I also can't believe they charge $100 for such a teeny drive, I've been able to buy quality (Seagate) 500GB SATA drives for well under $100 for over a year now. In fact last week I saw them for $69 without any rebates.
Actually the greater scientific community is often blinded by their own biases and the preponderance of builtup knowledge, even if that knowledge can be shown to be a shaky logical foundation. It's not unusual for major groundbreaking work to be dismissed during the lifetime of the discoverer and only embraced one or two generations later.
The FDA induced price tag is there because they ostensibly make sure that the product and process are safe and effective and that any negative consequences are well documented. This is not at all true for supplements. While there are some supplements that are effective the industry as a whole is largely ineffective (see the history of medicine men before modern science got involved).
Heck, even in the strongest systems if they have power to reset your password they can be you and open whatever you've got.
Untrue, with two factor authentication you can make it so that the person who can reset your password can't assign your device, so a single person can't impersonate you.
It's not freaking 640GB/s, there's only one switch in existence that can do that much (Cisco 7000, the Brocade DCX-Backbone is the only other one that's close and it's 6.4Tb/s total per chassis). It's ~4.4GB/s, 1.1M peak IOPS * 4KB chunks...
I stand corrected, from the talkback link I followed a trail to an IBM blog with a LOT more details here, and this is the 70/30 SPC-1 benchmark numbers with cache disabled. This is freaking phenomenal performance! The storage is only 4TB, but if you put your logs, flashback, and temp tables on this beast and pinned your busiest tables in ram you would have a screaming OLTP database. I guess it's now just a matter of price, but a rack of x-series boxes with flash card's shouldn't be THAT expensive. Unless IBM asks for a crazy markup it should be affordable for most enterprises (ok, pretty much a given with IBM but still).
While managing to achieve 1M IOPS is somewhat impressive, it's not hard to do for an optimal theoretical situation. Xiotech was showing 500,000+ IOPS from three of their new Emprise 5000 storage shelfs at Storage Networking World this spring, but it was all video and synthetic sequential reads. That same system would only pull about 20K IOPS on the SPC-1 real world benchmark.
I'm sorry but the advances in the cellular world in the last 8 years are leaps and bounds ahead of what would have come out of a monopoly AT&T in the same time period. Remember it took AT&T almost that long to go from AMPS to D-AMPS (TDMA) and that was with mandated second providers!
I had a customer do a similar stunt against my advice when I was a consultant and it cost them big time. The dust from the construction got into a Dell server and caused the onboard video card to overheat and catch on fire. Which then caused the power supplies to catch and eventually the sprinklers went off, two racks of equipment and a weeks outage was VERY expensive.
Yep, our friendly Liebert installer told us this AFTER he had installed our second CRAC unit, too bad the presales engineer failed to mention the need for a control computer to us when we were setting the project budget! For now we switch units quarterly and leave the idle one in standby so if our pager goes off all someone has to do is go in and press one button. We have environmental monitoring from like everything in the datacenter including the A/C units, servers, UPS's and even a managed third party monitoring from our building alarm company. It sucks but it will have to do for now since it came in after we had submitted next years budget as well =( At least we were told before we prematurely wore out our equipment =)
You also need to figure in power for the lifetime of the server and the fraction of generator and UPS you are going to use along with maintenance for all of the above. This is (most of) what's called hardware TCO and if you aren't computing it you aren't doing your job as an IT worker.
99.99 uptime isn't that hard to hit, we've managed it over the last 2 years in our Lotus Notes environment and now that we have clustering to our DR site fully configured we should easily get 99.999+% uptime. The only downtime we have had in the last 2 years was caused by a bad dat update from our AV vendor that made the systems extremely slow but still answering user requests, took us a while before we pulled the plug on production and had them fail over to DR.
If you can use a raster renderer to give that good of reflections on the street then you are a better artist/programmer than just about everyone in existence because I've never seen one that comes close.
No, for illustrative purposes of what ray tracing is capable of you have to look at something like this, it's very very close to being indistinguishable from a photo. That took 21 hours on a P2-350 (465 MFlops) so on a GTX280 which is ~3,000 times faster it would take about 45 seconds to render, not exactly a playable framerate. We're a few doubling of transistor count away from being able to do photo-realistic ray-tracing at playable framerates.
