Why not? Viewing history through the lens of popular culture is often one of the best ways to understand the issue and the society around the issue. It also informs us in how history shapes the future.
Um, it would break things for me and that's with a 2 year old app. The problem is every time the application does just about anything it does a DNS lookup and for some reason doesn't cache the results and invalidates the Windows DNS Client cache. The only way to get good performance is to use host files. Yes I know the real solution is to get the app fixed, but even if Oracle were to take my bug seriously it would still be another year before I got the fix in place as it would be a code change and we already have a workaround.
Considering the number of new classes, the balance changes, and the complete skills overhall, yeah I'd say LoD was a significantly different game than D2 pre-LoD.
Actually I dislike the WoW model. I bought BC because I thought it might bring enough enjoyment with new content to make the game worth playing again, I played for about 15 days and vowed never to touch WoW again because BC was the same game with some new sprites, definitely NOT worth the money for the expansion pack and certainly not worth the monthly fee. I prefer the Diablo model, free online play and new content via expansion packs. I'm frankly quite suprised that there wasn't a second expansion pack for Diablo 2 at least as that game STILL sells copies today!
Oh, and the HP storage is internal, it has room for 16 internal 2.5" drives, kind of like a cross between a thumper and x4600 =) I personally like both HP and Sun as they both provide excellent hardware, good oob management capabilities and good support. The HP example was just a "lets see how expensive we can make an x64 server without too much shopping" thing, I would never order that configuration. For about 1/6th of the price I can get a 4x quad core AMD with 128GB of ram, put two in a RAC configuration and you have just as much power and more fault tolerance for way less money.
So basically they unbundled the stuff that should have come with the game and charge you extra for it, I love the new freaking game industry.... It's like they see the money that Blizzard is making and just figure, hey it's online so it MUST be a license to print money. What crap. What they fail to realize is that Blizzard made money online for a long time without raping the customer. Hell they still make money off the Diablo model to this day.
Actually, I get about $74k for a 8cpu 256GB model with 2 drives and slower CPU's, still not a bad deal comparatively. I guess if you already have a SAN you'd have to compare adding another 14 drives to it as compared with the extra cost of the HP.
It ain't ethernet used in the interconnect, it's Infiniband. Of course I can get twice as many blades in my HP c-class enclosure and use Infiniband too =)
Those aren't trade secrets, they are patents and the other companies have found ways to use the same pathways without violating the original patent. That's how patents are supposed to work, you are supposed to get a limited monopoly on your idea.
No, CAD stands for Computer Aided Design and CAM stands for Computer Aided Manufacturing. It's been that way since forever. Out of 3 pages of Google results for define:CAD only one definition agrees with you on drafting.
Those programmer/DBA screw ups should be totally recoverable in an Oracle shop. Between FRA and undo there's no way you should not be able to recover quickly.
Huh? Oracle doesn't even have a licensing server, you're just expected to comply with the licensing terms. I guess they probably put in some wording about auditing into the license, but I've never heard of Oracle exercising that option.
Yes but research has led to cheaper arrangements than the tradition torus bus that have nearly as good of performance. Fat trees and other arrangements of 'commodity' interconnect switches can perform pretty damn well for a fraction of what it costs to buy a tradition supercomputer. Using Infiniband you can get high bandwidth and low latency for a damn cheap price up to about 1024 nodes.
There isn't, if Unisys doesn't have it no one does. They basically are billed as the mainframe maker of the x86 market. They were the ones that spurred the development of the Windows Datacenter edition development. There are some VERY large databases running on Unisys hardware.
Any decent host is also going to kill you for bringing more power to your rack so there is definitely a balancing point. The fact is that the datacenter is designed for a certain power density and going beyond that really screws things up. Airflow and cooling densities, percentage of space allocated to UPS and generators, etc. But, looking at the Intel press release, these suckers pack 6 cores into a 65W power envelope, quite impressive. This compares quite favorably with the 45W for the best current generation quad cores, so total system power per computation should improve quite a bit. Now if only we could get Intel to get away from using power hungry FB-DIMMS.
