It's not as high as that. Here is one with all the pieces (including 16GB and M.2 SSD) all assembled and tested for $755. Same thing with the 5i5 is $630; 5i3 is even cheaper.
A Mac Mini with an i7, 16 GB and the cheapest available SSD is $1400. I just went to the Apple store to check. And the Mac Mini is 19.7x19.7 cm. The NUC is 11.5x11.1 cm. A whole different class. Even the original Mac Mini before it got pointlessly squashed down vertically and bloated horizontally was 15x15 - 17x17 cm. If I could find my old shell I would tell you, but it was definitely in that range. The present Mac Mini doesn't even use an external power brick you can toss on the floor under the desk. The main case is bloated to hold the whole power supply.
Maybe you could tell us just what is out there that IS competetive with the NUC?
Mini-ITX is absolutely colossal compared to the NUC. Even the Mac Mini is gigantic in comparison. On the other end, ARM is not even in the ballpark in performance. ARM definitely has its place, but it is not in the same class as the NUC.
By the time you buy your mini-ITX motherboard, case, and power supply you are paying more than an equivalent NUC. The 3i7 is cheap. And, unlike mini-ITX jammed-together nightmares, the NUCs are beautifully engineered systems that go together neatly.
I have never seen a mini-ITX that had anything close to an acceptable cooling system. They were noisy and/or inadequate. I went through a phase where I built a number of mini-ITX systems, and none of them were ever anywhere near satisfactory.
The way the country goes, the powers that be would probably have Obama impeached if he tried to pardon Snowden.
Ha! There's an easy end-run around that scenario. He does what all presidents do. He issues a whole shitload of pardons during the last few days of his presidency. You can't even begin to get the slow wheels of impeachment working in hours, even if anyone is paying attention on his final day.
If a single commenter mentioned this, I didn't see it. The entity employing H1B workers is required by law to file a Labor Condition Application to ensure that they meet or exceed the prevailing wage, and an attestation designed to ensure that they are not used to break a strike nor to replace citizen workers - i.e., that the H1Bs are really needed because citizens cannot be found to do the jobs.
Obviously this does not work, or there would be little to no motivation to gratuitously replace citizens with H1B workers. What no one has satisfactorily explained to me (beyond waving the hands and mumbling "corruption") is, how is the law being flouted?
Yes, conceptually all flash data has to decay when powered off. But implementation tradeoffs vary widely. A dirt-cheap Microchip PIC18F2580 microcontroller has flash data retention without refresh "conservatively estimated" at 40 YEARS MINIMUM and 100 years typical (page 3, 10, 435). The number of previous erase/program cycles that retention is predicated on is not given, but is probably a single one, or a few, out of a typical endurance of 100,000 cycles and a minimum of 10,000 from -40 to +85 C. AFAIK there is no wear leveling or block sparing in microcontroller flash memories.
I have NEVER HEARD of an embedded guy ever running into a case of either cycle exhaustion or data decay in the program memory such microcontrollers (if data is written to flash during operation, specs do have to be considered).
SSDs have flash design tradeoffs remarkably different from this. For example, MLC individual cell endurance is around 1000-10,000, and retention is far less as seen in the article and comments here. In return, the access time is vastly faster and the density vastly higher.
VNC server built in to the the chipset, pulls from frame buffer of intel gfx card. Also can upload the contents of your ram over the network or 3g if you have it. Cannot be permanently disabled (can always be remotely re-enabled).
This is to find dissenters and pedophiles.
In the middle east they get bombed. In the west it's prison.
This is to keep men at the bottom and women managing them.
It's just sad to think our uninformed (and probably uninformable) coward probably believes the drivel he spouts. From end to end. And he's got a lot of company.
Credit card companies don't bear the losses in the sense you seem to think they do. The losses are simply treated as a cost of doing business, and passed on to their customers as a group - the credit card holders. To this is added the irrecoverable portion of the costs incurred by irresponsible credit card holders who don't/can't repay their debts, and the costs incurred by RESPONSIBLE credit card holders who fold due to catastrophic illness or injury, getting victimized by a bad economy, thrown into prison for selling someone the wrong kind of cigarettes, etc.
