There are some that think the original's much better. Quite honestly, I've not seen much in the way of TV SciFi that was worth my time. But then, that's MY personal take on things- your mileage will most definitely vary.
"Lost" described the audience as much as named the show.
Even if you caught it at the beginning and watched it from the start, you almost needed a scorecard. I'm sure it's interesting- but it's entirely too complex and required absolute devotion to watching to show to really enjoy it. Much like Heroes was. At some threshold, I ended up having better things to do with my time.
You're deluding yourself if you think MS wants the truth. Repeatedly, they've shown they want skewed observations of things and the like (And there's official documents stating that this was the thinking they use and prior studies that were shown to be half-truths at best...)- so long as you buy from them they don't honestly care how anyone thinks of them or their solutions.
In truth...you know how you fix a substantive number of things on Windows?
You have to go looking for an app to do it. You have to go digging into the arcane registry to do it. You have to do a nuke-n-pave and re-install it. Or you have to find someone to do one of the above for you.
You're fooling yourself if you think it's easier. It's different on Ubuntu than with Windows and you're familiar with the processes you undergo to fix things on Windows and unfamiliar with the processes under which you do it on Ubuntu.
In most cases, you don't even need to resort to the CLI with the latest versions of Ubuntu. Most of the basic stuff (as it is with Windows) is very doable/fixable right from the UI. The more complicated stuff doesn't need special applications, but needs a similar to Window's level of arcane knowledge to do CLI or config file editing work as opposed to Registry editing.
Oh, no...they have to CONSTANTLY train people on Windows stuff, contrary to popular belief to the otherwise. MS changes up their stuff regularly enough to keep people that might draw a bead on their stuff at bay and to give reasons for people to "upgrade" to the newest stuff (If you think the ribbon interface to things is "easier", didn't need training, was needed to improve their products, etc. I have some nice swampland to sell you...). It amazes me to no end that people keep believing that it's "easy" and they don't have to spend tons of money on retraining with Windows and other Microsoft products- all the while spending scads of money on it all the same.
Heh... The problem's more in whether you needed the clawhammer or that 4# engineers sledge to do a given task- or if a bodyworking/sheetmetal fabrication hammer would be better. I'm not against proprietary solutions for things- but they'd better deeply rise above the FOSS answers for them to be a compelling win. Microsoft's solutions, from professional experience, seldom really reach that far above everything else like the paper claims.
I will also predict that it'll be shown that Closed Source isn't much better in that regard...
Besides, anything that was bought and paid for by Microsoft has been shown to be stilted in their favor from start to finish. Special cases, that sort of thing. If you believe anything they've bankrolled as good information in your best interests you get what you deserve.
The big problem is...you're presuming that the Senior isn't intellectually curious and they're basing the pay discrepancy on just that alone. Neither of which are likely to be correct a assumptions.
The only reason you're really doing virtualization is to take this power hungry behemoth of a server machine and turn it into a dozen or so servers that effectively make it more used and see a power savings over deploying slightly smaller but equally power hungry machines.
If I am able to, without concerning myself with space, accomplish the same task with less than half the power consumption, the only concern there is the physical machines taking up space and maybe having part failures- but it's less problematic than having your eggs in one basket with virtualization (You lose A pair of supplies and you lose 12 or so servers all at once...) It's compelling enough that many will go the single servers route because they'll be actually cheaper than the burly virtualization server and you can have a bunch of hot-spares to drop in on a failure.
Now, as you've answered yourself...the A15 will have hardware virtualization capabilities without much penalties. Think of 4 1U servers eating 1/4-1/3 the power of that one 4U server handling the same virtualization workload... There's you a concern for Intel and AMD- and a really compelling story for businesses...well, so long as they're not running Windows until Microsoft gets it out for ARM that is...
What's going to be compelling, in my opinion, is an A9/A15 powered, dual or quad-core device, as a netbook or mid-end notebook. Battery life will blow your mind (10 hours on a fourth of what the Intel devices go 2-4 hours on...) and will perform favorably against the same class of Intel laptops and netbooks it would pitted against.
There's several players looking at ARM in the "high-end" world of thought (NVidia being one of them...). Scale those clocks up to 2, 3, or even 4 GHz. The TDP's jump up on the A9's they've played with- somewhere in the domain of the Atoms in TDP. However...what they've seen is that the devices actually give a good showing against Intel's low-to-mid end.
At least one OEM has become an undisclosed ARM licensee with the intent of making a bespoke ARM derivative that is clocked in the 2-3 GHz range for extreme low-power servers.
You're comparing things to a Cortex-A8, based on your lead-up there. That's roughly like comparing an i5 to an Atom, really. Not the same beast. And the observed behavior doesn't match up with what the A9 or the A15 is going to perform like.
