So Best Buy reduces the market for iPhones by "competing" with Apple in selling iPhones?
If you think current major brands such as LG, Samsung and so on like the idea of competing with their supplier, you're fucking nuts.
1. If they don't like it they can stop anytime. Or if they didn't like in the beginning they could have not started at all. Google hasn't started the Nexus stuff yesterday, you know. 2. Samsung? Their mobile devices have never been so profitable as in this Android era. And who wouldn't love a guaranteed minimum volume for the Nexus 10 they manufacture for profit? Heard of the Samsung Google Nexus S (TM)?
LG? Same guaranteed volume for new Nexus phone. Asus likes the same for Nexus 7. HTC has liked it earlier. Doesn't seem that bad, eh?
Yeah, you can do that in any kind of cluster. You don't need to add virtualization for that.
How do you move an NTP server from one physical machine to another? Without stopping it in between.
It can improve your memory usage up to the point (for a complete and perfect optimization) you'll be if you just consolidated your real machines...
Agreed here. Most of the times, virtualization will only add to the memory requirements, especially in such small services as this ask slashdot is enquiring about. The guest OS will end up requiring the vast majority of memory. De-duplication merely helps in lowering that overhead.
Yes, there is some gain in security. In practice, however, your datacenter has a completely open set of doors (it always has), and you are focusing in closing a window.
I am curious about this. Does "your datacenter" mean any datacenter, or specifically the AC's datacenter? If any, please "walk into" the open door of slashdot datacenter and change the title to dotslash (long needed anyway) to demonstrate.
You mean, you don't have extra resources available, but you can spin up a new virtual machine anyway, and it will be able to handle the extra demand?
True, one needs to have hardware ready in the worst case. But in the event of a particular service starting requiring more resources, it is trivial with zero downtime to 1. Add a powerful server to the pool of virtualization servers 2. Live-Migrate the guest running that particular service to this powerful server.
You can even set this live migration to happen automatically. But even better, if the pool is hosting 20 services and one is requiring more resources, typically you can subtract resources from other services, at least temporarily until you go find the powerful server to replace it. With zero downtime.
For the second time I repeat : Google doesn't manufacture the nexus devices. Any discussions emanating from this flawed assumption must necessarily be meaningless. How about understanding simple concepts yourself first? I think the diagram you were proposing for the AC would do you a lot of good.
Irrelevant. You compared Google with a hardware manufacturer. Which is wrong. Every manufacturer has to guarantee oneself a minimum volume. Single device manufactured at a time costs about a million dollars.
After Microsoft announced Surface. But Google has always had Nexus devices. ALL Android manufacturers decided to manufacture Android devices in spite of that.
(cost of cross licensed patents + fees from other licensees) = (fees asked from Apple)
I cannot see anyone paying 2.25% for a small set of patents
Which is why not every day a new mobile phone manufacturing company is born. One needs lots of one's own patents to do business in this patent ridden world.
But in the story of Nexus 7 vs. Samsung Tab etc., the hardware manufacturers (Samsung etc.) are more analogous to Asus than to Google.
So Nexus 7 costs 199 to Google, and say your assumption of zero profit to Google is correct. But as per your axiom, Asus curiously needs profit. So it cost 199 - $profit to Asus to manufacture.
Assuming a competitive market, Samsung (or any other competent manufacturer) can also manufacture a similar tablet for the 199 - $profit, sell it for 199 and then ??? and then profit.
Since different manufacturers have different strengths, weaknesses, opinions, some will make a better equipped tablet for $400. And some will make a less equipped tablet for $150 (though I think $199 might be towards the lower end for now). Since customers also have different tastes, some will buy the more equipped $400 tablet and some will buy the less equipped $150 tablet. Some will buy what their friend bought. Some will buy different just to be different.
I don't see any problem at all. Except with your comparison of Google with hardware manufacturers. Which is poor.
Initial Position : User's hand is already on a mouse - say web browsing by clicking on links and mouse gestures
Use Intent : User wants to open another application with minimal effort.
