No, what really killed SPARC was x64, cheap machines capable of using large amounts of even cheaper RAM was when Sun stopped being relevant. I know because we ordered one of the first production Opterons to demo our chip routing software and knew instantly that the days of needing $50k workstations to do our work was at an end.
That's a sure sign of a poorly run company. My current employer is exactly the opposite, we have an enterprise risk committee and one of the risks they identified is the retention of key IT personnel. I've had offers for more money but all of them came with worse working environments where I wouldn't be as valued and so at least until the global economy starts taking off again there's no way I'm going anywhere.
Well, it's 2.5GB of full speed data and then you get throttled severely, but it's still better than spending twice as much for about a third the data. My wife has the best plan ever IMHO, 300 minutes and "unlimited" data and unlimited SMS/MMS for $25/month with no other charges except local sales tax. She is also on Virgin Mobile. The best thing other than no bill shock for data usage is that in the rare event she goes over the 300 minutes it's only $.10/minute until her renewal date. Oh, and no contract, not that I would even think of switching given the direction the industry is going. I just hope Sprint stays desperate enough to keep us =)
See, the thing to me is charging per GB makes no sense. Comcast already had the correct technical solution in place, throttle all data from heavy users when the uplink from the cable head end is nearing saturation. It's content agnostic and solves the problem of the real limited resource. They can receive additional revenue from heavy users by offering them better top end speeds when the network is not congested.
My thoughts exactly, this is the proper response to police being filmed, not confiscating cameras and arresting people who dare to disrespect their authority. The only issue left now in my mind is mandatory retention and access under sunshine laws.
D3 doesn't really have a single player mode. You're always connected to their servers, are taking up a game slot (or have to wait for one!), have to deal with server lag, have no choice about what patch to play, etc. You basically have a muliplayer mode that you choose to play alone.
True, but I doubt there are that many good process engineers in the world and the ones TSMC employs really, really need to be focused on fixing their current process, not working on setting up the new factory (though I guess site prep probably takes a year or more so it's admittedly probably not an issue). I'm just personally annoyed that I'm still running a 3 year old GPU because the inexpensive low power parts aren't available because 100% of current production is going to the highest margin parts. I want a better passively cooled card than my 5750 but the next generation has been on hold for the last six months due to TSMC production issues.
How about they focus on fixing their 28nm production problems before they set their eyes on lowering cost through bigger wafers. It's not like many of their most lucrative clients aren't hobbled at the moment by lack of supply for their top bin parts. Oh, yes they are.
Meh, obviously someone doesn't understand basic economics (big shock it's Hollywood). Almost all of the cost is in R&D, physical production is probably a rounding error on a typical NASA project. Plus there have been instances where the mission primary has been damaged and the trainer ended up flying, in those cases the ROI for the backup is almost infinite when you compare the cost of fabrication to the cost of the mission as a whole.
I'm sure they caught it with the duplicate here on earth. For just about every NASA mission they make at least one duplicate to be used for troubleshooting and mission prep here on terra firma.
Actually, it has to do with the way that the end user or resource consumer deals with it. In a cloud setup the user doesn't know or care about how the pool of resource behind their machine runs, they just care that it does run and meets their SLA. Basically in larger organizations they just say we're going to pay for x CPU power, y hard disk space with features a,b,c and uptime of z. It's then up to the provisioning software to carve out those resources from the pool of available stuff.
Actually IOS XE is OpenBSD based, as is JunOS and Brocade's FOS is Linux based. However almost all of the heavy lifting is done by the backplane and the ASICs, that's why you can perform a non-disruptive software update on all of those platforms, the OS is just there for management. This is why one of the easiest ways to cause a production issue in these environments is to enable a feature that requires CPU processing of a significant amount of traffic, they processors just aren't capable,
plus it shares the main ethernet port Huh, that is an option but on almost all models you can set it up on a separate physical port, for some models you do have to buy an additional widget to get that functionality but it's generally not expensive.
SQL server has to be a huge profit source, and system center is probably rising in revenue (if not profits due to large development costs, but it's absolutely key for MS to wrest control back from VMWare).
You're seriously delusional, 99+% of computers sold are not built from parts (and it's been this way since at least 2000) and so 99+% of computers sold will be Windows 8 Ready and will have this feature.
Well a properly working Secure Boot implementation with end user control is a requirement for the Windows 8 Ready program so unless you are buying some really crappy stuff it shouldn't be an issue.
Yeah, except saying API's are copyrightable is about as far from legitimate engineering work as you can get. If the engineers still had any say in the company the lawsuit never would have happened because just about everyone knows the kind of thermonuclear warfare that would have occurred in the IT industry if Oracle had won.
Are you saying the medium is lower latency? Because I'd bet once you add all the advanced filtering and encoding schemes you'd need to get reliable 10Gb over the ladder line you'd end up with net more latency. I know this is true even with short distance copper sfp+.
Of course, just pointing out that those are really the only two options unless they're significantly shorter than Hubble (in which case the 11m long 4.7m wide fairing for the largest Atlas V configuration might work depending on weight and orbit needed).
Something the size of Hubble is going to require a The Delta IV Medium+ or Delta IV Heavy given the need for a 5m payload fairing. In fact it's likely that these satellites are the reason for the 5m variants.
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No, what really killed SPARC was x64, cheap machines capable of using large amounts of even cheaper RAM was when Sun stopped being relevant. I know because we ordered one of the first production Opterons to demo our chip routing software and knew instantly that the days of needing $50k workstations to do our work was at an end.
