Guess you don't live in the real world of IT where DLL/library/RPM/Deb hell is a way of life and the effort in testing changes on a box containing N services is ~(N!) Also many vendor's won't support multiple pieces of their solution running on the same OS install. Not to mention the fact that security is never absolute and having a harder boundary between services can be a good thing. Oh and VMWare solves the multiple kernel problem by using page sharing, but it does come at a small cost in CPU power. There are many thousands of companies saving real money and real watts by using virtualization, it might not be the ultimate solution for every problem but they sure are a good way to EASILY take better advantage of modern hardware.
Troll, really? When was the last time the Chinese waged a war of aggression? When was the last time the Chinese called for an end to the western way of life? Salafi jihadist Arab's have done both quite a bit of late.
And those guys usually give back by demanding and paying for robust, well tested software from their vendors which then give back to the open source community. Since Redhat, Suse, and the other distro's and software houses are by FAR the biggest contributors of code to the OS community those large IT shops are giving back directly by paying the salary of the fulltime developers who are the largest contributors. There are significant contributions from the hobyist/enthusiast sector but the bulk of the work, especially on unsexy areas is done by people who are paid to do the work and either their employer or their customers are carrying those costs.
The thing is once you've put the energy into obtaining these materials you have them in concentrated form so they are not lost, at worst you have to put additional energy into recycling them. This contrasts quite a bit with oil where once it's used you have nothing useful to show for it other than the work you performed with the small percentage of its energy you could capture.
I don't know about you but I'd rather be beholden to the Chinese than the Arabs, the Chinese don't have much desire to see our way of life go away, in fact they seem to want to emulate us.
There were two camps competing within the power structure, the civilian one which was basically resigned to surrender and a hardline contingent within the military that wanted to fight to the last man. The bomb was the final push that forced most of the military contingent to realize they were fighting a futile battle.
Exactly, we're a midsized (S&P 500) company with fairly minimal requirements by enterprise standards and yet our ERP implementation was 6 months and that was considered blazing fast. Two and a half years later we are just really hitting our stride with the system, both from an IT perspective and from a business perspective.
Or he has fuel oil or natural gas for winter heat. My total home fuel bill (electric+gas) is about $300/month, about $200 in electric and $100 in gas (cooking, hot water and clothes drying plus infrastructure) during the summer and $200 in gas and $100 in electricity during the winter.
Damn, Clearwire IS using ~120Mhz in the 2.5Ghz area of the spectrum. The 700Mhz WiMax deployments are still awaiting the shutdown of the analog tv signals later this year.
A 4x difference between sequential reads and 4K random writes is not only plausible but very likely for MLC, in fact in a non-new MLC it's probably closer to 10x.
wph2 data doesn't get transferred with a call handoff? That just makes the whole e911 system kind of worthless in some significant percentage of all calls since most of the time when you are mobile the call will go to either HP, another PSAP (due to tower to emergency coverage non-overlap), or in many cases a department not directly handled by the PSAP.
I think the most likely outcome is SSD's move to something like ExpressCard, a physical spec which extends the PCIe bus out to the storage. The drives will show up as a SCSI/SATA controller AND a virtual disk attached to that controller so that the software layer doesn't have to be changed.
Actually sequential vs random WRITES make a BIG difference for MLC SSD's and a significant difference for SLC SSD's due to the way that cells are accessed.
No mass market SSD can saturate SATA-2 yet, the Intel X-25e at 250MB/s sequential reads is the current performance leader for affordable drives. The next generation will be able to saturate SATA-2 and will probably push SATA-3 before the next SATA spec is finalized if performance trends continue.
You're describing the same sort of stupid thought process that leads people not to vaccinate, "everyone else gets vaccinated so I don't have to since the disease won't hit me". The problem is if too many people get service that doesn't provide 911/don't get vaccinated then the coverage starts to break down and you get to a tragedy of the commons result which is that everyone is relying on a shared good but unwilling to pitch in to support that good.
All of the top slots (Price/QphH) for TPC-H for large systems are owned by Itanium. Unfortunately SPEC doesn't require pricing so you can't compare Specjbb2005 results that way. If you filter for large systems in TPC-C and then sort by Price/TpmC Superdome does quite well.
Yes, but it need not be e911 which is what would be needed to enable the location of a mobile device. Of course I don't think e911 works all that well at all. The other day I called 911 because some idiot was towing a car at very slow speed without warning lights at midnight, I spent several minutes explaining where I was and where I last saw the offending vehicle despite having a brand new Blackberry with e911 capabilities. I was talking to the highway patrol dispatcher which you would assume would be the first group to get e911 capabilities.
Lots of people buy Itanium, they buy them from HP in fairly large quantity. The latest numbers I can find are $713M in Itanium revenue for HP in Q1/2009, out of a total revenue of $3.9B for all of their storage and server group. Sun only had $1.094B in TOTAL server revenue for the quarter which is not broken down between SPARC and x64 lines. IBM's numbers for POWER are almost impossible to tease out of their filings.
AT&T moved voice and EDGE onto 1900Mhz to make room on 900Mhz for 3G service. Now EDGE service is so poor you can't stream music at all over it, works fine on T-Mobile EDGE.
Oh, I'm sure they found it with their brand spanking new GCMS that can accurately detect substances in the parts per trillion, you have to find something to justify that big cash outlay even if it's in such small quantities that it would never affect the biology of any human.
