_The_ cable company?? Which one? Not charter... Looking over my logs... It's been more than a month since I _haven't_ downloaded more than 3GB in a day. (I discovered anidb and have been completing my utena, vampire princess miyu, ghost in the shell SAC season 1 and 2 collections). I'm also a big Petra Short fan (you know, the Hungarian "actress" in the Private studios DVDs... you may remember her from superfuckers 10 and Private Gold: Private Gladiator) and I like lesbians. All of this requires mldonkey and that means bandwidth. I pay for gold+++ deluxe whatever-it-is-that's-costing-me-90-bux-a-month service.
See, I'm the guy that actually uses what he pays for and pays for what he uses. People like me are why the internet is what it is and not a bunch of grandmothers and nerds checking email and surfing gopher. You dorks think loading some three png+text page getting slashdotted is a big deal... I'm the next level, baby! And when you've moved on to bulk clicking supernva, I'll have a room full of chimps thrashing shareconnector. And when you figure that one out, I'll pay mexicans to hire mexicans to queue up my ed2k transfers. I'll need freaking sixty four bit counters so I don't overflow my mrtg graphs... _every_five_minutes_, man. You'll see! You are seeing! I am the dude that everyone sees and is like, wow man! He ran asssstroid man!! That dude R O C K S.
Dude, I would like to mail a box to you. Just a little super super tiny mini itx crazy small, so-small-it-wont-bother-you-at-all system with a nice, quiet little cute fan and a 200 gig maxtor (liquid bearing - very stealth silent, you'll like it) drive, running gentoo. Maybe a sexy little tualitin core pIII 1.13 and a gig of ddr on the side... alls I want is for you to plug that baby in and I'll send you twenty bucks of awesome american dollars a month or somesuch. Basically, what I want to do is run mldonkey a little bit, just a tiny tiny bit and scp the proceeds back to my humble casa in the US of A. I think you'd like hosting my nexus of download happiness and I'll like scping from it. We'll both like it. I like you. What do you say?
BBSes were so bloody interesting because there weren't many ways for the 12-17 year old nerds in their folk's basements to interact electronically. These types of peeps today are spread far and wide across the universe of blinky flashy shiny online games and endless niche 'boards and irc channels. They aren't coming back to local offline (WOT??? LAAAAAME) BBSes.
Super uber kewl stuff happened when you got a necessarily diverse bunch of dudes together on a BBS (I mean, there were only so many per area code), all trying to be the alpha tres leetxor. Seems there's a crazy precise niche for every taste nowadays and a bazillion little silly games that last for a few months and server each one. Everyone's a newb now and firing their rockets or level ninety eight flame swords of bung or questing for things they don't understand and no one even knows why. When it's not fun anymore you go to frys and spend another fifty bucks to get bawted in a new, clever way. Then you play some halo and curse the lack of a mouse before crying yourself to sleep.
I don't know what the answer is but sometimes I think maybe theres a big blue ball flying through space and we're all just along for the ride.
The opteron (k8) has an integrated memory controller and up to three hypertransport links. In a dual k8 system, the cpus communicate over a single hypertransport link and are usually paired with their own memory bank. If one cpu needs data from the other's bank, it comes over the hypertransport link. Some cheap dual opteron boards save traces by pairing one cpu with all the memory banks - so every memory operation on the non directly linked cpu passes over the h-link.
The dual core cpu might have the pins for two seperate memory bank arrays or just the pins for one. Either way, the situation as far as dual k8s go is not really different from what we have already. Either way, it's a few steps above the p4 design: shared cpu bus to northbridge to memory. (yech! with a single proc, this introduces latency, with multiproc, you get contention and latency at every level)
AMD's cpu interconnect is so well thought out... it gives me the warm fuzzies pondering it:
A uniproc hammer needs one h-link for io. A dually needs two per core: 1 for core to core, 1 for io (though all the io on all the boards I have seen feeds to only one proc's h-link... so that you don't lose PCI busses and such if you have only one proc installed, I suppose). Quad and above requires three: each core links to two other cores, leaving one h-link per core for io. One could have a pci-e bus per proc, if one desired. But again, I haven't seen a design that doesn't feed all io into a single h-link.
Since no one uses the extra h-link anyway, a dual core package for a dual core system would need only one external h-link (saving some cash).
