The more interesting question is will 256 threads per box be enough to compete with 160 threads per box from Intel (8x 10 core Xeon's with hyperthreading) or the monster boxes from IBM, or heck even the 512 thread M9000 they get from Fujitsu.
Wow, really? Most of the OEM's would find the overhead of tracking that kind of stuff more than the potential payoff. It also must be really new because we've upgraded G4's, G5's and the first two generations of Intel based Mac Pro's with generic ram.
The only place I've seen the device ID database is with WiFi cards and that is due to the way the FCC certifies a solution. You must verify that the solution meets emission standards, and has no user replaceable parts that may alter compliance. Obviously if you have an antennae array in the laptop and the user can hook up an arbitrary card you can't certify that to be compliant and so they lock the WiFi cards that will work to a known set of tested cards. It's the same reason mini reverse TNC cables were used for external antennas, prior to WiFi those connectors were not used in any widely available consumer product and so they met the FCC's compliance requirement.
Modern Lithium chemistries leak 1-5% per month, so no, it's not a significant factor in their environmental impact. And cars without a properly seated cap will lose at least as much gasoline (much less so for diesel, though the vent from our storage tanks can be significant in hot weather).
No, the obvious use which I posted about months ago here on Slashdot it to curb local demand during period of reduced grid output. When there is a lull in the wind over a wide area have both conservation methods like decycling AC units, fridges, hot water heaters, baseboard heaters, etc and if that isn't sufficient these electric cars would automatically start back feeding their owners houses. As to cold climates, most of us use forced air heating and so we need a non-trivial amount of power to feed the blower.
My wife talks less than 2000 minutes a year (I know because she made it 13 months on two $100 prepaid refills on her T-Mobile phone last year). Now that she's on Virgin Mobile she does text and IM like crazy. I guess the fact that she isn't an incessant talker is one of the reasons I married her =)
Dude, who *talks* on their cellphone? SMS, email, IM, etc are MUCH more common these days and as long as you use a silent alert should have no impact on the other passengers.
Actually, this is yet another case of government regulation having no cost/benefit analysis done before it is passed. It's the same thing as Alar in the 90's, Alar was banned because it was a possible carcinogen but analysis done showed that the reduced availability of inexpensive fresh fruit from the ban probably caused 10-50x more cases of cancer than alar would have. Banning CFC's for medical use was stupid, the total amount of CFC's used in all the inhalers ever produced caused about as much ozone depletion as one day of output from a midsized volcano.
Uh, one big problem with NAND flash is that as you shrink the wall thickness you decrease the write endurance. MLC flash already has pretty poor write endurance at 1,000-10,000 cycles so managing the tradeoff between write endurance and capacity is going to be a major problem over the next 2-3 process shrinks, forget all that garbage that goes below the size of a silicon atom....
So what I see from this years report is that the costs outpacing inflation in the 5 year average are administrative salaries, fringe benefits which I have to assume are largely dominated by healthcare costs (something we need to solve at that national level but which is being fought tooth and nail by the Republicans) and tuition grants which rise in value as the sticker price of the education rises, and materials which a university could easily control by not requiring the newest freaking edition of the book every quarter. That said even those costs are only rising by ~4% per year which hardly justifies the ~8-11% per year tuition increases most public schools have seen. The spread between those numbers is largely made up by the drop in public funding.
Actually IT is a major creator of wealth if done properly. IT is about two things at its core, using information to make smarter decisions, and improving the productivity of other workers. I will concede that a large amount of IT as it is practiced in many organizations has little to do with those goals, but it should be the mission of every well run IT department.
Largely for state schools it's coming from reduced income from the states general budget. Somewhere along the line we bought into both "everyone needs a college degree" and "government shouldn't do anything" and so we have an entire generation that is going to be saddled by mountains of debt just to be able to get a job. It's kind of the company store all over but at a macro level instead of just in small towns.
No, they bought it for $3.1B, took a $1.4B impairment charge, then sold 70% of the company for $2B. The 30% they retained was part of the $8.5B deal so in the end they made ~$-100M minus any acretive value that Skype added to the bottom line while it was wholly owned (very little I'm sure).
Actually, I doubt this will happen for business class machines because businesses will make it a part of RFQ's that the machine be capable of running Windows 7, and since there is no signed bootloader for Windows 7 obviously the major OEM's will provide a way to disable the signed boot requirement. Either that of Windows 7 SP2 will have a signed boot loader and everyone will be expected to run that as the minimum level.
Of course he is, less competition in the market will lead to higher ARPU and lower churn. Even if they keep exactly the same number of subscribers Verizon wins from an AT&T T-Mobile merger and they don't have to spend any capital to get it done meaning for his tenure at Verizon he'll probably outperform AT&T.
