That's crap. There are *tons* of players that support iTunes Music Store. For example, the billions of already-deployed CD players. Or any personal computer running Windows or MacOS. This is obviously a large market.
Apparently you can't burn the Yahoo! music to CD, which limits their potential market to Windows computers and crapmatic WMA portable players.
You may not be aware of this, but the iPod has NO DRM capabilities. You can put any iTunes Music Store song on any iPod and play it. Apple spins this as "unlimited iPods" but it's really a technological limitation of the device. It just doesn't have the CPU cycles to bother with DRM.
The bit about widgets stopping is completely false. You can connect to native code (or Java code) from your widget, and the native/Java code can do all types of things, even when the widget is off-screen.
It can't even do a make -j 96, can it? It's not a single system with 96 CPUs, it's a network system of 96 nodes, each with 1 CPU and up to 2GB of memory and ethernet and an optional 2.5" disk.
You can already get very complete US map data for free from the government. The map data providers' grip on the market is fairly tenuous, and rests on the perception that, like Edgar Online, they provide added value beyond what the government gives you. But, like Edgar Online, the government's data offering will eventually be so complete as to render the "value added" services moot.
The only thing left to wonder is will it take 2 or 20 years?
Buh what? Are you seriously proposing that recordable optical discs are less rigorously standardized than Internet markup schemes? I direct you to the DVD Forum which employs rather a lot of scientists and engineers in the pursuit of their standardization duties. By comparison the RSS community is a bunch of cavemen with stick drawings.
Those who do not understand Usenet are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
RSS is irrepairably broken, as is any other polling distribution system.
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One week of inventory would be a disaster for Dell. In 2001 they reduced their inventory levels to 7 hours, and their target for 2005 is, it has been reported, 4 hours.
This is a really weird argument, since the bulk of Opteron servers ship with AMD8xxx core logic.
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Dell already dedicates design and manufacturing resources to building Itanium servers for a vanishingly small market. Calling up Flextronics and telling them to slap Dell badges on some of that Opteron product they ship would cost them comparatively little. And it could fill in a hole in their product line where they currently lack 8-way servers.
This would be an interesting argument, except Dell doesn't use Intel motherboards. Their server mainboards are normally designed specifically for the task and not manufactured for anyone else. That's why when you buy a Precision Workstation you get a weird frankenmonster with ATAPI floppy drives and the system memory on riser cards. That's why when you buy a PowerEdge 1650 it catches on fire, because the motherboard design had never been field-tested prior to shipping.
When you buy a Dell you are getting a third-party-integrated system just the same as if you bought an Opteron machine from Newisys. By the way, regarding the system chipsets, I'm not aware of anyone shipping servers with Via and SiS core logic for Opteron. They are all either AMD, ServerWorks, or NVidia.
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You neglected to mention the Dell 1U Xeon machines that catch on fire. Those were pretty neat. Let me tell you, replacing the motherboard in a bunch of 1U servers is not good for your uptime. Neither is fire.
There's about 100 comments on this page about Dell's amazing manufacturing ability, but it's all ignorant misinformation. Dell relies on Flextronics, Selectron, et al to build practically everything they sell. Dell "integrates" the machine by installing the hard drive and taping up the box. Dell does have a very competent supply chain management operation, but they are mainly managing the supply chain of their subcontractor. Dell has, over the years, turned themselves into a really advanced cross between Gateway and UPS. Don't be fooled into believing they have some huge from-scratch design and manufacturing facility.
Microsoft have had a 64-bit operating system for almost 12 years. It's called "Windows NT" and the most recent revision was 4.0, Service Pack 6a. It runs on the Alpha CPU.
I've seen v40z, with 2 CPU and 2GB RAM, for around $6k, promotional deals. You could get one and add the 3rd and 4th CPUs and a shitload of RAM yourself, without paying Sun's prices on the parts, but beware you'll also need to find a source for the removable (and not installed by default) voltage regulator modules for each CPU, and for each CPU's bank of DIMMs. That's 8 VRMs total, and the machine only comes equipped with 4.
You might want to get 2GB DIMMs. I have never seen any that worked reliably, but I also haven't looked at them in about a year. Get some and burn them in with memtest and see what happens.
As for 8-DIMM motherboards, check out something from Tyan. Since you say you don't need that much CPU power, you could load up a Tyan Thunder board with two Opteron 240 CPUs for rather little money (or, a very small amount compared to what the 16GB of memory is going to cost you).
If you seriously need 64GB of memory, the only PC system I've seen with that much are the HP ProLiant DL585, DL740, and DL760 machines. These are very expensive, especially once loaded with 64GB of memory.
