Well, interestingly, the systems were
approximately comparable in performance.
Reading the numbers, one suspects that a
P3-1.13GHz would have tromped the Celeron 2.2GHz
with a resounding *crunch*.
Makes me glad I chose to upgrade my PIII 600 with a 1.3Ghz Celeron (NOT based on the P4). Used my same RAM, Power supply, and everything; cost me about $140 for both the i815 Motherboard and the CPU/Heatsink, would have been less had I not opted for a Slot 1 MB way back when)
Seriously, the fact that this thing needs a new Power Supply (Why would a PIII 700 have a P4 PS?) make the review rather foolish.
Sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but there's a reason that the Pentium was called "Pentium" instead of "586." A court case found that they could not trademark a 3 digit number, so other companies were free to call their chips 486, or 486-compatible. Pentium is a trademarked term.
Exactly
As for why they don't come up with a new trademarkable name, I'm really not sure.
Intel spent millions promoting "Pentium" as a brand. Renaming the ship Sexium/Hexium/SomethingElsium means abandoning that brand.
Most likely the folks who came up with the Pentium name weren't marketing guru's but techs, or else weren't clued into the fact that a P6, P7, etc. were sure to follow the P5/586. Also, if they created a Hexium and a Septium processor, they would be open to competitors creating a Sexium, or an Octium, I'm sure a judge wouldn't allow them exclusive access to names ending in -ium.
Brands are powerful things, Coke, Kleenex, Xerox, Viagra... And now Pentium.
As this new filesystem implicitly admits, the price/MB is still so much dramatically lower for HDD's than solid state memory, it will still take quite a will for this replacement to happen.
The change is going to have less to do with the $/MB of "spinning media" and more to do with the the cost of Solid State media. If Western Digital introduces a 1 TB drive next year for $150, most folks still won't have a need for it. If Solid State can hit a target such as $500 for 9GB, it would likely start a landslide of conversions. The OS, your website, and a decent amount of logs could go on this to improve reliability, remote logging could log everything out to a central server with a few TB of storage just in case.
This isn't about replacing desktop p0rn stashes or Mega sized databases (though Megasized DB's feed of high porformace disks, not cheap desktop disks). Its about ultra fast random i/o, reliability, etc.
The cost of adding a DVD recorder to a TiVo would raise the price over the $600-700 mark which puts it out of the realm of most home buyers. Plus, a large number of us don't want that functionality, which makes it a niche product in an already niche market.
Yes, but there's another side to it as well.
1) I UI needs to be added to it. While at first glance this might be just a "save to DVD" option under the "save to VCR" option, this raises issues like (do you burn an entire DVD-R to save a 400MB Futurama episode? Not everyone would be happy with this sort of wastage.
2) Compatibility. What if the DVD-/+R isn't compatible with Uncle Joes old DVD/DIVX player, Tivo will be getting tech support calls.
3) Failure rate. DVD drives have WAY more moving parts than hard drives. They will fail, and I'd be happier if they weren't integrated into my Tivo when they failed; same reason why I won't buy a TV with a built in DVD/VCR, sooner or later it will fail and you'll have the Redneck(tm) VCR under the TV/VCR combo...
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States. Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of 100 days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth Gty, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, shall recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
By the President:
Abraham Lincoln
I have a 128M SD-card in my palm tungsten T, wich I run alot of application from. I also have some mp3's on it. So what is the point?
The point is Slashdot editors are allowing ignorant trolls in story submissions to get through.
The article is (I assume:^) about changes in the Palm OS that allow MAIN MEMORY to expand to 128MB for 16MB. The submitter, clearly having no clue, used his limited knowledge to say "Hey, those Sony gadgets can use proprietary 128MB memory sticks to expand. Ha! Dumb Palm!"; in a clear violation of "Better to hold ones tongue and be thought the fool than to flap ones jaws and remove all doubt". I gave a pass to the 512MB SD card upgrade thats been available since the m50x series of Palm's, shame my Tungsten T's (m550) 256MB SD card isn't as slow, proprietary, and small as the card the poster is bragging about.
