A different analysis showed that around 2M BTC have never been spent even once after being mined. Many of these unspent block rewards are from the early days so it's not clear whether they're lost or hoarded. Given the very low exchange rate at the time, it wouldn't be surprising if they were simply discarded.
You (and Geekbench) may not be taking turbo mode into account. Quad-cores generally turbo to the same frequency as duals when you're only using one core.
Google doesn't do things the cheapest way because they're thinking long-term. They want to have everything in house. They may (accidentally, I'm sure) destroy some of the companies you mentioned, so Google doesn't want to be their customer when that day comes. Google also thinks (rightly or wrongly) that at scale they can always design something cheaper than anyone else.
After Silk Road started picking up steam the currency jumped to its bubble peak of $30+ USD. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed the timeline there.
I think the $30 spike was more likely caused by an influx of noobs who found out that their GPU could print money.
The next generation Cray (XE7?) will attach to the processor via PCIe, so they can use Intel or AMD. They're definitely not going to use IB when their Gemini interconnect is better.
They'll probably make a Windows 8 version (locked) and an Android version (also locked) of each tablet. The demand for anything else is too small to bother with. People who want regular Linux will have to jailbreak.
Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
Microsoft and Cisco do it. That used router you bought? Its firmware was fully licensed, but since it's non-transferable you have to buy it all over again. (And since the router is a brick without firmware, they have you over a barrel on pricing.) I always thought it was unfair that such practices are allowed when they only hurt businesses even though people would scream were they applied to consumer goods.
The problem being that you *can't* really even pretend to 'give away' digital content without DRM.
I agree. But given that I have already agreed to DRM in many cases (e.g. Steam), allowing resale/lending would at least give me some benefits to offset the costs of DRM.
Where can I get an x64 or ARM system that scales to 32 or 64 sockets?
You can get them from SGI, although they're marketed for HPC, not for commercial apps. But keep in mind that you're talking about 256-640 cores; there's very little demand for such beasts. 80-core or smaller x64 servers are available from several vendors at reasonable prices and can satisfy 99% of the market.
The RISC/mainframe market is a totally different animal, one that those chips don't even play in.
And neither do the SPARC T series, which only scale up to 4 sockets.
The canceled UltraSPARC V and canceled Rock don't count because they never shipped. It's pretty sad that Sun, the inventors of SPARC, were getting out-designed by Fujitsu.
Mozilla can pay for the license out of their $100M annual revenue; they just don't want to. Free software martyrdom is a choice; it's not some law of nature.
They're not trying to cut corners for the hell of it, but for performance, power usage, and other actual engineering reasons.You just cant build smartphones and tablets with that same common architecture, or else you're adding too many chips and circuits you don't need.
A common firmware interface (like BIOS, OF, or EFI) and something like a device tree doesn't require extra chips. At most maybe it's a few KB of flash.
Deleting public Web pages won't have any effect on the lawsuit since cached copies are still admissible. It may reduce confusion, though, since Oracle's policies are definitely different than Sun's in many ways.
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A different analysis showed that around 2M BTC have never been spent even once after being mined. Many of these unspent block rewards are from the early days so it's not clear whether they're lost or hoarded. Given the very low exchange rate at the time, it wouldn't be surprising if they were simply discarded.
By "mess" I guess you mean "ships more units in one year than desktop Linux did in 15 years".
Android developers don't care about desktop Linux and are willing to fork anything that gets in their way. They've done it before.
Android will end up with 3D that works fine; it will just be based on different APIs than desktop Linux.
Oh, you want Optimus documentation? Here, have some documentation! ... for Tegra ... 2D.
MIPS is still big in networking; see Cavium and Raza/NetLogic/Broadcom.
For some reason I looked at the MIPS Web site the other day and they have no 64-bit cores. It looks like they've completely abandoned 64-bit.
You (and Geekbench) may not be taking turbo mode into account. Quad-cores generally turbo to the same frequency as duals when you're only using one core.
IIRC Thumper had 48 drives in 4U but Facebook's new hinged storage server has 15 drives per U, so it's even denser.
Google doesn't do things the cheapest way because they're thinking long-term. They want to have everything in house. They may (accidentally, I'm sure) destroy some of the companies you mentioned, so Google doesn't want to be their customer when that day comes. Google also thinks (rightly or wrongly) that at scale they can always design something cheaper than anyone else.
After Silk Road started picking up steam the currency jumped to its bubble peak of $30+ USD. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed the timeline there.
I think the $30 spike was more likely caused by an influx of noobs who found out that their GPU could print money.
Haven't people been reflowing PS3s and Xboxen in their kitchen ovens? Or does that only work for re-reflowing?
The next generation Cray (XE7?) will attach to the processor via PCIe, so they can use Intel or AMD. They're definitely not going to use IB when their Gemini interconnect is better.
They'll probably make a Windows 8 version (locked) and an Android version (also locked) of each tablet. The demand for anything else is too small to bother with. People who want regular Linux will have to jailbreak.
You might enjoy this proposal: http://www.jordanpollack.com/softwaremarket/
Such a market would annoy customers because it uses DRM and it would annoy sellers because they would make less money.
Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
Microsoft and Cisco do it. That used router you bought? Its firmware was fully licensed, but since it's non-transferable you have to buy it all over again. (And since the router is a brick without firmware, they have you over a barrel on pricing.) I always thought it was unfair that such practices are allowed when they only hurt businesses even though people would scream were they applied to consumer goods.
The problem being that you *can't* really even pretend to 'give away' digital content without DRM.
I agree. But given that I have already agreed to DRM in many cases (e.g. Steam), allowing resale/lending would at least give me some benefits to offset the costs of DRM.
You just pretty much described the "UltraViolet" locker service; unfortunately the implementation is buggy and laden with DRM.
SAS is probably never coming to consumer boards. Too much additional expense for not enough gain.
The X79 (Patsburg) chipset already has SAS; it's just disabled.
Where can I get an x64 or ARM system that scales to 32 or 64 sockets?
You can get them from SGI, although they're marketed for HPC, not for commercial apps. But keep in mind that you're talking about 256-640 cores; there's very little demand for such beasts. 80-core or smaller x64 servers are available from several vendors at reasonable prices and can satisfy 99% of the market.
The RISC/mainframe market is a totally different animal, one that those chips don't even play in.
And neither do the SPARC T series, which only scale up to 4 sockets.
The canceled UltraSPARC V and canceled Rock don't count because they never shipped. It's pretty sad that Sun, the inventors of SPARC, were getting out-designed by Fujitsu.
Mozilla can pay for the license out of their $100M annual revenue; they just don't want to. Free software martyrdom is a choice; it's not some law of nature.
Yeah, but the whole planet has to share 6 Mbps.
Not sure how this is insightful.
They're not trying to cut corners for the hell of it, but for performance, power usage, and other actual engineering reasons.You just cant build smartphones and tablets with that same common architecture, or else you're adding too many chips and circuits you don't need.
A common firmware interface (like BIOS, OF, or EFI) and something like a device tree doesn't require extra chips. At most maybe it's a few KB of flash.
Deleting public Web pages won't have any effect on the lawsuit since cached copies are still admissible. It may reduce confusion, though, since Oracle's policies are definitely different than Sun's in many ways.