A quad core, dual package system would require three h-links feeding out of each package, though. But even then, the number of h-links laid out on the mobo is reduced and the whole shebang should be cheaper.
Intel's "one huge shared bus" + northbridge design is definitely being trampled...
What you are referring to is properly termed write _buffering_, but few folks call it that. The idea is to queue up a bunch of writes and commit them in a more efficient order or at a more opportune time. That 16 meg can also be used as a read cache. As for data loss, here's what IBM has to say:
http://www-3.ibm.com/storage/hdd/tech/techlib.ns f/ techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A850056972D/$file/dp ea_sp.pdf "4.0 Data integrity No more than one sector is lost by hard reset or power down during write operation while write cache is disabled. In case of that hard reset or power down occurs before completion of data transfer from write cache to disk while write cache is enabled, the data remaining in write cache is lost. To prevent customer data lost at power off, the last write access before power off is recommended to be issued after setting write cache disable by command...." (quote borrowed from an old usenet post)
One would hope modern OSes do the equivalent of hdparm -W0/dev/hdX before powering off rather than just waiting a split second, otherwise these growing buffer sizes will start causing corruption. Seeing as how, IIRC, until patched, win98 didn't even wait for the kernel to cease flushing the system write buffer (never mind various hardware buffers) before halting, I strongly suspect this is one of those glossed over idiosyncrasies that is already causing data loss... just not enough at any one time to particularly bother anyone.
But it doesn't actually seem to move them there... I found that option and checked it, but have been too lazy to figure out why it doesn't work. Oh well. Perhaps I need to create a junk folder on the server myself first...
I've read many comments in the same vein as yours, and I have an opinion on them probably worth your time to consider. But first, please humor me as I distill yours to its more intelligible essence... for my opinion on your comment is predicated on my comprehension of it. Inform me if I am wrong that:
- You have noted a common failing of what most style the World Wide Web, really just a number of HTTP servers that offer documents that usually refer to each other, is that certain nodes within the web occasionally, often or even usually receive heavier traffic than they can properly process.
- You propose to replace the HTTP protocol, which is very simple and elegant, yet often misunderstood entirely, with a lumbering, distributed protocol that would certainly baffle nearly all involved with it.
- You hope to solve only one single problem that is already within hand when properly attacked within the rules of the current system by replacing the current system with something complex, inflexible, novel and entirely unproven.
- It's a fucking miracle a standard way of doing things that is the WWW has survived the constant efforts of countless parties to heap complexity upon it so that they might pervert it into something they control. (I am referring to flash, java (java has been an unusually altruistic project, I admit), active-x and all such shyte)
Hmmm... I think I've already said enough for you to guess my conclusion, for my consideration of your proposal was quite intermingled with criticism of it... But for clarity, I'll elaborate, especially on my third point:
HTTP/TCP merely provide a simple protocol initially tailored to the WWW, built upon a reliable transport. The most obvious way to set up a web server is susceptible to being overloaded, but it is possible to eliminate this vulnerability by constructing a distributed system (such that of Akamai) that offers many sites each individually accessible from without as if they were plain-jane and old school. Thus the need for painful revision that seems doomed to failure has already been totally obviated... except to those too silly to bother with existing solutions.
So multiple providers of the same product are colluding to increase prices?
These companies are not untouchable like OPEC. They do NOT control a resource that, if withheld, will ruin our nation within the week.
Send Mr. Ashcroft a complaint. Inform him that you would like the DOJ to look into this matter... what these corporations are doing is overtly criminal. Hell, tell your Congressman and Senators, your Mayor, Governor and the President. Get every level of every branch of your government on this fucker.
If you don't, it means you are too lazy, too disenfranchised or too apathetic to even alert the bureaucracy that _you_ pay for, that is charged with aggressively prosecuting such flagrantly abusive violations of Federal law. If you are indeed that stone-helpless, you have only yourself to blame and you _will_ continue to spend your life complaining about the saddle on your back.
"bring out?" I need only turn my gramps's XT on... it's been on the same desk, plugged in to the same socket since 1983. Still runs lotus 1-2-3 like the day it arrived.