But back to the point. The original CPU in the Palm's had an addressing limitation of 8MB. Tricks were later played to allow it access 16MB. Later hacks were added to allow the PalmOS to access external storage, such as memory sticks and SD/MMC cards (Handspring also had their own format, and I believe was the innovator). I'm not sure what the limit on this external storage is, but clearly its > 512MB. But the 16MB is special, since this is where programs run, pointers are held, and anything you want to survive a card swapping live. Palm has recently introduced a new processor with OS5, the Dragonball CPU which is much faster. It emulates the old CPU faster than th eold CPU ran natively, though its not perfect (some stuff don't run), Native software for this CPU FLIES. It also isn't limited by the addressing problems of the old chip, though for the first generation the OS foisted the limitation on the system.
So either of two things have happened. The OS has been updated to allow the new CPU based system to use their improved addressing capabilities (maintaining backwards compatibility, since they are still manufacturing old CPU systems), or the have increased the number of virtual 8MB pages from 2 to 16 (think Intel's PAE extensions)
... for 90% of MS Office users, especially those who just use word and powerpoint.
While I agree in a heartbeat that 90% of MS Office Users use Word Extensively, I kinda question both that PowerPoint is the second most used app and that 90% of folks use PowerPoint. Do you have any data for this?
I'd expect the Excel or Outlook to be the second most used Application; I know there were versions of Office that basically consisted of stripped down Word & Excel apps. While its not as intuitive as Word, I'd expect more folks to be managing lists and summing numbers than creating presentations
I'd say the spreadsheet functionality is far and away where they should concentrate Dev time once a decent WYSIWYG word processor is ready with good mail merge capability.
From what I've HEARD, their pre-amp's arn't that good at the video switching, but are find for audio.
Which sorta sucks for me, since one of the big draws to me is the abundance of HD Component video sources, since my TV really only has one set capable of HD (480p and up).
The other draw was switch to active interface functionality that promised to limit the amount of remote juggling (I own a rediculous # of remotes these days).
But there's a lot of other stuff ahead of this purchase, so aside from drooling I haven't done much research:-/
Denon and Marantz are related to the likes of Kenwood, Sony and Pioneer like a ferrari to a volkswagen
More like middle range, say more like a Volkswagen to a Jaguar. What the average joe thinks of as high end, but folks who are really dedicated to it know there's lots of stuff even higher and/or more specialized. Carver would more closely map to Ferrari, perhaps McIntosh to Lamborgini. And there are more out there that map to even more exotic stuff, like McLaren's, Liegnfeter(sp?), Vector, Shelby, Panos,... (Ok, so I'm more into cars than audio) Probably maps pretty well in terms of volumes, etc.
I'm still cursing my freind for getting me hooked on the idea of getting a Carver Sunfire (http://www.sunfire.com/)
Well, not necessarily. When ReplayTV got bought out, the company went away, and the assests went to SonicBlue. They honored the lifetime agreement for ReplayTV owners. Does anyone know for sure?
I admit I'm not that familiar with the product line, I use a DirecTiVo myself, but I thought ReplayTV's didn't use the subscription model that Tivo uses? I seem to recall folks using that as a reason to get a ReplayTV in place of a Tivo.
But D&M will likely maintain their agreements if they intend to continue the subscriptions if they intend to continue to produce the ReplayTV, this is not an area where the old adage "any press is good press" applies. Maintaining those subscriptions maintains an air of stability to the product, and the cost will likely be low, just connection charges, since they would be maintaining the databases anyway. But if they just wanted to get their hands on part of the tehnology, well then yeah, its game over.
Myself, I avoided the lifetime subscription on my Tivo when I found out it was for the life of my Tivo; man am I happy I didn't. At the time the lifetime cost about 2 years of service. But I bought a second unit, which would have doubled that; whereas the month to month rate covered both under DirecTV's terms. Then DirecTV dropped the rate to $5/month. So within about of year of getting the boxes, the lifetime sub cost jumped from 2 years of service to 10 years, and considering opportunity cost of that money it would likely be more like 20 years.
