The engines aren't harmed, they are clogged! A basic part of testing new engines is firing chickens into them with an air cannon, the blades survive just fine but the engine might not operate. The idea of the testing is that the blades coming loose or shattering and taking out fuel lines and such is very bad, all commercial airplanes must be able to function with one engine down and multiple strikes are fortunately uncommon.
Actually there's a company that uses hawks to keep the area around airports clear of nuisance birds. The nice thing about hawks is they aren't blocked by fences so they can keep more than just the grounds of the airport clear.
That the housing bubble did not fully burst is a BAD thing. Houses in many markets had reached an all time high multiple of average wages (to the tune of almost DOUBLE their historic averages). The fact that those prices weren't brought down nearly in line with historic averages means that we will either have a significant period of zero growth in housing (good) or that we are due for another round or two of devaluations (bad). Add to that the complete deterioration in consumer confidence due to wave after wave of mass layoffs and you have the recipe for a very bad time. Many economists have noted that the US savings rate has tripled in the last quarter which would normally be a good thing (we haven't been saving enough for almost a generation), but the fact that it happened all at once is NOT good as it can easily lead to a spiral of deflation as money is pulled out of the economy and the velocity of money decreases significantly.
They did give the idle power for the Nano system though, 43W which is within 10% of the Atom system full out. I really wish they had given the idle numbers for the Atom system, that missing piece would most likely strongly back my argument. Gah, I just did a bit more reasearch and they used the freaking DESKTOP chipset for the Atom. That thing draws 17W more than the portable version which further exacerbates the difference between the platforms.
Well it would be interesting to see the 1GHz Nano vs the 1.6GHz Atom since they would appear to have about the same power envelope once chipset is considered (assuming all other parts between the two units were equivalent) but that's not what the article was comparing at all so claiming the the Nano bests the Atom was way off base.
I'm talking about from TFA the power draw of the entire system. I don't really give a crud about how low power the CPU is, I care how much battery life I can get out of a give weight in batteries. The Atom based unit draws 48W full tilt vs 68W for the Nano based system, heck the Nano system draws 43W idle!
TFA has the Atom based unit running 48W full out and the Nano based unit at 43W idle (no numbers given for Atom system strangely). I think it's safe to assume the Atom unit is drawing significantly less than 43W at idle if it uses 48W running synthetic benchmarks.
Not A HTML page, HTML pages . i-bench is a browser torture test discontinued in 2003 and the HTML dates back to 2001 so it's not too relevant to today's web where CSS and DOM dominate, not table based layouts.
Yeah, it's 1.5-2x faster but it also draws 50% more power so comparing them solely on the basis of CPU performance kind of misses the point of a netbook, if you want a fast CPU use a full laptop.
It's still cheaper to buy $5k in processors than a new $40K+ server, and even with virtualization it's not like racking, configuring, and SAN and network connecting a server is free. Plus with per CPU licensed applications where you are performance constrained it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to lose some percentage of performance when a license upgrade is even more expensive than the time invested. I'm not saying everyone looking for better performance should run out today and buy a drop in CPU upgrade, but there has always been a market for such products because there are always situations where it makes economic sense to do so.
15.204(b) - A transmission system consisting of an intentional radiator, an external radio frequency
power amplifier, and an antenna, may be authorized, marketed and used under this part. However,
when a transmission system is authorized as a system, it must always be marketed as a complete
system and must always be used in the configuration in which it was authorized. An external
radio frequency power amplifier shall be marketed only in the system configuration with which
the amplifier is authorized and shall not be marketed as a separate product.
This part has been interpreted by the lawyers as including the software of the system since it includes things like the ability to boost the power on the internal amp beyond the tested and certified configuration in most cases. I believe ETSI has similar language.
Actually that split has to do with licensing, they are legally required in most jurisdictions to ship ONLY the tested and certified configuration with no (reasonable) possibility of end user reconfiguration. This is true in the US even for the unlicensed ISM bands, I imagine the licensed bands have even more strict confines if not from the licensing authorities then from the telco's who have to maintain their network.
