Are you being sarcastic? Do you have any idea the resources involved in building and shipping 1.5 million consoles a month? Xbox 360 has had over a year to get that many numbers out.
Server equipment (which IBM is primarily concerned with) has more fans, and they run at a higher velocity. The Dell server I primarily work on is a 2U rackmount machine. You can't fit a lot in 2U (at least not compared to some of our 4U and 5U servers) so Dell compensated by using high speed fans. They sound like a jet taking off when you start the system, but spin down to a lower rpm after a few seconds. I haven't loaded the machine that hard, but I would imagine they would compensate and speed back up if the CPU was really boiling away. The IBM server we use has a ton of fans as well. Heat removal is a serious problem in the data center, so your 100W worth of CPU + GPU power becomes serious when you are talking about a 42U rack filled with 1U servers, each with 5 fans inside. If you had about 5 fans in a 1U machine (say, 2 cores, 1 fan each, plus a PSU fan plus one for the drive bays and one for the rear of the case), you are looking at 200 fans in a floorspace of 20"x40" (or whatever the depth usually is). 5 fans might be little high for a 1U system, but you get my point.
Anything they can do to improve efficiency means some of those fans become redundant, which is good for keeping servers cool and operating in a dense environment.
said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months."
In other news....
President Bush's approval rating has sunk to a new low of 29 percent. Asked about his failing popularity, the president responded "The internets are controlled by an elite liberal agenda. I have a plan to provide open access to the internet. Fox News will take over the responsibilities of SDN czar. Err, uh, NDS car, ummm. Fool me once... DNS minister."
In other news, Netcraft confirms Slashdot is dying. Sources tell us that an obligatory Netcraft comment was not modded "Funny" due to a breakdown in the moderation system.
Come on, I hate microsoft as much as the next/.er, but Bill Gates did not REJECT anything. He is not a cop. He is not a judge. It isn't up to him to innocence or guilt or drop charges in Russia.
Not much of a hero. Carl Johnson (CJ) from GTA San Andreas. Honorary mention goes to Barrett from FF7. Lot of japanese-like characters in the gmaes I play (RPG's mostly), but they aren't really from japan.
Assembling a computer from scratch allows the owner to be familiar with what went into it, and more importantly, set it up exactly how they will want it. It is an investment in your future productivity with that machine. If you buy a pre-built one, you are going to have to transfer old stuff onto it anyway. It doesn't take that long to install linux. Or Windows, for that matter, although I haven't had to wrestle with Microsoft and their validations yet.
For my personal machine(s), I build from scratch wherever possible. Yeah, if I need a palette-load of computers for something, I get Dell do do a small or medium business build, get the warranties on everything, and let them fix it when something breaks (even though I am capable of doing it myself, fixing a general office computer is a waste of my time).
Don't forget the shrinking-but-still-significant class of people who don't even use the internet, or don't use it at home. It won't happen. There is a huge market for DVD's because they are accessible, as VHS was (an still is, to an extent, just not NEW VHS stuff). Until the Internet is largely wireless and possibly free at smaller bandwidth amounts, I don't see it happening either.
But don't overlook the stupidity of movie studio boardroom people.
So what happens if you put mirrors on your satellite? I don't know much about optics. Even if it's a powerful laser (from the head of a shark?), wouldn't it just bounce off a reflective surface?
I don't think google has any obligation. The real question is:
Why are satellite images publicly available of a base in a warzone in the first place? Where is google getting them from? I'm about 99% against censorship, but I don't see why they couldn't take down (temporarily) sections of the map. I don't think they should just remove them, but if someone asked (not forced), it wouldn't be a big deal.
'There are going to be those who have it and those who don't. And even those who get it later are going to be a generation behind,'
Translation: "Buy our fluffy car-computer-crap now while we have the price jacked up astronomically for the early adopters. Even though aftermarket devices tend to cost half as much and offer more features and better usability since they are usually based around some kind of standard, instead of proprietary crap that keeps you coming back to Ford."
Seriously. I don't know what Ford's tricks are, but I had a Nissan with 3-screw hole speaker mounts, and a Honda with a radio tied to the electric door system and dome light. Stupid crap.
Didn't anyone tell them that the Wii is backwards compatible, or can they not read the box? I still find new PS1 games at some retailers in the states. Granted, it is usually high-end "gamer's choice" or whatever titles, like Squaresoft stuff. Is it a space thing? I've never been to London, but I've seen how small most stores are in some Eurpoean countries. Do they just not have the room to dedicate?
I have experience in a real company using MySQL on Debian, and I'd say that's pretty accurate. I have the benefit of building the system from scratch myself; this is not some purchased solution. I have to do the research when something goes awry. Incompetent is kind of a harsh generality, but when you break down the word, it makes sense. If something breaks and I don't know how to fix it, I am at fault/responsibility, and thus deficient in some sense. Luckily, most management that I deal with understand that nobody knows everything, especially in the tech world. And I have proven enough times that if I don't know something, I can research it. I have not needed support on Debian, and I find sometimes that the software we use that DOES have support contracts, the support contract isn't always worth the paper it is printed on.