General Knowledge : 1. Like the majority of humans, acting on spatial memory is much faster than reading every menu item and acting upon the read text. 2. It takes time and effort to take hand from mouse to keyboard and back.
Solution : Fuck the user, we are going "touch friendly".
Economies of scale for stores (online or brick-and-mortar) to stock them will certainly plummet if businesses end up buying 95% of desktops and laptops. Companies directly focussing on consumer sales would stop doing so.
E.g. ever tried conacting Intel if you want to buy one of their CPUs? There is no dearth of economy of scale for Intel CPUs but they don't cater to retail. Dell, HP etc. could end up in a similar state.
Whichever is worth more, both Google and newspapers can stop it from happening whenever they want. Even without new laws being passed, and taxation being used as a stick.
So whoever thinks they are are getting the shorter end of the stick can simply break the deal. Now that's as fair as anything can be.
Multi-boot is becoming more feasible than earlier. EFI motherboards have really fast startup times. SSDs are becoming more common and have further reduced boot times. And a Linux based base OS can be set to boot very fast.
So as a survival strategy, Valve can play with the rules set by Microsoft for Windows Steam and give more expensive, less frequently updating, less variety of titles. AND have another option of "Linux based OS for Steam", which can come pre-configured with Steam, with slightly cheaper, much more frequently updated, more variety of titles. Reboot in 10 seconds to play. Install your favourite programs like firefox, chrome, vlc etc. on this gaming OS too for free. Reboot in 12 seconds back to Windows 7/8/9 to work.
Nobody in this thread has mentioned Microsoft with respect to this. The real reasons for ARM fanboyism is :
1. Anti-Intel : You are forgetting that like Microsoft, Intel has also collected "Anti"-fanboys along the path to its success. You yourself seem to be a card-carrying member of the society. Cheering for ARM currently is quite good a proxy for anti-Intellism, as success of Intel has negative correlation with ARM's for the moment.
2. Good old computer science : ARM (not ARM64) architecture is simply more beautiful to the classic computer scientist. Many people are for ARM simply for this reason, though they haven't checked the ARM64, it seems
Let's face it, people just aren't gonna go back to having Pentium II levels of performance out of their mobile devices
Except it did. Lots of 3rd world countries, including India, Thailand, Indonesia , Sri Lanka reduced import duties by an order of magnitude during or around 1990s.
FREE TRADE IS A LIE
The US itself told this lie to numerous 3rd world countries to get them to open up their imports.Now when it bites the US back, you say it is a lie NOW? It has been a lie all along.
When the US was trying to convince all 3rd world countries to open up their manufactured goods markets to US imports by reducing import duties, the US didn't think country specific then. It was the "new globalized world". Now when the same globalization hurts back the US in the butt, it is crying foul. Hypocrites.
Let's go back 15 years. when the US was lobbying hard for (say) India to lower their import duties.
let's say we don't have enough...ohhh...let's say car seatbelts. What SHOULD happen? Well the price for car seatbelts should go up, people see there is a demand for car seatbelts they start up/retool factories , the price levels out, classic supply and demand economics.
Now let us see what ACTUALLY happens (by opening up import markets by 3rd world countries)...they lobby for more import duty cuts, more car seatbelts brought in, no Indian dares learn how to make a car seatbelt because they can't compete when their manufacturing technology costs $7500K+ and the American is paying less than $1000K, but then The American with this extra economy of scale raises the quality of their factories and products and India becomes the dumping ground for other countries while India's own systems? ROT.
if the ban hadn't gotten rid of the higher quality bulbs
Are halogen incandescents not available in the US? My experience with halogens has been that they cost twice as much as regular incandescents, but failure rate has been - well I don't know. None have failed on me for 6 years when I started deploying them, I have total 3.
Is there an after-market for the base of these coolers? I mean if I buy one, and later Haswell turns out to be tempting enough a year from now, Haswell CPUs most likely will be a slightly different size and shape. Would I be able to find a base to fit on the CPU, using the same heat sink?
