Low end desktops and high end cluster computing are keeping AMD going. It's not as if you can put four of these 3GHz 20 thread beasts on a board, and the Xeons that can do that are both slower and cost a fortune compared with four-way AMD CPUs. Not very long ago I got a quote for an 80 thread Intel machine (4 Xeons) which turned out to be slightly less than ten times the price for a 64 core AMD machine with the same clock speed, memory capacity, disks etc. The Xeon machine would perform better than a single AMD one, but not better than nine of them! That's an example of why AMD are still selling a lot of gear at high performance computing end of town.
Such as himself? He managed to do more damage to the US military, twice, than any enemy since Korea. The mad cost-cutting drive for "warriors" instead of trained professional soldiers was behind just about every recent fuckup and scandal.
I have never understood why money transfer is considered a problem
Greed and artificial barriers. I worked for a company that had a perfect solution in 2000 and all they needed to get it to work was for the banks to agree, but Wells Fargo etc were threatened by that and the dozens of others trying to do the same thing and used their influence to block everything. Eventually PayPal managed to do an end-run around them. I find it very strange that it takes five days for me to transfer money into the account of another bank or I can do it in less than five minutes by withdrawing the cash, walking twenty steps, and then depositing it.
Did you miss the post from " oneiros27" above about someone being on the list due to having the same name as an IRA member? Please try to follow the thread and you will not have to ask questions that have already been answered.
Does the IRA even do anything anymore
Not really the point since people involved still have their travel restricted.
US has little reason to add someone for supporting the IRA
The US has a very good reason to prevent putting a known and proud supporter of terrorists in charge of a commitee that is supposed to set policy on terrorists. Whether he should be jailed for supporting what the US once listed as a prohibited terrorist group or extradited to the UK is a completely different issue.
One thing that was really funny in real life recently was a drug dealer who was using a "burner" at the same time his normal phone was turned on in his pocket - while standing way out in the open in a park at night hundreds of metres away from any other phones. The police found where his signal on the "burner" came from and then looked up the ownership records for the other phone operating at that location.
Then you have chosen very poorly when you chose your phone. There are still plenty of models where the battery can be easily removed and replaced without even needing a screwdriver.
Yet a Senator who raised money for the IRA and met a lot of active members back when they were blowing people up in the UK is not on such a list. You are on it but a known associate who provided material support to known terrorists, and is proud of it, is on the committee responsible for the list!
It's interesting someone can get in trouble in the USA for having the same name as an IRA guy but if you are a Senator it's OK to have raised funds for them and actually met a bunch of the terrorists back when they were setting off bombs in the UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King).
Not entirely but it's still a hot potato to pass on before the price changes and the holder gets burnt. It's amusing that people have found such a secondary use for a pyramid scheme but I see it as a sign of how bad the current forms of money transfer are - by design of the middlemen getting a cut.
Meanwhile in a different country I was working in an automated steelworks in 1992 which was probably way ahead of the automated plant you are describing. That's the extent of the problem. It's not an expertise problem (since US owned companies have cutting edge expertise in their offshore plants often installed by US based staff) it's just that there is no need to attempt to compete in a captive market so the capital is not spent.
All of US steel was private to start with so I really do not see what point you are making here since even the tired old "government is always worse" thing does not fit in this case. What I described above was private industry lobbying a government to protect them from capitalism - generally a really bad idea that in the long run only protects the lazy and drives out everyone else. You end up with all the problems of a state owned company but with none of the benefits. Private industry most definitely can fuck things up worse than government if a government is there to protect them from competition and they can force the consequences of the fuckups onto a captive market.
Except for in steel, which is an interesting case study of how having a protected industry may help in the very short term but really fucks you up in the long run. What remains of the US steel industry is almost of interest to archeologists - steel produced at huge cost while the rest of the world has pushed on with automation resulting in both lower costs and higher quality. With no incentive to spend the capital on automation (protected market) the result was stagnation. Ironically some manufacturing moved offshore to get cheap steel.
Software development requires "no or very little skill"? I suppose an attitude like that explains why some software is utter shit and why we are neck deep in malware, but I would suggest that software fit for purpose requires skilled developers.
Do you have a brandname in your example? My experience appears to conflict with yours so perhaps there is something different about the monitors you saw.
The year 2000 happened and LCDs are no longer shit. There's a few screens around here that have been on most of the time since 2003 when 19 inch screens first became cheap and my workplace got a large number of them. Power supplies fail, backlights die, but burning in is no longer a thing to worry about with consumer LCDs.
