Really which micro? You have the advantage of 20/20 hindsight. Maybe go with an IBM PC based system? What RTOS would you use? What hardware interface would you use ISA? EISA? MicroChannel? Then you have the problem of revalidating the software when a new CPU comes out. Remember the Pentium Bug? Or you could have gone with VAX.... Dead.... Alpha? Dead, 68k? Still kicking around but mostly dead, 88000, PowerPC, MIPS, Spark? And yes you can get new PDP-11 hardware. http://www.logical-co.com/dec-replacement-systems/
"apple saved usb through things like the imac, which only had usb and got rid of serial ports etc." So it only had Universal Serial Bus ports and got rid of serial ports..... Yea I know you mean got rid of RS-232.
Honestly there are so few of them that it is not really a danger. Old fishing weights, lead figures, and old TVs are much more dangerous. The EAA was working with the FAA to produce a compatible avgas that is lead free so it is probably going to be a win win. It should even reduce the cost of avgas since leaded avgas can not be put in pipelines and has to be trucked or shipped by barge.
Lawyers and small market. Liability is just through the roof. One problem is that no one wants to speak ill of the dead. You never hear about a bad private pilot crashing because no one wants to heap blame on the dead and their family. The end result is that even if the it is the pilots fault the family will often win the lawsuit. Second the small number of aircraft built. More Cessna 172 were built than any other light aircraft with over 43,000 made. The problem is that it has been in production since 1955! That averages out to less than 800 per year. They probably build more Roll Royces per year than light aircraft. Now homebuilts are a different matter but they often do not use certified aircraft engines.
You can have up to 512 GB of RAM two socket 2011 cpus "Ivy Bridge e will be a socket 2011 part". Seven slots and seven drive bays. And while the build I did cost $21k+ it starts at under 3 thousand.
It offers 72 PCIExpress lanes. Thunderbolt works fine for drive arrays but it will fall flat for things like GPU compute cards like the Tesla or high end video cards.This board also supports 8 memory slots and two socket 2011 chips... BTW that means it will support Ivy Bridge e when it it ships. This workstation motherboard has twice the memory capability, three times the expansion capability "Thunderbolt 2 offers the same bandwidth as PCIExpress x4", and upto twice CPU power as the new MacPro. They call this a server board but it is used in a lot of workstations http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131861&IsVirtualParent=1 As you can see it offers even more memory and IO. It is just not up to doing high end work but it will have a high end price. Not to mention the price of repairs when anything breaks. High end workstations are tools the new MacPro is more of a fashion statement. And that makes me sad because I love OS/X but Apple refuses to offer a good workstation class machine. Let's hope that apple keeps ignoring the Hackintosh community. OS/X will now support Ivy Bridge e so that opens up more options for the community when it ships
"The days of upgrading your pc every few years are over." I just do not think so. NewEgg seems to do a good business in selling parts. For a workstation what does the end user gain by these proprietary parts? If you are a large or medium sized company with an IT staff you probably keep a few spares for your machines around like ATX power supplies, hard drives, and memory. A machine goes down you swap out the part and go. Many mom and pops have a local computer guy that will do the same for them. If you large enough you have a vendor that will do that for you. With the new MacPro you're stuck with all custom parts. You can not even replace the video card! You have software that used CUDA? Can't run it on the new Mac Pro. Need more GPU compute? Not on a MacPro.
It makes no sense to pay for expandability you will not use. It makes less sense to pay more for less expandability and higher repair costs. The smaller size and sexy case? Well if you are a designer, video editor, and or photographer with a keen fashion sense then this might look good on your desk. This is a case of form over function. BTW do you want to know why the graphics cards are built in? Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt is great for high end external drive arrays but it is too expensive for much else. It looks great but looking good is not everything. Frankly I thought that old Mac Pro looked fine. Give me that case with dual IvyBridge-e and standard connectors for power supply, fan headers, memory, PCI Express 3.0, and SATA and people would have loved it.
The simple answer is probably they do want the server load of updating views time twice a second.Getting the time is nothing. The BBC probably has their own atomic clocks but ntp would be good enough for the web page. It is the server load they don't want.
Actually since they already have the evidence on him the judge could be ordering him to decrypt the drive for evidence on other people. They may be looking for the victims and the source of the data. So if they order him to decrypt the drives and not use the data in his trial then their is not violation of the 5th.
Interesting interpretation since it would make things like, "turn over all your records, emails, and so" a violation. I think you may have an overly broad view on this.
That is not true. Geenpeace does care about the environment. I fear they are at the ends justify the means point. They have to make money to do the work they feel is so important so they must raise it.The people that will give the most are the ones that are most extreme and most scared so you feed the base to get the funds to do your "good works". The problem is at some point the extremists take over and believe the FUD, and enjoy the money and the glory of fighting the uncompromising good fight...
