Yeah, right. These "ratings" will be determined by marketing and legal pull. You can be certain anything 'Dell' will be rubber stamped A++++ on the day it's released, regardless of:
a driver must have been released and in use for at least 120 days
The fact that Microsoft is publicizing this now means the fix was in at least twelve months ago. Anyone with enough market leverage already has their sundry ratings certified on gilt edge legal stock, regardless of quality.
Microsoft has not revealed the exact methodology for determining
How surprising; zero transparency. You get the rating, not the calculation. Microsoft now has yet another large size hammer with which to club whomever into line. Those who, perhaps, would rather not comply exclusively with:
updates must be made available through Windows Update
Yep. Your Genuine Advantage enabled Windows Update. At what point will it become impossible to boot a Microsoft operating system without a broadband uplink?
It's a boon for PHBs; yet another way to cop out when purchasing. Obsolete, overpriced and 'green' rated? Cha-ching. Hell, why not specify this with amendments to SOX and HIPPA!
Before I throw my two cents in a disclaimer; you focus pretty much exclusively on cost. No performance, no management, no reliability. With that in mind;
Dell MD1000 SAS/SATA JBOD + 15x 500GB SATA disks: ~$10500
Three of those, daisy chained to some head end server through a single SAS RAID controller. Guessing ~$4000 for the box.
That's 22.5TB of raw storage for ~$35k, or $1.57/GB, less if you work a deal.
You'll need about 45 of these for a petabyte (raw); $1.6M Fabric (~5x 24 port layer-2 gigabit switches): ~$12k 600u of racks (5) + power: ~$25k etc...
Tons of single points of failure, limited performance and zero management. Don't even suspect it's possible to get good IOPS from this; too few controllers, major throughput constraints on the 1Gb/s uplinks, etc... It's good for light to moderate streaming archival type use. Use Linux with lots of md and lvm for at least some measure of manageability.
Frankly, $3/GB for something with management tools, better reliability and/or better performance and looks pretty good, but if you're all about cost...
I actually thought they were a lot closer than this.
I'm not surprised; fuel cell hype is rampant. It's a worthy pursuit but quite a way from actual consumer sales.
That rather large device shown here is good for 10 hours running a pretty average laptop. The next generation prototype shown is a bit better, and just as unworkable for the bulk of the laptop market; too damn big.
These are prototypes; give it half a decade of development and it could pay off.
The new look is better in an evolutionary sort of way. Nothing radical and everyone will be use to it inside a week. For one reason or another they'll occasionally see the old version and marvel at how archaic it looks, like seeing Yahoo! from 8 years ago in the wayback machine.
Question: the winner does not appear to expose tagging, whereas the runner-up does. What is that about?
The post mentions diffusion and centripetal enrichment. There is actually a third method that has been used by several nations. The "calutron" separates isotopes using a magnetic field. It is the least efficient and most expensive method, so it is uncommon. However, it was used by the Manhattan Project and Saddam had an array running in Iraq at one time.
Making Uranium enrichment easy is not necessary a good thing. Uranium ore isn't hard to get. Enriching it is the tough part. The same processes used to make fuel lead directly to gun-type "atom" bombs. It's just a matter of degree and some machining.
Get this process down to something small enough to quietly function in a barn and you could build a weapon inside the borders of your target. A gold mine or somesuch would be all you need for cover.
But it's only really great if a new custom variant is built.
Cell had a specific problem domain to address during the design of the initial product. If Cell really is all that, there will be future revisions. These researchers are pointing out what is necessary to make Cell more viable to a broader base of users. They are putting themselves at the head of the line.
They have evaluated the existing Cell, added their guesswork as to what could be done with modest changes and quantified the result relative to competitors. The best case outcome includes another $200+ million contract to build another massive compute grid. If someone shows up at the door with this paper in one hand and the funding resources to accomplish it in the other... Cell2 (or Cell+ as they call it) gets put on the drawing board.
Netapp has a new division called "StoreVault" that is about to release new products that might be ideal for your purposes. There isn't much information publically available yet, but what is available is:
o Data OnTap OS o NAS and iSCSI o Optional FC interface (yes, NAS, iSCSI and FC in one device) o "simplified" web interface o Based on FAS250/270 o $5000 entry level price o Scalable to 12TB
Presumably the products will launch some time in June.
