Unisys offers 6TB of ram, though still "only" 80 cores. Personally I think you probably need to seriously consider a redesign if you need to go bigger than that, but in the enterprise space that kind of development effort normally costs more than buying a couple million dollar box and the couple hundred thousand a year support contract to go along with it. I guess I'm fortunate in that my biggest workload runs well on a 16 core box with a couple SSD's for the main tables.
Limited number of registers
X86-64, with register renaming 16 is more than enough. AMD did a lot of research before settling on 16, more added significantly to complexity but on increased average program executing speed by low single digit percentages.
Variable instruction length makes decode a headache Meh, who cares, the whole decoder stage is a couple percent of the non-cache transistor budget. It mattered more back in the PPro era when it was a significant amount of the budget but today it's peanuts and the more verbose ISA makes better use of cache lines which are a much more limited resource in modern designs.
Lots of really bad stuff that isn't used much by modern code by still must be maintained for compatiblity: segments, 286 protection, IO instructions, etc. Most of it's effectively gone on x86-64 processors even if it's still there for backwards compatibility, if you're writing modern code it has no effect on you.
Yes, because politics and religion have *nothing* to do with the available treatments or availability of abortions to most of the citizens of the EU. *snicker*
When you talk about "abortion pill" are you talking about RU-486? Because that's available in the US, but some very rural citizen may have trouble accessing it during the effective period due to doctors refusing to dispense it on "moral" grounds (it can not be dispensed by pharmacists but only by specially licensed doctors in the US). Or are you talking about progestin levonorgestrel (aka plan B in the US) which is also available and can be replicated by a 4x normal dosage of common birth control pills?
Some of the richest men in the world (the family Saud) come to Cleveland to have heart operations. They rent out an entire floor of the 5 star intercontinental hotel (basically built to house high net worth individuals coming to Cleveland to have heart surgery as well as a few other internationally ranked specialties in the area).
I disagree, the vast, vast majority of users aren't going to go looking for a third party ROM for their phone, they are only going to upgrade if a little thing pops up and says click here to update.
134 staff and emergency workers suffered acute radiation syndrome and of those 28 died of the condition and Of the several hundred thousand liquidators, apart from indications of increased leukaemia risk, there is no other evidence of health effects. In the general public, the only effect with 'persuasive evidence' is a substantial fraction of the 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer in adolescents observed in the affacted areas. By 2005, 15 cases had proved fatal.
So according to the most unbiased report in the list (organization name does not contain concerned or prevent) there have been 43 attributable deaths to the worst nuclear disaster in 60 years of operating commercial plants. There have been many time that many coal miner deaths this year alone.
Rich Uranium ore hasn't been mined in years because the US and Russia dumped decades of supply on the market when they started decommissioning old bombs. There is no shortage of recoverable reserves, just in economically recoverable reserves because mining is competing against almost free already processed fuel at the moment. Uranium mining is dirty, and so is refining, but no more so than coal mining and it has the advantage of being highly localized and containable versus the potential of ruining the environment of the entire planet like coal and oil.
Probably the most efficient way to deal with solar PV at this point for Germany would be to pay Spain/southern France a small lease fee on some very arid land with high insolation and use HVDC to bring it back to Germany. I know my employer is a very large provider of space for PV installations (we own shopping centers in the US, Puerto Rico, and Brazil) and our partner has definitely focused on developing our centers in more southern states (and states with incentives of course) in order to maximize the generated capacity per dollar invested.
No, successful NFL teams exist almost completely because of the TV market they are in. It's pretty hard to screw up an NFL franchise unless you try to punch way above your weight to prove something to your friends and business rivals.
As to your comment about stadiums, in my market at least they got not only a 100% free stadium but they also get a portion of the revenue from the refreshment vendors.
Huh? Since Motoblur, Sense, and Touchwiz are all just shells on top of the base Android OS and can all run the same applications (with small exceptions) I'm not sure what you are getting at? The biggest fragmentation comes from the fact that Google handed over the responsibility of updating the OS to the vendors and the telcos who would rather sell you another phone and/or have you renew your contract than make your existing device work better and so there are 4 major versions in common use with significantly different sets of features.
Yeah, and it can do more than is available through the API's that other third party tools use. Diskeeper is from the guys that made the builtin defrag program that is included with Windows.
You know what, when the ultra wealthy in the middle east need heart surgery they inevitably come to Cleveland, Ohio, USA. You know why? Because the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital are the best in the world at heart treatment. The Mayo Clinic is similar for many forms of cancer treatment. Should it come as a surprise that there are specialties in other countries that exceed what is available in the US? No, I don't think it is in the least surprising that some institution somewhere else in the world should become the leading authority on some new procedure. The fact is that if you have a middle class or better income in the US you can get world class healthcare, if you are poor (approximately 20-33% of the population depending on how you look at the statistics) your chance of receiving world class healthcare are vanishingly small. That is the biggest divide between the US and Europe, not that we particularly trail in medical care, but that we have uneven access to the care that we do have.
