No, if they are saying songs, then we need to assume that this is uncompressed wav files. So, 30,000 * ~50MB = 1,500,000 MB = 1.5TB... I can live with that. That is actually smaller then if it was 250,000 pictures from my camera, which is 250,000 * 24MB = 6,000,000MB = 6TB.
So now that hackers know there exists a backdoor to the windows update which will let them update a stealth patch to anything they want in the system because it runs with admin rights, this isn't a big deal to you?
The website that receives a DMCA claim has no idea as to the verity of the claim or not. It is not up to them to decide what is infringement or not, only to follow the rule of law. The DMCA has a provision for the person or entity that it is being used against to submit a counter-claim to the website to give them notice that if the person making the claim wants to continue to contest the item, that they can take you to court, but that you have given notice to the website objecting to the take-down and the website does not need to comply with the initial take-down notice.
Only reason there are few games is because all the game developers/publishers did not want to touch the Wii with a 10' pole before release of the system. They all thought it would flop. The two or three publishers that took the chance on it are making lots of money now as a result while everyone else is playing catch-up. There are something like 68 games due out in the next 3 months. Essentially every major and minor developer/publisher has at least one or two games arriving in this time-frame because it take 10-12 months to really get a game out on a system (even a port), and that is how long ago these developers realized that they missed the boat.
Truly, unless the parents / family / guardians have an interest in sciences and math, it will be very hard to get the children to be interested. I personally loved the subjects, but that was easy to do as my environment was conducive for me to learn these subjects (my mother was the Valedictorian in high school, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology, my father graduated salutatarian from high school and cum laude from college as a general sciences major and works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission). So science and math were general topics in my home.
I think the things that got me most interested in this was having a computer at home when I was growing up. Now that is not as big a deal, but having a computer system in early 1980's was. I still remember doing my first up-grade to a computer on my own (upgraded the CPU from a 33MHz to a 66MHz when I was 9 or 10). I had always loved tinkering with the computer(s), and continued loving doing this till present day (I am a Unix Systems Administrator with a degree in Computer Science). I knew from early on that I needed to learn math and science in order to work on my hobby, which in turn, I found that I could make a career of my hobby, which is one of the best things you can have in life (finding someone to pay you to work on your hobby is right up there at the top of the list).
Heck, I grew up in a house where I would play chess against my father almost every night, and I remember doing this before I was even going to school. You need to have that early connection with sciences and math. You need to have that strong foundation well before 8th grade...
As for shows, well I liked "Mr. Wizard" when I was growing up. However, that is geared for people a little younger than 8th graders (more like 3-6th).
Well, NetApp is pissed that someone like Sun would use a similar function to their "snapshots", as ZFS allows for a very similar snapshot backup to be made as the built in "snapshots" that NetApp has in their NAS storage hardware. However, I don't know how a patent could have been given for such a process, as "diff" and "patch" files have existed LONG before NetApp. It was only obvious before someone merged that functionality into a filesystem, and had the filesystem keep the diff and patch the file on the fly from an old version to a new one depending on what you wanted to look at.
If someone would like to argue that the game preps youth for war and predisposes them to join the army, then they would seem to be arguing that gta prepares and predisposes players to crime and violence, etc. Actually I would argue that the "America's Army" game preps youths for war and does prep them to possibly join the army. Anyone who has played the game and gone through the "basic training", they get a fairly good idea of what to expect at real basic training. In other words classes on identifying dangers, targets, vehicles, friend and foe and classes on basic medical procedures that might just save your life or the life of someone else. It lets you see what some of the courses are like that you will need to be able to physically tackle, and how the gun qualification and sniper qualification systems actually work (you won't get to be trained as a sniper unless you already are proficient with the weapons and can shoot fairly well to begin with, so if it is your life's dream to be a sniper in the Army, well, you better go and practice before you join up, because you will not get the training unless you can already shoot very well to begin with). This is what the game can attempt to simulate.
