What I don't understand is WHY the freaking cap is so onerous. If you have a 6Mbps line when do they cut it down to 1%, why not 10% which is still usable for many broadband uses but should still keep them from needing to massively overbuild for the big downloader (IE you are now like a "normal" user).
Hmm, I wonder where I can get some of the pulled batteries. Stuff like that usually goes for a penny on the dollar or less. I know it would be plenty cool in my basement and would do wonders to extend the life of my Matrix 5000 =)
We have the 7345 to match the 5345's in most of our BL460's and 360G5's. I haven't checked what it's at during the day but the blade enclosure as a whole is under 3KVA 95% of the time.
The OS and Microsoft products might be licensed per core but third parties are free to license software however they wish and Oracle licenses their product per core with the cost per core being decided by your environment (or the biggest box you are able to run lower end products on if you aren't running either the full DB or the Enterprise DB).
Bullshit, here is a story of a guy who crashed an Enzo as 120MPH and walked away without a scratch. In fact in years of reading through wrecked exotics I can only remember a handful of fatalities yet I read about a traffic fatality in my local rag at least monthly.
Eh? I was driving a Ferrari F50 on a flat stretch of road, the car was capable of over 200 but I slowed down when approaching a curve I couldn't see around, at no time was I anywhere close to death. In fact in my driving experience driving in congested traffic with idiots not paying attention is MUCH more hazardous then going fast on an open road designed for speed in a car designed for speed.
Basically register allocation. It's easier for everyone to have a stable ISA and have more cores then to have an ever increasing number of registers to keep track of what's what. Sure there are shadow registers and other tricks to keep the software complexity down but they are difficult to implement in hardware and real world performance hasn't kept up. Also it's MUCH simpler and cheaper to build and verify a smaller design and then stamp 4 copies on a die then it is to do the design and routing for a larger chip.
Actually there are still small stretches of the autobahn with no speed limits. Also there are plenty of cars that go over 156MPH, they just aren't hopped up sedans with bigger engines but rather they are race cars in street clothing. Oh and if you enjoy driving then you haven't lived until you've done 185+mph north of Munich =)
Bullshit, the biggest cost vendor who licenses per CPU actually licenses per core, Oracle! On Windows it's one license per 2 cores, everywhere else it's.75 per core except Sun T1/T2 where it's.25 per core.
The CPU never pulls TDP under any load I give it, the 7600 pulls 45W max, not sure what the HDD's pull but they are never both running flat out, etc. My PSU is rated at 92% efficient. With a Kill a watt meter the most I've seen is 175W give or take a bit. The server is an HP BL680c, at idle it averages 375W according to the blade centers onboard administrator. Any more questions?
I don't think even THEY think they have that much control. Otherwise why would they put as much effort into concealing the corporate test track as they do? Magazine photographers often get unauthorized shots of upcoming models and publish those. I haven't seen any auto manufacturer pull an Apple and sue a magazine into nonexistance over such photos, even though they'd often prefer them to not be published.
So what, I can get 10 LTO3 tapes (600GB average for our data) for $500. If we upgraded our drives to LTO4 I could get 10 LTO4 tapes (1.2TB average for our data) for $1300. Unless you use less than a handful of tapes a month tape beats HDD. Heck due to ongoing litigation I haven't recycled a tape since October 2006, using HDD for that would have cost an absolute fortune. There are markets for most technologies (otherwise why invent them) but I don't think HDD based backups are going to beat tape for many businesses anytime soon.
For laptops that's great but for a desktop I'd just buy 2x500GB drives(RAID-1) for $180 or so and have MUCH better write performance =) Also unless you're running something slower than a Via C3 you still have those pesky fans to worry about, I've minimized mine but I still have 4 of them (one intake, one outflow, one PSU and one CPU).
Since the main cost component in the production of Deuterium/Tritium is energy, and you're going to be using it (theoretically) to produce abundant electricity....
I would imagine if you have study Asian culture and history and spent any appreciable time there that you could get hired by the State department as an expert either on Asia in general or a specific county you have a specialty in. Asia will be the center of economic growth for the next half century at least so if you're motivated and knowledgeable then you shouldn't have too much trouble finding employment unless your area of study is something really odd and specific like third dynasty pottery or something.
Ok, your links are more like what I would have expected, 100W plus or minus 30W without power management. I doubt that a current generation PC that is mostly idle would use much more. Heck my servers with loads of drives and dual PSU's, etc average under 300W while running at a normal business load. My media PC with an Athlonx2 4200+, dual drives and a 7600GT pulls about 175W from the wall at full tilt, of course that was built with a high efficiency PSU, low voltage CPU, passively cooled MB and GPU, etc. 400W idle I can't even imagine, even our 16 core 32GB ram beast of a DB server doesn't pull that high at idle (well it might if you include it's percentage of the SAN but you get my point). The point is the difference between hooking a couple HDD's to an old PC and buying at $700 solution could be decades of running and cooling the old PC.