Why do you think credit card interest rates are so usurious in a time of supposedly spectacular low cost of money?
Yes, the credit card company is the defrauded entity, but you understand that they are not the ones who suffer the monetary loss. Don't you? The credit card issuer passes on the cost of the fraud to its customers in the form of account charges. Ever wonder why if you lend your money to an institution you are lucky to earn 1% interest - but if a credit card issuer lends you money, it will cost you in excess of 20%?
Some of that is waste and abuse and obscene profits. And some of it is credit card fraud.
Just out of curiosity, what about dentist's fees for extraction of all teeth plus provision of full dentures? And what about a rigorous eye exam and provision of either gradient eyeglasses, or at the bare minimum a set of near and far glasses?
They could also read out the bill number and list all of the line items, and the callee will know that the caller has seen the bill. That's prima facie evidence that they either are the patient, or someone authorized to see the patient's bill.
As a USAian, I am crying for 65 million people of France for what has just been done to them by those solemnly charged with protecting and serving those people's interest. I know what it's like.
Your use of the term 'animals' to describe followers of a popular religion betrays you as an obvious racist. Do not deny it. The language you are using is a politically correct 'code word' that hardcore racists use to avoid public scorn. You are fooling nobody.
I am far more concerned about the rise of fascism whose support base has appeared to increase. This is a far greater threat than radical Islam or any other form of extremism and has historically resulted in far worse atrocities.
The above poster, as well as all other fascists must be dealt with by any means necessary to prevent fascism from taking hold to avoid another holocaust or similar atrocity. Fascism is a disease and all of its adherents must be destroyed.
The term "animals" was used to describe people who slit the throats of innocents and blow them up; not people identified by religion - AND YOU KNOW IT. You can take your accusations of "code language" and STUFF THEM. Words mean what they say. If you want to make up meaning in the unknowable mind of a speaker, no one can stop you. Even if the shit you make up is stupid, use of your own mind is your right. But accusing people based on those fantasies of yours is the lowest form of scum sucking.
Take your threats against identified posters, from the safety of your anonymous post, and ram them up your ass.
Town of Granby: you SUCK! That insulting enough for you? OK, you're all probably a bunch of pedophiles and suck your mothers' dicks! Stop trying to emulate Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung! Oh, and come and get me, YA TURDS! Do I sound cowed to you?
P.S. - there is no threat implied or expressed in my speech, but an insult, maybe. Earth to Granby. Nobody has a right not to be insulted. Nobody even has a right not to FEEL threatened. For all I know, the boogie man is going to get you. Or me.
'sudo bash' and 'sudo -su root' do the same thing.
Wrong, genius. See which one runs/root/.bash_profile and which one doesn't. See which one gets PATH set to root's path and which one doesn't. Neither of yours does.
sudo -i is probably the command you are reaching for. Very similar to sudo su -. Whichever one you are comfortable with. They both do a true root login.
The outages that only last a couple of hours are nothing more than a nuisance. When it starts reaching a day or more, it becomes a goddam nightmare. Without the well pump, you have no running water. Without water, you cannot flush the toilet. The refrigerator contents start to spoil. In the winter you have no heat. Residual water in the pipes can burst.
I would be perfectly happy with just the essentials. Well pump, furnace, and refrigerator. A 2 kW source with enough surge for motor starts would be enough. Not sure if 7-10 kWh would be enough to cover 2-3 days. You can manage the well pump by planning your use for brief periods of running; it has a very low duty cycle most of the time anyway, even in normal use. You can manage the furnace to an extent by building up a lot of heat and then letting it coast down for hours. The one you can't really manage is the refrigerator. But overall, this looks promising. It would be a lot more practical than a generator where you have no natural gas hookup.