Now does "Grand Theft Auto" train people to be a good car thief? Hell NO!. Now it COULD, however that would include teaching you how to bypass car alarms, pick locks, hot wire the ignition circuits, get past fuel line cut-off mechanisms, economics of the black market, what cars and car parts are currently worth, how to easily spot and recognize potential easy targets. But, it doesn't do that. It just lets you run around and get in the car and hit a button and you have stolen it, doesn't let you know how to actually do that stealing, which I believe is the reason why the game is fun to play, not tedious and hard work. I mean, if you had to know how to by-pass a proximity based keyless entry and ignition system for a car in the game by needing to either get and obtain (or make) a fake master key or intercept someone's key's code and clone it with another device, well, you should be out working as either a security expert at one of the said car manufacturers or something else, but you wouldn't be playing a time consuming game...
I would say that the shuttle astronauts play "video games" as well. Simulators can and are "games" in a sense. Heck go to any game store/website and there will usually be a category of games called "simulator". These simulate an environment and actually can teach the players important things. The more realistic the simulator (not just realistic graphics, but realistic physics, realistic environmental interactions), the more that the person using the simulator can actually learn. This is why airlines and aircraft manufacturers create "simulators" for their new planes and designed to train their pilots before they even enter a real plane. In fact, they create the simulator "before" they even build the first prototype and have pilots test things out and tweak things while in the design stage (i.e. moving a control to a different location, changing which information is located on what display, changing the orientation of a switch or knob, or control stick, moving a petal, etc., etc.).
So, you're asserting that the platform is a factor in whether or not a game is good Yes, I think he is, and he has nailed it right on the head. I give you example 1:
With such CONS like:
Streamlined controls make things a little too easy and a little less adventurous What was that? BETTER controls makes the game too easy? Wait, roll that back again. They are saying that because the controls are so good and intuitive, the game is easier to play. I never knew that if you made the most convoluted controls and user interface that make the game impossible to play would result in a "PRO" as opposed to a "CON". But since they are saying that good, intuitive controls is a "CON", I guess that the contrapositive is also the case.
We also get the:
Doesn't do much different than the previous two Metroid Prime games. I wonder what they say when Halo 3 comes out...
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hmmm.... let me see here, VH1 airs a show that is entirely so that they can generate money from advertising... While they also used it to comment on the clip, they did air the entire show, in a for-profit work. Now the original author of the segment, takes a small clip of the entire VH1 show, comments on it in the blog, and posts the clip. In other words, neither side really has much of a case against either one for the copyright infringement. However, the original author does have a case against VH1/Viacom for their illegal takedown notice using the DMCA if he cares to pursue the issue.
Ok, sorry to break this to the Nokia execs, but it was a flop for more then just the multiplayer against "friends". One HUGE issue was the fact that you had to remove the battery to simply put in a new game. Doesn't look like they have mentioned that yet...
Again, included in their current price is the costs that they have to legally hold aside and give to ROMS when they sell a track/album. The money is already in ROMS hands, they have already collected it. And in ACCORDANCE with LAW! Just because the RIAA and IFPI (which is the new extension) do not like the law doesn't mean that they can do anything about it in the way they are trying (i.e. get the World Trade Unit, and the European Union, and the USA to force Russia to shut down a perfectly legal business by mandating that Russia will not be allowed to join the European Union until it shuts these places down, because they already tried to lobby for the laws to change and failed (it appears that the Russians are not a susceptible to "contributions" as their American and European counterparts)).
They are abiding by their laws as written. ROMS is the legal entity to send copyright payments to under Russian law. ROMS is setup to pay the appropriate copyright royalties to the proper owner(s) when officially notified by the proper owner(s). The check then goes in the mail (and future payments go in the mail as they arrive). They simply have a system in place to make sure the proper owner of the copyright is compensated, and not someone with the false claim to the copyright, and this is in accordance to LAW. Stop complaining that you don't like it. I don't like the fact that women in Saudi Arabia need to keep their heads covered, but that is the law in that country. Same thing with no being able to chew bubble gum in Singapore...
Unit of Productivity = 1 / 1 + (hours of down time)
Happy?
