Until SSDs are less than 50% more expensive than spinning disks, spinning disks will still have a place. Fast enough for large backups, large enough to hold multiple backups, no need to spend a premium on those for performance. They will die out eventually, but it will be a few years out still before I'd start saying they're going to be dead. However for anything under 2TB you can pretty much write the obit.
Lossless audio CD rip averages 350MB. DVDs usually run between 4-8GB ripped and compress to about 2GB on average. OTA HD average about 12-14Mbps streams, average about 7GB / hr. BD movies at 32Mbps, average about 30GB for 100 min.
This is why I quoted 3 sets of tests. The Top500 is pretty much flops focused, a very specific test for a very specific workload, which is what all supercomputers were originally targeting back when that benchmark started. While Intel can compete in this arena, as soon as you move to what we might call more realistic workloads, Intel's weaknesses spring out everywhere. You speak of latency - Intel's x86 base architecture has huge issues with process/thread switching compared to any of the RISC entries. Those effects are what kill Intel in the Graph500 list. The Green500 is just a bonus for showing how horrible these processors are, yet as of today, they are the most likely hardware most of us will run. It's kind of like being tied to the current set of inherently dangerous nuclear reactors when a better design has existed for decades, but no one wants to spend the extra cash to get one operational.
AMD also suffers from the process/thread switching costs as originally they were x86 based and I'll be honest that I've not kept up with what they've done since the developed their RISC like core, so can't comment on to what extend they're suffering from those effects today.
It's pretty funny in a sad way that today we're only discussing x86 for "high end" servers, when x86 pretty much sucks at it. Take a look at the Top500, Graph500, and Green500. You'll see an interesting pattern very quickly, and it's not pretty for Intel. It also doesn't matter, since Intel has priced out much of the competition at this point and all formerly viable architectures have been overwhelmed by the "good enough" intel chip. Just don't go thinking it's a great chip, because it's not. It's a cheap chip that can do the job, not as well, but good enough. Think of it as the VW Bug of chips in a world of Lambourghinis, McLarens, and Ferraris. The bug sold a lot more even though it's not as good in any sense, but it gets the job done.
That was the power of the emerging wintel duopoly that even IBM purposely blinded themselves to because they thought they'd lose sales from their mainframe business if they promoted desktops as anything but clients to mainframes.
IOn the software side of things, Microsoft can force people to Windows 10, but Intel can't force people to, say, go from i3 to i5.
I think that's why Intel has partnered with MS on Windows 10 with the hardware statements. Intel will be sure to mod the CPUs, making older version obsolete, forcing new OS/Hardware cycles. It's going to happen, you just know it.
Unless MS can convince developers to actually develop for anything other than windows x86, MS ARM will wither and die, just like windows phone/os/metro/etc. I've lost track of the mobile iterations they've done.
Intel's FPUs have always sucked compared to anyone else's, well, almost anyone else. Intel was virtually the last player on the block to integrate an FPU. This may surprise you, but Intel X86 CPUs are just about the worst pieces of silicon you can buy today. They are not good by any measure other than ubiquity. They aren't the fastest either in case you're wondering. Oh, and those AMD record holders are RISC chips IIRC underneath, not X86 architectures.
How many of our previous politicians had a spouse that was a relatively high level Goldman Sachs employee while running on an anti-establishment platform?
The copyright holder has a distribution license. (That's all copyright ever was) Nothing prevented anyone from taking their copy and making a million copies and stuffing them in their basement. That's not a violation. It's also not a violation to lend your legal copy to a friend. Nor is it illegal for your friend to make a copy. What is illegal is for you to make a copy and give that to your friend.
Copyright distribution houses have fought tooth and nail to redefine copyright as their sole right to make a copy. And this is the battle they have been winning, with every one of those little things they get to add, like those FBI notices, and wording in the TPP, etc.
I already have my solution. BTW, did you know that some minor tinkering will also gain you the ability to capture video? No circumvention required, and nothing required from a manufacturer. Since HDCP has done nothing but cause many problems, I'd be very happy if the content industry went back to what they do best, and leave electronics to others. Just imagine being able to show your movies on 2 TVs without having to buy anything. Just plug and go. wouldn't it be great? HDCP is what is preventing that reality.
Whether Title II helps Comcast in the short term or not in some small area of your mind is irrelevant. What is relevant is that it stops a whole host of very bad things that were already starting, for instance, Netflix being charged to be allowed to connect to end users.