The/. post mentions "support" from Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but nothing more. A press release from Sun contains a quote from Anthony Towns:
"We are really pleased to see Sun's increasing involvement in the free software community, from the opening of the Solaris Operating System source and now the re-licensing of Java technology to be compatible with GNU/Linux distributions, and are looking forward to building stronger ties with the Sun community in the future", said Anthony Towns, Debian Project Leader.
Marketing speak from Debian? Anyhow, it does confirm that Debian is convinced this is open enough "to be compatible."
They're only about four years away from seeing a broadcast of our first moon landing.
Therefore what? My concern is the fact that they received The Honeymooners 12 years ago and have already dispatched planetary sterilizers. I figure we've got about 31 years left.
I have to agree. Pacifica is crucial to AMD. Apparently far more crucial than they realize. Their recent success has been almost entirely based on server platforms. If Intel gets fast, low power Vanderpool processors out while AMD keeps the market waiting till 2007 for Pacifica their gains in the server market will simply vanish.
Nearly every server I purchase is intended to run multiple VMs from day one. It's understood; most services don't justify the exclusive resources (cost, space, heat, power, etc) of dedicated hardware. The market and I don't have enough love for either Intel or AMD to tolerate foot-dragging on this. Hardware isolated VM support, now, or else, capisce? Good.
Does an optical cable REALLY weigh that much that someone would want to replace it with wireless?
Yes, a signal cable in an aircraft really does weigh 'that much'. A signal cable must be protected; fuel, weather and physical damage are all problems for signaling mediums in aircraft. Solution? Conduits, seals and other bulk. The armor needed to protect cables (optical or otherwise) is substantial; a length of fiber optic cable may not simply rattle around in the fuselage or wing like it might in your premises wiring plenums.
I doubt this is viable for passenger aircraft. The risk of interference is simply too high; commercial airliners are expected to take lightning strikes as they fly in and near electrical storms. Military aircraft must tolerate hostile attacks on signaling systems, particularly radio systems.
On the other hand, there are a large and growing number of UAV applications for which this is probably well suited. UAV loiter time is a high priority; less weight translates directly to better performance. UAV maintenance and repair could be greatly simplified by eliminating signal cables throughout the vehicle.
Whatever 'how' you come up with must satisfy one simple criterion: make it possible for the major Linux distributions to include the Sun JVM, runtime (tailored to whatever degree necessary to work well,) and source, in their product.
I did something similar. Many moons ago I created this account and promptly forgot about it for many years while using another account. One day it dawned on me that the account I was using was 'temporary' due to having lost the password for the first. I took a chance and 'recovered' the original account; luckily I still had the email address used during registration, and here I am, 3 digit UID.:)
I suspect most of the sub-1000 UIDs are accounts created and forgotten by whomever. I rarely see any activity. Perhaps they grew up...
Whatever. If you're in IT and you don't invent two words a year you're coasting. Try 'elaborisha': (obviously excessive complexity for the sake of questionable or obsolete tangibles.) Zero hits on Google. Verb it and you have elaborize.:)
Computing might just become fun again.
It's fun now. Over at Supermicro you have four socket motherboards designed for 1U hosts. Intel is planning 4 core CPUs (MP, blah blah) by Q1 '07. 16 cores in 1U. Meanwhile Sun has an 8 core CPU shipping...
About all the 'fun' I can handle right there. Never mind CPUs dangling on the end of hypothetical cables burning melt marks in the desk. Good way to keep coffee warm I guess.
Processor on a stick. Cool idea. Now we only need to update the USB spec to supply devices with 100W of power! While you're at it don't forget that we'll also want a couple hubs in the path.
Anyhow, it is unfortunate, and hopefully it will be fixed shortly.
Apple has abruptly learned a lesson about their customers and will certainly alter their behavior as a result. They promoted this "Boot Camp" with the intention of making their platform appeal to a larger audience. Result? Damaged computers, angry customers and bad headlines. Now risk adversity kicks in.