You seem to be missing the difference between UEFI and UEFI systems defaulting to only running signed boot loaders (possibly without a way for the end user to change the setting, though if I had to guess that won't be happening in anything but some tablets from companies like say Sony). As to EUFI being a complete re-imagining, not really. It's more of a proprietary implementation of the ideas from Sun's OpenBoot.
Not at all, the plan my employer started on a few years ago was going to be 30m ft^2 of rooftop solar around the country and was expected to produce 540MW of peak electricity, that's equivalent to half a large generator at a modern plant.
Yeah I don't think that applies everywhere, according to SCE's rate sheet any domestic user consuming over ~900 kwh/month during the summer is paying ~$.30/kwh for those overage kwh. As far as businesses, they seem to be paying ~$.18/kwh at peak so I'm not sure how solar at $.25/khw is competitive, of course the rate sheet is way, way more complex than the tariff schedule here so I could be reading it incorrectly (I'm assuming you can get 2kv feeds for a commercial site, if only 480V is available then the much higher cost of ~$.36/kwh starts to make some solar attractive). That said my employer, a major Walmart landlord, has been working with SunEdison to install 30m ft^2 of solar on centers around the country, and they started in NJ, not CA so you don't have to have crazy environmental laws to make solar make economic sense.
Yep, the only really useful application I ever ran into for AIR was the Pandora One client because it could add controls to the notification bar and be controlled by keyboard shortcuts. Now I just use the Anesidora Pandora extension for Chrome.
The Equinox is among the best in fuel economy in its class and is priced competitively to the competition. The Buick LaCross topped JD Powers dependability study last year, and the new eassist unit bumps fuel economy to near hybrid territory at a fraction of the cost. I've never been much of a Chevy guy, but they are making a lot of the right moves since leaving bankruptcy.
I do this to some extent, I use the name+company@gmail.com trick to sign up when their form will allow it, otherwise I make a blanket assumption that they are going to spam me (since their developers can't read an RFC) and give them my spam catcher account which I only ever check when I'm expecting a response from a web form =)
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The more interesting question is will 256 threads per box be enough to compete with 160 threads per box from Intel (8x 10 core Xeon's with hyperthreading) or the monster boxes from IBM, or heck even the 512 thread M9000 they get from Fujitsu.
Wow, really? Most of the OEM's would find the overhead of tracking that kind of stuff more than the potential payoff. It also must be really new because we've upgraded G4's, G5's and the first two generations of Intel based Mac Pro's with generic ram.
The only place I've seen the device ID database is with WiFi cards and that is due to the way the FCC certifies a solution. You must verify that the solution meets emission standards, and has no user replaceable parts that may alter compliance. Obviously if you have an antennae array in the laptop and the user can hook up an arbitrary card you can't certify that to be compliant and so they lock the WiFi cards that will work to a known set of tested cards. It's the same reason mini reverse TNC cables were used for external antennas, prior to WiFi those connectors were not used in any widely available consumer product and so they met the FCC's compliance requirement.
Modern Lithium chemistries leak 1-5% per month, so no, it's not a significant factor in their environmental impact. And cars without a properly seated cap will lose at least as much gasoline (much less so for diesel, though the vent from our storage tanks can be significant in hot weather).
No, the obvious use which I posted about months ago here on Slashdot it to curb local demand during period of reduced grid output. When there is a lull in the wind over a wide area have both conservation methods like decycling AC units, fridges, hot water heaters, baseboard heaters, etc and if that isn't sufficient these electric cars would automatically start back feeding their owners houses. As to cold climates, most of us use forced air heating and so we need a non-trivial amount of power to feed the blower.
My wife talks less than 2000 minutes a year (I know because she made it 13 months on two $100 prepaid refills on her T-Mobile phone last year). Now that she's on Virgin Mobile she does text and IM like crazy. I guess the fact that she isn't an incessant talker is one of the reasons I married her =)
Dude, who *talks* on their cellphone? SMS, email, IM, etc are MUCH more common these days and as long as you use a silent alert should have no impact on the other passengers.
Actually, this is yet another case of government regulation having no cost/benefit analysis done before it is passed. It's the same thing as Alar in the 90's, Alar was banned because it was a possible carcinogen but analysis done showed that the reduced availability of inexpensive fresh fruit from the ban probably caused 10-50x more cases of cancer than alar would have. Banning CFC's for medical use was stupid, the total amount of CFC's used in all the inhalers ever produced caused about as much ozone depletion as one day of output from a midsized volcano.