Right up until I learned it does not include an inverter. WTF? My eyes rolled up in my head and I groaned. Shit. How stupid can you get with your marketing? OK, you also need changeover provisions. So maybe this is the province of a specialized reseller. Until I hear from one of those and hear the bad news on the bottom line, I am utterly unimpressed.
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Why do I think if we actually had the exact specs of your Dell it would be severely inferior to the NUC in various ways.
It's not as high as that. Here is one with all the pieces (including 16GB and M.2 SSD) all assembled and tested for $755. Same thing with the 5i5 is $630; 5i3 is even cheaper.
A Mac Mini with an i7, 16 GB and the cheapest available SSD is $1400. I just went to the Apple store to check. And the Mac Mini is 19.7x19.7 cm. The NUC is 11.5x11.1 cm. A whole different class. Even the original Mac Mini before it got pointlessly squashed down vertically and bloated horizontally was 15x15 - 17x17 cm. If I could find my old shell I would tell you, but it was definitely in that range. The present Mac Mini doesn't even use an external power brick you can toss on the floor under the desk. The main case is bloated to hold the whole power supply.
Maybe you could tell us just what is out there that IS competetive with the NUC?
Mini-ITX is absolutely colossal compared to the NUC. Even the Mac Mini is gigantic in comparison. On the other end, ARM is not even in the ballpark in performance. ARM definitely has its place, but it is not in the same class as the NUC.
By the time you buy your mini-ITX motherboard, case, and power supply you are paying more than an equivalent NUC. The 3i7 is cheap. And, unlike mini-ITX jammed-together nightmares, the NUCs are beautifully engineered systems that go together neatly.
I have never seen a mini-ITX that had anything close to an acceptable cooling system. They were noisy and/or inadequate. I went through a phase where I built a number of mini-ITX systems, and none of them were ever anywhere near satisfactory.
Ha! There's an easy end-run around that scenario. He does what all presidents do. He issues a whole shitload of pardons during the last few days of his presidency. You can't even begin to get the slow wheels of impeachment working in hours, even if anyone is paying attention on his final day.
If a single commenter mentioned this, I didn't see it. The entity employing H1B workers is required by law to file a Labor Condition Application to ensure that they meet or exceed the prevailing wage, and an attestation designed to ensure that they are not used to break a strike nor to replace citizen workers - i.e., that the H1Bs are really needed because citizens cannot be found to do the jobs.
Obviously this does not work, or there would be little to no motivation to gratuitously replace citizens with H1B workers. What no one has satisfactorily explained to me (beyond waving the hands and mumbling "corruption") is, how is the law being flouted?
Yes, conceptually all flash data has to decay when powered off. But implementation tradeoffs vary widely. A dirt-cheap Microchip PIC18F2580 microcontroller has flash data retention without refresh "conservatively estimated" at 40 YEARS MINIMUM and 100 years typical (page 3, 10, 435). The number of previous erase/program cycles that retention is predicated on is not given, but is probably a single one, or a few, out of a typical endurance of 100,000 cycles and a minimum of 10,000 from -40 to +85 C. AFAIK there is no wear leveling or block sparing in microcontroller flash memories.
I have NEVER HEARD of an embedded guy ever running into a case of either cycle exhaustion or data decay in the program memory such microcontrollers (if data is written to flash during operation, specs do have to be considered).
SSDs have flash design tradeoffs remarkably different from this. For example, MLC individual cell endurance is around 1000-10,000, and retention is far less as seen in the article and comments here. In return, the access time is vastly faster and the density vastly higher.
It's just sad to think our uninformed (and probably uninformable) coward probably believes the drivel he spouts. From end to end. And he's got a lot of company.
Credit card companies don't bear the losses in the sense you seem to think they do. The losses are simply treated as a cost of doing business, and passed on to their customers as a group - the credit card holders. To this is added the irrecoverable portion of the costs incurred by irresponsible credit card holders who don't/can't repay their debts, and the costs incurred by RESPONSIBLE credit card holders who fold due to catastrophic illness or injury, getting victimized by a bad economy, thrown into prison for selling someone the wrong kind of cigarettes, etc.
