Not getting the Data Center DOES NOT cause unemployment, there were never any jobs to begin with. It was a "promise" of jobs. In the economic climate today such a promise is a powerful tool for business to get all sorts of things they want, up to and including a different United States Senator.
It's not that toxic as nuclear waste goes, but I wouldn't go ingesting it and handling it without protections. As long as you avoid getting close to it's critical mass you'll be OK..but if it gets close to critical mass then it's tossing off neutrons and gamma radiation. That will kill you. There have been several accidents of this type, but no one has died from ingestion as it's not really metabolized by the body, nor is it cleared out. It just sits there giving off alpha radiation. 20 yrs later you have lung, bone or liver cancer, which is pretty scary if you ask me!
True..A private business has to earn the money before they can waste it, the Government just gets it for nothing from your paycheck. And of course a business that wastes money goes under, a Government just raises your tax or cuts services..or both!
NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts.
They replace perfectly good PEOPLE instead of parts, and not just once either. Good to see someone is taking the lessons to heart!
Thats not the full costs. I just looked at this the other day for my company. There are a lot of other costs involved if you want support and a 100% Sun solution guaranteed to work. I've also seen no benchmarks versus VMWare.
Pricing Information
Sun offers standalone subscriptions for Sun xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center, as well as additional options that offer the combined benefits of the two products, allowing customers to virtualize and manage at Internet scale. Commercial subscriptions are priced annually in four-socket increments and provide premium 24X7 support, access to the latest, up-to-the-minute patches and updates, as well as installation and training. Available pricing options include:
* Sun xVM Server software: Priced at $500/year per physical server.
* Sun xVM Infrastructure Enterprise Subscription: Priced at $2000 per physical server per year, the enterprise subscription is designed to simplify the management of large scale virtualized environments and includes advanced features, such as management of live migration and of multiple network storage libraries.
* Sun xVM Infrastructure Datacenter Subscription: Priced at $3000 per server per year, this option includes all the features in the Sun xVM Infrastructure Enterprise Subscription in addition to physical server monitoring, management and advanced software lifecycle management capabilities.
* Sun xVM Ops Center: Available from $100 per managed server up to $350 a year, depending on customer selected features, along with a required $10,000 Satellite Server annual subscription for Sun xVM Ops Center.
There are some significant technical restrictions as well if you dig deep you'll find
Disk on which xVM server is installed
* SATA or SAS (serial SCSI)
* Fiber Channel to a JBOD
* IDE disks are not supported
Attached storage
* NFS/TCP/IP/ethernet remote storage
* CIFS remote storage
Networking
* Ethernet-based NICs supporting the Solaris GLDv3 driver specification
* only MTUs of 1500 bytes are supported
* For Windows guests, customers wanting full Microsoft support should run xVM Server on Windows Server 2008 logo certified hardware.
Check your facts, the current Alaska pipeline has been there since the 1970s and no huge disasters. There have been some spills but nothing major and no serious impact to wildlife. The enviro-radicals screamed the same tune then, but you are probably not old enough to know that. The Valdez disaster was due to a DRUNK captain. Plus the law requires DOUBLE Hulls now so the chance of a Valdez style disaster on water is small. As for the chance on land, if the pipeline pumping stations see a pressure drop they automatically shut down the line and close valves to the only oil that can leak out is in one segment. The pumping stations are miles apart but at the temperature outside the oil is so viscous it doesn't leak like you think.
Bullshit. Wildlife get along just fine with the current Alaska pipeline that was built in the 1970s. Your data comes from extreme environmentalist groups when in fact it's people like Gov. Palin who as an avid hunter and her husband who is a part-time commercial fisher are the type of people who want to PRESERVE the land while getting the oil out. Unless you have been there or have family there you can't really have any idea how much a part of life hunting, fishing and being out in a great clean environment is to those in Alaska. The people of Alaska would object to the oil company mess. Look at the episodes of Ice Road Truckers, they drill in the winter, the cover the ground so nothing touches the perma frost, they haul it ALL away, even the dirty snow and they do it on an ice road on the river and ocean. There are NO traces left behind. The current Alaska pipeline is elevated so the wildlife go underneath it and in fact in places the extra warmth in the winter has animals coming to it as a sort of oasis..so it's not the total disaster you indicate.
