number of vCPUs, vMemory per VM vSphere 5 now lets you have up to 32 vCPUs and 1024GB in a VM, which is good. vSphere4, which most people still, have is limited to only 8/256 per VM.
overhead: VMWare takes a good 15-30%. Again the hypervisor in vShere 5 is a bit better performer.
stability: I/O drivers are included in the hypervisor, which is a bit scary.
Pricing The VMWare pricing model is overly confusing. Costs for added more vRAM to the pool? yuk.. vsphere5 makes this even worse.
I kinda see KVM as taking off here in the future. A lot of development is focusing that way..
Not to mention the record breaking droughts in Texas and the SW.
The data does suggest a global warming trend, but some weather shifts are normal. Just because floods wiped out *your* house this year doesn't mean the world is ending and it's all Fox News fault. In this case, the Pacific has been cooler than normal, which changes the jet streams. Which pushes moisture in the air in different ways. It's happened before and will happen again. Just don't tell that to the dinosaurs.
There are Android-specific patches to the kernel, including an extensive security model, custom locking mechanism, and different frame buffer support among others. A lot of this code may have some ARM-only trickery. Add to that the library of redundant device drivers that phone companies write and discard (that may or may not work) and you have yourself a chunk of work there. It doesn't help that Google has no interest whatsoever in getting their code merged into the Linux kernel properly. In fact, that's the main problem with Android. If their patches were merged and properly supported, device drivers would be better and it would be easier to do an x86 (or ppc or what have you) port. It's too bad since userspace is basically all java- the apps should just work on a new arch, but that benefit is torpedoed by Google's lack of follow-through in working with the community to get stuff merged.
In other news, Meego certainly seems doomed to hacker-land.
This isn't the first time I've heard about Google hiring in waves (they came into Austin a number of years ago, hired a bunch of folks, then closed the office, forcing people to either move or quit, now their back again).
So what are all these people working on? There's the search engine, of course. And Gmail. And a slate of other hanger on type apps that no one I know uses. Google Books? anyone? I guess they need folks for Android? I'm assuming that's the case. Now that they have a licensable tangible product to develop and support there's always work to be done and bugs to fix. OS's take a lot of work.
That's kind of a weird comparison, though. Power7 cores have 4 hw threads. Nehalem has 2 'hyper' threads.
Like any tool, you pick the right one for the job. Nahalem is quite fast on a single thread, but if you have a web server processing boat loads of transactions/second, you may look towards a tool that is fast on many theads and can churn through many transactions concurrently.
That may be true, but that's what they said when those initial USB jailbreaks came out. That method juked the PS3 into going into debug mode. Maybe this joker found another way to do that?
I know only a minimal amount about Android, but why does Google insist on walking on the very edge of legality in regards to all of the software involved here? Licensing costs? That explains Java, but why all the incompatible custom changes, copyright header removals, and general open source shadiness.
They may be within that law, but are outside the bounds of being upstanding (apologize before hand for the term) 'FOSS netizens'.
Can they really not get Android to work *and* play nice?
Unfortunately, the quantity of apps is lacking, but as a fan of FOSS, you may be interested in how much WebOS has in common with other Linux distributions. Kernel 2.6.14 glib, udev, lvm, WebKit, gStreamer, etc
If you install a terminal app and take a look around, it looks much like a standard Linux system. Often times Linux apps compiled for arm just work.
To answer you question: Freedom! Palm (now HP) have been encouraging people to hack/extend/play around with the system. It's a great little Linux system with a top notch interface(Luma). It's a shame that it's so ignored.
That being said, I have no idea what this "webOS on a PC" means. it may just be the Luma interface running on windows, which just sounds 'ick'.
Actually, the Palm Pre has a 'Home' button of sorts, they removed it for the Pre Plus. On both, you can still use the up swipe, or back gesture to get back 'home'. I kind of prefer the home button myself, even though its a bit redundant.
ping www.apple.com PING e3191.c.akamaiedge.net (184.84.45.15): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 184.84.45.15: CEASE AND DESIST. PING IS A TRADEMARKED NAME OWNED BY APPLE, INC.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a thong worn outside the pants. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a Bella's hormones in Twilight. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as glow-in-the-dark condom. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as the politics in Chicago. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as the politics in Avatar. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a vuvuzela horn. That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as advertising during Saturday morning cartoons.
eh..sorry..got a bit carried away
More on topic: I'd probably pay for this if they expanded the shows/channels that they offered. Don't care so much about most of those shows.
True, but the original poster is correct that IBM integrated the CPU and GPU on the same die for them this time around, which is pretty nifty, I guess. Same function and performance all around, but It helps MS save some money at ye old fabbe.