Dude a fully loaded gaming rig is going to have trouble pulling 400 Watts! An older CPU with some idling HDD's even with a crappy PSU is probably only going to pull 30-50W. That's still more than an appliance but it's hardly the horror you describe.
I for one noticed the excellent tree models in Feralas in WoW, that area is just downright gorgeous. If they were more realistic they would probably be even more aesthetically pleasing. The human brain is pretty good at picking up on unnatural things so making trees as realistic as possible will make the game look better even to those who never look for the trees.
Actually that's EXACTLY what I would want in an ideal persistent world. I would like the leaves to slowly change color during fall too based on the weather cycles in game (it takes warm days and cool nights to produce the best colors). Only when we that level of detail will PW's begin to feel real. It's always bothered me that I complete a quest as part of a big storyline and nothing changes in the world.
As well they should be, EV-DO kicks the crap out of EDGE. In my testing all around NE Ohio I consistently saw 7x the bandwidth and much reduced latency through the Verizon aircards then through the AT&T/Cingular ones. LTE adoption seems to be about cost, noone internationally is adopting the CDMA 4G standard so Verizon and Sprint would have to fund the entire development of the equipment, quite an expensive proposition.
Uh, the virtualization is for Server 2008 where unless you choose to get a ~$10/cpu discount you get a license to run 1 virtual machine for Standard Edition, 4 for Enterprise and unlimited for Datacenter. This is the same rights as 2003R2 with the exception of there are no rights included with 2003R2 Standard.
I read a supposedly true story of an admin who planted a logic bomb and placed a high powered magnet in the tape drive, as they loaded tapes to restore they were actually erasing them! Wouldn't work on modern media due to the high magnetic field needed to flip bits but back in the day it would have created havoc and would have guaranteed that at least some of the most recent data was lost.
Not really, even the most pessimistic calculations put the cost of a manned mission at well under $2B whereas the most optimistic predictions for the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) put it at $4.5B with typical overruns that puts it closer to $6B and it's not even planned to launch until 2013.
When the new director took over one of his first acts was to reinstate the Hubble upgrade. Really it's one of the most cost effective missions that NASA can do from a science per dollar perspective and one of the few ones that needs the shuttle before it's decommissioned.
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What I don't understand is WHY the freaking cap is so onerous. If you have a 6Mbps line when do they cut it down to 1%, why not 10% which is still usable for many broadband uses but should still keep them from needing to massively overbuild for the big downloader (IE you are now like a "normal" user).
Hmm, I wonder where I can get some of the pulled batteries. Stuff like that usually goes for a penny on the dollar or less. I know it would be plenty cool in my basement and would do wonders to extend the life of my Matrix 5000 =)
We have the 7345 to match the 5345's in most of our BL460's and 360G5's. I haven't checked what it's at during the day but the blade enclosure as a whole is under 3KVA 95% of the time.
The OS and Microsoft products might be licensed per core but third parties are free to license software however they wish and Oracle licenses their product per core with the cost per core being decided by your environment (or the biggest box you are able to run lower end products on if you aren't running either the full DB or the Enterprise DB).
Bullshit, here is a story of a guy who crashed an Enzo as 120MPH and walked away without a scratch. In fact in years of reading through wrecked exotics I can only remember a handful of fatalities yet I read about a traffic fatality in my local rag at least monthly.
Eh? I was driving a Ferrari F50 on a flat stretch of road, the car was capable of over 200 but I slowed down when approaching a curve I couldn't see around, at no time was I anywhere close to death. In fact in my driving experience driving in congested traffic with idiots not paying attention is MUCH more hazardous then going fast on an open road designed for speed in a car designed for speed.
Basically register allocation. It's easier for everyone to have a stable ISA and have more cores then to have an ever increasing number of registers to keep track of what's what. Sure there are shadow registers and other tricks to keep the software complexity down but they are difficult to implement in hardware and real world performance hasn't kept up. Also it's MUCH simpler and cheaper to build and verify a smaller design and then stamp 4 copies on a die then it is to do the design and routing for a larger chip.
Actually there are still small stretches of the autobahn with no speed limits. Also there are plenty of cars that go over 156MPH, they just aren't hopped up sedans with bigger engines but rather they are race cars in street clothing. Oh and if you enjoy driving then you haven't lived until you've done 185+mph north of Munich =)
Bullshit, the biggest cost vendor who licenses per CPU actually licenses per core, Oracle! On Windows it's one license per 2 cores, everywhere else it's .75 per core except Sun T1/T2 where it's .25 per core.
