By 2025 the market for Itanium servers will total 22 trillions a year (* according to low end figures of the current projections), 7 trillions in Itanium for cars will come in addition to that. This points out to Itanium overtaking China as the world's first economy in about 8 years.
The refugees are due to imperial policies of the US and vassals of destroying functioning states like Syria and Libya. And this is done by planting or fueling sectarian/ethnic violence by the way. The US is using with a naked face radical militant Sunni Islam as a weapon. A small caste of weapons dealers and crazed globalists enrich themselves while tens of millions are impoverished, I think that might be the problem. There's even a bad cholera outburst in Yemen the Western media was forced to report though we haven't heard anything from it since.
The solution for Europeans is to vote in politicians that will disband NATO or will leave it . And useless pseudo-fascists aren't, or shouldn't be the only ones. The US has been the world's biggest threat for 15 years ffs.
Mentioning Germany and forced sterilization in the same bunch of sentences is funny. I hope it's obvious why.
Wow, I'm seeing there are others / new ones in the Pico PSU form factor too. i.e. some have wide input voltage range and thus built-in converter/regulator (because your battery will go 13V, 12V, 11V, 10V...), others just say "input 12V" and are made with a power brick or laptop PSU plugged to the mains in mind.
i.e., to be 100% specific : this one is specifically advertised for running from a car battery or in a car (or in a truck), where a "picoPSU-90" at half the price is not. (I will suppose the picoPSU-90 is exactly what's needed if you have very clean and close to 12V power to start with) http://www.mini-box.com/M3-ATX...
This is funny too : http://www.mini-box.com/DCDC-U... garbage input in (random vehicle's 12V or 24V), stable DC voltage of your choosing out (5V to 24V)
This a mini ITX motherboard with DC 19V in! (meant to be used with 19V laptop PSU, or can be used with power "conditioned" with a thing like the one above) http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A...
a bit more power hungry than an Atom system (cheap Celeron/Pentium soldered systems are rebranded Atom. sic)
Although, if you choose the right Pico PSU or similar, motherboards with only ATX power input will do.
You bring this issue up, yet I did my numbers when reading the summary and found it's double a 1368x912 resolution. Means a highly usable 1378x912 linux desktop with 200% scaling (Gnome 3, Cinnamon only offer 1x, 2x and 3x. I suppose KDE does the same).
That's a nice working area, while small enough that things should be still readable. Lots of 2560x1440 on the market at smallish size (e.g. 14"). This would only do a virtual 1280x720, very lacking. Even a 2560x1600 panel would only allow a virtual 1280x800, which is more usable but this panel gives about 100 such "area pixels" more in both directions.
Windows itself might be used with 200% scaling, I don't know if that's better than non integer ratios. Everyone hates Win 8/10 right?
Video scaling is quite a minor issue in that it's fairly rare to read native res video on a PC unless everything you have is 1080p. Or try using some random wifi find it nice when you get 360p video and the better sound it has than 240p and 144p. Or go play 720p and 1080p on a 1680x1050 monitor:)
Makes me think of Linux Mint (at least Mate, Xfce). Technically you can add many themes but there's very little, almost nothing installed by default. This is because GTK3 themes break constantly every time Gnome does a little update to GTK3, so when you upgrade your OS to a new version hell might break loose. Also, Mate sends you to a website (gnome-look) that lists GTK3 and GTK2 themes. Wtf? I obviously want a theme that works on both. Do GTK3 themes bundle a GTK2 theme? I don't know. I don't feel like experimenting let alone do a survey of my apps to know which use GTK2 and which use GTK3.
Cinnamon does have a new website up (Cinnamon Spices) which looks greats : useful themes and applets, good site design. I would only run Cinnamon on powerful hardware w/ advanced and properly working graphics driver though.
