Wait. Let's think about it for a second. If MS starts to optimize Windows Server for their own ARM processor, they're going to compete with their top customers (Dell, HP, etc.) Unless they start selling MS ARM to other computer makers, but now they're competing with Intel. They can probably win in a niche market fight (Xbox portable) but not going up against Intel, HP, and any real hardware guys. Plus, even if you have WinServer on ARM, the applications are still written for x86.
" In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand. I guess for that to become a custom you'd need escalators that are typically crowded, which most in the US are not."
When I lived in the SF Bay Area that was the informal rule. Walk Left, Stand Right.
Take out the word "Prince" and it's just a troll comment.
Plus, who still buys his stuff? I don't know anyone that has bought a Prince album since the 1990s. I never understood how a guy that wears that much purple and looks like a woman with a mustache is consider by some (I have no clue who) to be a sex symbol.
We use to be exclusively Dell for just about everything: 1U/2U servers, desktops, laptops, and even LCDs. In the last 18 months, it's been so bad dealing with Dell that we're looking at other manufacturers for our next upgrade cycle.
Here's the quick list of problems we've encountered in the last 18 months: 1) Vostro V13 internal cracked LCD. Caused by hinges that were too tight.
2) H700/H800 PERC RAID controller on R710 servers will only work on Dell certified hard drives. Prices are $299 per 500GB hard drives (that's down from $399 initial quoted price). We couldn't even use the Seagate ES series drive in the servers, the H700 controller is coded to accept "certified" drives. We were not told about this during the server ordering process or in any documentation. We bought 3 of these servers, we were looking to getting 10 but now we'll use someone else for the next 7 servers. Previously, the Dell servers can use any hard drives, we had the PowerEdge 1950 and 1950III series.
3) XPS M1330 laptop chipset failure.
5) DVD/Blu-ray drive failure on less than 6 months ago XPS system.
5) Customer service while not great before is actually worse now than my personal experience with HP. We're talking almost cheapie computer manufacturer service level here. And we're a business customer. I can't imagine how poor the regular home consumer are treated by Dell.
Good hear, I've got some GX260 still running here 24/7: Asterisk box, file servers, and fax/mail server. I can't even remember how old these machines are, they have WinXP Pro license key so that's after 2000. Glad I was too lazy to ever think about replacing them. Only replaced the occasional dead hard drives and we have plenty or extra drives lying around after the last company wide upgrade.
It's OK. MS has been seeing AMD on the side since the early 2000s. When Intel gained too much IA-64 weight, MS made Intel go on the x86-64 diet to fit into the dress made by AMD. Seems to me that both Intel and MS want the Wintel to be an open relationship.
Somewhere in Redmond exist a build of the NT kernel with ARM support just like Apple kept the MacOS X on x86 for years before revealing it. My guess is that going forward, MS is going to really support AMD's vision of the GPU/CPU relationship. Admittedly, the Intel vision is pretty close to AMD's vision (CPU+GPU) vs the nvidia (GPU main, CPU support).
A few years ago, I was about 10 miles away from the epicenter of 5.6 out in Corona waiting for a delivery truck at a friend's house. Initially, we both thought it was the delivery truck driving up to the house.
After you've been through a few 6+ earthquakes, the 5.5 and under are not that bad. It has to do with the logarithmic nature of the Richter scale. Like the 7.2 out in Calexico, I definitely felt that one and I was over 100 miles away. That one was scary since it was over 30 seconds.
I'm from California, a 5.5 is about a large truck going by. One time, we had a 5.4 in the Bay Area and it was one of those quick jolt ones. I thought the fat guy in the apartment above me fell down.
I think we had a 5-something last week, I didn't notice since I was at Disneyland.
Verizon is an actively anti-consumer company. They sell you a product, but if you use it then you have to pay more for it.
I don't care how good their network is, (Hint: it's not that good) I won't be getting on anything Verizon, ever. When we had Verizon DSL at our old office, the speed was terrible. They blamed everything from our routers to our wiring, after many months of wasted time they admitted that we were 2,000 ft too far to get decent service.
There's a place for SQL, but there are some cases where BigTable-like (ie. HyperTable) works better. Our company manages data using SQL, but when we present data to the users it's through a HyperTable implementation. SQL is easier to data management but HyperTable uses our server resources better.