Why do you think credit card interest rates are so usurious in a time of supposedly spectacular low cost of money?
Yes, the credit card company is the defrauded entity, but you understand that they are not the ones who suffer the monetary loss. Don't you? The credit card issuer passes on the cost of the fraud to its customers in the form of account charges. Ever wonder why if you lend your money to an institution you are lucky to earn 1% interest - but if a credit card issuer lends you money, it will cost you in excess of 20%?
Some of that is waste and abuse and obscene profits. And some of it is credit card fraud.
Maybe he never heard of Hydro Quebec.
Just out of curiosity, what about dentist's fees for extraction of all teeth plus provision of full dentures? And what about a rigorous eye exam and provision of either gradient eyeglasses, or at the bare minimum a set of near and far glasses?
They could also read out the bill number and list all of the line items, and the callee will know that the caller has seen the bill. That's prima facie evidence that they either are the patient, or someone authorized to see the patient's bill.
As a USAian, I am crying for 65 million people of France for what has just been done to them by those solemnly charged with protecting and serving those people's interest. I know what it's like.
The term "animals" was used to describe people who slit the throats of innocents and blow them up; not people identified by religion - AND YOU KNOW IT. You can take your accusations of "code language" and STUFF THEM. Words mean what they say. If you want to make up meaning in the unknowable mind of a speaker, no one can stop you. Even if the shit you make up is stupid, use of your own mind is your right. But accusing people based on those fantasies of yours is the lowest form of scum sucking.
Take your threats against identified posters, from the safety of your anonymous post, and ram them up your ass.
Town of Granby: you SUCK! That insulting enough for you? OK, you're all probably a bunch of pedophiles and suck your mothers' dicks! Stop trying to emulate Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung! Oh, and come and get me, YA TURDS! Do I sound cowed to you?
P.S. - there is no threat implied or expressed in my speech, but an insult, maybe. Earth to Granby. Nobody has a right not to be insulted. Nobody even has a right not to FEEL threatened. For all I know, the boogie man is going to get you. Or me.
It will. I suggest you bone up on C99.
There is legal and portable C that is not C++. Yes, C++ is close to a superset, but it is NOT a superset.
You fucking monkey moderators mark THIS as flame bait? Go to hell, twits.
Why not?
Yep; absolutely. Just as good. I think it wasn't there when I learned my trick.
Wrong, genius. See which one runs /root/.bash_profile and which one doesn't. See which one gets PATH set to root's path and which one doesn't. Neither of yours does.
sudo -i is probably the command you are reaching for. Very similar to sudo su -. Whichever one you are comfortable with. They both do a true root login.
You come off as a moron when you write "SystemD".
It's systemd, fool.
It "works", but sudo bash doesn't run bash with the login option.
Use sudo su -
Everybody knows it's:
$ sudo passwd # to give root a password so you can log in as root
and
$ sudo su - # to log in as root
The outages that only last a couple of hours are nothing more than a nuisance. When it starts reaching a day or more, it becomes a goddam nightmare. Without the well pump, you have no running water. Without water, you cannot flush the toilet. The refrigerator contents start to spoil. In the winter you have no heat. Residual water in the pipes can burst.
I would be perfectly happy with just the essentials. Well pump, furnace, and refrigerator. A 2 kW source with enough surge for motor starts would be enough. Not sure if 7-10 kWh would be enough to cover 2-3 days. You can manage the well pump by planning your use for brief periods of running; it has a very low duty cycle most of the time anyway, even in normal use. You can manage the furnace to an extent by building up a lot of heat and then letting it coast down for hours. The one you can't really manage is the refrigerator. But overall, this looks promising. It would be a lot more practical than a generator where you have no natural gas hookup.
Right up until I learned it does not include an inverter. WTF? My eyes rolled up in my head and I groaned. Shit. How stupid can you get with your marketing? OK, you also need changeover provisions. So maybe this is the province of a specialized reseller. Until I hear from one of those and hear the bad news on the bottom line, I am utterly unimpressed.