Actually I heard a potential system that would be great, trap the emissions of coal plants and feed them to algae in huge farms of tubes. Take the algae and make bio-diesel from it. It would theoretically drop our carbon output by like 40% overall. I think it's just in the early lab stage at this point but I hope it works out.
Huh? The markets down 5% is certainly NOT anywhere near the worst in modern trading. Black Monday was more points dropped and a heck of a lot more percentage (22.68%). Based on the severity of the news I was relieved when the market was only down a couple hundred points at lunch. Heck today was barely worse than an average day with current volatility, I'd say the markets took things rather well all things considered.
They can tune the fractional distillation columns to give them pretty much whatever fraction they want (within reason). There are optimal setups for certain crude and certain equipment, but they will tune things to what the market demands. The changes that came about because of ULSD caused some of the interesting sulfur leftovers for lubrication applications to be no longer produced, so one enterprising refinery made non-ULSD for the Mexican market and sold these compounds at pretty good markup to the lubricants industry.
50mpg with a diesel isn't that impressive since diesel is about 18% higher density per unit volume than gasoline, that's only equivalent to ~42mpg with gas, not at all hard with a light car. What's more interesting is gasoline is more energy dense per unit mass, so it's net more efficient all things being equal (IE you have to carry less mass for the same amount of range at equivalent fuel efficiencies).
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If you can't do at least a LITTLE of the technical stuff then you better be willing and able to listen to your technical people! I'm lucky enough to have a director who spent 20+ years in the trenches, but our VP is not at all a technical person. When she asks us to do something that would be extremely difficult or impossible to implement we let her know and she listens. Her strengths are in managing people and contract negotiations, she got us Oracle Enterprise at a cost that Microsoft corporate refused to match (for SQL Server Enterprise) and her modification to contracts has saved our bacon several times.
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Why not? Viewing history through the lens of popular culture is often one of the best ways to understand the issue and the society around the issue. It also informs us in how history shapes the future.
Um, it would break things for me and that's with a 2 year old app. The problem is every time the application does just about anything it does a DNS lookup and for some reason doesn't cache the results and invalidates the Windows DNS Client cache. The only way to get good performance is to use host files. Yes I know the real solution is to get the app fixed, but even if Oracle were to take my bug seriously it would still be another year before I got the fix in place as it would be a code change and we already have a workaround.
Considering the number of new classes, the balance changes, and the complete skills overhall, yeah I'd say LoD was a significantly different game than D2 pre-LoD.
Actually I dislike the WoW model. I bought BC because I thought it might bring enough enjoyment with new content to make the game worth playing again, I played for about 15 days and vowed never to touch WoW again because BC was the same game with some new sprites, definitely NOT worth the money for the expansion pack and certainly not worth the monthly fee. I prefer the Diablo model, free online play and new content via expansion packs. I'm frankly quite suprised that there wasn't a second expansion pack for Diablo 2 at least as that game STILL sells copies today!
Oh, and the HP storage is internal, it has room for 16 internal 2.5" drives, kind of like a cross between a thumper and x4600 =) I personally like both HP and Sun as they both provide excellent hardware, good oob management capabilities and good support. The HP example was just a "lets see how expensive we can make an x64 server without too much shopping" thing, I would never order that configuration. For about 1/6th of the price I can get a 4x quad core AMD with 128GB of ram, put two in a RAC configuration and you have just as much power and more fault tolerance for way less money.
So basically they unbundled the stuff that should have come with the game and charge you extra for it, I love the new freaking game industry.... It's like they see the money that Blizzard is making and just figure, hey it's online so it MUST be a license to print money. What crap. What they fail to realize is that Blizzard made money online for a long time without raping the customer. Hell they still make money off the Diablo model to this day.
Actually, I get about $74k for a 8cpu 256GB model with 2 drives and slower CPU's, still not a bad deal comparatively. I guess if you already have a SAN you'd have to compare adding another 14 drives to it as compared with the extra cost of the HP.
Ha, a fully loaded HP DL785 G5 with 8x quad core AMD's, 256GB of ram, 16x 72GB 15k drives, a couple 10gbit nic's and a couple hba's tops $150k list!