I will consider using the gasoline engine to generate electricity, and use that electricity to power an electric boiler that powers a steam engine that will power big fan blades that will blow air on a sail:)
Yes and no. Microsoft still thinks USB-A is the normal for instance. I will compare it to consumer electronics moving over the decades from dual RCA to 3.5mm jack. This doesn't change the basic feature of getting sound in or out, except for a few special jacks like headphone + mic on the same jack or non standard playback controls.
And if you get a DJ mixer or an AV receiver etc., it's still full of RCA inputs! Tho in fairness, nobody really cares.
My other point is contrary to the 90s, a computer isn't a rare thing that's obsoleted after three years, same for the peripherals. So "regular" (non ultrabooks) laptops might keep USB-A for the next decade and desktops might as well keep at least two forever. Desktops still have PS/2 and DVI, because people want to plug their cable or peripheral in. They aren't excited by the idea of their cable not fitting in.
Or to continue the audio analogy, people don't replace their amplifier because it still has a turntable (phono) input.
OEM desktops don't have PS/2 as they come with keyboard + mouse, aftermarket motherboards have PS/2 ; in the 90s, the OEM had PS/2 while the piecemeal desktops used DIN for the keyboard and COM port for the mouse, before adopting PS/2. So, everybody could end up using only USB-C but this will take long and it is less likely due to everything using USB-A, not just some old keyboard, bad mouse or 28800 bps modem.
I know you're well intentioned and a crappy Android device might be not much to many people.
Yet I can't refrain from this. What if you're toilet is completely clogged, all your toilets are unworkable but you need to take a dump?
Workaround :
1. Buy your neighbor's house. 2. Kick them out. 3. When you want to take a crap, go to your new house next door. 4. Keep using your original house for all other purposes.
No, I'm still not sure you understand Display Port chaining. There are no "dongles" involved."
You will need a monitor with a display in and a display out - effectively bundling the "dongle" into the monitor. That's not a universal solution. You might be likely to find it on a recent high end Dell monitor for instance, and use the monitor's USB 3.0 hub if also available. So in a case like that you'll do fine with no dongle or dock or kind of hub crawling on the desk without needing either Thunderbolt or USB-C.
Great!, if your monitor is recent enough and/or of a high enough market segment.
I think you're guaranteed 5 volts, 3 amps power on it so the benefit would be your PC can act as a decent power supply for a USB-C phone.
That's there is to it I think. If you let a cable hang from the PC and like to plug a (suitable) phone in for mass storage access or only for charging, you'll not be stuck at 500 milliamps or ~ 1 amp.
That you miss out on 10 Gbps is a shame but it's meaningless for hard drives and you can bet cheap flash drives will only support 5 Gbps. You pretty much need a PCIe SSD in your PC, and a fast external drive that's in practice an external SSD (thumb sized or not) to copy at 900MB/s or whatever the 10 Gbps (3.1 Gen 2) will allow. You can also get a USB-C mouse, freeing up one USB-A port for something else!
I once attempted to copy data between two USB2 drives (perhaps two hard drives, so fast in both read/write) on a USB1 computer (only two ports so sharing a single controller).
It was hilariously slow, as both ports shared (I believe) a theoretical 12Mbit/s bandwith, plus overhead, plus overhead of both working at the same time. But it was not incompatible. Worked just fine actually, as long as you were ready to wait hours for a gigabyte to copy.
I think that's the point. With USB A, you have the same connector on a $1000 whateverbook or a $300 whateverbook or a $200 whateverbook. No need to spend $1000 in dad's money or student debt money or 100 hours of summer job money only to have to faff around with incompatible storage drives and peripherals.
How many real Linux developers are on Windows and have trouble with running a VM, or a separate box?
How about not wasting a ton of RAM? Unused reserved RAM (Virtualbox is not a super advanced bare metal hypervisor), duplicate disk caches, further waste of storage such as a virtual swap partition for the VM. Now think about all the young devs and even old farts using a laptop some of them with 8GB RAM max (8GB is the new 2GB, thanks to software bloat and the javascript web)
If you have to provide power input support on both a proprietary connector (or non-proprietary round DC plug) and USB-C, that complicates your electrical floor plan or power circuitry, on a device where space and cost are the biggest concerns.
