Not in the last 50 years or so it doesn't. There are literally hundreds of high-voltage DC transmission lines worldwide that are hundreds if not thousands of miles long.
You might have noticed, but solid state electronics changed the game from what was state of the art in the 1920s.
DC in the home makes a lot of sense now because we have so many devices that use DC inside of them. Basically all electronics, and anything that uses a compressor or motor.
Well I guess the Pacific DC Intertie doesn't exist then (and hasn't since 1970), if AC is the only way to send electricity any distance. All you Southern California people - turn off your air conditioners because you don't get any of that power from the Columbia River dams anymore.
Oh wait, it does, and it can actually be reversed to help with increased electric load in the Pacific Northwest during winter.
Well, if someone were to use a logic analyzer to determine which pins of a Thunderbolt cable were PCI Express, so that they can solder up an off-board, wall-powered GPU, that would only run at PCI x4 speeds (ironically, I'd argue that the thermal portion of the equation would be the easiest to solve)...well, someone smart enough to do that is smart enough to use Windows competently:-).
I was referring to a hardware manufacturer that wanted to make an upgrade line for Mac Pro. I'm not sure of many people that are laying and soldering their own PCBs for GPUs at home.
Wedding and event videos fall squarely in this category. No bride will be okay with spending $1,500 for a Vimeo link.
And cheap USB2 keys that hold a couple hundred times as much data as a DVD don't exist. Nope, they do, and are far more convenient and resilient to damage than optical media.
You also need storage space. HD video, art assets, high resolution multitrack audio projects, and CAD drawings aren't exactly compact forms of data, y'know.
Use the local SSD as a buffer for high speed work. Copy from network to local, work, upload back. Clear space, move to next job. If you require high speed links to large disk, use thunderbolt to add dual 10GbE for iSCSI or dual 16Gb fiber channel.
That's a rather broad brush to paint with, especially since disk I/O over the LAN starts hitting a ceiling pretty quick. This would be easier to swallow if there were a PCI Express slot to add a 10GigE/Fiber/Infiniband card, but they did away with that, too.
False. See links above. Thunderbolt IS PCI Express. It's on a cable instead of a slot. Whoop de do.
I'll agree that the GPU situation in the current Mac Pro is rather underwhelming, and a product of a design decision rather than making available options to the "Pro" customer. However, the GPUs are mounted with BGA connectors, and it would be feasible for someone to use a logic analyzer to figure out which pins on the connector are PCI express, which are DisplayPort, and which are power allowing for someone to make a 3rd party GPU upgrade card (if they could make it work with the thermals), but the market would be so small that nobody would ever turn a profit at it.
Yeah, because being able to plug in dual 16Gb fiber channel absolutely doesn't take care of your storage concerns.
Why do I want a bunch of big dumb rotating disks on my desktop where they can die and lose my data, when I can have hundreds of terabytes (redundant) in an environmentally maintained datacenter, with faster connections than SATA can even dream of?
And really, you're going to complain that the base system doesn't have a fully optimized performance configuration? It's a BASE configuration. You said so yourself.
As a Time Warner subscriber, this is definitely a good thing.
Their equipment is trash - I no longer use their DVR or their cable modem because they are both fucking garbage. I built a media PC with an HD tuner / cable card set up that has already paid for itself by not having to "rent" their shit DVR box that I would have to reboot 2 or 3 times a week, at a 10-minute boot up time. I dumped their garbage "rented" cable modem because I'd have to power cycle it once a week or so, and replaced it with a $60 unit from Amazon that also actually increased throughput speed. That change will pay for itself in about 7 months.
They abuse DRM flagging on everything that isn't available with an over-the-air tuner. If you have to go to one of their offices to trade in equipment, or get replacement, schedule two hours because they only ever have one or two people at the counter, and there's a line of people waiting to trade in broken shit for stuff that isn't broken yet, but will be. They charge more for the same services from other cable providers, because they can - when you don't have any competition for high speed internet, you don't have to worry about other lines of business being threatened (satellite TV).
Fuck Time Warner. I hope this merger goes through and Charter fires the TWC management and starts cleaning up the huge mess they've left behind.
It's easy to be cynical about this, but Time Warner is so customer surly that a ultra-huge mega-merger might actually be better for existing Time Warner customers.
For example: Time Warner abuses the broadcast flag / CCI DRM schemes to flag everything they legally can as "copy-once", locking out lots of DVR competition because the additional features don't work. Charter does not do this, and only flags content as "copy-once" or "do-not-copy" as contractually required by the content providers.
A Charter merger with Time Warner would make my service better and more enjoyable the instant they flip that bit to comply with Charter's current policy regarding CCI tagging because I would no longer be required to watch content only on the device that recorded it.
Time Warner is the worst cable company out there from a customer perspective. When the best news you get about someone providing you a service is that they are selling out to competition, that tells you how bad the service is.