The statement that some dinosaurs evolved into Birds is NOT science either, it's just Darwin's Theory. Neither argument has been proven correct. And by correct I mean one animal/plant/insect changing from it's past form to a completely different present form. ADAPTATION is not the same as evolution. So if you say one is a theory by your own logic you should say the other is also, teach both theories with evidence. As far as the Earth being 6K yrs old, that's not every specifically stated in the Bible, it is also a man made theory. In fact several places it's mentioned that God doesn't have any concept of Time. Time is entirely a man-made thing.
Idiot, the OIL is PROVEN, it's there!! The others are (excepting wind) still in the lab or low rate intial production. I've been around long enough to know reality from fantasy.
If you think the Chi-Comms are not holding oil leases in Cuba you need to get your news from someplace besides the NY Slimes. Rudy was another New York centered idiot just like you.
Are you a flack for some green-energy venture fund or something?
So fucking what about Houston, light rail in the places I mention cover maybe 40% of the city, and buses maybe 70%. I bet you money in Houston you had a car didn't you?
So what are millions of Americans supposed to do with houses they can't sell because you think they should move to town? Just because you CHOSE to live close to work you now think you should FORCE all Americans to live close to work to say energy? What if I don't want to send my kids to a crappy school system or put up with crime and pollution. (oh yea you never did mention how we manfacture all these technologies without OIL)
You are a idiot left wing dumbasss Obama plant who has no fucking clue how things work in the 95% of America outside the city. Of course that makes you an expert on/. Just play in NYC traffic, I don't have time to waste on idiots like you, I need to get in my SUV to go get some gas to mow my 1 acre front yard and so some work in my garden.
And all that is going to happen WHEN? As others have pointed out a lot of these technologies haave been "any day now" for 20 years. Wind is certainly ready now but you know the wind doesn't blow all the time (and it has to be fairly strong to move the blades) so that power source is not going to consistent and high levels. We can have oil from additional offshore drilling in a couple years, maybe less (California for instance..they know it's there as it was explored in the 1970's). And don't forget China is drilling in Cuba which is only 90 miles offshore!
Until we get these pie-in-the-sky alternative technologies going full steam we need to find a way to get more oil & natural gas.(How do you think they fire those furnances to make glass for those solar panels?) I've never seen McCain to be against alternative ideas, just a realist who knows it takes time to get this stuff to market, and in the meantime we need to ensure our supply is strong of oil. What we NEED is more nuclear power but interestingly enough thats not an option according to Mr O. He admires the European model of Government so much why doesn't he see they were wise in using nuclear power?
As for commuting by bike or rail or subway, that option doesn't exist for many cities in the USA. You obviously have never been to places like Dallas, Denver or Atlanta where mass transit is only somewhat available. And what about those people who don't live in the city? Are they supposed to ride a bike 30 miles to the big city to work? If you look a bit you"ll find carpools in many places where there is a large suburban workforce so conservation is occuring as is practical.
It has nothing to do with corporations or anything like that. It's just the way things are. So quit your NYC psychobabble Obama spin, get outside the city and look at how the REAL world works and has to live.
Conservatives are stupid for wanting to NOT rely on oil from a place in the world that hates us (and not because of Iraq..it has to to with religion and Israel) and places under the control of Communist dictators and places where there is still tribal warfare? For wanting to use in a balanced with the environment method the resources in this country? OK, If I can't have oil can you invent me an electric car I can drive and can you provide the power needed? I'll need to build some coal and nuclear plants but you libs don't want that either. You can sit around and bitch about being in the dark or you can light a candle. I'm lighting a candle.
