Since 2/3rds of the web runs on Apache I'm pretty sure that the developers could find a job with another company should IBM feel that they no longer want to employ them. Besides I doubt IBM is employing them to crank out the profits, more likely they want to have a stable base for their web services platform that is well supported internally.
Your an idiot, the graphics chip is basically a limited GF4MX. The XBox uses a modified version of DX8 so porting back and forth from the PC is trivial so long as the PC minimum specs are made sufficiently high and the coders avoid doing stupid hardware specific things on the xbox side. For an example Bioware's KoToR is based on NWN's Aurora engine which they developed origionally for DX7 on the PC several years before the XBox was even a product.
by title owner I meant the developers/publishers. Eg those people who own the rights to a title. Also quite a few xbox games came about because of the compatibilty. For instance KoToR is based on the engine from NWN and was possible only because there was minimal issues in moving that codebase over to the xbox. If the porting hadn't been trivial then it's doubtfull that Bioware could have afforded to make a brand new console game.
One of the few competitive advantages MS has with the XBox is that games created for it take little work to port over to the PC arena. By using a PPC chip much of that ease of porting is eliminated and along with it one of the few selling points for title owners.
Actually Oracle is going to start helping Redhat write the next version of Enterprise. The ties between Redhat and Oracle are strengthening, not weakening.
No it's not, GE does it all the time. They cut large profitable divisions every couple of years. The reasoning is that the large sums of capital tied up in a business unit that is barely profitable could fetch a much better ROI somewhere else and so while they are making money in one respect they are losing money in oportunity cost. Capital is the number one factor limiting the size and overall profitability of the company so reallocating capital to a business unit that is making MORE profit is a mcuh better use of that capital and will ultimatly raise the bottom line.
If you think computers are built by machine I got news for you, they ain't. They are built by Taiwanese and increasingly Chinese workers making dollars a day if they are lucky. It would be more expensive to go with an entirely automated assembly plant than to hire workers for those wages. Then companies like Dell pay workers minimum wage plus maybe 50% to do any necessary customizations. As to your doom and gloom pridictions about the fall of the western world, think about this: The number of hours of work needed for the average worker to provide the basic necessities has fallen by almost eight fold since the start of the twentieth century. While the gap from poorest to wealthiest has grown out of controll the poorest is much better off than even an average worker a hundred years ago.
SUBST is a horribly broken hack. It doesn't do all the kinds of mappings you would want and not all file access methods will be fooled by it. This is real, arbitrary mappings in the filysystem ala unix links. This is a BIG step forward for those of us who have to work on windows systems.
Yes, but it's more than that. From the description given it looks more like Plan9/Inferno in that all objects can be mapped to the filesystem and manipulated from any object manager that plugs into the file system.
Considering that AFAIK no one else has ever attempted this exact topology and almost none of the top systems use InfiniBand interconnects so there were a lot of unknown's. As well this is the first G5 cluster used for HPC so compiler optimizations, etc are all additional variables. Peak theoretical and real world can be quite different.
No, the grandparent poster is correct. A large part of running a large computer system is in power and associated costs. A good rule of thumb is that a computer costs about 10X the power cost to operate. This includes HVAC system operating cost and amoratization, backup power systems, and all the other costs that scale with the power consumption of the system.
Server support is only for Premier accounts past Dec 31, 2003 and the drop dead date is Dec 31, 2004. For more info see this page. Also note that at least one IE vulnerability which is a security threat for those running IE on server has been classified by MS as unfixable. Generally though I think MS has done a good job at product support if not in product design and coding =)
Nothing new here. I have an origional iPod. The firmware for the newer iPod's adds on-the-fly playlist support, something I've been requesting since I got mine. Guess what, Apple doesn't want to backport it because they think they can resell customers on a newer iPod for this feature, what a load of crap. Then the launch the Apple music store for Windows, guess what, the firmware available for the series 1 and 2 iPod's can't play the signed AAC files if they are formatted for FAT, HPFS formatted ones can though. I have emailed Apple about both of these issues and haven't recieved so much as a simple response.
Solution: get one 300+GB drive, put it in another computer and backup the important stuff to it. Sure it's not as redundant as the RAID array but it's your backup, some backup is better than none =)
Also if you want a mature journaling FS use basically any of the linux ones except Reiser. All the others are either ports of old stable codebases (XFS, JFS), or simple journaling addons to the venerable ext2 (ext3), with ext3 you can still mount the drive(s) as an ext2 volume if need be.
