I can tell you I have a faster processor than anything in any MBPs, and disk I/O is not the bottleneck in transcoding. What you're really looking for is a much faster CPU, or multiple faster, preferably many cored CPUs as a preference.
If I had the time and the desire, I suppose a a good greasemonkey or custom plugin would take care of most of this crap. In the meantime, noscript does work, mostly.
Sorry, MVCC does not magically solve all problems, especially under high concurrency loads. It solves a subset, but still doesn't overcome the fact that the underlying DB is shit. Why doesn't MS ship SQL server with MVCC fully enabled by default?
If lock escalation is your problem then lock escalation isn't the problem.
I did get around it by writing a custom implementation of the commercial module we were using for the particular transaction in question. It is true that the implementation sucked, but it sucked less on other DBs vs MS SQL, which just goes back to MS SQL sucks. I've had similar issues on Oracle and DB2, and neither of those went legs up under similar conditions like MS SQL. It's literally like driving off a cliff in a bus.
But, there's more to all this than simply how many cores. Are we SURE that the later CPU has less THROUGHPUT than the earlier one?
Yes, by almost 50%.
Honestly, I don't have the time to dig into it right now, but Intel keeps juggling number-of-cores, clock frequency, pipelining, and other esoterica in order to get the most favorable combination of performance per Watt. And often, as you noted above, it greatly depends not only on the TYPE of application; but also the DESIGN of that application, as to what matters, CPU-wise, and what really doesn't.
I only mentioned it to clarify in response to your question. If you're doing what I'm doing, those 2 "extra" cores matter. If you're only using it as a simple HTPC, perhaps not so much.
I wondered, so some brief research shows that concrete decomposes and its constituents melt completely at a maximum 1800C. Nuclear fuel temperatures apparently top 2000C, so it appears that a runaway reaction can burn its way through the containment vessel. That link, btw, is to an inherently safer nuclear reactor design.
I've had the misfortunate to work with 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2, and 2012, and every single one of them has failed spectacularly, many of them with the same basic issue, that wonderful escalating locks problem, which MS spins as a "performance improvement" much like driving a bus off a cliff improves its performance, and in much the same way.
1: Oftentimes a company already has it licensed, so might as well use it.
Lemmings....
2: It is auditor friendly, with the pieces of paper (FIPS, etc.) that don't mean much in real life, but do mean a lot when ISO, or other audits happen, and you have to justify your existence and design decisions. (For those who say certificates/certifications don't matter, one place I worked actually had auditors that would fire people on the spot for "failing to have authority to run the equipment" if their RHCE/MCSE/CCIE certs lapsed.)
Sounds like a thankless place to work, but still doesn't support using MS SQL.
3: Finding MS SQL expertise is easy.
citation? Finding people who have seen MS SQL is easy, finding expertise, however, is as much or more limited than for other systems, mainly because most with real expertise won't touch MS SQL except when the business end of a pointy stick is poking them in the eye.
4: MS SQL does work and is decently secure. For 99.99% of tasks, it is just as good as Oracle.
This isn't to say that PostgreSQL is bad... but there are times where MS SQL is the ideal choice.
MS SQL barely works, and falls over as soon as it is hit with significant load. It's an old massive pile of crap essentially given to MS by Sybase, who mistakenly didn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to continue using that smelly pile when their new database was released. They severely underestimated MS's marketing prowess in this regard, and someone like you (an AC no less!!!) propagates the continuation of this incredibly terrible solution.
Because Apple absolutely screwed the mini with the 2014 update. It's now dual core only. I'm running a quad i7 (it does more than merely plex) So if you're running a heavy transcoding media server, you might want the additional 2 cores a pre 2014 mini offers. If you're merely running plex server/client with predone videos and serving as a surveillance hub, you will probably want a couple of externals for storage (NAS or direct) but a 2014+ dual core will probably do fine. The 2014s do have better GPUs, FYI, but the late 2012 (previous model) GPUs are perfectly adequate for 1080P hardware decoding. All my 1080P processing is done on a different much beefier machine. Although my mini would be perfectly capable of handling it, my current configuration makes using it for that purpose more troublesome than my current workflow.
There's zero fucking reason to put an HTPC in a crawl space. Get a small machine and stick it by/behind the TV.
Get a pre 2014 mac mini and run plex on it for a full media server. Attach 1 or 2 externals to it for library storage, or set them up elsewhere. I know, windows... why? But the same rough box specs can be had from various vendors, and you should be able to do the same things with it. You can mount said box anywhere around or behind the TV, along with the appropriate drives, if desired. And it can be cheap.
However if you have the time and know-how Linux on a Dell will be cheaper and possibly faster performance-wise.
It might be, the last 3 times I looked, an equivalent Dell was $100s more for as close to the same hardware specs as you could get. Price what you want first, then decide.
