This is anti-net neutrality under a different name. The throttle mechanism is supra-data cap charges instead of literal throttling.
No it isn't. Since bandwidth is now a metered product, this is noting more than a network 800 number. The speeds are the same, it is just a question of who pays.
Well then, explain how this article relates to science and technology. What's that? It doesn't?
Shut up then.
If you go through US customs, the tools you use to do your job may not make it with you. Like your phone, laptop, textbooks, thumb drives, or hand made wooden flutes.
US no longer stands for "Uncle Sam." Now it's "Uncle Stupid." Leather luggage comes from cowhide, isn't that an agricultural item? Fucking morons in charge.
I guess soo it will be the UF... Who knew that Tarrence and Phillip would be so prescient?
No, but I have seen people waving cash around in a bar and it is snagged out of their hand. This is the digital equivalant. And as the news guy said, a good lesson in security.
No, but a multi channel SSD Raid would.. expensive yes... but certainly possible. then where is your bottleneck.
Next would be I/O to the graphics card, as mentioned in the article. But in general, the bus is the next bottleneck.
However on a server where you pay by CPU having a non-CPU extension makes a lot of sense. This would be why propriety systems have GPU extensions and open source systems do not.
in short - if you need CPU in open source get get another CPU - it's cheap. If you need CPU in a closed source application you get a GPU - it doesn't work as well as a CPU but it adds performance and it doesn't incur more licensing fees.
Are you actually using crappy licensing as a reason to use alternative hardware? And when the license is open and they only restriction is technical you can use a cheaper solution, and that is a bad thing?
A standard CPU is better, and you are not limited to dedicated (and occasionally had to find) hardware. Look for threads about ZFS or mraid over hardware raid for a lot of discussion on this.
Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.
No, it is the right question. And the answer is, the people that actually understand these things work also know this will not help anything in real world applications. They are also busy optimizing for additional cheap ram, and the new and fast SSD cards that are almost affordable.
Run a big query on your database. Now, while the hard drive light is solid red, look at your CPU load. See how it is not using all the CPU because it is waiting on the hard drive? A GPU will not help that.
... so they aren't going to pay for hundreds of GPU's.
Especially when they have already blown the budget on fast SSDs that actually make a real difference in real performance, not just synthetic benchmarks.
My question is: How does such seemingly-ridiculous research get approved for funding? Can we not spend that money on greater good?
For the same reason we have "zero tolerance policies" in schools... We do not trust the people making decisions to make them well. So we set up an arbitrary set of standards that can be gamed, and remove the capability of intervention from the people we do not trust, but decide to give the job anyway...
This might be a question that is good to ask before petri dishes are deployed to hospitals... That and is there a performance difference between humid Houston, and dry as dust Phoenix?
So when Boeing and it's suppliers lay thousands of people off, those unemployment benefits came from magic pixie faeries? And the money they no longer spend with your business has no effect on you? Just look to Michigan to see what happens in a state when major factories close. (Or Trenton, for that matter.)
I don't think you understand. There are two groups of people. Those who pay. And those who don't. And those who don't aren't about to start.
M'kay?
Occasionally, the people in the later group get dragged in mass to the former. The French Revolution is one example. The thing about "the masses" is that we outnumber everyone.
In once sense... But the US people will pay again for the arrogance of the government. It is about time that the people in government start to pay as well.
I wish I had points. And I wish web developers did not think everyone has 20meg connections to the net. MANY places outside of big cities are very speed limited.
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This is anti-net neutrality under a different name. The throttle mechanism is supra-data cap charges instead of literal throttling.
No it isn't. Since bandwidth is now a metered product, this is noting more than a network 800 number. The speeds are the same, it is just a question of who pays.
It doesn't matter if they say it is OK on a call. It matters if they say it is OK on a claim.
A slashdot article to a slashdot topic and it still to you to post a link to the damn video. And the editors are actually paid for this?
Moral of the story, do not take viagra just before coming to the US.