Think of it as being roughly like a PIII at clock, about like the Atoms have been. As such, you're talking about a PIII-800MHz machine in performance with your claimed configuration. Unlike the Intel solutions (even Atom...) you're talking vast worlds of difference in power consumption. Your OMAP3 device will run for 10-ish hours on a 13.5 watt-hour battery doing firewall or server like tasks (Web serving from the flash for example...). The Atom or the PIII we're comparing it to won't last more than about 20 or so minutes on that battery- and perform similarly at clock.
That's just the in-order superscalar CPU that is the A8.
The A9's an out-of-order superscalar CPU and the A15's even more aggressive. Servers are going "green" and there's at least 2 OEMs that're looking at the low-to-mid end with the A9 or A15 in an SOC. These devices are more like an i3/i5 on their low-end of performance; with the same power profile that I pointed out with the A8.
Intel's got a bit of a problem at this point...and they know it. So does AMD. They've got only the high-end of performance (as in bang for buck, that is... IBM's got the high-end in POWER right now...) to claim right now. Not a bad thing, but where things are going, they're going to have to re-think what they want to do at least somewhat or be facing a tougher problem with ARM in the market in about 5 years.
People with mental problems have a predisposition to becoming addicts- internet, food, sex, booze, games, shopping/spending...matters little what it is.
What they're finding out is that this stuff that we're addicted to causes elevated Dopamine levels in the addicted brains. Perversely, while there are those that think that the violent games are causative, they may well be ameliorative instead, when you contemplate that concept.
In theory, you could get an OMAP3 or similar to do the work- it just won't be able to be at as low a power consumption as the OMAP4's (which is part of the big deal with the OMAP4 demo there...)- which means if your vendor provides a codec to swap in, you too can have WebM on your phone.
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I won't and this is yet another example of why one shouldn't either.
There are some that think the original's much better. Quite honestly, I've not seen much in the way of TV SciFi that was worth my time. But then, that's MY personal take on things- your mileage will most definitely vary.
Each to their own. I found B5 a bit more interesting in at least the first season and part of the second before I wandered off like I did with Lost.
"Lost" described the audience as much as named the show.
Even if you caught it at the beginning and watched it from the start, you almost needed a scorecard. I'm sure it's interesting- but it's entirely too complex and required absolute devotion to watching to show to really enjoy it. Much like Heroes was. At some threshold, I ended up having better things to do with my time.
You're deluding yourself if you think MS wants the truth. Repeatedly, they've shown they want skewed observations of things and the like (And there's official documents stating that this was the thinking they use and prior studies that were shown to be half-truths at best...)- so long as you buy from them they don't honestly care how anyone thinks of them or their solutions.
In truth...you know how you fix a substantive number of things on Windows?
You have to go looking for an app to do it.
You have to go digging into the arcane registry to do it.
You have to do a nuke-n-pave and re-install it.
Or you have to find someone to do one of the above for you.
You're fooling yourself if you think it's easier. It's different on Ubuntu than with Windows and you're familiar with the processes you undergo to fix things on Windows and unfamiliar with the processes under which you do it on Ubuntu.
In most cases, you don't even need to resort to the CLI with the latest versions of Ubuntu. Most of the basic stuff (as it is with Windows) is very doable/fixable right from the UI. The more complicated stuff doesn't need special applications, but needs a similar to Window's level of arcane knowledge to do CLI or config file editing work as opposed to Registry editing.
Oh, no...they have to CONSTANTLY train people on Windows stuff, contrary to popular belief to the otherwise. MS changes up their stuff regularly enough to keep people that might draw a bead on their stuff at bay and to give reasons for people to "upgrade" to the newest stuff (If you think the ribbon interface to things is "easier", didn't need training, was needed to improve their products, etc. I have some nice swampland to sell you...). It amazes me to no end that people keep believing that it's "easy" and they don't have to spend tons of money on retraining with Windows and other Microsoft products- all the while spending scads of money on it all the same.
Microsoft hopes that people will- it's why they keep funding these things.
Heh... The problem's more in whether you needed the clawhammer or that 4# engineers sledge to do a given task- or if a bodyworking/sheetmetal fabrication hammer would be better. I'm not against proprietary solutions for things- but they'd better deeply rise above the FOSS answers for them to be a compelling win. Microsoft's solutions, from professional experience, seldom really reach that far above everything else like the paper claims.
Indeed.
I love the supposition that closed source stuff is all "easier to learn" which isn't the case any more than open source stuff is all the opposite.
I will also predict that it'll be shown that Closed Source isn't much better in that regard...
Besides, anything that was bought and paid for by Microsoft has been shown to be stilted in their favor from start to finish. Special cases, that sort of thing. If you believe anything they've bankrolled as good information in your best interests you get what you deserve.
