All you can say really is that the evidence fits the hypothesis, and therefore it hasn't been proven false.
Think of it like sculpting. Eventually after you chip away all the junk you are left with a shape, or model which looks like the truth. You can't say it *is* the truth, but it sure looks a lot like it.
This is a feature of Unix/linux memory management. Now... If you were to separate out your applications and run each on it's own server (particularly the big bloated apps), you would be able to load the servers even more highly still, and the apps will run faster because more of their code will be shared between users and more will be resident in the cpu caches. e.g. Have an openoffice server or cluster, have a firefox server or cluster. Use something like gridengine to run jobs on the cluster you want.
Clicking or hovering over a video is inane crap. Do the hard stuff please, it involves some rather advanced mathematics and shit load of computers, not flash/javascript.
Google are btw getting worse at finding the stuff I need, so there's an opening there.
You could simply hire one of their devices for a small fee, input the details of your child, age, hair colour, eye colour etc and a dedicated team of "child lovers" could follow the movements of your child on a web site for you 24 hours per day.
on different servers, so to could scale to everyone on the internet and only the people who subscribed to the bit which was interesting to them would see that bit.
God, I'm too old. I'm going to go take up farming or something.
It only makes sense to improve a compiler, library or application if you're going to be the one USING it. Not the one SELLING it.
If you're selling it then the faster you can get your pile of shit out the door into the marketplace and generating revenue, the better. Hence Java, Ruby etc.
That is... There is an economic incentive to produce bloated slow piles of crap, and little incentive to produce fast, light, efficient systems. It ain't a technical problem, it's an economic one.
There is no such thing as intrinsic worth, at all, for anything, including food. There are only desirable properties, and the desire for those properties changes on a second by second basis for each individual and their circumstance. If I own a dozen palaces, then the "intrinsic value" of an additional hovel for shelter is close to zero for me.
Gold is scarce; it is difficult to counterfeit and difficult to mine. Gold doesn't oxidize or otherwise degrade. Gold is easily divisible. Gold is easily moved and hidden. Gold is shiny and pleasing in jewelry. Gold has a high price per unit weight. Gold is easily exchanged for other currencies. Gold has a 3,000 year history as a currency in it's own right.
It's your money they are paying themselves with, not their own. Until YOU sit up and take notice, then actually DO something you're going to continue to get robbed. But hey, I'm making money off you as well, so don't worry about it "nothing to see here, move along".
So what they're really saying is "we just made it all up". Just because someone spent 3 years on a PhD thesis "just making it all up" using complex engineering software and vast amounts of computer time doesn't change the fact that they "just made it all up" and actually have little clue what the original instrument sounded like.
The TV manufacturers are simply screwing themselves over. They're dreaming. The new standard is going to be a computer screen attached to a PC streaming from youtube or similar.
If you commoditize your service to that extent, so will everyone else. You're not going to be able to charge any more than your expenses + SFA.
You'll notice IBM are selling software, services and servers to cloud vendors, not particularly trying to get in on the act themselves, despite having a fearsome service division. They're selling the spades and picks in the gold rush.
The Garbage Collector is the software the Developers blame after the Systems Administrators blame the developers for writing software which causes servers with 32Gb of RAM to run out of memory and crash.
Any RAID stripe on a reasonable controller and the SAS/SATA bus will at 300MB/s be the I/O bottleneck. Not much point going beyond 4-5 drives at the moment.
What I want though is for 10G ethernet to drop a little in price. Then it'll just be the one technology, and when 10G is too slow for storage I/O, the kit can be reused on the other side of the machine. iSCSI has made FC a legacy technology.
Are SATA drives as comprehensively tested as SAS? Or have they been selling crap SAS drives with a high markup? I haven't seen any particular problems with SAS, or SATA for that matter, but neither am I running a disk farm.
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All you can say really is that the evidence fits the hypothesis, and therefore it hasn't been proven false.
Think of it like sculpting. Eventually after you chip away all the junk you are left with a shape, or model which looks like the truth. You can't say it *is* the truth, but it sure looks a lot like it.
In order to have a boom, someone must be spending money. Where does it come from?
People are getting bigger than ever, there has been an explosion in waist sizes say baffled doctors.
Quibble: it was the UK, not England
Outside the UK, mostly everyone calls the UK, England.
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales might as well not exist.
Harnessing muli-cpu machines with these installed is going to be.... Interesting.