I will admit it's a larger jump than I had thought from the iPad mini to the Nexus 7; but still feel like the usable space will be greater with the iPad because the screen size is already small enough that you can't reasonably compress content much more in absolute size without it being tiny.
Wow! I have to pity you fanboys. Cruel Apple comes out with a new release every few months, totally distorting your worldviews. A week ago, screen resolution used to be the most important metric. Now, not so. And you guys have to think ways to explain away and make 20% appear more than 33%. You have to start "feeling" , while still talking numbers, about "enough" "reasonable" "much" "tiny". Tough.
And not to speak of the old Apple advertisement criticizing competitors to have too little or too high a resolution, claiming that only the Apple devices have just the "right" resolution so as to be good to eyes. And the Steve Jobs comments about 7 inch tablets needing to come with a file to shape one's fingers to be able to use a 7 inch tablets.
With IE you can force them into a proxy to monitor things
No Mr. Billy Gates, I have worked at 3 Fortune 50 companies. Internet just doesn't work without proxy on their intranet, you can only browse intranet websites without proxy. So browsing through any client is equally monitored.
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So... Apple isn't a manufacturer of iPhones then?
So Best Buy reduces the market for iPhones by "competing" with Apple in selling iPhones?
If you think current major brands such as LG, Samsung and so on like the idea of competing with their supplier, you're fucking nuts.
1. If they don't like it they can stop anytime. Or if they didn't like in the beginning they could have not started at all. Google hasn't started the Nexus stuff yesterday, you know.
2. Samsung? Their mobile devices have never been so profitable as in this Android era. And who wouldn't love a guaranteed minimum volume for the Nexus 10 they manufacture for profit? Heard of the Samsung Google Nexus S (TM)?
LG? Same guaranteed volume for new Nexus phone. Asus likes the same for Nexus 7. HTC has liked it earlier. Doesn't seem that bad, eh?
Yeah, you can do that in any kind of cluster. You don't need to add virtualization for that.
How do you move an NTP server from one physical machine to another? Without stopping it in between.
It can improve your memory usage up to the point (for a complete and perfect optimization) you'll be if you just consolidated your real machines...
Agreed here. Most of the times, virtualization will only add to the memory requirements, especially in such small services as this ask slashdot is enquiring about. The guest OS will end up requiring the vast majority of memory. De-duplication merely helps in lowering that overhead.
Yes, there is some gain in security. In practice, however, your datacenter has a completely open set of doors (it always has), and you are focusing in closing a window.
I am curious about this. Does "your datacenter" mean any datacenter, or specifically the AC's datacenter? If any, please "walk into" the open door of slashdot datacenter and change the title to dotslash (long needed anyway) to demonstrate.
You mean, you don't have extra resources available, but you can spin up a new virtual machine anyway, and it will be able to handle the extra demand?
True, one needs to have hardware ready in the worst case. But in the event of a particular service starting requiring more resources, it is trivial with zero downtime to
1. Add a powerful server to the pool of virtualization servers
2. Live-Migrate the guest running that particular service to this powerful server.
You can even set this live migration to happen automatically. But even better, if the pool is hosting 20 services and one is requiring more resources, typically you can subtract resources from other services, at least temporarily until you go find the powerful server to replace it. With zero downtime.
For the second time I repeat : Google doesn't manufacture the nexus devices. Any discussions emanating from this flawed assumption must necessarily be meaningless. How about understanding simple concepts yourself first? I think the diagram you were proposing for the AC would do you a lot of good.
Irrelevant. You compared Google with a hardware manufacturer. Which is wrong. Every manufacturer has to guarantee oneself a minimum volume. Single device manufactured at a time costs about a million dollars.
After Microsoft announced Surface. But Google has always had Nexus devices. ALL Android manufacturers decided to manufacture Android devices in spite of that.