Intel's grasp of what is in their best interest never seemed more dubious. Well, perhaps their extravagant network sector buyout frenzy and the subsequent fire-sale liquidation of all those recently purchased properties might have seemed a worse error than forging ahead with the mhz marketecture on an electrically inefficient 90nm process. Intel reminds me of HP... They both push flimsy PR initiatives, forgetting that they are sitting on huge assets. There is a place for 150, 300 and perhaps 600 watt 32bit cpus... in an eroding corner of the market, with more efficient competitors assuming leadership. This is where Intel's current course terminates - likely with the release of a relatively low clock x86-64 part (which they could have had now). Instead, two to five years of steady marketshare loss and blind pushing of an inferior, wasteful product will intervene.
-A dude put together a plane that he's flown around the world twice. Score a point
-His plane hit strong headwind and ran outta fuel. Score a point.
-He managed to get to an outpost on antartica. Score a point.
-My own and the New Zeland governments are being pricks. To someone who did the most sensible thing when his nerdy and cool project failed. Score a point.
Thats many nerdish points. Because you dont score it as I have, you are either a strange nerd or not a nerd.
you said yourself, slashdot.org = -------------*NEWS FOR NERDS*-------------
That would be "tragic," not "ironic." But not for grammatical reasons. Consider my perspective: the judicial system distributes suffering and hindrance in far greater quantity than justice or expediency and is invoked almost exclusively by the greedy and misguided and almost exclusively to inflict illogical punishment for harmless infractions of incomprehensible legislation. But any sane man knew this would be its use. It's truly fucking tragic. If the situation appears ironic or surprising to you, it is because you are not sufficiently familiar with the history of government.
Agreed. If the weather's fair, you'd have a better time in the countryside, lounging on a blanket in a field with some friends or fuckable acquaintances. I advise you forget coding and worldly objectives for a bit... your mind would make hash of them anyway. But whatever novel thoughts come to you then, and whatever fragments remain a few hours later - they might later divert your considerations to more fruitful ends and provide insights that handily circumvent previously impassable obstacles.
Frustatedly ranting and hammering a joypad whilest your tetris high score remains out of reach (but surrounded by the most brilliant hues you've laid eyes on!) is an inferior preoccupation. Even if the falling blocks you are failing to properly manipulate discourse brilliantly among themselves upon the meaning of the universe, your vacation within a spectacularly warped mindset would be misspent.
Presently, the outsourcing rush is correcting an obvious market inefficiency; namely that for whatever reason, highly educated Indian labor is cheaper. A properly functioning economy redresses such imbalances rapidly: India's skilled workforce is finite and its value will increase with average quality of life, reaching parity with ours.
Parity, however, is grossly distorted in this situation. Indian employees and firms do not pay the ~45% tax (spread over income, miscellaneous regulation, property, ad naseum) that their counterparts here and in Europe must. In effect, this aggregate taxation is an enormous tariff sponsoring foreign labor, and the otherwise natural equilibrium in compensation found at parity ought to rest in the vicinity of... 20% ->below- foreign levels.
I do not mean to imply first world taxes are wasted by govt, but some combination of reducing the largely unconstitutional federal bloat and introducing tariff on outsourced production (correcting for minuscule Indian cost of living) raises job market parity to a bearable level.
However, overriding protectionism (such as that Japan *still* favors) will certainly ruin this nation. After all, how will all our exported capital ever return as investment if the US and Europe appear content to maintain the status quo (0% GDP growth, in more obvious terms)? Long decades of trade deficit and wholesale hollowing out of domestic industry afford developed countries little flexibility defending what little real productivity they retain. Socialist policy and GDP shrinkage or free market and some painful hard work are the plausible remaining options.
Suggestions that companies outsourcing their labor are self-interested offer no insight. Individual and corporate motivation to profit are the only reliable constants in a democratic, capitalist society.
My thoughts seem grossly out of place as I read recent comments, but what the hey.
a boat is the best way to access that 2/3s of the earth's unpopulated surface, or so im told. but the dark city (with merciless enforcers of inky blackness) idea way out in lala land is cool too. i vote shoot to kill over 10 lumens.
NO. NO. NO. I've heard this same argument so many times. Do you think Cornell would be considered at all prestigous or be able to turn away valedictorians in droves if they offered no net connectivity? THEY WOULDN'T. So stop saying it's for academic use only. They have it because it's an absolutely vital requirement to attract faculty and students.