Too bad this now results in a 1 even with no downtime. The idea was that as there is less downtime, the unit of productivity goes up towards infinity. However, as the number of downtime goes up, the units of productivity for a sys admin also needs to go towards infinity since cleaning up all the fires is just as hard work as keeping them from happening.
That is the reason why it won't be used in car batteries. It might get used in laptops in the future however, as I can see that working. However because you can't send in an electrical charge and have the enzymes create sugar, there is no way for the system to store the energy back into the battery without physically adding more sugar. In a car battery, once the engine is started, the combustion of the fuel turns the engine, which in tern, turns the alternator which generates electricity which is then fed back into the battery as well as the cars electrical harness. The battery is used when the car's engine is not running to power the car's electrical harness and turn the electric starter on the engine. Once that engine is up and running it turns the alternator (which is essentially a small generator). Without the ability to feed the power back into the battery, a car's battery will very quickly drain of all energy. The same will go for this type of battery, and I am sure that the enzymes don't do to well in the harsh environment that is the engine compartment of a car (or even the trunk), needing to survive temperatures as high as 180F and as low as -20F just for the 48 continental USA, let alone places like Canada.
However, at least engineering disciplines are already highly paid and have excellent benefits at almost any business. While it may help many new people into the door as the entrance bar is sometimes out of reach to many without the financial means to pay for college, it will not fix the problem that the students entering into the college level have a, how can I put this, "lack of good fundamentals" in these areas, and thus need many classes just to reach the level they should already possess before reaching college. As I said, this will help many people and families who are struggling to financially to go through four years of college. But we are just starting to see some of the problems of the current school systems, and this problem started many years ago, and will take many more years to correct. We are dealing with students how have had potentially 12 years of "pass the problem up", or flat out failure of the system and of the students themselves. It would take years to correct the problems for many of these people, and some may not even be able to be corrected due to other life issues. For the people the system has failed, it fails tremendously, with life affecting results. Simply offering free tuition to Math, Science, and Engineering majors will not help the people who do not know how to deal with fractions, or percentages, when you need them to be able to understand Fourier Transforms and Differential Calculus.
Not when Spielberg made certain that his movies were still released on BluRay. It says something when the premier director of the last 20-30 years says that he won't let politics like this keep his movies from being on both formats. I also love their "research" that "people who own gaming consoles buy fewer movies than those who invest in a movie-only player", when I personally already own 19 BluRay discs and I only own a PS3. This is how they are trying to discredit the install base everyone. The PS3 is the BEST BluRay player on the market. Why would anyone buy a different player? This has been shown in many different reviews from top A/V sites. The people buying BluRay players are all buying the PS3, so their "research" is a load of crap based on a totally flawed study using data from older DVD era. The fact is, when the best unit isn't just a stand-alone player but a game console, you have to look at what the best player was when your DVD era data was collected. I can tell you that the best player then certainly wasn't the PS2, and was a standalone unit (Sony, Denon, Pioneer, etc., etc.,) not an integrated console. Now the console has more processing power then any standalone can compete with, as well as excellent digital connectivity. The other players are not even in its league (which is also why it will be getting the upgrade to the newer BluRay standard just finialized because it has the processing overhead to be able to handle it and is a software based player which allows full upgrades of functionality unlike the other hardware based players which will not be able to get this big of a change to their programming because they do not have hardware that can support the functions).
The T1 was already doing 32, and the new T2 is supporting 256 in a single chip. Just wondering why "TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone", when the mile marker is already at 256?