The "data" about the acres under lease is crap. The part about it's leased is true but you don't tell the rest of the story, 1) it's been geophysically mapped and there is a slim to none chance it has oil, or 2)there are spots with oil (for future drilling) but to get that spot you have to lease the whole section. There are laws both federal and state regarding leasing for minerals, you can't just lease the little spot the well sits on, you have to lease the AREA the well drains, and then there is minimum well spacing too to keep from over-drilling. For example to drill a well in Texas you can't space closer than 120 acres in any direction so do the geography and you'll see there is a lot of land "under lease" that isn't drilled because they can't! lastly 3)Assuming it may have oil, it's part of the reserve the oil companies have, and it's not at the top of their list to drill as there are easier pickings at this time that give better value of cost to yield of oil. Why drill a well that has a small yield at $1000 foot when you can drill a better yield one for the same price? 4) it's a hedge..what if it does contain oil and they made a mistake on the geophysics? It's better to pay for it at the cheap rate they have now and hold onto it than for some wildcatter to find oil and the lease rates go up. It's economics nothing more, it's not some sinister plan to enslave us. And this way of doing business in the oil patch has been around LONG BEFORE Bush and Cheney.
Nonsense. All they would need to do is for the compiler to check for a command line option set which says use Intel or use other. Then for certain type of operations in generates different code based on the flag being set or off. Or give the programmer a pre-processor directive called USE_NON_INTEL, if you want code to take advantage of your AMD, VIA, etc. host architecture. Unless we could see the code written for the compiler we can't say if a)Intel didn't include this option or b) if the option is there perhaps there is a bug that causes it not to work right. One of the advantages of open source (as another poster pointed out) is the community could find the problems and design workarounds or solutions. An interesting test would be to compile the benchmark (if possible) with different C/C++ compilers and see if the same issue arises when a non-Intel built compiler (such as gcc) is used. That would be pretty good indirect proof something is rigged.
Switch to LEDs when the CFLs go. LEDs use even less power than CFLs and don't have the disposal issue CFLs do (CFLs contain mercury). A LED light can last 10 yrs. They are expensive right now, and not in many sizes but costs should come down and selection increase as more people find out about them.
Try living in the American Southwest in the summer. My two A/C units run about 80%+ duty cycle from May to October. Some years I can see $600 electric bills and I have a rural co-op with cheap power.
Encytption/Decryption is going to place additional loads on the server, and if he is sharing that server with others (common at a co-lo) he can impact many other customers. Encryption also can increase the data size so he could end up using more bandwidth and paying more. If he has his own server and reasonable rates for bandwidth it could be done. But the keys to encrypt/decrypt would be accessible to the co-lo company so he's right back in the same problem.
IMNSHO, the best solution is to take his data to another co-lo that won't snoop and if he really needs utmost protection host it himself at his facility. A compromise could be to negotiate the right to have his server off-limits to co-lo admins (they may not approve for many reasons but he can ask) but then he has to do the 4AM calls. The bottom line is, does he want to trade control for convenience.
Are we having a TECHNICAL discussion of the relative merits of OSes and multi-core processors or are we screwing around just throwing crap ideas out hoping someone won't correct them? The post was DEFINITELY not a Troll and anyone who modded it as such needs to have their mod points taken away. People who think and repeat the incorrect and incomplete generalities they read on the Internet and thus think they know something are dangerous. Geeks complain thier bosses do that sort of thing yet they don't raise hell when they have the chance to stop it.
That's not really right, you obviously haven't designed an OS or taken and OS course in Computer Science.
The OS MAY run a process a few ms at a time and swap tasks in and out all day long. That's called "round robin" scheduling where each processs (NOT THREAD) is equal in priority. However that is NOT always the case, you can have other scheduling algorithms that schedule based on priority where the highest priority task gets the CPU until blocked then the scheduler does a context switch and the next highest task runs until it blocks or a higher priority task unblocks then it gets the CPU. It can get quite complicated not to let a task starve and get all processes some CPU time.
You other comment about memory regions is true IF it's on an Intel CPU and not always true on a AMD or other CPU design. How the processor accesses memory along with the way the OS allocates memory is very important when you get into multiple CPUs. The cache on the other core is not invalidated (which cache do you mean? L1 or L2?) UNLESS the threads on each CPU share memory addresses. The instruction cache is not hit much at all. A well designed multi-threaded program would minimize this problem. Compilers are now smart enough to try to optimize code to prevent the problem if the programmer did not. It's not a trivial exercise to convert code designed for a single CPU (single or multi-threaded) to run on a multi-core CPU or multiple CPUs.