Oh I know about life and mana leech, getting a lvl 99 HC Amazon wouldn't really be possible without it =) But almost all magic character builds lack physical damage which means no leech.
Why would the software go nuts? Is the field length fixed with the length of the cablecard serial different from the company provided equipment? If so that's a classic mistake ala y2k, if it's something else I can't understand since you should be able to do a lookup between the serial number and the account number and use the account number as the unique ID throughout the system.
My problem is that it makes boss fights much tougher for marginal builds, with loads of health potions you didn't have to have a perfect build to take out a boss, you could widdle them down because you had a larger effective HP pool than they did. It cost you gold to build that larger pool, but it was doable. Btw an example of a marginal build I'm thinking of is a naked sorceress or dagger paladin both of which can be fun to play even if they are far from what the designers might have envisioned when designing encounters.
Actually it was a smart projector with a built in media server, and given the length of the ceremony the most likely cause was some sort of thermal problem, I doubt those kind of projectors get run for that long very often.
Ironically, in the experience of the IT professionals I know the complete rewriting of the driver model has meant that there are actually MORE Vista BSOD's than XP ones as the driver for XP are generally very mature with a known codebase stretching back to Windows 98. Sure there is flaky hardware that will cause BSOD's like crazy but those are fairly easy for a large shop to weed out.
They have networked USB dongles now =) Of course that probably is a way to work around the lack of USB support in the non-VMWare virtualization solutions as well =)
Yeah but you will be able to buy an unlimited amount of (m)ethanol on the other side of security at a x00% markup since it has been somehow "screened", just like butane lighters =(
Actually, AD is an X.500 directory that has LDAP added on. There was recently a thread on the history of AD over at Activedir and there was a post by the lead designer in this thread (look for the post by DonH).
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I also can't believe they charge $100 for such a teeny drive, I've been able to buy quality (Seagate) 500GB SATA drives for well under $100 for over a year now. In fact last week I saw them for $69 without any rebates.
Actually the greater scientific community is often blinded by their own biases and the preponderance of builtup knowledge, even if that knowledge can be shown to be a shaky logical foundation. It's not unusual for major groundbreaking work to be dismissed during the lifetime of the discoverer and only embraced one or two generations later.
The FDA induced price tag is there because they ostensibly make sure that the product and process are safe and effective and that any negative consequences are well documented. This is not at all true for supplements. While there are some supplements that are effective the industry as a whole is largely ineffective (see the history of medicine men before modern science got involved).
Heck, even in the strongest systems if they have power to reset your password they can be you and open whatever you've got.
Untrue, with two factor authentication you can make it so that the person who can reset your password can't assign your device, so a single person can't impersonate you.
It's not freaking 640GB/s, there's only one switch in existence that can do that much (Cisco 7000, the Brocade DCX-Backbone is the only other one that's close and it's 6.4Tb/s total per chassis). It's ~4.4GB/s, 1.1M peak IOPS * 4KB chunks...
I stand corrected, from the talkback link I followed a trail to an IBM blog with a LOT more details here, and this is the 70/30 SPC-1 benchmark numbers with cache disabled. This is freaking phenomenal performance! The storage is only 4TB, but if you put your logs, flashback, and temp tables on this beast and pinned your busiest tables in ram you would have a screaming OLTP database. I guess it's now just a matter of price, but a rack of x-series boxes with flash card's shouldn't be THAT expensive. Unless IBM asks for a crazy markup it should be affordable for most enterprises (ok, pretty much a given with IBM but still).
You can normally assume that for that level of IOPS they are 4K blocks, so 4GB/s, pretty damn impressive as that's saturating 4*10Gb/s links.
While managing to achieve 1M IOPS is somewhat impressive, it's not hard to do for an optimal theoretical situation. Xiotech was showing 500,000+ IOPS from three of their new Emprise 5000 storage shelfs at Storage Networking World this spring, but it was all video and synthetic sequential reads. That same system would only pull about 20K IOPS on the SPC-1 real world benchmark.