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Guess you don't live in the real world of IT where DLL/library/RPM/Deb hell is a way of life and the effort in testing changes on a box containing N services is ~(N!) Also many vendor's won't support multiple pieces of their solution running on the same OS install. Not to mention the fact that security is never absolute and having a harder boundary between services can be a good thing. Oh and VMWare solves the multiple kernel problem by using page sharing, but it does come at a small cost in CPU power. There are many thousands of companies saving real money and real watts by using virtualization, it might not be the ultimate solution for every problem but they sure are a good way to EASILY take better advantage of modern hardware.
Troll, really? When was the last time the Chinese waged a war of aggression? When was the last time the Chinese called for an end to the western way of life? Salafi jihadist Arab's have done both quite a bit of late.
And those guys usually give back by demanding and paying for robust, well tested software from their vendors which then give back to the open source community. Since Redhat, Suse, and the other distro's and software houses are by FAR the biggest contributors of code to the OS community those large IT shops are giving back directly by paying the salary of the fulltime developers who are the largest contributors. There are significant contributions from the hobyist/enthusiast sector but the bulk of the work, especially on unsexy areas is done by people who are paid to do the work and either their employer or their customers are carrying those costs.
The thing is once you've put the energy into obtaining these materials you have them in concentrated form so they are not lost, at worst you have to put additional energy into recycling them. This contrasts quite a bit with oil where once it's used you have nothing useful to show for it other than the work you performed with the small percentage of its energy you could capture.
I don't know about you but I'd rather be beholden to the Chinese than the Arabs, the Chinese don't have much desire to see our way of life go away, in fact they seem to want to emulate us.
There were two camps competing within the power structure, the civilian one which was basically resigned to surrender and a hardline contingent within the military that wanted to fight to the last man. The bomb was the final push that forced most of the military contingent to realize they were fighting a futile battle.
Exactly, we're a midsized (S&P 500) company with fairly minimal requirements by enterprise standards and yet our ERP implementation was 6 months and that was considered blazing fast. Two and a half years later we are just really hitting our stride with the system, both from an IT perspective and from a business perspective.
Or he has fuel oil or natural gas for winter heat. My total home fuel bill (electric+gas) is about $300/month, about $200 in electric and $100 in gas (cooking, hot water and clothes drying plus infrastructure) during the summer and $200 in gas and $100 in electricity during the winter.
Damn, Clearwire IS using ~120Mhz in the 2.5Ghz area of the spectrum. The 700Mhz WiMax deployments are still awaiting the shutdown of the analog tv signals later this year.
A 4x difference between sequential reads and 4K random writes is not only plausible but very likely for MLC, in fact in a non-new MLC it's probably closer to 10x.
wph2 data doesn't get transferred with a call handoff? That just makes the whole e911 system kind of worthless in some significant percentage of all calls since most of the time when you are mobile the call will go to either HP, another PSAP (due to tower to emergency coverage non-overlap), or in many cases a department not directly handled by the PSAP.
I think the most likely outcome is SSD's move to something like ExpressCard, a physical spec which extends the PCIe bus out to the storage. The drives will show up as a SCSI/SATA controller AND a virtual disk attached to that controller so that the software layer doesn't have to be changed.
Actually sequential vs random WRITES make a BIG difference for MLC SSD's and a significant difference for SLC SSD's due to the way that cells are accessed.
No mass market SSD can saturate SATA-2 yet, the Intel X-25e at 250MB/s sequential reads is the current performance leader for affordable drives. The next generation will be able to saturate SATA-2 and will probably push SATA-3 before the next SATA spec is finalized if performance trends continue.
You're describing the same sort of stupid thought process that leads people not to vaccinate, "everyone else gets vaccinated so I don't have to since the disease won't hit me". The problem is if too many people get service that doesn't provide 911/don't get vaccinated then the coverage starts to break down and you get to a tragedy of the commons result which is that everyone is relying on a shared good but unwilling to pitch in to support that good.
Mobile Internet Device.
All of the top slots (Price/QphH) for TPC-H for large systems are owned by Itanium. Unfortunately SPEC doesn't require pricing so you can't compare Specjbb2005 results that way. If you filter for large systems in TPC-C and then sort by Price/TpmC Superdome does quite well.
Uh, no. WiMax is being implemented in the same sort of frequency range as TV and cellular, not the multigigahertz range where 802.11(x) are.
Yes, but it need not be e911 which is what would be needed to enable the location of a mobile device. Of course I don't think e911 works all that well at all. The other day I called 911 because some idiot was towing a car at very slow speed without warning lights at midnight, I spent several minutes explaining where I was and where I last saw the offending vehicle despite having a brand new Blackberry with e911 capabilities. I was talking to the highway patrol dispatcher which you would assume would be the first group to get e911 capabilities.
Lots of people buy Itanium, they buy them from HP in fairly large quantity. The latest numbers I can find are $713M in Itanium revenue for HP in Q1/2009, out of a total revenue of $3.9B for all of their storage and server group. Sun only had $1.094B in TOTAL server revenue for the quarter which is not broken down between SPARC and x64 lines. IBM's numbers for POWER are almost impossible to tease out of their filings.
Add ANSI T10-DIF for storage to application data validation.
Err, make that 850Mhz for 3G.
AT&T moved voice and EDGE onto 1900Mhz to make room on 900Mhz for 3G service. Now EDGE service is so poor you can't stream music at all over it, works fine on T-Mobile EDGE.
Oh, I'm sure they found it with their brand spanking new GCMS that can accurately detect substances in the parts per trillion, you have to find something to justify that big cash outlay even if it's in such small quantities that it would never affect the biology of any human.
You also need Potassium, flushing your Potassium with too much water and no replacement leads to very bad things.