ObHomerSimpon - Umm..Waffle House!!
Get some Grits to go with those Waffles and don't tell you doctor as a Waffle House visit will bump your Cholesterol and Trigylcerides up 100 points each;)
If I was you I'd find a place with WiFi and AC and hang out there.
You must be new here?
On/. there are three rules about postings.
1. You do NOT have to RTFA to know what it says.
2. It's all GWBs fault.
3. There is always a conspiracy to screw us out of something if the topic involves BigOi, the U.S. Government or the Military.
If the FBI is involved it likely trumps state law as Telecommunications Fraud (the statute the use to get a VERY broad context for a warrant) is a Federal crime. But, IANAL, so if you have any questions consult your in-house or other legal counsel.
Follow the links and read the law yourself. The context is PC Techs in the Forensics or Private Security business domains, NOT PC Techs in general. The Geek Squad at Best Buy isn't going to have to get PI Licenses nor is Joe Coder but the techs at Joes PI and Divorce Lawyer Shack would if he ever wants to do any work involving electronic media containing private info. For instance if your wife wants to know the details of your Porn collection as part of the divorce her PI or lawyer would need licensed techs. That's not a bad thing. But it's just going to drive legal costs up which will have an effect (small) on other prices.
Reading the law I'm not sure if a corporate internal fraud or forensic techs (to find out about your MP3 collection on the work SAN) or those performing consulting services will need licenses or not. Probaby not as one clause in the license allows work to be supervised by a license holder so that may be the loophole. Just make sure your Chief Security Officer has a PI license.
I agree the law needs some clarification but that can be left to the discretion of the court as to what the intent was (risky move) or someone can lobby the Texas legislature to update the law. In the meantime I seriously doubt anyone is going to be rushing to apply the law to everyone who MAY do PC work.
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Not getting the Data Center DOES NOT cause unemployment, there were never any jobs to begin with. It was a "promise" of jobs. In the economic climate today such a promise is a powerful tool for business to get all sorts of things they want, up to and including a different United States Senator.
It's not that toxic as nuclear waste goes, but I wouldn't go ingesting it and handling it without protections. As long as you avoid getting close to it's critical mass you'll be OK..but if it gets close to critical mass then it's tossing off neutrons and gamma radiation. That will kill you. There have been several accidents of this type, but no one has died from ingestion as it's not really metabolized by the body, nor is it cleared out. It just sits there giving off alpha radiation. 20 yrs later you have lung, bone or liver cancer, which is pretty scary if you ask me!
True..A private business has to earn the money before they can waste it, the Government just gets it for nothing from your paycheck. And of course a business that wastes money goes under, a Government just raises your tax or cuts services..or both!
NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts. They replace perfectly good PEOPLE instead of parts, and not just once either. Good to see someone is taking the lessons to heart!
Thats not the full costs. I just looked at this the other day for my company. There are a lot of other costs involved if you want support and a 100% Sun solution guaranteed to work. I've also seen no benchmarks versus VMWare.
Pricing Information
Sun offers standalone subscriptions for Sun xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center, as well as additional options that offer the combined benefits of the two products, allowing customers to virtualize and manage at Internet scale. Commercial subscriptions are priced annually in four-socket increments and provide premium 24X7 support, access to the latest, up-to-the-minute patches and updates, as well as installation and training. Available pricing options include:
* Sun xVM Server software: Priced at $500/year per physical server.
* Sun xVM Infrastructure Enterprise Subscription: Priced at $2000 per physical server per year, the enterprise subscription is designed to simplify the management of large scale virtualized environments and includes advanced features, such as management of live migration and of multiple network storage libraries.
* Sun xVM Infrastructure Datacenter Subscription: Priced at $3000 per server per year, this option includes all the features in the Sun xVM Infrastructure Enterprise Subscription in addition to physical server monitoring, management and advanced software lifecycle management capabilities.
* Sun xVM Ops Center: Available from $100 per managed server up to $350 a year, depending on customer selected features, along with a required $10,000 Satellite Server annual subscription for Sun xVM Ops Center.
