"apt-get install" is fine if you like the typer box terminal thingie. It's totally retro, and I respect that. Me, I just like to click the apt-url thingie. Some nice person built us a search engine so if you only know you want CAD or whatever, it will find you some without you know the package name. Then you click the "install it now" button and it installs. Wipe hands on pants.
Antarctica has wintertime temps below -89C, there is no existent infrastructure. But it doesn't have a location for a base with a planetary escape velocity of 186MPH starting from a base less than.4 G's.
Water is liquified oxygen, with a little hydrogen mixed in. Ice makes a nice airtight structure, and it's opaque to solar wind.
Mars is also right next to the asteroid belt. It's a natural base for the people who will build our interstellar ships.
The moon has water too apparently and getting free of it is easier, and it's closer. But the gravity is probably just too low for long term human habitation. And it doesn't have a Deimos to hollow out for an interplanetary transfer station.
The polar ice cap is 1 million cubic kilometers of water ice. Martian surface gravity is.375 g. Escape velocity is just over 5 kilometers per second. Summer temps are up to 20C. At 1.5 A.U., solar power is about 1/2 that of Earth per square measure. Mars has two moons ripe for mining.
Update: the 16GB 4-rank DIMMS are validated now, so some of these platforms support up to 192GB of system RAM - but only if price is no object. They're expensive.
You are so far wrong here that it's not even funny.
There are more apps available for Linux than just Open Office and The Gimp. Tens of thousands more. Maybe you don't use them all, but some of us use ones that would work just fine on a mobile phone platform (Apache, for one).
A Linux Phone with a wireless data link, usb servo controller and a webcam for example makes an interesting onboard avionics computer for an RPV - just to spew a quick one off the top of my head.
You keep your Android if that's what you want - there's room for both. But don't go telling people you know that Linux isn't a good fit for this or that segment until you broaden your interests a little more, ok?
Sure, you could do it with a cluster of workstations. You would need some insane interconnects. OR, you could just buy this pre-configured system from SuperMicro with dual quad-core Nehalems and 4 Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU Cards. That's 960 thread processors @1.3 GHz if you don't overclock, 16GB of DDR3 @ 1.6 GHz on a 512 bit bus, 16 threads of system CPU with up to 96GB of system RAM. It pulls close to 4 TFLOPS, in a desktop machine. You probably could break into the top500 with ten of them with decent interconnects since the #500 spot is Rmax 17.09 TFLOPS and Rpeak 37.64 TFLOPS. If you prefer a top 3 OEM, you can get that in a Z800 workstation from HP.
To put that in a time scale for you, that one desktop available today by itself would have easily been one of the top 100 supercomputers in the world only five years ago and would still have been in the top500 3 and a half years ago.
A little spendy for a wordprocessing and light spreadsheets, but a sweet piece of gear nonetheless.
What this means is that Microsoft has finally recognized the gravy train that is selling hopeless DRM solutions to music and video executives, and they want a turn at the trough. Nice.
And the Gates' too. Why think of all the construction wages and taxes they must have paid on the new Gates Foundation Campus. This lavish facility, costing $2 Billion - a mere 5% of the foundation's capital - will be a magnet to the great humanitarians of our time. They'll fly in from all over the world on their private jets to this quiet 12 acre parklike sanctuary in the heart of Seattle where they can serenely contemplate how to best relieve the plight of the world's poor while their needs are supported by 1,200 employees. In between spa treatments and lavish dining they'll confer with other great minds, and hopefully the breakthrough thinking that has evaded us all these centuries can finally occur! At their leisure they can view the historic 15,000 square foot museum that tells of the Foundation's work. Naturally armed guards will discreetly keep them free of distraction caused by the 7,000 homeless people living only a few blocks away.
Why, look at this vision:
Sinclair said the two intersecting, light-filled, V-shaped buildings with a private, landscaped courtyard symbolize the organization's connection to Seattle and its efforts to reach out to the people around the world.
"When I look at the building I think they're like boomerangs that you throw out and they come back," she said.
The nearly transparent structure -- including glass interior walls and fixtures -- is supposed to elicit confidence in the foundation's mission, by making the enterprise inside clear to the outside world, as well as connect the people who work at the foundation, said Steve McConnell, design partner at NBBJ, the Seattle-based architects for the project.
Doesn't it just make you aspire to lend your hands to their noble cause?
