With the case open, this thing runs at 178 degrees. In a practical sense, all the other benchmarks are less important.
It is not going to be easy to cool. It is not likely to be suitable for clustered processing. It is not likely to be particularly reliable.
This article illustrates the diminishing returns of the current Intel CPU architecture and processes. Soon, both AMD and Intel will be forced to explore new designs similar to the IBM Power 5.
Given the time, effort and money involved in developing a new CPU architecture, the near and medium term future may lie with IBM.
Welles never directed a film of War of the Worlds. Welles directed and starred in the War of the Worlds radio adaption for CBS in October of 1938. He didn't make his first film, Citizen Kane for RKO, until 1941. The old War of the Worlds film was produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin.
Sources working at the Redmond campus say that it is common knowledge on campus that Longhorn will not ship until mid 2007. With current technical problems mounting, the same sources say that 2008 is starting to look likely, if not optimistic.
Those who have to use the current build say that it is not stable at all. Apparently, there are new failure modes in the DRM and file systems that are "very difficult to analyze and very non-intuitive to troubleshoot or even understand." The failure modes are reported to totally freeze the computer, prevent rebooting and resist reformatting.
If true, the words "difficult and non-intuitive" are not encouraging, particularly when used by very experienced users at Microsoft .
Teen age girls. They buy a lot of music. Fashion is important. Small is important; their purses are full of stuff. Think of it as technical jewelry. I know girls who are buying all five colors to match their outfits and moods.
Current estimates for energy contained in methane hydrate suggest that the energy reserves of methane hydrate are about 80,000 times that of natural gas.
"Today, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that methane hydrate may, in fact, contain more organic carbon than all the world's coal, oil and non-hydrate gas combined."
"Worldwide, estimates of the natural gas potential of methane hydrates approach 400 million trillion cubic feet -- a staggering figure compared to the 5,000 trillion cubic feet that make up the world's currently known gas reserves."
$45 per month for consistent 3meg up and 500k down. To put this in context, I pay about $4,850 per month for rent and $525 per month for one parking space.
On the ground, the sonic boom of a hypersonic transport plane would be on the order of a small earthquake. It would be many times larger than the sonic boom of the Concorde. It would likely break windows and damage structures for many miles on either side of the flight path.
Even if the massive technical and safety issues could be solved, damage caused by the sonic boom would make the aircraft basically useless. Aircraft are not economically feasible if they can't fly over millions of people's houses without damaging them.
The successor to the Concorde is likely to be a quiet supersonic business jet. Dassault, Sukhoi and Boeing are working together on a design. The sonic boom problem seems to be mostly solvable. The primary remaining problem is designing an engine that will last a reasonable time. Cost is not believed to be a problem. If it could be built for $100,000,000, NetJets would immediately place an order for 50 to 100 aircraft.
Pouty supermodel programmer spokespersons. While you wouldn't expect code written by a 17 year old Estonian supermodel with the intelligence of a bucket of creosote to function, this is Microsoft.
Vacuum tubes are used for high power broadcast transmitters.
If you're going to make a big UHF/VHF/FM/SW/AM transmitter, you are going to use power tetrodes.
For instance, a pair of Eimac 4CW1400KG/X-2242 are rated at 4,600KW, continuous. The tube uses water vapor cooling and recovers some energy by using the superheated steam from the tube to drive a steam turbine generator set.
The diamond devices are intended for power output stages of broadcast transmitters. I somewhat doubt that they will replace ultra high output beam tetrodes for 50KW and larger transmitters.
The fastest released NeXT platform was the HP 735-125. Of the unreleased systems, the fastest was NeXT port to the DEC Alpha that would support multiprocessing. It might have scaled up to 8 CPUs. The NeXT RISC Workstation used two Motorola 88000 CPUs. One was devoted to the display.
NeXT Time was a video compression system that worked quite well, particularly for the time. NeXT also had a JPEG video compression card for non-linear editing, based on the C-Cube. This was designed to be a plug in daughter card for their Dimension color video display card. There was a single chip version and, rumored, a two chip version. They may have gotten the two chip version to work shortly before hardware got Steved.
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With the case open, this thing runs at 178 degrees. In a practical sense, all the other benchmarks are less important.
It is not going to be easy to cool. It is not likely to be suitable for clustered processing. It is not likely to be particularly reliable.
This article illustrates the diminishing returns of the current Intel CPU architecture and processes. Soon, both AMD and Intel will be forced to explore new designs similar to the IBM Power 5.
Given the time, effort and money involved in developing a new CPU architecture, the near and medium term future may lie with IBM.
Welles never directed a film of War of the Worlds.
Welles directed and starred in the War of the Worlds radio adaption for CBS in October of 1938.
He didn't make his first film, Citizen Kane for RKO, until 1941.