This isn't about liberals and bandwidth hogs. It's about the top schools competing for the best and brightest and imposing unpopular limitations students are prone to bitching about isn't the best bet. Considering textbooks often cost $145, tuition is at least $25k a year and a fucking parking space is $650, they already have other ways of recovering that massive $1.4 million. Give me a break. Fucking 24 inch mac lcd monitors everywhere, constant money blowing, huge endowments and donations, massively expensive tuition and dorms, profs raking in 250k a year, and now they want money from those bastards video chatting and quaking. Blow me.
Repeatedly deriding intel hardware isn't stopping sun from losing billions, hp from saying they're dumping pa-risc and sgi from being all but dead. Twenty years ago I remember a similar elitist feeling towards mainframes... but commodity UNIX mostly replaced them and IBM reinvented itself supplying among other things AIX systems and now linux.
Intel hardware isn't that different from SUN hardware and in this economy you don't see companies itching to blow 2 million on a single big UNIX box. I have seen time and time again the many Linux/appliance load balanced server solution chosen instead of a huge box. There are niches requiring single large servers and for these SUN enterprise is still a good fit for their reduncancy features... but the market isn't large enough to feed the UNIX industry. On the low end theres little difference between a sun box and a quad xeon... except the xeon is faster and cheaper but has issues addressing more than 4 gig of ram from a single process.
The super high end niche still exists, but it is difficult for companies like sun and sgi geared towards selling hardware to compete with HP and IBM who offer complete packaged solutions and staff to support them. The future is the comoditized, outsourced IT division and not the each company for themselves, bloated budget hardware buying frenzy mishmash of the 90s. SUN seems very much set up to sell to the average IT dept with their constant random initiatives and announcements whereas service providers are selling certainty and long term plans to the executives.
So SUN tested their ecc memory for a million hours and pulled out and inserted the system drive tray sixteen thousand times without an error. You can replace a SUN gold service contract with a 42 unit rack of one unit IBM linux boxes and replace the ones that fail and break even after a year.
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here's one with all the banks on one cpu
here's a nice little overview
_The_ cable company?? Which one? Not charter... Looking over my logs... It's been more than a month since I _haven't_ downloaded more than 3GB in a day. (I discovered anidb and have been completing my utena, vampire princess miyu, ghost in the shell SAC season 1 and 2 collections). I'm also a big Petra Short fan (you know, the Hungarian "actress" in the Private studios DVDs... you may remember her from superfuckers 10 and Private Gold: Private Gladiator) and I like lesbians. All of this requires mldonkey and that means bandwidth. I pay for gold+++ deluxe whatever-it-is-that's-costing-me-90-bux-a-month service.
See, I'm the guy that actually uses what he pays for and pays for what he uses. People like me are why the internet is what it is and not a bunch of grandmothers and nerds checking email and surfing gopher. You dorks think loading some three png+text page getting slashdotted is a big deal... I'm the next level, baby! And when you've moved on to bulk clicking supernva, I'll have a room full of chimps thrashing shareconnector. And when you figure that one out, I'll pay mexicans to hire mexicans to queue up my ed2k transfers. I'll need freaking sixty four bit counters so I don't overflow my mrtg graphs... _every_five_minutes_, man. You'll see! You are seeing! I am the dude that everyone sees and is like, wow man! He ran asssstroid man!! That dude R O C K S.
Dude, I would like to mail a box to you. Just a little super super tiny mini itx crazy small, so-small-it-wont-bother-you-at-all system with a nice, quiet little cute fan and a 200 gig maxtor (liquid bearing - very stealth silent, you'll like it) drive, running gentoo. Maybe a sexy little tualitin core pIII 1.13 and a gig of ddr on the side... alls I want is for you to plug that baby in and I'll send you twenty bucks of awesome american dollars a month or somesuch. Basically, what I want to do is run mldonkey a little bit, just a tiny tiny bit and scp the proceeds back to my humble casa in the US of A. I think you'd like hosting my nexus of download happiness and I'll like scping from it. We'll both like it. I like you. What do you say?
BBSes were so bloody interesting because there weren't many ways for the 12-17 year old nerds in their folk's basements to interact electronically. These types of peeps today are spread far and wide across the universe of blinky flashy shiny online games and endless niche 'boards and irc channels. They aren't coming back to local offline (WOT??? LAAAAAME) BBSes.
