Did you really just ignore the part where I said that if you're building a super computer that is meant to simulate nuclear weapon detonation, you don't give a shit about the cost of the individual CPUs?
When the supercomputers in question are designed for Xeon already (they are) you don't up and switch to POWER or SPARC.
And I compared Intel's top performant part to AMD's top performant part based on that benchmark. If AMD has something that even gets close to a Xeon E5 V3 within the same power dissipation, enlighten me.
AMD provides value parts, because they can't stack up in ultimate performance anymore.
Exactly right - Intel's development fab is in Hillsboro, Oregon. They get the fab process working there, and then document the hell out of it and reproduce that billion+ dollar facility in their production fabs around the world - Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Then they tear out the inside of the development fab and start over for the next generation. Periodically they need a bigger building footprint, so they build another dev fab next door and assign the previous dev fab to be a production fab at that node for products until they're done with it.
You're acting like China won't still be able to get their hands on a stack of Xeons any time they want to with Lenovo and Foxconn both sitting inside their borders. Plus, AMD can't deliver anything close to Xeon performance, much less at the same power rating. Nobody wants to dump 10MW into a computer room and then evacuate that heat if they can do the same job in 6MW with 2.5x the performance*.
Looking at this really should shed some light on where high-end computing sits right now - AMD isn't even in the top 50, and anyone building nuclear weapons number crunchers doesn't give a damn about price.
* Intel Xeon E5-2699V3 averages 24601 on CPUMark in 145 watts TDW, where AMD FX-9590 8-Core scores 10273 on the same benchmark, in 220 watts.
They wouldn't even bother with the clustering of Lenovo stuff - they'd just unsocket the CPU and put it into the supercomputer nodes, and then give back the CPU-less server to Lenovo by way of "RMA" or something else, hiding the fact that there is no CPU in it when they get it back. Then, Lenovo refurbishes it (sockets another CPU) and sells it again at a slight discount.
Like the US Department of Commerce would have any clue if that was happening or not.
"You aren't allowed to sell Xeon parts to but you are still allowed to ship millions of them to Lenovo. And if a couple pallets of CPUs fall off the back of the 747... well, whatyagonnado?"
For not-large companies, you can put someone in front of your public infrastructure to take care of DDoS crap for you, like these guys: www.incapsula.com
It's not just coders - operations people and systems engineers are the same way. Anyone can Google for how to set something up, but if you don't understand the system, and don't have any proper techniques and logic for troubleshooting when something goes wrong, then you're a crap engineer. And, like any mixed liquids of differing density, they will separate themselves with time.
Now only if there was a way for coders to be able to live and work somewhere besides California. Like if there was some kind of massive internetwork that allowed them to remotely work somewhere and transmit their work back to the home office.
Nah, it will never work. You'd also need some kind of communication infrastructure that allows for voice, video, text; and probably a centralized code repository and continuous integration environment.
Signed, someone who lives in Cincinnati while working on a development team based in the Bay Area and Colorado, with contributors in Indianapolis, SoCal, and Boston.
You aren't wrong - my company has been trying to hire competent DBAs and such for a bit now, and by the time HR gets off their ass and extends an offer, Google or Apple have already hired them.
I don't understand why novel and useful inventions should be licensed for peanuts(preferably free apparently to M$ and Apple although IIRC M$ actually does own some standards patents unlike Apple who have nothing non-obvious, novel and useful) while utterly useless and obvious sh!t(complete w/prior art in the physical world) like unlock is somehow worth trillions.
Because "slide to unlock" isn't necessary to communicate voice data and IPv4 packets to an LTE mast. If you can't see the difference between a patent on a radio or transmission scheme, and a design patent for a gimmicky touchscreen feature then you really have no business commenting on standards essential patents and the licensing schemes that surround them.
I'm glad someone does. The American media is a worthless shit show unless you're looking for biased (one way or the other) tongue wagging or stirring up outrage before all the facts are in. Again, this statement isn't talking about perceived "liberal" bias or "conservative-leaning" news like the shit show that is Cable news - it's the whole lot of them. They are too busy worrying about being first to report, that reporting facts is a distant second.
