The IBM box is one machine with 32CPUs 64 cores. The Sun, a cluster of what? 12 systems? with 4 CPUs each, 384 cores. See what I mean by IBM getting it?
I think you're right though. x86 will eventually eat power too, simply because the market for "ultimate performance" is much smaller than "good enough".
Meh. Ellison is redundant. Sun is dead, with it almost certainly goes SPARC. Bit of a shame really.
IBM have an integrated business services division which understands their customers. Sun never did. Maybe Oracle/Sun can work together and make a real business support company competitive with IBM. Frankly, I doubt it. Both organisations are barely functional. It's far far more likely that Oracle will shut down Sun and sell anything valuable to someone who understands hardware better.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly
I've run Solaris datacenters, on Sun systems. That's fine, it makes sense. You wanted the Sun hardware, they had some nice kit. But Solaris is just there to make it go. OpenSolaris. Solaris on x86 etc make absolutely NO sense at all. Nobody cares.
so they become the sole producer of x86 chips again
If not AMD, then VIA or Transmeta or Nvidia, or whomever. Anyone with the knowledge and fabs can make an x86 instruction set CPU. There is no such thing as an x86 license, it's a bundle of patents on specific implementations. You know that... right? RIGHT? Avoid those particular implementations and you don't need to license any patents from Intel.
With some minor detail changes, like the badge. Cos it's practical, affordable, easy to maintain, people can actually use it every day, put the shopping in the boot, the kids in the back seat, sit in a reasonably comfortable position, see what's going on in front and behind. etc.
Nobody cares about open solaris. Nobody in their right mind would have chosen it as a platform.
I'm not surprised that IBM is the last company, AIX the last proprietary unix platform. Power the last proprietary hardware platform...
HP & Itanium? Laughable... And Linux on x86 has eaten the rest.
IBM 'get' services in the way the rest never have. They get that it's the bloody hardware which matters. This is why power is hitting 5GHz. The OS is just there to make it work. You want the fastest, lowest latency, highest throughput. You use IBM. You just want it to work and are on a budget? Linux.
The 'executives' of the rest of the companies clearly didn't know or care what their customers want, or what their business really is.
Speed is latency. (how long it takes) Scalability is throughput. (how many concurrent). Or put another way; Speed is the quality, throughput is the width.
who cares what twuufter is running off.
Well, developers, and their managers do. They're nothing if not fashion victims.
RDBMS aren't the be all and end all of scalability (or speed, they perform a shit load of management functions you may or may not need). While attempting to scale conventional rdbms you get into write consistency problem, lookup performance problems unless you specifically design your data structures properly. You end up fighting with the relational data model.
Most developers never even think about it, they just develop against their local mysql install and are overjoyed that their app actually runs. Not all apps even need an rdbms. I've seen apps with a single table, two columns, one of which is a key and it's running on an rdbms, because that's what you do... The words WTF sprang to mind.
I was under the impression the most common dilution "30C", was something like 1/3000... But no, on further reading I discover it's 99.999999999999999999999999999999% water, as you say. i.e. even in a mass spectrometer we're not going to see any molecules of the original solution.
You could think of it like not having to code yourself a word processor or build your own Linux distribution. Someone else has done all the work for you.
They were under NDA, not permitted to perform & publish comparison benchmarks? Was that where they were?
All it takes is one person to say "nah this guy's talking bullshit", with a link to a repeatable benchmark which shows he's talking balls...
Y'know... like science... or engineering... instead of fashion.
[1] Why don't I do this? Cos I don't give a shit about Microsoft products. Perhaps that's the other reason nobody called bullshit, nobody gives a shit.
Finger print scanners are cheap now. Have a look on ebay.
You can lift a print using sellotape. So anyone who sees you touch something can log your fingerprint into a database and then share that info and use it for comparison.
If one byte takes 10^-9 s, a million bytes take 10^3 s.