And that is why the powers that be at the Burea of Land Management, Department of Interior, etc are starting to allow small to medium sized fires burn so long as the conditions are right to allow them to be contained. We are at the end of a half century plus legacy of bad forest management and we are paying the price, luckily our hindsight is teaching us things that should prevent the same mistakes from being made again. For instance the last two times I have been to the Grand Canyon there have been fires within the park that were allowed to burn, certain roads were closed and certain trails put offlimits, but they were allowed to do their thing so long as the winds didn't pick up too much. The last time I went back I had the inquisitive nature in me kick in and so I hiked to one of the areas that had burned on a previous visit, it was absolutly beautiful, grasses, wildflowers, and small trees growing instead of a dead underbrush like much of the park. Still, you have to feel for the poor saps that are losing their homes due to policies they likely had little to do with creating, and you also have to respect the bravery of the firefighters who try to contain these massive blazes.
Not only that, but for many people that are tactile learners the very act of transcribing the class causes them to be able to better commit the material to memory =) The interesting things you learn when you take seminars with titles like "Multiple learning modalities and their application to improving grades". There are actually six different styles of learning and each one has their best studying methods. I had to explain this to a teacher who thought I was sleeping just because I had my head down, I'm an auditory learner who at time needs to filter out visual information to better remember the material.
No, Dell is using the same 1.8" unit as Apple AND they are selling their players for ~$100 less than the same capacity Apple player which means Apple is making somewhere in the neighborhood of $60-80 more per player (I will give them some of the increase in cost as increase in materials and build quality). Dell hopes to make their money by selling more of these that Apple does iPod's and by having all those units purchasing songs through the branded store.
Alchohol is NOT the only drug with deadly withdrawl. Heroin withdawl can, and does kill people. Also one of my brothers bipolar medicines has a warning not to stop taking it or reduce dosage without consulting the doctor because several people died after quiting it cold turkey, the dosage has to be stepped down in a controlled manner.
WTF, make it 21? I don't agree with the silly mandate that made alchohol illegal for informed adults to consume (you are able to be drafted and die for your country, able to vote, able to marry, etc but purchase one beer and you can be arrested and imprisoned, WTF?!?!) and I don't think we should follow that retarded example if we are going to eventually decriminalize other substances.
EXACTLY While I think it's horrible that one DUI conviction can mess up your life I think it is MANY times worse that there a drunks with double digit DUI convictions. At some point your disregard for other peoples lives should lead to apropriate incarceration. The number my very adamant mother (she had a stepfather killed by a drunk driver) and I came up with was 3 strikes. This way you could get a first "stupid mistake" and face a punishment similar to todays, then a second "sobering up" warning with some actual jail time, and at the third DUI conviction it is automatically charged as attempted vehicular homicide with corespondingly high penalties. At some point a drunks disregard for the rest of society should be looked at by society as just that. Of course we also believe that the first two convictions should be accompanied by mandatory supervised detox.
Actually we don't need to go to alternative fuels to become autonomous, we just have to get rid of cars like yours. If we raised the average fleet fuel economy in the US to 35+ mpg we would eliminate the need to import any fossil fuels. Just imagine how different the world would be if that were possible (think Iraq and the rest of the middle east). Of course like you most Americans are too selfish to do what would be necessary to achieve that goal despite the fact that we all feel horrible about all of the people dying in those conflicts.
No, there hasn't been any money in building boxes in a LONG time (like 5-6 years). Dell made sure of that. I do deskside support, system migrations, some break/fix work and low end sysadmin work.
Yes and AMD is going to make things REALLY confusing by introducing and Athlon64 FX on Socket 939 which will be a single channel version of the Opteron, so there will be three socket formats for new AMD chips, the 754 for the Athlon64, 939 for the Athlon64 FX, and 940 for Opteron and older FX chips (geeze, talk about confusing, I'm a tech and I hate this kind of stuff). Add in the older boards for Athlon XP's and MP's and you can see where most mere mortals would throw up their hands and have someone else build their PC despite the fact that it's cheaper and fairly easy to actually put your own PC together.
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Since 2/3rds of the web runs on Apache I'm pretty sure that the developers could find a job with another company should IBM feel that they no longer want to employ them. Besides I doubt IBM is employing them to crank out the profits, more likely they want to have a stable base for their web services platform that is well supported internally.