Ahh... Did you read TFA?
The manager couldn't guarantee the "really good raise"- and from the follow-on, they wouldn't have given him it if he HAD gone that extra mile.
The big problem is...you're presuming that the Senior isn't intellectually curious and they're basing the pay discrepancy on just that alone. Neither of which are likely to be correct a assumptions.
No worries... It's not something I'm at all unfamiliar with... >:-D
The only reason you're really doing virtualization is to take this power hungry behemoth of a server machine and turn it into a dozen or so servers that effectively make it more used and see a power savings over deploying slightly smaller but equally power hungry machines.
If I am able to, without concerning myself with space, accomplish the same task with less than half the power consumption, the only concern there is the physical machines taking up space and maybe having part failures- but it's less problematic than having your eggs in one basket with virtualization (You lose A pair of supplies and you lose 12 or so servers all at once...) It's compelling enough that many will go the single servers route because they'll be actually cheaper than the burly virtualization server and you can have a bunch of hot-spares to drop in on a failure.
Now, as you've answered yourself...the A15 will have hardware virtualization capabilities without much penalties. Think of 4 1U servers eating 1/4-1/3 the power of that one 4U server handling the same virtualization workload... There's you a concern for Intel and AMD- and a really compelling story for businesses...well, so long as they're not running Windows until Microsoft gets it out for ARM that is...
That's not an ARM based unit... It's got an Atom.
What's going to be compelling, in my opinion, is an A9/A15 powered, dual or quad-core device, as a netbook or mid-end notebook. Battery life will blow your mind (10 hours on a fourth of what the Intel devices go 2-4 hours on...) and will perform favorably against the same class of Intel laptops and netbooks it would pitted against.
Oh, by the way... Here's another instance that's going to be hitting AT&T stores shortly that WILL be storefront: Motorola Atrix
It's not missing...
It's already here. It's just that you can't buy it storefront right at the moment.
Ask, and Motorola will provide with others soon to follow.
I am watching it pretty closely.
There's several players looking at ARM in the "high-end" world of thought (NVidia being one of them...). Scale those clocks up to 2, 3, or even 4 GHz. The TDP's jump up on the A9's they've played with- somewhere in the domain of the Atoms in TDP. However...what they've seen is that the devices actually give a good showing against Intel's low-to-mid end.
At least one OEM has become an undisclosed ARM licensee with the intent of making a bespoke ARM derivative that is clocked in the 2-3 GHz range for extreme low-power servers.
Don't bet on the defensible position for Intel.
You're comparing things to a Cortex-A8, based on your lead-up there. That's roughly like comparing an i5 to an Atom, really. Not the same beast. And the observed behavior doesn't match up with what the A9 or the A15 is going to perform like.
Think of it as being roughly like a PIII at clock, about like the Atoms have been. As such, you're talking about a PIII-800MHz machine in performance with your claimed configuration. Unlike the Intel solutions (even Atom...) you're talking vast worlds of difference in power consumption. Your OMAP3 device will run for 10-ish hours on a 13.5 watt-hour battery doing firewall or server like tasks (Web serving from the flash for example...). The Atom or the PIII we're comparing it to won't last more than about 20 or so minutes on that battery- and perform similarly at clock.
That's just the in-order superscalar CPU that is the A8.
The A9's an out-of-order superscalar CPU and the A15's even more aggressive. Servers are going "green" and there's at least 2 OEMs that're looking at the low-to-mid end with the A9 or A15 in an SOC. These devices are more like an i3/i5 on their low-end of performance; with the same power profile that I pointed out with the A8.
Intel's got a bit of a problem at this point...and they know it. So does AMD. They've got only the high-end of performance (as in bang for buck, that is... IBM's got the high-end in POWER right now...) to claim right now. Not a bad thing, but where things are going, they're going to have to re-think what they want to do at least somewhat or be facing a tougher problem with ARM in the market in about 5 years.
People with mental problems have a predisposition to becoming addicts- internet, food, sex, booze, games, shopping/spending...matters little what it is.
What they're finding out is that this stuff that we're addicted to causes elevated Dopamine levels in the addicted brains. Perversely, while there are those that think that the violent games are causative, they may well be ameliorative instead, when you contemplate that concept.
All it takes is the right DSP code and a DSP capable of doing h.264 decode.
A demo of WebM on Android on an OMAP4 SoC...
In theory, you could get an OMAP3 or similar to do the work- it just won't be able to be at as low a power consumption as the OMAP4's (which is part of the big deal with the OMAP4 demo there...)- which means if your vendor provides a codec to swap in, you too can have WebM on your phone.
I think Penny Arcade described it best: Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)
Heh... The Goatse phenomenon was the precursor to that, so I'm half expecting it.