Datacenters don't exist because it's difficult to get or run computers. The purpose of datacenters is to provide a safe, secure place for servers, with redundant uplinks and backup generators. The reason I don't run my company's servers out of my house is because the cost of making a reliable base for computing is stratospheric except in bulk. It's much cheaper for me to rely on level three's infrastructure than it is to create my own.
It's the same reason we don't build our own streets or refine our own water. We could. It's not cost effective as an individual. Datacenters don't have home PCs. They have servers that can't afford to go down.
I don't foresee datacenters going away until the reliability of home services has changed dramatically.
I mean, if we can get the word out to 650 million Internet users
That's a mighty big if. I mean, imagine what else you could do if you could get word out to that many people. It's a hell of a lot harder than it sounds.
Unfortunately, under current US law, that's not up to NetFlix, but rather the company which holds the license on the movie. Currently, they do not allow any such behavior. The first content producer to allow something like that will make a small fortune.
If you read NetFlix' prize site, you'll find that they give clear cut statistical requirements for winning that are well defined. It's actually quite impressive the detail into which they go; it's clear that they want real engineers on this, and that they're willing to get seriously specific in order to make sure people know what's what.
Fuelled MS's growth in the same way a speed bump helps ford's growth
A much better analogy might be that the AV companies have fuelled MS' growth in the same way that aftermarket parts vendors have fuelled Ford's growth. The germane observation is that the official product had a significant flaw which hampered uptake, and that this company has stepped in to fill the void. There was a time at which seatbelts, car stereos and later airbags were aftermarket. Each of them did significant benefits to the host manufacturer.
Nobody is going to design 80 core systems unless someone is prepared to buy them
Video game systems are up to eight, already.
and nobody is going to design 80-core chips if nobody can show how to design effective systems with them.
It seems that Intel already has. Don't underestimate the selling power of having more cores than the Smiths down the street.
For people wanting to crank SETI etc, it is going to be way cheaper to build a cluster with 20 4-core systems.
You believe the CPU will be more expensive than normal boxes by the cost of seventy nine cases, seventy nine power supplies, seventy nine batches of ram, seventy nine hard disks, six racks, delivery and half a room?
Sir, we must live in very different economic climates.
The circuit pattern may be effectively 2d, but the IC as a whole - remember that thick black plastic shell - is not. You just design an IC with a hole in the circuit pattern, then manufacture the IC with that hole carved out, and put a motor into it.
Er. You do realize that things other than fossil fuels burn, right? And that "gas turbine" means "solid, liquid, gas" style gas? We have more natural gas than we know what to do with, and this would work equally well with alcohol. If you've ever been to Tennessee, you'd know that's also not exactly in short supply.
You could fill your laptop from those seventy nine cent drums of rubbing alcohol you get at the drug store. It doesn't get a whole lot cheaper than that.
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Datacenters don't exist because it's difficult to get or run computers. The purpose of datacenters is to provide a safe, secure place for servers, with redundant uplinks and backup generators. The reason I don't run my company's servers out of my house is because the cost of making a reliable base for computing is stratospheric except in bulk. It's much cheaper for me to rely on level three's infrastructure than it is to create my own.
It's the same reason we don't build our own streets or refine our own water. We could. It's not cost effective as an individual. Datacenters don't have home PCs. They have servers that can't afford to go down.
I don't foresee datacenters going away until the reliability of home services has changed dramatically.
I mean, if we can get the word out to 650 million Internet users
That's a mighty big if. I mean, imagine what else you could do if you could get word out to that many people. It's a hell of a lot harder than it sounds.
Now, why would someone with "honest" in their handle care about illegitimate copies of operating systems?
Really that's true of Safari as well but I like to support default web browsers.
There are more cellular phones which default to Opera than Macs defaulting to Safari, fwiw. Nintendo DS too.
Developers should switch to the MIT license. Free isn't genuinely free if it's only free to some.
If by "an atomic playboy" you mean funny, then I concur.
I like Amega as much as the next guy
Apparently not well enough to know how to spell its name.
why are they doing it?
To make money.
what gap are they trying to fill?
Nostalgia.