And the gamecube wasn't doing that well, so Nintendo decided to drop the price. I don't think the Wii will suffer the same fate. Perhaps by next year it will drop to $200 just to remain competitive with anything Sony and MS will throw out. It took 2 years for them to halve the price. If they are more successful than last time, then big N may not be tempted to drop price as long as it is in demand.
And I did just buy a gamecube. My plan is to get a Wii, and continue using the GC for GC games. I've seen enough disc-based laser equipment fail to convince me to use the old, cheaper equipment while it still works, and save the new system for the new games. Example: I have 4 PS2's between my g/f and myself. 3 of them are the old model, with failed drives. I use them with a hard drive and play the games off that, and use the new slim model for the games that won't run off a HD. I won't use my PS2 for DVD movies anymore, it just contributes to wear and tear on the drive. It's easier to replace a $40 DVD player (which I have also had to do because of a failed drive on an APEX 1100).
So much for integration. Until reliability catches up, I will just use more basic, easily replaceable equipment.
Justified simple requests.... while he was tazed multiple times. It was police brutality. Those cops should be in jail, along with the student.
They were fine to eject him from the building. A tazer is an incapacitation device, it is not a cattle prod for students. They should have carried him out of there after the first taze and called it a day.
Nice job, way to go down in flames in a discussion. You have no argument, and yo cannot resolve the inconsistencies in your statements. It doesn't make you retarded, it just makes you stupid and ignorant.
> Abandonment by the development team before the project is reliable, coupled with a general lack of community support availability. Many open source projects have been abandoned and are unreliable, but have a thriving community readily available for user support; I do not count these as failures unless they don't actually accomplish their intended purpose.
Ok, then by your logic, Microsoft has never released a successful project. Windows versions are abandoned and new ones come out, which are abandoned before they do everything they are supposed to. Changes are rolled into the next OS sometimes. Same for Office and everything else. I'm sure there's a calculator or a watch somewhere that does exactly what it is supposed to do. Possibly something as complex as a router. Maybe a tiny embeded OS, but nothing bigger than that could possibly do everything correctly all the time. There are just too many bugs or unforseen circumstances for anything with a high level of complexity.
>If an open source project were successfully completed every single day since 1960, and fully 100 more failed every single day, there would not even be half as many open source projects as there are people in the city of Los Angeles.
> So unless you propose that there are in fact FOUR hundred THOUSAND projects failing every single day, I think the bullshit you smell is your own.
No, the smell is definately coming from you. I think it's coming from the numbers you pulled out of your ass. You are giving way too much credit to your numbers for commercial software, and not enough to FOSS. There is no possible way you could consider almost half of commercial software projects "successful". 1st of all, goals can change throughout a project, for commercial or open source. 2nd, there is a LOT of commercial software out there, most of it isn't available to the public. You can't say half of the projects did what they were designed to do. If there is one bug somewhere that caused an invalid result or a crash or something, then it fails your test.
I call BS. How many thousands of open source projects are there? And you're saying only 1 in 100 succeed? What is your definition of failure? If you were correct, there would almost be one open source project for every member of the human race.
"I don't know anything about Bill O'Reilly's origins, since I only watch him for a laugh now and then, but if he were ever part of reality he left it long ago for the greener pastures of celebrity, albeit minor celebrity."
I think the word you were searching for was "infamy".
They are college students. Or paid-Sony-employees masquerading as college students.
It's simple. The kind of person who can do this is the same kind of person that can jump in a car and go on a road trip for spring break on 10 minutes notice. I've been there. For me it was more like "Hey, it's like midnight, want to drive a few hours and crash on someone's floor and attend Gasparilla parade in Tampa?", answer: "Sure, lets get some illegal substances first."
It has to do with the whole drinking thing. If you can polish off a large bottle of rum in a night, make an ass of yourself and sleep it off on the floor, only to wake up and do it again the next night, a week with friends in front of a store is nothing.
My question is: if they are college students, where the HELL are they getting $600 from? I bet they are drug dealers.
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Are you being sarcastic? Do you have any idea the resources involved in building and shipping 1.5 million consoles a month? Xbox 360 has had over a year to get that many numbers out.