Actually, power requirements can go UP due to increased leakage current, but you obviously know nothing about circuit design so I'll leave it at that.
You're neglecting the fact that more data lines take more power and add expense and difficultly in packaging (expense).
I'm sorry but the advances in the cellular world in the last 8 years are leaps and bounds ahead of what would have come out of a monopoly AT&T in the same time period. Remember it took AT&T almost that long to go from AMPS to D-AMPS (TDMA) and that was with mandated second providers!
I had a customer do a similar stunt against my advice when I was a consultant and it cost them big time. The dust from the construction got into a Dell server and caused the onboard video card to overheat and catch on fire. Which then caused the power supplies to catch and eventually the sprinklers went off, two racks of equipment and a weeks outage was VERY expensive.
Yep, our friendly Liebert installer told us this AFTER he had installed our second CRAC unit, too bad the presales engineer failed to mention the need for a control computer to us when we were setting the project budget! For now we switch units quarterly and leave the idle one in standby so if our pager goes off all someone has to do is go in and press one button. We have environmental monitoring from like everything in the datacenter including the A/C units, servers, UPS's and even a managed third party monitoring from our building alarm company. It sucks but it will have to do for now since it came in after we had submitted next years budget as well =( At least we were told before we prematurely wore out our equipment =)
You also need to figure in power for the lifetime of the server and the fraction of generator and UPS you are going to use along with maintenance for all of the above. This is (most of) what's called hardware TCO and if you aren't computing it you aren't doing your job as an IT worker.
99.99 uptime isn't that hard to hit, we've managed it over the last 2 years in our Lotus Notes environment and now that we have clustering to our DR site fully configured we should easily get 99.999+% uptime. The only downtime we have had in the last 2 years was caused by a bad dat update from our AV vendor that made the systems extremely slow but still answering user requests, took us a while before we pulled the plug on production and had them fail over to DR.
If you can use a raster renderer to give that good of reflections on the street then you are a better artist/programmer than just about everyone in existence because I've never seen one that comes close.
No, for illustrative purposes of what ray tracing is capable of you have to look at something like this, it's very very close to being indistinguishable from a photo. That took 21 hours on a P2-350 (465 MFlops) so on a GTX280 which is ~3,000 times faster it would take about 45 seconds to render, not exactly a playable framerate. We're a few doubling of transistor count away from being able to do photo-realistic ray-tracing at playable framerates.
Oh I know about life and mana leech, getting a lvl 99 HC Amazon wouldn't really be possible without it =) But almost all magic character builds lack physical damage which means no leech.
Why would the software go nuts? Is the field length fixed with the length of the cablecard serial different from the company provided equipment? If so that's a classic mistake ala y2k, if it's something else I can't understand since you should be able to do a lookup between the serial number and the account number and use the account number as the unique ID throughout the system.
My problem is that it makes boss fights much tougher for marginal builds, with loads of health potions you didn't have to have a perfect build to take out a boss, you could widdle them down because you had a larger effective HP pool than they did. It cost you gold to build that larger pool, but it was doable. Btw an example of a marginal build I'm thinking of is a naked sorceress or dagger paladin both of which can be fun to play even if they are far from what the designers might have envisioned when designing encounters.
Actually it was a smart projector with a built in media server, and given the length of the ceremony the most likely cause was some sort of thermal problem, I doubt those kind of projectors get run for that long very often.
Ironically, in the experience of the IT professionals I know the complete rewriting of the driver model has meant that there are actually MORE Vista BSOD's than XP ones as the driver for XP are generally very mature with a known codebase stretching back to Windows 98. Sure there is flaky hardware that will cause BSOD's like crazy but those are fairly easy for a large shop to weed out.
They have networked USB dongles now =) Of course that probably is a way to work around the lack of USB support in the non-VMWare virtualization solutions as well =)
Yeah but you will be able to buy an unlimited amount of (m)ethanol on the other side of security at a x00% markup since it has been somehow "screened", just like butane lighters =(
Actually, AD is an X.500 directory that has LDAP added on. There was recently a thread on the history of AD over at Activedir and there was a post by the lead designer in this thread (look for the post by DonH).