It is particularly inconvenient how they wedged the PCI slot in there. I decided I don't care anymore though. The only 5V PCI cards I still use are an ass-old SCSI HBA for scanners which I should replace with 1394 models from this century, and a truly outdated sound card, easily replaced with superior USB or 1394 gear. I honestly couldn't think of any PCI card I would actually use in that slot. I hope people are not equipping quad-core Opteron machines with AWE32 and NE2000;-)
Standard Model..U320 SCSI..Audio..LAN....SATA-II RAID..FireWire (1394a)..UPC Number
S2895UA2NRF........Yes......Yes..GbE (2).....Yes............Yes..........635872-009808
Agreed. I have a Yamaha 2X SCSI burner in an external case, and it is almost 9 years old. It has burned many hundreds of discs and is still working perfectly. Perhaps the rigors of 52X burning are more than the new drives can handle?
But this problem was already solved, because hyperthreading SMP systems have existed for some time. Before these dual-core CPUs, you could have bought a dual Xeon with hyperthreading, which has the 2 real/2 virtual CPU scheduling problems. Linux, for one, has scheduling code to handle this situtation.
I find the immense jurisprudence of that intellectual giant Cuomo entirely unmoving.
The spectrum is limited. The spectrum belongs to the people. The spectrum is licensed temporarily to broadcasters for use in the public interest. Anyone acting outside the public interest is subject to having their license revoked.
The Internet is unlimited. The Internet belongs to no particular person or group. The Internet scales to arbitrary size. Because the Internet is not a limited resource belonging to the people, nobody needs a license to use it.
Hence, use of the spectrum is and should be regulated and use of the Internet is not and should not be. You might want to consult the Supreme Court, rather than governors of New York, for guidance on this matter.
I'm confident that even your puny brain can understand this basic concept. Have a nice day.
Once again we see that ignorance and a high user ID are strongly correlated.
Memo to AtariAmarok: Sinclair is using airwaves that belong to the people to broadcast their claptrap. The New York Times pays to print theirs, and then pays to drive all over the planet distributing it. After Sinclair releases their lips from the nipple of public support, they can enjoy all the freedoms of the New York Times.
You can already get storage controllers with PCI-Express x16 connections. There are 24-port SATA-II controllers from Areca and Tekram, and there are dual-bus u320 SCSI RAID controllers from various parties. These HBAs can make full use of x16 and more, so it's not a waste. PCI-X is insufficient, even at 133MHz.
The train stops automatically at the next station, or behind the next train, and automatically opens the doors when it is in position on the platform. The driver's only job is to hit the "close doors" button.
Bart has 5 lines, but one doesn't cross the bay. Every station in the city sees all four of the other lines in both directions.
It's a very good thing BART has signs because it's terribly easy to get turned around on the platform. Unlike MTA, BART does not have uptown/downtown split platforms in San Francisco; BART has center platforms. If you are down on the platform it's really easy to forget which track is running east/north and which is running west/south. In the Easy Bay some stations have center tracks and split platforms, so once you get to the platform you can zone out. But in the city you actually have to pay attention!
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Apparently you can't burn the Yahoo! music to CD, which limits their potential market to Windows computers and crapmatic WMA portable players.
You may not be aware of this, but the iPod has NO DRM capabilities. You can put any iTunes Music Store song on any iPod and play it. Apple spins this as "unlimited iPods" but it's really a technological limitation of the device. It just doesn't have the CPU cycles to bother with DRM.
The bit about widgets stopping is completely false. You can connect to native code (or Java code) from your widget, and the native/Java code can do all types of things, even when the widget is off-screen.
distcc, yeah. Parallel make, no.
The only thing left to wonder is will it take 2 or 20 years?
Buh what? Are you seriously proposing that recordable optical discs are less rigorously standardized than Internet markup schemes? I direct you to the DVD Forum which employs rather a lot of scientists and engineers in the pursuit of their standardization duties. By comparison the RSS community is a bunch of cavemen with stick drawings.
Those who do not understand Usenet are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.
RSS is irrepairably broken, as is any other polling distribution system.
One week of inventory would be a disaster for Dell. In 2001 they reduced their inventory levels to 7 hours, and their target for 2005 is, it has been reported, 4 hours.
This is a really weird argument, since the bulk of Opteron servers ship with AMD8xxx core logic.
Dell already dedicates design and manufacturing resources to building Itanium servers for a vanishingly small market. Calling up Flextronics and telling them to slap Dell badges on some of that Opteron product they ship would cost them comparatively little. And it could fill in a hole in their product line where they currently lack 8-way servers.
When you buy a Dell you are getting a third-party-integrated system just the same as if you bought an Opteron machine from Newisys. By the way, regarding the system chipsets, I'm not aware of anyone shipping servers with Via and SiS core logic for Opteron. They are all either AMD, ServerWorks, or NVidia.