The old War of the Worlds film was produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin.
Sources working at the Redmond campus say that it is common knowledge on campus that Longhorn will not ship until mid 2007. With current technical problems mounting, the same sources say that 2008 is starting to look likely, if not optimistic.
Those who have to use the current build say that it is not stable at all. Apparently, there are new failure modes in the DRM and file systems that are "very difficult to analyze and very non-intuitive to troubleshoot or even understand." The failure modes are reported to totally freeze the computer, prevent rebooting and resist reformatting.
If true, the words "difficult and non-intuitive" are not encouraging, particularly when used by very experienced users at Microsoft .
The western diet has yet to reflect the use of refrigeration.
Teen age girls. They buy a lot of music.
Fashion is important. Small is important; their purses are full of stuff.
Think of it as technical jewelry.
I know girls who are buying all five colors to match their outfits and moods.
The least popular invention: bills.
Current estimates for energy contained in methane hydrate suggest that the energy reserves of methane hydrate are about 80,000 times that of natural gas.
"Today, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that methane hydrate may, in fact, contain more organic carbon than all the world's coal, oil and non-hydrate gas combined."
"Worldwide, estimates of the natural gas potential of methane hydrates approach 400 million trillion cubic feet -- a staggering figure compared to the 5,000 trillion cubic feet that make up the world's currently known gas reserves."
$45 per month for consistent 3meg up and 500k down. To put this in context, I pay about $4,850 per month for rent and $525 per month for one parking space.
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On the ground, the sonic boom of a hypersonic transport plane would be on the order of a small earthquake. It would be many times larger than the sonic boom of the Concorde. It would likely break windows and damage structures for many miles on either side of the flight path.
Even if the massive technical and safety issues could be solved, damage caused by the sonic boom would make the aircraft basically useless. Aircraft are not economically feasible if they can't fly over millions of people's houses without damaging them.
These guys have a $78,000,000 personal submarine with a little more style. http://www.ussubs.com/Luxury_folder/lux.phoenix.ht ml
Yeah, they are. It would be useful if they talked about it.
The successor to the Concorde is likely to be a quiet supersonic business jet. Dassault, Sukhoi and Boeing are working together on a design.
The sonic boom problem seems to be mostly solvable. The primary remaining problem is designing an engine that will last a reasonable time.
Cost is not believed to be a problem. If it could be built for $100,000,000, NetJets would immediately place an order for 50 to 100 aircraft.
Pouty supermodel programmer spokespersons.
While you wouldn't expect code written by a 17 year old Estonian supermodel with the intelligence of a bucket of creosote to function, this is Microsoft.
Say hello to Linux on PPC. Or, for that matter, some BSD flavor on PPC. Speaking of BSD, there's always the Mac OSX option.
Steve Jobs has one.
http://www.gulfstream.com/g550/
It looks like they will have to put on another pot of coffee for some PC emulation software coders at One Infinite Loop.
Perhps they could take a page out of their Safari play book.
Vacuum tubes are used for high power broadcast transmitters.
If you're going to make a big UHF/VHF/FM/SW/AM transmitter, you are going to use power tetrodes.
For instance, a pair of Eimac 4CW1400KG/X-2242 are rated at 4,600KW, continuous. The tube uses water vapor cooling and recovers some energy by using the superheated steam from the tube to drive a steam turbine generator set.
The diamond devices are intended for power output stages of broadcast transmitters. I somewhat doubt that they will replace ultra high output beam tetrodes for 50KW and larger transmitters.
If rich people can afford immortality and poor people cannot, expect the worst imaginable society.
Where was Steve Ballmer when these ape videos were shot?
The fastest released NeXT platform was the HP 735-125. Of the unreleased systems, the fastest was NeXT port to the DEC Alpha that would support multiprocessing. It might have scaled up to 8 CPUs. The NeXT RISC Workstation used two Motorola 88000 CPUs. One was devoted to the display.
NeXT Time was a video compression system that worked quite well, particularly for the time. NeXT also had a JPEG video compression card for non-linear editing, based on the C-Cube. This was designed to be a plug in daughter card for their Dimension color video display card. There was a single chip version and, rumored, a two chip version. They may have gotten the two chip version to work shortly before hardware got Steved.
This just means that some large media conglomerate and / or some religious broadcasting network will have more stations or more powerful repeaters.
Diversity in broadcasting is not a likely trend with the current FCC.
Notes from assorted rumor sites claim that the 970 of about one third cheaper than the G4. Of course, rumor sites may be somewhat variable in utility.
Imagine what one could do were this idea extended to Windows! Of course you would have the problem of reviewer suicide.
Were I wearing a proper Mumetal cone hat instead of a cheap aluminum knock-off, I would have remembered the line accurately.