One rumor that's going around is that Toshiba will kill HD-DVD, Blu-ray will be renamed HD-DVD, and Toshiba will get a cut of the royalties on the "converged" format. This would require no technical changes.
In order to populate all the RAM slots in an Opteron system, you have to populate all the processor sockets as well. And a 4-socket system requires expensive Opteron 8xx processors.
Instead, consider an IBM x366 or an HP DL580; either one can be configured with 32GB RAM and 1 processor for under $30K.
The document focuses on technical challenges, not business or political ones. But you're right that technical innovation is useless unless there is a business and political climate that can foster it.
It's pointless to compare servers and gaming machines. BTW, an Opteron 846 is more like $700; I don't think you'll be getting any change from your $4K.
Yeah, that's why the Mac Mini has a remote control, TV tuner, and TV-centric GUI. Oh wait, it has none of those. Once you add all the stuff needed to make a Mini into a PVR, it costs twice as much as a Tivo.
Multicast creates per-group state in core Internet routers, which is a serious scalability problem because those routers have finite memory. Given that the IETF has been working on this for years, I don't see how Hollywood is going to fix it.
Multicast is part of IPv4 and IPv6. It works the same in both protocols. Thus using IPv6 does not have any effect on multicast. If you don't have multicast today, then you still won't have it after everyone switches to IPv6.
Alacritech makes TCP offload engines (TOEs); so do several other companies. Notably, Broadcom has promised to commoditize TOE by including it in GigE controllers "for free". If this happens, Alacritech is out of business. These Broadcom TOEs rely on the Windows TCP Chimney API to work. If TCP Chimney has to be removed from Windows, then Alacritech is possibly the only TOE company left standing.
They probably can't afford RHEL, and they probably want patches for more than 6 months. Some people choose software based on how well it meets their needs, not how much it contributes.
Since when is it the RIAA's job to enforce the Internet2 terms of service (or spirit or whatever)? Has Internet2 actually complained about all the file sharing?
What would put Monotone and Bazaar in a class above Subversion?
They're distributed. Every user has a complete copy of the history of the repository, and changes can flow from any repo to any other repo.
Being able to run over email is an interesting feature... one I'm not sure I understand the need for, if you have to have a fully-featured client to do merges and the like anyway. I guess it's so you don't need to assume network availability ?
Let's say you just coded some change to the kernel and checked it in to your local repo. How does it get from you to Linus? You don't have an account on kernel.org; in fact, you don't have an account on any server. You email the change to Linus and he checks it into his repo.
Is there a forum or something somewhere that this whole 'What features are needed and why" discussion can be examined ?
linux-kernel, although there hasn't been a lot of discussion so far.
Does anyone know the 'short list' of SCM tools being considered ?
Linus specifically mentioned Monotone, and he's working on his own tool called git. There have been positive rumblings about Bazaar-NG.
What features are needed/why BK is so great is a long topic, but being fully decentralized and being able to run over email are some of the major features.
Shouldn't a really good SCM server system have a standardized, controlled interface that can allow simple, third-party clients, anyway ?
In fully distributed SCM, there may be no server, so all the work has to be done in the client. For exmaple, merging is one of the trickier parts of SCM, and it has to be done on the client side.
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Yeah, I wish Sun would stop hyping ZFS and just ship it already.
Storage Tank and ZFS are totally different things; I wouldn't try to compare them.
They're not exactly comparable, since UML has much more overhead than Zones.
Blu-ray requires the same royalty, since it includes VC-1.
One rumor that's going around is that Toshiba will kill HD-DVD, Blu-ray will be renamed HD-DVD, and Toshiba will get a cut of the royalties on the "converged" format. This would require no technical changes.
If the data is stored in a 3-D volume, then why are they quoting storage density as bits/area? Doesn't the thickness matter?
There is no driver issue; the chip has an antenna on one end and Ethernet on the other.
WiMAX is supposed to be cheaper and more popular than current fixed wireless broadband systems because it is standardized.