Regarding #3 - the criminals aren't arming themselves to resist police, they're arming themselves to resist other criminals*. Many drug dealers don't give a shit about being arrested and doing a little time - they have friends and cohorts already inside, and they aren't so stupid as to recognize that 6 months on a possession with intent isn't nearly as bad as a best case life without parole for being a cop killer. Also, shooting at cops only brings lots more cops, and the cops that come in after that are far more likely to tune up anyone that looks at them sideways than some cop trying to make it through his shift who spots a poorly hidden stash.
Shooting at cops means the whole business has to take a time out for several days until the heat dies down, which means everyone makes less money when the customers go to other parts of town where they aren't so stupid as to shoot at cops.
*obviously this depends on locale and disposition. Yes, there are some truly bad criminal enterprises out there, and really stupid violent people, which is a fantastic combination.
Now only if the fiber providers weren't massive cocksuckers too. I've been trying to get fiber into our small office suite for 5 weeks now, after it's already in the god damn building. But, in their infinite wisdom, they put the fiber transceiver in the back of the first subscriber in the building, rather than the common wiring riser. Then, when they get subscriber #2 (me) they want us to run wire into the back of a law firm's suite where their idiot install tech put the fiber transceiver. The law firm doesn't want us digging around in their closet, and we don't want to be either. What happens when subscriber #3 in the building wants fiber service? Is this lawyer's office now the building's wiring riser?
When we asked them about this, they said we had to cancel our order and place a new one for them to relocate their equipment to where it should have been to begin with, and restart the clock on getting our connection. In the meantime, we're stuck with a shitty LTE connection that cannot handle the traffic that our tiny office needs. Meanwhile the telco is jerking us around because that's what telcos do, because they don't give two fucks, and we have no recourse.
Competition fixes this kind of shit, when I can tell them to take their fiber service and shove it up their fibrous ass because they aren't the only game in town.
The demand is there, as long as the growth continues, which this poll from 2013 and this Zogby poll from last week that shows even 2 out of 3 Republicans agree that the Federal Investment Tax Credit for solar should be renewed.
I have no idea why Slashdot, allegedly a bastion of personal freedom and libertarianism, can't get with expanding personal rooftop solar. Is it the whole solution? Absolutely not. But it's definitely helping far more than it's hurting.
My question is how much the research into these laser-mounted 747s advanced the state of the art of lasers. Perhaps with what they learned in making a laser powerful enough to fit in a 747 that can still fly, they learned something that could help the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Labratory?
I'm sure that kind of thing is classified, but the results of research aren't thrown out when something doesn't work - very likely there was useful information gained in the process.
Not all of it, but there is pork in military spending. Are you telling me that the military needs each and every piece of equipment and ordinance it has, built exactly the way it was and where it was built, and that it couldn't have possibly been done more efficiently?
If you are, then you're dreaming. If you aren't, then there is pork. How many large artillery pieces are we using to keep the peace in Afghanistan these days?
Tell your conservative friend that a Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor is only worth about $6000 in good condition, and far from some indicator that they are cheating the system.
There's probably people on welfare that have far more expensive cars.
And when those prices go up, exactly nobody will realize that rooftop solar becomes parity priced, if not cheaper. Oh, do you think that might be why the guy who owns one of these electric car companies is also the chairman and principle investor in a solar energy company?
If he bought an M5 without knowing that all the parts and service are stupendously expensive, then he was blind.
Any of the factory-tuned special edition cars are like that. It doesn't matter if it's BMW M, Mercedes Benz AMG, etc. And, you don't get 500 horsepower for free - it comes from burning LOTS of fuel.
Depends on the car - I had a 2002 that I bought in 2001 that needed new synchronizers in the first 40k, and again in the next 50k because they were very weak shit. The manufacturer apparently abandoned that particular transmission design after only 3 years of use because of this issue.
Yes, that was 13 years ago, but there can be flaws in any design that has cost as a higher consideration than quality.
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Did you really just ignore the part where I said that if you're building a super computer that is meant to simulate nuclear weapon detonation, you don't give a shit about the cost of the individual CPUs?
When the supercomputers in question are designed for Xeon already (they are) you don't up and switch to POWER or SPARC.
And I compared Intel's top performant part to AMD's top performant part based on that benchmark. If AMD has something that even gets close to a Xeon E5 V3 within the same power dissipation, enlighten me.