What you pay for a paper helps offset some of the cost of delivering it to you. The newsprint and ink and printing press and reportage and editing are paid out of advertising. That's why they're hurting. Nobody wants to run a newspaper ad when they get better results from Craigslist for free. So now they want us to pay for content, which we've never done before, but no doubt they'll want us to pay for content + advertising. No way. If I'm going to have to suffer the ads anyway, I'll get the free version that's paid by ads. If I'm paying, it had better be ad free.
For 5000 years the deal has been that if you stuff was worth listening to, people would pay to hear you play it. After a while, if you did well, the song became part of the culture.
It's only since the invention of eternal copyright that an artist expected residuals. And even that is a trap... The old must be forever deprecated for the new, so your art that might become an eternal theme must be abolished for the latest pop tart. This can't be done if copyright is rational.
The answer was to add some trivial content to the old story, sex it up, and present it live in a comfy theatre where people would go be seen viewing it because it was cool. His marketing team was awesome.
It's part of the whole philosophy. They only give the permission to use the software for a limited time -- it's far to precious to let someone have use of indefinitely. So of course to make it work they have to have complete control of your hardware to make it stick. All your hardware is working for them now, and deigns to obey you conditionally upon their approval for as long as they permit.
Completely makes sense. Unless you're some kind of tin-foil-hat wearing control freak who expects to exert control over his own equipment.
Ahem. I know a few VMWare and Citrix engineers and salespeople building and selling virtualization, VDI and virtual SAN solutions. Also network engineers with complex networks. It's one thing to show some slideware and draw on the whiteboard, it's a whole other thing to build the whole solution in your laptop and show people how it works.
The thing has its uses. 8 threads in a laptop. Very nice.
Let's just say that I don't run Windows for personal use even in a VM. It's just got nothing I need in it. And with very rare exceptions I don't buy software even for Linux. Sometime I do it just to encourage the vendor - RedHat, WordPerfect, X-Plane, Unreal Tournament 2003, World of Warcraft are I think the only ones (WOW under wine). In each case I tried the stuff for a few days and binned it.
I don't steal the stuff - it's just been many years since there wasn't a free and open solution for something I wanted to do with a PC. In Linux the office packages are free. The 3d modeller is free. The photo editors are free. The video editors, mail clients, mail servers, web servers, scripting languages, programming editors, version control, iSCSI SAN solution, PC Imaging solution, management infrastructure, GIS, CRM, CMS - they're all free. There's even free antivirus (what for, I don't know), and free Linux Genuine Advantage for recent emigrees who need it for nostalgia. Any tool I need is a few clicks away, and the trouble isn't in getting stuff that's freely given, it's choosing the right tool from the diverse selection offered. In almost every case the stuff is at a level commercial software might come to in a few years (Inkscape?). In some few cases there are outstanding commercial apps that are more feature rich, but they've evolved so far beyond my needs that they're difficult to learn and use and I'm better off with something simple that just does the job I want do without getting in my way.
That Windows doesn't have anything for me should be enough, but there's more... I have rather peculiar computing needs. I try a lot of platforms and I like my desktop image to stay fairly stable. In the past I've take a system image of this dual Xeon workstation and put it on by bl460c and my Atom demo board and my Via Mini-ITX board and a couple laptops too. Next month I might want to put it on the AMD quad core I'm buying. With linux I can do that as a practical matter, and it's fair game for licensing as well. With Windows that's a both a no-go and a no-no.
Given your comments here - which seem informed, educated and well though out, but with a strong pro-windows and anti mac & linux bias, with a specialization in 3d graphics rendering perhaps - I'm unlikely to be interested in your software. You can keep your precious bits. I'm fine, thanks.
Why I want copyright abolished has nothing to do with your precious bits any more than it does Michael Jackson or Inglourious Basterds. It has to do with Jazz and Rock and Roll, 1984 and Farenheit 451. It has to do with the social contract of copyright - you get protection for a short time, in exchange for which you are encouraged to create - but the works after a time pass into the culture as all intellectual endeavors must if we are to have the progress which is copyright's purpose. Your works, creative and inventive as they might be, were not built in a vacuum. You stood on the shoulders of giants that went before you. To make copyright eternal - either for code or for artists is to deprive my children not just of the privilege of extending your work, but even to stand where you stood when you did your work so they can make their own contributions to the pool of knowledge. It is to steal from them of their very culture. It's wrong and evil.
Copyright as it is is broken. It should be abolished.
