The parent ironically is quite insightful. The record industry's actually targets marketing to males between the age of 18 and 25. As I've edged towards 25, my CD purchasing has fallen off a cliff. I believe the reason is that I'm not actively searching for new music anymore. Graduating college had a lot to do with it.
The people that are still in the 18-25 group are the kids that grew up with MP3's. It's not in the culture to buy CD's anymore.
I'll buy that people have started preferring the distorted sound of 128bit MP3s over higher quality mediums. My question is, how long will this last?
Maybe some of you remember that the MP3 format was created in order to make downloading music faster. Back in 1998 it used to take 1-2 hours to download an album, now it takes 15 minutes. As bandwidth and disk space grow, the demand for compressed audio will decrease, and people will start downloading higher quality recordings.
I can see the shift being driven by iTunes marketing: "Get 3x the quality (384bit) for only $.05 more". People will eventually start thinking 384 bit is better.
the government keeps favoring establish Fortune 500 companies over small nimble truly innovative start ups
How do you figure? Most small startup companies are not profitable in their nascent years. This means that they DO NOT PAY INCOME TAXES! The big Fortune 500 companies pay billions in taxes.
Even if I'm wrong, do you really think that what you said IS the problem? Has the US gradually become less innovative due to favoritism of big companies? Was there ever favoritism for small "innovative companies?" I think this article is saying that China is becoming a power house, rather than the US's innovation is weakening.
Shrinking demand for power != cheaper prices
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Processors decrease in price as new technology comes out. When a faster processor hits the market it means the old processor becomes "inferior". If Intel stopped increasing the clock frequency/#cores, then the current top of the line equipment would stay at the top, and the price would stay relatively stable.
Even if the demand for processing power is decreasing, the demand for processors is increasing. Don't expect the price of processors to fall anytime soon.
For others, especially those that require high throughput, the story is different. AIX on pSeries can move massive amounts of data, more so than a similarly configured PC based server.
I completely agree. TPC has the flagship benchmarks for enterprise databases. Check out www.tpc.org/tpcc and www.tpc.org/tpch. Do you see Linux anywhere on the high end of these benchmarks? (answer: no). You see some smaller systems with linux, and they are essentially toys. They aren't running the stock exchange; they aren't running intelligence for the FBI; they're handling smaller databases for smaller companies where mission criticality is not absolutely imperative.
Desktop AIX is not even remotely close to IBMs best stuff. AIX is designed for the enterprise computing market, NOT desktop computers. There are many companies out there that are willing to spend MILLIONS of dollars on high end machines (think hundreds of cores and terrabytes of RAM). These are companies like AT&T, NSA, FBI, NYSE, etc. Why on earth would IBM care about missing a few pennies on a desktop AIX box when they're making billions on large servers?
This may be true for you, but the study is not saying that watching TV makes people unhappy, nor is it saying that being unhappy drives people to watch TV. It is merely stating there is a correlation between watching TV and being unhappy. Causality cannot be derived from correlation research.
...it should be done by the federal government through a "green corps" that puts out of work people back to work...
1) I'm pretty sure Pickens isn't planning to install those windmills with his own two hands. He will HIRE someone to do it. It will take a full time crew to install and maintain a wind farm of this magnitude.
2) The government will not (or at least should not) magically pull $2 billion dollars out of thin air. It would probably take the bureaucrats months to allocate that funding. Pickens already put down the money.
Sure, this is definitely not a big engineering feat. However, neither of Suns competitors, IBM or HP, offer SSDs at the moment. This article is indicating that SSDs are gaining momentum (if not attention) in the high-end server market. Suppliers need to offer a product before it can be sold.
It sounds like the SSDs are internal drives for the server. A database would never be stored on an internal hard drive. Almost any commercial database is connected to a disk farm through SAN fabric.
SSDs really shine for OLTP databases. Lots of random IO occurs on these databases (as opposed to data warehouses that use lots of sequential IO).
Normal hard drives are horrible for random IO because of mechanical limitations. Think about trying to switch tracks on a record player thousands of times per second; this is whats happening inside a hard drive (under a random IO load). Its amazing mechanical HDDs work as well as they do.