Trust me... One "pat down" from the TSA and that wood is destroyed.
Imagine the Gestapo with today's technology. It's coming.
Imagine, or turn your head and look?
I never thought of flutes as an "invasive species."
You never saw the swarming of the Zanfir commercials... I still get shivers to this day.
Well then, explain how this article relates to science and technology. What's that? It doesn't? Shut up then.
If you go through US customs, the tools you use to do your job may not make it with you. Like your phone, laptop, textbooks, thumb drives, or hand made wooden flutes.
US no longer stands for "Uncle Sam." Now it's "Uncle Stupid." Leather luggage comes from cowhide, isn't that an agricultural item? Fucking morons in charge.
I guess soo it will be the UF... Who knew that Tarrence and Phillip would be so prescient?
Cash can be snagged from you hand at a bar... I have seen it more than once.
No, but I have seen people waving cash around in a bar and it is snagged out of their hand. This is the digital equivalant. And as the news guy said, a good lesson in security.
No, but a multi channel SSD Raid would.. expensive yes... but certainly possible. then where is your bottleneck.
Next would be I/O to the graphics card, as mentioned in the article. But in general, the bus is the next bottleneck.
However on a server where you pay by CPU having a non-CPU extension makes a lot of sense. This would be why propriety systems have GPU extensions and open source systems do not.
in short - if you need CPU in open source get get another CPU - it's cheap. If you need CPU in a closed source application you get a GPU - it doesn't work as well as a CPU but it adds performance and it doesn't incur more licensing fees.
Are you actually using crappy licensing as a reason to use alternative hardware? And when the license is open and they only restriction is technical you can use a cheaper solution, and that is a bad thing?
A standard CPU is better, and you are not limited to dedicated (and occasionally had to find) hardware. Look for threads about ZFS or mraid over hardware raid for a lot of discussion on this.
With typing like that I'd be surprised if their code ran.
Did you see all the references to debugger plug-ins and the debugger section?
But for that money, more ram or faster drives makes more of a difference...
so what's holding them back?
Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.
No, it is the right question. And the answer is, the people that actually understand these things work also know this will not help anything in real world applications. They are also busy optimizing for additional cheap ram, and the new and fast SSD cards that are almost affordable.
Run a big query on your database. Now, while the hard drive light is solid red, look at your CPU load. See how it is not using all the CPU because it is waiting on the hard drive? A GPU will not help that.
... so they aren't going to pay for hundreds of GPU's.
Especially when they have already blown the budget on fast SSDs that actually make a real difference in real performance, not just synthetic benchmarks.
My question is: How does such seemingly-ridiculous research get approved for funding? Can we not spend that money on greater good?
For the same reason we have "zero tolerance policies" in schools... We do not trust the people making decisions to make them well. So we set up an arbitrary set of standards that can be gamed, and remove the capability of intervention from the people we do not trust, but decide to give the job anyway...
This might be a question that is good to ask before petri dishes are deployed to hospitals... That and is there a performance difference between humid Houston, and dry as dust Phoenix?
Who, Zuckerberg?
I am still deciding...
So when Boeing and it's suppliers lay thousands of people off, those unemployment benefits came from magic pixie faeries? And the money they no longer spend with your business has no effect on you? Just look to Michigan to see what happens in a state when major factories close. (Or Trenton, for that matter.)
I don't think you understand. There are two groups of people. Those who pay. And those who don't. And those who don't aren't about to start.
M'kay?
Occasionally, the people in the later group get dragged in mass to the former. The French Revolution is one example. The thing about "the masses" is that we outnumber everyone.
In once sense... But the US people will pay again for the arrogance of the government. It is about time that the people in government start to pay as well.
If education is not safe for work, you're in the wrong workplace.
If pictures of dicks are OK at work, you have the wrong job!
I wish I had points. And I wish web developers did not think everyone has 20meg connections to the net. MANY places outside of big cities are very speed limited.