check out table 2 in that report, "Node outages that were attributed to hardware problems broken down by the responsible hardware component. This includes all outages, not only those that required replacement of a hardware component."
HPC1,
CPU %44
Memory $29
hard drive %16
At those kinds of failure rates I think I'll stick to the spinning magnetic disk drive.
What do you mean iPhone took away from the Apple TV at the keynote? I found a blow for blow account of the keynote address and I skipped right past the Apple TV section for the iPhone section and read all of that part. Even though I skipped past the Apple TV section I still saw a couple pictures. If the iPhone hadn't have been in the keynote, I wouldn't have even see that much of the Apple TV.
After hearing that Apple intends to keep the iPhone closed as far as writing and loading you own software, I'm not interested. Isn't Mac OSX Supposed to secure one user from another? Couldn't they at least require your software to run as an unprivileged user?
Raw materials will be valuable. You think raw materials would be valuable? I would think energy and property (land) values would explode (in that order). First energy when everyone is making a replicator for their friends and printing out items, then property when they see their last month's electricity bill and buy some land to put their shinny new solar cells on.
So the real revolution begins when these machines can print out a copy of themselves and they can print out some solar cells. if you ask me I would mandate a some assembly required step to any device that can print out all its parts. No completely self replicating devices allowed. Just read some fiction books about the future if you can't think of why not.
OpenCroquet's technology in keeping the various clients in sync was intersting to me. I might have even learned the squeak programming language and started doing some development with it, but what ever happened to OpenCroquet? I never did find another pubically accessible server to connect to. The News Room has 04/18/2006 as the most recent entry and that was the 1.0 Beta. Compare that to the 19,098 on second life right now, the December 29, 2006 last client update, and today's source release. Sorry to say it, but unless OpenCroquet is going to put up a few islands for random people to interact and provide some updates once and a while it might as well be dead to me. They could at least update the news room once and a while to at least provide the appearance of the project being active.
One of the things on my todo list is to not wait for the texture to download before displaying the object. At least in the early versions of second life for Linux when textures weren't automatically downloaded things appeared much faster. Maybe it just needs to download all the objects first, then start downloading and displaying the textures.
While I agree that the text has to be drawn at the same time as everything else and if you are in a complex scene everything slows down and you can't expect what you are typing to show up any faster, I think that multi cpu/cores could help out here. As far as submitting OpenGL graphics commands on different threads to the same GL context at the same time, as far as GLX (X-windows), you can't do it. GLX limits a thread to only have one GL context at a time and a GL context can only be the current context by one thread. So you have one thread doing graphics, and one or more others doing networking, sound, jpeg image decompression, physics, etc. It just won't be as easy to keep multiple threads from stepping on each other's toes.
I don't know if they do this, but they could take advantage of the multiple levels of details they have to help on the frame rate. When you get closer objects become more tessellated. Maybe as the frame rate drops they could start reducing all object's level of detail.
With my commute being a total of 18 miles a day, I would be worried about the gas motor. I might drive out of that range on the weekend and the gas motor would kick in, but for those who always say within it's battery charge range, is that gas motor sill going to work when you go to make that long trip? How would that be good for a gas engine to sit there for a few months between uses?
What if instead the gas engines were optional? Something like you get the all electric version and have a long trip coming up, so you go out and rent a gas generator that you bolt in, plug in, and fill up with gas for the trip?
I'm a vi user (vim actually) myself, but I got over the vi vs emacs war when I looked over a Windows. When I saw people using things like notepad and wordpad I would tell myself and them, vi or emacs, pick one, either is a hundred times better than what you are trying to use.
Then why do I hear about high end HDTVs come tuned for a show room floor and it is recommended that you get a professional that can calibrate the display output to your home area?
Why couldn't we just take a clean break from interlaced formats? LCD, DPL, computer screens, all progressive displays. Sure there are deinterlacers, but whey didn't they just save the trouble and drop the interlaced modes?
Just think about how far away the transmitter is when you turn on that radio. A few miles? Compare that to Wifi in a laptop (couple feet), or a cell phone (couple inches).
Is an SSH tunnel a crime in China? Or maybe I should ask it this way. Is an SSH tunnel from within China to someplace outside of China a crime? If no, maybe us who are outside of China should start hosing some SSH tunneled proxys for the people in China.
And what does a resistor do when you put power through it? It gets hot! Somehow I don't think a T-shirt full of low grade solar cells will be able to make a resistor hot enough to matter.
What's on the replacement stick? An anti-virus program designed to remove the original virus? Or are they just going to suggest you go out and buy an anti-virus program?
The other way to look at it is this. Send out a password grabber virus, wait 24 hours, and then tell people to return the memory stick. Is that a wise idea? Could it be that all the passwords are ON the stick people return?
http://www.opencroquet.org/ is out there, but it has been at 1.0 Beta since April this year. The bug lists show activity, but what I can't seem to find is any public Internet 'island' servers for OpenCroquet, so I can't very well see how it works with more than one person. OpenCroquet has more promise for developers, but has many less people.
Are there public OpenCroquet islands out there? Any links? I haven't found any yet.
Don't have a cell phone? That would top my list for why I don't get some VoIP service. It doesn't matter how reliable their service is when the power is out for 5 days like it was a month or two ago here. My UPS only lasts so long. I was very glad I still had a landline.