Oh well. I guess if you foster an "it just works" mentality among your customers and then throw a free beta dual-boot landmine in their path you get lots of body parts. Not one of Apple's better days.
What do "conservative Christian groups" have to do...
Little or nothing. The MSNBC wording is suspiciously ambiguous:
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year...
Reading this quickly leads one to think ICANN must get sign-off from Jerry Falwell or somesuch. In fact, the veto power belongs to the US government, not a US church.
It isn't necessary to rely on religious zealots to provide reasons for opposing.xxx,.sex, etc. There are sound legal, philosophical and technical reasons why.xxx is a bad idea. Consider what some at the IETF have to say on the matter.
EU has full right to complain about us control over the domains
Yes. The EU and any other recognized government. Ommited from the/. blurb is opposition of.xxx from other nations...
The default/. Slashdot position appears to be;.xxx is cool and it's only those Benny Hinn types getting in the way! This is juvenile, naive and about par for the/. course, so take what you read here on the matter with a large grain of salt.
Watching the webcast it looked to me like the vehicle had a guidance problem; the on-board view seemed to be spinning. The feed didn't really provide enough to tell, however.
It definitely cleared the pad and I think it got to a few thousand feet.
The writing-to-disk software/hardware implements "load balancing."
This will be further enhanced with small, battery backed RAM write cache integral to the device. BBWC is commonplace in storage. Flash storage (eventually it will occur to us that emulating disks isn't useful) will just scale it down to a few hundred kilobytes + tiny battery and some large percentage of writes direct to Flash will not occur. Between the write cache and write balancing you'll get many years of use, and failure predicted by a simple progress bar as the device approaches its write limit.
This will, of course, take about a decade of hashing around with new "standards", including excellent proprietary solutions from Apple that won't go anywhere due to royalties, various bad reimplementations from everyone else that will complicate the market and slow adoption, etc.
His assertion that products of this kind have some sort of "retarding effect" on "technological progress" is a bit naive. Making a machine smart enough to distinguish between porn, lingerie and breast examines is fairly remarkable. This is probably and extension of eigenface analysis applied to more general images. Machine vision, in other words.
Porn driving technology, again? Perhaps. A few years from now we'll take it for granted that machines can identify porn.
There won't be a moment when a machine suddenly becomes obviously aware. It will occur slowly, as each attribute of sentience is successfully mimicked and incorporated. This will create a difficult issue, as we will suffer a long, ambiguous period during which we will be both compelled to recognize it and at liberty to dismiss it.
Anyhow, I'm fairly certain this isn't a setback for "technological progress."
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, right. These "ratings" will be determined by marketing and legal pull. You can be certain anything 'Dell' will be rubber stamped A++++ on the day it's released, regardless of:
a driver must have been released and in use for at least 120 days
The fact that Microsoft is publicizing this now means the fix was in at least twelve months ago. Anyone with enough market leverage already has their sundry ratings certified on gilt edge legal stock, regardless of quality.
Microsoft has not revealed the exact methodology for determining
How surprising; zero transparency. You get the rating, not the calculation. Microsoft now has yet another large size hammer with which to club whomever into line. Those who, perhaps, would rather not comply exclusively with:
updates must be made available through Windows Update
Yep. Your Genuine Advantage enabled Windows Update. At what point will it become impossible to boot a Microsoft operating system without a broadband uplink?
It's a boon for PHBs; yet another way to cop out when purchasing. Obsolete, overpriced and 'green' rated? Cha-ching. Hell, why not specify this with amendments to SOX and HIPPA!
Before I throw my two cents in a disclaimer; you focus pretty much exclusively on cost. No performance, no management, no reliability. With that in mind;
Dell MD1000 SAS/SATA JBOD + 15x 500GB SATA disks: ~$10500
Three of those, daisy chained to some head end server through a single SAS RAID controller. Guessing ~$4000 for the box.
That's 22.5TB of raw storage for ~$35k, or $1.57/GB, less if you work a deal.
You'll need about 45 of these for a petabyte (raw); $1.6M
Fabric (~5x 24 port layer-2 gigabit switches): ~$12k
600u of racks (5) + power: ~$25k
etc...