Only if you do them one at a time, one after another, waiting till each had been cleared. That'd be... Wait this is Microsoft we're talking about here... Carry on.
You can even (trivially) roll your own in Linux. lsof occasionally to build some stats on commonly opened files. cat them to/dev/null to fill the filesystem buffer cache. I'm not sure anybody would even bother to give it a name like "SuperFetch", never mind a trademark like "Microsoft Windows SuperFetch®". It's kind of sad and depressing really.
* It has more of the little tools which people expect and use. * The tools are better integrated with one another. Gnome tools are standalone. * It's faster (lower latency menus, windows etc). * It works more reliably. The taskbar for example works, horizontally or vertically. * It is more like windows XP like than Gnome. * It's easier to customize/configure than Gnome.
Overall, KDE (3.5, haven't upgraded) just works well. The problem is the application namespace. The "K" thing. Seriously. Get rid of it. I don't need to know that I'm using Kontact, Knode, Karm Kaddressbook or or Kmail. Hide all that bollocks at the filesystem level.
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You're conflating throughput with speed. Speed is latency (how fast). Thoughput is how many.
You need four 5GHz POWER6 to match two 2.93GHz Intel Nehalem on official TPC-C benchmarks
What are you talking about? TPC-C benchmarks entire systems not cpus. Mostly I/O bound... RAM, network and disk.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp
The IBM box is one machine with 32CPUs 64 cores. The Sun, a cluster of what? 12 systems? with 4 CPUs each, 384 cores. See what I mean by IBM getting it?
I think you're right though. x86 will eventually eat power too, simply because the market for "ultimate performance" is much smaller than "good enough".
Ellison has publicly stated
Meh. Ellison is redundant. Sun is dead, with it almost certainly goes SPARC. Bit of a shame really.
IBM have an integrated business services division which understands their customers. Sun never did. Maybe Oracle/Sun can work together and make a real business support company competitive with IBM. Frankly, I doubt it. Both organisations are barely functional. It's far far more likely that Oracle will shut down Sun and sell anything valuable to someone who understands hardware better.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly
I've run Solaris datacenters, on Sun systems. That's fine, it makes sense. You wanted the Sun hardware, they had some nice kit. But Solaris is just there to make it go. OpenSolaris. Solaris on x86 etc make absolutely NO sense at all. Nobody cares.
so they become the sole producer of x86 chips again
If not AMD, then VIA or Transmeta or Nvidia, or whomever. Anyone with the knowledge and fabs can make an x86 instruction set CPU. There is no such thing as an x86 license, it's a bundle of patents on specific implementations. You know that... right? RIGHT? Avoid those particular implementations and you don't need to license any patents from Intel.
Something like this:
http://vne-resource.iol.co.za/30/picdb/1/7/105701
With some minor detail changes, like the badge. Cos it's practical, affordable, easy to maintain, people can actually use it every day, put the shopping in the boot, the kids in the back seat, sit in a reasonably comfortable position, see what's going on in front and behind. etc.
It will not look anything like this:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/07/future-car-1.jpg
I mean... WTF?
Nobody cares about open solaris. Nobody in their right mind would have chosen it as a platform.
I'm not surprised that IBM is the last company, AIX the last proprietary unix platform. Power the last proprietary hardware platform...
HP & Itanium? Laughable... And Linux on x86 has eaten the rest.
IBM 'get' services in the way the rest never have. They get that it's the bloody hardware which matters. This is why power is hitting 5GHz. The OS is just there to make it work. You want the fastest, lowest latency, highest throughput. You use IBM. You just want it to work and are on a budget? Linux.
The 'executives' of the rest of the companies clearly didn't know or care what their customers want, or what their business really is.
Speed is latency. (how long it takes)
Scalability is throughput. (how many concurrent). Or put another way; Speed is the quality, throughput is the width.
who cares what twuufter is running off.
Well, developers, and their managers do. They're nothing if not fashion victims.
