LTO4 tapes cost $50 and hold 1.6TB, require zero energy while at rest, are easy to transport, etc. Of course I also have servers at our DR site with full replica's of my production environment, but they do not serve the same purpose at all because the DR servers can fall victim to the same faults and abuses as the production systems while the mounds of offline tapes at my offsite storage are a lot more impervious.
I can read 16 year old DLT-IV tapes with equipment I have laying around (and have for realestate tax documents for my current employer!). SAS is already almost a decade old and there are draft proposals going out till 2014 that AFAIK maintain backward compatibility.
Storage capacity of this tape ~35,000GB
LTO tape = 4.15" Height x 0.85" Width x 4.02" Depth or 2,324 mm^3 giving ~15GB/mm^3
The biggest MicroSD card I could find was 32GB
Width: 11 mm x Length: 15 mm x Thickness: 1 mm or 165 mm^3 giving 0.194GB/mm^3
Conclusion:
This tape trashes microsd for storage density, heck even LTO4 drives beat microsd by ~50%.
They increased particle density and kept linear speed the same so the ratio of data to time should be roughly the same. Of course that means keeping the drive fed with 44x more bandwidth which could really only be done with D2D2T with the disk target being a very fast array.
Are you saying tape is outdated? Because for organizations that have large storage requirements you can't get any cheaper than tape, and it has superior archival and transportation properties than HDD's as well.
There's a package from NIM (not to be confused with RIM!) called Gokiva Navigator that does voice turn by turn directions including lane guidance, route caching and route recalculation. Unfortunately it's a monthly fee instead of a one time purchase so I decided to just stick with Google Maps Mobile which was good enough for my recent 3200 mile cross country trip.
How do you know how much they spent on it? I've never seen any public records of their burn rate or total spent. They were a small studio and at one point the principals were paying salary out of their own pocket so it's not like Roper and friends were sucking the VC money out of the company. Also it appears they learned their lesson and with Runic they released Torchlight (a pretty kick ass game, if a bit short) as a way to raise funds to keep their bigger plans on track.
It just wasn't good enough to get them to where they could release Mythos which would have been the cash cow. Like many small businesses their essential failing was being under-capitalized, not necessarily a terrible product.
*You* might have to break into somewhere but there are plenty of companies and academic institutions with access to the Windows source code. I'm not sure what the procedures are for submitting fixes is, if it's even possible, but it is out there.
Besides that with ~9M iPhone subscribers they are pulling in over $630M per MONTH meaning even if the $5B figure is right they have to spend less than 8 months revenue from just the iPhone to upgrade their network that they have neglected for years.
The backdoor to that system as we've seen is to sell of a patent to a investment firm which stands up a patent troll company (or buys a small company in the field and turns it into a patent troll) and have them abuse it, the MAD strategy then no longer works as the opponent only exists to spend their cash reserves on the lawsuit and to turn over any profits to the investors.
This issue has been discussed [slashdot.org] on/. many times before. Mozilla needs a sponsor. Their revenues are the only thing that lets them stand out from most of the rest of the OSS crowd as a truly professional piece of software. Lose those revenues and it will eventually deteriorate into yet another lame piece of poorly-documented, poorly-maintained piece of abandonware on SourceForge.
This is why a standing army is a bad thing mkay. There's a reason the founding fathers didn't make any structure for it in the constitution and in fact wrote quite strongly against it. It's a lot harder to suppress the populace if you have to raise your army from their ranks.
Huh? The outer left and right rows on this picture are the memory controllers, that's what 5-10% of the total die area? Adding 1/3rd more pins would add a couple percent to the overall cost of the chip. Now on lower level parts where there's half as many logic units it would be more significant, but there's a reason that lower end parts have less memory bandwidth (and they need less since they can process less per clock.)
This monster is already 550 mm^2, I don't think the couple million transistors needed to do a 512bit bus would be noticed, nor would the cost of the pins to connect to the outside. The more likely explanation is that they aren't memory starved and that trying to route the extra high precision lanes on the board was either too hard or was going to require more layers in the PCB which would add significant cost.
It's basically a rough pattern filter that the bot is supposed to follow on parts of the site not to crawl. One reason it's used is that you can have dynamically generated pages that create an infinite loop that's impossible for the bot to detect.
The site the wear on machine dies as a factor, but what's the expected number of discharges that these super-capacitors can be expected to survive, the coils?
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LTO4 tapes cost $50 and hold 1.6TB, require zero energy while at rest, are easy to transport, etc. Of course I also have servers at our DR site with full replica's of my production environment, but they do not serve the same purpose at all because the DR servers can fall victim to the same faults and abuses as the production systems while the mounds of offline tapes at my offsite storage are a lot more impervious.