What would they save? $30?
I think its more like:
"Optical drives have been left out because we didn't feel like engineering a 3.5" drive into a 9" laptop; besides, disks are becoming antiquated anyways."
1TB of RAM isn't for consumer PCs, so I'm not sure why everyone is talking about web browsers, emacs, etc. Maybe I didn't read deep enough into the replies, but did nobody event mention DB2 or Oracle?
1TB systems already exists. Spend some time surfing this website: www.tpc.org. Its a commercial benchmarking website for high-end database systems. You'll find several systems that are using 1TB+ of memory. Walmart, AT&T, NSA, etc all have databases with >= 100TB of data. Systems of this size DO require that much memory. The key take away from this article is that Linux is attempting to compete in this space - its already behind the proprietary UNIX systems.
There's even studies that show a lot of lighting does NOT deter crime. All it does is let the crook see what he's doing.
It doesn't matter if it deters crime or not - light makes people *feel* safe. If you had the choice of walking down a dark alley or a well lit alley, which would you choose?
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BTW: i agree that all the *extra* light is a tremendous waste of energy
The engine does not require oxygen or a continuous fuel supply, only heat.
This might just mean that oxygen is not consumed, while it could also mean the system contains no oxygen. But also...
On the high-pressure side of the MEA, hydrogen gas is oxidized resulting in the creation of protons and electrons... On the low-pressure side, the protons are reduced with the electrons to reform hydrogen gas.
Here it looks like the article describes the reaction: H => e- P+ => H So I think you might be right: oxidize is equivalent to ionize
American culture, on the other hand, can be VERY judgemental and VERY conformist
Much like in the Netherlands, it also depends where you live in America. The South East (where I'm originally from) seems to adhere to these properties more so than other areas of the country (ex. California). In big cities you see less of the judgemental/conformist culture (just like in the Netherlands). Furthermore, I believe the judgmental/conformity traits hold the least in Western, individualistic cultures. I would expect these traits to be most prominent in Eastern, collectivist cultures like Japan. In Eastern cultures, you are defined as being part of "the group."
I'll accept that you can transfer information using photons. However, using this technology, magnetic fields are still required to store the photons. Hypothetically, if a computer was build using this nano-soup, then it would only be a hybrid-photon computer.
Any ideas on what a photon computer buys you (technologically speaking). In copper wire, light travels slower than the speed of light in a vacuum (about 2/3c). But presumably the magnetic fields are created using standard electrical principles (like winding an iron nail with copper wire (to make an over simplification)). If the magnets are based on electricity, then it seems like this would limit the benefits of a photon computer.
I guess it took decades to make a computer out of transistors. Maybe in 30 years there will be photon computers. I picture rooms filled with cans of photonsoup, and lines of people waiting with punch cards (deja vu?).
Seriously, though. Does anyone have ideas pertaining to the first two paragraphs?
Until now, Apple has had nothing to do with the DVD that you bought. They previously supplied a poorly working* solution for you to put a DVD on your computer. This solution was provided either for free or a nominal cost. Now you are paying more for a better** solution. The key point: Apple changed the nature of the problem rather than changing the software. If you call WinZip an unzipping solution rather than software then the analogy becomes more obvious.
* & **: These judgments are based on the posts to which I reply; I abstain from asserting my own opinion on what is better/worse;
It's more like a racket - they're suggesting they'll stop making it harder for you if you pay extra. Just like all the software that blasts you with advertisements until you pay them not to.
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The parent ironically is quite insightful. The record industry's actually targets marketing to males between the age of 18 and 25. As I've edged towards 25, my CD purchasing has fallen off a cliff. I believe the reason is that I'm not actively searching for new music anymore. Graduating college had a lot to do with it.
The people that are still in the 18-25 group are the kids that grew up with MP3's. It's not in the culture to buy CD's anymore.
I'll buy that people have started preferring the distorted sound of 128bit MP3s over higher quality mediums. My question is, how long will this last?
Maybe some of you remember that the MP3 format was created in order to make downloading music faster. Back in 1998 it used to take 1-2 hours to download an album, now it takes 15 minutes. As bandwidth and disk space grow, the demand for compressed audio will decrease, and people will start downloading higher quality recordings.