Super uber kewl stuff happened when you got a necessarily diverse bunch of dudes together on a BBS (I mean, there were only so many per area code), all trying to be the alpha tres leetxor. Seems there's a crazy precise niche for every taste nowadays and a bazillion little silly games that last for a few months and server each one. Everyone's a newb now and firing their rockets or level ninety eight flame swords of bung or questing for things they don't understand and no one even knows why. When it's not fun anymore you go to frys and spend another fifty bucks to get bawted in a new, clever way. Then you play some halo and curse the lack of a mouse before crying yourself to sleep.
I don't know what the answer is but sometimes I think maybe theres a big blue ball flying through space and we're all just along for the ride.
The opteron (k8) has an integrated memory controller and up to three hypertransport links. In a dual k8 system, the cpus communicate over a single hypertransport link and are usually paired with their own memory bank. If one cpu needs data from the other's bank, it comes over the hypertransport link. Some cheap dual opteron boards save traces by pairing one cpu with all the memory banks - so every memory operation on the non directly linked cpu passes over the h-link.
The dual core cpu might have the pins for two seperate memory bank arrays or just the pins for one. Either way, the situation as far as dual k8s go is not really different from what we have already. Either way, it's a few steps above the p4 design: shared cpu bus to northbridge to memory. (yech! with a single proc, this introduces latency, with multiproc, you get contention and latency at every level)
AMD's cpu interconnect is so well thought out... it gives me the warm fuzzies pondering it:
A uniproc hammer needs one h-link for io.
A dually needs two per core: 1 for core to core, 1 for io (though all the io on all the boards I have seen feeds to only one proc's h-link... so that you don't lose PCI busses and such if you have only one proc installed, I suppose).
Quad and above requires three: each core links to two other cores, leaving one h-link per core for io. One could have a pci-e bus per proc, if one desired. But again, I haven't seen a design that doesn't feed all io into a single h-link.
Since no one uses the extra h-link anyway, a dual core package for a dual core system would need only one external h-link (saving some cash).
A quad core, dual package system would require three h-links feeding out of each package, though. But even then, the number of h-links laid out on the mobo is reduced and the whole shebang should be cheaper.
Intel's "one huge shared bus" + northbridge design is definitely being trampled...
What you are referring to is properly termed write _buffering_, but few folks call it that. The idea is to queue up a bunch of writes and commit them in a more efficient order or at a more opportune time. That 16 meg can also be used as a read cache. As for data loss, here's what IBM has to say:
s f/ techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A850056972D/$file/dp ea_sp.pdf ..." (quote borrowed from an old usenet post)
/dev/hdX before powering off rather than just waiting a split second, otherwise these growing buffer sizes will start causing corruption. Seeing as how, IIRC, until patched, win98 didn't even wait for the kernel to cease flushing the system write buffer (never mind various hardware buffers) before halting, I strongly suspect this is one of those glossed over idiosyncrasies that is already causing data loss... just not enough at any one time to particularly bother anyone.
http://www-3.ibm.com/storage/hdd/tech/techlib.n
"4.0 Data integrity No more than one sector is lost by hard reset or power down during write operation while write cache is disabled. In case of that hard reset or power down occurs before completion of data transfer from write cache to disk while write cache is enabled, the data remaining in write cache is lost. To prevent customer data lost at power off, the last write access before power off is recommended to be issued after setting write cache disable by command.
One would hope modern OSes do the equivalent of hdparm -W0
But it doesn't actually seem to move them there... I found that option and checked it, but have been too lazy to figure out why it doesn't work. Oh well. Perhaps I need to create a junk folder on the server myself first...
I've read many comments in the same vein as yours, and I have an opinion on them probably worth your time to consider. But first, please humor me as I distill yours to its more intelligible essence... for my opinion on your comment is predicated on my comprehension of it. Inform me if I am wrong that:
- You have noted a common failing of what most style the World Wide Web, really just a number of HTTP servers that offer documents that usually refer to each other, is that certain nodes within the web occasionally, often or even usually receive heavier traffic than they can properly process.
- You propose to replace the HTTP protocol, which is very simple and elegant, yet often misunderstood entirely, with a lumbering, distributed protocol that would certainly baffle nearly all involved with it.
- You hope to solve only one single problem that is already within hand when properly attacked within the rules of the current system by replacing the current system with something complex, inflexible, novel and entirely unproven.