If you only have one USB-C and no other power input port, then you can't even charge and plug one peripheral in at the same time (mouse, USB drive, etc.) although your power brick might contain a USB hub in which case you might plug your mouse on the power brick that might sit on the floor. Duh!
If you have two USB-C ports, you have to make them both power input ports, driving up cost and complexity, or you might support power input on one of them and not the other, which the user will have trouble understanding and the user will be pissed at plugging things on the wrong port.
I think what I describe is about what's only really wrong with USB-C. You see USB-C only on phones (which only have one USB port that always accept charging) and high end laptops $1000 and up (or at the back of high end motherboards where a tiny connector doesn't bring much beside compatibility proofing with USB-C only devices)
Um, when there are small lightning bolts printed next to the USB-C ports (Zeus' divine weapon) does that mean TB support or power input support? lol.
I can know it or find a way to know it (okay, I know it's TB and won't unknow it for a while). It strikes me (eh!) as a fairly silly choice of symbol since I suppose most people will think it means "electricity".
But Compaq and Gateway didn't decide in 1994 to change all their serials ports to RJ45 while everyone else kept using of DB9, pissing off people who couldn't plug their shit in anymore.
It's a nuclear site from the 1940s when people didn't seem to exactly care about what they were doing. Might be another 4000 years or so of job security.
What about the food quality? I've spent a few years buying cheap pizza from the supermarket and sometimes sillier things but I'm finding it harder to stomach some of it. What garbage. I'm beginning to think most of what I see at the supermarket is prison food. And I'm in France where it's supposed to be so much better than everywhere else. Maybe not anymore as the pre-war generations are dying out.
I think eating well while spending 10% income on food is reasonably doable here, with an upper middle class income. Not counting "eating out" in the food budget. That's what I think about the kind of post you make above and especially bluefoxlucid's posts, maybe you're the proverbial $100K software devs and thus living in a bubble where everything is cheap (and even cheaper, e.g. if by chance you bought 32GB RAM for $100 (or a bit more, whatever it was) : most people wouldn't have a spare $100 to buy the RAM when the price had crashed to such low. And you need a compatible motherboard)
You might be right overall still! Albeit from the bottom half of the society, people don't see it that rosy.
You can use i3, Pentium and even now Celeron with ECC (the real desktop chips, not Celeron-branded Atoms). You need a "workstation" or "server" grade motherboard though.
Surprise : there are new motherboards that looks like just your standard gamer/office motherboards with a new coat of paint. So you will pay more. i5/i7 are branded as "Xeon E3" like before, but this time they don't run in regular motherboards. So there's still an ECC tax but if that was all you wanted it's a bit cheaper now.
Windows 98 with the bundled IE5 was really good for this. An explorer.exe window had three modes of operation basically : web browser, file manager and FTP client, the latter looking about identical to browsing local files. So, you've got a D:\crap window open, a D:\foo window perhaps, an Internet Explorer window you use for browsing some file archive website or whatever else. You can use the Internet Explorer window to browse a ftp site you've found, or turn the D:\foo window into a FTP client by hitting alt-d, entering something like ftp://ftp.site.com, hitting enter, then drag'n'drop files between the D:\crap window and the FTP client window.
I suppose KDE does this or did this (what with Konqueror being deprecated. But I have few interest in KDE anyway as they keep rewriting it once or twice a decade and adding fade out effects or whatever) Windows XP/IE6 also did it and ME, 2000.
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By 2025 the market for Itanium servers will total 22 trillions a year (* according to low end figures of the current projections), 7 trillions in Itanium for cars will come in addition to that. This points out to Itanium overtaking China as the world's first economy in about 8 years.
