VMWare, though, has a variety of solutions that would help your problem. Memory ballooning (free memory is pooled), memory compression (faster to compress seldom-used RAM than to page it) and memory sharing (dedup on the memory-page level) all help. Particularly that last one.
I used to run VMWare.. until I decided that VirtualBox was good enough for my requirements - and I would use it again in a flash if I needed features I currently don't need. But as I stated somewhere above, I have tried 3 VMs and the host in 8Gb and it was not pretty. That may have been memory management, it may have been Disk or I/O limitations. Either way it was cheaper and faster to throw 12Gb and be done with it.
I said crippled, not dead. And from the link you supplied Storage:
One terabyte Google Drive cloud storage for three years1 32GB solid state drive (64GB on LTE model)2
Once you have no network connection that 32Gb is really going to get you a long way </sarcasm>. The Airs come with a minimum of 128Gb of flash and you can spec them out from Apple all the way up to 512Gb.. so once again.. they are different beasts with different design considerations.
That said, 8GB is more than enough to run three Win7 VMs simultaneously, what matters at that point is what you're running inside of it.
That gives you 2Gb per OS instance (including the host) which is a pretty tight fit before you start running any major applications (which I need to do)
I dunno, 8 GB is not small, and it is paired with a 700 MB/s disk!
Believe me.. I have tried running with 8Gb. I initially went from 4Gb to 8Gb and could run two VMs happily, but it was only when I got 12Gb could I happily run 3 VMs. Yes I could "run" 3 VMs with 8Gb but it was not pretty and the price of the extra memory is trivial compared to the time wasted and frustration endured with 8Gb.
The MBA is definitely an experiment, but I haven't missed the ethernet port or the FW2 port so far. I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive (ok, well, recently I had to burn a firmware CD for my BluRay player).
I'm trying to use my MBP as a replacement for my Dell as a work laptop so I need the ethernet port and the optical drive for all the industry related software that I used that can't be easily downloaded. If I was sensible and not trying to make a point I would have bought another Dell to replace my Latitude D820. And in my line of business you sometimes even have to drop back to using the serial port - which I miss from my MBP! (and no.. USB to serial adapters cannot be trusted to work all the time due to stupid software treating the RS-232 control signals in non-standard manners)
The Chromebook is not in the same league as an Air.. they perform two different functions. If you don't have an internet connection then the Chromebook is somewhat crippled, whereas the Air is stand alone.
this low resolution laptop so electronics is not cutting it. no wonder Apple have had drops of 22%; 2; and 7% over the last three quarters...and the reason they are not selling is not the iPad which is down -14%.
I'm not disagreeing that Apple needs to pick up the pace, however those drops can be explained by commoditizing of the market, not that Apples products are suddenly inferior.
I'd be missing my (older) macbook pro. I have 12Gb of RAM in it and I use that memory all the time running 3 W7 VMs simultaneously* . From what I can see of Apple you can't order more than 8Gb of RAM in an Air.
* Due to a stupid Windows based program that I have to use that can only run as a single instance and I need 3 of the damn things open at a time.
That's actually a pretty competitive price. I can't find a way to configure, say, a Lenovo Ultrabook with an SSD and anywhere near comparable CPU for less than $1200.
IMHO the "Mac Premium" has always been overstated for things like the Air. Yes the computing power per $ ratio may be lower than for competitors - but only when you don't take form factor into account. Every time a competitor produces an Air apparent in a similar form factor the price comes in about the same.
While not a fake sign, a long time ago (as indicated by the message) there was a sign warning "Police Aerial Speed Checks" that was tagged with "Pigs in Spaaaaaace"
I suspect that some researchers really don't have a clue as to what state of the art is.
Plus when it comes to reading things via radio waves the most important thing is the antenna and not the computer connected to it. So saying "Plus it's built using an Arduino." is getting almost as bad as patents that are ".. using a computer!!!!!!!!!!"
Yes, there's also a formula for the perfect +5 Slashdot post too.
Always start by "I know this will get modded down into oblivion, but..."
I'd welcome you as the new slashdot post overlord, but Natalie didn't like you for not mentioning hot grits and she was also upset that you were not the frist to mention that vi is superior. Such an attitude almost petrifies me and thus instead of welcoming you, I have to ask you to hand in your geek card.
If the schools are focused on increasing revenue, something along the way is horribly broken.
If I remember correctly, State(?) funding is based on attendance, so it behooves the school to keep track of their little gravy-trains in order to ensure they get the maximum possible funding.
If you didn't fund schools based on attendance, then how else would you do it? (and this is a serious question)
Our official policy is to let data expire from the PCs after 40 days. While the software has the optional capability to centrally gather reads and archive them, we've never bothered to implement it.
There was a story on CNN this morning about LPRs. What was scary was that the guy who was the focus of the story had requested records pertaining to his car and this amounted to dozens of photos going back 12 or 18 months. It also included at least one photo of him and his kids getting out of his car while it was parked in his driveway.
