I'm guessing most power savings from their changes would be for Multicore cpus. One of the main advantages to the changes is that the Corei7 can COMPLETELY turn off a core and use ~0 power. If the scheduler can get 1-2 cores to turn off for even a few miliseconds here and there, this can add up. A single core cannot turn itself off, at least 1 core must be powered up.
Which is funny because Vista is based off of Win7, not the other way around. Win7 was suppose to be the original release, but with it taking so long, they forked it part way and made Vista, which had many features/tuning missing, but had mostly the same framework. Essentially, they forked Vista at a comfortable state and tied up the loose ends and called it a new OS; while Win7 kept on through development to get finished.
any decent software/hardware design should not require manipulation of the OS to work. I guess an example I had was installing Palms as IT. Not only did I had to install the software was admin just to make it work, but I had to fiddle with so many permissions and set the current user as a power user just to get the sync software to work. Didn't matter how new/old the Palm was either, all pieces of crap. Then came along someone with a Dell P.O.S. cheap organizer and not only did it install w/o Admin privs, but I didn't have to reset or anything. It supported EVERY feature that the Palm did, but w/o messing around with system settings.
I bet a lot of enterprises don't have a Corei5/i7 to actually save from a complete core powe down that nahelems can do. I bet in a few years, this will help desktop comps a lot more as they get upgraded. Also, Win2k8 R2 share a lot of this stuff and a Dual socket i7 Xeon could potentially save a lot of power during low use times
I know several people who get FULL flu symptoms whenever they get flu shots. It's not "just" two pokes. It can be 1 week of missed work and a high fever. Or in very rare cases, paralysis.
What part of the South? Because the "Bible Belt" has the worst violent crime, teen pregnancy, abortions, least income, most government hand out per capita than the rest of the USA.
From what history has shown, the "South" seems to have bad education and they make horrible laws based off of false assumptions.. not to say ANY politicians are better, but these laws seem to be more supported by the people down there.
luckily, any decent cloud computing company has like 5-10 copies of your data spread around the entire USA in several states. Some of companies will even go as far as resolving to closer locals. eg someone in Cali tries to connect and would get a Cali based server, while someone in the Midwest would connect to a Chicago server. not they'd know the diff.
Trying to figure out how any normal company could provide these types of in-house services.
Enjoying having XP favor Core0 heavily with that new 4core cpu you'll get with your $500 comp in 2 years, not to mention that you need XP64 to even use a quadcore.. and XP64 is buugggyy
If we just move to 512bit, then we can have a bit for every atom in the universe. that'll solve any address space issues.
But really, there's only 2 reasons that I can think of for "bits" #1. address space. 64bit is plenty for a LONG time #2. computation. Who needs 128bit integers to represent real world objects?
I'm not an admin or work with VM administration, but I've read up on some of the "features" many of these have.
#1. One image to rule them all. Got new hardware and want to setup a webserver. Launch a preconfigured VM image and have a webserver setup and running in minutes on any new server
#2. VM running on a machine. Server dies, VM automatically transfers to a new server and continues to run. How this works, I'm not sure.
#3. Have 100 Web and DB servers running. Have your VM set to consolidate. The VM can automatically transfer low use instances to consolidate hardware. So servers 50-100 suddenly get transfered to servers 1-49 because it's off peak hours. Then the VM can power down the servers and you now have 50 servers not running. Company decides to run a promo and the servers start to get hit hard. VM remotely powers up a server and transfer's an image to help load balance.
#4. Since you're running everything over a SAN, a ton of this stuff is transparent
I tried copying a 214MB avi file from one part of my Win7 NTFS folder to another on the same drive while running MyDefrag 4.1.2 and it took 3 seconds on my $800 Best Buy Dell
I downloaded Win7 x64 RTM from MSDN the day it came out. Next morning before work, I burnt the dvd. Started the install, clicked next 3 times. It said it was starting. Went off to work, came home, entered in my cd-key, entered in my password, there's my desktop, EVERYTHING worked like a charm. All drivers/etc. And by "worked", I mean I didn't have to restart my computer for 2 weeks because there were no problems with any of my games/apps/drivers.
