Those vikings! First they colonized North America. Now we find out they went to Mars too! They were one tough bunch! Masters of intergallactic navigation.
Very cool! Thanks for the link. According to my calculations, that's actually closer to $21000 for 32*750GB drives (that's including 2x dual core 2.0GHz Opterons, 4x 1GB ECC DDR400, 2x 74GB WD Raptor system drives, 2x 3ware 9550SX-16ML controllers and 32x 750GB Seagate drives), but still, that's $0.85/GB with top of the line components inside! Not bad! I'll definitely keep this link in mind. That's exactly what I wanted.
Bullshit! All of it! I have to reply to this misinformation.
the cars couldn't be sold for the amount of money it took to build them
Change that to "the cars could not be bought for any amount of money". That's right: GM never sold a single EV1, they were all leased with no option to renew the lease or buy the damn car! On top of that, GM made the customers jump through hoops to even get an EV1.
Still some people were persistent and patient enough to get their hands on EV1s. But after the leases had expired, they had no choice but to return the cars to GM. What did GM do with them? They crushed them! Every single one! Crushed them and dumped them in a junk yard! Seems like the prudent business decision would be to *ahem* sell your product rather than trashing it, no?
Here is more information on the whole fiasco: link. My take on it is that GM set EV1 up for failure so that they could point at it and say "see? no one wants electric cars!". But when, despite GM's best efforts, customers actually showed interest in it, GM decided to pull the plug.
There are very very few details about this, only one statement by Microsoft blaming Adobe. Sounds like FUD to me. Most likely Adobe is pissed because MS is trying to *ahem* "extend" the open standard. We've seen plenty of examples of this before.
Being an analyst is awesome! Think about it: you make up wild speculation all day and people pay you for it. Next up: Amazon to buy RedHat and sell it on eBay!
You forgot to say "I'm not a lawyer, so you shouldn't listen to me."
You forgot to add the same line to your post, dumbass. Just as the parent says, you cannot copyright a logo. You can trademark a logo. Trademarks and copyrights are two completely different concepts.
Also, mentioned in the article... the SATA bus boasts a wonderful 3Gb/s (or 300MB/s). This however, is not the bottle neck when it comes to performence. As the article mentions, the top SATA drives on the market today only get about 85MB/s read/write to the disk. So although you may get 300MB/s from the disk cache, and the controller, you'll never really get 300MB/s. Still, it's miles from Ultra-ATA.
It is true that a single drive cannot saturate the SATA channel. (85MB/s is actually a _very_ generous estimate. Typical performance is closer to 50-60MB/s). So, SATA certainly doesn't need more bandwidth in the near future. However, for eSATA, the extra bandwidth is _very_ useful. It would allow manufacturers to produce RAIDs with eSATA ports instead of SCSI or FC. (Right now, you still need a SCSI or FC card if you want to get any sort of performance). This would effectively commoditise the low-end RAID market, which is a very welcome development.
You can run it concurrently only if your Vacuum buffer has not overflowed and thus require to do a more detailed run (FULL) in order to clean up the mess. Such a vacuum WILL lock your tables exclusively and can cause an awful mess if there is a lot of concurrent activity going on.
1. If by "mess" you mean other transactions will have to wait until VACUUM FULL is done, then yes. If you mean anything else, then no.
2. re: "vacuum buffer": you just pulled that out of your ass. The *only* thing that VACUUM FULL does and plain VACUUM does not, is physically move the data within the data files to truncate their size. It useful only if you've done a lot of deletes and want to free up that disk space (RTFA).
"vacuum buffer" is the amount of RAM vacuum will use while running. You can adjust it by editing postgresql.org. The more memory you give it, the faster it will run. That's all. It is not something you can overflow.
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Those vikings! First they colonized North America. Now we find out they went to Mars too! They were one tough bunch! Masters of intergallactic navigation.
The engineers called tech support while assembling the rocket but couldn't quite understand the accent.