Personally I think that there is no reason to retain *any* record for a car that is not currently the subject of an infraction. That you delete records after 40 days is commendable, but other people in other districts do not have the same ideas as you.
a gun is a large responsibility. smart guns are an attempt to remove that responsibility. if you are irresponsible then you should not have a gun. if you dont know if you are responsible enough to own a gun then you are not.
I see this argument all the time, but to me it fails to acknowledge that people conform to a bell curve and that for every responsible gun owner there is a real dumb fuck out there who doesn't give a shit. Combine this with a larger population of gun owners and you get the situation where there are significant numbers of people being injured/dying from gun mis-use.
But because you cannot shape the responses of the population, and citizens of the USA don't like to be told what they should be doing, people being injured/killed from gun mis-use is simply a consequence of gun ownership - and is something that USA society seems willing to accept. So until it is deemed not acceptable it comes down to "you can't fix a societal problem with a technological solution".
As for cross-bows.. they don't come with 15 arrow clips.
I saw the preview trailer and based on that there was no way in the world I was going to spend money on it. Politics has nothing to do with that decision. But my having 2 lesbians and a transexual in my extended family means that I think OSC's point of view is misguided in the very least.
I'm shy on the idea of just selling it to anyone who comes along wanting a laptop. I'm worried about buyers who don't understand that "open" also means a bit of DIY hacking to get things working, and that things are continuously under development.
I use "open" software all the time and I certainly don't do any DIY hacking to get it running and keep it running. So why does this "open" hardware have such a different interpretation? I can only surmise that "open" is actually being used as a synonym of "incomplete".
So you fix your browser.. are you also going to fix your ISP, whoever they buy their feed from etc etc until you get all the way to the actual web server? And how do you know to trust them?
Or are you going to build your own internet,. with hookers and blackjack?
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VMWare, though, has a variety of solutions that would help your problem. Memory ballooning (free memory is pooled), memory compression (faster to compress seldom-used RAM than to page it) and memory sharing (dedup on the memory-page level) all help. Particularly that last one.
I used to run VMWare .. until I decided that VirtualBox was good enough for my requirements - and I would use it again in a flash if I needed features I currently don't need. But as I stated somewhere above, I have tried 3 VMs and the host in 8Gb and it was not pretty. That may have been memory management, it may have been Disk or I/O limitations. Either way it was cheaper and faster to throw 12Gb and be done with it.
Chrome OS does not require an internet connection
I said crippled, not dead. And from the link you supplied Storage:
One terabyte Google Drive cloud storage for three years1
32GB solid state drive (64GB on LTE model)2
Once you have no network connection that 32Gb is really going to get you a long way </sarcasm>. The Airs come with a minimum of 128Gb of flash and you can spec them out from Apple all the way up to 512Gb .. so once again .. they are different beasts with different design considerations.
That said, 8GB is more than enough to run three Win7 VMs simultaneously, what matters at that point is what you're running inside of it.
That gives you 2Gb per OS instance (including the host) which is a pretty tight fit before you start running any major applications (which I need to do)
I dunno, 8 GB is not small, and it is paired with a 700 MB/s disk!
Believe me .. I have tried running with 8Gb. I initially went from 4Gb to 8Gb and could run two VMs happily, but it was only when I got 12Gb could I happily run 3 VMs. Yes I could "run" 3 VMs with 8Gb but it was not pretty and the price of the extra memory is trivial compared to the time wasted and frustration endured with 8Gb.
The MBA is definitely an experiment, but I haven't missed the ethernet port or the FW2 port so far. I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive (ok, well, recently I had to burn a firmware CD for my BluRay player).
I'm trying to use my MBP as a replacement for my Dell as a work laptop so I need the ethernet port and the optical drive for all the industry related software that I used that can't be easily downloaded. If I was sensible and not trying to make a point I would have bought another Dell to replace my Latitude D820. And in my line of business you sometimes even have to drop back to using the serial port - which I miss from my MBP! (and no .. USB to serial adapters cannot be trusted to work all the time due to stupid software treating the RS-232 control signals in non-standard manners)
IMHO the "Mac Premium"
Mac is "mid range" for exciting premium products you have to look at companies like google with the Pixel
Umm .. I'd suggest that you don't understand what is meant by "mac premium".
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/,
The Chromebook is not in the same league as an Air .. they perform two different functions. If you don't have an internet connection then the Chromebook is somewhat crippled, whereas the Air is stand alone.
this low resolution laptop so electronics is not cutting it. no wonder Apple have had drops of 22%; 2; and 7% over the last three quarters...and the reason they are not selling is not the iPad which is down -14%.
I'm not disagreeing that Apple needs to pick up the pace, however those drops can be explained by commoditizing of the market, not that Apples products are suddenly inferior.
I'd also miss my hardwired ethernet port
I thought I would miss my macbook pro
I'd be missing my (older) macbook pro. I have 12Gb of RAM in it and I use that memory all the time running 3 W7 VMs simultaneously* . From what I can see of Apple you can't order more than 8Gb of RAM in an Air.
* Due to a stupid Windows based program that I have to use that can only run as a single instance and I need 3 of the damn things open at a time.
