The seamicro stuff wasn't just density. It was power use, switching fabric and lots of other stuff. It was designed as sort of a mini-mainframe with higher IO throughput than the dense high compute stuff you can get in commodity hardware. Power use was in fact one of their main selling points. They were offering the same compute power at like 10% of the power by using low power (and low compute) processors stacked on a fabric that eliminated their weaknesses. At the same time their custom networking fabric allowed them to build low latency and ability to load share between physical processors with software that treated the whole thing as one machine. The core market of this was the datacenter virtual machine market. Their servers could host unreal numbers of virtual machines due to their high IO and low latency.
This is the original reason AMD bought them (at the time they were Intel only) because AMD thought there would be legs in this market for their low watt combined processor/graphics chips to be better than the competing intel gear at the time. Intel was caught extremely off-guard by the SeaMicro purchase as they had running around telling everyone that seamicro was going to change the datacenter.
Now time has negated much of the benefits but the new ATOM based servers Intel is selling (based on the new generation Atom server chips) are selling by the truckload because they are cheap and low power. I have one is 8 core and that would give a 2-3 year old mainstream processor a run for it's money and it uses 20 watts peak. If AMD had something like this seamicro would still be competitive but they just don't.
I'd personally rather they sink them as artificial reefs. Climate change may very well wipe out coral and unless we replace the reefs with something fish stocks will go down dramatically.
It's the primary problem with publicly traded companies these days. Because their compensation is dependent on stock performance when those allocations mature the CEO does self interested business maneuvers that will increase the stock price as much as possible the day the stock options vest and they can sell them. Because of paying CEO's in stock we've seen many many major businesses take actions that absolutely destroyed long term business viability. Here's a short list:
Enron WorldCom Tyco Adelphia ImClone Systems Arthur Andersen Cendant HealthSouth.
This is called the law of unintended consequences. Though the intent is clear you aren't considering the consequences of empowering the company leadership with a motivation of their own that is higher than the companies such that the executive in charge decides to sacrifice long term performance of the company for his own personal gain. 90% of the time a CEO will make this choice, really the only time they don't is when they are the company founder. Stock compensation of executives is very damaging.
The MBA world that's existed since the 1980's forgets how important happy employees are. Ford created the assembly line and made buckets of money doing it because they paid a higher wages than anyone else, they had happy and productive employees that were invested in the company. One of the reasons people enjoy shopping at Costco is the helpful employees. They are paid significantly more than the industry average, as a result they have a turnover rate that's significantly lower than anyone else in the retail industry and the employees are generally happy and helpful.
That's because ULA's price is a guaranteed fat government payment without regard to any effort to reduce cost. After ULA was formed from the two seperate companies each launch cost went up almost $2billion. That is lack of price competition, plain and simple. ULA has been using every political move in their playbook to try to block SpaceX because they don't want to compete on price.
Musk said it tipped over, he didn't say what happened to it after that. The last one that tipped over and hit the barge exploded. It's pure speculation at this point that it survived tipping over.
Considering the bulk of the last 75% of the flight is diagonally across the Atlantic where there are no islands where would you suggest they land. Maybe you should trace a map from Moscow to Belize that isn't allowed to cross European airspace to understand the concern that without the required fuel the plane would crash in the Atlantic.
The plane was barred overflight. The plane could have legitimately run out of fuel before being able to land. It was a real concern because once you can't fly over European airspace you just added 1000 miles to the trip.
That's why it's called circumstantial evidence. As noted in the thread already it's not hard to build up enough circumstantial evidence that he did it such that it rules out anyone but him. The fact that he purchased the ticket is pretty damning, he's not allowed to participate in the lottery as a condition of employment. The rest just layers on the evidence such that a jury will conclude he did it.
There are a few, usually by the entrance. They move them around too. Most of the machines have significantly lower payout rates but there are always a few that have high payouts so people hear and see large payouts.
Most businesses have replaced or will replace their security cameras with high resolution cameras, typical 720P or higher. 1080P cameras are now the standard. This is a remarkably high resolution and with the recording being digital it is VERY easy to identify people. The lottery probably requires vendors to have such cameras.