No, it is also reasonable if
(cost of cross licensed patents + fees from other licensees) = (fees asked from Apple)
I cannot see anyone paying 2.25% for a small set of patents
Which is why not every day a new mobile phone manufacturing company is born. One needs lots of one's own patents to do business in this patent ridden world.
But in the story of Nexus 7 vs. Samsung Tab etc., the hardware manufacturers (Samsung etc.) are more analogous to Asus than to Google.
So Nexus 7 costs 199 to Google, and say your assumption of zero profit to Google is correct. But as per your axiom, Asus curiously needs profit. So it cost 199 - $profit to Asus to manufacture.
Assuming a competitive market, Samsung (or any other competent manufacturer) can also manufacture a similar tablet for the 199 - $profit, sell it for 199 and then ??? and then profit.
Since different manufacturers have different strengths, weaknesses, opinions, some will make a better equipped tablet for $400. And some will make a less equipped tablet for $150 (though I think $199 might be towards the lower end for now). Since customers also have different tastes, some will buy the more equipped $400 tablet and some will buy the less equipped $150 tablet. Some will buy what their friend bought. Some will buy different just to be different.
I don't see any problem at all. Except with your comparison of Google with hardware manufacturers. Which is poor.
Microsoft Windows 8 Use case documentation :
Initial Position : User's hand is already on a mouse - say web browsing by clicking on links and mouse gestures
Use Intent : User wants to open another application with minimal effort.
General Knowledge :
1. Like the majority of humans, acting on spatial memory is much faster than reading every menu item and acting upon the read text.
2. It takes time and effort to take hand from mouse to keyboard and back.
Solution : Fuck the user, we are going "touch friendly".
Economies of scale for stores (online or brick-and-mortar) to stock them will certainly plummet if businesses end up buying 95% of desktops and laptops. Companies directly focussing on consumer sales would stop doing so.
E.g. ever tried conacting Intel if you want to buy one of their CPUs? There is no dearth of economy of scale for Intel CPUs but they don't cater to retail. Dell, HP etc. could end up in a similar state.
Whichever is worth more, both Google and newspapers can stop it from happening whenever they want. Even without new laws being passed, and taxation being used as a stick.
So whoever thinks they are are getting the shorter end of the stick can simply break the deal. Now that's as fair as anything can be.
Multi-boot is becoming more feasible than earlier. EFI motherboards have really fast startup times. SSDs are becoming more common and have further reduced boot times. And a Linux based base OS can be set to boot very fast.
So as a survival strategy, Valve can play with the rules set by Microsoft for Windows Steam and give more expensive, less frequently updating, less variety of titles. AND have another option of "Linux based OS for Steam", which can come pre-configured with Steam, with slightly cheaper, much more frequently updated, more variety of titles. Reboot in 10 seconds to play. Install your favourite programs like firefox, chrome, vlc etc. on this gaming OS too for free. Reboot in 12 seconds back to Windows 7/8/9 to work.
its the "Anybody but M$!" bullshit
Nobody in this thread has mentioned Microsoft with respect to this. The real reasons for ARM fanboyism is :
1. Anti-Intel : You are forgetting that like Microsoft, Intel has also collected "Anti"-fanboys along the path to its success. You yourself seem to be a card-carrying member of the society. Cheering for ARM currently is quite good a proxy for anti-Intellism, as success of Intel has negative correlation with ARM's for the moment.
2. Good old computer science : ARM (not ARM64) architecture is simply more beautiful to the classic computer scientist. Many people are for ARM simply for this reason, though they haven't checked the ARM64, it seems
Let's face it, people just aren't gonna go back to having Pentium II levels of performance out of their mobile devices
Not relevant, the story is about ARM servers.
Except it doesn't work that way
Except it did. Lots of 3rd world countries, including India, Thailand, Indonesia , Sri Lanka reduced import duties by an order of magnitude during or around 1990s.
FREE TRADE IS A LIE
The US itself told this lie to numerous 3rd world countries to get them to open up their imports.Now when it bites the US back, you say it is a lie NOW? It has been a lie all along.