RDBMS aren't the be all and end all of scalability (or speed, they perform a shit load of management functions you may or may not need). While attempting to scale conventional rdbms you get into write consistency problem, lookup performance problems unless you specifically design your data structures properly. You end up fighting with the relational data model.
Most developers never even think about it, they just develop against their local mysql install and are overjoyed that their app actually runs. Not all apps even need an rdbms. I've seen apps with a single table, two columns, one of which is a key and it's running on an rdbms, because that's what you do... The words WTF sprang to mind.
I was under the impression the most common dilution "30C", was something like 1/3000... But no, on further reading I discover it's 99.999999999999999999999999999999% water, as you say. i.e. even in a mass spectrometer we're not going to see any molecules of the original solution.
99% of homeopathy is simply people using random herbs that are ineffective
99.999% of homeopathy is either water or sugar.
Go read
http://www.essortment.com/all/libertarianwhat_rcrx.htm
You could have googled. it's the second link.
America is full of prudes. Compare with a well know Finnish company.
http://store.ovi.com/content/17993
None of it is falsifiable. It's not testable. Individual components are based on science, but as a whole, it's nothing more than weather forecasting.
I suspect the oil execs are quite aware of that.
Other employees will be more likely to read and use the IT security SOPs.
They only pay out in a fraction of cases, no matter the circumstances. Somewhere round 50% or so. Then they hit the corp up for costs later as well.
Is it just simpler to to set up?
Yes.
You could think of it like not having to code yourself a word processor or build your own Linux distribution. Someone else has done all the work for you.
They were under NDA, not permitted to perform & publish comparison benchmarks? Was that where they were?
All it takes is one person to say "nah this guy's talking bullshit", with a link to a repeatable benchmark which shows he's talking balls...
Y'know... like science... or engineering... instead of fashion.
[1] Why don't I do this? Cos I don't give a shit about Microsoft products. Perhaps that's the other reason nobody called bullshit, nobody gives a shit.
Finger print scanners are cheap now. Have a look on ebay.
You can lift a print using sellotape. So anyone who sees you touch something can log your fingerprint into a database and then share that info and use it for comparison.
Sellotape & some graphite dust.
Iris scanners: Photo of iris.
Facial scanners: Photo of face.
sufficiently motivated.
to press their finger against a piece of sellotape.
Not the image anyway. They store the relative positions of specific details of your print. 2 minutes on Google would have told you this.
The question remains though whether you want them to hold a representation (of any kind) of any part of your body on file.
If one byte takes 10^-9 s, a million bytes take 10^3 s.
Only if you do them one at a time, one after another, waiting till each had been cleared. That'd be... Wait this is Microsoft we're talking about here... Carry on.
It is basically.
You can even (trivially) roll your own in Linux. lsof occasionally to build some stats on commonly opened files. cat them to /dev/null to fill the filesystem buffer cache. I'm not sure anybody would even bother to give it a name like "SuperFetch", never mind a trademark like "Microsoft Windows SuperFetch®". It's kind of sad and depressing really.
Really? 30ms. Shit that's slow.
This IS RAM we're talking about here, right? y'know nanosecond stuff, 10^-9 not 10^-3 seconds.
I find it ironic that you can get a fairly standard HPV (http://www.recumbents.com/home/) that'll let you go faster than 30mph just using pedal power.
* It has more of the little tools which people expect and use.
* The tools are better integrated with one another. Gnome tools are standalone.
* It's faster (lower latency menus, windows etc).
* It works more reliably. The taskbar for example works, horizontally or vertically.
* It is more like windows XP like than Gnome.
* It's easier to customize/configure than Gnome.
Overall, KDE (3.5, haven't upgraded) just works well. The problem is the application namespace. The "K" thing. Seriously. Get rid of it. I don't need to know that I'm using Kontact, Knode, Karm Kaddressbook or or Kmail. Hide all that bollocks at the filesystem level.