As Half-pint HAL says, it's not underpowered. It's got 40% more raw juice than the first gen Pi, which I used as an XBMC media center running 1080p content just fine. In fact better than most of the commerical media players (like WDTV, etc) at the time could do.
It REALLY depends what your application for it is. For controlling things or reading a sensor? Arduino all the way. Media center or retro gaming emulation console? Not a chance, Pi all the way.
> Too many companies and executives aren't satisfied with making a reasonable profit and keeping good people employed. Instead, they want to pursue unreasonable profit and goals
That's because the "companies" (boards) see others doing it and want their exciting slice of the pie so they hire executives to make it happen and give them bonuses for hitting target numbers. The execs will do whatever it takes to get their bonus because frankly they don't expect to be around in a couple of years anyway, so who cares if short term stretching for those targets ends up killing the company? And the analysts don't care because they're looking for stocks to perform quarter to quarter, not decade to decade.
As an aside, in the gaming space, these are the same clowns who are calling for Nintendo to give up on hardware and make software for other companies like Sega became. They don't understand or care that Nintendo has been in business for more than 100 years, sits on a decent pile of money and makes a killing on its other lines of product. No, no, see they had a couple of bad years, they're done, stick a fork in them. Maybe they can sell off their licenses for a quick cashflow boost to bump the stock! And then when they hit it out of the park like with the Wii, these same analysts "had complete faith in them"
Yeah that's part of the problem, but for some of our dev workloads we only use 2GB of RAM per VM but hammer the processor so this is a good niche fit. And Gigabyte's got some workstation boards that go to 64GB but also cost more so it's a trade off - and it's not a sure thing they'll support these chips. Obviously it's not for everyone.
You have it backwards friend. Rocket League cars aren't iconic, but movie studios want to have their cars in the game as DLC. We've already seen the BTTF DeLorean released a couple of weeks ago and from what I can see playing other people a *lot* of people bought it.
110%? No, still room to somehow game the "work study" that determines the salary. I say 150% or more, and the wage doesn't get paid from the employer to the H1-B, it goes through a government agency who collects that 150% and then passes the actual salary along, then takes the other chunk and puts it into a worker training program targeted at the shortage. We've seen in Canada ways that the Temporary Foreign Worker program can be abused in a similar fashion, and one of the better tricks was employers arranging housing for their workers and "helpfully" pre-deducting rent from their pay.
You're an idiot, to put it bluntly. AMD is Intel's only semi - credible competition and if they go tits up you can look forward to paying $500 for a middle to low grade processor again like the 80s and 90s. It wasn't until AMD's K5 came along and was "good enough" for most business tasks that Intel started pricing competitively and it wasn't until the K6 (briefly) took the performance crown that Intel actually got scared. If AMD goes under, there is NOBODY who can step into the void they will create at current. Starting up a chip company isn't like opening a 7-11, it's an unbelievably expensive and complex undertaking, and most investors would be extremely gunshy to back a new company that intends to compete with Intel.
That means you can absolutely expect to pay double or even triple what you're currently paying for a processor and an nVidia card since if AMD is gone, so are the Radeon cards. The only place there would still be competition is in the tablet/phone space where a bunch of ARM manufacturers are established. And no, I doubt any of them would see the demise of AMD as an invitation to dance with Intel on the desktop.
But what *I* am saying is if this outage happened with any other cable provider they would't give you any credit at all. I've had my cable down for DAYS without so much as an apology when it comes back up. Google's response here is orders of magnitude above what any other US provider will do and still people complain.
Yes, it's called customer service. They're saying "we screwed up for 35 minutes, please have 2 DAYS of credit as a sorry". They are going above and beyond and you are COMPLAINING ?
You have Stockholm Syndrome from your cable company pissing all over you and telling you it's raining or something?
The true test of value is to offer a white collar worker the same salary to do either job and see which one they take. I expect a lot of people would take the white collar job even with all other factors being equal because it's physically easier even though they'd never admit to that being the reason they chose it.
My job takes me to 3 different datacenters all the time, nitwit. I'm closer to the action than you ever will be, nitwit. The diesel storage is the *LAST* thing on my mind when I am at the datacenter.