Though they won't achieve the third one because LLVM is BSD licensed they WILL add incompatible extensions that will be only compilable with their version of LLVM. It will happen.
People don't OD on opiates (heroin) when the doses are controlled. The typical heroin overdose is because the user is sold heroin that is significantly stronger than they are used to. They then cut a "normal" dose and it's 50% stronger than they are used to.
This was proven in the dutch and other European studies where they started giving pharmaceutical grade heroin to users and saw a 95% drop in deaths. These studies halted almost all the bad effects of the drug as well in that the average user was able to hold a job and be a productive member of society.
Opiates aren't the demon the press and Hollywood has made them out to be. They are demonized primarily because they are injected rather than smoked and the addiction was common in inner cities in the 70's when Hollywood had it's biggest fascination with drug use.
I'm not sure of the exact odds but I would put a house fire at around the odds of being struck by lighting. It's going to vary based on how old your house is and the age of it's electrical system but house fires are extremely rare.
Not to mention the mold that would grow in such a moist environment. The fire safe (as is typical for the class) should be rated for 1500 degrees for 30minutes while keeping the inside temperature below that necessary to char paper. The walls are heavily insulated and the seals on the door in extreme heat melt and seal the interior completely.
That's the entire point of these safes, to store paper documents and firearms including ammunition the interior temperature can't exceed a threshold within the spec'd temperature and time limit. The submitter should be able to just stick drives in the safe and not be worried about a fire as long as there is a working fire department.
It's not hard to download the updates from a secure isolated computer burn them to disc and transfer them to an administration machine on the closed network. Ideally this machine would be locked down so heavily to be near unusable so its chance of compromising is reduced. Along with audits before and after downloading.
The NSA sets the DOD's policies on this stuff, and they wrote the book on compromising systems.
People that quote the data rate/sec ignore that the data generated is only generated for a few seconds at the most, the bulk of the data is in the first few milliseconds after the collision. It simply doesn't take long for the remains of the destroyed protons to disintegrate within the bubble chamber.
The world isn't black and white, your side and theirs. Only fools believe someone can only be one or the other. You appear to be one of those with us against us people.
I'm a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I believe we need a safety net and I believe we need a national pension (social security partially fits this) and I believe we need a national health insurance.
But I also believe the social safety net shouldn't be a hammock. People need incentive to get out of the net or they will get comfortable. As I said I hold innocent individuals harmless, they deserve protection. This includes the disabled, the mentally ill and children. But healthy able bodies adults need to be encouraged to get out of the safety net. Under no circumstance should anyone be homeless, or without electricity or heat. But at the same time government shouldn't be paying for cable tv, or entertainment of any kind. I also have no problem reducing food stamps after a year of unemployment for able bodied adults that aren't caring for children, not till starvation sets in but at a level that will encourage wanting to be off.
I believe unemployment and food stamps needed to expand during the recession, but it shouldn't have been a blank check. I don't think they should have ended as abruptly as they did, they should have been staggered off at the state level depending on how much the state had recovered. Some states like my own were mostly recovered by 2012 and were on the mend as early as 2010.We had hundreds of thousands of people moving into the state between 2012 and 2014 to escape joblessness. There was no reason for the extended benefits here after 2012, but because it's all or nothing on the federal level it was run out longer here than it needed. I'm sure there are still areas and maybe even whole states that could still use the expanded benefits.
There is no inconsistency in my views. Only foolish people like yourself think that you can only be in the camp if you are all the way in on all issues. That's a position of inconsistency. I find the people at the extremes of the spectrum tend to hold this with us or against us view because they are extremists. I can be a fiscal conservative and social liberal, they are not inconsistent viewpoints. In fact the vast majority of independents, like myself, hold similar views. We want a balanced budget, and a viable safety net that doesn't see arbitrary reductions in spending because of a political attack by the extreme right. But I don't want a US that has the European problem of people being on the dole for 3 generations where people have never held a job.
