True unless your talking about the X86. The X86 is register starved. X64 fixes that problem so on the mess that is the X86 yes 64 bit code can be faster.
"If it isn't then it must be written to disk, in which case it's simply a regular file with a spiffy interface." You do know that files on a disk are really just a different extraction. All that is on a disk are sectors of bytes. Files are just a spiffy interface to the raw data. Object oriented file systems are nothing really new. At some time people have tried to make Object oriented everything. I am not saying that it is a bad idea just that it isn't all that new.
I am a Mormon. Just so you know I doubt that you offended anybody. Mormons don't expect you to live by the same rules they do. Now if you where a guess in someones home and demanded alcohol to tea then yes they would offended. But that would be a bit like demanding a burger and a Hindu's home or a ham sandwich at a Jewish person home. Now if you had Mormons with you drinking beer and wine then they are not active in the church or are hypocrites.
Actually no they don't. Maybe for handheld devices but some devices really work a lot better with higher voltage. I am all for standardized power adapters but the USB port is far from prefect for every device. Now why they can not standardize wall worts so you can not plug a 12V wall wart into a 5V device I will never no.
Fedora is a community distro and lacks the support options of Ubuntu and isn't preinstalled by any major hardware manufactures. It may be a nice distro but frankly my view of it is tainted by the number of people that for some odd reason use it for a server when there is a much better option in the form of CentOS.
Umm... Why wasn't their drinking water there on day zero? Why wasn't it their on day one. Why didn't the national guard under the Governor have it there? It always takes Fema a few days to get to a site. The first 48 hours are the responsibility of the local government. The first five days the state. Remember that New Orleans only got a near miss by the storm. The real damage was in Mississippi. Whole towns where destroyed. Sorry folks but I have a few friends in our local emergency management. Before the storm happened I got to hear them talking about what a disaster New Orleans and all of Louisiana was and still is.
Actually I am not so sure. For one thing super computers often do include co processors for things like vector ops and such. GPUs are becoming more and more important not less and less. Intel has failed to make a good GPU. Why is up to debate. Frankly I think CPUs have for now reached a good enough level for most people. Now they want lower power, heat, size, and at best HD playback. As to gaming take a look at the XBox360 and PS3. They are very GPU heavy and pretty CPU light. Even the Cells SPEs are really more like GPUs than a GP CPU.
Sorry folks. They would have been better off if they hadn't elected the idiot Mayor and Governor. People like to blame FEMA but FEMA did they typical job. The local and state governments where criminal. It was the local government that failed to use the school buses to evacuate the people. Heck they even left them in the flood plane. My city has been hit by three storms. The School buses are always moved to stageing areas near shelters. The state government put police out side New Orleans to keep the people IN after the storm. Heck the state didn't even have shelters for all the people. Texas had to provide shelters. What really ticks me off is people forget about Mississippi. They took the worst hit for Katrina. They had a HUGE store surge that took out whole sections of their coast line. They had many homes whipped out but you don't see people up in arms because their state and local governments where a lot more effective. What is the worst part. That idiot moron of a mayor GOT REELECTED!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a shift away for the CPU to the GPU and Intel will hate it. This or even the plane atom is good enough for a very large percentage of users. This would work for just about every Office PC, average home user, and media center. About the only tasks this will now work for is media editing, gaming, or heavy technical use.
The one problem I see with it is the cost. That extra money is a big percentage of the cost of the one of these mini systems. I so want one.
What about light Desktops? Like say Zenwalk, Xbuntu, and Puppy? Just where would you set the minimum spec? We already kind of have a desktop standard with Ubuntu. Over all I think they are doing a good job with it as well.
You could say we really only need one Desktop distro. But... People work on what they like. You can not force them to work on what they don't want too.
We have Ubuntu which has a big lead on the desktop so we have some some of those benefits. The problem with Linux is the lack of commercial software and support. You can not call the manufacture for help or geek squad. You can not go and buy software you want. There are a lot of free packages and many of them are great. The problem is the average person doesn't know what is good and what isn't. Even when the software is really good the documentation often isn't. Out side of GIMP and OO.org you will have a very hard time finding books for FOSS applications.
I know that Click and run failed but I still think a application and media store is EXACTLY what Linux needs. A super easy built in solution just like what you see on the Wii, XBox 360, and iPod/iPhone.
Funny but they still make mainframes. But more and more stuff is being shifted to big central servers. Like Google Docs, Salesforce.com, and so on... So the specs stand. Your dismissal is currently based on fantasy. Build me an example supporting 100,000 people and then we can talk about moving away from big power plants.
"There are safer alternatives. It is a needless risk." Okay build me an alternative. It must supply 1.7 MW of power 24/7 365 days a year. You may have an allowable downtime of now less than 5% a year. Oh and you have to build it in Florida just to make your life easy.