Server equipment (which IBM is primarily concerned with) has more fans, and they run at a higher velocity. The Dell server I primarily work on is a 2U rackmount machine. You can't fit a lot in 2U (at least not compared to some of our 4U and 5U servers) so Dell compensated by using high speed fans. They sound like a jet taking off when you start the system, but spin down to a lower rpm after a few seconds. I haven't loaded the machine that hard, but I would imagine they would compensate and speed back up if the CPU was really boiling away. The IBM server we use has a ton of fans as well. Heat removal is a serious problem in the data center, so your 100W worth of CPU + GPU power becomes serious when you are talking about a 42U rack filled with 1U servers, each with 5 fans inside. If you had about 5 fans in a 1U machine (say, 2 cores, 1 fan each, plus a PSU fan plus one for the drive bays and one for the rear of the case), you are looking at 200 fans in a floorspace of 20"x40" (or whatever the depth usually is). 5 fans might be little high for a 1U system, but you get my point.
Anything they can do to improve efficiency means some of those fans become redundant, which is good for keeping servers cool and operating in a dense environment.
In other news....
President Bush's approval rating has sunk to a new low of 29 percent. Asked about his failing popularity, the president responded "The internets are controlled by an elite liberal agenda. I have a plan to provide open access to the internet. Fox News will take over the responsibilities of SDN czar. Err, uh, NDS car, ummm. Fool me once... DNS minister."
In other news, Netcraft confirms Slashdot is dying. Sources tell us that an obligatory Netcraft comment was not modded "Funny" due to a breakdown in the moderation system.
Come on, I hate microsoft as much as the next /.er, but Bill Gates did not REJECT anything. He is not a cop. He is not a judge. It isn't up to him to innocence or guilt or drop charges in Russia.
Not much of a hero. Carl Johnson (CJ) from GTA San Andreas. Honorary mention goes to Barrett from FF7. Lot of japanese-like characters in the gmaes I play (RPG's mostly), but they aren't really from japan.
"I work for IBM, and we've been doing multicore (well, multi-processor) for years. Buy IBM software"
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Assembling a computer from scratch allows the owner to be familiar with what went into it, and more importantly, set it up exactly how they will want it. It is an investment in your future productivity with that machine. If you buy a pre-built one, you are going to have to transfer old stuff onto it anyway. It doesn't take that long to install linux. Or Windows, for that matter, although I haven't had to wrestle with Microsoft and their validations yet.
For my personal machine(s), I build from scratch wherever possible. Yeah, if I need a palette-load of computers for something, I get Dell do do a small or medium business build, get the warranties on everything, and let them fix it when something breaks (even though I am capable of doing it myself, fixing a general office computer is a waste of my time).
Don't forget the shrinking-but-still-significant class of people who don't even use the internet, or don't use it at home. It won't happen. There is a huge market for DVD's because they are accessible, as VHS was (an still is, to an extent, just not NEW VHS stuff). Until the Internet is largely wireless and possibly free at smaller bandwidth amounts, I don't see it happening either.
But don't overlook the stupidity of movie studio boardroom people.
Mr President, we MUST not allow an A-SAT gap!
So what happens if you put mirrors on your satellite? I don't know much about optics. Even if it's a powerful laser (from the head of a shark?), wouldn't it just bounce off a reflective surface?
And they want their slashdot story back.
Yes, I know there is a comminity out there, but they will continue on as they have. I didn't even know SEGA still made games for it.
I don't think google has any obligation. The real question is:
Why are satellite images publicly available of a base in a warzone in the first place? Where is google getting them from? I'm about 99% against censorship, but I don't see why they couldn't take down (temporarily) sections of the map. I don't think they should just remove them, but if someone asked (not forced), it wouldn't be a big deal.
'There are going to be those who have it and those who don't. And even those who get it later are going to be a generation behind,'
Translation: "Buy our fluffy car-computer-crap now while we have the price jacked up astronomically for the early adopters. Even though aftermarket devices tend to cost half as much and offer more features and better usability since they are usually based around some kind of standard, instead of proprietary crap that keeps you coming back to Ford."
Seriously. I don't know what Ford's tricks are, but I had a Nissan with 3-screw hole speaker mounts, and a Honda with a radio tied to the electric door system and dome light. Stupid crap.
Where the hell are people playing demoes? I have seen plenty of kiosks, but there are no controllers.
Didn't anyone tell them that the Wii is backwards compatible, or can they not read the box? I still find new PS1 games at some retailers in the states. Granted, it is usually high-end "gamer's choice" or whatever titles, like Squaresoft stuff. Is it a space thing? I've never been to London, but I've seen how small most stores are in some Eurpoean countries. Do they just not have the room to dedicate?
I have experience in a real company using MySQL on Debian, and I'd say that's pretty accurate. I have the benefit of building the system from scratch myself; this is not some purchased solution. I have to do the research when something goes awry. Incompetent is kind of a harsh generality, but when you break down the word, it makes sense. If something breaks and I don't know how to fix it, I am at fault/responsibility, and thus deficient in some sense. Luckily, most management that I deal with understand that nobody knows everything, especially in the tech world. And I have proven enough times that if I don't know something, I can research it. I have not needed support on Debian, and I find sometimes that the software we use that DOES have support contracts, the support contract isn't always worth the paper it is printed on.
