No, it's a reflection of the differing architectures. The 6-core Intel processor has about 50% higher clock speed and the new hyperthreading while not perfect, really does improve performance on virtualized workloads. So net, performance should be roughly the same for most things even though one has six cores and the other has 12. And released at the same time. What a coincidence. Each of course has its strong points.
One strong point of the Intel CPU is that you can run the cheaper VSphere Standard edition with six cores, and hyperthreads don't count. From Seven to twelve cores per CPU you need the more expensive Advanced or Enterprise Plus.
Nehalem-EX coming up has up to 8 cores though so we'll have the question again in a few months. To stay at parity AMD will have to ramp their clock. They can't bump the cores to 16 because that falls afoul of VMWare.
Think of the opportunities here: interns. With access to playbooks, methods, tools, sites. IP addresses. With the chance to come out afterward and disclose everything to the targets, the press and the courts. Let's not tar and feather them all just yet.
hmm... A Cortex A8 with 64 floating point units and a video unit capable of 1080p encode on a card that measures 72mm by 50mm. This could be interesting.
Why would the software vendor not be paid for the increased performance afforded by being able to access cutting edge technologies like Solid State Disk? They've to test their software against this equipment to make sure the additional performance doesn't break something don't they? Not charging would be like giving value away for free.
Ok, seriously I'd like to see somebody benchmark a Postres cluster running on a couple Westmere 2-socket boxes and backed by a well-engineered 6G SATA SSD OpenFiler 10Gbps iSCSI cluster against an Oracle backed by SAN. That would be hilarious.
One of the coolest things about this stuff is that inside of one dual-processor workstation you can set up a whole datacenter worth of VMs, and model how the pieces interact without fiddling with racks and cables. You can build up a redundant database, fileserver or iSCSI server solution (or all three!) and see how it handles failover and failback. The simulated clients that apply stress can be VMs in the same box. You can even float a cloud of routers and see how they handle various BGP commands. Pretty neat stuff.
AMD commercial server CPUs are named after Formula 1 racing tracks. Their server platforms are named for Ferrari facilities. Their desktop processors are named after stars, and the desktop platforms after constellations. Cite.
Not everything is the desktop. Even on the desktop, the x86 architecture can face some real threats. Right now ARM is closing on "good enough for office work". For the next billon people to come online watts matter and money matters because they have precious little of either. If Intel doesn't get the watts and BOM cost down on the Atom line fast enough they might find their desktop dominance threatened by the very company - Marvell - that they sold their ARM rights to, or another company like Apple might transform the marketplace from desktop to "work where you are - what do you need a desk for?"
You have the right not to run DRM content and they have the right to put out DRMed content.
Quite right. I don't oppose their right to put out DRM content for the fools who sacrifice control of the equipment they bought for the ability to play it. It's a bad bargain, but fools are common. It's not for me, and it's not for anybody who's got a clue. There's no DRM that can't be broken and there's no content that can be had that's not free of it - if not by cracking the DRM then by catching the content before it's encrypted or through the analog hole.
The market for DRM'd content is the pool of idiots, and that pool gets shallower each day for video. At least in audio content we've drained that swamp.
I actually have a secret DRM system that actually works and that customers will accept that I'm hoping they'll bid at least $10m for. Until then they'll have to muddle along with charlatans who say they can deliver that but can't. It's almost magical in its simplicity.
It might have amounted to something yesterday. Now it's just another fringe platform. In the long story of computer history there have been many processors that have been marginalized by their vendors when they really did rock. The Cell is one, and now it's lost.
The thing is, I expected that from Sony because that's what they do - so I never bothered to master programming for Cell. They just don't get it. They never did and they never will. They've got some world class engineers and the poor bastards are restrained from ruling the world by the idiots they have in marketing and the executive branch.
To be fair, Toshiba and IBM (who participated in the Cell design) don't get it either - they'll never release a Cell platform that normal people can afford, and so they'll avoid the synergy that takes it from the fringe to dominance. It'll live and die in their mainframes and that's it - and they'll make a mint migrating their customers to the next fringe platform because God & Everybody knows you can't run mainframe OS's on x86 harware (right?).