When the US was trying to convince all 3rd world countries to open up their manufactured goods markets to US imports by reducing import duties, the US didn't think country specific then. It was the "new globalized world". Now when the same globalization hurts back the US in the butt, it is crying foul. Hypocrites.
Let's go back 15 years. when the US was lobbying hard for (say) India to lower their import duties.
let's say we don't have enough...ohhh...let's say car seatbelts. What SHOULD happen? Well the price for car seatbelts should go up, people see there is a demand for car seatbelts they start up/retool factories , the price levels out, classic supply and demand economics.
Now let us see what ACTUALLY happens (by opening up import markets by 3rd world countries) ...they lobby for more import duty cuts, more car seatbelts brought in, no Indian dares learn how to make a car seatbelt because they can't compete when their manufacturing technology costs $7500K+ and the American is paying less than $1000K, but then The American with this extra economy of scale raises the quality of their factories and products and India becomes the dumping ground for other countries while India's own systems? ROT.
Nice.
Ok, never seen such integrated product, but that might make sense.
But considering the weight, expense, hassle**, and inefficiency of the reflector, LEDs would come out ahead being naturally "spotlighty" ?
** : To retain efficiency, now not only the light bulb but the reflector also has to be cleaned.
Have you tried halogen incandescents? In my experience, they last way longer than regular incandescents.
if the ban hadn't gotten rid of the higher quality bulbs
Are halogen incandescents not available in the US? My experience with halogens has been that they cost twice as much as regular incandescents, but failure rate has been - well I don't know. None have failed on me for 6 years when I started deploying them, I have total 3.
Is there an after-market for the base of these coolers? I mean if I buy one, and later Haswell turns out to be tempting enough a year from now, Haswell CPUs most likely will be a slightly different size and shape. Would I be able to find a base to fit on the CPU, using the same heat sink?
thanks
Interesting. From the picture it might appear it is difficult to get rid of dust on this - the aluminium part. How does it work out to be?
And Arctic Silver - how does it perform during its "setting period" of upto 200 hours ? Does one need to be careful?
I will admit it's a larger jump than I had thought from the iPad mini to the Nexus 7; but still feel like the usable space will be greater with the iPad because the screen size is already small enough that you can't reasonably compress content much more in absolute size without it being tiny.
Wow! I have to pity you fanboys. Cruel Apple comes out with a new release every few months, totally distorting your worldviews. A week ago, screen resolution used to be the most important metric. Now, not so. And you guys have to think ways to explain away and make 20% appear more than 33%. You have to start "feeling" , while still talking numbers, about "enough" "reasonable" "much" "tiny". Tough.
And not to speak of the old Apple advertisement criticizing competitors to have too little or too high a resolution, claiming that only the Apple devices have just the "right" resolution so as to be good to eyes. And the Steve Jobs comments about 7 inch tablets needing to come with a file to shape one's fingers to be able to use a 7 inch tablets.
As noted, $80... but that is a fair premium for more screen real estate
You might as well have 1024 as 1200, the difference is so slight
Interesting. 7 vs 7.9 : Apple wins because of "more" screen real estate. Difference of 12.86% or 11.39% depending upon direction.
But 1024 vs. 1200 is "so slight" so Apple wins again. Difference of 17.19% or 14.67% depending on direction.
Your claims of not being a fanboy in this post (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3204895&cid=41747851) are quite interesting in this light.
But does it save you from putting your foot into your mouth ?
but if you really really cannot ket by without a
With IE you can force them into a proxy to monitor things
No Mr. Billy Gates, I have worked at 3 Fortune 50 companies. Internet just doesn't work without proxy on their intranet, you can only browse intranet websites without proxy. So browsing through any client is equally monitored.
Authority is always right because authority is always right because
In many times and places, one because is "because it is illegal to say otherwise".
Blasphemy, contempt of court for opining that the court judgement is wrong, etc. are examples.