A bunch of crap spewed there. If size was the problem, i.e. the whole there isn't enough population in area XYZ to have a profitable service because they are too far away to support, then that should mean that the highest population density areas in the USA would have service on par with S. Korea, Japan, and other high density areas, because there is "no difference" in the amount of customers in the high density areas. So South Korea has a population density of ~1,274/SQ MI (according to Wikipedia), and Japan has a population density of ~836 / SQ MI. Japan has an average download speed of 61 Mbps, South Korea has 45 Mbps. So Japan which has only 2/3rds the population density has a much faster connection rate average. Sweden, has a population density of only 52 / SQ MI (2007 census data), and yet has an average download speed of 18 Mbps. The USA has an average population density of 76 / SQ MI (note LOWER then Sweden), and yet ONLY has an average download speed of 1.9 Mbps!!! That is almost 10 times slower then Sweden, when we have a denser population!!!! The insult does not end there, if you look at areas of the USA that have high density, for instance, New Jersey, which is 1,334 / SQ MI, that value is HIGHER than Japan AND EVEN South Korea! So don't go saying that it is because of the distances. Sweden has to deal with the same issues the USA has with large areas of low density and high areas of density, yet, they have an internet infrastructure that is an order of magnitude faster than the USA.
But it does matter. Will this candidate ignore the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that says something is happening, and act against the data on their own belief, or political motivation, possibly even trying to stifle the scientific community and discredit their findings at every turn like our current administration has done on numerous occasions. You see, this does matter, when the President doesn't know well enough that he doesn't know enough about an issue and still doesn't take the advise of the people who DO know about the issue. It would be like the PR department of a car company overruling the engineering department and saying that the car doesn't need seat belts because they are uncomfortable to wear (while actually not wanting them to have seat belts because he can save his friends an extra million dollars a year on production costs as well as make his other friends in the medical business more money from treating more serious injuries with the added bonus making new friends of the undertakers and morgues more business from the increased amount of fatalities in auto accidents...). You starting to see my point?
There are about a dozen plug-ins that allow the easy modification of browser presented information. User Agent Switcher is just one of many that come to mind.
They have too many new technologies in active development for them to drop out of the server market. Their new Sparc processors, and motherboard chipsets truly have major advantages over current Intel offerings. The new T2 processors in a 4 or 8 CPU system can and will stomp over anything out of Wintell (64 threads per CPU, time 8 CPU's makes 512 ACTIVE processes at a time in a single box! Now imagine a beowulf or grid cluster of those! Hell, simply imagine a single rack!). No, Sun isn't leaving the server market, they are simply expanding their OS market, nothing more. Which is a good thing. The more hardware that can run Solaris, the more it will be seen by new people who may not be familiar with it. The new capabilities for self healing processes, zones (think like VMWare, but each is running a contained Solaris, without a ton of overhead from having the separate kernel instances, as well as being able to portion exact percentages of resources to each zone. This allows multiple "budgets" too pool together and buy a big(er) server then they would otherwise and have assurances that each group would get at a minimum X% of CPU time (or memory, or bandwidth, etc., etc.) on the system, where X corresponds to the percentage of the cost that the department/group/unit paid to purchase the server, and if no one else is using the system, well, you get to use all its resourses...).
No Sun is far from leaving the server market. Very, VERY far.
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No, if they are saying songs, then we need to assume that this is uncompressed wav files. So, 30,000 * ~50MB = 1,500,000 MB = 1.5TB... I can live with that. That is actually smaller then if it was 250,000 pictures from my camera, which is 250,000 * 24MB = 6,000,000MB = 6TB.
So now that hackers know there exists a backdoor to the windows update which will let them update a stealth patch to anything they want in the system because it runs with admin rights, this isn't a big deal to you?
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID132
Only reason there are few games is because all the game developers/publishers did not want to touch the Wii with a 10' pole before release of the system. They all thought it would flop. The two or three publishers that took the chance on it are making lots of money now as a result while everyone else is playing catch-up. There are something like 68 games due out in the next 3 months. Essentially every major and minor developer/publisher has at least one or two games arriving in this time-frame because it take 10-12 months to really get a game out on a system (even a port), and that is how long ago these developers realized that they missed the boat.
I think the things that got me most interested in this was having a computer at home when I was growing up. Now that is not as big a deal, but having a computer system in early 1980's was. I still remember doing my first up-grade to a computer on my own (upgraded the CPU from a 33MHz to a 66MHz when I was 9 or 10). I had always loved tinkering with the computer(s), and continued loving doing this till present day (I am a Unix Systems Administrator with a degree in Computer Science). I knew from early on that I needed to learn math and science in order to work on my hobby, which in turn, I found that I could make a career of my hobby, which is one of the best things you can have in life (finding someone to pay you to work on your hobby is right up there at the top of the list).