P.S. I was using Vista x64 and I have no idea how long the install took since it ran unattended while I was at work.
depends on your job. I know many jobs that even with sleep not an issue, the body can only recover physically or mentally so fast.
eg. You do heavy moving all day, your muscles will fatigue and will need rest even if not sleep or you do heavy mental lifting and 10 hours of sleep still leaves you dazed and confused from a lot of thinking
At least by me, a telephone company can disconnect your line logically, but the line must ALWAYS be active for 911 (emergency) calls. Same with cell phones. Even if I stopped paying my cellphone bill for a few years, I can still pick it up and dial 911 and get someone.
get voip and claim they're disconencting you from emergency services.
MS says you need to install and run a program for a random audit, you get caught... gg
if you refuse to run said program, MS sends down a represenative to manually go through each of your companies machines and his time is billed to your company.. fun stuff.
our video cards project a pseudo 3d space onto pseudo 2d surface located in our pseudo 3d space which is then picked up by our pseudo 2d eyes and translated into 3d
The 3rd party app my company uses to host all its work tickets hasn't fixed their app to work with anything other than IE6. It's a hodge-podge of java and activex that REQUIRES the old way of activex handling before MS got sued. That was like, 6+ years ago and their software still hasn't had work around. The funny thing is this app has been upgraded numerous times for all the new SQL standards and features/etc, but the front end is stuck in 2000.
If you have 4GB RAM, being able to address more than 3GB RAM is completely useless to you. Because Windows Vista 64bit run a 32bit virtual machine that uses 1GB of RAM, so you could still run your 32bit programs on a 64bit OS. Basically you are still only able to use 3GB of your RAM. Though if you upgrade to 6GB of RAM, then 64bit will be useful.
This parent is a half-truth. Yes, your 32-bit app can't only see the same 3GB of memory on a 64-bit machine, BUT each 32-bit app gets it's own 3GB of address space vs a 32-bit OS can only address a TOTAL of 32-bits among all the apps.
As for Vista 64 being trash, I haven't had any issues with my $800 dell. Core i7 4GB memory. I never close any of my apps anymore.
I leave gimp with 12MB raw images open, leave open chrome with 20 tabs of you tube videos, 6GB of page file allocated and everything is VERY responsive, can play EVERY anime video I've ever downloaded out of box and no codex' to download even my old videos from 1998, high def videos only use about 2% of my cpu, start defrag set to low priority and play video games without any slowdown, and restart my comp only once a month for updates
Reminds me of working at my University as IT. We had a Department with a crap ton of funding and bought 20 iPods at $500 each for personal use so they could burn excess money.
Then another department had so little funding that they were running Pentium 2s with 256MB while the rich dept had Core2 Duos with 2GB ram.
Not only did the rich department waste money on iPods, but I wasted DAYS of work trying to fix old computers for the lesser department that could replace their comps for the cost of 4 ipods.
Not only was money wasted on purchasing frivolous stuff for a richer department, but the wasted money could have saved me hours of work if the other department had decent hardware. Also, this other department wasted time having slow hardware.
There was also wasted time in upgrading the richer department's computers every few months. Nothing says fun like going back to the same person every 2 months and replacing their computer with a new one that's 200 mhz faster and spending hours backing up and transferring between the two systems. Even the teachers started getting pissed because their computers being down for a few hours meant interrupting their classes in many cases
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I'm guessing most power savings from their changes would be for Multicore cpus. One of the main advantages to the changes is that the Corei7 can COMPLETELY turn off a core and use ~0 power. If the scheduler can get 1-2 cores to turn off for even a few miliseconds here and there, this can add up. A single core cannot turn itself off, at least 1 core must be powered up.