If you think about it, around the time it was announced (very early on in development, which is not normal), you had a bunch of potentially scary things going on in the market. Cell came out with a potentially disruptive design, Nvidia was gaining ground in the HPC market, OpenCL was being brought forth by Apple to request a standard in hybrid computing.
All of sudden it looked like maybe Intel was a little too far behind.
Solution: Announce a new design of their own to crush the competition! In Intel-land, sometimes the announcement is as big as the GA. Heck, the announcement of Itanium was enough to kill off a few architectures. They would announce Larrabee as a discrete graphics chip to get gamers to subsidize development and....profit!
Lucky for them, Cell never found a big enough market and Nvidia had a few missteps of their own. Also, Nehalem turned out to be successful. Add all that up, and it becomes kind of clear that Larrebee was no longer needed, negating the fact that it was a huge failure, performance-wise.
Intel is the only company that can afford such huge hedge bets. Looks like maybe another one is coming to attack the ARM threat. We'll see.
I have SSH running on my Pre. If you get 'Preware' installed on you phone (some guides over at precentral.net), use that to install the console and command line utilities. An SSH client is included in that.
(I can even use a VPN app to tunnel into my work network to check on some machines if need be:)
Your post is not very well written. Are you suggesting locking MPEG-LA from the internet or the United States entirely? And was this an attempt at humor? Usually I don't feed trolls, but this has somehow been upvoted as 'insightful'.
The only insight I see here is straight up your ass since you are talking out of it.
You should give Palm another chance instead of burying your head in Apple beach. The Pre is great.
- Has a reasonable battery life
-My Pre lasts all day. That's reasonable to me. Then I toss it on its little wireless charger at home.
- Doesn't require me to swap batteries
Agree, but why wouldn't you want the capability to swap the battery if you needed to? There's no logical reason.
- Lets me listen to music in the background
This is great!
I would add multi-tasking to this list. Multitasking doesn't mean running sendmail in the background, it's more like having 3 webpages open to 3 different restaurant menus (2 on web, 1 PDF), while having google maps open to see locations and listening to music. I do this all the time with my Pre. Sure, it does use more battery when you have multiple cards open, but you don't have them open all the time! You open 3 or 4 or 5 cards, then pitch them. Totally worth the 15 seconds of battery drain. I couldn't go back to not having it at this point.
Not sure where you are getting your info. My Pre lasts all day. Having a bunch of cards open does drain the battery a bit faster, but you don't keep them open all day.
I often have 3 web pages open to 3 different restaurants menus, while also having google maps open to see where they are while listening to music the whole time. I flip back and forth make the decision, then close the cards. Why would you not want that? You have been fooled (hoodwinked!) if you think the 15 seconds of higher battery usage is not worth it.
The only thing I see as a gripe is the touch screen is a little less accurate than an iphone, but thats it. It's flashy and slick AND open.
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That $1 salary is a joke. And a tax dodge. He gets tons of stock/options/other compensation that he can then sell and then only pay capital gains tax on.
I'm not sure anything you just wrote contradicted the post you were replying to. So ARM designs the core, licensees take that design and build a chip out of it. Yes, you need some people that know what they're doing (PA Semi) to do that, but the task would be exponentially harder if they started from scratch with their own core design. (That was the point)
It's still just an ARM based chip with maybe some unused stuff ripped out, big deal. There are few details about the chip because it's not really that special.
You started off so balanced and well-meaning and ended up a total hypocrite.
as for "Europeans consider Americans as inexplicably stupid". Yeah, we pretty much do,
Well maybe Americans consider Europeans self-righteous, moral snobs, but that's of no consequence when you are one.
Remember many Americans are cast-offs from the voluminous past failures of Europe. Being a cast-off, it's not hard to have your morals and values switch around a bit. Americans value freedom, family, god, and local community over national community for this reason. National community failed a great many of us.
So the next time you want to call someone 'inexplicably stupid' for having a different set a values, think again.
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Great! Then you of all people should appreciate the importance of the power of the States.
Texas passed Tort reform in 2003 (Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003) which imposes a limit on non-economic damages in a medical lawsuit. This was a great start.
The government should follow Texas' lead and then promote more flexible Health Spending accounts, and force transparency on insurance companies cost (ban 'negotiated rates')
What congress is calling 'reform' is anything but.
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Some of the pain points of VMWare:
number of vCPUs, vMemory per VM
vSphere 5 now lets you have up to 32 vCPUs and 1024GB in a VM, which is good. vSphere4, which most people still, have is limited to only 8/256 per VM.
overhead:
VMWare takes a good 15-30%. Again the hypervisor in vShere 5 is a bit better performer.
stability:
I/O drivers are included in the hypervisor, which is a bit scary.