Big companies like IBM are hard to get into. Therefore the folks who get in are typically very competetive or they don't survive the filter. Creative people are typically more of the self-actualization types who realize the only thing they're really competing with is their potential. It's a self-defeating system.
What we need is to stamp "90 day free trial" on all the CDs. If AOL is a useful example, people will do anything to get that installed. By the time they figure out that the rest of the days are free too it'll be too late - they won't know how to uninstall it.
We're going to have this talk again in a decade. Memory has to heat up a solid state channel. Disk has to wait until a physical block swings around to the R/W head to read and be interpreted by the firmware. Tape has to rewind that (stuff) for 20 minutes before the desired data is under the R/W head. That's the difference between mechanical storage and solid state. This one's over and tape lost. I can't believe we're still talking about tape. Tape was cool in 1980, when I could store 120K on one tape. But not since. Now: not so much.
I most definitely would not be surprised. I had to anser a tape question today WRT purchase of a NEW tape system. And I answered it with the desired solution without asking, "WTF are they thinking?"
Tape? Are we really still talking about tape? Please tell me we're not still talking about tape.
Do I have to draw you a diagram? Random access time is measured in fractions of an hour.
Could y'all please quit mentioning the freaking Tape solutions of yesteryear please? Tape is dead. It's really, really dead. The Andromeda strain could not bring this crap back to life. I would prefer you try to back up to floppy. The very word "tape" brings to mind the 18" reels of the '60's. I'm old, and even when I was born we were working on disk.
Could all you tape farkers please just turn in your geek card? You're all fired.
We're currently having a war between people who think that reliable end-to-end infrastructure is worth unlimited amounts of money to pay for reliable engineering, and people who think that realiable end-to-end infrastructure can be achieved by hardware and software redundancy with off-the-shelf components. Since the former require contact information so you can do a ROI survey with your marketing specialist and the latter have prices on the website you can click on, the latter are winning.
Your guidance on how we can turn this around would be helpful. The Rubes are getting away! How do we get them back?
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"apt-get install" is fine if you like the typer box terminal thingie. It's totally retro, and I respect that. Me, I just like to click the apt-url thingie. Some nice person built us a search engine so if you only know you want CAD or whatever, it will find you some without you know the package name. Then you click the "install it now" button and it installs. Wipe hands on pants.
Antarctica has wintertime temps below -89C, there is no existent infrastructure. But it doesn't have a location for a base with a planetary escape velocity of 186MPH starting from a base less than .4 G's.
Water is liquified oxygen, with a little hydrogen mixed in. Ice makes a nice airtight structure, and it's opaque to solar wind.
Mars is also right next to the asteroid belt. It's a natural base for the people who will build our interstellar ships.
The moon has water too apparently and getting free of it is easier, and it's closer. But the gravity is probably just too low for long term human habitation. And it doesn't have a Deimos to hollow out for an interplanetary transfer station.
The polar ice cap is 1 million cubic kilometers of water ice. Martian surface gravity is .375 g. Escape velocity is just over 5 kilometers per second. Summer temps are up to 20C. At 1.5 A.U., solar power is about 1/2 that of Earth per square measure. Mars has two moons ripe for mining.
Nobody owns it yet.
Update: the 16GB 4-rank DIMMS are validated now, so some of these platforms support up to 192GB of system RAM - but only if price is no object. They're expensive.
You are so far wrong here that it's not even funny.
There are more apps available for Linux than just Open Office and The Gimp. Tens of thousands more. Maybe you don't use them all, but some of us use ones that would work just fine on a mobile phone platform (Apache, for one).
A Linux Phone with a wireless data link, usb servo controller and a webcam for example makes an interesting onboard avionics computer for an RPV - just to spew a quick one off the top of my head.
You keep your Android if that's what you want - there's room for both. But don't go telling people you know that Linux isn't a good fit for this or that segment until you broaden your interests a little more, ok?
Sure, you could do it with a cluster of workstations. You would need some insane interconnects. OR, you could just buy this pre-configured system from SuperMicro with dual quad-core Nehalems and 4 Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU Cards. That's 960 thread processors @1.3 GHz if you don't overclock, 16GB of DDR3 @ 1.6 GHz on a 512 bit bus, 16 threads of system CPU with up to 96GB of system RAM. It pulls close to 4 TFLOPS, in a desktop machine. You probably could break into the top500 with ten of them with decent interconnects since the #500 spot is Rmax 17.09 TFLOPS and Rpeak 37.64 TFLOPS. If you prefer a top 3 OEM, you can get that in a Z800 workstation from HP.