And as a worst case, Tivo's linux core means there's always going to be a way to keep it going:^)
Have you ever drunk something, started to laugh, and have the stuff come out your nose? That proves that nose and mouth are connected, and the topology of a person is therefore more complicated than a torus. Because of the two holes in your nose, we're talking at least genus 3. I think the ears are connected to the nose/mouth system too, which would make it genus 5.
Don't forget the tear ducts, which also seem to be connected to the nasal passages (given the freakish ability of some folks to blow smoke out their tear ducts).
Which brings us up to 7, though I'm afraid I have to contest two earlier entries. The connection of the ears to the complete nose/mouth system terminates INSIDE the eardrum, which normally seals the system off from the outside (and hence their reason d'etre, equalizing the pressure of the system) (Well, OK, not truly sealed because of the before mentioned nose/mouth passages, but you get the point).
Sorry, we can't accept folks with damaged eardrums, else we'd have to include folks with other injuries/piercings:^)
Obviously if you have a dense population of users it becomes economical to have more base stations in the 31 mile radius, each serving a smaller zone, in the interests of extra bandwidth per user.
But can it be expanded with multiple cells? The article is notably light on technical details, and I'm not sure its safe to assume you could install 4 of them in a 31 mile radius without interference.
Even so, this would be a great technology for rural areas and countries that lack infrastructure.
The electricity consumption on a modern PC is about 60-90 watts or about $25/yr for electrity. It would at least pay to have a low end staffer or an intern to go digging them out. Especially when you consider the cost in rent for a thousand dead machines. 20/rack and each rack is about a yard sq. Rent is probably a few dollars per sq foot per month. The costs just start piliing up when you factor in cooling and all of the other ancililary factors.
Chock full of bad assumptions.
1) The CPUS are dual CPU/big RAM/Dual drive, so a better budget is likely 150-200 watts. But...
2) The machines are not local. So you have to pay a tech to visit the machines. Airfare, hotels, etc.
3) They are using VERY dense machines, they get more like 60 systems (120 CPUs) to a rack.
4) The are using hosting facilities, such as Exodus/Abovenet/other survivers; these guys are chargeing a flat rate for Bandwidth, power, space, cooling, etc.
So the net result is you gain almost nothing by powering down a bad system, except the ability to add a working system. If the cluster is not overloaded, there's not much ROI on having that extra power. So its just a math problem.
Our cage is next to theirs.. then [they] moved to a newer, more elegant system from [rackable.com]
This is rated "5" at the moment. Now think for moment:
Our CAGE is next to theirs? The remote "cage" where Google keeps 54,000 machines ??!! (As opposed to the 4 Google-owned buildings in the text of the original post?)
Hold off before you start your self cangratulations. I didn't read the article, and I don't know if Google hass 54,000 machines in four buildings, but they definately have thousands spread out among dozens if not hundreds of datacenters world wide. I beleive my own eye's over those of a journalist's, any day, even a technology journalist. They can butcher a lot of facts while dealing with something they don't understand; most likely Google's staff is spread among 4 buildings, and they computers live in 3rd party data centers like Abovenet, Exodus, and however else has managed to survive. This lets them use geographical load balancing to keep the response rate up, spreads the data flow out, and offloads a lot of the network upkeep on others. (Outsourcing:^)
A "Rackable" system is.5 U, a rack hold about 60-70 plus needed switches, etc. A typical install in a datacenter might be 10 to 20 racks, so maybe 500-1500 "systems" in a datacenter. Of course, they likely scale an install to the area as well, so there's proably quite a few centers that are just a rack or two.
While I never saw the original systems the first poster refers to, I have seen several of the Rackable installs. They are a thing to behold.
Except in the case of big file copies and such, things you don't often do on desktops,
I'm thinking you can count the number of PAE enabled "desktops" on one hand.:^)
What I'm talking about (and hopefully other folks on this thread) are servers, with admins who at least have some clue what they are doing (else they wouldn't be running BSD/Linux). I have a set of files that I need to search through very quickly, with a SLA attached to it. I need to ensure that this file remains in RAM, I don't want might nightly updatedb flushing the file out of cache, or any of a dozen other maintenance scripts that I don't give a rats ass about how slow they run, screwing this up and causing the next search to run 10x slower at best and giving a negative user experience, causing the system to fail its SLA, and my company losing beaucoup bucks.