They might play Britney Spears. It'd explain why they're described as 'screaming.'
Unfortunately, under current US law, that's not up to NetFlix, but rather the company which holds the license on the movie. Currently, they do not allow any such behavior. The first content producer to allow something like that will make a small fortune.
If you read NetFlix' prize site, you'll find that they give clear cut statistical requirements for winning that are well defined. It's actually quite impressive the detail into which they go; it's clear that they want real engineers on this, and that they're willing to get seriously specific in order to make sure people know what's what.
Fuelled MS's growth in the same way a speed bump helps ford's growth
A much better analogy might be that the AV companies have fuelled MS' growth in the same way that aftermarket parts vendors have fuelled Ford's growth. The germane observation is that the official product had a significant flaw which hampered uptake, and that this company has stepped in to fill the void. There was a time at which seatbelts, car stereos and later airbags were aftermarket. Each of them did significant benefits to the host manufacturer.
Irony is the form of wordplay wherein one uses a word in contrast to its contextual meaning.
The idea that the MPL is less free than the GPL strikes me as hilarious.
Ok, now the joke's even gotten old to me.
Thanks for catching up.
Yes. The amount of matter in the universe is trivial compared to the estimated output of the big bang.
Imagine the pain of having to write a functional applications with so many cores.
Wouldn't be bad at all in Erlang or Concurrent C. There's another revolution coming. Start reading now.
Nobody is going to design 80 core systems unless someone is prepared to buy them
Video game systems are up to eight, already.
and nobody is going to design 80-core chips if nobody can show how to design effective systems with them.
It seems that Intel already has. Don't underestimate the selling power of having more cores than the Smiths down the street.
For people wanting to crank SETI etc, it is going to be way cheaper to build a cluster with 20 4-core systems.
You believe the CPU will be more expensive than normal boxes by the cost of seventy nine cases, seventy nine power supplies, seventy nine batches of ram, seventy nine hard disks, six racks, delivery and half a room?
Sir, we must live in very different economic climates.
Here (seen from above, side.) They'll try to sidle up to you with humor and good sport, and by being even cuter, though they'll often take it too far. Then they'll try joining forces with other warm, soft, irresistably cuddly things. And, when they say no 'cause they're sneezing, they will object, then do this and eventually start crying.
... AAAAUGH!." Then the war will begin. Many will die in the ensuing battle. Cats are, after all, ferocious warriors; what we will learn is that they are also brilliant wartime engineers (not joking.) Humanity will forever be scarred by its being forced to resort to the acid chamber.
And, as long as we're on the topic of breeding, how about this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
It can be done.
Then we'll start breeding for intelligence, but it will fail, occasionally miserably, even though they'll get close (in fact, very close.) We'll try to give them special powers or teach them to be college professors.
Eventually we're gonna make one of these, and then we're gonna be all "what has science done? When will we learn that science on cats is wrong?
Besides, we all know where genetic experimentation always leads. Hell, they're already considering it.
On the bright side, check out my lab. (Unfortunately we've had some problems with the nurses,
No amount of natural cross-breeding will result in tomato e vines with glow-in-the-dark fish genes.
Sounds like a challenge to me. Shall we bet two barrels of tomacco on it?
And that, my friend, is why I release all of my pets under the GPL. What an outrage!
Great, and it's going to GPL infect all the other cats in the neighborhood.
The circuit pattern may be effectively 2d, but the IC as a whole - remember that thick black plastic shell - is not. You just design an IC with a hole in the circuit pattern, then manufacture the IC with that hole carved out, and put a motor into it.
And Dell's got a several year lead, for once.
I would imagine if it burns a fuel, it spits out carbon.
Yeah, like hydrogen. Oh wait.
Er. You do realize that things other than fossil fuels burn, right? And that "gas turbine" means "solid, liquid, gas" style gas? We have more natural gas than we know what to do with, and this would work equally well with alcohol. If you've ever been to Tennessee, you'd know that's also not exactly in short supply.
You could fill your laptop from those seventy nine cent drums of rubbing alcohol you get at the drug store. It doesn't get a whole lot cheaper than that.
can you imagine plugging a butane canister into your portable? ... yes.