I can see the shift being driven by iTunes marketing: "Get 3x the quality (384bit) for only $.05 more". People will eventually start thinking 384 bit is better.
Let me fix that:
No it is assuming that shoe sellers should cater to people without feet
You missed the connection...
olddotter said:
government keeps favoring establish Fortune 500 companies over small nimble truly innovative start ups
BlendieOfIndie said:
Most small startup companies are not profitable in their nascent years. This means that they DO NOT PAY INCOME TAXES
egcagrac0 said:
What's next, people without feet not buying shoes?
No it is assuming that shoe sellers cater to people without feet.
the government keeps favoring establish Fortune 500 companies over small nimble truly innovative start ups
How do you figure? Most small startup companies are not profitable in their nascent years. This means that they DO NOT PAY INCOME TAXES! The big Fortune 500 companies pay billions in taxes.
Even if I'm wrong, do you really think that what you said IS the problem? Has the US gradually become less innovative due to favoritism of big companies? Was there ever favoritism for small "innovative companies?" I think this article is saying that China is becoming a power house, rather than the US's innovation is weakening.
Processors decrease in price as new technology comes out. When a faster processor hits the market it means the old processor becomes "inferior". If Intel stopped increasing the clock frequency/#cores, then the current top of the line equipment would stay at the top, and the price would stay relatively stable.
Even if the demand for processing power is decreasing, the demand for processors is increasing.
Don't expect the price of processors to fall anytime soon.
Care to share with us the source of this data?
Google Finance
I looked at the annual income statements of both Microsoft (MSFT) and RedHat (RHT).
Microsoft Revenue/Growth
Year Revenue %Growth
2005 39,788 -
2006 44,282 11%
2007 51,122 15%
2008 60,420 18%
Red Hat Revenue/Growth
Year Revenue %Growth
2005 196 -
2006 278 41%
2007 400 43%
2008 523 30%
Red Hat is growing much faster than Microsoft, but Microsoft has 115x more sales.
Well if money doesn't matter so much, then spend a couple extra thousand bucks on an IBM server.
For others, especially those that require high throughput, the story is different. AIX on pSeries can move massive amounts of data, more so than a similarly configured PC based server.
I completely agree. TPC has the flagship benchmarks for enterprise databases. Check out www.tpc.org/tpcc and www.tpc.org/tpch. Do you see Linux anywhere on the high end of these benchmarks? (answer: no). You see some smaller systems with linux, and they are essentially toys. They aren't running the stock exchange; they aren't running intelligence for the FBI; they're handling smaller databases for smaller companies where mission criticality is not absolutely imperative.
IBM has a history of burying its best stuff...
Desktop AIX is not even remotely close to IBMs best stuff. AIX is designed for the enterprise computing market, NOT desktop computers. There are many companies out there that are willing to spend MILLIONS of dollars on high end machines (think hundreds of cores and terrabytes of RAM). These are companies like AT&T, NSA, FBI, NYSE, etc. Why on earth would IBM care about missing a few pennies on a desktop AIX box when they're making billions on large servers?
This may be true for you, but the study is not saying that watching TV makes people unhappy, nor is it saying that being unhappy drives people to watch TV. It is merely stating there is a correlation between watching TV and being unhappy. Causality cannot be derived from correlation research.
...it should be done by the federal government through a "green corps" that puts out of work people back to work...
1) I'm pretty sure Pickens isn't planning to install those windmills with his own two hands. He will HIRE someone to do it. It will take a full time crew to install and maintain a wind farm of this magnitude.
2) The government will not (or at least should not) magically pull $2 billion dollars out of thin air. It would probably take the bureaucrats months to allocate that funding. Pickens already put down the money.
... while the warming of Jupiter can be explained by increases in solar output, the warming of Earth can not
Am I the only one that thinks this sentence needs more explanation? This just seems really counterintuitive to me (not my area of expertise either).
When I add wood to a fire, I feel warmer regardless of my distance from the fire or how much clothing I'm wearing.
How is Jupiter's temperature being measured? It seems like a valid comparison would require knowing Jupiter's temp. beneath the atmosphere.
