Because they have a webmaster that knows how to use.htaccess, go to the main page then paste the image URL so your referrer is their site instead of slashdot.
AMD does make $1,000+ chips, just not for the desktop market because that's a few thousand units a month. The Opteron 6174 is a very capable chip depending on the workload. Unfortunately for AMD it came out more than a year after the Nehalem based Xeon's so we standardized on those for our current generation of servers. Previously all our CPU demanding processing was done on AMD (DL585 series boxes).
No, it compiled them for a *different* codepath, when you were comparing Athlon to Netburst that was a *good* thing because the Netburst stuff was optimized for the crazy long pipeline whereas the regular i586 codepath was optimized for a more sane pipeline length and so had superior performance on the Athlon.
lulz, I'm primarily a Windows/Citrix admin and datacenter architect who hasn't maintained Linux systems as a major part of my job description in almost 7 years, but incompetence is incompetence. Heck I haven't run Linux on my desktop since RHL 6 =)
TPC-C and TPC-H are a fairly good vendor neutral way to measure DB performance for OLTP and BI type workloads though there are plenty of games played (read the detailed reports!).
Triggers *never* increase readability IMHO, and tying features to the RDBMS rarely increases maintainability, so that leaves performance which can be enough of a reason to use them but analysis should be done to determine if there aren't other much more significant areas where the code can be optimized to bring overall system performance up to where they are unneeded. Then again most of the software I do care and feeding for is platform neutral COTS that can be run on any of MSSQL/Oracle/DB2 with Postgres or *shudder* MySQL sometimes being options. We do little inhouse coding and what little we do is usually running through frameworks like IBM's Castiron or Oracle Fusion so it's again platform neutral.
Hybrid delivery vehicles don't make much sense or else UPS would have more than 250/20,000+ of their vehicles be hybrid. They're the guys that design routes to maximize right hand turns to reduce fuel consumption, if hybrid's were a panacea they would be doing it bigtime.
I do, but it's mostly non-physical goods, ie buy an MP3 album instead of a CD or a video download instead of buying a DVD. There's also anything that uses USPS, since they are stopping at my house anyways it has to be more fuel efficient to throw a disc on a plane (few ounces) than for me to drive 10+ miles to the nearest video store with a decent selection.
Actually it's part of a content protection mechanism so having possession of it would be a violation of the DMCA unless you are a researcher. It's kind of like posession of burglary tools.
Heck even if the $/month remained constant that would be a significant drop in price as inflation over a decade would reduce the real cost significantly (according to an inflation calculator I found $50 in 2009 was equivalent to $38 in 1999).
It was originally intended to be used only for purposes of tracking hours worked for social security benifits, and in fact the original social security act made it illegal to use it for any other purpose. Along came computers and relational databases and suddenly everyone needed a unique foreign key to keep records straight, the only record that was guaranteed to stay the same over time (mostly) was the SSN or TIN (social security number or taxpayer identification number). This made the SSN ideal for the primary foreign key and hence businesses and government both broke the law and used it to sort records, so much so that the law had to be amended to make it legal to use it as an identifier.
Are birth certificates serialized at the national level in Australia? Because in the US they are granted by the county health departments and there is no national system of tracking them. In fact prior to the IRS requiring SSN's to prove dependent status for minors it was not at all unusual to not have an SSN until your first legit job or turning 18 when males were required to get one for selective services (draft) purposes.
Huh? Of course my masseuse makes that, I pay her directly in cash and she is her own business so it's all hers. My doctor has overhead but since he's also the owner he also makes 100% of what I pay, he just has more overhead than my masseuse. A large percentage of that overhead is in insurance premiums due to stupid verdicts like this one, and in his billing department due to the retarded insurance system in the US. My biggest concern in reforming the area of malpractice is that there are legitimate examples of real harm being done that get limited the same as a nuisance suit.
I hope my doctor is making a hell of a lot more than $50/hr, I pay my masseuse $90/hr (though she has about as much schooling as a non-specialist doctor). Heck for something as uncommon as a surgical procedure I would have no problem paying $1,000+ per hour (and will later this year for a minor elective surgery). If an IT specialist can charge over $200/hr it makes sense that someone who can save or prolong your life should be able to make more.
Meh, warchests are fine if you eventually do something with them, think what would have happened if Apple had liquidated and distributed it's ~$3B in cash (more than the market cap at the time) instead of investing in OSX and the ipod.
Thanks, well they assume a battery technology that's not commercially available, a maximum vehicle lifetime of 92k miles, a lithium extraction technology that's low energy but unlikely to scale to widespread usage of the lithium for transportation, and finally they don't take recycling into account but rather attribute all inputs to virgin materials. Still if you tweak the numbers towards a more realistic mix you still come out with battery powered vehicles being no worse than ICE unless the battery vehicle is primarily powered by coal.
The solution to the trolls is for the government to settle for $1 and split the settlement with the fine ambulance chaser after taking his filing fee =) Wasting everyones time like this produces nothing of value and nets society nothing, the bright individual should go use his brainpower elsewhere to actually help advance society in some way.
It's a research group focused on bringing academic lab work to the commercial world, I can't imagine that they would possibly have any bias for new technologies =) I'm not saying their methods are flawed, but since there's no actual paper available just a press release I'll take it with a grain of NaCl until I can read their actual work. I've seen too many vendor TCO claims to be swayed without the detailed disclosure.
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Also the fact that they had a decent processor interconnect for almost a decade before Intel caved and copied them with QPI.
AMD does make $1,000+ chips, just not for the desktop market because that's a few thousand units a month. The Opteron 6174 is a very capable chip depending on the workload. Unfortunately for AMD it came out more than a year after the Nehalem based Xeon's so we standardized on those for our current generation of servers. Previously all our CPU demanding processing was done on AMD (DL585 series boxes).