I'll nod to you then:). The cameras and documentation with the TV I saw stated the camera could be used with 3rd party apps like Skype. The implication was it was fully under user control. We know now for a fact that is false thanks to the Samsung debacle. Not that I needed any further warning that such a thing was a "bad idea", yeah, let's put a TV with a camera in the living room, the bedroom, heck, the kids bedrooms, and the bathrooms too!!!! No problems there, right? Somethings just shouldn't have cameras. TVs, thanks to Orwell's foreshadowing, are in that group.
There was a minor difference between understood concepts in that TLA, camera connects to 3rd party service, e.g. "Skype", and being able to spy on you. It was offered for one purpose, then used for another, albeit similar in functionality, purpose. The fact that they were sending out information without the consumers knowledge or authorization is pretty much, hmmm, what would you call it?
Yep, this case raised a major legal stink, and should probably have gotten the operators in more than a little hot water, considering the spied upon subjects were minors in their bedrooms....
programming is almost 0 art unless you're working in C or some other language that deals with direct memory access.
This is only true if your talking about relatively simple tasks. When you have a large, complex software project, often using several different components and languages, yes it's as much art as science.
I disagree. It's precisely in the heterogeneous systems that a very patterned procedural approach is the only thing that works in the long term, something understood by database vendors for decades now. Based on your next statement, I believe you've confused the architecture with the actual code.
In general, business plans don't succeed on clever code.
Correct. It's the clever things you DO with the code. Just ask Google.
I believe we agree here, it's the clever things you do with code, the code itself is generally not clever. That is where the art lies. Coding itself is pretty much putting blocks together to build a bridge. The blocks are mostly uninteresting, but the full bridge can certainly be a work of art, or not.
You know, tinfoil hattery went out of style around the time of Snowden's releases, which proved that no one was paranoid when it comes to gov intrusion into your privacy.
Well, considering Samsung's cameras on TVs pretty much give Orwellian access to anyone stupid enough to hook their TV to the internet, along with several other pieces of info about cameras, such as on phones or computers being used without their users' awareness, I'd say you're lacking a level head if you didn't think "conspiracy" the moment you see a camera in an unexpected place.
Slashdot Mirror
and yet they, and their profits, keep growing. Hope denial becomes you.
but it had more USB ports, which I run short of.
Look into a USB hub....
I can tell you I have a faster processor than anything in any MBPs, and disk I/O is not the bottleneck in transcoding. What you're really looking for is a much faster CPU, or multiple faster, preferably many cored CPUs as a preference.
To fix slashdot's broken JS by not running it?
If I had the time and the desire, I suppose a a good greasemonkey or custom plugin would take care of most of this crap. In the meantime, noscript does work, mostly.
Maybe it's not as "pretty damn good" as some anonymous internet commentators claim? Honestly?
It's honestly better than Access.... :-D
Sorry, MVCC does not magically solve all problems, especially under high concurrency loads. It solves a subset, but still doesn't overcome the fact that the underlying DB is shit. Why doesn't MS ship SQL server with MVCC fully enabled by default?
If lock escalation is your problem then lock escalation isn't the problem.
I did get around it by writing a custom implementation of the commercial module we were using for the particular transaction in question. It is true that the implementation sucked, but it sucked less on other DBs vs MS SQL, which just goes back to MS SQL sucks. I've had similar issues on Oracle and DB2, and neither of those went legs up under similar conditions like MS SQL. It's literally like driving off a cliff in a bus.
But, there's more to all this than simply how many cores. Are we SURE that the later CPU has less THROUGHPUT than the earlier one?
Yes, by almost 50%.
Honestly, I don't have the time to dig into it right now, but Intel keeps juggling number-of-cores, clock frequency, pipelining, and other esoterica in order to get the most favorable combination of performance per Watt. And often, as you noted above, it greatly depends not only on the TYPE of application; but also the DESIGN of that application, as to what matters, CPU-wise, and what really doesn't.
I only mentioned it to clarify in response to your question. If you're doing what I'm doing, those 2 "extra" cores matter. If you're only using it as a simple HTPC, perhaps not so much.
I wondered, so some brief research shows that concrete decomposes and its constituents melt completely at a maximum 1800C. Nuclear fuel temperatures apparently top 2000C, so it appears that a runaway reaction can burn its way through the containment vessel. That link, btw, is to an inherently safer nuclear reactor design.
I've had the misfortunate to work with 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2, and 2012, and every single one of them has failed spectacularly, many of them with the same basic issue, that wonderful escalating locks problem, which MS spins as a "performance improvement" much like driving a bus off a cliff improves its performance, and in much the same way.
MS SQL server has its place:
Our competitors or enemies servers? A trashcan?
1: Oftentimes a company already has it licensed, so might as well use it.
Lemmings....