There's about 100 comments on this page about Dell's amazing manufacturing ability, but it's all ignorant misinformation. Dell relies on Flextronics, Selectron, et al to build practically everything they sell. Dell "integrates" the machine by installing the hard drive and taping up the box. Dell does have a very competent supply chain management operation, but they are mainly managing the supply chain of their subcontractor. Dell has, over the years, turned themselves into a really advanced cross between Gateway and UPS. Don't be fooled into believing they have some huge from-scratch design and manufacturing facility.
Microsoft have had a 64-bit operating system for almost 12 years. It's called "Windows NT" and the most recent revision was 4.0, Service Pack 6a. It runs on the Alpha CPU.
I've seen v40z, with 2 CPU and 2GB RAM, for around $6k, promotional deals. You could get one and add the 3rd and 4th CPUs and a shitload of RAM yourself, without paying Sun's prices on the parts, but beware you'll also need to find a source for the removable (and not installed by default) voltage regulator modules for each CPU, and for each CPU's bank of DIMMs. That's 8 VRMs total, and the machine only comes equipped with 4.
You might want to get 2GB DIMMs. I have never seen any that worked reliably, but I also haven't looked at them in about a year. Get some and burn them in with memtest and see what happens. As for 8-DIMM motherboards, check out something from Tyan. Since you say you don't need that much CPU power, you could load up a Tyan Thunder board with two Opteron 240 CPUs for rather little money (or, a very small amount compared to what the 16GB of memory is going to cost you). If you seriously need 64GB of memory, the only PC system I've seen with that much are the HP ProLiant DL585, DL740, and DL760 machines. These are very expensive, especially once loaded with 64GB of memory.
It is particularly inconvenient how they wedged the PCI slot in there. I decided I don't care anymore though. The only 5V PCI cards I still use are an ass-old SCSI HBA for scanners which I should replace with 1394 models from this century, and a truly outdated sound card, easily replaced with superior USB or 1394 gear. I honestly couldn't think of any PCI card I would actually use in that slot. I hope people are not equipping quad-core Opteron machines with AWE32 and NE2000 ;-)
Standard Model..U320 SCSI..Audio..LAN....SATA-II RAID..FireWire (1394a)..UPC Number
S2895UA2NRF........Yes......Yes..GbE (2).....Yes............Yes..........635872-009808
Agreed. I have a Yamaha 2X SCSI burner in an external case, and it is almost 9 years old. It has burned many hundreds of discs and is still working perfectly. Perhaps the rigors of 52X burning are more than the new drives can handle?
But this problem was already solved, because hyperthreading SMP systems have existed for some time. Before these dual-core CPUs, you could have bought a dual Xeon with hyperthreading, which has the 2 real/2 virtual CPU scheduling problems. Linux, for one, has scheduling code to handle this situtation.
Tyan Thunder K8WE: 2 independent x16 PCI-Express buses (40 lanes total), two independent GigE interfaces, PCI-X, PCI, SATA, SCSI, 1394, USB. Is there an Intel motherboard with comparable equipment?
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Thought not.
The spectrum is limited. The spectrum belongs to the people. The spectrum is licensed temporarily to broadcasters for use in the public interest. Anyone acting outside the public interest is subject to having their license revoked.
The Internet is unlimited. The Internet belongs to no particular person or group. The Internet scales to arbitrary size. Because the Internet is not a limited resource belonging to the people, nobody needs a license to use it.
Hence, use of the spectrum is and should be regulated and use of the Internet is not and should not be. You might want to consult the Supreme Court, rather than governors of New York, for guidance on this matter.
I'm confident that even your puny brain can understand this basic concept. Have a nice day.
Memo to AtariAmarok: Sinclair is using airwaves that belong to the people to broadcast their claptrap. The New York Times pays to print theirs, and then pays to drive all over the planet distributing it. After Sinclair releases their lips from the nipple of public support, they can enjoy all the freedoms of the New York Times.
You can already get storage controllers with PCI-Express x16 connections. There are 24-port SATA-II controllers from Areca and Tekram, and there are dual-bus u320 SCSI RAID controllers from various parties. These HBAs can make full use of x16 and more, so it's not a waste. PCI-X is insufficient, even at 133MHz.
The train stops automatically at the next station, or behind the next train, and automatically opens the doors when it is in position on the platform. The driver's only job is to hit the "close doors" button.
It's a very good thing BART has signs because it's terribly easy to get turned around on the platform. Unlike MTA, BART does not have uptown/downtown split platforms in San Francisco; BART has center platforms. If you are down on the platform it's really easy to forget which track is running east/north and which is running west/south. In the Easy Bay some stations have center tracks and split platforms, so once you get to the platform you can zone out. But in the city you actually have to pay attention!