Very cool! Thanks for the link. According to my calculations, that's actually closer to $21000 for 32*750GB drives (that's including 2x dual core 2.0GHz Opterons, 4x 1GB ECC DDR400, 2x 74GB WD Raptor system drives, 2x 3ware 9550SX-16ML controllers and 32x 750GB Seagate drives), but still, that's $0.85/GB with top of the line components inside! Not bad! I'll definitely keep this link in mind. That's exactly what I wanted.
This may be a stupid question, but haven't these NASA guys ever heard of the "rope" technology?
After moving to a better hospital, his condition was upgraded to "alive".
the cars couldn't be sold for the amount of money it took to build them
Change that to "the cars could not be bought for any amount of money". That's right: GM never sold a single EV1, they were all leased with no option to renew the lease or buy the damn car! On top of that, GM made the customers jump through hoops to even get an EV1.
Still some people were persistent and patient enough to get their hands on EV1s. But after the leases had expired, they had no choice but to return the cars to GM. What did GM do with them? They crushed them! Every single one! Crushed them and dumped them in a junk yard! Seems like the prudent business decision would be to *ahem* sell your product rather than trashing it, no?
Here is more information on the whole fiasco: link. My take on it is that GM set EV1 up for failure so that they could point at it and say "see? no one wants electric cars!". But when, despite GM's best efforts, customers actually showed interest in it, GM decided to pull the plug.
I thought Ballmer is now the chair-man...
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huh? your fresh water contains waaay more than 0.001% salt (as well as other minerals)
Its like Microsoft is now the Sony of the software industry!
And who is the Microsoft of the software industry?
Who provides live streaming of worldcup in US? Does that include all the matches? Where is it? Do tell.
There are very very few details about this, only one statement by Microsoft blaming Adobe. Sounds like FUD to me. Most likely Adobe is pissed because MS is trying to *ahem* "extend" the open standard. We've seen plenty of examples of this before.
Being an analyst is awesome! Think about it: you make up wild speculation all day and people pay you for it. Next up: Amazon to buy RedHat and sell it on eBay!
Cause the article sure doesn't!
Silicone dioxide is fucking sand. That's right, plain old sand. Explain to me how to make oxygen out of it.
tried it twice.
When it supports AMD64 instruction set, it will be worth a look. Until then who cares?
Easy. Say before the VAR got involved the system cost $1000. VAR sells it for $1200. That $200 is uhhh.... "added value". See how it works?
You forgot to add the same line to your post, dumbass. Just as the parent says, you cannot copyright a logo. You can trademark a logo. Trademarks and copyrights are two completely different concepts.
It is true that a single drive cannot saturate the SATA channel. (85MB/s is actually a _very_ generous estimate. Typical performance is closer to 50-60MB/s). So, SATA certainly doesn't need more bandwidth in the near future. However, for eSATA, the extra bandwidth is _very_ useful. It would allow manufacturers to produce RAIDs with eSATA ports instead of SCSI or FC. (Right now, you still need a SCSI or FC card if you want to get any sort of performance). This would effectively commoditise the low-end RAID market, which is a very welcome development.
It's a nice music store you've got. It would be unfortunate if anything should happen to it...
Is nuclear waste any better than the CO2 emissions?
Oh, and according to the current projections, how long will the nuclear reserves last?
So mysql will now have solid storage? Finally! Oh wait, it's " Solid Information Technology". Never mind...
Yes! Unless it comes with a wizard and that funny animated paperclip, it's too hard!
1. If by "mess" you mean other transactions will have to wait until VACUUM FULL is done, then yes. If you mean anything else, then no.
2. re: "vacuum buffer": you just pulled that out of your ass. The *only* thing that VACUUM FULL does and plain VACUUM does not, is physically move the data within the data files to truncate their size. It useful only if you've done a lot of deletes and want to free up that disk space (RTFA).
"vacuum buffer" is the amount of RAM vacuum will use while running. You can adjust it by editing postgresql.org. The more memory you give it, the faster it will run. That's all. It is not something you can overflow.