I can read 16 year old DLT-IV tapes with equipment I have laying around (and have for realestate tax documents for my current employer!). SAS is already almost a decade old and there are draft proposals going out till 2014 that AFAIK maintain backward compatibility.
Storage capacity of this tape ~35,000GB
LTO tape = 4.15" Height x 0.85" Width x 4.02" Depth or 2,324 mm^3 giving ~15GB/mm^3
The biggest MicroSD card I could find was 32GB
Width: 11 mm x Length: 15 mm x Thickness: 1 mm or 165 mm^3 giving 0.194GB/mm^3
Conclusion:
This tape trashes microsd for storage density, heck even LTO4 drives beat microsd by ~50%.
They increased particle density and kept linear speed the same so the ratio of data to time should be roughly the same. Of course that means keeping the drive fed with 44x more bandwidth which could really only be done with D2D2T with the disk target being a very fast array.
Are you saying tape is outdated? Because for organizations that have large storage requirements you can't get any cheaper than tape, and it has superior archival and transportation properties than HDD's as well.
iPhone is $70 per line for the base plan (plus the usual taxes and fees).
There's a package from NIM (not to be confused with RIM!) called Gokiva Navigator that does voice turn by turn directions including lane guidance, route caching and route recalculation. Unfortunately it's a monthly fee instead of a one time purchase so I decided to just stick with Google Maps Mobile which was good enough for my recent 3200 mile cross country trip.
Wow, stating facts is now considered trolling?
How do you know how much they spent on it? I've never seen any public records of their burn rate or total spent. They were a small studio and at one point the principals were paying salary out of their own pocket so it's not like Roper and friends were sucking the VC money out of the company. Also it appears they learned their lesson and with Runic they released Torchlight (a pretty kick ass game, if a bit short) as a way to raise funds to keep their bigger plans on track.
It just wasn't good enough to get them to where they could release Mythos which would have been the cash cow. Like many small businesses their essential failing was being under-capitalized, not necessarily a terrible product.
*You* might have to break into somewhere but there are plenty of companies and academic institutions with access to the Windows source code. I'm not sure what the procedures are for submitting fixes is, if it's even possible, but it is out there.
Besides that with ~9M iPhone subscribers they are pulling in over $630M per MONTH meaning even if the $5B figure is right they have to spend less than 8 months revenue from just the iPhone to upgrade their network that they have neglected for years.
How does Google use it's patents against a private equity fund?
The backdoor to that system as we've seen is to sell of a patent to a investment firm which stands up a patent troll company (or buys a small company in the field and turns it into a patent troll) and have them abuse it, the MAD strategy then no longer works as the opponent only exists to spend their cash reserves on the lawsuit and to turn over any profits to the investors.
This issue has been discussed [slashdot.org] on /. many times before. Mozilla needs a sponsor. Their revenues are the only thing that lets them stand out from most of the rest of the OSS crowd as a truly professional piece of software. Lose those revenues and it will eventually deteriorate into yet another lame piece of poorly-documented, poorly-maintained piece of abandonware on SourceForge.
Like Apache? Like the Linux kernel?
On the other hand, it's much harder to fight a war against a foreign enemy if you have to raise a conscript army to do it,
You say that like it's a bad thing....
This is why a standing army is a bad thing mkay. There's a reason the founding fathers didn't make any structure for it in the constitution and in fact wrote quite strongly against it. It's a lot harder to suppress the populace if you have to raise your army from their ranks.
Yep, it's all natural, just like Arsenic,Strychnine, and Nightshade.
Huh? The outer left and right rows on this picture are the memory controllers, that's what 5-10% of the total die area? Adding 1/3rd more pins would add a couple percent to the overall cost of the chip. Now on lower level parts where there's half as many logic units it would be more significant, but there's a reason that lower end parts have less memory bandwidth (and they need less since they can process less per clock.)
Prescott dissipated 105W from only 112 mm^2, or about twice the power density of this chip, I don't think cooling will be a major problem.
This monster is already 550 mm^2, I don't think the couple million transistors needed to do a 512bit bus would be noticed, nor would the cost of the pins to connect to the outside. The more likely explanation is that they aren't memory starved and that trying to route the extra high precision lanes on the board was either too hard or was going to require more layers in the PCB which would add significant cost.
Compared to the watts you would need to run a Xeon or Opteron to get the same double precision performance it's a huge bargain.
It's basically a rough pattern filter that the bot is supposed to follow on parts of the site not to crawl. One reason it's used is that you can have dynamically generated pages that create an infinite loop that's impossible for the bot to detect.
I wonder if it's a CR/CRLF bug =)
The site the wear on machine dies as a factor, but what's the expected number of discharges that these super-capacitors can be expected to survive, the coils?