We're not talking about a generic file server, where you have somewhat randomized access and you're far better off letting the OS do the caching (Its good at that stuff). I'm talking about systems like databases that are constantly reading data but there are some core indexes that you need to search FAST.
A little example. You have an application that has about 20GB of data, spread among 10 files. You read the first 4GB of data and most of it gets cached on your 4GB system. It then reads the 5th GB of data, flushing the 1st GB out of RAM. At the end of the search, you have the last 4GB or so cached. Now second search starts, and the last 4gb gets flushed to make room for the first 4GB, process repeats. The only time caching benefits you is when a second search is launched within the time it takes to search the first 4GB or so, so caching just isn't going to help unless there are some pretty damned advanced adaptive routines happening. So instead cache one of those files on a RAM disk, and you search time improves 10%; more if that file is access more than the rest.
I'm actually very interested in this, but I have no idea how ramfs would support this. is it PAE aware? would you be limited to some max disk size
Anyone try this? Any developers know the low level issues? I can get a Dell box with support for 32GB of RAM, (Well, its available, I can't actually afford it right now:^), but could I create a nice 30GB volume for my files? Would OS caching eliminate my need to?
Better yet, anyone know of a simple PCI board with nice standard DIMM slots and emulates a Drive? I don't care about battery backup, I just want to copy static data to it then run like the devil!
WHat I want is a PVR that will allow me to pause live TV, have digital and analogue recording to a massive hard drive and to record programs that I might want to watch as easily as possible. Throw in the ability to play OGG/WMA and I'd be a happy man.
Go get a DirecTiVo and sign up for a package with local channels, then you won't need analogue recording. Well, you won't be able to feed it old videotapes, but Tivo really isn't an archive medium. But you can tape two shows while watching a third from the Now playing list, and DirecTiVo's subscription rate is only $5/month (Free w/ Ultimate package)
And if you really want Ogg Vorbis, Hack the damn box cause it Linux at its heart.:^)
Just imagine; the PC BIOS folks wouldn't have been allowed to reverse engineer the BIOS of the original PC, Compaq and the other clones never would have come into existance, and probably to this day computers would cost $5,000 or more. On the bright side, the Commadore Amiga might have stood a chance in the home market against just Apple and IBM duking it out for the office.
Without the explosion of the PC, would the money have been available to drive Moore's law? The anti-reverse engineering part of the DMCA is almost un-american in its rejection of capitalism and competition
No, no it's not. A multiple processor machine != a multiple machine cluster.
But a NUMA is not purely a SMP machine either, its a little of both. The Sequent NUMA-Q is a series of Quad-proccessor systems (Quads) linked via a high speed bus. Each Quad has its own memory pool, but on a virtual level its also one big memory pool. Hell, I was ready to be certified on Dynix/ptx and I don't fully understand it beyond knowing its not Parrallel computing, and ints not SMP. Its NUMA (Non-uniform memory architecture!).
And its not really dead. Sequent was bought out by IBM, who stopped producing the Intel based systems, but is continuing to produce NUMA systems based on PowerPC systems. (or at least were; there is some embarassment here in that DB2 doesn't run right on NUMAs, so they have to benchmark with Oracle:^)
I also suspect the NUMA technology will be very important for upcoming SMP on a chip systems, if you have 4 CPU's on a chip, how do you combine them into a MP machine?
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Makes me glad I chose to upgrade my PIII 600 with a 1.3Ghz Celeron (NOT based on the P4). Used my same RAM, Power supply, and everything; cost me about $140 for both the i815 Motherboard and the CPU/Heatsink, would have been less had I not opted for a Slot 1 MB way back when)
Seriously, the fact that this thing needs a new Power Supply (Why would a PIII 700 have a P4 PS?) make the review rather foolish.
Exactly
As for why they don't come up with a new trademarkable name, I'm really not sure.