Your an idiot, the graphics chip is basically a limited GF4MX. The XBox uses a modified version of DX8 so porting back and forth from the PC is trivial so long as the PC minimum specs are made sufficiently high and the coders avoid doing stupid hardware specific things on the xbox side. For an example Bioware's KoToR is based on NWN's Aurora engine which they developed origionally for DX7 on the PC several years before the XBox was even a product.
by title owner I meant the developers/publishers. Eg those people who own the rights to a title. Also quite a few xbox games came about because of the compatibilty. For instance KoToR is based on the engine from NWN and was possible only because there was minimal issues in moving that codebase over to the xbox. If the porting hadn't been trivial then it's doubtfull that Bioware could have afforded to make a brand new console game.
One of the few competitive advantages MS has with the XBox is that games created for it take little work to port over to the PC arena. By using a PPC chip much of that ease of porting is eliminated and along with it one of the few selling points for title owners.
Actually Oracle is going to start helping Redhat write the next version of Enterprise. The ties between Redhat and Oracle are strengthening, not weakening.
Mandrake with Ximian Red Carpet, or Suse with Red Carpet if they are servers needing outside vendor support (Oracle, CAD, etc.).
No it's not, GE does it all the time. They cut large profitable divisions every couple of years. The reasoning is that the large sums of capital tied up in a business unit that is barely profitable could fetch a much better ROI somewhere else and so while they are making money in one respect they are losing money in oportunity cost. Capital is the number one factor limiting the size and overall profitability of the company so reallocating capital to a business unit that is making MORE profit is a mcuh better use of that capital and will ultimatly raise the bottom line.
If you think computers are built by machine I got news for you, they ain't. They are built by Taiwanese and increasingly Chinese workers making dollars a day if they are lucky. It would be more expensive to go with an entirely automated assembly plant than to hire workers for those wages. Then companies like Dell pay workers minimum wage plus maybe 50% to do any necessary customizations. As to your doom and gloom pridictions about the fall of the western world, think about this: The number of hours of work needed for the average worker to provide the basic necessities has fallen by almost eight fold since the start of the twentieth century. While the gap from poorest to wealthiest has grown out of controll the poorest is much better off than even an average worker a hundred years ago.
SUBST is a horribly broken hack. It doesn't do all the kinds of mappings you would want and not all file access methods will be fooled by it. This is real, arbitrary mappings in the filysystem ala unix links. This is a BIG step forward for those of us who have to work on windows systems.
Yes, but it's more than that. From the description given it looks more like Plan9/Inferno in that all objects can be mapped to the filesystem and manipulated from any object manager that plugs into the file system.
Considering that AFAIK no one else has ever attempted this exact topology and almost none of the top systems use InfiniBand interconnects so there were a lot of unknown's. As well this is the first G5 cluster used for HPC so compiler optimizations, etc are all additional variables. Peak theoretical and real world can be quite different.
No, the grandparent poster is correct. A large part of running a large computer system is in power and associated costs. A good rule of thumb is that a computer costs about 10X the power cost to operate. This includes HVAC system operating cost and amoratization, backup power systems, and all the other costs that scale with the power consumption of the system.
Server support is only for Premier accounts past Dec 31, 2003 and the drop dead date is Dec 31, 2004. For more info see this page. Also note that at least one IE vulnerability which is a security threat for those running IE on server has been classified by MS as unfixable. Generally though I think MS has done a good job at product support if not in product design and coding =)
Nothing new here. I have an origional iPod. The firmware for the newer iPod's adds on-the-fly playlist support, something I've been requesting since I got mine. Guess what, Apple doesn't want to backport it because they think they can resell customers on a newer iPod for this feature, what a load of crap. Then the launch the Apple music store for Windows, guess what, the firmware available for the series 1 and 2 iPod's can't play the signed AAC files if they are formatted for FAT, HPFS formatted ones can though. I have emailed Apple about both of these issues and haven't recieved so much as a simple response.
Solution: get one 300+GB drive, put it in another computer and backup the important stuff to it. Sure it's not as redundant as the RAID array but it's your backup, some backup is better than none =)
Also if you want a mature journaling FS use basically any of the linux ones except Reiser. All the others are either ports of old stable codebases (XFS, JFS), or simple journaling addons to the venerable ext2 (ext3), with ext3 you can still mount the drive(s) as an ext2 volume if need be.