- It's a fucking miracle a standard way of doing things that is the WWW has survived the constant efforts of countless parties to heap complexity upon it so that they might pervert it into something they control. (I am referring to flash, java (java has been an unusually altruistic project, I admit), active-x and all such shyte)
Hmmm... I think I've already said enough for you to guess my conclusion, for my consideration of your proposal was quite intermingled with criticism of it... But for clarity, I'll elaborate, especially on my third point:
HTTP/TCP merely provide a simple protocol initially tailored to the WWW, built upon a reliable transport. The most obvious way to set up a web server is susceptible to being overloaded, but it is possible to eliminate this vulnerability by constructing a distributed system (such that of Akamai) that offers many sites each individually accessible from without as if they were plain-jane and old school. Thus the need for painful revision that seems doomed to failure has already been totally obviated... except to those too silly to bother with existing solutions.
So multiple providers of the same product are colluding to increase prices?
These companies are not untouchable like OPEC. They do NOT control a resource that, if withheld, will ruin our nation within the week.
Send Mr. Ashcroft a complaint. Inform him that you would like the DOJ to look into this matter... what these corporations are doing is overtly criminal. Hell, tell your Congressman and Senators, your Mayor, Governor and the President. Get every level of every branch of your government on this fucker.
If you don't, it means you are too lazy, too disenfranchised or too apathetic to even alert the bureaucracy that _you_ pay for, that is charged with aggressively prosecuting such flagrantly abusive violations of Federal law. If you are indeed that stone-helpless, you have only yourself to blame and you _will_ continue to spend your life complaining about the saddle on your back.
"bring out?" I need only turn my gramps's XT on... it's been on the same desk, plugged in to the same socket since 1983. Still runs lotus 1-2-3 like the day it arrived.
Intel's grasp of what is in their best interest never seemed more dubious. Well, perhaps their extravagant network sector buyout frenzy and the subsequent fire-sale liquidation of all those recently purchased properties might have seemed a worse error than forging ahead with the mhz marketecture on an electrically inefficient 90nm process. Intel reminds me of HP... They both push flimsy PR initiatives, forgetting that they are sitting on huge assets. There is a place for 150, 300 and perhaps 600 watt 32bit cpus... in an eroding corner of the market, with more efficient competitors assuming leadership. This is where Intel's current course terminates - likely with the release of a relatively low clock x86-64 part (which they could have had now). Instead, two to five years of steady marketshare loss and blind pushing of an inferior, wasteful product will intervene.
Well then, please cease diluting the fine discourse of those who do care about next generation technology.
thermal compound such as artic silver. ye olde white paste breaks down, dries out and leaves an insulating crust behind at high temps
best ac post ever
Nerds like novel and interesting stuffs.
-A dude put together a plane that he's flown around the world twice. Score a point
-His plane hit strong headwind and ran outta fuel. Score a point.
-He managed to get to an outpost on antartica. Score a point.
-My own and the New Zeland governments are being pricks. To someone who did the most sensible thing when his nerdy and cool project failed. Score a point.
Thats many nerdish points. Because you dont score it as I have, you are either a strange nerd or not a nerd.
you said yourself, slashdot.org =
-------------*NEWS FOR NERDS*-------------
That would be "tragic," not "ironic." But not for grammatical reasons. Consider my perspective: the judicial system distributes suffering and hindrance in far greater quantity than justice or expediency and is invoked almost exclusively by the greedy and misguided and almost exclusively to inflict illogical punishment for harmless infractions of incomprehensible legislation. But any sane man knew this would be its use. It's truly fucking tragic. If the situation appears ironic or surprising to you, it is because you are not sufficiently familiar with the history of government.
Agreed. If the weather's fair, you'd have a better time in the countryside, lounging on a blanket in a field with some friends or fuckable acquaintances. I advise you forget coding and worldly objectives for a bit... your mind would make hash of them anyway. But whatever novel thoughts come to you then, and whatever fragments remain a few hours later - they might later divert your considerations to more fruitful ends and provide insights that handily circumvent previously impassable obstacles.
Frustatedly ranting and hammering a joypad whilest your tetris high score remains out of reach (but surrounded by the most brilliant hues you've laid eyes on!) is an inferior preoccupation. Even if the falling blocks you are failing to properly manipulate discourse brilliantly among themselves upon the meaning of the universe, your vacation within a spectacularly warped mindset would be misspent.