"plutonium is toxic as hell and has a 24,000 year half life, for example." So is lead, Beryllium, Cadmium, and host of other material that we use everyday. Plutonium isn't that dangerous. You could hold a sub critical amount in your had for a few decades and not have any real problem. Power it and breath it or it's oxide and you are in a world of hurt.
But you don't have to worry about plutonium's half life. Stick it in a reactor and turn it into power. And if your really bright even more fuel.
I agree. My wive adopted a rescue puppy that we a breeder at a puppy mill. She was the most loving animal you have ever seen. We lost her after only a year because of kidney failure. Both my wife and I where heart broken. Three weeks later my wife and went to our local shelter and found this really sweet 10 month old puppy. She seemed to fall in love with my wife and now is a great member of our family. I wish I could have brought back my old dog and give her a good life from beginning to end. Even with cloning I can not. If you really are a dog person and lose your pet then I would suggest that the best way to show your love is to go to a shelter and give one of those dogs a good home.
I did see the IOMeter tests. That was some what useful but the rest of it was pretty useless and I would really like to see some actual database benchmarks. A RAID of SSDs really only makes sense to me for database servers, video editing workstations, and for rugged systems that would kill hard drives.
"because speex will be good for audio books but not a lot more when it comes to audio players" Ummm. Podcasts? Most Podcasts are voice and not music. There are some that are music but most of the ones I listen to are voice.
Doom levels???? Office tasks??? Okay folks I can only see a few groups using this kind of set up. Not one Database test? I mean a real database like Postgres, DB2, Oracle, or even MySQL. Doom3... yea those are some benchmarks.
"Where Ogg should excel is in pure software applications, especially in heavily patented areas like VoIP where there is no hardware cost, where it's trivial to add codecs, and where the current state of play penalizes cheaper solutions."
That is where SPeex really does shine. Heck Microsoft uses Speex for XBox Live. Too bad they don't support it on the Zune.
Actually there is a lot of players that support Vorbis Ogg out of the box. What they don't support is Speex Ogg. What would it take to get Ogg to be popular. That is very simple. Get Apple to support Vorbis on the iPod. I would love for Speex to be supported as well.
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True unless your talking about the X86. The X86 is register starved. X64 fixes that problem so on the mess that is the X86 yes 64 bit code can be faster.
"If it isn't then it must be written to disk, in which case it's simply a regular file with a spiffy interface."
You do know that files on a disk are really just a different extraction. All that is on a disk are sectors of bytes. Files are just a spiffy interface to the raw data.
Object oriented file systems are nothing really new. At some time people have tried to make Object oriented everything.
I am not saying that it is a bad idea just that it isn't all that new.
They do break. Your just lucky.
I am a Mormon. Just so you know I doubt that you offended anybody. Mormons don't expect you to live by the same rules they do. Now if you where a guess in someones home and demanded alcohol to tea then yes they would offended. But that would be a bit like demanding a burger and a Hindu's home or a ham sandwich at a Jewish person home.
Now if you had Mormons with you drinking beer and wine then they are not active in the church or are hypocrites.
Umm Ever hear of Slick Rock? Moab? What the huge number of Ski Resorts?
Actually no they don't. Maybe for handheld devices but some devices really work a lot better with higher voltage. I am all for standardized power adapters but the USB port is far from prefect for every device.
Now why they can not standardize wall worts so you can not plug a 12V wall wart into a 5V device I will never no.
Fedora is a community distro and lacks the support options of Ubuntu and isn't preinstalled by any major hardware manufactures.
It may be a nice distro but frankly my view of it is tainted by the number of people that for some odd reason use it for a server when there is a much better option in the form of CentOS.
Umm... Why wasn't their drinking water there on day zero? Why wasn't it their on day one. Why didn't the national guard under the Governor have it there?
It always takes Fema a few days to get to a site. The first 48 hours are the responsibility of the local government. The first five days the state. Remember that New Orleans only got a near miss by the storm. The real damage was in Mississippi. Whole towns where destroyed. Sorry folks but I have a few friends in our local emergency management. Before the storm happened I got to hear them talking about what a disaster New Orleans and all of Louisiana was and still is.
And China, India, Russia, and Canada????
I would agree if it stopped there but Germany did a good job with wind power.
Actually I am not so sure.
For one thing super computers often do include co processors for things like vector ops and such.
GPUs are becoming more and more important not less and less. Intel has failed to make a good GPU. Why is up to debate. Frankly I think CPUs have for now reached a good enough level for most people. Now they want lower power, heat, size, and at best HD playback.
As to gaming take a look at the XBox360 and PS3. They are very GPU heavy and pretty CPU light. Even the Cells SPEs are really more like GPUs than a GP CPU.
Sorry folks.
They would have been better off if they hadn't elected the idiot Mayor and Governor.