Actually Popular Science has done some very good science articles including one debunking the 9/11 conspiracy theories. I am shocked at how many good articles and balanced articles they are doing on things like Fracking and Nuclear energy. Remember fear sells. People writing books and giving speeches about how the we are destroying the Earth also are making good money by feeding people's fear. And yes since the gas layers must be impermeable to gas they must also be impermeable to water. Their are no Aquifers that are being used below the shale layers.
if that is the law then all beer is in violation. Unless the water is 100% pure, which is not what you will get from any well on the planet it is violation. The law is actually impossible to meet because one speck of dust means the beer is illegal.
Do you drive a car, use or own anything made of plastic, ever fly anywhere, take a bus?
Popular Science did a report on fracking. Sits that have been contaminated so far? 1 and that was an unusual site where the gas was near the water table. Usually the gas layer is several thousands feet below the water table. fracking fluid is heavy and flows down so contamination should be next to impossible. Mindless fear and opposition is frankly destructive and will just increase the use of coal and imported oil and gas. Thinking people should look at the science and work towards good regulation and not a simple chicken little style ban.
The key to making a solid fueled ballistic missile is the ability to turn it off. They do that by blowing out vents on the side of motor to vent the exhaust. AKA dumping the fuel.
Actually conclusion is backwards. If it was the GNU tools that provide the interface people love then Linux would not be popular since those tools run on many other kernels. What people love about Linux is the stability and performance of the Kernel. And the interfaces that people love tends to be things like Apache, MySql, Postgresql, PHP, Perl, Postfix, and or Samba for servers. For the desktop it is it is KDE, Gnome, or name your desktop. So I would say the GNU tools are just tools running on Linux.
Except that it made $3.370.000,000 in net profit. I have to wonder why people keep talking about can Yahoo stage a comeback. It is still making a lot of money. I wish I was failing by only making 3.75 billion dollars.
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Really which micro? You have the advantage of 20/20 hindsight.
Maybe go with an IBM PC based system? What RTOS would you use? What hardware interface would you use ISA? EISA? MicroChannel?
Then you have the problem of revalidating the software when a new CPU comes out. Remember the Pentium Bug?
Or you could have gone with VAX.... Dead.... Alpha? Dead, 68k? Still kicking around but mostly dead, 88000, PowerPC, MIPS, Spark?
And yes you can get new PDP-11 hardware. http://www.logical-co.com/dec-replacement-systems/
"apple saved usb through things like the imac, which only had usb and got rid of serial ports etc."
So it only had Universal Serial Bus ports and got rid of serial ports.....
Yea I know you mean got rid of RS-232.
Until you copy that 4k video.
The goal is a drop in replacement. If not hopefully the new valve seats can be done during a cheaper but still expensive top end overhaul.
No you really do not. Even 100LL has a lot more lead than you want to put in a car engine.
Honestly there are so few of them that it is not really a danger. Old fishing weights, lead figures, and old TVs are much more dangerous. The EAA was working with the FAA to produce a compatible avgas that is lead free so it is probably going to be a win win. It should even reduce the cost of avgas since leaded avgas can not be put in pipelines and has to be trucked or shipped by barge.
Actually the new unleaded AVgas is supposed to work in all of them.
Lawyers and small market.
Liability is just through the roof. One problem is that no one wants to speak ill of the dead. You never hear about a bad private pilot crashing because no one wants to heap blame on the dead and their family. The end result is that even if the it is the pilots fault the family will often win the lawsuit.
Second the small number of aircraft built. More Cessna 172 were built than any other light aircraft with over 43,000 made. The problem is that it has been in production since 1955! That averages out to less than 800 per year. They probably build more Roll Royces per year than light aircraft. Now homebuilts are a different matter but they often do not use certified aircraft engines.
It has a single Ivy Bridge e and only two high-end FirePro video cards which is good if you software is OpenCL based but useless if you are going to run CUDA. High end workstations will often have more than two graphics cards or GPU compute cards. This MacPro is at best a low end workstation which means if you want a high end mac workstation you are out of luck.
Here is an example of a high end workstation. BTW it is not the highest I could go.
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?view=all&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=&AirTime=False&BaseId=38347&FamilyID=3551&ProductLineID=534&printPage=1
You can have up to 512 GB of RAM two socket 2011 cpus "Ivy Bridge e will be a socket 2011 part". Seven slots and seven drive bays. And while the build I did cost $21k+ it starts at under 3 thousand.
"The cards will be external thunderbolt peripherals, but it's the same idea"
No you are wrong.
Since you mentioned NewEgg here is what a high end workstation motherboard looks like.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131817
It offers 72 PCIExpress lanes. Thunderbolt works fine for drive arrays but it will fall flat for things like GPU compute cards like the Tesla or high end video cards.This board also supports 8 memory slots and two socket 2011 chips... BTW that means it will support Ivy Bridge e when it it ships. This workstation motherboard has twice the memory capability, three times the expansion capability "Thunderbolt 2 offers the same bandwidth as PCIExpress x4", and upto twice CPU power as the new MacPro. They call this a server board but it is used in a lot of workstations http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131861&IsVirtualParent=1 As you can see it offers even more memory and IO.
