I think this is precisely they point. This is a business decision to prevent people from buying cheap unlocked desktop CPUs with VT-d, overclocking them, and say, using them to run their dev/test QA VM environments - hell, even production environments if you're really pinching pennies. If you want to get really "out there", it's possible that there was pressure from hypervisor vendors for Intel to lock this down so that they didn't have to support the random failures that can occur with overclocking.
Intel (backed potentially by hypervisor vendors) is basically saying "You can either buy a desktop CPU and run VMs on it, but no overclocking that stuff for free performance / headache causing problems"
If antimatter interacts with gravity in such a way that it "falls" up or pushes against the force like magnetic fields pushing against each other, does this mean that antimatter would make anti-gravity platforms possible?
I'm a science plebe who watches/reads too much sci-fi, this was the first thing that came to my mind.
It has sensors to detect when it has bumped into something and automatically retreats. It senses when it is approaching a wall and prevents forward movement. When the parrot was removed it used its camera to locate the "docking station" and navigate its own way there.
Sure, it can be controlled, but it does its own thing too.
I'll echo this sentiment with my personal anecdote:
Working for a large Canadian telecom, preparing to launch a new service, I was reviewing the infrastructure at the behest of my manager after a sysadmin had moved into another role. I discovered, with no more than 2 weeks until this high profile service was to launch, that our clustered SQL instance would behave fine while sitting there or under minimal testing load, but as soon as you piled it on, the system would outright fall over.
Long story short, this led to a 36 hour phone call with Microsoft where I was escalated to SQL engineers and Windows engineers who in turn managed to pull strings at HP to get driver engineers on the phone leading to the discovery that the HBA drivers for our servers were crapping out under said load.
I'm a proponent of Linux, I use it where appropriate, I get support from RedHat on stuff that I need support on, and I generally loathe the generic issues that come along with running Windows. That said, when it comes to "Somebody is going to lose their job if I don't get this fixed" there are few organizations I'd rather have backing me up than Microsoft.
While both of your points can be valid depending on the situation, I think it's stepping around the key point of the article. It doesn't really matter whether you choose a slightly less expensive Juniper system or if you home brew something, if at the end of the day you spec out a $15,000 server to host that router distribution, you're still paying *way* too much for routing services at a site that hosts less than 10 devices.
I've dealt with the exact same challenges that this Gianato says he was trying to avoid by simply buying the same model for everywhere. It's a ludicrous strategy, especially when choosing the 3945 as your standard. Using 1900 series Cisco gear would still be overkill for most of these sites, and would cost 10%.
Finally - it seems to me like the government is paying full list for their gear. Even small businesses get SOME discount from Cisco and their resellers, who the hell actually pays list? We're not even a big shop and our discount is at least 30-40% depending on what we're purchasing.
Multicast only works as a bandwidth savings device when you're streaming the same content at the same time to multiple devices. I'm not familiar with the Comcast Xfinity service, but to be able to glean any reasonable measure of savings you'd have to watch Xfinity like you do regular TV - shows scheduled at a certain time, not streamed on demand.
What I find deeply disturbing is the number of people willing to pile on against the woman when TFA isn't even available. As pointed out in the link wbr1 provides, there was a court order for him to not abuse her, and he crossed the line. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but whenever there appears to be an article about a woman on/., the comments on said article indicate that/. has become some sort of tech hangout for MRAs. If I had mod points today I'd have blown them all down voting some of the hateful and/or sexist stuff in this thread.
There are many comments here which are no less disgusting than those in the recent situation involving Jennifer Hepler over on Reddit, and if you thought she got what she deserved you're only proving my point.
Actually, that's not next, it's already happened. My dad often tells stories about playing with mercury as a kid. Then we learned how that was a bad idea...
"First tests indicate that, for example, moving parts of the WebGL implementation to one side could save 300 KB. In a test run, the newer version of Visual Studio required less memory than the one that was previously used, and 64-bit Windows offers 4 GB of address space."