Intel spent millions promoting "Pentium" as a brand. Renaming the ship Sexium/Hexium/SomethingElsium means abandoning that brand.
Most likely the folks who came up with the Pentium name weren't marketing guru's but techs, or else weren't clued into the fact that a P6, P7, etc. were sure to follow the P5/586. Also, if they created a Hexium and a Septium processor, they would be open to competitors creating a Sexium, or an Octium, I'm sure a judge wouldn't allow them exclusive access to names ending in -ium.
Brands are powerful things, Coke, Kleenex, Xerox, Viagra... And now Pentium.
The change is going to have less to do with the $/MB of "spinning media" and more to do with the the cost of Solid State media. If Western Digital introduces a 1 TB drive next year for $150, most folks still won't have a need for it. If Solid State can hit a target such as $500 for 9GB, it would likely start a landslide of conversions. The OS, your website, and a decent amount of logs could go on this to improve reliability, remote logging could log everything out to a central server with a few TB of storage just in case.
This isn't about replacing desktop p0rn stashes or Mega sized databases (though Megasized DB's feed of high porformace disks, not cheap desktop disks). Its about ultra fast random i/o, reliability, etc.
Yes, but there's another side to it as well.
1) I UI needs to be added to it. While at first glance this might be just a "save to DVD" option under the "save to VCR" option, this raises issues like (do you burn an entire DVD-R to save a 400MB Futurama episode? Not everyone would be happy with this sort of wastage. 2) Compatibility. What if the DVD-/+R isn't compatible with Uncle Joes old DVD/DIVX player, Tivo will be getting tech support calls.
3) Failure rate. DVD drives have WAY more moving parts than hard drives. They will fail, and I'd be happier if they weren't integrated into my Tivo when they failed; same reason why I won't buy a TV with a built in DVD/VCR, sooner or later it will fail and you'll have the Redneck(tm) VCR under the TV/VCR combo...
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States. Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of 100 days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth Gty, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, shall recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln
The point is Slashdot editors are allowing ignorant trolls in story submissions to get through.
The article is (I assume :^) about changes in the Palm OS that allow MAIN MEMORY to expand to 128MB for 16MB. The submitter, clearly having no clue, used his limited knowledge to say "Hey, those Sony gadgets can use proprietary 128MB memory sticks to expand. Ha! Dumb Palm!"; in a clear violation of "Better to hold ones tongue and be thought the fool than to flap ones jaws and remove all doubt". I gave a pass to the 512MB SD card upgrade thats been available since the m50x series of Palm's, shame my Tungsten T's (m550) 256MB SD card isn't as slow, proprietary, and small as the card the poster is bragging about.
But back to the point. The original CPU in the Palm's had an addressing limitation of 8MB. Tricks were later played to allow it access 16MB. Later hacks were added to allow the PalmOS to access external storage, such as memory sticks and SD/MMC cards (Handspring also had their own format, and I believe was the innovator). I'm not sure what the limit on this external storage is, but clearly its > 512MB. But the 16MB is special, since this is where programs run, pointers are held, and anything you want to survive a card swapping live. Palm has recently introduced a new processor with OS5, the Dragonball CPU which is much faster. It emulates the old CPU faster than th eold CPU ran natively, though its not perfect (some stuff don't run), Native software for this CPU FLIES. It also isn't limited by the addressing problems of the old chip, though for the first generation the OS foisted the limitation on the system.
So either of two things have happened. The OS has been updated to allow the new CPU based system to use their improved addressing capabilities (maintaining backwards compatibility, since they are still manufacturing old CPU systems), or the have increased the number of virtual 8MB pages from 2 to 16 (think Intel's PAE extensions)
Yes! Can I use this as a sig?
I like it, behind the music for Tech companies. It could run on CNNfn, or some such. Start with Osborne, Commadore, CPM, VisiCalc...
I'm gonna get me some VC funding :^)
While I agree in a heartbeat that 90% of MS Office Users use Word Extensively, I kinda question both that PowerPoint is the second most used app and that 90% of folks use PowerPoint. Do you have any data for this?