Heck, I grew up in a house where I would play chess against my father almost every night, and I remember doing this before I was even going to school. You need to have that early connection with sciences and math. You need to have that strong foundation well before 8th grade...
As for shows, well I liked "Mr. Wizard" when I was growing up. However, that is geared for people a little younger than 8th graders (more like 3-6th).
Well, NetApp is pissed that someone like Sun would use a similar function to their "snapshots", as ZFS allows for a very similar snapshot backup to be made as the built in "snapshots" that NetApp has in their NAS storage hardware. However, I don't know how a patent could have been given for such a process, as "diff" and "patch" files have existed LONG before NetApp. It was only obvious before someone merged that functionality into a filesystem, and had the filesystem keep the diff and patch the file on the fly from an old version to a new one depending on what you wanted to look at.
Now does "Grand Theft Auto" train people to be a good car thief? Hell NO!. Now it COULD, however that would include teaching you how to bypass car alarms, pick locks, hot wire the ignition circuits, get past fuel line cut-off mechanisms, economics of the black market, what cars and car parts are currently worth, how to easily spot and recognize potential easy targets. But, it doesn't do that. It just lets you run around and get in the car and hit a button and you have stolen it, doesn't let you know how to actually do that stealing, which I believe is the reason why the game is fun to play, not tedious and hard work. I mean, if you had to know how to by-pass a proximity based keyless entry and ignition system for a car in the game by needing to either get and obtain (or make) a fake master key or intercept someone's key's code and clone it with another device, well, you should be out working as either a security expert at one of the said car manufacturers or something else, but you wouldn't be playing a time consuming game...
I would say that the shuttle astronauts play "video games" as well. Simulators can and are "games" in a sense. Heck go to any game store/website and there will usually be a category of games called "simulator". These simulate an environment and actually can teach the players important things. The more realistic the simulator (not just realistic graphics, but realistic physics, realistic environmental interactions), the more that the person using the simulator can actually learn. This is why airlines and aircraft manufacturers create "simulators" for their new planes and designed to train their pilots before they even enter a real plane. In fact, they create the simulator "before" they even build the first prototype and have pilots test things out and tweak things while in the design stage (i.e. moving a control to a different location, changing which information is located on what display, changing the orientation of a switch or knob, or control stick, moving a petal, etc., etc.).
That will do the trick.
Print out the document, put it in a self addressed, sealed envelope, stick a stamp on it, and put it in the mail.
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/metroidprime3/
With such CONS like: Streamlined controls make things a little too easy and a little less adventurous What was that? BETTER controls makes the game too easy? Wait, roll that back again. They are saying that because the controls are so good and intuitive, the game is easier to play. I never knew that if you made the most convoluted controls and user interface that make the game impossible to play would result in a "PRO" as opposed to a "CON". But since they are saying that good, intuitive controls is a "CON", I guess that the contrapositive is also the case.
We also get the: Doesn't do much different than the previous two Metroid Prime games. I wonder what they say when Halo 3 comes out...
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
hmmm.... let me see here, VH1 airs a show that is entirely so that they can generate money from advertising... While they also used it to comment on the clip, they did air the entire show, in a for-profit work. Now the original author of the segment, takes a small clip of the entire VH1 show, comments on it in the blog, and posts the clip. In other words, neither side really has much of a case against either one for the copyright infringement. However, the original author does have a case against VH1/Viacom for their illegal takedown notice using the DMCA if he cares to pursue the issue.
Ok, sorry to break this to the Nokia execs, but it was a flop for more then just the multiplayer against "friends". One HUGE issue was the fact that you had to remove the battery to simply put in a new game. Doesn't look like they have mentioned that yet...
