You really will get a lot of ideas, grief, you name it. You're attacking a bunch of sacred cows with this question.
One problem I see. Who's the architect of this thing? Is s/he being held responsible for your scalability problems?
Another: Does your vendor/outsource/partner actually know what they're doing? Where are their references recommending them for building a highly scalable site?
Since everything inside the G5 is "point to point" then unless both CPUs need to talk to exactly the same thing at exactly the same time then the performance hit will be almost impossible to detect. (I wonder how RAIDing drives could make this overhead even more improbable?)
Since there is a lot of Mach-ness in the OS X kernel I would also think that there aren't too many critical regions there that force the use of only one CPU. In other words, I think the situation is better than that kernel (was it an early Solaris?) that had one mutex around the whole kernel.
As usual, anyone willing to pay me to benchmark one of these puppies for them?:-) The machine is suitable payment.
This is going to sound awful so I'm just going to say it and not try to finesse it.
You don't need to know anything to bash MS. Partially it's because there's not a lot there, mostly it's because they are in your face every day of every week, and the rest is because everyone has an opinion.
On the other hand, this stuff isn't opinion driven and once the algorithm is embedded in a Cisco router no one needs to know anything about it.
Maybe slashdot needs a section like
Fifty years ago today
MS is a company. It shouldn't be considered to have any rights. Thinking about it as some sort of person (as codified by judicial precedent in the U.S.) is insane.
These are business constructs that should have few rights. And none of those rights should supercede human rights.
As it is, Nike is suing to get 1st amendment rights.
MS demands the right to innovate (read steal) ideas.
Ah, well. When the U.S. economy is reduced to living off MS's interest income then maybe people will start talking sense:-)
On a replaytv you can watch a show while "flipping" through the channels. You hit the up-arrow (or whatever) and the little dialog box shows you what's on the next channel. You can actually step through the whole guide this way. It's better than losing your buffering.
Do Tivos do that? I don't mean that as a challenge, just curious...
I have a Cube similar to yours. I'm amazed that I can
Rip a CD to AAC@160kb in iTunes 4 while
Recording from tape via iMic using Amadeus while
Compressing audio to MP3@48kb in Amadeus using LAME
_and_ read Usenet news.
Some things took a while but, like I said, I'm amazed.
I guess with a 970 my MP3 encodings won't take 20minutes. With all the above, currently it takes 40 minutes.
You wrote a story recently about a very long lived species observing another tidal-pool based species. I wish I could remember the name.
In any case, are you really that worried about genetic engineering? Or is it intended just to be a cautionary tale?
Price performance of XServe is supposedly pretty good. Most people forget that the XServe has 1.33GHz G4 versus the 900MHz PIII that is price/size comparable. Or have I heard incorrectly?
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Maybe it's the only way to get you to visit or call.
How many of them are tech reporters?
Most ethicists I would wager are trained in the branch of philosophy known as Ethics.
The religious types generally fail out of that :-)
Goodlife being the execs and badlife being union/labour?
I've had that need on my ReplayTV but not with my iPod/iTunes combo.
You really will get a lot of ideas, grief, you name it. You're attacking a bunch of sacred cows with this question.
One problem I see. Who's the architect of this thing? Is s/he being held responsible for your scalability problems?
Another: Does your vendor/outsource/partner actually know what they're doing? Where are their references recommending them for building a highly scalable site?
The other thing is: tuning tuning tuning.
Apple's box has HyperTransport throughout. How does the above compare to that in terms of bandwidth?
Does the above include S-ATA?
Is there a port-to-port parity here? For example, the G5 has SPDIF in-AND-out.
How do you address the lack of warranty for the above? Sure, Apple's warranty is only 1 year but it's better than nothing.
Finally, no OS. I suppose if Linux has what you need then you're covered but what if it doesn't...?
If you read the article the benchmarker wanted to know the performance levels of the different systems (note: not CPUs).
He did say that Pentium were probably more cost effective.
PS: Where can I buy a complete system with a 2.66GHz P4 for $188? is that U.S. or some other type of dollar?
My take.
Since everything inside the G5 is "point to point" then unless both CPUs need to talk to exactly the same thing at exactly the same time then the performance hit will be almost impossible to detect. (I wonder how RAIDing drives could make this overhead even more improbable?)
Since there is a lot of Mach-ness in the OS X kernel I would also think that there aren't too many critical regions there that force the use of only one CPU. In other words, I think the situation is better than that kernel (was it an early Solaris?) that had one mutex around the whole kernel.
As usual, anyone willing to pay me to benchmark one of these puppies for them? :-) The machine is suitable payment.
I can't help myself.
So, the floppier a computer the more powerful it is?
If you know how to do it it's easy. I was once responsible for a system supported on SunOS 2, VM/SP (IBM mainframe), and VMS.
When the decided to port it to Windows NT after about 3 years they did it in 2 weeks.
BTW, it was code that did data marshalling/marshalling across TCP/IP.
Even the pure Java version of WebObjects is at least one order of magnitude more productive than this bologna.
Exactly what did your benchmark do?
You'll probably have to tweak compiler settings to get the PPC up to snuff. Only recently has GCC for PPC been getting the kind of attention it needs.
In particular that bit about making MS nervous.
It's $200 to go from Combo to DVD on the 12"
It's $600 more to do same on 15"?!
What are the other differences?
This is going to sound awful so I'm just going to say it and not try to finesse it.
You don't need to know anything to bash MS. Partially it's because there's not a lot there, mostly it's because they are in your face every day of every week, and the rest is because everyone has an opinion.
On the other hand, this stuff isn't opinion driven and once the algorithm is embedded in a Cisco router no one needs to know anything about it.
Maybe slashdot needs a section like Fifty years ago today
Bill will probably use his personal checking account :-)
someone that
MS is a company. It shouldn't be considered to have any rights. Thinking about it as some sort of person (as codified by judicial precedent in the U.S.) is insane.
These are business constructs that should have few rights. And none of those rights should supercede human rights.
As it is, Nike is suing to get 1st amendment rights.
MS demands the right to innovate (read steal) ideas.
Ah, well. When the U.S. economy is reduced to living off MS's interest income then maybe people will start talking sense :-)
On a replaytv you can watch a show while "flipping" through the channels. You hit the up-arrow (or whatever) and the little dialog box shows you what's on the next channel. You can actually step through the whole guide this way. It's better than losing your buffering. Do Tivos do that? I don't mean that as a challenge, just curious...
I have a Cube similar to yours. I'm amazed that I can Rip a CD to AAC@160kb in iTunes 4 while Recording from tape via iMic using Amadeus while Compressing audio to MP3@48kb in Amadeus using LAME _and_ read Usenet news. Some things took a while but, like I said, I'm amazed. I guess with a 970 my MP3 encodings won't take 20minutes. With all the above, currently it takes 40 minutes.
You wrote a story recently about a very long lived species observing another tidal-pool based species. I wish I could remember the name. In any case, are you really that worried about genetic engineering? Or is it intended just to be a cautionary tale?
Price performance of XServe is supposedly pretty good. Most people forget that the XServe has 1.33GHz G4 versus the 900MHz PIII that is price/size comparable. Or have I heard incorrectly?
And your iPhoto library for the screen saver feature!