No fire hazard. Diesel. Does. Not. Explode. Nor does it burn at all under most conditions, which is why it has to be compressed to ignite in a diesel engine.
And your neighbor with his leaking gas can in his shed for his mower is more of a biohazard and explosion risk.
Uninformed nitwits like you really grind my gears.
Well, considering the immense contrast between when the Liberals were last in power and what happened in our country during the last 10 years under Harper, we don't just believe it makes a difference, we have conclusive proof it does.
What noise? Have you ever BEEN to a datacenter? Outside their walls they are as quiet as a tomb. When you're standing across the street from a shopping mall you'll hear more ambient noise than a datacenter. Maybe the one or two weirdo builds that have their own generator for normal operations will make more noise but the vast majority will only kick in their generators if utility power fails, and again most are built with at least 2 separate grid feeds for redundancy.
I had that idea years ago. They could mount one in a chopper and once they get a ping, crank down the range to quickly narrow the search. But of course we wouldn't want to use Stingrays for saving lives when they're much more useful for spying on everyone.
> you'll be responsible for making certain the rental does.
Unless it's a Volvo as they've already come out and said they are going to accept responsibility and liability for their autonomous vehicles when they launch them. So have fun paying $60/day for your "rental" and we'll have fun paying $200/month to our Volvo auto-car cooperative.
Or alternatively, a company could possibly run "treatment tours" to the UK with complete packages. Not sure if that would fall afoul of the law against Amercians shopping on the world market mentioned in the intro blurb though.
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As Half-pint HAL says, it's not underpowered. It's got 40% more raw juice than the first gen Pi, which I used as an XBMC media center running 1080p content just fine. In fact better than most of the commerical media players (like WDTV, etc) at the time could do.
It REALLY depends what your application for it is. For controlling things or reading a sensor? Arduino all the way. Media center or retro gaming emulation console? Not a chance, Pi all the way.
> Too many companies and executives aren't satisfied with making a reasonable profit and keeping good people employed. Instead, they want to pursue unreasonable profit and goals
That's because the "companies" (boards) see others doing it and want their exciting slice of the pie so they hire executives to make it happen and give them bonuses for hitting target numbers. The execs will do whatever it takes to get their bonus because frankly they don't expect to be around in a couple of years anyway, so who cares if short term stretching for those targets ends up killing the company? And the analysts don't care because they're looking for stocks to perform quarter to quarter, not decade to decade.
As an aside, in the gaming space, these are the same clowns who are calling for Nintendo to give up on hardware and make software for other companies like Sega became. They don't understand or care that Nintendo has been in business for more than 100 years, sits on a decent pile of money and makes a killing on its other lines of product. No, no, see they had a couple of bad years, they're done, stick a fork in them. Maybe they can sell off their licenses for a quick cashflow boost to bump the stock! And then when they hit it out of the park like with the Wii, these same analysts "had complete faith in them"
Yeah that's part of the problem, but for some of our dev workloads we only use 2GB of RAM per VM but hammer the processor so this is a good niche fit. And Gigabyte's got some workstation boards that go to 64GB but also cost more so it's a trade off - and it's not a sure thing they'll support these chips. Obviously it's not for everyone.
This will be nice to pop into a whitebox VMWare ESXi machine. Definitely cheaper than a 2 x 6 core build.
You have it backwards friend. Rocket League cars aren't iconic, but movie studios want to have their cars in the game as DLC. We've already seen the BTTF DeLorean released a couple of weeks ago and from what I can see playing other people a *lot* of people bought it.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/10/12/rocket-league-goes-back-to-the-future/
110%? No, still room to somehow game the "work study" that determines the salary. I say 150% or more, and the wage doesn't get paid from the employer to the H1-B, it goes through a government agency who collects that 150% and then passes the actual salary along, then takes the other chunk and puts it into a worker training program targeted at the shortage. We've seen in Canada ways that the Temporary Foreign Worker program can be abused in a similar fashion, and one of the better tricks was employers arranging housing for their workers and "helpfully" pre-deducting rent from their pay.