AMD provides value parts, because they can't stack up in ultimate performance anymore.
Exactly right - Intel's development fab is in Hillsboro, Oregon. They get the fab process working there, and then document the hell out of it and reproduce that billion+ dollar facility in their production fabs around the world - Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Then they tear out the inside of the development fab and start over for the next generation. Periodically they need a bigger building footprint, so they build another dev fab next door and assign the previous dev fab to be a production fab at that node for products until they're done with it.
That would be what this campus does.
In other news, AMD stock goes through the roof.
You're acting like China won't still be able to get their hands on a stack of Xeons any time they want to with Lenovo and Foxconn both sitting inside their borders. Plus, AMD can't deliver anything close to Xeon performance, much less at the same power rating. Nobody wants to dump 10MW into a computer room and then evacuate that heat if they can do the same job in 6MW with 2.5x the performance*.
Looking at this really should shed some light on where high-end computing sits right now - AMD isn't even in the top 50, and anyone building nuclear weapons number crunchers doesn't give a damn about price.
* Intel Xeon E5-2699V3 averages 24601 on CPUMark in 145 watts TDW, where AMD FX-9590 8-Core scores 10273 on the same benchmark, in 220 watts.
They wouldn't even bother with the clustering of Lenovo stuff - they'd just unsocket the CPU and put it into the supercomputer nodes, and then give back the CPU-less server to Lenovo by way of "RMA" or something else, hiding the fact that there is no CPU in it when they get it back. Then, Lenovo refurbishes it (sockets another CPU) and sells it again at a slight discount.
Like the US Department of Commerce would have any clue if that was happening or not.
Exactly.
"You aren't allowed to sell Xeon parts to but you are still allowed to ship millions of them to Lenovo. And if a couple pallets of CPUs fall off the back of the 747... well, whatyagonnado?"
For not-large companies, you can put someone in front of your public infrastructure to take care of DDoS crap for you, like these guys: www.incapsula.com
It's not just coders - operations people and systems engineers are the same way. Anyone can Google for how to set something up, but if you don't understand the system, and don't have any proper techniques and logic for troubleshooting when something goes wrong, then you're a crap engineer. And, like any mixed liquids of differing density, they will separate themselves with time.
Now only if there was a way for coders to be able to live and work somewhere besides California. Like if there was some kind of massive internetwork that allowed them to remotely work somewhere and transmit their work back to the home office.
Nah, it will never work. You'd also need some kind of communication infrastructure that allows for voice, video, text; and probably a centralized code repository and continuous integration environment.
Signed,
someone who lives in Cincinnati while working on a development team based in the Bay Area and Colorado, with contributors in Indianapolis, SoCal, and Boston.
You aren't wrong - my company has been trying to hire competent DBAs and such for a bit now, and by the time HR gets off their ass and extends an offer, Google or Apple have already hired them.
And even if they are locked into some rigid salary scheme, there's always other things you can negotiate on - stock options, RSUs, vacation time, etc.
I don't understand why novel and useful inventions should be licensed for peanuts(preferably free apparently to M$ and Apple although IIRC M$ actually does own some standards patents unlike Apple who have nothing non-obvious, novel and useful) while utterly useless and obvious sh!t(complete w/prior art in the physical world) like unlock is somehow worth trillions.
Because "slide to unlock" isn't necessary to communicate voice data and IPv4 packets to an LTE mast. If you can't see the difference between a patent on a radio or transmission scheme, and a design patent for a gimmicky touchscreen feature then you really have no business commenting on standards essential patents and the licensing schemes that surround them.
I'm glad someone does. The American media is a worthless shit show unless you're looking for biased (one way or the other) tongue wagging or stirring up outrage before all the facts are in. Again, this statement isn't talking about perceived "liberal" bias or "conservative-leaning" news like the shit show that is Cable news - it's the whole lot of them. They are too busy worrying about being first to report, that reporting facts is a distant second.
Well, it's brutality first, and then perjury and corruption afterwards.