But Sony? No, I expect this from Sony. Some people will find a way to break their DRM and run any OS you want on the thing now - but it's too late. That's too marginal and conditional for people who build stuff. Dammit Sony: we have enough stuff that doesn't work with our other stuff! Will you quit with the breaking flexibility please?
Can you even buy DRM'd music any more? Other than for the Zune of course. Let's not consider the trivial fringe markets. I understood it was pretty much MP3 or better everywhere now. Am I mistaken?
If you have some content that needs DRM protection, by all means knock yourself out. I'm not your target market. My equipment belongs to me, and it obeys me - not you. There is no possible method of DRM that doesn't reverse that situation. There is no possible content you might have that would change my mind about this basic primitive. In my book DRM equipment's not just substandard - it's broken. I'll fix it or it hits the bin.
This is why you don't touch DRM even a little bit. It doesn't matter if you only buy the open content and so the DRM sits there unused. The purpose for that DRM framework is to do stuff like this to you further down the line. DRM is a tool designed for the sole purpose to take stuff away from you, and you shouldn't tolerate its presence.
Opendedup is file-based deduplication, much like Microsoft's Single Instance Storage. If I recall correctly there was a security problem with that some time ago, but I don't know if it was fixed.
I heard that the actual planet was going into an ice age, and that the recent global warming by man saved us all from 1000 years of frozen hell.
I had heard that too! Or maybe it was me. Who knows?
The theory of Milankovich cycles is as yet incomplete. If you read the the wiki page, it reads like "there are these definite cycles that we have really good data on. We see the pattern! But no, we don't know what's going to happen next." Imbrie thought that absent anthropogenic effects we had begun our inevitable descent into the ice 6,000 years ago. Berger's more recent work disagrees. It's interesting to me that the origins of written history is almost exactly that long ago. I think maybe the warmists are working this wikipage. Everybody pretty much agrees that the next ice age is going to be quite unpleasant - on that the science is settled. Everybody agrees it's coming eventually no matter what we do - we could use all the remaining fossil fuels to lubricate the fission-powered engines that extract and cook the CO2 out of all the available limestone, and we still could not prevent it. It will be cold. There will be mass extinctions including possibly us, the ocean will drop dozens of meters. All the coral beds we know of will die. Panamanians will erect a sizeable wall to prevent illegal immigration. Hemlines will drop and the market for bikinis will collapse!
Seriously though, more heat is better than less heat, a run away cooling/frozen world is real bad, nothing grows at sub zero temps.
The planet has been warmer than it is by a little bit, and much much colder. Given my 'druthers, I'druther 'twere warmer. From a strict Darwinist philosophy I'd prefer it be warmer until my own offspring had had time to multiply and spread far and wide - across the globe and beyond. Maybe twelve generations (about 420 years). If we can achieve that, then there will be enough of them in enough places that when the climate changes cold again some of them may be resourceful enough, and ornery enough, to hunt your progeny for food and adaptive enough to survive until the end of Man - or until it turns warm again, whichever comes first. In the meantime I'd prefer it if y'all would constrain your population growth. Once the ice comes, there will be no space travel. It will be too late. For that reason if no other, it were best we get our offsite backups established now. From the point of view of human populations, a prolonged drop of 2C would be an agricultural disaster and 4C would have us hunting fellow humans for food. The Vostok cores suggest a mean over the last 400K years of -5C and a low of -9C. -8C for a prolonged period was no more than 20,000 years ago. The places where crops grow best must not move toward the land-poor equator or we're sunk. There's lots more frozen land to thaw and grow crops on further from the equator to support the 3 Billion more people we're expecting in the next 40 years. The outside track has us needing more than 2x the food and other resources we produce 80 years from today and projecting out, it's hopeless. We're bacteria in a dish, consuming resources and reproducing to consume all the energy that's available, and then evolving to best subsist on the effluent of others until the ecology in the dish becomes too toxic to sustain life or we escape the dish. That's how life works. If we don't escape our petri dish the outcome is a foregone conclusion and nothing else we ever do will matter in the long run because we and our progeny will have died out and Nature will try again with a genome that's a little less stupid.