-xO, enable SSE1,2,3 for non-Intel CPU's, use it if you want.
No, it compiled them for a *different* codepath, when you were comparing Athlon to Netburst that was a *good* thing because the Netburst stuff was optimized for the crazy long pipeline whereas the regular i586 codepath was optimized for a more sane pipeline length and so had superior performance on the Athlon.
For a strategy game it's rather heavy, especially since it rules out about 90% of the laptops that are over 2 years old.
lulz, I'm primarily a Windows/Citrix admin and datacenter architect who hasn't maintained Linux systems as a major part of my job description in almost 7 years, but incompetence is incompetence. Heck I haven't run Linux on my desktop since RHL 6 =)
TPC-C and TPC-H are a fairly good vendor neutral way to measure DB performance for OLTP and BI type workloads though there are plenty of games played (read the detailed reports!).
Actually SQL 4.21 was the last codeveloped version, version 6.0+ were all MS run, and by SQL 2000 most of the Sybase code was gone.
Dude, seriously, it's 2 clicks from the homepage! Documentation and then version either with or without comments....
Triggers *never* increase readability IMHO, and tying features to the RDBMS rarely increases maintainability, so that leaves performance which can be enough of a reason to use them but analysis should be done to determine if there aren't other much more significant areas where the code can be optimized to bring overall system performance up to where they are unneeded. Then again most of the software I do care and feeding for is platform neutral COTS that can be run on any of MSSQL/Oracle/DB2 with Postgres or *shudder* MySQL sometimes being options. We do little inhouse coding and what little we do is usually running through frameworks like IBM's Castiron or Oracle Fusion so it's again platform neutral.
Hybrid delivery vehicles don't make much sense or else UPS would have more than 250/20,000+ of their vehicles be hybrid. They're the guys that design routes to maximize right hand turns to reduce fuel consumption, if hybrid's were a panacea they would be doing it bigtime.
Cremate with the traditional Viking method, trees are carbon neutral =)
I do, but it's mostly non-physical goods, ie buy an MP3 album instead of a CD or a video download instead of buying a DVD. There's also anything that uses USPS, since they are stopping at my house anyways it has to be more fuel efficient to throw a disc on a plane (few ounces) than for me to drive 10+ miles to the nearest video store with a decent selection.
Actually it's part of a content protection mechanism so having possession of it would be a violation of the DMCA unless you are a researcher. It's kind of like posession of burglary tools.
Heck even if the $/month remained constant that would be a significant drop in price as inflation over a decade would reduce the real cost significantly (according to an inflation calculator I found $50 in 2009 was equivalent to $38 in 1999).
It was originally intended to be used only for purposes of tracking hours worked for social security benifits, and in fact the original social security act made it illegal to use it for any other purpose. Along came computers and relational databases and suddenly everyone needed a unique foreign key to keep records straight, the only record that was guaranteed to stay the same over time (mostly) was the SSN or TIN (social security number or taxpayer identification number). This made the SSN ideal for the primary foreign key and hence businesses and government both broke the law and used it to sort records, so much so that the law had to be amended to make it legal to use it as an identifier.
Are birth certificates serialized at the national level in Australia? Because in the US they are granted by the county health departments and there is no national system of tracking them. In fact prior to the IRS requiring SSN's to prove dependent status for minors it was not at all unusual to not have an SSN until your first legit job or turning 18 when males were required to get one for selective services (draft) purposes.
Huh? Of course my masseuse makes that, I pay her directly in cash and she is her own business so it's all hers. My doctor has overhead but since he's also the owner he also makes 100% of what I pay, he just has more overhead than my masseuse. A large percentage of that overhead is in insurance premiums due to stupid verdicts like this one, and in his billing department due to the retarded insurance system in the US. My biggest concern in reforming the area of malpractice is that there are legitimate examples of real harm being done that get limited the same as a nuisance suit.
You know what you call the guy who finished last in med school, right? Doctor.
I hope my doctor is making a hell of a lot more than $50/hr, I pay my masseuse $90/hr (though she has about as much schooling as a non-specialist doctor). Heck for something as uncommon as a surgical procedure I would have no problem paying $1,000+ per hour (and will later this year for a minor elective surgery). If an IT specialist can charge over $200/hr it makes sense that someone who can save or prolong your life should be able to make more.
eBay sold skype in 2009 for $1.9B, a $125M note, and a 35% stake in the new company.
Meh, warchests are fine if you eventually do something with them, think what would have happened if Apple had liquidated and distributed it's ~$3B in cash (more than the market cap at the time) instead of investing in OSX and the ipod.
Thanks, well they assume a battery technology that's not commercially available, a maximum vehicle lifetime of 92k miles, a lithium extraction technology that's low energy but unlikely to scale to widespread usage of the lithium for transportation, and finally they don't take recycling into account but rather attribute all inputs to virgin materials. Still if you tweak the numbers towards a more realistic mix you still come out with battery powered vehicles being no worse than ICE unless the battery vehicle is primarily powered by coal.
The solution to the trolls is for the government to settle for $1 and split the settlement with the fine ambulance chaser after taking his filing fee =) Wasting everyones time like this produces nothing of value and nets society nothing, the bright individual should go use his brainpower elsewhere to actually help advance society in some way.
It's a research group focused on bringing academic lab work to the commercial world, I can't imagine that they would possibly have any bias for new technologies =) I'm not saying their methods are flawed, but since there's no actual paper available just a press release I'll take it with a grain of NaCl until I can read their actual work. I've seen too many vendor TCO claims to be swayed without the detailed disclosure.