It is just not up to doing high end work but it will have a high end price. Not to mention the price of repairs when anything breaks. High end workstations are tools the new MacPro is more of a fashion statement. And that makes me sad because I love OS/X but Apple refuses to offer a good workstation class machine.
Let's hope that apple keeps ignoring the Hackintosh community. OS/X will now support Ivy Bridge e so that opens up more options for the community when it ships
"The days of upgrading your pc every few years are over." I just do not think so. NewEgg seems to do a good business in selling parts. For a workstation what does the end user gain by these proprietary parts?
If you are a large or medium sized company with an IT staff you probably keep a few spares for your machines around like ATX power supplies, hard drives, and memory. A machine goes down you swap out the part and go. Many mom and pops have a local computer guy that will do the same for them. If you large enough you have a vendor that will do that for you.
With the new MacPro you're stuck with all custom parts. You can not even replace the video card! You have software that used CUDA? Can't run it on the new Mac Pro. Need more GPU compute? Not on a MacPro.
It makes no sense to pay for expandability you will not use. It makes less sense to pay more for less expandability and higher repair costs. The smaller size and sexy case? Well if you are a designer, video editor, and or photographer with a keen fashion sense then this might look good on your desk. This is a case of form over function.
BTW do you want to know why the graphics cards are built in? Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt is great for high end external drive arrays but it is too expensive for much else.
It looks great but looking good is not everything. Frankly I thought that old Mac Pro looked fine. Give me that case with dual IvyBridge-e and standard connectors for power supply, fan headers, memory, PCI Express 3.0, and SATA and people would have loved it.
The simple answer is probably they do want the server load of updating views time twice a second.Getting the time is nothing. The BBC probably has their own atomic clocks but ntp would be good enough for the web page. It is the server load they don't want.
Actually since they already have the evidence on him the judge could be ordering him to decrypt the drive for evidence on other people. They may be looking for the victims and the source of the data. So if they order him to decrypt the drives and not use the data in his trial then their is not violation of the 5th.
Interesting interpretation since it would make things like, "turn over all your records, emails, and so" a violation. I think you may have an overly broad view on this.
http://hak5.org/episodes/episode-820
They set up a server cluster for hacking competitions. It may well be worth your time too look at what they did.
That is not true. Geenpeace does care about the environment. I fear they are at the ends justify the means point. They have to make money to do the work they feel is so important so they must raise it.The people that will give the most are the ones that are most extreme and most scared so you feed the base to get the funds to do your "good works". The problem is at some point the extremists take over and believe the FUD, and enjoy the money and the glory of fighting the uncompromising good fight...
Actually I was wrong and it was Popular Mechanics http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/top-10-myths-about-natural-gas-drilling-6386593#slide-1
Show both the pros and the cons and seems very well balanced.
Actually Popular Science has done some very good science articles including one debunking the 9/11 conspiracy theories. I am shocked at how many good articles and balanced articles they are doing on things like Fracking and Nuclear energy.
Remember fear sells. People writing books and giving speeches about how the we are destroying the Earth also are making good money by feeding people's fear.
And yes since the gas layers must be impermeable to gas they must also be impermeable to water. Their are no Aquifers that are being used below the shale layers.
if that is the law then all beer is in violation. Unless the water is 100% pure, which is not what you will get from any well on the planet it is violation. The law is actually impossible to meet because one speck of dust means the beer is illegal.
Do you drive a car, use or own anything made of plastic, ever fly anywhere, take a bus?
Popular Science did a report on fracking. Sits that have been contaminated so far? 1 and that was an unusual site where the gas was near the water table.
Usually the gas layer is several thousands feet below the water table. fracking fluid is heavy and flows down so contamination should be next to impossible.
Mindless fear and opposition is frankly destructive and will just increase the use of coal and imported oil and gas.
Thinking people should look at the science and work towards good regulation and not a simple chicken little style ban.
True I was giving the quick explanation of what they mean.
actually it does work that way. The decompression is so fast that it puts out the fuel.
The key to making a solid fueled ballistic missile is the ability to turn it off. They do that by blowing out vents on the side of motor to vent the exhaust. AKA dumping the fuel.
Actually conclusion is backwards. If it was the GNU tools that provide the interface people love then Linux would not be popular since those tools run on many other kernels. What people love about Linux is the stability and performance of the Kernel. And the interfaces that people love tends to be things like Apache, MySql, Postgresql, PHP, Perl, Postfix, and or Samba for servers. For the desktop it is it is KDE, Gnome, or name your desktop. So I would say the GNU tools are just tools running on Linux.
Except that it made $3.370.000,000 in net profit. I have to wonder why people keep talking about can Yahoo stage a comeback. It is still making a lot of money. I wish I was failing by only making 3.75 billion dollars.