And who didn't throw lawsuits like this out of court? Letting 12 retards decide what to do with a person after listening to hours or days of screaming from lawyers should be the last resort, not the first choice.
Not with the density of power they are trying to achieve -- it will mean that 10-20% of all power dissipation will happen on chips with nearly perfect thermal insulation around them (board, layer of air and another chip). It will be probably the first device ever to overheat ARM with the heat it produced. Even if air will be eliminated, RAM chips are not good at conducting heat from bottom to top.
It will make sense to place RAM on the opposite side of the board, and have airflow on both sides, but again, it's 600W. Imagine a board with Intel CPU plus 50 DIMMs (that will be 50-100G of RAM) in 2U -- that would be a similar kind of challenge to power and cool.
600W per 2U server is possible but very impractical -- a full rack will require 12kW (to power it and 12kW of cooling).
I also don't believe, they thought it through, how to stuff 120 processors and at least 120 DIMMs into 2U case and cool them efficiently -- one ARM CPU requires no forced-air cooling, and one DIMM can be cooled by whatever blows around for ther reasons, but 120 of them need airflow, and plenty of it. If they don't use separate DIMMs and have fixed RAM (I hope, it's ECC and enough to run a database server), they also have to deal with giant footprint and tricky layout.
So, at least according to the police and article author:
1. Dumb woman insists on getting an expensive engagement ring from her boyfriend despite both being broke. 2. Dumb boyfriend steals a ring from dumb woman's cousin's friend's roommate while visiting with dumb woman and her cousin. 3. Dumb boyfriend gives stolen ring to the dumb woman. 4. Dumb woman posts a photo of the ring to facebook. 5. Dumb woman's cousin recognizes the ring. 6. Dumb woman's cousin tells his friends and they call the police.
While (1) to (4) are already incredibly stupid, and (2) is beyond my understanding of stupidity (that is, I can not see the logic, faulty or not, behind making such decision), I have to point out that the person who recognized the ring was dumb woman's cousin AND victim's roommate's friend. Even if dumb woman did not post the photo in (4), he would see her wearing the ring, so (5) and (6) would inevitably follow.
So considering how little importance Facebook has in those events, I have to bring a more important (at least for this site) matter -- SOME PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY STUPID. Stupid to the extent that they choose the worst course of actions available to them in a situation when absolutely nothing compels them to do anything at all. And people like that use technology.
Autodesk released AutoCAD for the Mac a few months ago. It's not inconceivable that a Linux version is in the pipeline.
"AutoCAD" base product is worthless without the rest of the suite, and from what I can tell, only that was ported to Mac. AutoCAD was more and more tied to Windows-specific interfaces over time -- it was available on Unix but once Autodesk started adding Microsoft crap without creating a clear cross-platform interface, it became unportable. Mac version of AutoCAD does not support Windows-specific interfaces, so unless Autodesk will port the rest of their AutoCAD-based products, it will be merely one of many DWG-compatible programs. 3D support may be still attractive to some, but it's not unique -- even six years ago I was able to do all design work and send 3D models to Solidworks-using manufacturer with VariCAD (running on Linux).
Maya has always been available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Maya was developed by a different company, so it didn't get covered with Windows-barnacles -- at least for now.
If Solidworks gets ported to Linux and becomes popular, Autodesk will follow.
"Hay guyz, we have one basic component of our giant suite available for your platform -- but if you want anything more, you have to buy it again for Windows!" Unless they will port the rest (what means, redoing their interfaces in Unix-like manner), it will be too little too late.
Was that supposed to be sarcasm? Before SGI was destroyed by Rick Belluzzo, it made plenty of high-performance clustered computers. Considering that nost non-x86 CPU architectures development was cancelled as a result of "business" decisions, there is no reason to expect that MIPS-based computer will be somehow worse than other architectures, as long as development continues.
After all x86, taken on its own, is a terrible architecture. However continuous development allowed Intel and AMD to implement it efficiently, with better underlying technology than "straight" implementation that gave us the processors between 8086 and the original Pentium.
You take a party in power and subvert its direction, THEN you vote for it. Too bad, you are incapable of doing this because authority figures were screaming "Democracy! Democracy!" into your ears since each of you were five.