There are some significant technical restrictions as well if you dig deep you'll find
Disk on which xVM server is installed
* SATA or SAS (serial SCSI) * Fiber Channel to a JBOD * IDE disks are not supported
Attached storage
* NFS/TCP/IP/ethernet remote storage * CIFS remote storage
Networking
* Ethernet-based NICs supporting the Solaris GLDv3 driver specification * only MTUs of 1500 bytes are supported
* For Windows guests, customers wanting full Microsoft support should run xVM Server on Windows Server 2008 logo certified hardware.
Check your facts, the current Alaska pipeline has been there since the 1970s and no huge disasters. There have been some spills but nothing major and no serious impact to wildlife. The enviro-radicals screamed the same tune then, but you are probably not old enough to know that. The Valdez disaster was due to a DRUNK captain. Plus the law requires DOUBLE Hulls now so the chance of a Valdez style disaster on water is small. As for the chance on land, if the pipeline pumping stations see a pressure drop they automatically shut down the line and close valves to the only oil that can leak out is in one segment. The pumping stations are miles apart but at the temperature outside the oil is so viscous it doesn't leak like you think.
Bullshit. Wildlife get along just fine with the current Alaska pipeline that was built in the 1970s. Your data comes from extreme environmentalist groups when in fact it's people like Gov. Palin who as an avid hunter and her husband who is a part-time commercial fisher are the type of people who want to PRESERVE the land while getting the oil out. Unless you have been there or have family there you can't really have any idea how much a part of life hunting, fishing and being out in a great clean environment is to those in Alaska. The people of Alaska would object to the oil company mess. Look at the episodes of Ice Road Truckers, they drill in the winter, the cover the ground so nothing touches the perma frost, they haul it ALL away, even the dirty snow and they do it on an ice road on the river and ocean. There are NO traces left behind. The current Alaska pipeline is elevated so the wildlife go underneath it and in fact in places the extra warmth in the winter has animals coming to it as a sort of oasis..so it's not the total disaster you indicate.
The statement that some dinosaurs evolved into Birds is NOT science either, it's just Darwin's Theory. Neither argument has been proven correct. And by correct I mean one animal/plant/insect changing from it's past form to a completely different present form. ADAPTATION is not the same as evolution. So if you say one is a theory by your own logic you should say the other is also, teach both theories with evidence. As far as the Earth being 6K yrs old, that's not every specifically stated in the Bible, it is also a man made theory. In fact several places it's mentioned that God doesn't have any concept of Time. Time is entirely a man-made thing.
Idiot, the OIL is PROVEN, it's there!! The others are (excepting wind) still in the lab or low rate intial production. I've been around long enough to know reality from fantasy. If you think the Chi-Comms are not holding oil leases in Cuba you need to get your news from someplace besides the NY Slimes. Rudy was another New York centered idiot just like you. Are you a flack for some green-energy venture fund or something? So fucking what about Houston, light rail in the places I mention cover maybe 40% of the city, and buses maybe 70%. I bet you money in Houston you had a car didn't you? So what are millions of Americans supposed to do with houses they can't sell because you think they should move to town? Just because you CHOSE to live close to work you now think you should FORCE all Americans to live close to work to say energy? What if I don't want to send my kids to a crappy school system or put up with crime and pollution. (oh yea you never did mention how we manfacture all these technologies without OIL) You are a idiot left wing dumbasss Obama plant who has no fucking clue how things work in the 95% of America outside the city. Of course that makes you an expert on /. Just play in NYC traffic, I don't have time to waste on idiots like you, I need to get in my SUV to go get some gas to mow my 1 acre front yard and so some work in my garden.