Regarding #3 - the criminals aren't arming themselves to resist police, they're arming themselves to resist other criminals*. Many drug dealers don't give a shit about being arrested and doing a little time - they have friends and cohorts already inside, and they aren't so stupid as to recognize that 6 months on a possession with intent isn't nearly as bad as a best case life without parole for being a cop killer. Also, shooting at cops only brings lots more cops, and the cops that come in after that are far more likely to tune up anyone that looks at them sideways than some cop trying to make it through his shift who spots a poorly hidden stash.
Shooting at cops means the whole business has to take a time out for several days until the heat dies down, which means everyone makes less money when the customers go to other parts of town where they aren't so stupid as to shoot at cops.
*obviously this depends on locale and disposition. Yes, there are some truly bad criminal enterprises out there, and really stupid violent people, which is a fantastic combination.
Now only if the fiber providers weren't massive cocksuckers too. I've been trying to get fiber into our small office suite for 5 weeks now, after it's already in the god damn building. But, in their infinite wisdom, they put the fiber transceiver in the back of the first subscriber in the building, rather than the common wiring riser. Then, when they get subscriber #2 (me) they want us to run wire into the back of a law firm's suite where their idiot install tech put the fiber transceiver. The law firm doesn't want us digging around in their closet, and we don't want to be either. What happens when subscriber #3 in the building wants fiber service? Is this lawyer's office now the building's wiring riser?
When we asked them about this, they said we had to cancel our order and place a new one for them to relocate their equipment to where it should have been to begin with, and restart the clock on getting our connection. In the meantime, we're stuck with a shitty LTE connection that cannot handle the traffic that our tiny office needs. Meanwhile the telco is jerking us around because that's what telcos do, because they don't give two fucks, and we have no recourse.
Competition fixes this kind of shit, when I can tell them to take their fiber service and shove it up their fibrous ass because they aren't the only game in town.
Slide to Unlock is not necessary for a phone to talk to LTE towers, or send SMS messages.
This is why there is a difference between design patents and standards essential patents.
The good news is that the economy IS creating that many jobs in solar. 2014 saw 31,000 jobs added in one year, and this initiative is to train 75,000 over 5 years.
The demand is there, as long as the growth continues, which this poll from 2013 and this Zogby poll from last week that shows even 2 out of 3 Republicans agree that the Federal Investment Tax Credit for solar should be renewed.
I have no idea why Slashdot, allegedly a bastion of personal freedom and libertarianism, can't get with expanding personal rooftop solar. Is it the whole solution? Absolutely not. But it's definitely helping far more than it's hurting.
My question is how much the research into these laser-mounted 747s advanced the state of the art of lasers. Perhaps with what they learned in making a laser powerful enough to fit in a 747 that can still fly, they learned something that could help the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Labratory?
I'm sure that kind of thing is classified, but the results of research aren't thrown out when something doesn't work - very likely there was useful information gained in the process.
Not all of it, but there is pork in military spending. Are you telling me that the military needs each and every piece of equipment and ordinance it has, built exactly the way it was and where it was built, and that it couldn't have possibly been done more efficiently?
If you are, then you're dreaming. If you aren't, then there is pork. How many large artillery pieces are we using to keep the peace in Afghanistan these days?
Yeah, but it's far more effective to leak failures than successes if you're looking to make noise in the media.
They promise it to the direct recipients of the pork, in exchange for a timely political contribution to the committee to re-elect...
Tell your conservative friend that a Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor is only worth about $6000 in good condition, and far from some indicator that they are cheating the system.
There's probably people on welfare that have far more expensive cars.
And when those prices go up, exactly nobody will realize that rooftop solar becomes parity priced, if not cheaper. Oh, do you think that might be why the guy who owns one of these electric car companies is also the chairman and principle investor in a solar energy company?
If he bought an M5 without knowing that all the parts and service are stupendously expensive, then he was blind.
Any of the factory-tuned special edition cars are like that. It doesn't matter if it's BMW M, Mercedes Benz AMG, etc. And, you don't get 500 horsepower for free - it comes from burning LOTS of fuel.
Depends on the car - I had a 2002 that I bought in 2001 that needed new synchronizers in the first 40k, and again in the next 50k because they were very weak shit. The manufacturer apparently abandoned that particular transmission design after only 3 years of use because of this issue.
Yes, that was 13 years ago, but there can be flaws in any design that has cost as a higher consideration than quality.