The refugees are due to imperial policies of the US and vassals of destroying functioning states like Syria and Libya. And this is done by planting or fueling sectarian/ethnic violence by the way. The US is using with a naked face radical militant Sunni Islam as a weapon.
A small caste of weapons dealers and crazed globalists enrich themselves while tens of millions are impoverished, I think that might be the problem. There's even a bad cholera outburst in Yemen the Western media was forced to report though we haven't heard anything from it since.
The solution for Europeans is to vote in politicians that will disband NATO or will leave it . And useless pseudo-fascists aren't, or shouldn't be the only ones.
The US has been the world's biggest threat for 15 years ffs.
Mentioning Germany and forced sterilization in the same bunch of sentences is funny. I hope it's obvious why.
Speaking of wealth redistribution : your cheque is in the mail.
This one is somewhat well known too, a bit overpowered but with protection features if you use it in an actual car
http://www.mini-box.com/M2-ATX...
Wow, I'm seeing there are others / new ones in the Pico PSU form factor too. i.e. some have wide input voltage range and thus built-in converter/regulator (because your battery will go 13V, 12V, 11V, 10V...), others just say "input 12V" and are made with a power brick or laptop PSU plugged to the mains in mind.
i.e., to be 100% specific : this one is specifically advertised for running from a car battery or in a car (or in a truck), where a "picoPSU-90" at half the price is not. (I will suppose the picoPSU-90 is exactly what's needed if you have very clean and close to 12V power to start with)
http://www.mini-box.com/M3-ATX...
This is funny too : http://www.mini-box.com/DCDC-U...
garbage input in (random vehicle's 12V or 24V), stable DC voltage of your choosing out (5V to 24V)
This a mini ITX motherboard with DC 19V in! (meant to be used with 19V laptop PSU, or can be used with power "conditioned" with a thing like the one above)
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A...
a bit more power hungry than an Atom system (cheap Celeron/Pentium soldered systems are rebranded Atom. sic)
Although, if you choose the right Pico PSU or similar, motherboards with only ATX power input will do.
You bring this issue up, yet I did my numbers when reading the summary and found it's double a 1368x912 resolution. Means a highly usable 1378x912 linux desktop with 200% scaling (Gnome 3, Cinnamon only offer 1x, 2x and 3x. I suppose KDE does the same).
That's a nice working area, while small enough that things should be still readable. Lots of 2560x1440 on the market at smallish size (e.g. 14"). This would only do a virtual 1280x720, very lacking. Even a 2560x1600 panel would only allow a virtual 1280x800, which is more usable but this panel gives about 100 such "area pixels" more in both directions.
Windows itself might be used with 200% scaling, I don't know if that's better than non integer ratios. Everyone hates Win 8/10 right?
Video scaling is quite a minor issue in that it's fairly rare to read native res video on a PC unless everything you have is 1080p. Or try using some random wifi find it nice when you get 360p video and the better sound it has than 240p and 144p. Or go play 720p and 1080p on a 1680x1050 monitor :)
Makes me think of Linux Mint (at least Mate, Xfce). Technically you can add many themes but there's very little, almost nothing installed by default.
This is because GTK3 themes break constantly every time Gnome does a little update to GTK3, so when you upgrade your OS to a new version hell might break loose.
Also, Mate sends you to a website (gnome-look) that lists GTK3 and GTK2 themes. Wtf? I obviously want a theme that works on both. Do GTK3 themes bundle a GTK2 theme? I don't know. I don't feel like experimenting let alone do a survey of my apps to know which use GTK2 and which use GTK3.
Cinnamon does have a new website up (Cinnamon Spices) which looks greats : useful themes and applets, good site design. I would only run Cinnamon on powerful hardware w/ advanced and properly working graphics driver though.
I will consider using the gasoline engine to generate electricity, and use that electricity to power an electric boiler that powers a steam engine that will power big fan blades that will blow air on a sail :)
Yes and no.
Microsoft still thinks USB-A is the normal for instance.