2: It is auditor friendly, with the pieces of paper (FIPS, etc.) that don't mean much in real life, but do mean a lot when ISO, or other audits happen, and you have to justify your existence and design decisions. (For those who say certificates/certifications don't matter, one place I worked actually had auditors that would fire people on the spot for "failing to have authority to run the equipment" if their RHCE/MCSE/CCIE certs lapsed.)
Sounds like a thankless place to work, but still doesn't support using MS SQL.
3: Finding MS SQL expertise is easy.
citation? Finding people who have seen MS SQL is easy, finding expertise, however, is as much or more limited than for other systems, mainly because most with real expertise won't touch MS SQL except when the business end of a pointy stick is poking them in the eye.
4: MS SQL does work and is decently secure. For 99.99% of tasks, it is just as good as Oracle.
This isn't to say that PostgreSQL is bad... but there are times where MS SQL is the ideal choice.
MS SQL barely works, and falls over as soon as it is hit with significant load. It's an old massive pile of crap essentially given to MS by Sybase, who mistakenly didn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to continue using that smelly pile when their new database was released. They severely underestimated MS's marketing prowess in this regard, and someone like you (an AC no less!!!) propagates the continuation of this incredibly terrible solution.
Define reactor vessel. Is it the originally constructed concrete container, or material surrounding the current uranium core?
But Why pre-2014? What changed? GPU support?
Because Apple absolutely screwed the mini with the 2014 update. It's now dual core only. I'm running a quad i7 (it does more than merely plex) So if you're running a heavy transcoding media server, you might want the additional 2 cores a pre 2014 mini offers. If you're merely running plex server/client with predone videos and serving as a surveillance hub, you will probably want a couple of externals for storage (NAS or direct) but a 2014+ dual core will probably do fine. The 2014s do have better GPUs, FYI, but the late 2012 (previous model) GPUs are perfectly adequate for 1080P hardware decoding. All my 1080P processing is done on a different much beefier machine. Although my mini would be perfectly capable of handling it, my current configuration makes using it for that purpose more troublesome than my current workflow.
There's zero fucking reason to put an HTPC in a crawl space. Get a small machine and stick it by/behind the TV.
Get a pre 2014 mac mini and run plex on it for a full media server. Attach 1 or 2 externals to it for library storage, or set them up elsewhere. I know, windows... why? But the same rough box specs can be had from various vendors, and you should be able to do the same things with it. You can mount said box anywhere around or behind the TV, along with the appropriate drives, if desired. And it can be cheap.
However if you have the time and know-how Linux on a Dell will be cheaper and possibly faster performance-wise.
It might be, the last 3 times I looked, an equivalent Dell was $100s more for as close to the same hardware specs as you could get. Price what you want first, then decide.
Yep, until you hide your header system stamp, there's no point.
I'll nod to you then :). The cameras and documentation with the TV I saw stated the camera could be used with 3rd party apps like Skype. The implication was it was fully under user control. We know now for a fact that is false thanks to the Samsung debacle. Not that I needed any further warning that such a thing was a "bad idea", yeah, let's put a TV with a camera in the living room, the bedroom, heck, the kids bedrooms, and the bathrooms too!!!! No problems there, right? Somethings just shouldn't have cameras. TVs, thanks to Orwell's foreshadowing, are in that group.
Mexico?
There was a minor difference between understood concepts in that TLA, camera connects to 3rd party service, e.g. "Skype", and being able to spy on you. It was offered for one purpose, then used for another, albeit similar in functionality, purpose. The fact that they were sending out information without the consumers knowledge or authorization is pretty much, hmmm, what would you call it?
Yep, this case raised a major legal stink, and should probably have gotten the operators in more than a little hot water, considering the spied upon subjects were minors in their bedrooms....
programming is almost 0 art unless you're working in C or some other language that deals with direct memory access.
This is only true if your talking about relatively simple tasks. When you have a large, complex software project, often using several different components and languages, yes it's as much art as science.
I disagree. It's precisely in the heterogeneous systems that a very patterned procedural approach is the only thing that works in the long term, something understood by database vendors for decades now. Based on your next statement, I believe you've confused the architecture with the actual code.
In general, business plans don't succeed on clever code.
Correct. It's the clever things you DO with the code. Just ask Google.
I believe we agree here, it's the clever things you do with code, the code itself is generally not clever. That is where the art lies. Coding itself is pretty much putting blocks together to build a bridge. The blocks are mostly uninteresting, but the full bridge can certainly be a work of art, or not.
.. 99%+ will not care...For the record, I'm against this move, and would likely stick electrical tape over any camera.
part of the 99%?
You know, tinfoil hattery went out of style around the time of Snowden's releases, which proved that no one was paranoid when it comes to gov intrusion into your privacy.
Well, considering Samsung's cameras on TVs pretty much give Orwellian access to anyone stupid enough to hook their TV to the internet, along with several other pieces of info about cameras, such as on phones or computers being used without their users' awareness, I'd say you're lacking a level head if you didn't think "conspiracy" the moment you see a camera in an unexpected place.