...then aren't we lucky it's a diverse marketplace where anyone and everyone is free to offer up different approaches and we aren't all at the mercy of the least imaginative among us.
Infact, they perform better than big NUMA boxes. I've seen the migration away from Sparc NUMA machines to smaller clustered sparc machines myself. Some apps (most notably Oracle) actually do much better that way.
It is worth noting that Oracle specifically dumped Sparc as it's reference platform for it's flagship product.
The ship has already sailed here. People already defected to x86 en masse. The real question now is whether or not this product is good enough to encourage people to move back to Sparc. Oracle's own treatment of Sparc as a "3rd party vendor" will matter a great deal as will their pricing model.
Oracle simply may be too greedy to make the whole package a great deal.
No. ESPN in particular is taking larger than it's fair share from cable operators.
Then we have bundles forced on the cable operators.
First the cable companies need to be able to get ala carte pricing from upstream. They're big companies that can presumably take care of themselves and negotiate and even they can't manage to avoid dreck foisted upon them against their will.
Of course the real problem here is the idea that ANY ad supported channel should be able to force fees from cable operators. This is where the basic price disconnect begins. Cable operators should be able to rebroadcast any ad supported channel without needing to get permission or paying for it. The whole point up with putting up with those stupid things (ads) is the idea that they pay for the content.
There is also the issue of content. Just because you use HTML5, it doesn't mean that all devices will magically be able to use your site. The video you are pushing still needs to be something that the clients can decode. This just avoids the "Steve won't let iPhones run Flash" problem.
If you are smart about how you build machines, they can be upgraded and serviced without ever being opened.
This is something that you can do cheaply if you build your own machines but is sadly lacking on more consumer oriented devices. The lack of this ability on Apple devices is most conspicuous in it's absence.
Even once you get past iTunes you still have the problem of feeding the tablet content.
For that you need a real PC. You need it for storage, the more interesting apps, the far superior computational power, and the more interesting peripheral options.
The jumper settings were usually listed on the drives themselves.
Plugging things in can get a little hairy from a physical point of view but most of the mechanics of building a system have always been pretty trivial. What problems did arise primarily were due to the platform being backward (which I mentioned). However, that hasn't been a problem for a rather long time now. The PC industry started moving away from that sort of nonsense before Slashdot existed.
It's simply not that impressive. It's "elitism" to try and claim otherwise.
The single biggest difficulty you will have is getting over your own fear and 30 years of anti-consumer FUD.
If you aren't going to bother to keep up with this stuff, don't come into an argument like some sort of johnny-come-lately that has obviously not read up on this subject in the least little bit.
"external drive cage" is one of the main advertised use cases for thunderbolt.
On the other hand, Facebook is where all of your worthless Farmville friends are.
A new service could sell itself for being a tool to actually connect with your own social circle rather than random strangers in Thailand who's "friendship" is merely useful for playing inane Zynga games.
The S/N ratio on Facebook (driven by it's design and business model) tends to make it less and less useful. Constant mindless spamming from the likes of Spotify might be just what the 'danes need in order to start fleeing to another service.
What Crestron seems to be trying to patent here is some very basic set arithmetic that is fundemental mathematics that predates even the first paper on relational databases.
This is yet another "invention" that sounds like an undergraduate computer science homework assignment.
> My god man, the entire American technical community is oriented around pigeonholing.
I would attribute this to American managers rather than the "technical community".
American managers want a laundry list of requirements that quite often are numerically impossible. Sometimes they are specifically designed as a prelude to hiring an H1B. American MBA's don't acknowledge the idea that an engineer or professional is by definition capable of learning and adapting and dealing with something new. Add into this the fact that companies now want to treat everyone as disposable, the situation is even worse. They won't cross train their own people even if that would make the most sense.
They won't accept anyone unless they are a ready made custom fit.
That doesn't work at Macy's and of course it doesn't work out so well in the job market either.
American business majors are the one's doing the pigeonholing.
Megacorps are free to cross international borders and find the lowest labor price and take advantage of countries that have no labor or safety standards.
Labor is stuck in whatever place they happen to be and stuck dealing with the prevailing cost of living.
Labor is in a straight jacket while management is not.
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Exactly what rock have you been hiding under?
Attend an Open World or talk to the user community sometime.
...then aren't we lucky it's a diverse marketplace where anyone and everyone is free to offer up different approaches and we aren't all at the mercy of the least imaginative among us.
Nonsense.
Clusters do "perform on commercial workloads".
Infact, they perform better than big NUMA boxes. I've seen the migration away from Sparc NUMA machines to smaller clustered sparc machines myself. Some apps (most notably Oracle) actually do much better that way.
This is an Oracle product now.
It is worth noting that Oracle specifically dumped Sparc as it's reference platform for it's flagship product.
The ship has already sailed here. People already defected to x86 en masse. The real question now is whether or not this product is good enough to encourage people to move back to Sparc. Oracle's own treatment of Sparc as a "3rd party vendor" will matter a great deal as will their pricing model.
