue to use my PlayStation, despite owning two PCs with any number of operating systems.
The "faster than light" part is too vague. I also can send a signal faster than the speed of light would be in a copper wire, using only this simple torch... (What is the RI of copper anyway?)
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Actually, there were exactly twenty-three people who stated their religion as "Discordian."
So, TMA-1 on the Moon, TMA-2 near Io, and TMA-3 in Poughkeepsie?
"My God, it's full of LPARs..."
Interesting question - if NT support for PowerPC / CHRP was still with us today, would we have been able to install it in an LPAR? Scary.
Zack
Hang on. LPAR is available straight away. It's only the dynamic aspect that will not be there - you will need to reboot to change partition sizes.
Whilst we're on the subject it's worth mentioning that Regatta allows partitions down to a granularity of 1 CPU (and I/O slot) - StarCat does not. This is aimed firmly at the consolidation market, and I suspect to keep people migrating away from SP environments happy.
I'd be very very nervous about resizing partitions/domains on the fly in the kind of environment this is aimed at - irrespective of whether the capability was there!
Zack
It is very good - and that list doesn't even include the ability to run Linux in an LPAR, which is also possible.
Don't think of it as 160 slots - think of it as 10 slots per LPAR. Suddenly it looks a lot less.
Zack
The point is, there is a market perception that if it's good enough for Big Blue, it's good enough for the boardroom, and that's where Linux really stands to gain. Shame about that 16-way CPU limitation though.
IBM have the jump on HP/Compaq by at least a year - and that is where the latter stand to lose.
I hope it didn't think they were talking about it.
Or at least I hope so, I certainly beat the handheld a lot more often now I've stopped looking at actual moves too closely. :)
Does anyone know if there has been any research into more holistic artifical chess-playing? You could teach a neural-network model the rules of chess and then get it to improve by simply playing a -lot- of chess, without ever actually teaching it any strategies...
Zack
I found "Diseases in Space" on a second-hand book stall a few months ago, and just finished reading it. It's utter bollocks. And it's certainly not good science.
ISTR Life Cloud was pretty shoddy too, read that about 15 years ago. This is the same old crap that these two have been producing for years.
Z.
But "cool technology" can help provide meaning, companionship, and culture. See any Banks Culture novel for detail.
There's plenty of people hang around the cybercafes in London that wouldn't have ANY of these without cool technology.
Of course, I would say that, I'm currently being paid a lot of money to work on a virtual community project...
Disclaimer: IANAS. (S = spod.) But some of my best friends are.
It's interesting that the cost of recording classical CDs has been mentioned. Can someone please explain why [in the UK, YMMV] the average classical CD is about half the cost or less of the average Metallica CD (to pick an example at random :> ) ?
Online classical music sales are a different proposition to pop music. Because MP3 is, quite frankly, shite when it comes to sound reproduction. Also, classical music listeners want to listen in their lounge, not at their PC.
I'm old fashioned; if I want to listen to something but don't want to pay the ridiculous price, I copy the CD.
Keyboard? How quaint!
Why not simply speak into the damn thing? After all, mobile phones have already progressed to the point (at least in the UK, YMMV) already dial numbers and navigate around your voice mailbox using only your voice. (See Orange's Wildfire, for example.)
Mobiles have already shrunk to wristwatch size - I know Toshiba at least have produced such a toy. Using a WAP phone is a pain because most of the current products have been rushed to market without any real thought going into them. (As usual. Sigh.)
I think you're guilty of the same sin as the NYT - you're not thinking far enough out of the box.
To address the comment about losing these items, well, I already think nothing of walking around with £150 worth of mobile in one pocket and £200 of palmtop in the other. (Plus god knows how much valuable data on it.) And of course keys to £15,000 worth of house contents...
If somebody sues Freeserve I will laugh myself silly. And probably contribute to the fees.
ObOnTopic: Can I sue Laurence Godfrey for the difference between the cost of my Demon subscription now and the cost it will be when they pass the $400,000 on to me, the customer?
Incidentally, the BBC World Service quoted the financial figure in dollars without even mentioning the sterling amount, which I found a little bit odd since it was a British company reporting on a British trial.
This means that it is heavy, noisy, susceptible to heat problems, and certainly not anywhere near indestructible or ultra-portable - which is why I will continue to use my PlayStation, despite owning two PCs with any number of operating systems.
The "faster than light" part is too vague. I also can send a signal faster than the speed of light would be in a copper wire, using only this simple torch... (What is the RI of copper anyway?)