The article says the drive has a transfer rate of 5.2MB/s; that's a lot faster than flash cards that top out below 2MB/s AFAIK. You're right that the seek time is going to suck compared to flash, though.
It would probably be great for digital cameras, because those mostly do contiguous writes.
Considering that they provide 256Kb/s of bandwidth to each customer, they obviously have a lot more than 128Kb/s total. The last time I talked to Ryan he said bandwidth was not a problem.
In a talk at UT Austin, one of the Pentium 4 architects claimed that it has the best branch predictor of any CPU, but they haven't published the details yet.
The Viewsonic SuperPDA was announced recently; at $1000 at least it's cheaper than most of the other tablets mentioned in this thread.
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NB: I still wonder, why Sun doesn't release a "reference" open source implementation of a JVM if they want "the Java platform" to become a wildly adopted standard...
Because Sun wants to force all VMs to be 100% compatible with the specs. With an open source VM, who knows what kind of changes people might make?
It sounds like you're not familiar with the TRM algorithm; it's designed to produce the same signature even if there are slight differences in the original audio.
Yeah, but all that cool auto-managing software that NCs used could have run even better if it was installed on a real PC instead of an underpowered NC. Management is a software problem, so solve it with software, not hardware.
If my memory serves me correctly, the DMCA says if a service provider gets notified of a copyright violation and they remove the stuff, they have "safe harbor" and it is not considered editorial control.
I get the impression they're trying to impress people ("look at that cool network diagram") without giving away any "proprietary and confidential" information (look at the lower right corner).
It's a double-edged sword. Rapidly increasing the bandwidth at the fringes of the Internet instead of the core is going to cause some serious problems and side-effects.
Don't you think artists would make more money under such a system, not less? Right now, don't most musicians get about $1/album? What if they sold the album direct for $3 and ended up pocketing $2?
The processor doesn't switch at all; it actually runs multiple threads at the same time (hence "simultaneous") because it has a separate set of registers for each thread.
More info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/
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Advogato creator Raph Levien is working on this for his thesis.
The article says the drive has a transfer rate of 5.2MB/s; that's a lot faster than flash cards that top out below 2MB/s AFAIK. You're right that the seek time is going to suck compared to flash, though.
It would probably be great for digital cameras, because those mostly do contiguous writes.
Considering that they provide 256Kb/s of bandwidth to each customer, they obviously have a lot more than 128Kb/s total. The last time I talked to Ryan he said bandwidth was not a problem.
10 of those chips is only 1000 MIPS; that's less than an 800 MHz x86 CPU. Why not just get a microATX motherboard with a Duron?
No, I was already at the karma cap when I posted it.
In a talk at UT Austin, one of the Pentium 4 architects claimed that it has the best branch predictor of any CPU, but they haven't published the details yet.
(Long-time Internetters will recall that the FBI raid on SJG was one of the first causes celebre of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)
No, I recall that it was the Secret Service.
The Viewsonic SuperPDA was announced recently; at $1000 at least it's cheaper than most of the other tablets mentioned in this thread.
NB: I still wonder, why Sun doesn't release a "reference" open source implementation of a JVM if they want "the Java platform" to become a wildly adopted standard...
Because Sun wants to force all VMs to be 100% compatible with the specs. With an open source VM, who knows what kind of changes people might make?
ReiserFS is funded by Namesys, a for-profit corporation AFAIK.
It sounds like you're not familiar with the TRM algorithm; it's designed to produce the same signature even if there are slight differences in the original audio.
I can confirm that the new client does work, but it only lets me share 5 files. :-/
What about ReiserFS and XFS? Or is there some weird meaning to "commercial filing system" that I don't get?
Yeah, but all that cool auto-managing software that NCs used could have run even better if it was installed on a real PC instead of an underpowered NC. Management is a software problem, so solve it with software, not hardware.
If my memory serves me correctly, the DMCA says if a service provider gets notified of a copyright violation and they remove the stuff, they have "safe harbor" and it is not considered editorial control.
Since the Apple I was not a Mac, Apple I owners don't necessarily have Mac nostalgia.
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X15 is still 2-3 times faster than Tux 2.0, and Cheetha (from MIT) is 2-3 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE faster than either.
Er, let me get this straight: TUX can saturate multiple GigE cards per CPU, so Cheetah can saturate 200-2000 GigE cards per CPU? Today's systems don't even have that much memory bandwidth.
The SPECweb99 benchmark uses both static and dynamic content, and there are results from a variety of servers.
I think a comparison between TUX, Zeus, AOLServer, Apache, etc. might have given more useful results.
I get the impression they're trying to impress people ("look at that cool network diagram") without giving away any "proprietary and confidential" information (look at the lower right corner).
It's a double-edged sword. Rapidly increasing the bandwidth at the fringes of the Internet instead of the core is going to cause some serious problems and side-effects.
Sounds like a good justification for P2P.
Don't you think artists would make more money under such a system, not less? Right now, don't most musicians get about $1/album? What if they sold the album direct for $3 and ended up pocketing $2?
The article is just wrong, that's all. Mac OS 9 has MP support, but it's weird and only a few apps (like Photoshop) use it.
The processor doesn't switch at all; it actually runs multiple threads at the same time (hence "simultaneous") because it has a separate set of registers for each thread.
More info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/