Presently, the outsourcing rush is correcting an obvious market inefficiency; namely that for whatever reason, highly educated Indian labor is cheaper. A properly functioning economy redresses such imbalances rapidly: India's skilled workforce is finite and its value will increase with average quality of life, reaching parity with ours.
Parity, however, is grossly distorted in this situation. Indian employees and firms do not pay the ~45% tax (spread over income, miscellaneous regulation, property, ad naseum) that their counterparts here and in Europe must. In effect, this aggregate taxation is an enormous tariff sponsoring foreign labor, and the otherwise natural equilibrium in compensation found at parity ought to rest in the vicinity of... 20% ->below- foreign levels.
I do not mean to imply first world taxes are wasted by govt, but some combination of reducing the largely unconstitutional federal bloat and introducing tariff on outsourced production (correcting for minuscule Indian cost of living) raises job market parity to a bearable level.
However, overriding protectionism (such as that Japan *still* favors) will certainly ruin this nation. After all, how will all our exported capital ever return as investment if the US and Europe appear content to maintain the status quo (0% GDP growth, in more obvious terms)? Long decades of trade deficit and wholesale hollowing out of domestic industry afford developed countries little flexibility defending what little real productivity they retain. Socialist policy and GDP shrinkage or free market and some painful hard work are the plausible remaining options.
Suggestions that companies outsourcing their labor are self-interested offer no insight. Individual and corporate motivation to profit are the only reliable constants in a democratic, capitalist society.
My thoughts seem grossly out of place as I read recent comments, but what the hey.
a boat is the best way to access that 2/3s of the earth's unpopulated surface, or so im told. but the dark city (with merciless enforcers of inky blackness) idea way out in lala land is cool too. i vote shoot to kill over 10 lumens.
NO. NO. NO. I've heard this same argument so many times. Do you think Cornell would be considered at all prestigous or be able to turn away valedictorians in droves if they offered no net connectivity? THEY WOULDN'T. So stop saying it's for academic use only. They have it because it's an absolutely vital requirement to attract faculty and students.
This isn't about liberals and bandwidth hogs. It's about the top schools competing for the best and brightest and imposing unpopular limitations students are prone to bitching about isn't the best bet. Considering textbooks often cost $145, tuition is at least $25k a year and a fucking parking space is $650, they already have other ways of recovering that massive $1.4 million. Give me a break. Fucking 24 inch mac lcd monitors everywhere, constant money blowing, huge endowments and donations, massively expensive tuition and dorms, profs raking in 250k a year, and now they want money from those bastards video chatting and quaking. Blow me.
Repeatedly deriding intel hardware isn't stopping sun from losing billions, hp from saying they're dumping pa-risc and sgi from being all but dead. Twenty years ago I remember a similar elitist feeling towards mainframes... but commodity UNIX mostly replaced them and IBM reinvented itself supplying among other things AIX systems and now linux.
Intel hardware isn't that different from SUN hardware and in this economy you don't see companies itching to blow 2 million on a single big UNIX box. I have seen time and time again the many Linux/appliance load balanced server solution chosen instead of a huge box. There are niches requiring single large servers and for these SUN enterprise is still a good fit for their reduncancy features... but the market isn't large enough to feed the UNIX industry. On the low end theres little difference between a sun box and a quad xeon... except the xeon is faster and cheaper but has issues addressing more than 4 gig of ram from a single process.
The super high end niche still exists, but it is difficult for companies like sun and sgi geared towards selling hardware to compete with HP and IBM who offer complete packaged solutions and staff to support them. The future is the comoditized, outsourced IT division and not the each company for themselves, bloated budget hardware buying frenzy mishmash of the 90s. SUN seems very much set up to sell to the average IT dept with their constant random initiatives and announcements whereas service providers are selling certainty and long term plans to the executives.
So SUN tested their ecc memory for a million hours and pulled out and inserted the system drive tray sixteen thousand times without an error. You can replace a SUN gold service contract with a 42 unit rack of one unit IBM linux boxes and replace the ones that fail and break even after a year.
amen to that.
hehehehe, im typin this from an srx99 (total swank mini laptop) and i aint no fagort.
my system can compile faster than theirs :p
since the first overdrive in 1992