So, first of all, saving 300KB on WebGL seems like a pittance. Then, there's what appears to be the blatantly incorrect statement of 64-bit windows offering 4GB of address space - shouldn't that be way bigger, or am I stupid?
DansGuardian with a proxy like squid should give you a basic websense-alike system - but even with all ports closed at the firewall except 80 and 443, bittorrent will likely still get through.
If you're truly worried about litigation, it seems like you could find a little money to deal with the issue. Take a look at Palo Alto Networks firewalls, especially the up and coming low-end model the PA-200.
Perhaps removing your head from your rectum is in order... a single Sabre BPO did NOT magically turn the tides for BoB's industrial machine and grant them ISK beyond measure. The rest of the BPOs that he spawned for himself were even less important than the Sabre, and likely all they did was save pilots in BoB from going out and buying that ammo. Honestly, with BoB's size, this has more of an impact on other producers of the ammo not having their product purchased than it gives an "advantage" to BoB.
I'm glad you quit, one less imbecile in a game I still think is the best around with one of the best companies backing them. Have fun playing WoW.
What's wrong is called "Windows" - you hit the nail right on the head with point 3. 1 and 2 are probably true, but don't have as much impact on the statement you're making. A console doesn't HAVE an underlying OS, there is only the game software executing instructions built into an API which talks directly to the hardware. If you look at the XBOX and it's myriad hardware and software hacks, you'll see that you can never run one program with another one at the same time. Certain BIOSes are attempting TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident... remember that from the DOS days?) applications, but when a game thinks it has 64MB of ram to use and it starts stepping on this TSR app running in the background, you get a big mess.
Windows (or any OS for that matter) on the other hand is doing a billion things for your computer while you're playing a game. IT is controlling the TCP/IP stack, IT is dealing with all of your applications you left running in the background, IT is dealing with tons of random drivers which may or may not be optimized for a gaming experience.
Theoretically, if you could make a game on a boot CD which included drivers for all of your hardware, and ALL it did was run that game, you'd squeeze a lot more out of your system than running through windows. However, this is exactly what the article discusses in reference to abstraction... to do the "Game on bootable CD" concept, the game developer then has to code all of their own drivers to accomodate all of the random PC hardware you may have, including video cards, network cards, joystick/gamepads, on and on. So, for the price of slowing things down a little and access to DirectX or SDL, we lose some of the potential of our powerhouse computers by running an OS before we run the game.
And why would turbine farms covering a mountainside not be easy to fly OVER? I fly small planes and I've seen lots of birds up at 3000 feet.... Let's face it, birds aren't logical beings, they fly into windows, buildings, turbines, and some people get concerned. My point was, in this situation where people were concerned, the general consensus was that in this situation, killing migratory birds should not be a showstopper.
I live in toronto, where there is a public project called "Windshare" which is investigating the viability of wind power in urban areas. They recently did a study on bird mortality caused by the turbine. Here's a link - Windshare
For those who don't want to click, during heavy migratory seasons (spring and fall) for 1 year, there were a total of 2 dead birds found in the vicinity of the turbine.
This is part of the advantage of SCSI. A lot of processing is moved away from the main CPU and is on the SCSI controller itself. This is why SCSI is so much more expensive than the ATA based standards - there is a lot more going on in a SCSI chain, requiring a lot more circuitry. Add to that the fact that most SCSI controllers go beyond basic SCSI connectivity and add some form of RAID, assuming they're designed for HD connectivity... SCSI also accomodates many other things that I've never seen on ATA - tape backup units, robots in tape libraries, and scanners are a few of the things that come to mind.
An autobiographical account of my `religious' beliefs and how they got that way. If you start this, please read it through. Stopping partway would probably leave you with some very silly misconceptions.
That's the first line from the link the parent provided. So I read the entire thing, and as usual, when you quote a small portion of text from a large article, it's easy to take it out of context.