Actually we bought drop in CPU upgrades for our Database server, when you have the time invested in the OS and application installs and QA time not to mention tons of ram it's a very cheap upgrade to just swap out CPU's if you are CPU limited. Spending $5K or so to get 40% better performance out of say $300K is sunk cost is a no brainer. Now that's on the Opteron side not the Phenom side, but again if you do a lot of transcoding it's probably cheaper to buy a new CPU then upgrade the whole rig.
AMD/ATI and NVidia are both questionable to survive the downturn if it is protracted like many are currently speculating. If you were going to start putting money into designing a next generation console today who would YOU pick to design a core component? Remember that if your first GPU choice folds you have not only lost a significant amount of time in the GPU stage but you probably have to go back to the drawing board with the rest of the system.
Larabee is for raytraced graphics which requires lots of processors more powerful than those found of todays GPU's and more complex interactions between functional units which are strengths Intel has. Beyond that Intel is all but guaranteed to come through this depression whereas the other two GPU houses are very questionable. Finally Intel has the best fab processes in the world so they can pack more units into a given die budget then anyone else.
- disallow connecting to ports other than 80 and 443
Proxy server
- disallow reading files in the User's home directory
ACL
- allow reading and writing files in %AppData%\Firefox, but not reading anything else in %AppData%
ACL
- allow writing files to %TEMP%, but allow reading only of the files created by Firefox itself
Hmm, the only way I could do that is have Firefox running under alternate credentials of a user setup just to run Firefox.
Simple scenario, your Vista machine is hosed and can't get online properly so you download the fix tool on your Mac or Linux PC. That took.1 seconds to come up with.
Prototyped? They have a shipping product that's pretty damn good. I think everyone in their target market has probably already heard of them by this point because of the tremendous performance they can achieve for very little dollars. If all you need is flat our performance for a database type app with little storage required they are the obvious solution today. If you need a little better balance of storage and performance then an array of Intel x25-e's is probably better (assuming you can find a decent RAID card, my experience has shown me that the hardware RAID cards available on commodity servers today are crud).
Um, get better SSD's then. Intel x25-e does ~70K 4K 100% random writes with the SATA controller on my HP workstation, you need a very large array of traditional disks fronted by a great controller to match that.
That spectrum isn't going to be used by June, heck it isn't going to be used for at LEAST another couple years given todays capital markets. My guess is the real reason for the delay is so they can reallocate funds into the rebate program for the ~3M households who got left out in the first round. Even if I'm wrong this isn't big government mandating anything, it's the government allowing the current licensees of the spectrum to continue to serve their customers for a bit longer if the choose!
WTF is with that partisanship? Really is turning off DTV something that would be on a parties platform like abortion or the minimum wage?!? I mean are the House Rep's voting against things just to go against the president, and if so why? This country needs leadership and direction not stupid politics as usual. I applauded the Rep's when they voted against the bailout bill the first time but I have to say that kind of childish crap just needs to go.
I assume you are talking about the great folklore around the "September that never ended". Well, I would say that opening up the Internet to the masses was definitely a good thing and that waxing nostalgically about gopher and archie and the "great Usenet culture" is just stupid.
I know it's harsh to say that 5% risk is acceptable when we're talking about human lives, but if they know and understand the risk it is their decision to sign up for a mission.
Of course 5% isn't too high, climbing Everest and K2 are about that dangerous and people do it all the time just to push themselves (there's no glory in doing it today but people still do it). The problem is that NASA's costs would go up by more than 5% with a 5% failure rate for launch vehicles due to the way mission payloads are created, you would have to crunch the numbers and make a bunch of assumptions but I'm not sure it would work out to saving all that much money.
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Block of gelatin, do they at least put a bird ribcage in it?