You're kidding, right? US citizens pay for more drug R&D than the rest of the world combined. It's a large part of why medical care is growing at ~2x inflation.
People who don't have 8 cores available and who want acceptable performance? People who want their Windows 8 tablet to have a real world battery life longer than two hours?
UDF formatted removable media does work and it will allow you to format it to UDF. RTM apparently had some bugs with UDFs.sys that could cause a BSOD after resume from sleep with removable media, not sure if the post release update to fix some DVD issues resolved the removable media problems or not.
Fab42 is going to be 14nm and is being built right now, I assume they have lab equipment capable of the same so for a demo chip I can easily see them using that process node. Going from 48 cores on 32nm to 256 on 14nm doesn't seem all that incredible.
Uh, most modern GPU's have a lot more than 256 "cores", my fairly low end HD5750 has 720, a GTX 560 has 336 (yes a CUDA core and a SP are different, I know). These chips are the continuation of Larrabee which was meant as a GPU chip.
Office and AV are included in our EA and so there is no marginal cost for them. There is a bit more soft cost for the touchpoints though (ie image, a certain percentage reimage due to malware, etc). The laptops are more to acquire but they don't require an additional monthly fee for data access like the 3G ipads do. I don't think we have any users that just have an ipad, it's always in addition to their desktop/laptop so it's purely additive to annual cost at this point.
I'm not assuming, I'm using numbers from my organization, and if they aren't using the ipad at least 40-50% of the time it's a *really* expensive addition to the employees IT overhead considering it costs almost the same as what a laptop does over three years (TCO calculation not simply purchase price).
Wow, uh are there really people out there who have used an ipad for more than 30 minutes that think you are going to be doing data entry, document creation, coding, or anything else that requires a keyboard for 8 hours a day on an ipad? I mean we're using them more than many businesses because we've found a value for field employees, mobile sales guys, and busy executives that are mostly consuming reports and following up via quick emails. The other ~88% of the company would not find significant value in an ipad.
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Unisys offers 6TB of ram, though still "only" 80 cores. Personally I think you probably need to seriously consider a redesign if you need to go bigger than that, but in the enterprise space that kind of development effort normally costs more than buying a couple million dollar box and the couple hundred thousand a year support contract to go along with it. I guess I'm fortunate in that my biggest workload runs well on a 16 core box with a couple SSD's for the main tables.
Limited number of registers
X86-64, with register renaming 16 is more than enough. AMD did a lot of research before settling on 16, more added significantly to complexity but on increased average program executing speed by low single digit percentages.
Variable instruction length makes decode a headache
Meh, who cares, the whole decoder stage is a couple percent of the non-cache transistor budget. It mattered more back in the PPro era when it was a significant amount of the budget but today it's peanuts and the more verbose ISA makes better use of cache lines which are a much more limited resource in modern designs.
Lots of really bad stuff that isn't used much by modern code by still must be maintained for compatiblity: segments, 286 protection, IO instructions, etc.
Most of it's effectively gone on x86-64 processors even if it's still there for backwards compatibility, if you're writing modern code it has no effect on you.
Yes, because politics and religion have *nothing* to do with the available treatments or availability of abortions to most of the citizens of the EU. *snicker*
When you talk about "abortion pill" are you talking about RU-486? Because that's available in the US, but some very rural citizen may have trouble accessing it during the effective period due to doctors refusing to dispense it on "moral" grounds (it can not be dispensed by pharmacists but only by specially licensed doctors in the US). Or are you talking about progestin levonorgestrel (aka plan B in the US) which is also available and can be replicated by a 4x normal dosage of common birth control pills?
Some of the richest men in the world (the family Saud) come to Cleveland to have heart operations. They rent out an entire floor of the 5 star intercontinental hotel (basically built to house high net worth individuals coming to Cleveland to have heart surgery as well as a few other internationally ranked specialties in the area).
I disagree, the vast, vast majority of users aren't going to go looking for a third party ROM for their phone, they are only going to upgrade if a little thing pops up and says click here to update.
From your own link:
134 staff and emergency workers suffered acute radiation syndrome and of those 28 died of the condition
and
Of the several hundred thousand liquidators, apart from indications of increased leukaemia risk, there is no other evidence of health effects. In the general public, the only effect with 'persuasive evidence' is a substantial fraction of the 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer in adolescents observed in the affacted areas. By 2005, 15 cases had proved fatal.
So according to the most unbiased report in the list (organization name does not contain concerned or prevent) there have been 43 attributable deaths to the worst nuclear disaster in 60 years of operating commercial plants. There have been many time that many coal miner deaths this year alone.