Regardless, this whole article is silly. Bubbles float to the surface and pop. Anything you could add to th
I started to post a comment about how now they could start to tackle something even more useful, like the universal through-browser application installer apt-url. But then I realized they already have that, it just lets the websites decide which app to install, and the results are mixed at best. Maybe they should work on that.
If you use it for ecommerce, your computer contains your most precious asset - your reputation, and it's valuable to others too. These "windows" you speak of look out over every slum and back alley in the world. They should be made of some sturdy stuff if you want to keep your stuff inside and the weather outside, because the rules are different in some of those places.
You see, we have several technology darlings here in the US that like to make software that's hopelessly insecure. Sure, more secure software like Unix and its derivatives were invented here too, but we don't like them because they have command lines, and command lines are icky.
So because we can't be bothered to run software that's reasonably able to do e-commerce in an e-commerce era, we need a goat. It's best if that's a foreign goat. We're going to point our fingers at the foreign hackers and say that they are the ones hampering our eBay and our Amazon and our banking websites.
Because requiring secure clients to do e-commerce would be too hard. Nobody here would go for it.
It seems a lot of people had that idea. The quarter ended this January, Microsoft dropped 4% (19.7% to 15.7%). This closely matches the 4.3% (from 2.7% to 7.1%) that Google gained with Android. Three more quarters of this trend before the W7 launch and they'll be entering a green field with nowhere to go but up. If progress is delayed at all (when have we ever seen that from the WiMo team?) they'll have the advantage of a whole world market where nobody remembers how much their mobile products suck. Maybe this is part of their evil plan to reboot their mobile brand.
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No, it's a reflection of the differing architectures. The 6-core Intel processor has about 50% higher clock speed and the new hyperthreading while not perfect, really does improve performance on virtualized workloads. So net, performance should be roughly the same for most things even though one has six cores and the other has 12. And released at the same time. What a coincidence. Each of course has its strong points.
One strong point of the Intel CPU is that you can run the cheaper VSphere Standard edition with six cores, and hyperthreads don't count. From Seven to twelve cores per CPU you need the more expensive Advanced or Enterprise Plus.
Nehalem-EX coming up has up to 8 cores though so we'll have the question again in a few months. To stay at parity AMD will have to ramp their clock. They can't bump the cores to 16 because that falls afoul of VMWare.
SAN's can use SSD.s and have large mirrored caches which can survive a node failure, Openfiler does not.
Hence the cluster.
And if the interns leak which streams they uploaded to P2P as agents of the company, are those titles forevermore in the public domain....
Think of the opportunities here: interns. With access to playbooks, methods, tools, sites. IP addresses. With the chance to come out afterward and disclose everything to the targets, the press and the courts. Let's not tar and feather them all just yet.
Shiver me timbers!
hmm... A Cortex A8 with 64 floating point units and a video unit capable of 1080p encode on a card that measures 72mm by 50mm. This could be interesting.
Why would the software vendor not be paid for the increased performance afforded by being able to access cutting edge technologies like Solid State Disk? They've to test their software against this equipment to make sure the additional performance doesn't break something don't they? Not charging would be like giving value away for free.
Ok, seriously I'd like to see somebody benchmark a Postres cluster running on a couple Westmere 2-socket boxes and backed by a well-engineered 6G SATA SSD OpenFiler 10Gbps iSCSI cluster against an Oracle backed by SAN. That would be hilarious.
One of the coolest things about this stuff is that inside of one dual-processor workstation you can set up a whole datacenter worth of VMs, and model how the pieces interact without fiddling with racks and cables. You can build up a redundant database, fileserver or iSCSI server solution (or all three!) and see how it handles failover and failback. The simulated clients that apply stress can be VMs in the same box. You can even float a cloud of routers and see how they handle various BGP commands. Pretty neat stuff.
AMD commercial server CPUs are named after Formula 1 racing tracks. Their server platforms are named for Ferrari facilities. Their desktop processors are named after stars, and the desktop platforms after constellations. Cite.