I'd expect the Excel or Outlook to be the second most used Application; I know there were versions of Office that basically consisted of stripped down Word & Excel apps. While its not as intuitive as Word, I'd expect more folks to be managing lists and summing numbers than creating presentations
I'd say the spreadsheet functionality is far and away where they should concentrate Dev time once a decent WYSIWYG word processor is ready with good mail merge capability.
Which sorta sucks for me, since one of the big draws to me is the abundance of HD Component video sources, since my TV really only has one set capable of HD (480p and up).
The other draw was switch to active interface functionality that promised to limit the amount of remote juggling (I own a rediculous # of remotes these days).
But there's a lot of other stuff ahead of this purchase, so aside from drooling I haven't done much research :-/
More like middle range, say more like a Volkswagen to a Jaguar. What the average joe thinks of as high end, but folks who are really dedicated to it know there's lots of stuff even higher and/or more specialized. Carver would more closely map to Ferrari, perhaps McIntosh to Lamborgini. And there are more out there that map to even more exotic stuff, like McLaren's, Liegnfeter(sp?), Vector, Shelby, Panos, ... (Ok, so I'm more into cars than audio) Probably maps pretty well in terms of volumes, etc.
I'm still cursing my freind for getting me hooked on the idea of getting a Carver Sunfire (http://www.sunfire.com/)
I admit I'm not that familiar with the product line, I use a DirecTiVo myself, but I thought ReplayTV's didn't use the subscription model that Tivo uses? I seem to recall folks using that as a reason to get a ReplayTV in place of a Tivo.
But D&M will likely maintain their agreements if they intend to continue the subscriptions if they intend to continue to produce the ReplayTV, this is not an area where the old adage "any press is good press" applies. Maintaining those subscriptions maintains an air of stability to the product, and the cost will likely be low, just connection charges, since they would be maintaining the databases anyway. But if they just wanted to get their hands on part of the tehnology, well then yeah, its game over.
Myself, I avoided the lifetime subscription on my Tivo when I found out it was for the life of my Tivo; man am I happy I didn't. At the time the lifetime cost about 2 years of service. But I bought a second unit, which would have doubled that; whereas the month to month rate covered both under DirecTV's terms. Then DirecTV dropped the rate to $5/month. So within about of year of getting the boxes, the lifetime sub cost jumped from 2 years of service to 10 years, and considering opportunity cost of that money it would likely be more like 20 years.
And as a worst case, Tivo's linux core means there's always going to be a way to keep it going :^)
Don't forget the tear ducts, which also seem to be connected to the nasal passages (given the freakish ability of some folks to blow smoke out their tear ducts).
Which brings us up to 7, though I'm afraid I have to contest two earlier entries. The connection of the ears to the complete nose/mouth system terminates INSIDE the eardrum, which normally seals the system off from the outside (and hence their reason d'etre, equalizing the pressure of the system) (Well, OK, not truly sealed because of the before mentioned nose/mouth passages, but you get the point).
Sorry, we can't accept folks with damaged eardrums, else we'd have to include folks with other injuries/piercings :^)
Sort of Reminds me of MS posting as new features things they claimed the last version had. :^)
Yeah, I was wondering why the backbone providers were carrying less than 2,000 route advertisements... :^)
Silly person, everyone knows its the Flux capacitor that allows FTL travel...
(And there is no truth to the rumor that the Macintosh Firewire icon is secretly a Flux Capacitor icon)
But can it be expanded with multiple cells? The article is notably light on technical details, and I'm not sure its safe to assume you could install 4 of them in a 31 mile radius without interference.
Even so, this would be a great technology for rural areas and countries that lack infrastructure.
Chock full of bad assumptions.
So the net result is you gain almost nothing by powering down a bad system, except the ability to add a working system. If the cluster is not overloaded, there's not much ROI on having that extra power. So its just a math problem.This is rated "5" at the moment. Now think for moment:
Our CAGE is next to theirs? The remote "cage" where Google keeps 54,000 machines ??!! (As opposed to the 4 Google-owned buildings in the text of the original post?)