Which is funny because Vista is based off of Win7, not the other way around. Win7 was suppose to be the original release, but with it taking so long, they forked it part way and made Vista, which had many features/tuning missing, but had mostly the same framework. Essentially, they forked Vista at a comfortable state and tied up the loose ends and called it a new OS; while Win7 kept on through development to get finished.
any decent software/hardware design should not require manipulation of the OS to work. I guess an example I had was installing Palms as IT. Not only did I had to install the software was admin just to make it work, but I had to fiddle with so many permissions and set the current user as a power user just to get the sync software to work. Didn't matter how new/old the Palm was either, all pieces of crap. Then came along someone with a Dell P.O.S. cheap organizer and not only did it install w/o Admin privs, but I didn't have to reset or anything. It supported EVERY feature that the Palm did, but w/o messing around with system settings.
I bet a lot of enterprises don't have a Corei5/i7 to actually save from a complete core powe down that nahelems can do. I bet in a few years, this will help desktop comps a lot more as they get upgraded. Also, Win2k8 R2 share a lot of this stuff and a Dual socket i7 Xeon could potentially save a lot of power during low use times
I know several people who get FULL flu symptoms whenever they get flu shots. It's not "just" two pokes. It can be 1 week of missed work and a high fever. Or in very rare cases, paralysis.
What part of the South? Because the "Bible Belt" has the worst violent crime, teen pregnancy, abortions, least income, most government hand out per capita than the rest of the USA.
From what history has shown, the "South" seems to have bad education and they make horrible laws based off of false assumptions.. not to say ANY politicians are better, but these laws seem to be more supported by the people down there.
luckily, any decent cloud computing company has like 5-10 copies of your data spread around the entire USA in several states. Some of companies will even go as far as resolving to closer locals. eg someone in Cali tries to connect and would get a Cali based server, while someone in the Midwest would connect to a Chicago server. not they'd know the diff.
Trying to figure out how any normal company could provide these types of in-house services.
Enjoying having XP favor Core0 heavily with that new 4core cpu you'll get with your $500 comp in 2 years, not to mention that you need XP64 to even use a quadcore.. and XP64 is buugggyy
If we just move to 512bit, then we can have a bit for every atom in the universe. that'll solve any address space issues.
But really, there's only 2 reasons that I can think of for "bits" #1. address space. 64bit is plenty for a LONG time #2. computation. Who needs 128bit integers to represent real world objects?
I'm not an admin or work with VM administration, but I've read up on some of the "features" many of these have.
#1. One image to rule them all. Got new hardware and want to setup a webserver. Launch a preconfigured VM image and have a webserver setup and running in minutes on any new server
#2. VM running on a machine. Server dies, VM automatically transfers to a new server and continues to run. How this works, I'm not sure.
#3. Have 100 Web and DB servers running. Have your VM set to consolidate. The VM can automatically transfer low use instances to consolidate hardware. So servers 50-100 suddenly get transfered to servers 1-49 because it's off peak hours. Then the VM can power down the servers and you now have 50 servers not running. Company decides to run a promo and the servers start to get hit hard. VM remotely powers up a server and transfer's an image to help load balance.
#4. Since you're running everything over a SAN, a ton of this stuff is transparent
I tried copying a 214MB avi file from one part of my Win7 NTFS folder to another on the same drive while running MyDefrag 4.1.2 and it took 3 seconds on my $800 Best Buy Dell
ZFS is the best though.. wtb ZFS for Windows
I downloaded Win7 x64 RTM from MSDN the day it came out. Next morning before work, I burnt the dvd. Started the install, clicked next 3 times. It said it was starting. Went off to work, came home, entered in my cd-key, entered in my password, there's my desktop, EVERYTHING worked like a charm. All drivers/etc. And by "worked", I mean I didn't have to restart my computer for 2 weeks because there were no problems with any of my games/apps/drivers.
P.S. I was using Vista x64 and I have no idea how long the install took since it ran unattended while I was at work.