To put that in a time scale for you, that one desktop available today by itself would have easily been one of the top 100 supercomputers in the world only five years ago and would still have been in the top500 3 and a half years ago.
A little spendy for a wordprocessing and light spreadsheets, but a sweet piece of gear nonetheless.
What this means is that Microsoft has finally recognized the gravy train that is selling hopeless DRM solutions to music and video executives, and they want a turn at the trough. Nice.
And the Gates' too. Why think of all the construction wages and taxes they must have paid on the new Gates Foundation Campus. This lavish facility, costing $2 Billion - a mere 5% of the foundation's capital - will be a magnet to the great humanitarians of our time. They'll fly in from all over the world on their private jets to this quiet 12 acre parklike sanctuary in the heart of Seattle where they can serenely contemplate how to best relieve the plight of the world's poor while their needs are supported by 1,200 employees. In between spa treatments and lavish dining they'll confer with other great minds, and hopefully the breakthrough thinking that has evaded us all these centuries can finally occur! At their leisure they can view the historic 15,000 square foot museum that tells of the Foundation's work. Naturally armed guards will discreetly keep them free of distraction caused by the 7,000 homeless people living only a few blocks away.
Why, look at this vision:
Sinclair said the two intersecting, light-filled, V-shaped buildings with a private, landscaped courtyard symbolize the organization's connection to Seattle and its efforts to reach out to the people around the world.
"When I look at the building I think they're like boomerangs that you throw out and they come back," she said.
The nearly transparent structure -- including glass interior walls and fixtures -- is supposed to elicit confidence in the foundation's mission, by making the enterprise inside clear to the outside world, as well as connect the people who work at the foundation, said Steve McConnell, design partner at NBBJ, the Seattle-based architects for the project.
Doesn't it just make you aspire to lend your hands to their noble cause?
What you pay for a paper helps offset some of the cost of delivering it to you. The newsprint and ink and printing press and reportage and editing are paid out of advertising. That's why they're hurting. Nobody wants to run a newspaper ad when they get better results from Craigslist for free. So now they want us to pay for content, which we've never done before, but no doubt they'll want us to pay for content + advertising. No way. If I'm going to have to suffer the ads anyway, I'll get the free version that's paid by ads. If I'm paying, it had better be ad free.
For 5000 years the deal has been that if you stuff was worth listening to, people would pay to hear you play it. After a while, if you did well, the song became part of the culture.
It's only since the invention of eternal copyright that an artist expected residuals. And even that is a trap... The old must be forever deprecated for the new, so your art that might become an eternal theme must be abolished for the latest pop tart. This can't be done if copyright is rational.
The answer was to add some trivial content to the old story, sex it up, and present it live in a comfy theatre where people would go be seen viewing it because it was cool. His marketing team was awesome.
It's part of the whole philosophy. They only give the permission to use the software for a limited time -- it's far to precious to let someone have use of indefinitely. So of course to make it work they have to have complete control of your hardware to make it stick. All your hardware is working for them now, and deigns to obey you conditionally upon their approval for as long as they permit.
Completely makes sense. Unless you're some kind of tin-foil-hat wearing control freak who expects to exert control over his own equipment.
Ahem. I know a few VMWare and Citrix engineers and salespeople building and selling virtualization, VDI and virtual SAN solutions. Also network engineers with complex networks. It's one thing to show some slideware and draw on the whiteboard, it's a whole other thing to build the whole solution in your laptop and show people how it works.
The thing has its uses. 8 threads in a laptop. Very nice.
The spare cores don't go into low power mode. They're turned off. i.e: no current through anything except the circuit that brings it hot again.
Let's just say that I don't run Windows for personal use even in a VM. It's just got nothing I need in it. And with very rare exceptions I don't buy software even for Linux. Sometime I do it just to encourage the vendor - RedHat, WordPerfect, X-Plane, Unreal Tournament 2003, World of Warcraft are I think the only ones (WOW under wine). In each case I tried the stuff for a few days and binned it.