Sure, this is definitely not a big engineering feat. However, neither of Suns competitors, IBM or HP, offer SSDs at the moment. This article is indicating that SSDs are gaining momentum (if not attention) in the high-end server market. Suppliers need to offer a product before it can be sold.
It sounds like the SSDs are internal drives for the server. A database would never be stored on an internal hard drive. Almost any commercial database is connected to a disk farm through SAN fabric.
SSDs really shine for OLTP databases. Lots of random IO occurs on these databases (as opposed to data warehouses that use lots of sequential IO).
Normal hard drives are horrible for random IO because of mechanical limitations. Think about trying to switch tracks on a record player thousands of times per second; this is whats happening inside a hard drive (under a random IO load). Its amazing mechanical HDDs work as well as they do.
What would they save? $30? I think its more like: "Optical drives have been left out because we didn't feel like engineering a 3.5" drive into a 9" laptop; besides, disks are becoming antiquated anyways."
1TB of RAM isn't for consumer PCs, so I'm not sure why everyone is talking about web browsers, emacs, etc. Maybe I didn't read deep enough into the replies, but did nobody event mention DB2 or Oracle? 1TB systems already exists. Spend some time surfing this website: www.tpc.org. Its a commercial benchmarking website for high-end database systems. You'll find several systems that are using 1TB+ of memory. Walmart, AT&T, NSA, etc all have databases with >= 100TB of data. Systems of this size DO require that much memory. The key take away from this article is that Linux is attempting to compete in this space - its already behind the proprietary UNIX systems.
There's even studies that show a lot of lighting does NOT deter crime. All it does is let the crook see what he's doing.
It doesn't matter if it deters crime or not - light makes people *feel* safe. If you had the choice of walking down a dark alley or a well lit alley, which would you choose?
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BTW: i agree that all the *extra* light is a tremendous waste of energy
FYI: oil is also locally mined
From TFA
The engine does not require oxygen or a continuous fuel supply, only heat.
This might just mean that oxygen is not consumed, while it could also mean the system contains no oxygen.
But also...
On the high-pressure side of the MEA, hydrogen gas is oxidized resulting in the creation of protons and electrons... On the low-pressure side, the protons are reduced with the electrons to reform hydrogen gas.
Here it looks like the article describes the reaction: H => e- P+ => H
So I think you might be right: oxidize is equivalent to ionize
American culture, on the other hand, can be VERY judgemental and VERY conformist
Much like in the Netherlands, it also depends where you live in America. The South East (where I'm originally from) seems to adhere to these properties more so than other areas of the country (ex. California). In big cities you see less of the judgemental/conformist culture (just like in the Netherlands). Furthermore, I believe the judgmental/conformity traits hold the least in Western, individualistic cultures. I would expect these traits to be most prominent in Eastern, collectivist cultures like Japan. In Eastern cultures, you are defined as being part of "the group."
I'll accept that you can transfer information using photons. However, using this technology, magnetic fields are still required to store the photons. Hypothetically, if a computer was build using this nano-soup, then it would only be a hybrid-photon computer. Any ideas on what a photon computer buys you (technologically speaking). In copper wire, light travels slower than the speed of light in a vacuum (about 2/3c). But presumably the magnetic fields are created using standard electrical principles (like winding an iron nail with copper wire (to make an over simplification)). If the magnets are based on electricity, then it seems like this would limit the benefits of a photon computer. I guess it took decades to make a computer out of transistors. Maybe in 30 years there will be photon computers. I picture rooms filled with cans of photonsoup, and lines of people waiting with punch cards (deja vu?). Seriously, though. Does anyone have ideas pertaining to the first two paragraphs?
Until now, Apple has had nothing to do with the DVD that you bought. They previously supplied a poorly working* solution for you to put a DVD on your computer. This solution was provided either for free or a nominal cost. Now you are paying more for a better** solution. The key point: Apple changed the nature of the problem rather than changing the software. If you call WinZip an unzipping solution rather than software then the analogy becomes more obvious.
* & **: These judgments are based on the posts to which I reply; I abstain from asserting my own opinion on what is better/worse;