GC now: used $60 + $10 for year warranty.
It took a while for it to hit the $100 price range new. It came out at the end of 2001. Wikipedia's price listing:
North America
* US$199.99 (November 18, 2001, Launch Price) (CAD$299.99)[9]
* US$149.99 (May 13, 2002) (CAD$229.99)
* US$99.99 (September 25, 2003) (CAD$129.99)
And the gamecube wasn't doing that well, so Nintendo decided to drop the price. I don't think the Wii will suffer the same fate. Perhaps by next year it will drop to $200 just to remain competitive with anything Sony and MS will throw out. It took 2 years for them to halve the price. If they are more successful than last time, then big N may not be tempted to drop price as long as it is in demand.
And I did just buy a gamecube. My plan is to get a Wii, and continue using the GC for GC games. I've seen enough disc-based laser equipment fail to convince me to use the old, cheaper equipment while it still works, and save the new system for the new games. Example: I have 4 PS2's between my g/f and myself. 3 of them are the old model, with failed drives. I use them with a hard drive and play the games off that, and use the new slim model for the games that won't run off a HD. I won't use my PS2 for DVD movies anymore, it just contributes to wear and tear on the drive. It's easier to replace a $40 DVD player (which I have also had to do because of a failed drive on an APEX 1100).
So much for integration. Until reliability catches up, I will just use more basic, easily replaceable equipment.
Justified simple requests.... while he was tazed multiple times. It was police brutality. Those cops should be in jail, along with the student.
They were fine to eject him from the building. A tazer is an incapacitation device, it is not a cattle prod for students. They should have carried him out of there after the first taze and called it a day.
But I am worthy of your ridicule. I suppose everyone can see where your priorities are.
Sorry for feeding the troll everyone.
Nice job, way to go down in flames in a discussion. You have no argument, and yo cannot resolve the inconsistencies in your statements. It doesn't make you retarded, it just makes you stupid and ignorant.
> Abandonment by the development team before the project is reliable, coupled with a general lack of community support availability. Many open source projects have been abandoned and are unreliable, but have a thriving community readily available for user support; I do not count these as failures unless they don't actually accomplish their intended purpose.
Ok, then by your logic, Microsoft has never released a successful project. Windows versions are abandoned and new ones come out, which are abandoned before they do everything they are supposed to. Changes are rolled into the next OS sometimes. Same for Office and everything else. I'm sure there's a calculator or a watch somewhere that does exactly what it is supposed to do. Possibly something as complex as a router. Maybe a tiny embeded OS, but nothing bigger than that could possibly do everything correctly all the time. There are just too many bugs or unforseen circumstances for anything with a high level of complexity.
>If an open source project were successfully completed every single day since 1960, and fully 100 more failed every single day, there would not even be half as many open source projects as there are people in the city of Los Angeles.
> So unless you propose that there are in fact FOUR hundred THOUSAND projects failing every single day, I think the bullshit you smell is your own.
No, the smell is definately coming from you. I think it's coming from the numbers you pulled out of your ass. You are giving way too much credit to your numbers for commercial software, and not enough to FOSS. There is no possible way you could consider almost half of commercial software projects "successful". 1st of all, goals can change throughout a project, for commercial or open source. 2nd, there is a LOT of commercial software out there, most of it isn't available to the public. You can't say half of the projects did what they were designed to do. If there is one bug somewhere that caused an invalid result or a crash or something, then it fails your test.
I call BS. How many thousands of open source projects are there? And you're saying only 1 in 100 succeed? What is your definition of failure? If you were correct, there would almost be one open source project for every member of the human race.
"I don't know anything about Bill O'Reilly's origins, since I only watch him for a laugh now and then, but if he were ever part of reality he left it long ago for the greener pastures of celebrity, albeit minor celebrity."
I think the word you were searching for was "infamy".
Maybe we should hit you with a taser a few times and see how easy it is for you to get up and walk while handcuffed.
Police Brutality, case closed. The student was 100% a dick, but they should have just carried him out after the first taze.
They are college students. Or paid-Sony-employees masquerading as college students.
It's simple. The kind of person who can do this is the same kind of person that can jump in a car and go on a road trip for spring break on 10 minutes notice. I've been there. For me it was more like "Hey, it's like midnight, want to drive a few hours and crash on someone's floor and attend Gasparilla parade in Tampa?", answer: "Sure, lets get some illegal substances first."
It has to do with the whole drinking thing. If you can polish off a large bottle of rum in a night, make an ass of yourself and sleep it off on the floor, only to wake up and do it again the next night, a week with friends in front of a store is nothing.
My question is: if they are college students, where the HELL are they getting $600 from? I bet they are drug dealers.