In order to populate all the RAM slots in an Opteron system, you have to populate all the processor sockets as well. And a 4-socket system requires expensive Opteron 8xx processors.
Instead, consider an IBM x366 or an HP DL580; either one can be configured with 32GB RAM and 1 processor for under $30K.
The document focuses on technical challenges, not business or political ones. But you're right that technical innovation is useless unless there is a business and political climate that can foster it.
It's pointless to compare servers and gaming machines. BTW, an Opteron 846 is more like $700; I don't think you'll be getting any change from your $4K.
I don't think MS cares how much money they lose. They are trying to buy marketshare at any cost.
Yeah, that's why the Mac Mini has a remote control, TV tuner, and TV-centric GUI. Oh wait, it has none of those. Once you add all the stuff needed to make a Mini into a PVR, it costs twice as much as a Tivo.
Multicast creates per-group state in core Internet routers, which is a serious scalability problem because those routers have finite memory. Given that the IETF has been working on this for years, I don't see how Hollywood is going to fix it.
Multicast is part of IPv4 and IPv6. It works the same in both protocols. Thus using IPv6 does not have any effect on multicast. If you don't have multicast today, then you still won't have it after everyone switches to IPv6.
The Internet does not support multicast, so it doesn't matter. Also, multicast has nothing to do with IPv6.
Alacritech makes TCP offload engines (TOEs); so do several other companies. Notably, Broadcom has promised to commoditize TOE by including it in GigE controllers "for free". If this happens, Alacritech is out of business. These Broadcom TOEs rely on the Windows TCP Chimney API to work. If TCP Chimney has to be removed from Windows, then Alacritech is possibly the only TOE company left standing.
They probably can't afford RHEL, and they probably want patches for more than 6 months. Some people choose software based on how well it meets their needs, not how much it contributes.
Software that is priced per processor uses all the processors.
Are AMD's and/or Intel's processors supposed to work in existing motherboards?
AMD: Yes
Intel: No
It's cheaper. Everything boils down to that.
I wonder why Apple doesn't seem interested in dual cores though. ... Apple doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with it...
Says who?
It appears as 4 processors.
Since when is it the RIAA's job to enforce the Internet2 terms of service (or spirit or whatever)? Has Internet2 actually complained about all the file sharing?
To do video conferencing over the Internet, you are going to need a central server (for now) with accounts.
.Mac account or a free AOL IM account. What else would you have them do?
No, you don't. Many pro videoconferencing systems use IP addresses to connect directly.
Apple says you can use either a
Allow me to use my own server, instead of relying on Apple or AOL?
DragonFly is rearchitecting for SMP, just in a different way than FreeBSD 5.x.
What would put Monotone and Bazaar in a class above Subversion?
They're distributed. Every user has a complete copy of the history of the repository, and changes can flow from any repo to any other repo.
Being able to run over email is an interesting feature... one I'm not sure I understand the need for, if you have to have a fully-featured client to do merges and the like anyway. I guess it's so you don't need to assume network availability ?
Let's say you just coded some change to the kernel and checked it in to your local repo. How does it get from you to Linus? You don't have an account on kernel.org; in fact, you don't have an account on any server. You email the change to Linus and he checks it into his repo.
Is there a forum or something somewhere that this whole 'What features are needed and why" discussion can be examined ?
linux-kernel, although there hasn't been a lot of discussion so far.
Does anyone know the 'short list' of SCM tools being considered ?
Linus specifically mentioned Monotone, and he's working on his own tool called git. There have been positive rumblings about Bazaar-NG.
What features are needed/why BK is so great is a long topic, but being fully decentralized and being able to run over email are some of the major features.
Shouldn't a really good SCM server system have a standardized, controlled interface that can allow simple, third-party clients, anyway ?
In fully distributed SCM, there may be no server, so all the work has to be done in the client. For exmaple, merging is one of the trickier parts of SCM, and it has to be done on the client side.