Pricing
The VMWare pricing model is overly confusing. Costs for added more vRAM to the pool? yuk.. vsphere5 makes this even worse.
I kinda see KVM as taking off here in the future. A lot of development is focusing that way..
Bar none, PowerVM still has VMWare beat in most areas that matter, but vSphere 5 is a step in the right direction.
If we're just talking x86, though, I keep hearing that KVM will be the top virtualization solution going forward.
Not to mention the record breaking droughts in Texas and the SW.
The data does suggest a global warming trend, but some weather shifts are normal. Just because floods wiped out *your* house this year doesn't mean the world is ending and it's all Fox News fault. In this case, the Pacific has been cooler than normal, which changes the jet streams. Which pushes moisture in the air in different ways. It's happened before and will happen again.
Just don't tell that to the dinosaurs.
There are Android-specific patches to the kernel, including an extensive security model, custom locking mechanism, and different frame buffer support among others. A lot of this code may have some ARM-only trickery. Add to that the library of redundant device drivers that phone companies write and discard (that may or may not work) and you have yourself a chunk of work there.
It doesn't help that Google has no interest whatsoever in getting their code merged into the Linux kernel properly. In fact, that's the main problem with Android. If their patches were merged and properly supported, device drivers would be better and it would be easier to do an x86 (or ppc or what have you) port. It's too bad since userspace is basically all java- the apps should just work on a new arch, but that benefit is torpedoed by Google's lack of follow-through in working with the community to get stuff merged.
In other news, Meego certainly seems doomed to hacker-land.
This isn't the first time I've heard about Google hiring in waves (they came into Austin a number of years ago, hired a bunch of folks, then closed the office, forcing people to either move or quit, now their back again).
So what are all these people working on?
There's the search engine, of course. And Gmail. And a slate of other hanger on type apps that no one I know uses. Google Books? anyone?
I guess they need folks for Android? I'm assuming that's the case. Now that they have a licensable tangible product to develop and support there's always work to be done and bugs to fix. OS's take a lot of work.
That's kind of a weird comparison, though. Power7 cores have 4 hw threads. Nehalem has 2 'hyper' threads.
Like any tool, you pick the right one for the job. Nahalem is quite fast on a single thread, but if you have a web server processing boat loads of transactions/second, you may look towards a tool that is fast on many theads and can churn through many transactions concurrently.
They did *buy* the original Android. Are they hamstrung by the decisions that were made in that early version? It would just be good to know, I think.
Maybe they should change their moto from "Don't be evil" to "Don't be a dick".
That may be true, but that's what they said when those initial USB jailbreaks came out. That method juked the PS3 into going into debug mode. Maybe this joker found another way to do that?
I know only a minimal amount about Android, but why does Google insist on walking on the very edge of legality in regards to all of the software involved here? Licensing costs? That explains Java, but why all the incompatible custom changes, copyright header removals, and general open source shadiness.
They may be within that law, but are outside the bounds of being upstanding (apologize before hand for the term) 'FOSS netizens'.
Can they really not get Android to work *and* play nice?
Unfortunately, the quantity of apps is lacking, but as a fan of FOSS, you may be interested in how much WebOS has in common with other Linux distributions.
Kernel 2.6.14
glib, udev, lvm, WebKit, gStreamer, etc
Take a look here:
http://opensource.palm.com/1.4.5/index.html
If you install a terminal app and take a look around, it looks much like a standard Linux system. Often times Linux apps compiled for arm just work.
To answer you question: Freedom! Palm (now HP) have been encouraging people to hack/extend/play around with the system. It's a great little Linux system with a top notch interface(Luma). It's a shame that it's so ignored.
That being said, I have no idea what this "webOS on a PC" means. it may just be the Luma interface running on windows, which just sounds 'ick'.
Actually, the Palm Pre has a 'Home' button of sorts, they removed it for the Pre Plus. On both, you can still use the up swipe, or back gesture to get back 'home'.
I kind of prefer the home button myself, even though its a bit redundant.
ping www.apple.com
PING e3191.c.akamaiedge.net (184.84.45.15): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 184.84.45.15: CEASE AND DESIST. PING IS A TRADEMARKED NAME OWNED BY APPLE, INC.
Only the penitent company shall pass.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a thong worn outside the pants.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a Bella's hormones in Twilight.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as glow-in-the-dark condom.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as the politics in Chicago.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as the politics in Avatar.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as a vuvuzela horn.
That show had religious metaphors about as subtle as advertising during Saturday morning cartoons.
eh..sorry..got a bit carried away
More on topic: I'd probably pay for this if they expanded the shows/channels that they offered. Don't care so much about most of those shows.