Not everything is the desktop. Even on the desktop, the x86 architecture can face some real threats. Right now ARM is closing on "good enough for office work". For the next billon people to come online watts matter and money matters because they have precious little of either. If Intel doesn't get the watts and BOM cost down on the Atom line fast enough they might find their desktop dominance threatened by the very company - Marvell - that they sold their ARM rights to, or another company like Apple might transform the marketplace from desktop to "work where you are - what do you need a desk for?"
You have the right not to run DRM content and they have the right to put out DRMed content.
Quite right. I don't oppose their right to put out DRM content for the fools who sacrifice control of the equipment they bought for the ability to play it. It's a bad bargain, but fools are common. It's not for me, and it's not for anybody who's got a clue. There's no DRM that can't be broken and there's no content that can be had that's not free of it - if not by cracking the DRM then by catching the content before it's encrypted or through the analog hole.
The market for DRM'd content is the pool of idiots, and that pool gets shallower each day for video. At least in audio content we've drained that swamp.
I actually have a secret DRM system that actually works and that customers will accept that I'm hoping they'll bid at least $10m for. Until then they'll have to muddle along with charlatans who say they can deliver that but can't. It's almost magical in its simplicity.
It might have amounted to something yesterday. Now it's just another fringe platform. In the long story of computer history there have been many processors that have been marginalized by their vendors when they really did rock. The Cell is one, and now it's lost.
The thing is, I expected that from Sony because that's what they do - so I never bothered to master programming for Cell. They just don't get it. They never did and they never will. They've got some world class engineers and the poor bastards are restrained from ruling the world by the idiots they have in marketing and the executive branch.
To be fair, Toshiba and IBM (who participated in the Cell design) don't get it either - they'll never release a Cell platform that normal people can afford, and so they'll avoid the synergy that takes it from the fringe to dominance. It'll live and die in their mainframes and that's it - and they'll make a mint migrating their customers to the next fringe platform because God & Everybody knows you can't run mainframe OS's on x86 harware (right?).
But Sony? No, I expect this from Sony. Some people will find a way to break their DRM and run any OS you want on the thing now - but it's too late. That's too marginal and conditional for people who build stuff. Dammit Sony: we have enough stuff that doesn't work with our other stuff! Will you quit with the breaking flexibility please?
Some people are going to be very unhappy about this. Unless it's an early April Fools.
DRM music will never go away!
Can you even buy DRM'd music any more? Other than for the Zune of course. Let's not consider the trivial fringe markets. I understood it was pretty much MP3 or better everywhere now. Am I mistaken?
If you have some content that needs DRM protection, by all means knock yourself out. I'm not your target market. My equipment belongs to me, and it obeys me - not you. There is no possible method of DRM that doesn't reverse that situation. There is no possible content you might have that would change my mind about this basic primitive. In my book DRM equipment's not just substandard - it's broken. I'll fix it or it hits the bin.
This is why you don't touch DRM even a little bit. It doesn't matter if you only buy the open content and so the DRM sits there unused. The purpose for that DRM framework is to do stuff like this to you further down the line. DRM is a tool designed for the sole purpose to take stuff away from you, and you shouldn't tolerate its presence.
There are security problems with this. The duplicate files might have different metadata - for example, access privileges.
For real (block level) deduplication, try lessfs or zfs.
Opendedup is file-based deduplication, much like Microsoft's Single Instance Storage. If I recall correctly there was a security problem with that some time ago, but I don't know if it was fixed.
I heard that the actual planet was going into an ice age, and that the recent global warming by man saved us all from 1000 years of frozen hell.
I had heard that too! Or maybe it was me. Who knows?