That's a sure sign of a poorly run company. My current employer is exactly the opposite, we have an enterprise risk committee and one of the risks they identified is the retention of key IT personnel. I've had offers for more money but all of them came with worse working environments where I wouldn't be as valued and so at least until the global economy starts taking off again there's no way I'm going anywhere.
It's 256Kbps down, not sure what the upload gets capped at, so not much worse =)
Well, it's 2.5GB of full speed data and then you get throttled severely, but it's still better than spending twice as much for about a third the data. My wife has the best plan ever IMHO, 300 minutes and "unlimited" data and unlimited SMS/MMS for $25/month with no other charges except local sales tax. She is also on Virgin Mobile. The best thing other than no bill shock for data usage is that in the rare event she goes over the 300 minutes it's only $.10/minute until her renewal date. Oh, and no contract, not that I would even think of switching given the direction the industry is going. I just hope Sprint stays desperate enough to keep us =)
Huh, QAM HD recording are on the order of 4.8GB/hour coming out of my HDHomerun, how is 50 hours of recorded content unreasonable to you?
Last year Apple sold the new MBP at a rate of 3.6M/quarter at release, that's a far cry from tens of millions.
See, the thing to me is charging per GB makes no sense. Comcast already had the correct technical solution in place, throttle all data from heavy users when the uplink from the cable head end is nearing saturation. It's content agnostic and solves the problem of the real limited resource. They can receive additional revenue from heavy users by offering them better top end speeds when the network is not congested.
My thoughts exactly, this is the proper response to police being filmed, not confiscating cameras and arresting people who dare to disrespect their authority. The only issue left now in my mind is mandatory retention and access under sunshine laws.
D3 doesn't really have a single player mode. You're always connected to their servers, are taking up a game slot (or have to wait for one!), have to deal with server lag, have no choice about what patch to play, etc. You basically have a muliplayer mode that you choose to play alone.
True, but I doubt there are that many good process engineers in the world and the ones TSMC employs really, really need to be focused on fixing their current process, not working on setting up the new factory (though I guess site prep probably takes a year or more so it's admittedly probably not an issue). I'm just personally annoyed that I'm still running a 3 year old GPU because the inexpensive low power parts aren't available because 100% of current production is going to the highest margin parts. I want a better passively cooled card than my 5750 but the next generation has been on hold for the last six months due to TSMC production issues.
How about they focus on fixing their 28nm production problems before they set their eyes on lowering cost through bigger wafers. It's not like many of their most lucrative clients aren't hobbled at the moment by lack of supply for their top bin parts. Oh, yes they are.
Meh, obviously someone doesn't understand basic economics (big shock it's Hollywood). Almost all of the cost is in R&D, physical production is probably a rounding error on a typical NASA project. Plus there have been instances where the mission primary has been damaged and the trainer ended up flying, in those cases the ROI for the backup is almost infinite when you compare the cost of fabrication to the cost of the mission as a whole.
I'm sure they caught it with the duplicate here on earth. For just about every NASA mission they make at least one duplicate to be used for troubleshooting and mission prep here on terra firma.
Actually, it has to do with the way that the end user or resource consumer deals with it. In a cloud setup the user doesn't know or care about how the pool of resource behind their machine runs, they just care that it does run and meets their SLA. Basically in larger organizations they just say we're going to pay for x CPU power, y hard disk space with features a,b,c and uptime of z. It's then up to the provisioning software to carve out those resources from the pool of available stuff.
Actually IOS XE is OpenBSD based, as is JunOS and Brocade's FOS is Linux based. However almost all of the heavy lifting is done by the backplane and the ASICs, that's why you can perform a non-disruptive software update on all of those platforms, the OS is just there for management. This is why one of the easiest ways to cause a production issue in these environments is to enable a feature that requires CPU processing of a significant amount of traffic, they processors just aren't capable,
plus it shares the main ethernet port
Huh, that is an option but on almost all models you can set it up on a separate physical port, for some models you do have to buy an additional widget to get that functionality but it's generally not expensive.
SQL server has to be a huge profit source, and system center is probably rising in revenue (if not profits due to large development costs, but it's absolutely key for MS to wrest control back from VMWare).
You're seriously delusional, 99+% of computers sold are not built from parts (and it's been this way since at least 2000) and so 99+% of computers sold will be Windows 8 Ready and will have this feature.
Well a properly working Secure Boot implementation with end user control is a requirement for the Windows 8 Ready program so unless you are buying some really crappy stuff it shouldn't be an issue.
Yeah, except saying API's are copyrightable is about as far from legitimate engineering work as you can get. If the engineers still had any say in the company the lawsuit never would have happened because just about everyone knows the kind of thermonuclear warfare that would have occurred in the IT industry if Oracle had won.
Are you saying the medium is lower latency? Because I'd bet once you add all the advanced filtering and encoding schemes you'd need to get reliable 10Gb over the ladder line you'd end up with net more latency. I know this is true even with short distance copper sfp+.
Of course, just pointing out that those are really the only two options unless they're significantly shorter than Hubble (in which case the 11m long 4.7m wide fairing for the largest Atlas V configuration might work depending on weight and orbit needed).
Something the size of Hubble is going to require a The Delta IV Medium+ or Delta IV Heavy given the need for a 5m payload fairing. In fact it's likely that these satellites are the reason for the 5m variants.
There's a replica of the Hubble in the entryway to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, it's really impressive how large it is.
It's stored in the TPM hardware store.