Have you ever seen anyone persuaded they are wrong? Bollocks. People only ever listen to reinforcing arguments.
You missed out "The Fuck?"
This is a feature of Unix/linux memory management. Now... If you were to separate out your applications and run each on it's own server (particularly the big bloated apps), you would be able to load the servers even more highly still, and the apps will run faster because more of their code will be shared between users and more will be resident in the cpu caches. e.g. Have an openoffice server or cluster, have a firefox server or cluster. Use something like gridengine to run jobs on the cluster you want.
Clicking or hovering over a video is inane crap. Do the hard stuff please, it involves some rather advanced mathematics and shit load of computers, not flash/javascript.
Google are btw getting worse at finding the stuff I need, so there's an opening there.
50% of the problem is that 99% of people don't know what money is. Sorry. Should have been clearer.
You could simply hire one of their devices for a small fee, input the details of your child, age, hair colour, eye colour etc and a dedicated team of "child lovers" could follow the movements of your child on a web site for you 24 hours per day.
You know this is going to happen.
on different servers, so to could scale to everyone on the internet and only the people who subscribed to the bit which was interesting to them would see that bit.
God, I'm too old. I'm going to go take up farming or something.
It only makes sense to improve a compiler, library or application if you're going to be the one USING it. Not the one SELLING it.
If you're selling it then the faster you can get your pile of shit out the door into the marketplace and generating revenue, the better. Hence Java, Ruby etc.
That is... There is an economic incentive to produce bloated slow piles of crap, and little incentive to produce fast, light, efficient systems. It ain't a technical problem, it's an economic one.
You just get an app which uses 100k of RAM and 32gb of filesystem buffer.
It may be smaller than today. Past performance is no predictor of the future as they keep saying.
Gold has little intrinsic worth
There is no such thing as intrinsic worth, at all, for anything, including food. There are only desirable properties, and the desire for those properties changes on a second by second basis for each individual and their circumstance. If I own a dozen palaces, then the "intrinsic value" of an additional hovel for shelter is close to zero for me.
Gold is scarce; it is difficult to counterfeit and difficult to mine.
Gold doesn't oxidize or otherwise degrade.
Gold is easily divisible.
Gold is easily moved and hidden.
Gold is shiny and pleasing in jewelry.
Gold has a high price per unit weight.
Gold is easily exchanged for other currencies.
Gold has a 3,000 year history as a currency in it's own right.
The reason why we have economic problems is the same old one from the beginning of time -- good old fashioned human greed.
Agreed. But 50% of that problem is that people have absolutely no idea what money is. It makes taking it away from them dead simple.
It's your money they are paying themselves with, not their own. Until YOU sit up and take notice, then actually DO something you're going to continue to get robbed. But hey, I'm making money off you as well, so don't worry about it "nothing to see here, move along".
So what they're really saying is "we just made it all up". Just because someone spent 3 years on a PhD thesis "just making it all up" using complex engineering software and vast amounts of computer time doesn't change the fact that they "just made it all up" and actually have little clue what the original instrument sounded like.
Are they gold plated?
The TV manufacturers are simply screwing themselves over. They're dreaming. The new standard is going to be a computer screen attached to a PC streaming from youtube or similar.
Have you got any idea how difficult it is to refute an experimental outcome, at least in the less exact sciences?
That's the difference between science and pseudo science. There is vast amounts of pseudo science out there. Much of it looks very respectable too.
GeoCities. No kidding.
If you commoditize your service to that extent, so will everyone else. You're not going to be able to charge any more than your expenses + SFA.
You'll notice IBM are selling software, services and servers to cloud vendors, not particularly trying to get in on the act themselves, despite having a fearsome service division. They're selling the spades and picks in the gold rush.
The Garbage Collector is the software the Developers blame after the Systems Administrators blame the developers for writing software which causes servers with 32Gb of RAM to run out of memory and crash.
HTH
Any RAID stripe on a reasonable controller and the SAS/SATA bus will at 300MB/s be the I/O bottleneck. Not much point going beyond 4-5 drives at the moment.
What I want though is for 10G ethernet to drop a little in price. Then it'll just be the one technology, and when 10G is too slow for storage I/O, the kit can be reused on the other side of the machine. iSCSI has made FC a legacy technology.
Are SATA drives as comprehensively tested as SAS? Or have they been selling crap SAS drives with a high markup? I haven't seen any particular problems with SAS, or SATA for that matter, but neither am I running a disk farm.