MS anounced that they'd make anual releases of Windows by 97, when they were trying to rent it instead of selling. Then, they anounced it again by 2004, and did start to rent it for some companies.
It's an old plan. Never worked because they need 5 years to make a change in Windows that compiles, but they never really quit trying.
That will also teach people that the OS isn't a part of the hardware, and that you can install a new one. That's one small step away from learning that there some are other things that aren't called "Windows" and that their computer will run it.
You can't push Oracle as far as you can push Postgres. Ok, there are lot of entities out there managing a huge amount of data on Oracle. But when you look at the extreme cases, the only relational DBMS you'll find is Postgres.
Of course, if you push hard enough no relational DBMS will handle the load.
After reading the title, I opened the thread to recomend either PostgreSQL or SQLite. The two are different enough that after a fast glance on the projects, DoofusOfDeath should know what option he likes most.
Both are the most important free SGDBs out there (again, different enough that they don't compete), and even if few people are using them now (what I also doubt), they are posed to get most of the usage-share (as the term market-share doesn't really apply here) in the near future.
Also, about MySQL, who wants to spend his time working with Oracle?
There will be at least one time that some other process came from nowhere and beat silicon litography in nealy all aspects. (The laws of physics almost assure that.)
The only questions are "when?", "what process?" and "will it come while we still have Moore's law?"
The amount of gold this process would use (if it actualy created a circuit) is incredibly low (much less than the amount of silicon in a current chip), and gold is an order of magnitude cheaper than purified silicon.
They'll come round once they start having problems getting more IPv4 addresses from their upstream providers
They won't, they'll just put everybody behind a NAT, with the added bonus of breaking bittorrent, VoIP, or any other protocol that actualy uses bandwidth.
IPv6 will only come later, and just for the places that have any competition between ISPs.
Most people'll live with 3, untill they get a new machine if they are out of warranty.
Hell, if they are not under warranty, there is probably a new machine there already, and this one is doing those little tasks people use old machines for.
There are plenty of motherboard manufacturers out there, and if there is a sizeable market for a good board with a not so good processor, one of them will probably try to fill it.
Notice that it is different from the phone market (except if you are in Asia), or the car market in some places ("air bags and ABS are not available for cars with less than 1.4 litres of engine capacity" means you are in Brazil?).
This probably also means that the number of models for processor will drastically reduce.
What is again a problem for Intel. They use the different models for price segmentation, reducing the number of models will directly affect their botton line.
Or maybe Intel is betting that the number of motherboard models will reduce.
but if they think they can force the lucrative server market to spend many thousands of dollars on a board with soldered CPUs, so if you need to boost performanje later you have to just throw the whole thing on the garbage heap and start over? Think again
Came-on. Everybody do replace their entire servers already, nearly nobody upgrades.
Besides, Intel changes the sockets of their chips every generation anyway.
When the oceans are seen to be moving inevitably and inexorably to that condition , then it's as good as real, just like a stock that people understand is going to zero is as good as worthless even when it's price is still positive.
Even stocks don't work exactly at this way. The idea that a speculative attack on food will make any bit of difference is insane.
(I'm not saying that generalized exticntions at the oceans wouldn't be a bad thing. It would. It'd be very bad. But you need to review your model, that feedback loop isn't real.)
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Ok, so let's compare it with full-blown laptops, that are both more powerfull and cheaper.
Yeah, that's crazy. Let's just forget the several docummented cases of them doing so... Nobody does it, thus MS doesn't do it either.
Silicon prices keep dropping, and gold prices keep increasing... And my figures are quite old.
I stand corrected.
It's not per cm2. It's per chip. Highter yelds are also part of Moore's law.
The law is as strong as ever, and probably will hold until the next fabs generation (about 7 years). After that, it's only guesses.
MS anounced that they'd make anual releases of Windows by 97, when they were trying to rent it instead of selling. Then, they anounced it again by 2004, and did start to rent it for some companies.
It's an old plan. Never worked because they need 5 years to make a change in Windows that compiles, but they never really quit trying.
Or Project Cairo, that was anounced with a release date in 1992. It became Windows 95.
That will also teach people that the OS isn't a part of the hardware, and that you can install a new one. That's one small step away from learning that there some are other things that aren't called "Windows" and that their computer will run it.
FIFY. Doesn't look that great now, does it?
You can't push Oracle as far as you can push Postgres. Ok, there are lot of entities out there managing a huge amount of data on Oracle. But when you look at the extreme cases, the only relational DBMS you'll find is Postgres.
Of course, if you push hard enough no relational DBMS will handle the load.
That.
After reading the title, I opened the thread to recomend either PostgreSQL or SQLite. The two are different enough that after a fast glance on the projects, DoofusOfDeath should know what option he likes most.
Both are the most important free SGDBs out there (again, different enough that they don't compete), and even if few people are using them now (what I also doubt), they are posed to get most of the usage-share (as the term market-share doesn't really apply here) in the near future.
Also, about MySQL, who wants to spend his time working with Oracle?
There will be at least one time that some other process came from nowhere and beat silicon litography in nealy all aspects. (The laws of physics almost assure that.)
The only questions are "when?", "what process?" and "will it come while we still have Moore's law?"
Yes, it is.
The amount of gold this process would use (if it actualy created a circuit) is incredibly low (much less than the amount of silicon in a current chip), and gold is an order of magnitude cheaper than purified silicon.
They won't, they'll just put everybody behind a NAT, with the added bonus of breaking bittorrent, VoIP, or any other protocol that actualy uses bandwidth.
IPv6 will only come later, and just for the places that have any competition between ISPs.
We can create as many as we want. But they are not stable.
Of course it explodes. The LHC can only detect the explosion derbris.
It was a confirmation of a particle with a mass similar and decayments to what is expected for the Higgs. It's not confirmation of the Higgs.
There are still a lot of properties that must be measured before we call the Higgs "confirmed".
Evolution doesn't like to reinvent core functionality, but loves to rearrange that functionality in different ways.
Most people'll live with 3, untill they get a new machine if they are out of warranty.
Hell, if they are not under warranty, there is probably a new machine there already, and this one is doing those little tasks people use old machines for.
There are plenty of motherboard manufacturers out there, and if there is a sizeable market for a good board with a not so good processor, one of them will probably try to fill it.
Notice that it is different from the phone market (except if you are in Asia), or the car market in some places ("air bags and ABS are not available for cars with less than 1.4 litres of engine capacity" means you are in Brazil?).
What is again a problem for Intel. They use the different models for price segmentation, reducing the number of models will directly affect their botton line.
Or maybe Intel is betting that the number of motherboard models will reduce.
Yes, there will be less choice.
But will we lose meaningfull options or just the ridiculous ones that nobody wants? I guess we can't know beforehand.
Came-on. Everybody do replace their entire servers already, nearly nobody upgrades.
Besides, Intel changes the sockets of their chips every generation anyway.
Even stocks don't work exactly at this way. The idea that a speculative attack on food will make any bit of difference is insane.
(I'm not saying that generalized exticntions at the oceans wouldn't be a bad thing. It would. It'd be very bad. But you need to review your model, that feedback loop isn't real.)
No, it doesn't need any complex gameplay mechanics. It just needs to be fun. You definition of "fun" seems to be quite away from the dictionary one.
So? What's you point?
In the US that's worth some $20k. Here at Brazil once could teoreticaly go to jail over it. Is your point that Germany isn't much restrictive?