WTF? I think wind should definitely be part of the equation, and that we should use pumped hydro to store excess wind power for the rare event where there's little to no wind across a wide area. We should also be doing tidal, thermal solar, geothermal, and whatever other renewable power generation we can invent. I've said for a long time that future generations are going to hate us because we have burned up a significant percentage of the complex feedstocks needed to make things like plastics, medicines, lubricants, etc. If you think I'm anti-renewable you need to check my posting history. I'm also pro nuclear because I'd much rather have modern nuclear plants than have Uranium ingested into my lungs from all the damn coal fired plants.
They aren't really dropping nuclear, they are exporting it across the Rhine to France. The analysis I've seen is the only way the Germans keep up with historic demand growth short of tanking their economy is to build more interconnects to France and let the French operate those horrible nuclear plants.
I disagree, a handful of bad certificates have been issued in the entire history of public PKI. If the CA's do their job it should remain this way. Throwing out the entire system because there have been mistakes makes no sense to me. Trust is a difficult subject and I don't see how the proposed system is superior to PKI, asking users who to trust is probably inferior to a hierarchy of responsible parties as users are notoriously bad at filtering bad actors from good.
Isn't this what CRL's are for? I mean some fraudulent certificates have been issued by compromised or seedy CA's, remove the seedy ones from the trust chain and the compromised ones can add the fraudulent certs to their CRL's and improve their security and/or process to make sure it doesn't happen again.
WTF, this has to be the most ignorant statement I have ever read on the internet. Mao and Stalin put Hitler to shame in the number of people killed because they both starved tens of millions of people.
Only if you're looking at the desktop market, in the server market Intel really couldn't compete till Nehalem with the introduction of QPI, at least for most of my big workloads.
From 2005 to 2010 in real world server applications, yes AMD beat Intel on price/performance. Then Nehalem was release and for most workloads AMD got beat like a redheaded step child. They battled back for large multithreaded server workloads by adding more and more cores but they still get beat silly for anything where single thread performance matters (a whole bunch of things).
They are 16 physical cores sharing 8 fetch/decoder units, 8 L2 pools, and 8 dual pipline FPU units. It's basically halfway between a HT setup and a "pure" SMP setup. It's AMD making more efficient use of silicon to make up for Intel's process lead. Intel may end up copying the basic design principal because it's just better engineering, much like they did when they copied hypertransport to move away from the front side bus.
It really depends. Even with lots of VM's single core performance can matter. We have a lot of varied workloads but I'm much more likely to have a single core in one VM pegged than I am to have any host be processor bound (my entire production cluster averages ~50k MHz of Gufltown processor time at peak load over the last month, this is out of almost 250k available).
Why not? If you were ever going to do it now would be the time, skilled labor is cheap and materials are generally as cheap as they are going to be in the foreseeable future.
Really? When I did my refi last year it was all done via email and encrypted PDF right up until I had to sign the actual closing papers and that was done on dead tree with a notary public, no fax machines involved. In fact I don't remember anything being done on paper other than the closing when I bought the house 7 years ago.
Doesn't matter, even if you take the best 15k 2.5" (short stroked to 1.8" internally) drive you can buy from HP (and I haven't seen better specs from anyone else) you still get an average latency of ~2.6ms versus a worst case latency of 1.1ms for my SLC cards (average.08ms).
Years is a bit of a stretch, EMC only shipped FASTv1 at the end of 2009, FAST cache just over a year ago. Netapp beat EMC by about 2 months with Flash cache (nee PAM II). The reality is these are very new systems in the enterprise space and there are still way too many restrictions around how they are used (especially EMC and how you have to dedicate drive to a storage pool for FAST). I'd love to use ZFS but a) I'd have to work with Oracle more which I do way too much of anyways, and b) they don't really make a very reliable array around it from what I've been able to gather from others in the industry.