Alright, ESR has some interesting beliefs. However, my impression after reading the WHOLE article is not that he's "off the deep end." He describes situations that I do not understand, but that does not mean they cannot exist. I am not particularly religious, but I do not deny that a God (or Gods) could exist. I simply find myself without particular experience that would lead me to believe otherwise, while ESR has had these experiences. As far as I'm concerned, good for him.
Eric is a smart guy, and while some may call him eccentric, strange, or off the deep end, I'm sure he's doing more for the open source movement than any of the people mentioned formerly who are criticizing him.
Anyone know how he's pulling the numbers off the page? Is there some kind of sneaky back-end that we can get stats about our account with? Is he manually entering all this info? Or maybe some kind of "screen-scraping" techniques to pull the data off the page... hmm...
I guess because his stats are about 2-3 weeks behind, it would indicate that things are leaning towards the manual procedure...
While you may be correct in assuming that the difference in manufacturing cost between a $20,000 car and a $60,000 car is actually nowhere near $40,000, there are other costs to consider. R&D that goes into making that $60,000 quieter, more comfortable, etc etc, adds to the costs the corporation needs to recoup.
The celeron is not really a valid example, however. The primary difference between a celeron and a "full-blown" processor is l2 cache - the celeron doesn't have it. No cache means less transistors, less transistors means less complicated/smaller die, which means more cpus per wafer, hence, intel can pump out far more cpu's in a manufacturing cycle.
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I think this is precisely they point. This is a business decision to prevent people from buying cheap unlocked desktop CPUs with VT-d, overclocking them, and say, using them to run their dev/test QA VM environments - hell, even production environments if you're really pinching pennies. If you want to get really "out there", it's possible that there was pressure from hypervisor vendors for Intel to lock this down so that they didn't have to support the random failures that can occur with overclocking.
Intel (backed potentially by hypervisor vendors) is basically saying "You can either buy a desktop CPU and run VMs on it, but no overclocking that stuff for free performance / headache causing problems"
If antimatter interacts with gravity in such a way that it "falls" up or pushes against the force like magnetic fields pushing against each other, does this mean that antimatter would make anti-gravity platforms possible?
I'm a science plebe who watches/reads too much sci-fi, this was the first thing that came to my mind.
It has sensors to detect when it has bumped into something and automatically retreats. It senses when it is approaching a wall and prevents forward movement. When the parrot was removed it used its camera to locate the "docking station" and navigate its own way there.
Sure, it can be controlled, but it does its own thing too.
Slackware was the first disto I used in the mid-late 90s. Then:
RedHat for work
Experimenting at home, Gentoo, Debian
RHEL/CentOS for work
Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Fedora at home.
I'll echo this sentiment with my personal anecdote:
Working for a large Canadian telecom, preparing to launch a new service, I was reviewing the infrastructure at the behest of my manager after a sysadmin had moved into another role. I discovered, with no more than 2 weeks until this high profile service was to launch, that our clustered SQL instance would behave fine while sitting there or under minimal testing load, but as soon as you piled it on, the system would outright fall over.
Long story short, this led to a 36 hour phone call with Microsoft where I was escalated to SQL engineers and Windows engineers who in turn managed to pull strings at HP to get driver engineers on the phone leading to the discovery that the HBA drivers for our servers were crapping out under said load.
I'm a proponent of Linux, I use it where appropriate, I get support from RedHat on stuff that I need support on, and I generally loathe the generic issues that come along with running Windows. That said, when it comes to "Somebody is going to lose their job if I don't get this fixed" there are few organizations I'd rather have backing me up than Microsoft.
While both of your points can be valid depending on the situation, I think it's stepping around the key point of the article. It doesn't really matter whether you choose a slightly less expensive Juniper system or if you home brew something, if at the end of the day you spec out a $15,000 server to host that router distribution, you're still paying *way* too much for routing services at a site that hosts less than 10 devices.
I've dealt with the exact same challenges that this Gianato says he was trying to avoid by simply buying the same model for everywhere. It's a ludicrous strategy, especially when choosing the 3945 as your standard. Using 1900 series Cisco gear would still be overkill for most of these sites, and would cost 10%.