Rich Uranium ore hasn't been mined in years because the US and Russia dumped decades of supply on the market when they started decommissioning old bombs. There is no shortage of recoverable reserves, just in economically recoverable reserves because mining is competing against almost free already processed fuel at the moment. Uranium mining is dirty, and so is refining, but no more so than coal mining and it has the advantage of being highly localized and containable versus the potential of ruining the environment of the entire planet like coal and oil.
Probably the most efficient way to deal with solar PV at this point for Germany would be to pay Spain/southern France a small lease fee on some very arid land with high insolation and use HVDC to bring it back to Germany. I know my employer is a very large provider of space for PV installations (we own shopping centers in the US, Puerto Rico, and Brazil) and our partner has definitely focused on developing our centers in more southern states (and states with incentives of course) in order to maximize the generated capacity per dollar invested.
No, successful NFL teams exist almost completely because of the TV market they are in. It's pretty hard to screw up an NFL franchise unless you try to punch way above your weight to prove something to your friends and business rivals. As to your comment about stadiums, in my market at least they got not only a 100% free stadium but they also get a portion of the revenue from the refreshment vendors.
Huh? Since Motoblur, Sense, and Touchwiz are all just shells on top of the base Android OS and can all run the same applications (with small exceptions) I'm not sure what you are getting at? The biggest fragmentation comes from the fact that Google handed over the responsibility of updating the OS to the vendors and the telcos who would rather sell you another phone and/or have you renew your contract than make your existing device work better and so there are 4 major versions in common use with significantly different sets of features.
Yeah, and it can do more than is available through the API's that other third party tools use. Diskeeper is from the guys that made the builtin defrag program that is included with Windows.
Add Putty, and if you do a lot with AD the joeware tools aren't open source but they are gratis and extremely useful.
Interesting analogy since the owners keep about 50% of the income in the NFL yet do none of the labor.
You know what, when the ultra wealthy in the middle east need heart surgery they inevitably come to Cleveland, Ohio, USA. You know why? Because the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital are the best in the world at heart treatment. The Mayo Clinic is similar for many forms of cancer treatment. Should it come as a surprise that there are specialties in other countries that exceed what is available in the US? No, I don't think it is in the least surprising that some institution somewhere else in the world should become the leading authority on some new procedure. The fact is that if you have a middle class or better income in the US you can get world class healthcare, if you are poor (approximately 20-33% of the population depending on how you look at the statistics) your chance of receiving world class healthcare are vanishingly small. That is the biggest divide between the US and Europe, not that we particularly trail in medical care, but that we have uneven access to the care that we do have.
You're kidding, right? US citizens pay for more drug R&D than the rest of the world combined. It's a large part of why medical care is growing at ~2x inflation.
Uh, Windows still gets battery life than Linux. OSX though generally gets better life than Windows.
People who don't have 8 cores available and who want acceptable performance? People who want their Windows 8 tablet to have a real world battery life longer than two hours?
UDF formatted removable media does work and it will allow you to format it to UDF. RTM apparently had some bugs with UDFs.sys that could cause a BSOD after resume from sleep with removable media, not sure if the post release update to fix some DVD issues resolved the removable media problems or not.
Fab42 is going to be 14nm and is being built right now, I assume they have lab equipment capable of the same so for a demo chip I can easily see them using that process node. Going from 48 cores on 32nm to 256 on 14nm doesn't seem all that incredible.
Uh, most modern GPU's have a lot more than 256 "cores", my fairly low end HD5750 has 720, a GTX 560 has 336 (yes a CUDA core and a SP are different, I know). These chips are the continuation of Larrabee which was meant as a GPU chip.
I don't know, I'm pretty surprised that things are lax enough that a single trader can lose ~9 months of the companies profits.
Office and AV are included in our EA and so there is no marginal cost for them. There is a bit more soft cost for the touchpoints though (ie image, a certain percentage reimage due to malware, etc). The laptops are more to acquire but they don't require an additional monthly fee for data access like the 3G ipads do. I don't think we have any users that just have an ipad, it's always in addition to their desktop/laptop so it's purely additive to annual cost at this point.
I'm not assuming, I'm using numbers from my organization, and if they aren't using the ipad at least 40-50% of the time it's a *really* expensive addition to the employees IT overhead considering it costs almost the same as what a laptop does over three years (TCO calculation not simply purchase price).
Wow, uh are there really people out there who have used an ipad for more than 30 minutes that think you are going to be doing data entry, document creation, coding, or anything else that requires a keyboard for 8 hours a day on an ipad? I mean we're using them more than many businesses because we've found a value for field employees, mobile sales guys, and busy executives that are mostly consuming reports and following up via quick emails. The other ~88% of the company would not find significant value in an ipad.