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Wait. Let's think about it for a second. If MS starts to optimize Windows Server for their own ARM processor, they're going to compete with their top customers (Dell, HP, etc.) Unless they start selling MS ARM to other computer makers, but now they're competing with Intel. They can probably win in a niche market fight (Xbox portable) but not going up against Intel, HP, and any real hardware guys. Plus, even if you have WinServer on ARM, the applications are still written for x86.
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In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand. I guess for that to become a custom you'd need escalators that are typically crowded, which most in the US are not."
When I lived in the SF Bay Area that was the informal rule. Walk Left, Stand Right.
Take out the word "Prince" and it's just a troll comment.
Plus, who still buys his stuff? I don't know anyone that has bought a Prince album since the 1990s. I never understood how a guy that wears that much purple and looks like a woman with a mustache is consider by some (I have no clue who) to be a sex symbol.
We use to be exclusively Dell for just about everything: 1U/2U servers, desktops, laptops, and even LCDs. In the last 18 months, it's been so bad dealing with Dell that we're looking at other manufacturers for our next upgrade cycle.
Here's the quick list of problems we've encountered in the last 18 months:
1) Vostro V13 internal cracked LCD. Caused by hinges that were too tight.
2) H700/H800 PERC RAID controller on R710 servers will only work on Dell certified hard drives. Prices are $299 per 500GB hard drives (that's down from $399 initial quoted price). We couldn't even use the Seagate ES series drive in the servers, the H700 controller is coded to accept "certified" drives. We were not told about this during the server ordering process or in any documentation. We bought 3 of these servers, we were looking to getting 10 but now we'll use someone else for the next 7 servers. Previously, the Dell servers can use any hard drives, we had the PowerEdge 1950 and 1950III series.
3) XPS M1330 laptop chipset failure.
5) DVD/Blu-ray drive failure on less than 6 months ago XPS system.
5) Customer service while not great before is actually worse now than my personal experience with HP. We're talking almost cheapie computer manufacturer service level here. And we're a business customer. I can't imagine how poor the regular home consumer are treated by Dell.
Good hear, I've got some GX260 still running here 24/7: Asterisk box, file servers, and fax/mail server. I can't even remember how old these machines are, they have WinXP Pro license key so that's after 2000. Glad I was too lazy to ever think about replacing them. Only replaced the occasional dead hard drives and we have plenty or extra drives lying around after the last company wide upgrade.
It's OK. MS has been seeing AMD on the side since the early 2000s. When Intel gained too much IA-64 weight, MS made Intel go on the x86-64 diet to fit into the dress made by AMD. Seems to me that both Intel and MS want the Wintel to be an open relationship. Somewhere in Redmond exist a build of the NT kernel with ARM support just like Apple kept the MacOS X on x86 for years before revealing it. My guess is that going forward, MS is going to really support AMD's vision of the GPU/CPU relationship. Admittedly, the Intel vision is pretty close to AMD's vision (CPU+GPU) vs the nvidia (GPU main, CPU support).
A few years ago, I was about 10 miles away from the epicenter of 5.6 out in Corona waiting for a delivery truck at a friend's house. Initially, we both thought it was the delivery truck driving up to the house. After you've been through a few 6+ earthquakes, the 5.5 and under are not that bad. It has to do with the logarithmic nature of the Richter scale. Like the 7.2 out in Calexico, I definitely felt that one and I was over 100 miles away. That one was scary since it was over 30 seconds.
I'm from California, a 5.5 is about a large truck going by. One time, we had a 5.4 in the Bay Area and it was one of those quick jolt ones. I thought the fat guy in the apartment above me fell down. I think we had a 5-something last week, I didn't notice since I was at Disneyland.
Verizon is an actively anti-consumer company. They sell you a product, but if you use it then you have to pay more for it. I don't care how good their network is, (Hint: it's not that good) I won't be getting on anything Verizon, ever. When we had Verizon DSL at our old office, the speed was terrible. They blamed everything from our routers to our wiring, after many months of wasted time they admitted that we were 2,000 ft too far to get decent service.
There's a place for SQL, but there are some cases where BigTable-like (ie. HyperTable) works better. Our company manages data using SQL, but when we present data to the users it's through a HyperTable implementation. SQL is easier to data management but HyperTable uses our server resources better.