I heard dealth penalty works to
how about a "deterrence" law for making bad laws? like deportation and your accounts frozen/donated to charity?
depends on your job. I know many jobs that even with sleep not an issue, the body can only recover physically or mentally so fast.
eg. You do heavy moving all day, your muscles will fatigue and will need rest even if not sleep
or you do heavy mental lifting and 10 hours of sleep still leaves you dazed and confused from a lot of thinking
At least by me, a telephone company can disconnect your line logically, but the line must ALWAYS be active for 911 (emergency) calls. Same with cell phones. Even if I stopped paying my cellphone bill for a few years, I can still pick it up and dial 911 and get someone.
get voip and claim they're disconencting you from emergency services.
because hacking a major internet router to mirror data to you is so much easier
MS says you need to install and run a program for a random audit, you get caught... gg
if you refuse to run said program, MS sends down a represenative to manually go through each of your companies machines and his time is billed to your company.. fun stuff.
our video cards project a pseudo 3d space onto pseudo 2d surface located in our pseudo 3d space which is then picked up by our pseudo 2d eyes and translated into 3d
from wikipedia
Deaths per billion journeys
Car: 40
Air: 117
Foot: 40
Deaths per billion hours
Air: 30.8
Car: 130
Foot: 220
Deaths per billion kilometres
Air: 0.05
Car: 3.1
Foot: 54.2
seems walking is quite dangerous to. Motocyles are the worst by A LOT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane (almost at the bottom of the page)
The 3rd party app my company uses to host all its work tickets hasn't fixed their app to work with anything other than IE6. It's a hodge-podge of java and activex that REQUIRES the old way of activex handling before MS got sued. That was like, 6+ years ago and their software still hasn't had work around. The funny thing is this app has been upgraded numerous times for all the new SQL standards and features/etc, but the front end is stuck in 2000.
you should state "LED Light Bulbs" as low power LEDs can be upwards of 99.9% effcient
chrome just sand box's your tabs with lower privs so an Ad can't do anything anyway
If you have 4GB RAM, being able to address more than 3GB RAM is completely useless to you. Because Windows Vista 64bit run a 32bit virtual machine that uses 1GB of RAM, so you could still run your 32bit programs on a 64bit OS. Basically you are still only able to use 3GB of your RAM. Though if you upgrade to 6GB of RAM, then 64bit will be useful.
This parent is a half-truth. Yes, your 32-bit app can't only see the same 3GB of memory on a 64-bit machine, BUT each 32-bit app gets it's own 3GB of address space vs a 32-bit OS can only address a TOTAL of 32-bits among all the apps.
As for Vista 64 being trash, I haven't had any issues with my $800 dell. Core i7 4GB memory. I never close any of my apps anymore.
I leave gimp with 12MB raw images open, leave open chrome with 20 tabs of you tube videos, 6GB of page file allocated and everything is VERY responsive, can play EVERY anime video I've ever downloaded out of box and no codex' to download even my old videos from 1998, high def videos only use about 2% of my cpu, start defrag set to low priority and play video games without any slowdown, and restart my comp only once a month for updates
I'm not sure what more I want for an OS
Reminds me of working at my University as IT. We had a Department with a crap ton of funding and bought 20 iPods at $500 each for personal use so they could burn excess money.
Then another department had so little funding that they were running Pentium 2s with 256MB while the rich dept had Core2 Duos with 2GB ram.
Not only did the rich department waste money on iPods, but I wasted DAYS of work trying to fix old computers for the lesser department that could replace their comps for the cost of 4 ipods.
Not only was money wasted on purchasing frivolous stuff for a richer department, but the wasted money could have saved me hours of work if the other department had decent hardware. Also, this other department wasted time having slow hardware.
There was also wasted time in upgrading the richer department's computers every few months. Nothing says fun like going back to the same person every 2 months and replacing their computer with a new one that's 200 mhz faster and spending hours backing up and transferring between the two systems. Even the teachers started getting pissed because their computers being down for a few hours meant interrupting their classes in many cases
Why even use 'copyright' for an email. It's unlawful for even a spouse to read another spouses email without consent.