And all that is going to happen WHEN? As others have pointed out a lot of these technologies haave been "any day now" for 20 years. Wind is certainly ready now but you know the wind doesn't blow all the time (and it has to be fairly strong to move the blades) so that power source is not going to consistent and high levels. We can have oil from additional offshore drilling in a couple years, maybe less (California for instance..they know it's there as it was explored in the 1970's). And don't forget China is drilling in Cuba which is only 90 miles offshore! Until we get these pie-in-the-sky alternative technologies going full steam we need to find a way to get more oil & natural gas.(How do you think they fire those furnances to make glass for those solar panels?) I've never seen McCain to be against alternative ideas, just a realist who knows it takes time to get this stuff to market, and in the meantime we need to ensure our supply is strong of oil. What we NEED is more nuclear power but interestingly enough thats not an option according to Mr O. He admires the European model of Government so much why doesn't he see they were wise in using nuclear power? As for commuting by bike or rail or subway, that option doesn't exist for many cities in the USA. You obviously have never been to places like Dallas, Denver or Atlanta where mass transit is only somewhat available. And what about those people who don't live in the city? Are they supposed to ride a bike 30 miles to the big city to work? If you look a bit you"ll find carpools in many places where there is a large suburban workforce so conservation is occuring as is practical. It has nothing to do with corporations or anything like that. It's just the way things are. So quit your NYC psychobabble Obama spin, get outside the city and look at how the REAL world works and has to live.
Conservatives are stupid for wanting to NOT rely on oil from a place in the world that hates us (and not because of Iraq..it has to to with religion and Israel) and places under the control of Communist dictators and places where there is still tribal warfare? For wanting to use in a balanced with the environment method the resources in this country? OK, If I can't have oil can you invent me an electric car I can drive and can you provide the power needed? I'll need to build some coal and nuclear plants but you libs don't want that either. You can sit around and bitch about being in the dark or you can light a candle. I'm lighting a candle. The "data" about the acres under lease is crap. The part about it's leased is true but you don't tell the rest of the story, 1) it's been geophysically mapped and there is a slim to none chance it has oil, or 2)there are spots with oil (for future drilling) but to get that spot you have to lease the whole section. There are laws both federal and state regarding leasing for minerals, you can't just lease the little spot the well sits on, you have to lease the AREA the well drains, and then there is minimum well spacing too to keep from over-drilling. For example to drill a well in Texas you can't space closer than 120 acres in any direction so do the geography and you'll see there is a lot of land "under lease" that isn't drilled because they can't! lastly 3)Assuming it may have oil, it's part of the reserve the oil companies have, and it's not at the top of their list to drill as there are easier pickings at this time that give better value of cost to yield of oil. Why drill a well that has a small yield at $1000 foot when you can drill a better yield one for the same price? 4) it's a hedge..what if it does contain oil and they made a mistake on the geophysics? It's better to pay for it at the cheap rate they have now and hold onto it than for some wildcatter to find oil and the lease rates go up. It's economics nothing more, it's not some sinister plan to enslave us. And this way of doing business in the oil patch has been around LONG BEFORE Bush and Cheney.
You have a lot lower humidity than I do in North Texas plus Albq rarely hits 100. We do it for weeks at a time. I have a 2800 sq ft house too.
Nonsense. All they would need to do is for the compiler to check for a command line option set which says use Intel or use other. Then for certain type of operations in generates different code based on the flag being set or off. Or give the programmer a pre-processor directive called USE_NON_INTEL, if you want code to take advantage of your AMD, VIA, etc. host architecture. Unless we could see the code written for the compiler we can't say if a)Intel didn't include this option or b) if the option is there perhaps there is a bug that causes it not to work right. One of the advantages of open source (as another poster pointed out) is the community could find the problems and design workarounds or solutions. An interesting test would be to compile the benchmark (if possible) with different C/C++ compilers and see if the same issue arises when a non-Intel built compiler (such as gcc) is used. That would be pretty good indirect proof something is rigged.
Switch to LEDs when the CFLs go. LEDs use even less power than CFLs and don't have the disposal issue CFLs do (CFLs contain mercury). A LED light can last 10 yrs. They are expensive right now, and not in many sizes but costs should come down and selection increase as more people find out about them.
Try living in the American Southwest in the summer. My two A/C units run about 80%+ duty cycle from May to October. Some years I can see $600 electric bills and I have a rural co-op with cheap power.