Finally - it seems to me like the government is paying full list for their gear. Even small businesses get SOME discount from Cisco and their resellers, who the hell actually pays list? We're not even a big shop and our discount is at least 30-40% depending on what we're purchasing.
Pretty sad, really.
Multicast only works as a bandwidth savings device when you're streaming the same content at the same time to multiple devices. I'm not familiar with the Comcast Xfinity service, but to be able to glean any reasonable measure of savings you'd have to watch Xfinity like you do regular TV - shows scheduled at a certain time, not streamed on demand.
As the linked article is basically a wall of text, here's the website which has a video of the maiden flight on the front page:
http://pal-v.com/
The Song of Ice and Fire series is fine, because it's not "non-related adults acting out incest fantasies" ... it's actual incest!
What I find deeply disturbing is the number of people willing to pile on against the woman when TFA isn't even available. As pointed out in the link wbr1 provides, there was a court order for him to not abuse her, and he crossed the line. I don't want to be hyperbolic, but whenever there appears to be an article about a woman on /., the comments on said article indicate that /. has become some sort of tech hangout for MRAs. If I had mod points today I'd have blown them all down voting some of the hateful and/or sexist stuff in this thread.
There are many comments here which are no less disgusting than those in the recent situation involving Jennifer Hepler over on Reddit, and if you thought she got what she deserved you're only proving my point.
Can we link to Michael Geist's actual article rather than that horrid looking ActivePolitic website?
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What's next, mercury funtime playsets?
Actually, that's not next, it's already happened. My dad often tells stories about playing with mercury as a kid. Then we learned how that was a bad idea...
"First tests indicate that, for example, moving parts of the WebGL implementation to one side could save 300 KB. In a test run, the newer version of Visual Studio required less memory than the one that was previously used, and 64-bit Windows offers 4 GB of address space."
So, first of all, saving 300KB on WebGL seems like a pittance. Then, there's what appears to be the blatantly incorrect statement of 64-bit windows offering 4GB of address space - shouldn't that be way bigger, or am I stupid?
DansGuardian with a proxy like squid should give you a basic websense-alike system - but even with all ports closed at the firewall except 80 and 443, bittorrent will likely still get through.
If you're truly worried about litigation, it seems like you could find a little money to deal with the issue. Take a look at Palo Alto Networks firewalls, especially the up and coming low-end model the PA-200.
Perhaps removing your head from your rectum is in order... a single Sabre BPO did NOT magically turn the tides for BoB's industrial machine and grant them ISK beyond measure. The rest of the BPOs that he spawned for himself were even less important than the Sabre, and likely all they did was save pilots in BoB from going out and buying that ammo. Honestly, with BoB's size, this has more of an impact on other producers of the ammo not having their product purchased than it gives an "advantage" to BoB.
I'm glad you quit, one less imbecile in a game I still think is the best around with one of the best companies backing them. Have fun playing WoW.
Come on now, you can't be serious... you have truly fallen to the Dark Side of geek when you think some laptops on a wall beats this:
n loads/wallpapers/dukes_wall_jessica1280.jpg
http://www2.warnerbros.com/dukesofhazzard/img/dow
Pure american muscle, the classic Dodge Charger, and 100% american beauty, Jessica... I'll leave that on my wall, thanks very much, and I'm Canadian!
What's wrong is called "Windows" - you hit the nail right on the head with point 3. 1 and 2 are probably true, but don't have as much impact on the statement you're making. A console doesn't HAVE an underlying OS, there is only the game software executing instructions built into an API which talks directly to the hardware. If you look at the XBOX and it's myriad hardware and software hacks, you'll see that you can never run one program with another one at the same time. Certain BIOSes are attempting TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident... remember that from the DOS days?) applications, but when a game thinks it has 64MB of ram to use and it starts stepping on this TSR app running in the background, you get a big mess.