With "democratic" system like in US, it doesn't matter how many smart people are there -- as long as there are more stupid ones, perpetual power of the rich is assured.
How come, a prominent Microsoft lackey hairyfeet pretends to have an entirely sane (and entirely incompatible with Microsoft whoredom) opinion in development of Capitalism?
Is it a new generation of a troll, a split-persona one?
I agree with your sentiment. But there are some problems: first off, in order to directly address this kind of crappy behavior by large corporations, what we'd have to do is pass laws that slightly benefit everyone, but have a significant impact on a small number of lawyers and corporations, and when you have a diffuse public good vs. a concentrated moneyed interest, we as a culture haven't figured out how to do the right thing, because the public cares less and has less money than the lobbyists hired by the people who stand to lose money. It's a failing of democracy.
If someone did not notice, I oppose most forms of democracy for this very reason -- until population is educated enough to be something other than puppets. At very least, start with education.
Secondly, what do you want to bet they'd say "but it's not fraud because look at all these people who settled!" They're taking advantage of the system to set up a situation that's self-fulfilling. That makes stopping them harder.
Settlements should be treated as a part of the fraud -- if criminal investigation would be triggered as a results of such tactics, all potential lawsuits that would exist if not for settlement would have to be analyzed as a part of investigation. If supposed plaintiff would lose, settlement would have to be reversed, and plaintiff charged with fraud or possibly even racketeering.
Of course, that would require sane law and court system not bogged down by bullshit. But then I was never against the idea of a government big enough to crush any company -- in fact, that's the only way to keep them in check.
That's what they do now, hoping just for them to settle. If they paid for their opponents lawyers, they would be broke after a case or two. If you haven't noticed,
Not a problem! Just create a "client" that "pays" more than whatever was lost in previous lawsuits.
Have you checked actual fees charged for supposedly legitimate lawsuits? Or money paid by pawns to lawyers in SCO farce? I wouldn't call any of that "reasonable".
Other countries are not run by lawyers -- at least not by the most corrupt kind of them. Also other countries did not reduce their economy to people:
1. buying cardboard houses and microscopic chunks of land for what amounts to four years of average salary -- using bottomless credit, of course. 2. throwing money abroad (from the same bottomless source), buying random products and reselling them with massive markup locally. 3. doing each other's laundry (a.k.a "service economy"). 4. suing each other.
That is supposed to happen AFTER some sanity will be returned into the rest of the laws. Because otherwise some smartass lawyer will start suing people for all kinds of bullshit and "pay" himself few billions per case, in hope that at least one of those lawsuits sticks.
This is bullshit. Specific law against lawsuits for "silencing critics" makes it looks like all other kinds of frivolous lawsuits are OK. That's like passing a law making robbery of a bald person a crime.
This should be treated as a form of fraud -- there are specific egregious kinds of fraud (such as SLAPP, racketeering, SCO-like stuff) however sending papers with threats, filing lawsuits, asking for settlement while being perfectly aware of the fraudulent nature of those actions, is still first and foremost fraud.
If only they ported Solidworks, at least 80% of engineers would be able to abandon Windows (the rest are a fraction of Electrical Engineers who still need Altium, but being a ridiculously expensive piece of shit with minimal functionality, it will be replaced by free software no matter what). AutoCAD... Autodesk can go eat a dick for all I care -- they have locked themselves to Windows and will die with it.
Why malicious litigation, especially using a company specifically created for purpose of malicious litigation, does not result in company property being confiscated, and people involved being sent to prison? Oh, and shut up about it being a civil lawsuit, the chain of lawsuits is itself a crime in this situation (and demonstrably committed right in front of judges, so it's not like there is any shortage of evidence).
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And who didn't throw lawsuits like this out of court? Letting 12 retards decide what to do with a person after listening to hours or days of screaming from lawyers should be the last resort, not the first choice.
Not with the density of power they are trying to achieve -- it will mean that 10-20% of all power dissipation will happen on chips with nearly perfect thermal insulation around them (board, layer of air and another chip). It will be probably the first device ever to overheat ARM with the heat it produced. Even if air will be eliminated, RAM chips are not good at conducting heat from bottom to top.