Not everything is IT. Not all H1-B's work in IT. I personally have no issue with an increase in the number of H1-B's as long at the government is actually enforcing the law. If a US citizen is fired and replaced with an H1-B that is direct evidence the law has been broken. There needs to be HARSH penalties to the companies breaking the law, on the order of 3x the amount they "saved" in salaries and compounded at prime +1% interest from the day it happened. The company should also be liable to lawsuit from individual employees that were fired.
There's nothing wrong with the H1-B program as long as the law is enforced.
I'm about as Liberal as it comes when it comes to social support networks being the backbone of an effective country and economy. But government can't bear the entire burden of your unemployment, you bear some costs in that including having to draw down personal assets including possessions because you are an adult who bears responsibility for your employment. Families with children deserve extra benefits because the Kids are innocent victims in this with no ability to help themselves and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to give that family a little cash then seize the kids and put them in foster care.
Single adults on the other hand need to take some responsibility for themselves, you should be encouraged to find other work, if even you think the work is beneath you, by giving you a financial incentive to put some effort into it including moving across the country if needed. That incentive is not to give you enough support to be comfortable. You should be struggling, forced to draw down your assets and even missing a meal every now and then, though you shouldn't be made homeless. That very pain is what will inspire you to find some kind of employment.
I do sympathize with you though, I just don't think it's the role of government to protect able bodied single adults beyond minimal assistance to prevent homelessness and starvation but I draw the line at anything that would make government assistance comfortable or easy for any adult. Families deserve some additional protection precisely because there are innocent victims involved no matter how much you disparage it.
NCLB may have sounded good but is' the worst thing they could ever have done to education in the US. Bush and the republican congress that passed it should rot in hell for it.
And how would you feel if you found out your wife was being paid 12% less than the male colleagues that do the exact same job as her and some of those being paid more are not as good of workers?
That's what women face in most workplaces, doing the same work and even being better but being paid less.
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The seamicro stuff wasn't just density. It was power use, switching fabric and lots of other stuff. It was designed as sort of a mini-mainframe with higher IO throughput than the dense high compute stuff you can get in commodity hardware. Power use was in fact one of their main selling points. They were offering the same compute power at like 10% of the power by using low power (and low compute) processors stacked on a fabric that eliminated their weaknesses. At the same time their custom networking fabric allowed them to build low latency and ability to load share between physical processors with software that treated the whole thing as one machine. The core market of this was the datacenter virtual machine market. Their servers could host unreal numbers of virtual machines due to their high IO and low latency.
This is the original reason AMD bought them (at the time they were Intel only) because AMD thought there would be legs in this market for their low watt combined processor/graphics chips to be better than the competing intel gear at the time. Intel was caught extremely off-guard by the SeaMicro purchase as they had running around telling everyone that seamicro was going to change the datacenter.
Now time has negated much of the benefits but the new ATOM based servers Intel is selling (based on the new generation Atom server chips) are selling by the truckload because they are cheap and low power. I have one is 8 core and that would give a 2-3 year old mainstream processor a run for it's money and it uses 20 watts peak. If AMD had something like this seamicro would still be competitive but they just don't.
I'd personally rather they sink them as artificial reefs. Climate change may very well wipe out coral and unless we replace the reefs with something fish stocks will go down dramatically.
It's the primary problem with publicly traded companies these days. Because their compensation is dependent on stock performance when those allocations mature the CEO does self interested business maneuvers that will increase the stock price as much as possible the day the stock options vest and they can sell them. Because of paying CEO's in stock we've seen many many major businesses take actions that absolutely destroyed long term business viability. Here's a short list:
Enron
WorldCom
Tyco
Adelphia
ImClone Systems
Arthur Andersen
Cendant
HealthSouth.
This is called the law of unintended consequences. Though the intent is clear you aren't considering the consequences of empowering the company leadership with a motivation of their own that is higher than the companies such that the executive in charge decides to sacrifice long term performance of the company for his own personal gain. 90% of the time a CEO will make this choice, really the only time they don't is when they are the company founder. Stock compensation of executives is very damaging.