I'm paying about $1,000 for 450GB 15k's with 5 years of 4 hour coverage, but that doesn't include the shelf, installation, the controllers, the SAN switches, the HBA's, or the RAID overhead. For me the equation was simple, for our ERP system the DB went onto mirrored SLC flash cards where we get lower latency than 15k disks could hope to give us even with a decent amount of cache in front because the workload is random. For what I spent on those two SSD's I couldn't have bought even 3 shelves of additional drives for our SAN with all of the major costs already paid for. The numbers were similar for our BI database but the other limiting factor there was the power budget for DR, we rent rack space at a major colo and are already near the limit for what we can have delivered to our cage so there was no way I could add enough spinning disk to get the performance we needed so going with an Enterprise MLC drive was a no brainer.
That works if your data set is smaller than 64GB, our BI dataset is 320GB and expected to double in size in the next year or two. I put it on a $15,000 card from FusionIO (MLC 640GB) and have achieved great performance, there's no way I could have achieved anywhere near the same performance with an extra $15k in the server or the SAN.
That's why you make a very large no fault breakup payment part of the acceptance. Deutsche Telekom did this with the AT&T merger and looks likely to make $3B and still get to sell the company to someone else.
Funny enough the increase in population has mostly come during one of the most peaceful times in human history. A smaller percentage of the human population has been under arms since the 1950's than any time in recorded history (and we can surmise from archaeology that the trend probably goes back as far as civilization and beyond).
Nope, the majority of people who have ever been alive are alive right now. That's how fast population has exploded since the 1950's and the start of the green revolution. The wheat yield in 1950 was ~700 kg/Ha, by 2000 it was up to ~2,700 kg/Ha.
In fact it's in the US Navy Museum in Washington DC (which is right next to the old NCIS headquarters so you can see the museum on the show of the same name when they do real onsite shots).
It's not that the plant wasn't potentially profitable when it was subsidized, it's that it can't be profitable today because China has sunk 10x more subsidies into their own production capacity and further subsidizes production by externalizing the environment damage to the rest of the society.
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WTF? I think wind should definitely be part of the equation, and that we should use pumped hydro to store excess wind power for the rare event where there's little to no wind across a wide area. We should also be doing tidal, thermal solar, geothermal, and whatever other renewable power generation we can invent. I've said for a long time that future generations are going to hate us because we have burned up a significant percentage of the complex feedstocks needed to make things like plastics, medicines, lubricants, etc. If you think I'm anti-renewable you need to check my posting history. I'm also pro nuclear because I'd much rather have modern nuclear plants than have Uranium ingested into my lungs from all the damn coal fired plants.
They aren't really dropping nuclear, they are exporting it across the Rhine to France. The analysis I've seen is the only way the Germans keep up with historic demand growth short of tanking their economy is to build more interconnects to France and let the French operate those horrible nuclear plants.
I disagree, a handful of bad certificates have been issued in the entire history of public PKI. If the CA's do their job it should remain this way. Throwing out the entire system because there have been mistakes makes no sense to me. Trust is a difficult subject and I don't see how the proposed system is superior to PKI, asking users who to trust is probably inferior to a hierarchy of responsible parties as users are notoriously bad at filtering bad actors from good.
Isn't this what CRL's are for? I mean some fraudulent certificates have been issued by compromised or seedy CA's, remove the seedy ones from the trust chain and the compromised ones can add the fraudulent certs to their CRL's and improve their security and/or process to make sure it doesn't happen again.
No, the licensing fee was initially $1/port which dwarfed the cost difference of the hardware.
And the server part was released in late 2009 with OEM system availability in very late Q4/early 2010, what's your point?
.but people didn't starve to death either
WTF, this has to be the most ignorant statement I have ever read on the internet. Mao and Stalin put Hitler to shame in the number of people killed because they both starved tens of millions of people.
Only if you're looking at the desktop market, in the server market Intel really couldn't compete till Nehalem with the introduction of QPI, at least for most of my big workloads.
From 2005 to 2010 in real world server applications, yes AMD beat Intel on price/performance. Then Nehalem was release and for most workloads AMD got beat like a redheaded step child. They battled back for large multithreaded server workloads by adding more and more cores but they still get beat silly for anything where single thread performance matters (a whole bunch of things).
