Obviously the parent poster doesn't know that planes don't use GPS to land but ILS (google CAT-III ILS if you want to learn more)... In fact, except in the military not many of them (ie jetliners) are equipped with GPS.
Two things: first with 32 bits, if you don't have some sort of windowing (ala PAE) an application won't be able to use 4 GB of memory because some of it is owned by your kernel/os.
Second, don't forget that a 64 bit CPU doesn't mean 64 bit of addressable space (usually it's around 40-48). That's still plenty but it's not the same...
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Funny you said that. I work in Manhattan and our T1 (the provider is DTI but Verizon owns the line) is still down...
Not fragile but from my understanding it is nearly impossible to predict the effects caused by a cellphone calling mummy... AFAIK I thought it was forbiden to use cellphones in an hospital...
And I think Transmeta wrote an emulator for the x86-64 ISA on their processors thus allowing people to test/debug what would become the Opteron and friends.
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And here another thing people don't realize: making everything 64 bits doesn't necessarily make programs go faster. With 64 bits, you have more pressure on the cache, on the bus, on the memory, etc...
Correct for the numbers but incorrect for the keys.
The french keyboard is azerty but the second line ends in jklm (instead of jkl; on a us keyboard) and the last line in bn,; (or something like this instead of bnm,) meaning you're going to type ',' when you really want a 'm'.
Moreover a lot of useful keys are accessed via Alt-Gr (don't look for it on an us keyboard, it doesn't exist): {} [] | (unix pipe), etc...
To put it simply for a C developer or a unix guy, it's a real pain!
In my company we've got LTO drives. One tape stores 100 Gbytes uncompressed (and on average it's around 150-160). The drives (i've got 2 of them in a library) are quite fast (13-15Mbytes/s) but they're also expensive. In fact, they're so fast than most of the time I can't get them to stream because I don't have enough clients connected (my backup server has a gigabit fiber connection to a switch).
A tape is around $70 nowadays.
My opinion: if you have the money, get a library (I use an Adic Scalar 100).
BTW I know the new DLT tapes are bigger but the drives are not as fast.
Do your homework and look for fork, switching latency times, IPC speed, etc... between BSD, Linux and Solaris. You'll see that Solaris scales very well on huge machine but does a really poor job on small ones...
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Oups, my bad I was wrong in the order, I forgot Mother Russia. (too bad I didn't find anything up to date)
$ 379 billion (2003) - United States
$48 billion - increase from Fiscal 2002 to 2003
$ 34.8 billion ( 2001 ) - United Kingdom
$ 29 billion ( 2000 ) - Russia
$ 27 billion ( 2000 ) - France
$ 23.1 billion ( 2001 ) - Germany
$ 18.7 billion ( 2000 ) - Saudi Arabia
$ 15.9 billion ( 2000 ) - India
$ 14.5 billion ( 2000 ) - China
$ 12.8 billion ( 2000 ) - South Korea
$ 12.8 billion ( 2000 ) - Taiwan
$ 7.5 billion ( 2000 ) - Iran
$ 3.3 billion ( 2000 ) - Pakistan
$ 1.8 billion ( 2000 ) - Syria
$ 1.4 billion ( 1999 ) - Iraq
$ 1.3 billion ( 2000 ) - North Korea
$ 1.3 billion ( 2000 ) - Yugoslavia
$ 1.2 billion ( 2000 ) - Libya
$ 425 million ( 2000) - Sudan
$ 31 million ( 2000 ) - Cuba
Source: The International Institute for Strategic Studies
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To put it simply: the USA spend more than the sum of next 20 countries (and probably more but I don't have the numbers in front of me). FYI, UK is second, then France, then Germany.
The truth is that it doesn't scale down so well. If you can do the comparison on a small machine 2 or 4 cpus, you'll see that bsd or linux are faster. Slowlaris^WSolaris is really optimised for the big irons not the smaller machines.
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Check your facts, most of them are still flying with inertial navigation systems...
Obviously the parent poster doesn't know that planes don't use GPS to land but ILS (google CAT-III ILS if you want to learn more)...
In fact, except in the military not many of them (ie jetliners) are equipped with GPS.
Except that compiling is a poor way to benchmark computers if you want to compare different architectures...