And that is why the powers that be at the Burea of Land Management, Department of Interior, etc are starting to allow small to medium sized fires burn so long as the conditions are right to allow them to be contained. We are at the end of a half century plus legacy of bad forest management and we are paying the price, luckily our hindsight is teaching us things that should prevent the same mistakes from being made again. For instance the last two times I have been to the Grand Canyon there have been fires within the park that were allowed to burn, certain roads were closed and certain trails put offlimits, but they were allowed to do their thing so long as the winds didn't pick up too much. The last time I went back I had the inquisitive nature in me kick in and so I hiked to one of the areas that had burned on a previous visit, it was absolutly beautiful, grasses, wildflowers, and small trees growing instead of a dead underbrush like much of the park. Still, you have to feel for the poor saps that are losing their homes due to policies they likely had little to do with creating, and you also have to respect the bravery of the firefighters who try to contain these massive blazes.
Not only that, but for many people that are tactile learners the very act of transcribing the class causes them to be able to better commit the material to memory =) The interesting things you learn when you take seminars with titles like "Multiple learning modalities and their application to improving grades". There are actually six different styles of learning and each one has their best studying methods. I had to explain this to a teacher who thought I was sleeping just because I had my head down, I'm an auditory learner who at time needs to filter out visual information to better remember the material.
No, Dell is using the same 1.8" unit as Apple AND they are selling their players for ~$100 less than the same capacity Apple player which means Apple is making somewhere in the neighborhood of $60-80 more per player (I will give them some of the increase in cost as increase in materials and build quality). Dell hopes to make their money by selling more of these that Apple does iPod's and by having all those units purchasing songs through the branded store.
Alchohol is NOT the only drug with deadly withdrawl. Heroin withdawl can, and does kill people. Also one of my brothers bipolar medicines has a warning not to stop taking it or reduce dosage without consulting the doctor because several people died after quiting it cold turkey, the dosage has to be stepped down in a controlled manner.
WTF, make it 21?
I don't agree with the silly mandate that made alchohol illegal for informed adults to consume (you are able to be drafted and die for your country, able to vote, able to marry, etc but purchase one beer and you can be arrested and imprisoned, WTF?!?!) and I don't think we should follow that retarded example if we are going to eventually decriminalize other substances.
EXACTLY While I think it's horrible that one DUI conviction can mess up your life I think it is MANY times worse that there a drunks with double digit DUI convictions. At some point your disregard for other peoples lives should lead to apropriate incarceration. The number my very adamant mother (she had a stepfather killed by a drunk driver) and I came up with was 3 strikes. This way you could get a first "stupid mistake" and face a punishment similar to todays, then a second "sobering up" warning with some actual jail time, and at the third DUI conviction it is automatically charged as attempted vehicular homicide with corespondingly high penalties. At some point a drunks disregard for the rest of society should be looked at by society as just that. Of course we also believe that the first two convictions should be accompanied by mandatory supervised detox.
More like: "If the really need to pay >$1,000 per 2GB registered DIMM then paying an extra $100 for the CPU to support it is not a big deal" =)
Actually we don't need to go to alternative fuels to become autonomous, we just have to get rid of cars like yours. If we raised the average fleet fuel economy in the US to 35+ mpg we would eliminate the need to import any fossil fuels. Just imagine how different the world would be if that were possible (think Iraq and the rest of the middle east). Of course like you most Americans are too selfish to do what would be necessary to achieve that goal despite the fact that we all feel horrible about all of the people dying in those conflicts.
No, there hasn't been any money in building boxes in a LONG time (like 5-6 years). Dell made sure of that. I do deskside support, system migrations, some break/fix work and low end sysadmin work.
Yes and AMD is going to make things REALLY confusing by introducing and Athlon64 FX on Socket 939 which will be a single channel version of the Opteron, so there will be three socket formats for new AMD chips, the 754 for the Athlon64, 939 for the Athlon64 FX, and 940 for Opteron and older FX chips (geeze, talk about confusing, I'm a tech and I hate this kind of stuff). Add in the older boards for Athlon XP's and MP's and you can see where most mere mortals would throw up their hands and have someone else build their PC despite the fact that it's cheaper and fairly easy to actually put your own PC together.