Hold off before you start your self cangratulations. I didn't read the article, and I don't know if Google hass 54,000 machines in four buildings, but they definately have thousands spread out among dozens if not hundreds of datacenters world wide. I beleive my own eye's over those of a journalist's, any day, even a technology journalist. They can butcher a lot of facts while dealing with something they don't understand; most likely Google's staff is spread among 4 buildings, and they computers live in 3rd party data centers like Abovenet, Exodus, and however else has managed to survive. This lets them use geographical load balancing to keep the response rate up, spreads the data flow out, and offloads a lot of the network upkeep on others. (Outsourcing :^)
A "Rackable" system is .5 U, a rack hold about 60-70 plus needed switches, etc. A typical install in a datacenter might be 10 to 20 racks, so maybe 500-1500 "systems" in a datacenter. Of course, they likely scale an install to the area as well, so there's proably quite a few centers that are just a rack or two.
While I never saw the original systems the first poster refers to, I have seen several of the Rackable installs. They are a thing to behold.
I'm thinking you can count the number of PAE enabled "desktops" on one hand. :^)
What I'm talking about (and hopefully other folks on this thread) are servers, with admins who at least have some clue what they are doing (else they wouldn't be running BSD/Linux). I have a set of files that I need to search through very quickly, with a SLA attached to it. I need to ensure that this file remains in RAM, I don't want might nightly updatedb flushing the file out of cache, or any of a dozen other maintenance scripts that I don't give a rats ass about how slow they run, screwing this up and causing the next search to run 10x slower at best and giving a negative user experience, causing the system to fail its SLA, and my company losing beaucoup bucks.
We're not talking about a generic file server, where you have somewhat randomized access and you're far better off letting the OS do the caching (Its good at that stuff). I'm talking about systems like databases that are constantly reading data but there are some core indexes that you need to search FAST.
A little example. You have an application that has about 20GB of data, spread among 10 files. You read the first 4GB of data and most of it gets cached on your 4GB system. It then reads the 5th GB of data, flushing the 1st GB out of RAM. At the end of the search, you have the last 4GB or so cached. Now second search starts, and the last 4gb gets flushed to make room for the first 4GB, process repeats. The only time caching benefits you is when a second search is launched within the time it takes to search the first 4GB or so, so caching just isn't going to help unless there are some pretty damned advanced adaptive routines happening. So instead cache one of those files on a RAM disk, and you search time improves 10%; more if that file is access more than the rest.
Any chance Universal "owns" Apple, and this is just a convenient way to settle the issue :^)
Better yet, anyone know of a simple PCI board with nice standard DIMM slots and emulates a Drive? I don't care about battery backup, I just want to copy static data to it then run like the devil!
Go get a DirecTiVo and sign up for a package with local channels, then you won't need analogue recording. Well, you won't be able to feed it old videotapes, but Tivo really isn't an archive medium. But you can tape two shows while watching a third from the Now playing list, and DirecTiVo's subscription rate is only $5/month (Free w/ Ultimate package)
And if you really want Ogg Vorbis, Hack the damn box cause it Linux at its heart. :^)
Without the explosion of the PC, would the money have been available to drive Moore's law? The anti-reverse engineering part of the DMCA is almost un-american in its rejection of capitalism and competition
But a NUMA is not purely a SMP machine either, its a little of both. The Sequent NUMA-Q is a series of Quad-proccessor systems (Quads) linked via a high speed bus. Each Quad has its own memory pool, but on a virtual level its also one big memory pool. Hell, I was ready to be certified on Dynix/ptx and I don't fully understand it beyond knowing its not Parrallel computing, and ints not SMP. Its NUMA (Non-uniform memory architecture!).
And its not really dead. Sequent was bought out by IBM, who stopped producing the Intel based systems, but is continuing to produce NUMA systems based on PowerPC systems. (or at least were; there is some embarassment here in that DB2 doesn't run right on NUMAs, so they have to benchmark with Oracle :^)
I also suspect the NUMA technology will be very important for upcoming SMP on a chip systems, if you have 4 CPU's on a chip, how do you combine them into a MP machine?