It ain't ethernet used in the interconnect, it's Infiniband. Of course I can get twice as many blades in my HP c-class enclosure and use Infiniband too =)
Those aren't trade secrets, they are patents and the other companies have found ways to use the same pathways without violating the original patent. That's how patents are supposed to work, you are supposed to get a limited monopoly on your idea.
No, CAD stands for Computer Aided Design and CAM stands for Computer Aided Manufacturing. It's been that way since forever. Out of 3 pages of Google results for define:CAD only one definition agrees with you on drafting.
Yes, proportions of acid and sugar are different in each.
Actually ours included everything, all features and OEM. Our VP is a master negotiator =)
Those programmer/DBA screw ups should be totally recoverable in an Oracle shop. Between FRA and undo there's no way you should not be able to recover quickly.
Huh? Oracle doesn't even have a licensing server, you're just expected to comply with the licensing terms. I guess they probably put in some wording about auditing into the license, but I've never heard of Oracle exercising that option.
SQL Server isn't always cheaper than Oracle, we got Oracle Enterprise for a price that Redmond refused to match for SQL Enterprise.
MySQL is a lighter weight process so if you want to replicate to a low power machine like a laptop it's probably a better fit.
Yes but research has led to cheaper arrangements than the tradition torus bus that have nearly as good of performance. Fat trees and other arrangements of 'commodity' interconnect switches can perform pretty damn well for a fraction of what it costs to buy a tradition supercomputer. Using Infiniband you can get high bandwidth and low latency for a damn cheap price up to about 1024 nodes.
There isn't, if Unisys doesn't have it no one does. They basically are billed as the mainframe maker of the x86 market. They were the ones that spurred the development of the Windows Datacenter edition development. There are some VERY large databases running on Unisys hardware.
Any decent host is also going to kill you for bringing more power to your rack so there is definitely a balancing point. The fact is that the datacenter is designed for a certain power density and going beyond that really screws things up. Airflow and cooling densities, percentage of space allocated to UPS and generators, etc. But, looking at the Intel press release, these suckers pack 6 cores into a 65W power envelope, quite impressive. This compares quite favorably with the 45W for the best current generation quad cores, so total system power per computation should improve quite a bit. Now if only we could get Intel to get away from using power hungry FB-DIMMS.
Actually I heard a potential system that would be great, trap the emissions of coal plants and feed them to algae in huge farms of tubes. Take the algae and make bio-diesel from it. It would theoretically drop our carbon output by like 40% overall. I think it's just in the early lab stage at this point but I hope it works out.
Huh? The markets down 5% is certainly NOT anywhere near the worst in modern trading. Black Monday was more points dropped and a heck of a lot more percentage (22.68%). Based on the severity of the news I was relieved when the market was only down a couple hundred points at lunch. Heck today was barely worse than an average day with current volatility, I'd say the markets took things rather well all things considered.
They can tune the fractional distillation columns to give them pretty much whatever fraction they want (within reason). There are optimal setups for certain crude and certain equipment, but they will tune things to what the market demands. The changes that came about because of ULSD caused some of the interesting sulfur leftovers for lubrication applications to be no longer produced, so one enterprising refinery made non-ULSD for the Mexican market and sold these compounds at pretty good markup to the lubricants industry.
50mpg with a diesel isn't that impressive since diesel is about 18% higher density per unit volume than gasoline, that's only equivalent to ~42mpg with gas, not at all hard with a light car. What's more interesting is gasoline is more energy dense per unit mass, so it's net more efficient all things being equal (IE you have to carry less mass for the same amount of range at equivalent fuel efficiencies).
If you can't do at least a LITTLE of the technical stuff then you better be willing and able to listen to your technical people! I'm lucky enough to have a director who spent 20+ years in the trenches, but our VP is not at all a technical person. When she asks us to do something that would be extremely difficult or impossible to implement we let her know and she listens. Her strengths are in managing people and contract negotiations, she got us Oracle Enterprise at a cost that Microsoft corporate refused to match (for SQL Server Enterprise) and her modification to contracts has saved our bacon several times.