it'll cost a whole $15.00 per year to taste a domain name. It only costs about $7/year to register a domain outright. But the tasters are making less than $7/year in revenue from each domain, so they can't afford to either register them or continue tasting.
Except Larrabee is a big, complex, expensive GPU, so it has to be fast (on most games) to be economically viable. If Intel was content with the GMA they wouldn't have created Larrabee.
Creating a GPU that won't run existing games well (or at all) never made sense. Some people fantasized about forcing gamers to buy a rasterization GPU and a separate raytracing GPU, but those are probably the same fools who bought PPUs and Killer NICs.
There were 24 people in the pilot program, 22 of which responded to the survey. Of those 22, a whopping 19 actually preferred to keep running OS X on their Macbook instead of Windows on their THinkpad! That's pretty damn huge. 86% of a group of NEW users to OS X, given a time enough to get used to it, actually prefer OS X and the Apple hardware... From the article: "15 [out of 22 people] reported having moderate or expert knowledge of the [Mac] platform". Let's assume all those people kept the Mac. So out of 7 Mac newbies, 4 chose to keep the Mac (57%) and 3 chose to keep Windows (42%).
Or am I missing something here? Yeah, you're missing some money from your wallet. Most people won't waste their money on two different GPUs, just like they won't buy PPUs or Killer NICs.
Yeah, DFP is not exactly mainstream. AFAIK it exists because certain banking calculations must be performed in decimal to avoid binary rounding. I think in COBOL numbers are decimal by default, in Java you'd use the BigDecimal class, and in C you use some typedefs.
I was being somewhat sarcastic. In reality I believe that Roberts decided that flow routing is a good idea and then started Anagran to implement it, so he's not a total opportunist. But even on a technical level, I'm having trouble finding people who like flow routing. So we have one expert with an idea that most of the other experts reject. So I don't quite trust this idea on a technical level and I don't entirely trust the guy who's selling it either.
The question is - how do you build an open-access infrastructure without having to completely rip and replace all the last mile infrastructure in the United States and Canada? Exactly, so we're screwed either way. (Technically you don't have to rip and replace; you can build a parallel infrastructure. But the cost is the same.)
It didn't work in the US, there seem to be problems in the UK, and now Canada. Retrofitting open access into networks and companies that weren't built for it just doesn't work politically or financially, because the telcos always find ways to screw it up (aka loopholes, regulatory capture).
If we want an open access infrastructure, I am forced to conclude that we need to build it.
In servers, FB-DIMMs have heat spreaders (because they need it to spread out the heat from the AMB) and regular DIMMs do not (because they don't need it).
So it seems like you'd only be really interested in this if you were always going to have your main instance up, and then you were sometimes going to have none but sometimes going to have many other instances up. Past a certain scale it might be worth your time to have more instances 9-5 and less at night, or something (depending on your users) Yeah, that is pretty much the use case for hosting on EC2, but it's a small fraction of the market. It seems like EC2 could be much more general purpose, but at this point it isn't.
I'm also curious whether it supports automatic instance restarting... e.g. if a zone goes down, can you tell it you definitely want it to put your instance up again in a new zone? Nope, so you have to have at least two instances running at any one time so they can keep watch over each other.
What provisions are in place to ensure you don't get a giant bill at the end of the month that you can't afford to pay, because someone linked to you on slashdot? If you want more servers on EC2, you (or some code written by you) has to tell Amazon to start them. So you could choose not to "go elastic" if you can't afford it.
No, no one has used AppLogic because the minimum price just to try it out is hundreds of dollars per month. EC2 is somewhat flawed but they are getting a lot of business because it is so cheap to try.
S3 is persistent storage. With weak (i.e. useless) semantics that are totally different from conventional storage.
Your data is never safe. Hence, a backup/replication plan is ALWAYS needed. Sure, but if your plan involves a SAN, EC2 cannot support it. There are so many best practices that EC2 does not support; effectively you have to design your app for EC2.
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Data centers? Server hardware already has 100% Linux driver support; the problem is on the desktop.
We'll find out soon, since Intel is adding a flash controller to its chipsets.
Except Larrabee is a big, complex, expensive GPU, so it has to be fast (on most games) to be economically viable. If Intel was content with the GMA they wouldn't have created Larrabee.
Creating a GPU that won't run existing games well (or at all) never made sense. Some people fantasized about forcing gamers to buy a rasterization GPU and a separate raytracing GPU, but those are probably the same fools who bought PPUs and Killer NICs.
I was thinking about the G80; I'm not familiar with ATI's architecture.
Nvidia already makes IGPs that are pretty low power; they don't even need fans.
For ultimate low power, there's the future VIA/Nvidia hookup: http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA%20Promises%20Powerful%20Sub45%20Processing%20Platform%20to%20Counter%20Intel/article11452.htm
Modern GPUs already have 8-16 cores.
Yeah, DFP is not exactly mainstream. AFAIK it exists because certain banking calculations must be performed in decimal to avoid binary rounding. I think in COBOL numbers are decimal by default, in Java you'd use the BigDecimal class, and in C you use some typedefs.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
I was being somewhat sarcastic. In reality I believe that Roberts decided that flow routing is a good idea and then started Anagran to implement it, so he's not a total opportunist. But even on a technical level, I'm having trouble finding people who like flow routing. So we have one expert with an idea that most of the other experts reject. So I don't quite trust this idea on a technical level and I don't entirely trust the guy who's selling it either.
Oh, from his company of course.
Yeah, that sounds like a veritable utopia.
It didn't work in the US, there seem to be problems in the UK, and now Canada. Retrofitting open access into networks and companies that weren't built for it just doesn't work politically or financially, because the telcos always find ways to screw it up (aka loopholes, regulatory capture).
If we want an open access infrastructure, I am forced to conclude that we need to build it.
"Pretty soon" probably means 2011, so maybe they'll deploy IPv6 then. I don't see any reason why Comcast would deploy IPv6 in 2008.
In servers, FB-DIMMs have heat spreaders (because they need it to spread out the heat from the AMB) and regular DIMMs do not (because they don't need it).
Dual-ported drives
Expanders (128 drives per controller)
Wide ports (1200 MB/s)
Better external cabling (not like the kludge that is eSATA)
SCSI was better than IDE, and SAS is still better than SATA.
No, the EC2 billing has not changed. It was always by instance-hour.
No, no one has used AppLogic because the minimum price just to try it out is hundreds of dollars per month. EC2 is somewhat flawed but they are getting a lot of business because it is so cheap to try.