Two things: first with 32 bits, if you don't have some sort of windowing (ala PAE) an application won't be able to use 4 GB of memory because some of it is owned by your kernel/os.
Second, don't forget that a 64 bit CPU doesn't mean 64 bit of addressable space (usually it's around 40-48). That's still plenty but it's not the same...
Funny you said that. I work in Manhattan and our T1 (the provider is DTI but Verizon owns the line) is still down...
Damn you're clever. I guess they'll use a render farm... :-D
Why? You put it in the graveyard?
Not fragile but from my understanding it is nearly impossible to predict the effects caused by a cellphone calling mummy...
AFAIK I thought it was forbiden to use cellphones in an hospital...
You're talking about electronic devices, cellphones are banned during the whole flight.
True but nowadays most recent aircrafts use fly by wire so you just want to be sure your cellphone won't mess with this too...
And that's a dumb question because it's been seen that cellphones could jam ILS or other electronic components (even steering AFAIK)...
NIC stands for "Network Interface Card".
And I think Transmeta wrote an emulator for the x86-64 ISA on their processors thus allowing people to test/debug what would become the Opteron and friends.
Yuck...
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Have you been smoking crack?
And here another thing people don't realize: making everything 64 bits doesn't necessarily make programs go faster. With 64 bits, you have more pressure on the cache, on the bus, on the memory, etc...
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In fact, it only worked in real mode where the OS calls the BIOS for all the IOs (read DOS).
Correct for the numbers but incorrect for the keys.
The french keyboard is azerty but the second line ends in jklm (instead of jkl; on a us keyboard) and the last line in bn,; (or something like this instead of bnm,) meaning you're going to type ',' when you really want a 'm'.
Moreover a lot of useful keys are accessed via Alt-Gr (don't look for it on an us keyboard, it doesn't exist): {} [] | (unix pipe), etc...
To put it simply for a C developer or a unix guy, it's a real pain!
The kernel developpers have always been against binary compatability, so there's no way it's gonna happen soon...
In my company we've got LTO drives. One tape stores 100 Gbytes uncompressed (and on average it's around 150-160).
The drives (i've got 2 of them in a library) are quite fast (13-15Mbytes/s) but they're also expensive. In fact, they're so fast than most of the time I can't get them to stream because I don't have enough clients connected (my backup server has a gigabit fiber connection to a switch).
A tape is around $70 nowadays.
My opinion: if you have the money, get a library (I use an Adic Scalar 100).
BTW I know the new DLT tapes are bigger but the drives are not as fast.
Do your homework and look for fork, switching latency times, IPC speed, etc... between BSD, Linux and Solaris. You'll see that Solaris scales very well on huge machine but does a really poor job on small ones...
Oups, my bad I was wrong in the order, I forgot Mother Russia. (too bad I didn't find anything up to date)
U.S. Military Budget Tops Rest of World by Far
$ 379 billion (2003) - United States
$48 billion - increase from Fiscal 2002 to 2003
$ 34.8 billion ( 2001 ) - United Kingdom
$ 29 billion ( 2000 ) - Russia
$ 27 billion ( 2000 ) - France
$ 23.1 billion ( 2001 ) - Germany
$ 18.7 billion ( 2000 ) - Saudi Arabia
$ 15.9 billion ( 2000 ) - India
$ 14.5 billion ( 2000 ) - China
$ 12.8 billion ( 2000 ) - South Korea
$ 12.8 billion ( 2000 ) - Taiwan
$ 7.5 billion ( 2000 ) - Iran
$ 3.3 billion ( 2000 ) - Pakistan
$ 1.8 billion ( 2000 ) - Syria
$ 1.4 billion ( 1999 ) - Iraq
$ 1.3 billion ( 2000 ) - North Korea
$ 1.3 billion ( 2000 ) - Yugoslavia
$ 1.2 billion ( 2000 ) - Libya
$ 425 million ( 2000) - Sudan
$ 31 million ( 2000 ) - Cuba
Source: The International Institute for Strategic Studies
To put it simply: the USA spend more than the sum of next 20 countries (and probably more but I don't have the numbers in front of me). FYI, UK is second, then France, then Germany.
The truth is that it doesn't scale down so well. If you can do the comparison on a small machine 2 or 4 cpus, you'll see that bsd or linux are faster. Slowlaris^WSolaris is really optimised for the big irons not the smaller machines.