You're an idiot, to put it bluntly. AMD is Intel's only semi - credible competition and if they go tits up you can look forward to paying $500 for a middle to low grade processor again like the 80s and 90s. It wasn't until AMD's K5 came along and was "good enough" for most business tasks that Intel started pricing competitively and it wasn't until the K6 (briefly) took the performance crown that Intel actually got scared. If AMD goes under, there is NOBODY who can step into the void they will create at current. Starting up a chip company isn't like opening a 7-11, it's an unbelievably expensive and complex undertaking, and most investors would be extremely gunshy to back a new company that intends to compete with Intel.
That means you can absolutely expect to pay double or even triple what you're currently paying for a processor and an nVidia card since if AMD is gone, so are the Radeon cards. The only place there would still be competition is in the tablet/phone space where a bunch of ARM manufacturers are established. And no, I doubt any of them would see the demise of AMD as an invitation to dance with Intel on the desktop.
Funny, I was going to say social media pages. I've never understood this desire to have a constant dribble of personal information posted online.
Unless you were watching the World Series on Fox Sports anywhere in the country...
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/news/fox-world-series/
But what *I* am saying is if this outage happened with any other cable provider they would't give you any credit at all. I've had my cable down for DAYS without so much as an apology when it comes back up. Google's response here is orders of magnitude above what any other US provider will do and still people complain.
> Two day's worth of service is an insignificant credit compared to the loss, especially during a special event.
It's a lot more significant than any other US cable provider would give.
> Most providers of business IP transit have SLA credits available
I'm betting most providers of business IP charge a LOT more than $70 for a gigabit connection too. My god man, you're comparing apples to kumquats.
Yes, it's called customer service. They're saying "we screwed up for 35 minutes, please have 2 DAYS of credit as a sorry". They are going above and beyond and you are COMPLAINING ?
You have Stockholm Syndrome from your cable company pissing all over you and telling you it's raining or something?
The true test of value is to offer a white collar worker the same salary to do either job and see which one they take. I expect a lot of people would take the white collar job even with all other factors being equal because it's physically easier even though they'd never admit to that being the reason they chose it.
My job takes me to 3 different datacenters all the time, nitwit. I'm closer to the action than you ever will be, nitwit. The diesel storage is the *LAST* thing on my mind when I am at the datacenter.
No fire hazard. Diesel. Does. Not. Explode. Nor does it burn at all under most conditions, which is why it has to be compressed to ignite in a diesel engine.
And your neighbor with his leaking gas can in his shed for his mower is more of a biohazard and explosion risk.
Uninformed nitwits like you really grind my gears.
Well, considering the immense contrast between when the Liberals were last in power and what happened in our country during the last 10 years under Harper, we don't just believe it makes a difference, we have conclusive proof it does.
It's a good thing there's no neighborhood gas stations anywhere in residential areas then. Oh, wait...
What noise? Have you ever BEEN to a datacenter? Outside their walls they are as quiet as a tomb. When you're standing across the street from a shopping mall you'll hear more ambient noise than a datacenter. Maybe the one or two weirdo builds that have their own generator for normal operations will make more noise but the vast majority will only kick in their generators if utility power fails, and again most are built with at least 2 separate grid feeds for redundancy.
"If your cellphone is turned on (and not out of battery), and within range of a cell tower,"
That's the key piece you're missing. With wilderness SAR the whole problem is they aren't in range of a cell tower.
I had that idea years ago. They could mount one in a chopper and once they get a ping, crank down the range to quickly narrow the search. But of course we wouldn't want to use Stingrays for saving lives when they're much more useful for spying on everyone.
Yes, it's a natural step. I mean a few meatheads did bad things with guns and now look at the tight regulations there. Oh, wait....
> you'll be responsible for making certain the rental does.
Unless it's a Volvo as they've already come out and said they are going to accept responsibility and liability for their autonomous vehicles when they launch them. So have fun paying $60/day for your "rental" and we'll have fun paying $200/month to our Volvo auto-car cooperative.
Or alternatively, a company could possibly run "treatment tours" to the UK with complete packages. Not sure if that would fall afoul of the law against Amercians shopping on the world market mentioned in the intro blurb though.
Classic Zerg vs Protoss. Quantity is a quality all its own. For the swarm...