Again, included in their current price is the costs that they have to legally hold aside and give to ROMS when they sell a track/album. The money is already in ROMS hands, they have already collected it. And in ACCORDANCE with LAW! Just because the RIAA and IFPI (which is the new extension) do not like the law doesn't mean that they can do anything about it in the way they are trying (i.e. get the World Trade Unit, and the European Union, and the USA to force Russia to shut down a perfectly legal business by mandating that Russia will not be allowed to join the European Union until it shuts these places down, because they already tried to lobby for the laws to change and failed (it appears that the Russians are not a susceptible to "contributions" as their American and European counterparts)).
They are abiding by their laws as written. ROMS is the legal entity to send copyright payments to under Russian law. ROMS is setup to pay the appropriate copyright royalties to the proper owner(s) when officially notified by the proper owner(s). The check then goes in the mail (and future payments go in the mail as they arrive). They simply have a system in place to make sure the proper owner of the copyright is compensated, and not someone with the false claim to the copyright, and this is in accordance to LAW. Stop complaining that you don't like it. I don't like the fact that women in Saudi Arabia need to keep their heads covered, but that is the law in that country. Same thing with no being able to chew bubble gum in Singapore...
Happy?
Too bad this now results in a 1 even with no downtime. The idea was that as there is less downtime, the unit of productivity goes up towards infinity. However, as the number of downtime goes up, the units of productivity for a sys admin also needs to go towards infinity since cleaning up all the fires is just as hard work as keeping them from happening.
You said it... I was actually looking forward, but not if they do this kind of sh....crap.
That is the reason why it won't be used in car batteries. It might get used in laptops in the future however, as I can see that working. However because you can't send in an electrical charge and have the enzymes create sugar, there is no way for the system to store the energy back into the battery without physically adding more sugar. In a car battery, once the engine is started, the combustion of the fuel turns the engine, which in tern, turns the alternator which generates electricity which is then fed back into the battery as well as the cars electrical harness. The battery is used when the car's engine is not running to power the car's electrical harness and turn the electric starter on the engine. Once that engine is up and running it turns the alternator (which is essentially a small generator). Without the ability to feed the power back into the battery, a car's battery will very quickly drain of all energy. The same will go for this type of battery, and I am sure that the enzymes don't do to well in the harsh environment that is the engine compartment of a car (or even the trunk), needing to survive temperatures as high as 180F and as low as -20F just for the 48 continental USA, let alone places like Canada.
However, at least engineering disciplines are already highly paid and have excellent benefits at almost any business. While it may help many new people into the door as the entrance bar is sometimes out of reach to many without the financial means to pay for college, it will not fix the problem that the students entering into the college level have a, how can I put this, "lack of good fundamentals" in these areas, and thus need many classes just to reach the level they should already possess before reaching college. As I said, this will help many people and families who are struggling to financially to go through four years of college. But we are just starting to see some of the problems of the current school systems, and this problem started many years ago, and will take many more years to correct. We are dealing with students how have had potentially 12 years of "pass the problem up", or flat out failure of the system and of the students themselves. It would take years to correct the problems for many of these people, and some may not even be able to be corrected due to other life issues. For the people the system has failed, it fails tremendously, with life affecting results. Simply offering free tuition to Math, Science, and Engineering majors will not help the people who do not know how to deal with fractions, or percentages, when you need them to be able to understand Fourier Transforms and Differential Calculus.
Links to top A/V sites:
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I could go on, but I don't need to. It says more that http://hdtvmagazine.com/ uses the PS3 as their "reference" player for BluRay. So does the fact that http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/ used it as well.