As for politics, you're the one that brought that up. I merely pointed out you were wrong on every single one of your opinions. I have no love for the democrats either, and would like to see both parties dissolved entirely, not just repacked and renamed into new improved flavors. I'd even make the bold statement that "national" parties are entirely un-american and completely against american ideals, as there is no way a single party can represent at least a sizable minority of the population of each state. That was true even when there were only 13 states. The polarization occurred between pro-government and anti-centralized government folks, and we've been stuck with that supposed bi-polar arrangement ever since thanks to generally bad election processes.
Intel's been shooting itself in the foot with power vs performance for years. AMD was better, Intel reversed course and then beat AMD down. Now Intel's gunning for ARM because ARM is becoming a real threat to their core business. How many phones have Intel chips? How many tablets? Notebooks are moving towards ARM as well. Imagine an ARM based server farm. ARM is moving up the food chain into Intel's core business, and doing so with a class of processors Intel can't match.
you can't make all residential roads have no outlet.
That is incorrect. I live in an area where most developments are off of a main thoroughfare, and have only connectors back to that main thoroughfare. Yes, if you live on the edge of a sub-neighborhood and you want to visit someone behind you in another sub neighborhood, you wind up have to go out to the main thoroughfare and back around, for what might be a couple of hundred feet, but neighborhood traffic truly is only neighborhood traffic. It is essentially just a bunch of cul de sacs and half loops with entrances off of a single road.
You do understand that Republicans control both houses of Congress? So who exactly did not want Net Neutrality? And I don't recall what the Republicans actually proposed, but it was anything but Net Neutrality. IIRC, it's what pushed the Title II through.
Not being on the new car because the Joneses have one will save you a lot of cash over time. Buy a decent car, keep it, and only replace it once it's no longer reliable (meaning can't maintain it for a reasonable cost). Until something major like a transmission goes or the wiring goes bad, most cars will easily keep running for 200K+ miles with mostly minor maintenance.
I think you're slightly off there. Title II may be the only way to get any Net Neutrality legally enforced at this point, or are you going to get Congress to write up a new law that supports Net Neutrality? (Sorry, that was just hilarious)
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You might want to tell the average american that - it seems if it has a keyboard and a monitor with a box, it's a PC
Until SSDs are less than 50% more expensive than spinning disks, spinning disks will still have a place. Fast enough for large backups, large enough to hold multiple backups, no need to spend a premium on those for performance. They will die out eventually, but it will be a few years out still before I'd start saying they're going to be dead. However for anything under 2TB you can pretty much write the obit.
Lossless audio CD rip averages 350MB. DVDs usually run between 4-8GB ripped and compress to about 2GB on average. OTA HD average about 12-14Mbps streams, average about 7GB / hr. BD movies at 32Mbps, average about 30GB for 100 min.
That was a lot of work - easier to just link here.
It's not as simple as how many flops can you do.
This is why I quoted 3 sets of tests. The Top500 is pretty much flops focused, a very specific test for a very specific workload, which is what all supercomputers were originally targeting back when that benchmark started. While Intel can compete in this arena, as soon as you move to what we might call more realistic workloads, Intel's weaknesses spring out everywhere. You speak of latency - Intel's x86 base architecture has huge issues with process/thread switching compared to any of the RISC entries. Those effects are what kill Intel in the Graph500 list. The Green500 is just a bonus for showing how horrible these processors are, yet as of today, they are the most likely hardware most of us will run. It's kind of like being tied to the current set of inherently dangerous nuclear reactors when a better design has existed for decades, but no one wants to spend the extra cash to get one operational.
AMD also suffers from the process/thread switching costs as originally they were x86 based and I'll be honest that I've not kept up with what they've done since the developed their RISC like core, so can't comment on to what extend they're suffering from those effects today.
A well developed & deployed os+compiler
well, that answers the question about Windows portability....
Do you think the hills in China really look all that different from the hills of Nebraska?
Depends, even hills in one part of Nebraska can look look different than in other parts, provided Nebraska actually has "hills" ;)
It's pretty funny in a sad way that today we're only discussing x86 for "high end" servers, when x86 pretty much sucks at it. Take a look at the Top500, Graph500, and Green500. You'll see an interesting pattern very quickly, and it's not pretty for Intel. It also doesn't matter, since Intel has priced out much of the competition at this point and all formerly viable architectures have been overwhelmed by the "good enough" intel chip. Just don't go thinking it's a great chip, because it's not. It's a cheap chip that can do the job, not as well, but good enough. Think of it as the VW Bug of chips in a world of Lambourghinis, McLarens, and Ferraris. The bug sold a lot more even though it's not as good in any sense, but it gets the job done.
That was the power of the emerging wintel duopoly that even IBM purposely blinded themselves to because they thought they'd lose sales from their mainframe business if they promoted desktops as anything but clients to mainframes.
IOn the software side of things, Microsoft can force people to Windows 10, but Intel can't force people to, say, go from i3 to i5.