Uh, one big problem with NAND flash is that as you shrink the wall thickness you decrease the write endurance. MLC flash already has pretty poor write endurance at 1,000-10,000 cycles so managing the tradeoff between write endurance and capacity is going to be a major problem over the next 2-3 process shrinks, forget all that garbage that goes below the size of a silicon atom....
13+25=38, 38 qualifies as 30-something. I guess you should reconsider trolling.
So what I see from this years report is that the costs outpacing inflation in the 5 year average are administrative salaries, fringe benefits which I have to assume are largely dominated by healthcare costs (something we need to solve at that national level but which is being fought tooth and nail by the Republicans) and tuition grants which rise in value as the sticker price of the education rises, and materials which a university could easily control by not requiring the newest freaking edition of the book every quarter. That said even those costs are only rising by ~4% per year which hardly justifies the ~8-11% per year tuition increases most public schools have seen. The spread between those numbers is largely made up by the drop in public funding.
A 30-something with 25 years of experience?
Sure, I founded my first computer company when I was 15 and did work helping my school district build out their infrastructure starting at 13.
Actually IT is a major creator of wealth if done properly. IT is about two things at its core, using information to make smarter decisions, and improving the productivity of other workers. I will concede that a large amount of IT as it is practiced in many organizations has little to do with those goals, but it should be the mission of every well run IT department.
Largely for state schools it's coming from reduced income from the states general budget. Somewhere along the line we bought into both "everyone needs a college degree" and "government shouldn't do anything" and so we have an entire generation that is going to be saddled by mountains of debt just to be able to get a job. It's kind of the company store all over but at a macro level instead of just in small towns.
No, they bought it for $3.1B, took a $1.4B impairment charge, then sold 70% of the company for $2B. The 30% they retained was part of the $8.5B deal so in the end they made ~$-100M minus any acretive value that Skype added to the bottom line while it was wholly owned (very little I'm sure).
Actually, I doubt this will happen for business class machines because businesses will make it a part of RFQ's that the machine be capable of running Windows 7, and since there is no signed bootloader for Windows 7 obviously the major OEM's will provide a way to disable the signed boot requirement. Either that of Windows 7 SP2 will have a signed boot loader and everyone will be expected to run that as the minimum level.
Of course he is, less competition in the market will lead to higher ARPU and lower churn. Even if they keep exactly the same number of subscribers Verizon wins from an AT&T T-Mobile merger and they don't have to spend any capital to get it done meaning for his tenure at Verizon he'll probably outperform AT&T.
You seem to be missing the difference between UEFI and UEFI systems defaulting to only running signed boot loaders (possibly without a way for the end user to change the setting, though if I had to guess that won't be happening in anything but some tablets from companies like say Sony). As to EUFI being a complete re-imagining, not really. It's more of a proprietary implementation of the ideas from Sun's OpenBoot.
Not at all, the plan my employer started on a few years ago was going to be 30m ft^2 of rooftop solar around the country and was expected to produce 540MW of peak electricity, that's equivalent to half a large generator at a modern plant.
Yeah I don't think that applies everywhere, according to SCE's rate sheet any domestic user consuming over ~900 kwh/month during the summer is paying ~$.30/kwh for those overage kwh. As far as businesses, they seem to be paying ~$.18/kwh at peak so I'm not sure how solar at $.25/khw is competitive, of course the rate sheet is way, way more complex than the tariff schedule here so I could be reading it incorrectly (I'm assuming you can get 2kv feeds for a commercial site, if only 480V is available then the much higher cost of ~$.36/kwh starts to make some solar attractive). That said my employer, a major Walmart landlord, has been working with SunEdison to install 30m ft^2 of solar on centers around the country, and they started in NJ, not CA so you don't have to have crazy environmental laws to make solar make economic sense.
Forgot that the Steam client is AIR based, ok two good uses =)
Yep, the only really useful application I ever ran into for AIR was the Pandora One client because it could add controls to the notification bar and be controlled by keyboard shortcuts. Now I just use the Anesidora Pandora extension for Chrome.
Does the Objective-C used for iOS development not work with the GCC Objective-C backend?
The Equinox is among the best in fuel economy in its class and is priced competitively to the competition. The Buick LaCross topped JD Powers dependability study last year, and the new eassist unit bumps fuel economy to near hybrid territory at a fraction of the cost. I've never been much of a Chevy guy, but they are making a lot of the right moves since leaving bankruptcy.
I do this to some extent, I use the name+company@gmail.com trick to sign up when their form will allow it, otherwise I make a blanket assumption that they are going to spam me (since their developers can't read an RFC) and give them my spam catcher account which I only ever check when I'm expecting a response from a web form =)