Obligatory Bender quote "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
Encytption/Decryption is going to place additional loads on the server, and if he is sharing that server with others (common at a co-lo) he can impact many other customers. Encryption also can increase the data size so he could end up using more bandwidth and paying more. If he has his own server and reasonable rates for bandwidth it could be done. But the keys to encrypt/decrypt would be accessible to the co-lo company so he's right back in the same problem. IMNSHO, the best solution is to take his data to another co-lo that won't snoop and if he really needs utmost protection host it himself at his facility. A compromise could be to negotiate the right to have his server off-limits to co-lo admins (they may not approve for many reasons but he can ask) but then he has to do the 4AM calls. The bottom line is, does he want to trade control for convenience.
Are we having a TECHNICAL discussion of the relative merits of OSes and multi-core processors or are we screwing around just throwing crap ideas out hoping someone won't correct them? The post was DEFINITELY not a Troll and anyone who modded it as such needs to have their mod points taken away. People who think and repeat the incorrect and incomplete generalities they read on the Internet and thus think they know something are dangerous. Geeks complain thier bosses do that sort of thing yet they don't raise hell when they have the chance to stop it.
That's not really right, you obviously haven't designed an OS or taken and OS course in Computer Science. The OS MAY run a process a few ms at a time and swap tasks in and out all day long. That's called "round robin" scheduling where each processs (NOT THREAD) is equal in priority. However that is NOT always the case, you can have other scheduling algorithms that schedule based on priority where the highest priority task gets the CPU until blocked then the scheduler does a context switch and the next highest task runs until it blocks or a higher priority task unblocks then it gets the CPU. It can get quite complicated not to let a task starve and get all processes some CPU time. You other comment about memory regions is true IF it's on an Intel CPU and not always true on a AMD or other CPU design. How the processor accesses memory along with the way the OS allocates memory is very important when you get into multiple CPUs. The cache on the other core is not invalidated (which cache do you mean? L1 or L2?) UNLESS the threads on each CPU share memory addresses. The instruction cache is not hit much at all. A well designed multi-threaded program would minimize this problem. Compilers are now smart enough to try to optimize code to prevent the problem if the programmer did not. It's not a trivial exercise to convert code designed for a single CPU (single or multi-threaded) to run on a multi-core CPU or multiple CPUs.
You must work for Oracle? ;) I've not seen anyone describe the CL model as "ridiculous" so can you elaborate?
ObHomerSimpon - Umm..Waffle House!! Get some Grits to go with those Waffles and don't tell you doctor as a Waffle House visit will bump your Cholesterol and Trigylcerides up 100 points each ;)
If I was you I'd find a place with WiFi and AC and hang out there.
You must be new here? On /. there are three rules about postings.
1. You do NOT have to RTFA to know what it says.
2. It's all GWBs fault.
3. There is always a conspiracy to screw us out of something if the topic involves BigOi, the U.S. Government or the Military.
If the FBI is involved it likely trumps state law as Telecommunications Fraud (the statute the use to get a VERY broad context for a warrant) is a Federal crime. But, IANAL, so if you have any questions consult your in-house or other legal counsel.
Follow the links and read the law yourself. The context is PC Techs in the Forensics or Private Security business domains, NOT PC Techs in general. The Geek Squad at Best Buy isn't going to have to get PI Licenses nor is Joe Coder but the techs at Joes PI and Divorce Lawyer Shack would if he ever wants to do any work involving electronic media containing private info. For instance if your wife wants to know the details of your Porn collection as part of the divorce her PI or lawyer would need licensed techs. That's not a bad thing. But it's just going to drive legal costs up which will have an effect (small) on other prices. Reading the law I'm not sure if a corporate internal fraud or forensic techs (to find out about your MP3 collection on the work SAN) or those performing consulting services will need licenses or not. Probaby not as one clause in the license allows work to be supervised by a license holder so that may be the loophole. Just make sure your Chief Security Officer has a PI license. I agree the law needs some clarification but that can be left to the discretion of the court as to what the intent was (risky move) or someone can lobby the Texas legislature to update the law. In the meantime I seriously doubt anyone is going to be rushing to apply the law to everyone who MAY do PC work.
Or find ways to be more efficient to get more from the plant or fiber!