I think that's why Intel has partnered with MS on Windows 10 with the hardware statements. Intel will be sure to mod the CPUs, making older version obsolete, forcing new OS/Hardware cycles. It's going to happen, you just know it.
Unless MS can convince developers to actually develop for anything other than windows x86, MS ARM will wither and die, just like windows phone/os/metro/etc. I've lost track of the mobile iterations they've done.
Except I don't believe anyone uses Intel ARM chips.
Intel's FPUs have always sucked compared to anyone else's, well, almost anyone else. Intel was virtually the last player on the block to integrate an FPU. This may surprise you, but Intel X86 CPUs are just about the worst pieces of silicon you can buy today. They are not good by any measure other than ubiquity. They aren't the fastest either in case you're wondering. Oh, and those AMD record holders are RISC chips IIRC underneath, not X86 architectures.
I'm just waiting for a case to go before the Supreme Court that has standing, which then finally gets a hearing.
How many of our previous politicians had a spouse that was a relatively high level Goldman Sachs employee while running on an anti-establishment platform?
The copyright holder has a distribution license. (That's all copyright ever was) Nothing prevented anyone from taking their copy and making a million copies and stuffing them in their basement. That's not a violation. It's also not a violation to lend your legal copy to a friend. Nor is it illegal for your friend to make a copy. What is illegal is for you to make a copy and give that to your friend.
Copyright distribution houses have fought tooth and nail to redefine copyright as their sole right to make a copy. And this is the battle they have been winning, with every one of those little things they get to add, like those FBI notices, and wording in the TPP, etc.
I already have my solution. BTW, did you know that some minor tinkering will also gain you the ability to capture video? No circumvention required, and nothing required from a manufacturer. Since HDCP has done nothing but cause many problems, I'd be very happy if the content industry went back to what they do best, and leave electronics to others. Just imagine being able to show your movies on 2 TVs without having to buy anything. Just plug and go. wouldn't it be great? HDCP is what is preventing that reality.
Whether Title II helps Comcast in the short term or not in some small area of your mind is irrelevant. What is relevant is that it stops a whole host of very bad things that were already starting, for instance, Netflix being charged to be allowed to connect to end users.
As for politics, you're the one that brought that up. I merely pointed out you were wrong on every single one of your opinions. I have no love for the democrats either, and would like to see both parties dissolved entirely, not just repacked and renamed into new improved flavors. I'd even make the bold statement that "national" parties are entirely un-american and completely against american ideals, as there is no way a single party can represent at least a sizable minority of the population of each state. That was true even when there were only 13 states. The polarization occurred between pro-government and anti-centralized government folks, and we've been stuck with that supposed bi-polar arrangement ever since thanks to generally bad election processes.
And don't forget that Cruz has direct insider ties to Wallstreet's biggest bunch of crooks: Goldman Sachs.
Intel's been shooting itself in the foot with power vs performance for years. AMD was better, Intel reversed course and then beat AMD down. Now Intel's gunning for ARM because ARM is becoming a real threat to their core business. How many phones have Intel chips? How many tablets? Notebooks are moving towards ARM as well. Imagine an ARM based server farm. ARM is moving up the food chain into Intel's core business, and doing so with a class of processors Intel can't match.
you can't make all residential roads have no outlet.
That is incorrect. I live in an area where most developments are off of a main thoroughfare, and have only connectors back to that main thoroughfare. Yes, if you live on the edge of a sub-neighborhood and you want to visit someone behind you in another sub neighborhood, you wind up have to go out to the main thoroughfare and back around, for what might be a couple of hundred feet, but neighborhood traffic truly is only neighborhood traffic. It is essentially just a bunch of cul de sacs and half loops with entrances off of a single road.
You might want to review how filibusters have largely been busted.
A veto might not sit well with the electorate, so what exactly did the Republicans have to lose? Oh, right, corporate sponsorship.
Sorry, I don't buy the Republicans doing anything positive for the general populace at the cost of business.
You do understand that Republicans control both houses of Congress? So who exactly did not want Net Neutrality? And I don't recall what the Republicans actually proposed, but it was anything but Net Neutrality. IIRC, it's what pushed the Title II through.
Pfft: Brian Roberts
Not being on the new car because the Joneses have one will save you a lot of cash over time. Buy a decent car, keep it, and only replace it once it's no longer reliable (meaning can't maintain it for a reasonable cost). Until something major like a transmission goes or the wiring goes bad, most cars will easily keep running for 200K+ miles with mostly minor maintenance.
I think you're slightly off there. Title II may be the only way to get any Net Neutrality legally enforced at this point, or are you going to get Congress to write up a new law that supports Net Neutrality? (Sorry, that was just hilarious)