It will make sense to place RAM on the opposite side of the board, and have airflow on both sides, but again, it's 600W. Imagine a board with Intel CPU plus 50 DIMMs (that will be 50-100G of RAM) in 2U -- that would be a similar kind of challenge to power and cool.
600W per 2U server is possible but very impractical -- a full rack will require 12kW (to power it and 12kW of cooling).
I also don't believe, they thought it through, how to stuff 120 processors and at least 120 DIMMs into 2U case and cool them efficiently -- one ARM CPU requires no forced-air cooling, and one DIMM can be cooled by whatever blows around for ther reasons, but 120 of them need airflow, and plenty of it. If they don't use separate DIMMs and have fixed RAM (I hope, it's ECC and enough to run a database server), they also have to deal with giant footprint and tricky layout.
So, at least according to the police and article author:
1. Dumb woman insists on getting an expensive engagement ring from her boyfriend despite both being broke.
2. Dumb boyfriend steals a ring from dumb woman's cousin's friend's roommate while visiting with dumb woman and her cousin.
3. Dumb boyfriend gives stolen ring to the dumb woman.
4. Dumb woman posts a photo of the ring to facebook.
5. Dumb woman's cousin recognizes the ring.
6. Dumb woman's cousin tells his friends and they call the police.
While (1) to (4) are already incredibly stupid, and (2) is beyond my understanding of stupidity (that is, I can not see the logic, faulty or not, behind making such decision), I have to point out that the person who recognized the ring was dumb woman's cousin AND victim's roommate's friend. Even if dumb woman did not post the photo in (4), he would see her wearing the ring, so (5) and (6) would inevitably follow.
So considering how little importance Facebook has in those events, I have to bring a more important (at least for this site) matter -- SOME PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY STUPID. Stupid to the extent that they choose the worst course of actions available to them in a situation when absolutely nothing compels them to do anything at all. And people like that use technology.
Autodesk released AutoCAD for the Mac a few months ago. It's not inconceivable that a Linux version is in the pipeline.
"AutoCAD" base product is worthless without the rest of the suite, and from what I can tell, only that was ported to Mac. AutoCAD was more and more tied to Windows-specific interfaces over time -- it was available on Unix but once Autodesk started adding Microsoft crap without creating a clear cross-platform interface, it became unportable. Mac version of AutoCAD does not support Windows-specific interfaces, so unless Autodesk will port the rest of their AutoCAD-based products, it will be merely one of many DWG-compatible programs. 3D support may be still attractive to some, but it's not unique -- even six years ago I was able to do all design work and send 3D models to Solidworks-using manufacturer with VariCAD (running on Linux).
Maya has always been available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Maya was developed by a different company, so it didn't get covered with Windows-barnacles -- at least for now.
If Solidworks gets ported to Linux and becomes popular, Autodesk will follow.
"Hay guyz, we have one basic component of our giant suite available for your platform -- but if you want anything more, you have to buy it again for Windows!"
Unless they will port the rest (what means, redoing their interfaces in Unix-like manner), it will be too little too late.
I don't recall ever seeing a non-SGI MIPS computer on the market, but I haven't really been looking too hard, honestly.
You don't recall seeing WRT54G?
Was that supposed to be sarcasm? Before SGI was destroyed by Rick Belluzzo, it made plenty of high-performance clustered computers. Considering that nost non-x86 CPU architectures development was cancelled as a result of "business" decisions, there is no reason to expect that MIPS-based computer will be somehow worse than other architectures, as long as development continues.
After all x86, taken on its own, is a terrible architecture. However continuous development allowed Intel and AMD to implement it efficiently, with better underlying technology than "straight" implementation that gave us the processors between 8086 and the original Pentium.
You don't "vote", you dumbasses!
You take a party in power and subvert its direction, THEN you vote for it. Too bad, you are incapable of doing this because authority figures were screaming "Democracy! Democracy!" into your ears since each of you were five.
With "democratic" system like in US, it doesn't matter how many smart people are there -- as long as there are more stupid ones, perpetual power of the rich is assured.