That's actually a pretty competitive price. I can't find a way to configure, say, a Lenovo Ultrabook with an SSD and anywhere near comparable CPU for less than $1200.
IMHO the "Mac Premium" has always been overstated for things like the Air. Yes the computing power per $ ratio may be lower than for competitors - but only when you don't take form factor into account. Every time a competitor produces an Air apparent in a similar form factor the price comes in about the same.
While not a fake sign, a long time ago (as indicated by the message) there was a sign warning "Police Aerial Speed Checks" that was tagged with "Pigs in Spaaaaaace"
Exactly! The "think of the children!" types are always the freakiest and weirdest behind closed doors
All you had to say was "British MP" and the freaky/weird shit is well understood to be implied.
You can by commercial products that can read RFID tags from a lot further away. 5 seconds on google and I found long range passive rfid reader for vehicle management that claims 8 to 15 metres.
I suspect that some researchers really don't have a clue as to what state of the art is.
Plus when it comes to reading things via radio waves the most important thing is the antenna and not the computer connected to it. So saying "Plus it's built using an Arduino." is getting almost as bad as patents that are ".. using a computer!!!!!!!!!!"
where to be an airline pilot all you need is to go to flight school and pass a test
Oh god nooooooooooo. I can just see (to reuse a comment from above) ads for Bob's Flying school:
"We now teach Air Combat!!!!! Come and train on our latests planes .. Migs, Phantoms and Mirages.
Are you ready to be Top Gun?"
Yes, there's also a formula for the perfect +5 Slashdot post too.
Always start by "I know this will get modded down into oblivion, but..."
I'd welcome you as the new slashdot post overlord, but Natalie didn't like you for not mentioning hot grits and she was also upset that you were not the frist to mention that vi is superior. Such an attitude almost petrifies me and thus instead of welcoming you, I have to ask you to hand in your geek card.
If the schools are focused on increasing revenue, something along the way is horribly broken.
If I remember correctly, State(?) funding is based on attendance, so it behooves the school to keep track of their little gravy-trains in order to ensure they get the maximum possible funding.
If you didn't fund schools based on attendance, then how else would you do it? (and this is a serious question)
If it was a real video then where is the other 69 years worth of video???? I bet that they can't come up with all of the rest of it can they!
Our official policy is to let data expire from the PCs after 40 days. While the software has the optional capability to centrally gather reads and archive them, we've never bothered to implement it.
There was a story on CNN this morning about LPRs. What was scary was that the guy who was the focus of the story had requested records pertaining to his car and this amounted to dozens of photos going back 12 or 18 months. It also included at least one photo of him and his kids getting out of his car while it was parked in his driveway.
Personally I think that there is no reason to retain *any* record for a car that is not currently the subject of an infraction. That you delete records after 40 days is commendable, but other people in other districts do not have the same ideas as you.
a gun is a large responsibility. smart guns are an attempt to remove that responsibility. if you are irresponsible then you should not have a gun. if you dont know if you are responsible enough to own a gun then you are not.
I see this argument all the time, but to me it fails to acknowledge that people conform to a bell curve and that for every responsible gun owner there is a real dumb fuck out there who doesn't give a shit. Combine this with a larger population of gun owners and you get the situation where there are significant numbers of people being injured/dying from gun mis-use.
But because you cannot shape the responses of the population, and citizens of the USA don't like to be told what they should be doing, people being injured/killed from gun mis-use is simply a consequence of gun ownership - and is something that USA society seems willing to accept. So until it is deemed not acceptable it comes down to "you can't fix a societal problem with a technological solution".
As for cross-bows .. they don't come with 15 arrow clips.
From TFA
started when he “accidentally” replaced the “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k.”
and
adding that until he got the MacBook, he had never seen porn of any kind or been to a strip club or sex shop.
TFS would make a lot more sense if it mentioned Orson Scott Card is the author of Ender's Game instead of just some random nut.
Some random nut penned Ender's Game??? Thank-you for telling me that! It all makes perfect sense now!
I saw the preview trailer and based on that there was no way in the world I was going to spend money on it. Politics has nothing to do with that decision. But my having 2 lesbians and a transexual in my extended family means that I think OSC's point of view is misguided in the very least.
I'm shy on the idea of just selling it to anyone who comes along wanting a laptop. I'm worried about buyers who don't understand that "open" also means a bit of DIY hacking to get things working, and that things are continuously under development.
I use "open" software all the time and I certainly don't do any DIY hacking to get it running and keep it running. So why does this "open" hardware have such a different interpretation? I can only surmise that "open" is actually being used as a synonym of "incomplete".
So you fix your browser .. are you also going to fix your ISP, whoever they buy their feed from etc etc until you get all the way to the actual web server? And how do you know to trust them?
Or are you going to build your own internet ,. with hookers and blackjack?
Someone puts some electronics in a box and that's newsworthy???
If so, then I've got a suggestion for you. Just follow me around at work for a week and you'll get enough stories for a year of stories like this.
I imagine this would have great applications in the health industry eg. passive health assessment. Or another use might be a better lie detector :)
So science is going discover the human "Aura"???