The CPU never pulls TDP under any load I give it, the 7600 pulls 45W max, not sure what the HDD's pull but they are never both running flat out, etc. My PSU is rated at 92% efficient. With a Kill a watt meter the most I've seen is 175W give or take a bit. The server is an HP BL680c, at idle it averages 375W according to the blade centers onboard administrator. Any more questions?
I don't think even THEY think they have that much control. Otherwise why would they put as much effort into concealing the corporate test track as they do? Magazine photographers often get unauthorized shots of upcoming models and publish those. I haven't seen any auto manufacturer pull an Apple and sue a magazine into nonexistance over such photos, even though they'd often prefer them to not be published.
So what, I can get 10 LTO3 tapes (600GB average for our data) for $500. If we upgraded our drives to LTO4 I could get 10 LTO4 tapes (1.2TB average for our data) for $1300. Unless you use less than a handful of tapes a month tape beats HDD. Heck due to ongoing litigation I haven't recycled a tape since October 2006, using HDD for that would have cost an absolute fortune. There are markets for most technologies (otherwise why invent them) but I don't think HDD based backups are going to beat tape for many businesses anytime soon.
For laptops that's great but for a desktop I'd just buy 2x500GB drives(RAID-1) for $180 or so and have MUCH better write performance =) Also unless you're running something slower than a Via C3 you still have those pesky fans to worry about, I've minimized mine but I still have 4 of them (one intake, one outflow, one PSU and one CPU).
Since the main cost component in the production of Deuterium/Tritium is energy, and you're going to be using it (theoretically) to produce abundant electricity....
I would imagine if you have study Asian culture and history and spent any appreciable time there that you could get hired by the State department as an expert either on Asia in general or a specific county you have a specialty in. Asia will be the center of economic growth for the next half century at least so if you're motivated and knowledgeable then you shouldn't have too much trouble finding employment unless your area of study is something really odd and specific like third dynasty pottery or something.
Ok, your links are more like what I would have expected, 100W plus or minus 30W without power management. I doubt that a current generation PC that is mostly idle would use much more. Heck my servers with loads of drives and dual PSU's, etc average under 300W while running at a normal business load. My media PC with an Athlonx2 4200+, dual drives and a 7600GT pulls about 175W from the wall at full tilt, of course that was built with a high efficiency PSU, low voltage CPU, passively cooled MB and GPU, etc. 400W idle I can't even imagine, even our 16 core 32GB ram beast of a DB server doesn't pull that high at idle (well it might if you include it's percentage of the SAN but you get my point). The point is the difference between hooking a couple HDD's to an old PC and buying at $700 solution could be decades of running and cooling the old PC.
Dude a fully loaded gaming rig is going to have trouble pulling 400 Watts! An older CPU with some idling HDD's even with a crappy PSU is probably only going to pull 30-50W. That's still more than an appliance but it's hardly the horror you describe.
I for one noticed the excellent tree models in Feralas in WoW, that area is just downright gorgeous. If they were more realistic they would probably be even more aesthetically pleasing. The human brain is pretty good at picking up on unnatural things so making trees as realistic as possible will make the game look better even to those who never look for the trees.
Actually that's EXACTLY what I would want in an ideal persistent world. I would like the leaves to slowly change color during fall too based on the weather cycles in game (it takes warm days and cool nights to produce the best colors). Only when we that level of detail will PW's begin to feel real. It's always bothered me that I complete a quest as part of a big storyline and nothing changes in the world.
As well they should be, EV-DO kicks the crap out of EDGE. In my testing all around NE Ohio I consistently saw 7x the bandwidth and much reduced latency through the Verizon aircards then through the AT&T/Cingular ones. LTE adoption seems to be about cost, noone internationally is adopting the CDMA 4G standard so Verizon and Sprint would have to fund the entire development of the equipment, quite an expensive proposition.
Uh, the virtualization is for Server 2008 where unless you choose to get a ~$10/cpu discount you get a license to run 1 virtual machine for Standard Edition, 4 for Enterprise and unlimited for Datacenter. This is the same rights as 2003R2 with the exception of there are no rights included with 2003R2 Standard.
Yet another use for WORM backup media?
I read a supposedly true story of an admin who planted a logic bomb and placed a high powered magnet in the tape drive, as they loaded tapes to restore they were actually erasing them! Wouldn't work on modern media due to the high magnetic field needed to flip bits but back in the day it would have created havoc and would have guaranteed that at least some of the most recent data was lost.
Not really, even the most pessimistic calculations put the cost of a manned mission at well under $2B whereas the most optimistic predictions for the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) put it at $4.5B with typical overruns that puts it closer to $6B and it's not even planned to launch until 2013.
When the new director took over one of his first acts was to reinstate the Hubble upgrade. Really it's one of the most cost effective missions that NASA can do from a science per dollar perspective and one of the few ones that needs the shuttle before it's decommissioned.