The theory of Milankovich cycles is as yet incomplete. If you read the the wiki page, it reads like "there are these definite cycles that we have really good data on. We see the pattern! But no, we don't know what's going to happen next." Imbrie thought that absent anthropogenic effects we had begun our inevitable descent into the ice 6,000 years ago. Berger's more recent work disagrees. It's interesting to me that the origins of written history is almost exactly that long ago. I think maybe the warmists are working this wikipage. Everybody pretty much agrees that the next ice age is going to be quite unpleasant - on that the science is settled. Everybody agrees it's coming eventually no matter what we do - we could use all the remaining fossil fuels to lubricate the fission-powered engines that extract and cook the CO2 out of all the available limestone, and we still could not prevent it. It will be cold. There will be mass extinctions including possibly us, the ocean will drop dozens of meters. All the coral beds we know of will die. Panamanians will erect a sizeable wall to prevent illegal immigration. Hemlines will drop and the market for bikinis will collapse!
Seriously though, more heat is better than less heat, a run away cooling/frozen world is real bad, nothing grows at sub zero temps.
The planet has been warmer than it is by a little bit, and much much colder. Given my 'druthers, I'druther 'twere warmer. From a strict Darwinist philosophy I'd prefer it be warmer until my own offspring had had time to multiply and spread far and wide - across the globe and beyond. Maybe twelve generations (about 420 years). If we can achieve that, then there will be enough of them in enough places that when the climate changes cold again some of them may be resourceful enough, and ornery enough, to hunt your progeny for food and adaptive enough to survive until the end of Man - or until it turns warm again, whichever comes first. In the meantime I'd prefer it if y'all would constrain your population growth. Once the ice comes, there will be no space travel. It will be too late. For that reason if no other, it were best we get our offsite backups established now. From the point of view of human populations, a prolonged drop of 2C would be an agricultural disaster and 4C would have us hunting fellow humans for food. The Vostok cores suggest a mean over the last 400K years of -5C and a low of -9C. -8C for a prolonged period was no more than 20,000 years ago. The places where crops grow best must not move toward the land-poor equator or we're sunk. There's lots more frozen land to thaw and grow crops on further from the equator to support the 3 Billion more people we're expecting in the next 40 years. The outside track has us needing more than 2x the food and other resources we produce 80 years from today and projecting out, it's hopeless. We're bacteria in a dish, consuming resources and reproducing to consume all the energy that's available, and then evolving to best subsist on the effluent of others until the ecology in the dish becomes too toxic to sustain life or we escape the dish. That's how life works. If we don't escape our petri dish the outcome is a foregone conclusion and nothing else we ever do will matter in the long run because we and our progeny will have died out and Nature will try again with a genome that's a little less stupid.
Regardless, this whole article is silly. Bubbles float to the surface and pop. Anything you could add to th
I started to post a comment about how now they could start to tackle something even more useful, like the universal through-browser application installer apt-url. But then I realized they already have that, it just lets the websites decide which app to install, and the results are mixed at best. Maybe they should work on that.
It's nice to see a company take an ethical stand and stick to it.
If you use it for ecommerce, your computer contains your most precious asset - your reputation, and it's valuable to others too. These "windows" you speak of look out over every slum and back alley in the world. They should be made of some sturdy stuff if you want to keep your stuff inside and the weather outside, because the rules are different in some of those places.
You see, we have several technology darlings here in the US that like to make software that's hopelessly insecure. Sure, more secure software like Unix and its derivatives were invented here too, but we don't like them because they have command lines, and command lines are icky.
So because we can't be bothered to run software that's reasonably able to do e-commerce in an e-commerce era, we need a goat. It's best if that's a foreign goat. We're going to point our fingers at the foreign hackers and say that they are the ones hampering our eBay and our Amazon and our banking websites.
Because requiring secure clients to do e-commerce would be too hard. Nobody here would go for it.
It seems a lot of people had that idea. The quarter ended this January, Microsoft dropped 4% (19.7% to 15.7%). This closely matches the 4.3% (from 2.7% to 7.1%) that Google gained with Android. Three more quarters of this trend before the W7 launch and they'll be entering a green field with nowhere to go but up. If progress is delayed at all (when have we ever seen that from the WiMo team?) they'll have the advantage of a whole world market where nobody remembers how much their mobile products suck. Maybe this is part of their evil plan to reboot their mobile brand.
Dedicated IP address is an option for shared hosting plans. Some charge the princely sum of $5 a month extra for that.
Doing DNS filtering for security is one of the dumbest ideas ever. For a better system, read this.