The engines aren't harmed, they are clogged! A basic part of testing new engines is firing chickens into them with an air cannon, the blades survive just fine but the engine might not operate. The idea of the testing is that the blades coming loose or shattering and taking out fuel lines and such is very bad, all commercial airplanes must be able to function with one engine down and multiple strikes are fortunately uncommon.
Actually there's a company that uses hawks to keep the area around airports clear of nuisance birds. The nice thing about hawks is they aren't blocked by fences so they can keep more than just the grounds of the airport clear.
That the housing bubble did not fully burst is a BAD thing. Houses in many markets had reached an all time high multiple of average wages (to the tune of almost DOUBLE their historic averages). The fact that those prices weren't brought down nearly in line with historic averages means that we will either have a significant period of zero growth in housing (good) or that we are due for another round or two of devaluations (bad). Add to that the complete deterioration in consumer confidence due to wave after wave of mass layoffs and you have the recipe for a very bad time. Many economists have noted that the US savings rate has tripled in the last quarter which would normally be a good thing (we haven't been saving enough for almost a generation), but the fact that it happened all at once is NOT good as it can easily lead to a spiral of deflation as money is pulled out of the economy and the velocity of money decreases significantly.
They did give the idle power for the Nano system though, 43W which is within 10% of the Atom system full out. I really wish they had given the idle numbers for the Atom system, that missing piece would most likely strongly back my argument. Gah, I just did a bit more reasearch and they used the freaking DESKTOP chipset for the Atom. That thing draws 17W more than the portable version which further exacerbates the difference between the platforms.
Well it would be interesting to see the 1GHz Nano vs the 1.6GHz Atom since they would appear to have about the same power envelope once chipset is considered (assuming all other parts between the two units were equivalent) but that's not what the article was comparing at all so claiming the the Nano bests the Atom was way off base.
I'm talking about from TFA the power draw of the entire system. I don't really give a crud about how low power the CPU is, I care how much battery life I can get out of a give weight in batteries. The Atom based unit draws 48W full tilt vs 68W for the Nano based system, heck the Nano system draws 43W idle!
TFA has the Atom based unit running 48W full out and the Nano based unit at 43W idle (no numbers given for Atom system strangely). I think it's safe to assume the Atom unit is drawing significantly less than 43W at idle if it uses 48W running synthetic benchmarks.
Um, RTFA? 48W*1.5=72W, 68~=72.
Not A HTML page, HTML pages . i-bench is a browser torture test discontinued in 2003 and the HTML dates back to 2001 so it's not too relevant to today's web where CSS and DOM dominate, not table based layouts.
Yeah, it's 1.5-2x faster but it also draws 50% more power so comparing them solely on the basis of CPU performance kind of misses the point of a netbook, if you want a fast CPU use a full laptop.
It's still cheaper to buy $5k in processors than a new $40K+ server, and even with virtualization it's not like racking, configuring, and SAN and network connecting a server is free. Plus with per CPU licensed applications where you are performance constrained it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to lose some percentage of performance when a license upgrade is even more expensive than the time invested. I'm not saying everyone looking for better performance should run out today and buy a drop in CPU upgrade, but there has always been a market for such products because there are always situations where it makes economic sense to do so.
15.204(b) - A transmission system consisting of an intentional radiator, an external radio frequency power amplifier, and an antenna, may be authorized, marketed and used under this part. However, when a transmission system is authorized as a system, it must always be marketed as a complete system and must always be used in the configuration in which it was authorized. An external radio frequency power amplifier shall be marketed only in the system configuration with which the amplifier is authorized and shall not be marketed as a separate product.
This part has been interpreted by the lawyers as including the software of the system since it includes things like the ability to boost the power on the internal amp beyond the tested and certified configuration in most cases. I believe ETSI has similar language.