True, but the original poster is correct that IBM integrated the CPU and GPU on the same die for them this time around, which is pretty nifty, I guess.
Same function and performance all around, but It helps MS save some money at ye old fabbe.
I've been saying the same thing about Apple over the last 6 years. It keeps proving me wrong and my Apple fan-boy friends always laugh at me.
It's a good thing I don't buy individual stocks, because I know as soon as I bought Apple it would tank.
I kind of think Larrabee was a hedge.
If you think about it, around the time it was announced (very early on in development, which is not normal), you had a bunch of potentially scary things going on in the market.
Cell came out with a potentially disruptive design, Nvidia was gaining ground in the HPC market, OpenCL was being brought forth by Apple to request a standard in hybrid computing.
All of sudden it looked like maybe Intel was a little too far behind.
Solution: Announce a new design of their own to crush the competition! In Intel-land, sometimes the announcement is as big as the GA. Heck, the announcement of Itanium was enough to kill off a few architectures. They would announce Larrabee as a discrete graphics chip to get gamers to subsidize development and....profit!
Lucky for them, Cell never found a big enough market and Nvidia had a few missteps of their own. Also, Nehalem turned out to be successful. Add all that up, and it becomes kind of clear that Larrebee was no longer needed, negating the fact that it was a huge failure, performance-wise.
Intel is the only company that can afford such huge hedge bets. Looks like maybe another one is coming to attack the ARM threat. We'll see.
I have SSH running on my Pre. If you get 'Preware' installed on you phone (some guides over at precentral.net), use that to install the console and command line utilities. An SSH client is included in that.
(I can even use a VPN app to tunnel into my work network to check on some machines if need be :)
Your post is not very well written. Are you suggesting locking MPEG-LA from the internet or the United States entirely? And was this an attempt at humor? Usually I don't feed trolls, but this has somehow been upvoted as 'insightful'.
The only insight I see here is straight up your ass since you are talking out of it.
You should give Palm another chance instead of burying your head in Apple beach. The Pre is great.
- Has a reasonable battery life
-My Pre lasts all day. That's reasonable to me. Then I toss it on its little wireless charger at home.
- Doesn't require me to swap batteries
Agree, but why wouldn't you want the capability to swap the battery if you needed to? There's no logical reason.
- Lets me listen to music in the background
This is great!
I would add multi-tasking to this list. Multitasking doesn't mean running sendmail in the background, it's more like having 3 webpages open to 3 different restaurant menus (2 on web, 1 PDF), while having google maps open to see locations and listening to music. I do this all the time with my Pre. Sure, it does use more battery when you have multiple cards open, but you don't have them open all the time! You open 3 or 4 or 5 cards, then pitch them. Totally worth the 15 seconds of battery drain. I couldn't go back to not having it at this point.
Not sure where you are getting your info. My Pre lasts all day. Having a bunch of cards open does drain the battery a bit faster, but you don't keep them open all day.
I often have 3 web pages open to 3 different restaurants menus, while also having google maps open to see where they are while listening to music the whole time. I flip back and forth make the decision, then close the cards. Why would you not want that? You have been fooled (hoodwinked!) if you think the 15 seconds of higher battery usage is not worth it.
The only thing I see as a gripe is the touch screen is a little less accurate than an iphone, but thats it. It's flashy and slick AND open.
That $1 salary is a joke. And a tax dodge. He gets tons of stock/options/other compensation that he can then sell and then only pay capital gains tax on.
I'm not sure anything you just wrote contradicted the post you were replying to. So ARM designs the core, licensees take that design and build a chip out of it. Yes, you need some people that know what they're doing (PA Semi) to do that, but the task would be exponentially harder if they started from scratch with their own core design. (That was the point)
It's still just an ARM based chip with maybe some unused stuff ripped out, big deal. There are few details about the chip because it's not really that special.
You started off so balanced and well-meaning and ended up a total hypocrite.
as for "Europeans consider Americans as inexplicably stupid". Yeah, we pretty much do,
Well maybe Americans consider Europeans self-righteous, moral snobs, but that's of no consequence when you are one.
Remember many Americans are cast-offs from the voluminous past failures of Europe. Being a cast-off, it's not hard to have your morals and values switch around a bit. Americans value freedom, family, god, and local community over national community for this reason. National community failed a great many of us.
So the next time you want to call someone 'inexplicably stupid' for having a different set a values, think again.
Great!
Then you of all people should appreciate the importance of the power of the States.
Texas passed Tort reform in 2003 (Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003) which imposes a limit on non-economic damages in a medical lawsuit. This was a great start.
The government should follow Texas' lead and then promote more flexible Health Spending accounts, and force transparency on insurance companies cost (ban 'negotiated rates')
What congress is calling 'reform' is anything but.