People like to blame FEMA but FEMA did they typical job. The local and state governments where criminal.
It was the local government that failed to use the school buses to evacuate the people. Heck they even left them in the flood plane. My city has been hit by three storms. The School buses are always moved to stageing areas near shelters. The state government put police out side New Orleans to keep the people IN after the storm.
Heck the state didn't even have shelters for all the people. Texas had to provide shelters.
What really ticks me off is people forget about Mississippi. They took the worst hit for Katrina. They had a HUGE store surge that took out whole sections of their coast line. They had many homes whipped out but you don't see people up in arms because their state and local governments where a lot more effective.
What is the worst part. That idiot moron of a mayor GOT REELECTED!!!!!!!!!!!
People with some self respect and morals maybe?
This is a shift away for the CPU to the GPU and Intel will hate it.
This or even the plane atom is good enough for a very large percentage of users.
This would work for just about every Office PC, average home user, and media center.
About the only tasks this will now work for is media editing, gaming, or heavy technical use.
The one problem I see with it is the cost. That extra money is a big percentage of the cost of the one of these mini systems.
I so want one.
What about light Desktops? Like say Zenwalk, Xbuntu, and Puppy?
Just where would you set the minimum spec? We already kind of have a desktop standard with Ubuntu. Over all I think they are doing a good job with it as well.
You could say we really only need one Desktop distro. But... People work on what they like. You can not force them to work on what they don't want too.
We have Ubuntu which has a big lead on the desktop so we have some some of those benefits. The problem with Linux is the lack of commercial software and support.
You can not call the manufacture for help or geek squad. You can not go and buy software you want. There are a lot of free packages and many of them are great. The problem is the average person doesn't know what is good and what isn't. Even when the software is really good the documentation often isn't. Out side of GIMP and OO.org you will have a very hard time finding books for FOSS applications.
I know that Click and run failed but I still think a application and media store is EXACTLY what Linux needs. A super easy built in solution just like what you see on the Wii, XBox 360, and iPod/iPhone.
Funny but they still make mainframes. But more and more stuff is being shifted to big central servers. Like Google Docs, Salesforce.com, and so on...
So the specs stand. Your dismissal is currently based on fantasy. Build me an example supporting 100,000 people and then we can talk about moving away from big power plants.
"There are safer alternatives. It is a needless risk."
Okay build me an alternative. It must supply 1.7 MW of power 24/7 365 days a year. You may have an allowable downtime of now less than 5% a year.
Oh and you have to build it in Florida just to make your life easy.
"plutonium is toxic as hell and has a 24,000 year half life, for example."
So is lead, Beryllium, Cadmium, and host of other material that we use everyday.
Plutonium isn't that dangerous. You could hold a sub critical amount in your had for a few decades and not have any real problem. Power it and breath it or it's oxide and you are in a world of hurt.
But you don't have to worry about plutonium's half life. Stick it in a reactor and turn it into power. And if your really bright even more fuel.
I agree. My wive adopted a rescue puppy that we a breeder at a puppy mill. She was the most loving animal you have ever seen.
We lost her after only a year because of kidney failure. Both my wife and I where heart broken. Three weeks later my wife and went to our local shelter and found this really sweet 10 month old puppy. She seemed to fall in love with my wife and now is a great member of our family.
I wish I could have brought back my old dog and give her a good life from beginning to end. Even with cloning I can not.
If you really are a dog person and lose your pet then I would suggest that the best way to show your love is to go to a shelter and give one of those dogs a good home.
I did see the IOMeter tests. That was some what useful but the rest of it was pretty useless and I would really like to see some actual database benchmarks.
A RAID of SSDs really only makes sense to me for database servers, video editing workstations, and for rugged systems that would kill hard drives.
"because speex will be good for audio books but not a lot more when it comes to audio players"
Ummm. Podcasts? Most Podcasts are voice and not music. There are some that are music but most of the ones I listen to are voice.
Doom levels????
Office tasks???
Okay folks I can only see a few groups using this kind of set up.
Not one Database test?
I mean a real database like Postgres, DB2, Oracle, or even MySQL. Doom3... yea those are some benchmarks.
"Where Ogg should excel is in pure software applications, especially in heavily patented areas like VoIP where there is no hardware cost, where it's trivial to add codecs, and where the current state of play penalizes cheaper solutions."
That is where SPeex really does shine. Heck Microsoft uses Speex for XBox Live. Too bad they don't support it on the Zune.
Actually there is a lot of players that support Vorbis Ogg out of the box. What they don't support is Speex Ogg.
What would it take to get Ogg to be popular. That is very simple. Get Apple to support Vorbis on the iPod. I would love for Speex to be supported as well.
The funding seems to be for Vorbis and Theora. Notice that I did mention that Ogg could drop Theora and put Dirac in the Ogg contatiner.