Windows (or any OS for that matter) on the other hand is doing a billion things for your computer while you're playing a game. IT is controlling the TCP/IP stack, IT is dealing with all of your applications you left running in the background, IT is dealing with tons of random drivers which may or may not be optimized for a gaming experience.
Theoretically, if you could make a game on a boot CD which included drivers for all of your hardware, and ALL it did was run that game, you'd squeeze a lot more out of your system than running through windows. However, this is exactly what the article discusses in reference to abstraction... to do the "Game on bootable CD" concept, the game developer then has to code all of their own drivers to accomodate all of the random PC hardware you may have, including video cards, network cards, joystick/gamepads, on and on. So, for the price of slowing things down a little and access to DirectX or SDL, we lose some of the potential of our powerhouse computers by running an OS before we run the game.
And why would turbine farms covering a mountainside not be easy to fly OVER? I fly small planes and I've seen lots of birds up at 3000 feet.... Let's face it, birds aren't logical beings, they fly into windows, buildings, turbines, and some people get concerned. My point was, in this situation where people were concerned, the general consensus was that in this situation, killing migratory birds should not be a showstopper.
I live in toronto, where there is a public project called "Windshare" which is investigating the viability of wind power in urban areas. They recently did a study on bird mortality caused by the turbine. Here's a link - Windshare
For those who don't want to click, during heavy migratory seasons (spring and fall) for 1 year, there were a total of 2 dead birds found in the vicinity of the turbine.
See windshare.ca for more info on the project.
This is part of the advantage of SCSI. A lot of processing is moved away from the main CPU and is on the SCSI controller itself. This is why SCSI is so much more expensive than the ATA based standards - there is a lot more going on in a SCSI chain, requiring a lot more circuitry. Add to that the fact that most SCSI controllers go beyond basic SCSI connectivity and add some form of RAID, assuming they're designed for HD connectivity... SCSI also accomodates many other things that I've never seen on ATA - tape backup units, robots in tape libraries, and scanners are a few of the things that come to mind.
An autobiographical account of my `religious' beliefs and how they got that way. If you start this, please read it through. Stopping partway would probably leave you with some very silly misconceptions.
That's the first line from the link the parent provided. So I read the entire thing, and as usual, when you quote a small portion of text from a large article, it's easy to take it out of context.
Alright, ESR has some interesting beliefs. However, my impression after reading the WHOLE article is not that he's "off the deep end." He describes situations that I do not understand, but that does not mean they cannot exist. I am not particularly religious, but I do not deny that a God (or Gods) could exist. I simply find myself without particular experience that would lead me to believe otherwise, while ESR has had these experiences. As far as I'm concerned, good for him.
Eric is a smart guy, and while some may call him eccentric, strange, or off the deep end, I'm sure he's doing more for the open source movement than any of the people mentioned formerly who are criticizing him.
Anyone know how he's pulling the numbers off the page? Is there some kind of sneaky back-end that we can get stats about our account with? Is he manually entering all this info? Or maybe some kind of "screen-scraping" techniques to pull the data off the page... hmm...
I guess because his stats are about 2-3 weeks behind, it would indicate that things are leaning towards the manual procedure...
Let's take a quick look at this line:
:P
There's also a log of past messages.
So... log.asp eh? Windows? Or some silly man running asp under apache? 'Nuff said...
Oh, and I guess maybe it's on some cable modem or DSL provider... that doesn't help.
Hmm... I'll bid the approximate cost of a 300d on your used 10d.
While you may be correct in assuming that the difference in manufacturing cost between a $20,000 car and a $60,000 car is actually nowhere near $40,000, there are other costs to consider. R&D that goes into making that $60,000 quieter, more comfortable, etc etc, adds to the costs the corporation needs to recoup.
The celeron is not really a valid example, however. The primary difference between a celeron and a "full-blown" processor is l2 cache - the celeron doesn't have it. No cache means less transistors, less transistors means less complicated/smaller die, which means more cpus per wafer, hence, intel can pump out far more cpu's in a manufacturing cycle.