The MBA world that's existed since the 1980's forgets how important happy employees are. Ford created the assembly line and made buckets of money doing it because they paid a higher wages than anyone else, they had happy and productive employees that were invested in the company. One of the reasons people enjoy shopping at Costco is the helpful employees. They are paid significantly more than the industry average, as a result they have a turnover rate that's significantly lower than anyone else in the retail industry and the employees are generally happy and helpful.
He didn't say it didn't explode. He said it tipped over, that's it.
That's because ULA's price is a guaranteed fat government payment without regard to any effort to reduce cost. After ULA was formed from the two seperate companies each launch cost went up almost $2billion. That is lack of price competition, plain and simple. ULA has been using every political move in their playbook to try to block SpaceX because they don't want to compete on price.
Musk said it tipped over, he didn't say what happened to it after that. The last one that tipped over and hit the barge exploded. It's pure speculation at this point that it survived tipping over.
Considering the bulk of the last 75% of the flight is diagonally across the Atlantic where there are no islands where would you suggest they land. Maybe you should trace a map from Moscow to Belize that isn't allowed to cross European airspace to understand the concern that without the required fuel the plane would crash in the Atlantic.
The plane was barred overflight. The plane could have legitimately run out of fuel before being able to land. It was a real concern because once you can't fly over European airspace you just added 1000 miles to the trip.
That's why it's called circumstantial evidence. As noted in the thread already it's not hard to build up enough circumstantial evidence that he did it such that it rules out anyone but him. The fact that he purchased the ticket is pretty damning, he's not allowed to participate in the lottery as a condition of employment. The rest just layers on the evidence such that a jury will conclude he did it.
There are a few, usually by the entrance. They move them around too. Most of the machines have significantly lower payout rates but there are always a few that have high payouts so people hear and see large payouts.
Most businesses have replaced or will replace their security cameras with high resolution cameras, typical 720P or higher. 1080P cameras are now the standard. This is a remarkably high resolution and with the recording being digital it is VERY easy to identify people. The lottery probably requires vendors to have such cameras.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Though they won't achieve the third one because LLVM is BSD licensed they WILL add incompatible extensions that will be only compilable with their version of LLVM. It will happen.
People don't OD on opiates (heroin) when the doses are controlled. The typical heroin overdose is because the user is sold heroin that is significantly stronger than they are used to. They then cut a "normal" dose and it's 50% stronger than they are used to.
This was proven in the dutch and other European studies where they started giving pharmaceutical grade heroin to users and saw a 95% drop in deaths. These studies halted almost all the bad effects of the drug as well in that the average user was able to hold a job and be a productive member of society.
Opiates aren't the demon the press and Hollywood has made them out to be. They are demonized primarily because they are injected rather than smoked and the addiction was common in inner cities in the 70's when Hollywood had it's biggest fascination with drug use.
Why do you believe it is the job of government to regulate pleasure inducing substances?
I'm not sure of the exact odds but I would put a house fire at around the odds of being struck by lighting. It's going to vary based on how old your house is and the age of it's electrical system but house fires are extremely rare.
Not to mention the mold that would grow in such a moist environment. The fire safe (as is typical for the class) should be rated for 1500 degrees for 30minutes while keeping the inside temperature below that necessary to char paper. The walls are heavily insulated and the seals on the door in extreme heat melt and seal the interior completely.
That's the entire point of these safes, to store paper documents and firearms including ammunition the interior temperature can't exceed a threshold within the spec'd temperature and time limit. The submitter should be able to just stick drives in the safe and not be worried about a fire as long as there is a working fire department.
It's not hard to download the updates from a secure isolated computer burn them to disc and transfer them to an administration machine on the closed network. Ideally this machine would be locked down so heavily to be near unusable so its chance of compromising is reduced. Along with audits before and after downloading.
The NSA sets the DOD's policies on this stuff, and they wrote the book on compromising systems.
People that quote the data rate/sec ignore that the data generated is only generated for a few seconds at the most, the bulk of the data is in the first few milliseconds after the collision. It simply doesn't take long for the remains of the destroyed protons to disintegrate within the bubble chamber.