Your propaganda overdid it when "teaching" this to Communists. Now you all are infected with the same shit.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
If there were enough smart Americans, they would hijack Democratic party just like corporations and religious nuts hijacked Republican one.
Unfortunately this is not the case. Enjoy your fail.
It's no coincidence that ALL countries that ever had all economic power concentrated on the state were called dictatorships by American propaganda.
FTFY.
I would never trust a government that can not crush like a bug any of the richest entities in the country.
How come, a prominent Microsoft lackey hairyfeet pretends to have an entirely sane (and entirely incompatible with Microsoft whoredom) opinion in development of Capitalism?
Is it a new generation of a troll, a split-persona one?
I agree with your sentiment. But there are some problems: first off, in order to directly address this kind of crappy behavior by large corporations, what we'd have to do is pass laws that slightly benefit everyone, but have a significant impact on a small number of lawyers and corporations, and when you have a diffuse public good vs. a concentrated moneyed interest, we as a culture haven't figured out how to do the right thing, because the public cares less and has less money than the lobbyists hired by the people who stand to lose money. It's a failing of democracy.
If someone did not notice, I oppose most forms of democracy for this very reason -- until population is educated enough to be something other than puppets. At very least, start with education.
Secondly, what do you want to bet they'd say "but it's not fraud because look at all these people who settled!" They're taking advantage of the system to set up a situation that's self-fulfilling. That makes stopping them harder.
Settlements should be treated as a part of the fraud -- if criminal investigation would be triggered as a results of such tactics, all potential lawsuits that would exist if not for settlement would have to be analyzed as a part of investigation. If supposed plaintiff would lose, settlement would have to be reversed, and plaintiff charged with fraud or possibly even racketeering.
Of course, that would require sane law and court system not bogged down by bullshit. But then I was never against the idea of a government big enough to crush any company -- in fact, that's the only way to keep them in check.
That's what they do now, hoping just for them to settle. If they paid for their opponents lawyers, they would be broke after a case or two. If you haven't noticed,
Not a problem! Just create a "client" that "pays" more than whatever was lost in previous lawsuits.
Have you checked actual fees charged for supposedly legitimate lawsuits? Or money paid by pawns to lawyers in SCO farce? I wouldn't call any of that "reasonable".
lol.
Other countries are not run by lawyers -- at least not by the most corrupt kind of them.
Also other countries did not reduce their economy to people:
1. buying cardboard houses and microscopic chunks of land for what amounts to four years of average salary -- using bottomless credit, of course.
2. throwing money abroad (from the same bottomless source), buying random products and reselling them with massive markup locally.
3. doing each other's laundry (a.k.a "service economy").
4. suing each other.
That is supposed to happen AFTER some sanity will be returned into the rest of the laws. Because otherwise some smartass lawyer will start suing people for all kinds of bullshit and "pay" himself few billions per case, in hope that at least one of those lawsuits sticks.
You have two guesses.
s/Nazi/Texas/
lol randroids.
This is bullshit. Specific law against lawsuits for "silencing critics" makes it looks like all other kinds of frivolous lawsuits are OK. That's like passing a law making robbery of a bald person a crime.
This should be treated as a form of fraud -- there are specific egregious kinds of fraud (such as SLAPP, racketeering, SCO-like stuff) however sending papers with threats, filing lawsuits, asking for settlement while being perfectly aware of the fraudulent nature of those actions, is still first and foremost fraud.
If only they ported Solidworks, at least 80% of engineers would be able to abandon Windows (the rest are a fraction of Electrical Engineers who still need Altium, but being a ridiculously expensive piece of shit with minimal functionality, it will be replaced by free software no matter what). AutoCAD... Autodesk can go eat a dick for all I care -- they have locked themselves to Windows and will die with it.
Why malicious litigation, especially using a company specifically created for purpose of malicious litigation, does not result in company property being confiscated, and people involved being sent to prison? Oh, and shut up about it being a civil lawsuit, the chain of lawsuits is itself a crime in this situation (and demonstrably committed right in front of judges, so it's not like there is any shortage of evidence).