I've talked to a Charter sales person once, he claimed their telephone service wasn't VoIP because it didn't go over Internet and so it was more secure. I told him to break out the acronym, Voice over Internet Protocol, no where in there does it say it has to go over Internet, it just has to use the IP protocol.
I went to Charter's web page today and in their telephone FAQ titled 'Information: About Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)', "Using Voice Over IP technology allows us to deliver the same great service as traditional phone companies, but at a fraction of the cost."
So the FPU sends an interrupt when you do a divide by zero? So if you turn off the interrupt handler (disable interrupts) and the FPU sends an interrupt, you never know there was a problem.
I've thought about the noise canceling headphones, but I've determined that I need to try them first. I tried on the Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones in a noisy mall next to a water fall. You know what I found out? I could hear the conversations around me better with them on than with them off. That is when they were just in the cancel noise mode without piping in music. For an office environment reducing the background din is nice, but not hearing the talking is what I was after.
Being able to talk to my computer when I'm not in front of my keyboard, yes, that would be nice. Maybe someday.
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HPC1,
CPU %44
Memory $29
hard drive %16
At those kinds of failure rates I think I'll stick to the spinning magnetic disk drive.
After hearing that Apple intends to keep the iPhone closed as far as writing and loading you own software, I'm not interested. Isn't Mac OSX Supposed to secure one user from another? Couldn't they at least require your software to run as an unprivileged user?
So the real revolution begins when these machines can print out a copy of themselves and they can print out some solar cells. if you ask me I would mandate a some assembly required step to any device that can print out all its parts. No completely self replicating devices allowed. Just read some fiction books about the future if you can't think of why not.
In the account field of each profile I've yet to only see 'Resident' and 'Linden Lab Employee'. Seen any others?
OpenCroquet's technology in keeping the various clients in sync was intersting to me. I might have even learned the squeak programming language and started doing some development with it, but what ever happened to OpenCroquet? I never did find another pubically accessible server to connect to. The News Room has 04/18/2006 as the most recent entry and that was the 1.0 Beta. Compare that to the 19,098 on second life right now, the December 29, 2006 last client update, and today's source release. Sorry to say it, but unless OpenCroquet is going to put up a few islands for random people to interact and provide some updates once and a while it might as well be dead to me. They could at least update the news room once and a while to at least provide the appearance of the project being active.
One of the things on my todo list is to not wait for the texture to download before displaying the object. At least in the early versions of second life for Linux when textures weren't automatically downloaded things appeared much faster. Maybe it just needs to download all the objects first, then start downloading and displaying the textures.
If there was a way to upload (or modify) textures for free, I expect it wouldn't be hard. L$10 for each texture you upload as far as I know.
I don't know if they do this, but they could take advantage of the multiple levels of details they have to help on the frame rate. When you get closer objects become more tessellated. Maybe as the frame rate drops they could start reducing all object's level of detail.
Sure you can, just do something like they do for Blender. You will just be charged for the textures you import.
What if instead the gas engines were optional? Something like you get the all electric version and have a long trip coming up, so you go out and rent a gas generator that you bolt in, plug in, and fill up with gas for the trip?
I'm a vi user (vim actually) myself, but I got over the vi vs emacs war when I looked over a Windows. When I saw people using things like notepad and wordpad I would tell myself and them, vi or emacs, pick one, either is a hundred times better than what you are trying to use.
Then why do I hear about high end HDTVs come tuned for a show room floor and it is recommended that you get a professional that can calibrate the display output to your home area?
Why couldn't we just take a clean break from interlaced formats? LCD, DPL, computer screens, all progressive displays. Sure there are deinterlacers, but whey didn't they just save the trouble and drop the interlaced modes?
Just think about how far away the transmitter is when you turn on that radio. A few miles? Compare that to Wifi in a laptop (couple feet), or a cell phone (couple inches).
Remind me to skip the 2008 Olympics.
And what does a resistor do when you put power through it? It gets hot! Somehow I don't think a T-shirt full of low grade solar cells will be able to make a resistor hot enough to matter.
The other way to look at it is this. Send out a password grabber virus, wait 24 hours, and then tell people to return the memory stick. Is that a wise idea? Could it be that all the passwords are ON the stick people return?
Second Life Linux download IA32 only though.
How much would Space Ship One go for? It was a real space ship that really went into space and more than once!
They sold Picard's flute? Don't the actors get any first dibs on their props?
Are there public OpenCroquet islands out there? Any links? I haven't found any yet.
Don't have a cell phone? That would top my list for why I don't get some VoIP service. It doesn't matter how reliable their service is when the power is out for 5 days like it was a month or two ago here. My UPS only lasts so long. I was very glad I still had a landline.
I went to Charter's web page today and in their telephone FAQ titled 'Information: About Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)', "Using Voice Over IP technology allows us to deliver the same great service as traditional phone companies, but at a fraction of the cost."
I wonder how if they were told to say that or if that guy just didn't know what he was talking about. I'd provide a link, but http://support2.charter.com/support/telephone/cont entredirect.asp just doesn't work.
So the FPU sends an interrupt when you do a divide by zero? So if you turn off the interrupt handler (disable interrupts) and the FPU sends an interrupt, you never know there was a problem.
Being able to talk to my computer when I'm not in front of my keyboard, yes, that would be nice. Maybe someday.