Actually that split has to do with licensing, they are legally required in most jurisdictions to ship ONLY the tested and certified configuration with no (reasonable) possibility of end user reconfiguration. This is true in the US even for the unlicensed ISM bands, I imagine the licensed bands have even more strict confines if not from the licensing authorities then from the telco's who have to maintain their network.
Actually we bought drop in CPU upgrades for our Database server, when you have the time invested in the OS and application installs and QA time not to mention tons of ram it's a very cheap upgrade to just swap out CPU's if you are CPU limited. Spending $5K or so to get 40% better performance out of say $300K is sunk cost is a no brainer. Now that's on the Opteron side not the Phenom side, but again if you do a lot of transcoding it's probably cheaper to buy a new CPU then upgrade the whole rig.
AMD/ATI and NVidia are both questionable to survive the downturn if it is protracted like many are currently speculating. If you were going to start putting money into designing a next generation console today who would YOU pick to design a core component? Remember that if your first GPU choice folds you have not only lost a significant amount of time in the GPU stage but you probably have to go back to the drawing board with the rest of the system.
Larabee is for raytraced graphics which requires lots of processors more powerful than those found of todays GPU's and more complex interactions between functional units which are strengths Intel has. Beyond that Intel is all but guaranteed to come through this depression whereas the other two GPU houses are very questionable. Finally Intel has the best fab processes in the world so they can pack more units into a given die budget then anyone else.
- disallow connecting to ports other than 80 and 443
Proxy server
- disallow reading files in the User's home directory
ACL
- allow reading and writing files in %AppData%\Firefox, but not reading anything else in %AppData%
ACL
- allow writing files to %TEMP%, but allow reading only of the files created by Firefox itself
Hmm, the only way I could do that is have Firefox running under alternate credentials of a user setup just to run Firefox.
Simple scenario, your Vista machine is hosed and can't get online properly so you download the fix tool on your Mac or Linux PC. That took .1 seconds to come up with.
Prototyped? They have a shipping product that's pretty damn good. I think everyone in their target market has probably already heard of them by this point because of the tremendous performance they can achieve for very little dollars. If all you need is flat our performance for a database type app with little storage required they are the obvious solution today. If you need a little better balance of storage and performance then an array of Intel x25-e's is probably better (assuming you can find a decent RAID card, my experience has shown me that the hardware RAID cards available on commodity servers today are crud).
Um, get better SSD's then. Intel x25-e does ~70K 4K 100% random writes with the SATA controller on my HP workstation, you need a very large array of traditional disks fronted by a great controller to match that.
That spectrum isn't going to be used by June, heck it isn't going to be used for at LEAST another couple years given todays capital markets. My guess is the real reason for the delay is so they can reallocate funds into the rebate program for the ~3M households who got left out in the first round. Even if I'm wrong this isn't big government mandating anything, it's the government allowing the current licensees of the spectrum to continue to serve their customers for a bit longer if the choose!
WTF is with that partisanship? Really is turning off DTV something that would be on a parties platform like abortion or the minimum wage?!? I mean are the House Rep's voting against things just to go against the president, and if so why? This country needs leadership and direction not stupid politics as usual. I applauded the Rep's when they voted against the bailout bill the first time but I have to say that kind of childish crap just needs to go.
The year of the internet is, sadly, 1993.
I assume you are talking about the great folklore around the "September that never ended". Well, I would say that opening up the Internet to the masses was definitely a good thing and that waxing nostalgically about gopher and archie and the "great Usenet culture" is just stupid.
I know it's harsh to say that 5% risk is acceptable when we're talking about human lives, but if they know and understand the risk it is their decision to sign up for a mission.
Of course 5% isn't too high, climbing Everest and K2 are about that dangerous and people do it all the time just to push themselves (there's no glory in doing it today but people still do it). The problem is that NASA's costs would go up by more than 5% with a 5% failure rate for launch vehicles due to the way mission payloads are created, you would have to crunch the numbers and make a bunch of assumptions but I'm not sure it would work out to saving all that much money.