They are 16 physical cores sharing 8 fetch/decoder units, 8 L2 pools, and 8 dual pipline FPU units. It's basically halfway between a HT setup and a "pure" SMP setup. It's AMD making more efficient use of silicon to make up for Intel's process lead. Intel may end up copying the basic design principal because it's just better engineering, much like they did when they copied hypertransport to move away from the front side bus.
It really depends. Even with lots of VM's single core performance can matter. We have a lot of varied workloads but I'm much more likely to have a single core in one VM pegged than I am to have any host be processor bound (my entire production cluster averages ~50k MHz of Gufltown processor time at peak load over the last month, this is out of almost 250k available).
It's been tried and failed because Marx made the critical mistake of assuming you could remove greed from the human condition, it can't be done.
Why not? If you were ever going to do it now would be the time, skilled labor is cheap and materials are generally as cheap as they are going to be in the foreseeable future.
Really? When I did my refi last year it was all done via email and encrypted PDF right up until I had to sign the actual closing papers and that was done on dead tree with a notary public, no fax machines involved. In fact I don't remember anything being done on paper other than the closing when I bought the house 7 years ago.
Doesn't matter, even if you take the best 15k 2.5" (short stroked to 1.8" internally) drive you can buy from HP (and I haven't seen better specs from anyone else) you still get an average latency of ~2.6ms versus a worst case latency of 1.1ms for my SLC cards (average .08ms).
Years is a bit of a stretch, EMC only shipped FASTv1 at the end of 2009, FAST cache just over a year ago. Netapp beat EMC by about 2 months with Flash cache (nee PAM II). The reality is these are very new systems in the enterprise space and there are still way too many restrictions around how they are used (especially EMC and how you have to dedicate drive to a storage pool for FAST). I'd love to use ZFS but a) I'd have to work with Oracle more which I do way too much of anyways, and b) they don't really make a very reliable array around it from what I've been able to gather from others in the industry.
I'm paying about $1,000 for 450GB 15k's with 5 years of 4 hour coverage, but that doesn't include the shelf, installation, the controllers, the SAN switches, the HBA's, or the RAID overhead. For me the equation was simple, for our ERP system the DB went onto mirrored SLC flash cards where we get lower latency than 15k disks could hope to give us even with a decent amount of cache in front because the workload is random. For what I spent on those two SSD's I couldn't have bought even 3 shelves of additional drives for our SAN with all of the major costs already paid for. The numbers were similar for our BI database but the other limiting factor there was the power budget for DR, we rent rack space at a major colo and are already near the limit for what we can have delivered to our cage so there was no way I could add enough spinning disk to get the performance we needed so going with an Enterprise MLC drive was a no brainer.
That works if your data set is smaller than 64GB, our BI dataset is 320GB and expected to double in size in the next year or two. I put it on a $15,000 card from FusionIO (MLC 640GB) and have achieved great performance, there's no way I could have achieved anywhere near the same performance with an extra $15k in the server or the SAN.
That's why you make a very large no fault breakup payment part of the acceptance. Deutsche Telekom did this with the AT&T merger and looks likely to make $3B and still get to sell the company to someone else.
Funny enough the increase in population has mostly come during one of the most peaceful times in human history. A smaller percentage of the human population has been under arms since the 1950's than any time in recorded history (and we can surmise from archaeology that the trend probably goes back as far as civilization and beyond).
Nope, the majority of people who have ever been alive are alive right now. That's how fast population has exploded since the 1950's and the start of the green revolution. The wheat yield in 1950 was ~700 kg/Ha, by 2000 it was up to ~2,700 kg/Ha.
Bingo. I hate wearing hats but have to now that I'm pretty much completely bald.
In fact it's in the US Navy Museum in Washington DC (which is right next to the old NCIS headquarters so you can see the museum on the show of the same name when they do real onsite shots).
It's not that the plant wasn't potentially profitable when it was subsidized, it's that it can't be profitable today because China has sunk 10x more subsidies into their own production capacity and further subsidizes production by externalizing the environment damage to the rest of the society.
The Amazon was just fine from 10,000BC to 5,500BC while the area currently part of the Sahara ranged from lush to semi-arid.