I'm used to seeing data walls and multi-monitor room displays of this sort designed from soup-to-nuts as a full solution by a service provider that specializes in doing so
True, it's not a task for newbies with traps for new players but at a small scale it's not all the hard. I've set up a few systems in the backs of trucks with six LCDs - cabling and mounting was the largest hassle and it's pretty easy to put a mid sized tower PC case (or several) behind a sliding panel. With displayport and HDMI the cabling isn't really all that hard either.
There's a reason for the existence of an industry to serve that purpose
Yes it's like shopfitting. An ugly functional thing isn't hard, a nice neat job takes more effort. It just means putting a bit of thought into the design instead of throwing things together. A prime example IMHO in the summary is a constraint of lots of independent little computers to drive displays, which implies either not much thought has gone in or there's something driving that constraint we haven't been told about. There's a lot of ways, especially with X windows, of having a lot of independent displays driven by a single machine, which is going to make life easier than a KVM switch.
Why tiny? All those monitors have a huge footprint. Use that footprint by putting things underneath them. Sit your three screen array on a server with the few video cards in it (one per four monitors) and you are not losing any more space.
It's an old tradition with examples like the San Francisco "fire" because worries about earthquakes would drive down property values - but the realestate ghouls couldn't get the label to stick. Some people who want to sell stuff are scum the world over and would prefer to hide any fact that reduces a sale price. Put some of those people in government, especially a very autocratic one like China, and the obvious happens. There is hope though. A crackdown on corruption has been so effective that a side effect is casinos around the world that do business with Chinese government types on holiday are hurting. The amount of money laundering was staggering, and how much is still being ripped off is a mystery but it's a lot less than it was.
True, he was a symptom of everything going to shit and not the cause. People get confused about him because he would say something (eg. never deal with terrorist) then do the opposite (eg. massive payout to Iran over the hostages as his first thing in office FFS, then arms dealing to Hezbolla and a long list of rebels in Central America).
So then, tell me how that tale of woe impacted on the trust of the US dollar. It didn't? Was the point of your little rant to distract away from the lack of trust in bitcoin? Fix that problem and it has a chance of being something useful.
Yes but they had to loop around the sun to do it:) More seriously SpaceX is doing mostly what Grumman etc were doing earlier instead of something very different and they have more people as well as better funding than Reaction Engines.
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Low end desktops and high end cluster computing are keeping AMD going. It's not as if you can put four of these 3GHz 20 thread beasts on a board, and the Xeons that can do that are both slower and cost a fortune compared with four-way AMD CPUs.
Not very long ago I got a quote for an 80 thread Intel machine (4 Xeons) which turned out to be slightly less than ten times the price for a 64 core AMD machine with the same clock speed, memory capacity, disks etc. The Xeon machine would perform better than a single AMD one, but not better than nine of them! That's an example of why AMD are still selling a lot of gear at high performance computing end of town.
Such as himself? He managed to do more damage to the US military, twice, than any enemy since Korea. The mad cost-cutting drive for "warriors" instead of trained professional soldiers was behind just about every recent fuckup and scandal.
Greed and artificial barriers.
I worked for a company that had a perfect solution in 2000 and all they needed to get it to work was for the banks to agree, but Wells Fargo etc were threatened by that and the dozens of others trying to do the same thing and used their influence to block everything. Eventually PayPal managed to do an end-run around them. I find it very strange that it takes five days for me to transfer money into the account of another bank or I can do it in less than five minutes by withdrawing the cash, walking twenty steps, and then depositing it.
Not really the point since people involved still have their travel restricted.
The US has a very good reason to prevent putting a known and proud supporter of terrorists in charge of a commitee that is supposed to set policy on terrorists. Whether he should be jailed for supporting what the US once listed as a prohibited terrorist group or extradited to the UK is a completely different issue.
One thing that was really funny in real life recently was a drug dealer who was using a "burner" at the same time his normal phone was turned on in his pocket - while standing way out in the open in a park at night hundreds of metres away from any other phones. The police found where his signal on the "burner" came from and then looked up the ownership records for the other phone operating at that location.
Then you have chosen very poorly when you chose your phone. There are still plenty of models where the battery can be easily removed and replaced without even needing a screwdriver.
Yet a Senator who raised money for the IRA and met a lot of active members back when they were blowing people up in the UK is not on such a list. You are on it but a known associate who provided material support to known terrorists, and is proud of it, is on the committee responsible for the list!
Unfortunately that's how it works - "these pictures of Benjamin in green politely suggest you push for a change in policy".