I will compare it to consumer electronics moving over the decades from dual RCA to 3.5mm jack. This doesn't change the basic feature of getting sound in or out, except for a few special jacks like headphone + mic on the same jack or non standard playback controls.
And if you get a DJ mixer or an AV receiver etc., it's still full of RCA inputs!
Tho in fairness, nobody really cares.
My other point is contrary to the 90s, a computer isn't a rare thing that's obsoleted after three years, same for the peripherals. So "regular" (non ultrabooks) laptops might keep USB-A for the next decade and desktops might as well keep at least two forever. Desktops still have PS/2 and DVI, because people want to plug their cable or peripheral in. They aren't excited by the idea of their cable not fitting in.
Or to continue the audio analogy, people don't replace their amplifier because it still has a turntable (phono) input.
OEM desktops don't have PS/2 as they come with keyboard + mouse, aftermarket motherboards have PS/2 ; in the 90s, the OEM had PS/2 while the piecemeal desktops used DIN for the keyboard and COM port for the mouse, before adopting PS/2.
So, everybody could end up using only USB-C but this will take long and it is less likely due to everything using USB-A, not just some old keyboard, bad mouse or 28800 bps modem.
I know you're well intentioned and a crappy Android device might be not much to many people.
Yet I can't refrain from this.
What if you're toilet is completely clogged, all your toilets are unworkable but you need to take a dump?
Workaround :
1. Buy your neighbor's house.
2. Kick them out.
3. When you want to take a crap, go to your new house next door.
4. Keep using your original house for all other purposes.
No, I'm still not sure you understand Display Port chaining. There are no "dongles" involved."
You will need a monitor with a display in and a display out - effectively bundling the "dongle" into the monitor. That's not a universal solution. You might be likely to find it on a recent high end Dell monitor for instance, and use the monitor's USB 3.0 hub if also available. So in a case like that you'll do fine with no dongle or dock or kind of hub crawling on the desk without needing either Thunderbolt or USB-C.
Great!, if your monitor is recent enough and/or of a high enough market segment.
I think you're guaranteed 5 volts, 3 amps power on it so the benefit would be your PC can act as a decent power supply for a USB-C phone.
That's there is to it I think. If you let a cable hang from the PC and like to plug a (suitable) phone in for mass storage access or only for charging, you'll not be stuck at 500 milliamps or ~ 1 amp.
That you miss out on 10 Gbps is a shame but it's meaningless for hard drives and you can bet cheap flash drives will only support 5 Gbps. You pretty much need a PCIe SSD in your PC, and a fast external drive that's in practice an external SSD (thumb sized or not) to copy at 900MB/s or whatever the 10 Gbps (3.1 Gen 2) will allow.
You can also get a USB-C mouse, freeing up one USB-A port for something else!
I once attempted to copy data between two USB2 drives (perhaps two hard drives, so fast in both read/write) on a USB1 computer (only two ports so sharing a single controller).
It was hilariously slow, as both ports shared (I believe) a theoretical 12Mbit/s bandwith, plus overhead, plus overhead of both working at the same time. But it was not incompatible. Worked just fine actually, as long as you were ready to wait hours for a gigabyte to copy.
I think that's the point. With USB A, you have the same connector on a $1000 whateverbook or a $300 whateverbook or a $200 whateverbook.
No need to spend $1000 in dad's money or student debt money or 100 hours of summer job money only to have to faff around with incompatible storage drives and peripherals.
How many real Linux developers are on Windows and have trouble with running a VM, or a separate box?
How about not wasting a ton of RAM? Unused reserved RAM (Virtualbox is not a super advanced bare metal hypervisor), duplicate disk caches, further waste of storage such as a virtual swap partition for the VM.
Now think about all the young devs and even old farts using a laptop some of them with 8GB RAM max (8GB is the new 2GB, thanks to software bloat and the javascript web)
If you have to provide power input support on both a proprietary connector (or non-proprietary round DC plug) and USB-C, that complicates your electrical floor plan or power circuitry, on a device where space and cost are the biggest concerns.