I don't steal the stuff - it's just been many years since there wasn't a free and open solution for something I wanted to do with a PC. In Linux the office packages are free. The 3d modeller is free. The photo editors are free. The video editors, mail clients, mail servers, web servers, scripting languages, programming editors, version control, iSCSI SAN solution, PC Imaging solution, management infrastructure, GIS, CRM, CMS - they're all free. There's even free antivirus (what for, I don't know), and free Linux Genuine Advantage for recent emigrees who need it for nostalgia. Any tool I need is a few clicks away, and the trouble isn't in getting stuff that's freely given, it's choosing the right tool from the diverse selection offered. In almost every case the stuff is at a level commercial software might come to in a few years (Inkscape?). In some few cases there are outstanding commercial apps that are more feature rich, but they've evolved so far beyond my needs that they're difficult to learn and use and I'm better off with something simple that just does the job I want do without getting in my way.
That Windows doesn't have anything for me should be enough, but there's more... I have rather peculiar computing needs. I try a lot of platforms and I like my desktop image to stay fairly stable. In the past I've take a system image of this dual Xeon workstation and put it on by bl460c and my Atom demo board and my Via Mini-ITX board and a couple laptops too. Next month I might want to put it on the AMD quad core I'm buying. With linux I can do that as a practical matter, and it's fair game for licensing as well. With Windows that's a both a no-go and a no-no.
Given your comments here - which seem informed, educated and well though out, but with a strong pro-windows and anti mac & linux bias, with a specialization in 3d graphics rendering perhaps - I'm unlikely to be interested in your software. You can keep your precious bits. I'm fine, thanks.
Why I want copyright abolished has nothing to do with your precious bits any more than it does Michael Jackson or Inglourious Basterds. It has to do with Jazz and Rock and Roll, 1984 and Farenheit 451. It has to do with the social contract of copyright - you get protection for a short time, in exchange for which you are encouraged to create - but the works after a time pass into the culture as all intellectual endeavors must if we are to have the progress which is copyright's purpose . Your works, creative and inventive as they might be, were not built in a vacuum. You stood on the shoulders of giants that went before you. To make copyright eternal - either for code or for artists is to deprive my children not just of the privilege of extending your work, but even to stand where you stood when you did your work so they can make their own contributions to the pool of knowledge. It is to steal from them of their very culture. It's wrong and evil.
Copyright as it is is broken. It should be abolished.
I don't want to use your programs. I know who you work for. You can keep 'em.
Lets just abolish copyright and eliminate this problem altogether.
Big companies like IBM are hard to get into. Therefore the folks who get in are typically very competetive or they don't survive the filter. Creative people are typically more of the self-actualization types who realize the only thing they're really competing with is their potential. It's a self-defeating system.
What we need is to stamp "90 day free trial" on all the CDs. If AOL is a useful example, people will do anything to get that installed. By the time they figure out that the rest of the days are free too it'll be too late - they won't know how to uninstall it.
We're going to have this talk again in a decade. Memory has to heat up a solid state channel. Disk has to wait until a physical block swings around to the R/W head to read and be interpreted by the firmware. Tape has to rewind that (stuff) for 20 minutes before the desired data is under the R/W head. That's the difference between mechanical storage and solid state. This one's over and tape lost. I can't believe we're still talking about tape. Tape was cool in 1980, when I could store 120K on one tape. But not since. Now: not so much.
I most definitely would not be surprised. I had to anser a tape question today WRT purchase of a NEW tape system. And I answered it with the desired solution without asking, "WTF are they thinking?"
Maybe I'm part of the problem.
That seems to be working for Google, MSN and Yahoo.
Maybe they're doing something wrong. You should school them up.
Tape? Are we really still talking about tape? Please tell me we're not still talking about tape.
Do I have to draw you a diagram? Random access time is measured in fractions of an hour.
Could y'all please quit mentioning the freaking Tape solutions of yesteryear please? Tape is dead. It's really, really dead. The Andromeda strain could not bring this crap back to life. I would prefer you try to back up to floppy. The very word "tape" brings to mind the 18" reels of the '60's. I'm old, and even when I was born we were working on disk.
Could all you tape farkers please just turn in your geek card? You're all fired.
The price on these is "Please call to order". To me that says, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it.".
How does this stack up against the BackBlaze box at $120/TB, hardware and software included?
We're currently having a war between people who think that reliable end-to-end infrastructure is worth unlimited amounts of money to pay for reliable engineering, and people who think that realiable end-to-end infrastructure can be achieved by hardware and software redundancy with off-the-shelf components. Since the former require contact information so you can do a ROI survey with your marketing specialist and the latter have prices on the website you can click on, the latter are winning.
Your guidance on how we can turn this around would be helpful. The Rubes are getting away! How do we get them back?