It's interesting someone can get in trouble in the USA for having the same name as an IRA guy but if you are a Senator it's OK to have raised funds for them and actually met a bunch of the terrorists back when they were setting off bombs in the UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King).
Not entirely but it's still a hot potato to pass on before the price changes and the holder gets burnt. It's amusing that people have found such a secondary use for a pyramid scheme but I see it as a sign of how bad the current forms of money transfer are - by design of the middlemen getting a cut.
Meanwhile in a different country I was working in an automated steelworks in 1992 which was probably way ahead of the automated plant you are describing. That's the extent of the problem. It's not an expertise problem (since US owned companies have cutting edge expertise in their offshore plants often installed by US based staff) it's just that there is no need to attempt to compete in a captive market so the capital is not spent.
Are you sure that is the correct link or were you being sarcastic?
All of US steel was private to start with so I really do not see what point you are making here since even the tired old "government is always worse" thing does not fit in this case.
What I described above was private industry lobbying a government to protect them from capitalism - generally a really bad idea that in the long run only protects the lazy and drives out everyone else. You end up with all the problems of a state owned company but with none of the benefits. Private industry most definitely can fuck things up worse than government if a government is there to protect them from competition and they can force the consequences of the fuckups onto a captive market.
Except for in steel, which is an interesting case study of how having a protected industry may help in the very short term but really fucks you up in the long run. What remains of the US steel industry is almost of interest to archeologists - steel produced at huge cost while the rest of the world has pushed on with automation resulting in both lower costs and higher quality. With no incentive to spend the capital on automation (protected market) the result was stagnation.
Ironically some manufacturing moved offshore to get cheap steel.
Those unions that had been driven out of town or castrated?
Don't blame the union for black leg miners taking your job.
Software development requires "no or very little skill"?
I suppose an attitude like that explains why some software is utter shit and why we are neck deep in malware, but I would suggest that software fit for purpose requires skilled developers.
Or it's a Dice writer putting up article ideas when nothing is interesting in the "ask slaskdot" submissions this week.
Do you have a brandname in your example? My experience appears to conflict with yours so perhaps there is something different about the monitors you saw.
Power supplies fail, backlights die, but burning in is no longer a thing to worry about with consumer LCDs.
True, it's not a task for newbies with traps for new players but at a small scale it's not all the hard. I've set up a few systems in the backs of trucks with six LCDs - cabling and mounting was the largest hassle and it's pretty easy to put a mid sized tower PC case (or several) behind a sliding panel. With displayport and HDMI the cabling isn't really all that hard either.
Yes it's like shopfitting. An ugly functional thing isn't hard, a nice neat job takes more effort. It just means putting a bit of thought into the design instead of throwing things together. A prime example IMHO in the summary is a constraint of lots of independent little computers to drive displays, which implies either not much thought has gone in or there's something driving that constraint we haven't been told about. There's a lot of ways, especially with X windows, of having a lot of independent displays driven by a single machine, which is going to make life easier than a KVM switch.
Why tiny? All those monitors have a huge footprint. Use that footprint by putting things underneath them. Sit your three screen array on a server with the few video cards in it (one per four monitors) and you are not losing any more space.
It's an old tradition with examples like the San Francisco "fire" because worries about earthquakes would drive down property values - but the realestate ghouls couldn't get the label to stick.
Some people who want to sell stuff are scum the world over and would prefer to hide any fact that reduces a sale price. Put some of those people in government, especially a very autocratic one like China, and the obvious happens.
There is hope though. A crackdown on corruption has been so effective that a side effect is casinos around the world that do business with Chinese government types on holiday are hurting. The amount of money laundering was staggering, and how much is still being ripped off is a mystery but it's a lot less than it was.
True, he was a symptom of everything going to shit and not the cause. People get confused about him because he would say something (eg. never deal with terrorist) then do the opposite (eg. massive payout to Iran over the hostages as his first thing in office FFS, then arms dealing to Hezbolla and a long list of rebels in Central America).
So then, tell me how that tale of woe impacted on the trust of the US dollar. It didn't? Was the point of your little rant to distract away from the lack of trust in bitcoin? Fix that problem and it has a chance of being something useful.
That's rockets for you. Anything other than solid fuel stuff gets bits added onto bits to even out what the first bit does.
Yes.
Yes but they had to loop around the sun to do it :)
More seriously SpaceX is doing mostly what Grumman etc were doing earlier instead of something very different and they have more people as well as better funding than Reaction Engines.