If you only have one USB-C and no other power input port, then you can't even charge and plug one peripheral in at the same time (mouse, USB drive, etc.)
although your power brick might contain a USB hub in which case you might plug your mouse on the power brick that might sit on the floor. Duh!
If you have two USB-C ports, you have to make them both power input ports, driving up cost and complexity, or you might support power input on one of them and not the other, which the user will have trouble understanding and the user will be pissed at plugging things on the wrong port.
I think what I describe is about what's only really wrong with USB-C. You see USB-C only on phones (which only have one USB port that always accept charging) and high end laptops $1000 and up (or at the back of high end motherboards where a tiny connector doesn't bring much beside compatibility proofing with USB-C only devices)
Indeed ; a hermaphrodite connector would have been a lot more impressive!
Um, when there are small lightning bolts printed next to the USB-C ports (Zeus' divine weapon) does that mean TB support or power input support? lol.
I can know it or find a way to know it (okay, I know it's TB and won't unknow it for a while). It strikes me (eh!) as a fairly silly choice of symbol since I suppose most people will think it means "electricity".
The tradition on laptops was to have two jacks, one for input and one for output.
But Compaq and Gateway didn't decide in 1994 to change all their serials ports to RJ45 while everyone else kept using of DB9, pissing off people who couldn't plug their shit in anymore.
It's a nuclear site from the 1940s when people didn't seem to exactly care about what they were doing. Might be another 4000 years or so of job security.
What about the food quality? I've spent a few years buying cheap pizza from the supermarket and sometimes sillier things but I'm finding it harder to stomach some of it. What garbage.
I'm beginning to think most of what I see at the supermarket is prison food.
And I'm in France where it's supposed to be so much better than everywhere else. Maybe not anymore as the pre-war generations are dying out.
I think eating well while spending 10% income on food is reasonably doable here, with an upper middle class income. Not counting "eating out" in the food budget.
That's what I think about the kind of post you make above and especially bluefoxlucid's posts, maybe you're the proverbial $100K software devs and thus living in a bubble where everything is cheap (and even cheaper, e.g. if by chance you bought 32GB RAM for $100 (or a bit more, whatever it was) : most people wouldn't have a spare $100 to buy the RAM when the price had crashed to such low. And you need a compatible motherboard)
You might be right overall still!
Albeit from the bottom half of the society, people don't see it that rosy.
You can use i3, Pentium and even now Celeron with ECC (the real desktop chips, not Celeron-branded Atoms). You need a "workstation" or "server" grade motherboard though.
Surprise : there are new motherboards that looks like just your standard gamer/office motherboards with a new coat of paint. So you will pay more.
i5/i7 are branded as "Xeon E3" like before, but this time they don't run in regular motherboards. So there's still an ECC tax but if that was all you wanted it's a bit cheaper now.
Windows 98 with the bundled IE5 was really good for this. An explorer.exe window had three modes of operation basically : web browser, file manager and FTP client, the latter looking about identical to browsing local files.
So, you've got a D:\crap window open, a D:\foo window perhaps, an Internet Explorer window you use for browsing some file archive website or whatever else. You can use the Internet Explorer window to browse a ftp site you've found, or turn the D:\foo window into a FTP client by hitting alt-d, entering something like ftp://ftp.site.com, hitting enter, then drag'n'drop files between the D:\crap window and the FTP client window.
I suppose KDE does this or did this (what with Konqueror being deprecated. But I have few interest in KDE anyway as they keep rewriting it once or twice a decade and adding fade out effects or whatever)
Windows XP/IE6 also did it and ME, 2000.
On a laptop with Ivy Bridge i3 I could tell it was recent (2012) graphics as the web videos were so buttery smooth compared to older stuff or linux.
*late DOS games like that looked much like what the Playstation did