The world isn't black and white, your side and theirs. Only fools believe someone can only be one or the other. You appear to be one of those with us against us people.
I'm a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I believe we need a safety net and I believe we need a national pension (social security partially fits this) and I believe we need a national health insurance.
But I also believe the social safety net shouldn't be a hammock. People need incentive to get out of the net or they will get comfortable. As I said I hold innocent individuals harmless, they deserve protection. This includes the disabled, the mentally ill and children. But healthy able bodies adults need to be encouraged to get out of the safety net. Under no circumstance should anyone be homeless, or without electricity or heat. But at the same time government shouldn't be paying for cable tv, or entertainment of any kind. I also have no problem reducing food stamps after a year of unemployment for able bodied adults that aren't caring for children, not till starvation sets in but at a level that will encourage wanting to be off.
I believe unemployment and food stamps needed to expand during the recession, but it shouldn't have been a blank check. I don't think they should have ended as abruptly as they did, they should have been staggered off at the state level depending on how much the state had recovered. Some states like my own were mostly recovered by 2012 and were on the mend as early as 2010.We had hundreds of thousands of people moving into the state between 2012 and 2014 to escape joblessness. There was no reason for the extended benefits here after 2012, but because it's all or nothing on the federal level it was run out longer here than it needed. I'm sure there are still areas and maybe even whole states that could still use the expanded benefits.
There is no inconsistency in my views. Only foolish people like yourself think that you can only be in the camp if you are all the way in on all issues. That's a position of inconsistency. I find the people at the extremes of the spectrum tend to hold this with us or against us view because they are extremists. I can be a fiscal conservative and social liberal, they are not inconsistent viewpoints. In fact the vast majority of independents, like myself, hold similar views. We want a balanced budget, and a viable safety net that doesn't see arbitrary reductions in spending because of a political attack by the extreme right. But I don't want a US that has the European problem of people being on the dole for 3 generations where people have never held a job.
Not everything is IT. Not all H1-B's work in IT. I personally have no issue with an increase in the number of H1-B's as long at the government is actually enforcing the law. If a US citizen is fired and replaced with an H1-B that is direct evidence the law has been broken. There needs to be HARSH penalties to the companies breaking the law, on the order of 3x the amount they "saved" in salaries and compounded at prime +1% interest from the day it happened. The company should also be liable to lawsuit from individual employees that were fired.
There's nothing wrong with the H1-B program as long as the law is enforced.
I'm about as Liberal as it comes when it comes to social support networks being the backbone of an effective country and economy. But government can't bear the entire burden of your unemployment, you bear some costs in that including having to draw down personal assets including possessions because you are an adult who bears responsibility for your employment. Families with children deserve extra benefits because the Kids are innocent victims in this with no ability to help themselves and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to give that family a little cash then seize the kids and put them in foster care.
Single adults on the other hand need to take some responsibility for themselves, you should be encouraged to find other work, if even you think the work is beneath you, by giving you a financial incentive to put some effort into it including moving across the country if needed. That incentive is not to give you enough support to be comfortable. You should be struggling, forced to draw down your assets and even missing a meal every now and then, though you shouldn't be made homeless. That very pain is what will inspire you to find some kind of employment.
I do sympathize with you though, I just don't think it's the role of government to protect able bodied single adults beyond minimal assistance to prevent homelessness and starvation but I draw the line at anything that would make government assistance comfortable or easy for any adult. Families deserve some additional protection precisely because there are innocent victims involved no matter how much you disparage it.
The guy that writes Dilbert worked for a Utility for 20 years, PG&E IIRC. His cartoons are based on the facts of his workplace while at the utility.
NCLB may have sounded good but is' the worst thing they could ever have done to education in the US. Bush and the republican congress that passed it should rot in hell for it.
And how would you feel if you found out your wife was being paid 12% less than the male colleagues that do the exact same job as her and some of those being paid more are not as good of workers?
That's what women face in most workplaces, doing the same work and even being better but being paid less.