It actually does, now. They just reworked the aero and heating so that parts will explode if you expose them to too much air friction. Unless you use stability control or keep your heat shield pointing in the right direction manually, it will tumble and conceivably tear itself apart / burn to a cinder. If you come in too shallow, you will aerobrake and head back out to space in a lower orbit where you may lose power - Kerbals don't eat or drink without an addon, so electrical power is the biggest concern in that scenario.
I think I heard somewhere that it was part of a government launch contract that they needed to own the design so that they could second-source the motors if necessary. By licensing it and having the schematic, they probably checked whatever box that some bureaucrat was looking to check. They probably never intended to actually manufacture the things - just comply with some contractual requirement in the least useful way.
The issue then would be degradation of the systems on the satellite from micrometeor impacts, radiation, heat, etc.
They wouldn't last forever - eventually the solar arrays would stop supplying the minimum voltage needed and it would turn into another orbiting chunk of metal. Or the electronics would burn out from too much radiation damage - shielding doesn't completely eliminate the problem forever, it just delays it really well.
So you're saying that they ripped out all the legacy shit that old IE-only apps (and malware) relied upon, and now they're blowing the trumpets about how secure they are?
I guess I'd be impressed if they got to a reasonable level of security without breaking every legacy app that they convinced people to write against their leaky web APIs.
What's funny is that the smart-growth crowd doesn't call this "ravaging" but rather calls it "ingrowth" and "densification". It also "creates livable, walkable neighborhoods."
I guess Amazon just made the mistake of doing this in Seattle rather than Portland where it's called approved growth planning.
This isn't about being able to install PowerShell on Linux as some kind of bash replacement. This is about being able to have an agent on Linux that talks to the same "Desired Configuration Management" system you're already using on Windows servers, and have already scripted things in PowerShell.
This isn't for you, because you clearly aren't using Windows server with Microsoft's DCM solution, and you aren't looking to extend that solution to Linux instances. This is the Microsoft version of Chef or Puppet, with a cross-platform client. Using PowerShell.
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In the 90s, practically every OS had these issues with NICs that weren't Intel 82559 or 3C509 based.
The world is much more networked now, and thus has far better support for networking.
My first linux box was Mandrake. A bit of a shame that they are now titsup.
That being said, everything I do is Debian-based now.
Not in the last 50 years or so it doesn't. There are literally hundreds of high-voltage DC transmission lines worldwide that are hundreds if not thousands of miles long.
You might have noticed, but solid state electronics changed the game from what was state of the art in the 1920s.
DC in the home makes a lot of sense now because we have so many devices that use DC inside of them. Basically all electronics, and anything that uses a compressor or motor.
Well I guess the Pacific DC Intertie doesn't exist then (and hasn't since 1970), if AC is the only way to send electricity any distance. All you Southern California people - turn off your air conditioners because you don't get any of that power from the Columbia River dams anymore.
Oh wait, it does, and it can actually be reversed to help with increased electric load in the Pacific Northwest during winter.
Well, if someone were to use a logic analyzer to determine which pins of a Thunderbolt cable were PCI Express, so that they can solder up an off-board, wall-powered GPU, that would only run at PCI x4 speeds (ironically, I'd argue that the thermal portion of the equation would be the easiest to solve)...well, someone smart enough to do that is smart enough to use Windows competently :-).
I was referring to a hardware manufacturer that wanted to make an upgrade line for Mac Pro. I'm not sure of many people that are laying and soldering their own PCBs for GPUs at home.
As far as an external Thunderbolt GPU, you can do that.
Wedding and event videos fall squarely in this category. No bride will be okay with spending $1,500 for a Vimeo link.
And cheap USB2 keys that hold a couple hundred times as much data as a DVD don't exist. Nope, they do, and are far more convenient and resilient to damage than optical media.
You also need storage space. HD video, art assets, high resolution multitrack audio projects, and CAD drawings aren't exactly compact forms of data, y'know.
Use the local SSD as a buffer for high speed work. Copy from network to local, work, upload back. Clear space, move to next job. If you require high speed links to large disk, use thunderbolt to add dual 10GbE for iSCSI or dual 16Gb fiber channel.
That's a rather broad brush to paint with, especially since disk I/O over the LAN starts hitting a ceiling pretty quick. This would be easier to swallow if there were a PCI Express slot to add a 10GigE/Fiber/Infiniband card, but they did away with that, too.
False. See links above. Thunderbolt IS PCI Express. It's on a cable instead of a slot. Whoop de do.
I'll agree that the GPU situation in the current Mac Pro is rather underwhelming, and a product of a design decision rather than making available options to the "Pro" customer. However, the GPUs are mounted with BGA connectors, and it would be feasible for someone to use a logic analyzer to figure out which pins on the connector are PCI express, which are DisplayPort, and which are power allowing for someone to make a 3rd party GPU upgrade card (if they could make it work with the thermals), but the market would be so small that nobody would ever turn a profit at it.
Yeah, because being able to plug in dual 16Gb fiber channel absolutely doesn't take care of your storage concerns.