Not when Spielberg made certain that his movies were still released on BluRay. It says something when the premier director of the last 20-30 years says that he won't let politics like this keep his movies from being on both formats. I also love their "research" that "people who own gaming consoles buy fewer movies than those who invest in a movie-only player", when I personally already own 19 BluRay discs and I only own a PS3. This is how they are trying to discredit the install base everyone. The PS3 is the BEST BluRay player on the market. Why would anyone buy a different player? This has been shown in many different reviews from top A/V sites. The people buying BluRay players are all buying the PS3, so their "research" is a load of crap based on a totally flawed study using data from older DVD era. The fact is, when the best unit isn't just a stand-alone player but a game console, you have to look at what the best player was when your DVD era data was collected. I can tell you that the best player then certainly wasn't the PS2, and was a standalone unit (Sony, Denon, Pioneer, etc., etc.,) not an integrated console. Now the console has more processing power then any standalone can compete with, as well as excellent digital connectivity. The other players are not even in its league (which is also why it will be getting the upgrade to the newer BluRay standard just finialized because it has the processing overhead to be able to handle it and is a software based player which allows full upgrades of functionality unlike the other hardware based players which will not be able to get this big of a change to their programming because they do not have hardware that can support the functions).
The T1 was already doing 32, and the new T2 is supporting 256 in a single chip. Just wondering why "TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone", when the mile marker is already at 256?
A bunch of crap spewed there. If size was the problem, i.e. the whole there isn't enough population in area XYZ to have a profitable service because they are too far away to support, then that should mean that the highest population density areas in the USA would have service on par with S. Korea, Japan, and other high density areas, because there is "no difference" in the amount of customers in the high density areas. So South Korea has a population density of ~1,274 /SQ MI (according to Wikipedia), and Japan has a population density of ~836 / SQ MI. Japan has an average download speed of 61 Mbps, South Korea has 45 Mbps. So Japan which has only 2/3rds the population density has a much faster connection rate average. Sweden, has a population density of only 52 / SQ MI (2007 census data), and yet has an average download speed of 18 Mbps. The USA has an average population density of 76 / SQ MI (note LOWER then Sweden), and yet ONLY has an average download speed of 1.9 Mbps!!! That is almost 10 times slower then Sweden, when we have a denser population!!!! The insult does not end there, if you look at areas of the USA that have high density, for instance, New Jersey, which is 1,334 / SQ MI, that value is HIGHER than Japan AND EVEN South Korea! So don't go saying that it is because of the distances. Sweden has to deal with the same issues the USA has with large areas of low density and high areas of density, yet, they have an internet infrastructure that is an order of magnitude faster than the USA.
Who cares?! They're politicians, not scientists.
But it does matter. Will this candidate ignore the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that says something is happening, and act against the data on their own belief, or political motivation, possibly even trying to stifle the scientific community and discredit their findings at every turn like our current administration has done on numerous occasions. You see, this does matter, when the President doesn't know well enough that he doesn't know enough about an issue and still doesn't take the advise of the people who DO know about the issue. It would be like the PR department of a car company overruling the engineering department and saying that the car doesn't need seat belts because they are uncomfortable to wear (while actually not wanting them to have seat belts because he can save his friends an extra million dollars a year on production costs as well as make his other friends in the medical business more money from treating more serious injuries with the added bonus making new friends of the undertakers and morgues more business from the increased amount of fatalities in auto accidents...). You starting to see my point?
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They have too many new technologies in active development for them to drop out of the server market. Their new Sparc processors, and motherboard chipsets truly have major advantages over current Intel offerings. The new T2 processors in a 4 or 8 CPU system can and will stomp over anything out of Wintell (64 threads per CPU, time 8 CPU's makes 512 ACTIVE processes at a time in a single box! Now imagine a beowulf or grid cluster of those! Hell, simply imagine a single rack!). No, Sun isn't leaving the server market, they are simply expanding their OS market, nothing more. Which is a good thing. The more hardware that can run Solaris, the more it will be seen by new people who may not be familiar with it. The new capabilities for self healing processes, zones (think like VMWare, but each is running a contained Solaris, without a ton of overhead from having the separate kernel instances, as well as being able to portion exact percentages of resources to each zone. This allows multiple "budgets" too pool together and buy a big(er) server then they would otherwise and have assurances that each group would get at a minimum X% of CPU time (or memory, or bandwidth, etc., etc.) on the system, where X corresponds to the percentage of the cost that the department/group/unit paid to purchase the server, and if no one else is using the system, well, you get to use all its resourses...).
No Sun is far from leaving the server market. Very, VERY far.