Oracle simply may be too greedy to make the whole package a great deal.
As "pathetic" as a "slow nvidia card" may be. It will probably still run circles around an Intel part, especially for the given use case.
"Good Intel GPU" is along the same lines as "Year of the Linux Desktop".
If ESPN really needs to be more like HBO rather than leeching off of the rest of us, then they should "man up".
No. ESPN in particular is taking larger than it's fair share from cable operators.
Then we have bundles forced on the cable operators.
First the cable companies need to be able to get ala carte pricing from upstream. They're big companies that can presumably take care of themselves and negotiate and even they can't manage to avoid dreck foisted upon them against their will.
Of course the real problem here is the idea that ANY ad supported channel should be able to force fees from cable operators. This is where the basic price disconnect begins. Cable operators should be able to rebroadcast any ad supported channel without needing to get permission or paying for it. The whole point up with putting up with those stupid things (ads) is the idea that they pay for the content.
If they don't, then why bother?
There is also the issue of content. Just because you use HTML5, it doesn't mean that all devices will magically be able to use your site. The video you are pushing still needs to be something that the clients can decode. This just avoids the "Steve won't let iPhones run Flash" problem.
You do realize of course that you could describe Sputnik in the same terms.
Nearly all of the early rocket programs were for military use.
The idea of putting something other than munitions on a rocket was pretty much an afterthought.
If you are smart about how you build machines, they can be upgraded and serviced without ever being opened.
This is something that you can do cheaply if you build your own machines but is sadly lacking on more consumer oriented devices. The lack of this ability on Apple devices is most conspicuous in it's absence.
Amazon Prime is like crack. After you take your first hit of free 2nd day shipping it's hard not to go back again and again and again...
The shipping discount from just one big/heavy item is enough to offset the "subscription".
Even once you get past iTunes you still have the problem of feeding the tablet content.
For that you need a real PC. You need it for storage, the more interesting apps, the far superior computational power, and the more interesting peripheral options.
Most of the PCs I have bought lately are not for use as PCs in the conventional sense.
They are meant to be appliances of some sort.
Plus there's always storage. Probably spend more money on storage now than computational power.
The jumper settings were usually listed on the drives themselves.
Plugging things in can get a little hairy from a physical point of view but most of the mechanics of building a system have always been pretty trivial. What problems did arise primarily were due to the platform being backward (which I mentioned). However, that hasn't been a problem for a rather long time now. The PC industry started moving away from that sort of nonsense before Slashdot existed.
It's simply not that impressive. It's "elitism" to try and claim otherwise.
The single biggest difficulty you will have is getting over your own fear and 30 years of anti-consumer FUD.
If you aren't going to bother to keep up with this stuff, don't come into an argument like some sort of johnny-come-lately that has obviously not read up on this subject in the least little bit.
"external drive cage" is one of the main advertised use cases for thunderbolt.
I'm not really sure that "unplug card from socket" and "plug another card in same socket" is such a "rite of passage" anyways.
It's just another component that may or may not be attached to a modern bus that has auto-detection features built in.
No. Newegg doesn't have anything to fear from this Post-PC hype.
The real threat to them are competitors like Amazon that sell the same thing for less, offer free shipping, and have better search features.
On the other hand, Facebook is where all of your worthless Farmville friends are.
A new service could sell itself for being a tool to actually connect with your own social circle rather than random strangers in Thailand who's "friendship" is merely useful for playing inane Zynga games.
The S/N ratio on Facebook (driven by it's design and business model) tends to make it less and less useful. Constant mindless spamming from the likes of Spotify might be just what the 'danes need in order to start fleeing to another service.
If you go this route, then the prior art dates back to at least 1988.
It probably goes back even furthur. 1988 just represents my own personal experience with regards to "cloud storage".
Did you? If so then perhaps you could illuminate the situation...
select * from
(some subquery)
order by whatever you want;
What Crestron seems to be trying to patent here is some very basic set arithmetic that is fundemental mathematics that predates even the first paper on relational databases.
This is yet another "invention" that sounds like an undergraduate computer science homework assignment.
> My god man, the entire American technical community is oriented around pigeonholing.
I would attribute this to American managers rather than the "technical community".
American managers want a laundry list of requirements that quite often are numerically impossible. Sometimes they are specifically designed as a prelude to hiring an H1B. American MBA's don't acknowledge the idea that an engineer or professional is by definition capable of learning and adapting and dealing with something new. Add into this the fact that companies now want to treat everyone as disposable, the situation is even worse. They won't cross train their own people even if that would make the most sense.
They won't accept anyone unless they are a ready made custom fit.
That doesn't work at Macy's and of course it doesn't work out so well in the job market either.
American business majors are the one's doing the pigeonholing.
Megacorps are free to cross international borders and find the lowest labor price and take advantage of countries that have no labor or safety standards.
Labor is stuck in whatever place they happen to be and stuck dealing with the prevailing cost of living.
Labor is in a straight jacket while management is not.
There's no net movement offshore right now because most of that movement has happened already.
That ship already sailed...