Why do I want a bunch of big dumb rotating disks on my desktop where they can die and lose my data, when I can have hundreds of terabytes (redundant) in an environmentally maintained datacenter, with faster connections than SATA can even dream of?
And really, you're going to complain that the base system doesn't have a fully optimized performance configuration? It's a BASE configuration. You said so yourself.
As a Time Warner subscriber, this is definitely a good thing.
Their equipment is trash - I no longer use their DVR or their cable modem because they are both fucking garbage. I built a media PC with an HD tuner / cable card set up that has already paid for itself by not having to "rent" their shit DVR box that I would have to reboot 2 or 3 times a week, at a 10-minute boot up time. I dumped their garbage "rented" cable modem because I'd have to power cycle it once a week or so, and replaced it with a $60 unit from Amazon that also actually increased throughput speed. That change will pay for itself in about 7 months.
They abuse DRM flagging on everything that isn't available with an over-the-air tuner. If you have to go to one of their offices to trade in equipment, or get replacement, schedule two hours because they only ever have one or two people at the counter, and there's a line of people waiting to trade in broken shit for stuff that isn't broken yet, but will be. They charge more for the same services from other cable providers, because they can - when you don't have any competition for high speed internet, you don't have to worry about other lines of business being threatened (satellite TV).
Fuck Time Warner. I hope this merger goes through and Charter fires the TWC management and starts cleaning up the huge mess they've left behind.
And yet, they are still better than Time Warner.
THAT is how bad Time Warner is.
It's easy to be cynical about this, but Time Warner is so customer surly that a ultra-huge mega-merger might actually be better for existing Time Warner customers.
For example: Time Warner abuses the broadcast flag / CCI DRM schemes to flag everything they legally can as "copy-once", locking out lots of DVR competition because the additional features don't work. Charter does not do this, and only flags content as "copy-once" or "do-not-copy" as contractually required by the content providers.
A Charter merger with Time Warner would make my service better and more enjoyable the instant they flip that bit to comply with Charter's current policy regarding CCI tagging because I would no longer be required to watch content only on the device that recorded it.
Time Warner is the worst cable company out there from a customer perspective. When the best news you get about someone providing you a service is that they are selling out to competition, that tells you how bad the service is.
Horseshit.
There are two charges when it comes to narcotics:
Possession
Possession with intent to distribute
The difference between them is basically the seized quantity of the illicit substance. Both are prosecuted. Often.
You want your car to get intoxicated for you?
People under 25 don't have the money to afford all this bullshit - they buy either cheaper new cars, or slightly used cars.
At any rate, saying that Ford is going to go the way of IBM because of the software running the fucking radio is supremely retarded.
It actually does, now. They just reworked the aero and heating so that parts will explode if you expose them to too much air friction. Unless you use stability control or keep your heat shield pointing in the right direction manually, it will tumble and conceivably tear itself apart / burn to a cinder. If you come in too shallow, you will aerobrake and head back out to space in a lower orbit where you may lose power - Kerbals don't eat or drink without an addon, so electrical power is the biggest concern in that scenario.
I think I heard somewhere that it was part of a government launch contract that they needed to own the design so that they could second-source the motors if necessary. By licensing it and having the schematic, they probably checked whatever box that some bureaucrat was looking to check. They probably never intended to actually manufacture the things - just comply with some contractual requirement in the least useful way.
Lots of these use rechargeable NiCad or Li batteries, which would fail well before the PV cells or the LED.
The issue then would be degradation of the systems on the satellite from micrometeor impacts, radiation, heat, etc.
They wouldn't last forever - eventually the solar arrays would stop supplying the minimum voltage needed and it would turn into another orbiting chunk of metal. Or the electronics would burn out from too much radiation damage - shielding doesn't completely eliminate the problem forever, it just delays it really well.
So you're saying that they ripped out all the legacy shit that old IE-only apps (and malware) relied upon, and now they're blowing the trumpets about how secure they are?
I guess I'd be impressed if they got to a reasonable level of security without breaking every legacy app that they convinced people to write against their leaky web APIs.
Write against a vendor locked-in API, get vendor locked-in.
What's funny is that the smart-growth crowd doesn't call this "ravaging" but rather calls it "ingrowth" and "densification". It also "creates livable, walkable neighborhoods."
I guess Amazon just made the mistake of doing this in Seattle rather than Portland where it's called approved growth planning.
I'm a Chef admin, and there's no way we wholesale change out simple one or two liners in Ruby for the exhaustively verbose PowerShell equivalent.
You missed the point.
This isn't about being able to install PowerShell on Linux as some kind of bash replacement. This is about being able to have an agent on Linux that talks to the same "Desired Configuration Management" system you're already using on Windows servers, and have already scripted things in PowerShell.
This isn't for you, because you clearly aren't using Windows server with Microsoft's DCM solution, and you aren't looking to extend that solution to Linux instances. This is the Microsoft version of Chef or Puppet, with a cross-platform client. Using PowerShell.
Extingush Chef and Puppet - the two open and pre-existing ways to do what DCM does.
Now only if there wasn't a free way to do that before...