Tons of single points of failure, limited performance and zero management. Don't even suspect it's possible to get good IOPS from this; too few controllers, major throughput constraints on the 1Gb/s uplinks, etc... It's good for light to moderate streaming archival type use. Use Linux with lots of md and lvm for at least some measure of manageability.
Frankly, $3/GB for something with management tools, better reliability and/or better performance and looks pretty good, but if you're all about cost...
Just keep in mind that when the Gates sends his sexy French daughter-in-law to negotiate, she is randy and ready to go.
I actually thought they were a lot closer than this.
I'm not surprised; fuel cell hype is rampant. It's a worthy pursuit but quite a way from actual consumer sales.
That rather large device shown here is good for 10 hours running a pretty average laptop. The next generation prototype shown is a bit better, and just as unworkable for the bulk of the laptop market; too damn big.
These are prototypes; give it half a decade of development and it could pay off.
The new look is better in an evolutionary sort of way. Nothing radical and everyone will be use to it inside a week. For one reason or another they'll occasionally see the old version and marvel at how archaic it looks, like seeing Yahoo! from 8 years ago in the wayback machine.
Question: the winner does not appear to expose tagging, whereas the runner-up does. What is that about?
The post mentions diffusion and centripetal enrichment. There is actually a third method that has been used by several nations. The "calutron" separates isotopes using a magnetic field. It is the least efficient and most expensive method, so it is uncommon. However, it was used by the Manhattan Project and Saddam had an array running in Iraq at one time.
Making Uranium enrichment easy is not necessary a good thing. Uranium ore isn't hard to get. Enriching it is the tough part. The same processes used to make fuel lead directly to gun-type "atom" bombs. It's just a matter of degree and some machining.
Get this process down to something small enough to quietly function in a barn and you could build a weapon inside the borders of your target. A gold mine or somesuch would be all you need for cover.
But it's only really great if a new custom variant is built.
Cell had a specific problem domain to address during the design of the initial product. If Cell really is all that, there will be future revisions. These researchers are pointing out what is necessary to make Cell more viable to a broader base of users. They are putting themselves at the head of the line.
They have evaluated the existing Cell, added their guesswork as to what could be done with modest changes and quantified the result relative to competitors. The best case outcome includes another $200+ million contract to build another massive compute grid. If someone shows up at the door with this paper in one hand and the funding resources to accomplish it in the other... Cell2 (or Cell+ as they call it) gets put on the drawing board.
Netapp has a new division called "StoreVault" that is about to release new products that might be ideal for your purposes. There isn't much information publically available yet, but what is available is:
o Data OnTap OS
o NAS and iSCSI
o Optional FC interface (yes, NAS, iSCSI and FC in one device)
o "simplified" web interface
o Based on FAS250/270
o $5000 entry level price
o Scalable to 12TB
Presumably the products will launch some time in June.
The /. post mentions "support" from Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but nothing more. A press release from Sun contains a quote from Anthony Towns:
"We are really pleased to see Sun's increasing involvement in the free software community, from the opening of the Solaris Operating System source and now the re-licensing of Java technology to be compatible with GNU/Linux distributions, and are looking forward to building stronger ties with the Sun community in the future", said Anthony Towns, Debian Project Leader.
Marketing speak from Debian? Anyhow, it does confirm that Debian is convinced this is open enough "to be compatible."
They're only about four years away from seeing a broadcast of our first moon landing.
Therefore what? My concern is the fact that they received The Honeymooners 12 years ago and have already dispatched planetary sterilizers. I figure we've got about 31 years left.
I have to agree. Pacifica is crucial to AMD. Apparently far more crucial than they realize. Their recent success has been almost entirely based on server platforms. If Intel gets fast, low power Vanderpool processors out while AMD keeps the market waiting till 2007 for Pacifica their gains in the server market will simply vanish.
Nearly every server I purchase is intended to run multiple VMs from day one. It's understood; most services don't justify the exclusive resources (cost, space, heat, power, etc) of dedicated hardware. The market and I don't have enough love for either Intel or AMD to tolerate foot-dragging on this. Hardware isolated VM support, now, or else, capisce? Good.
I mean, raise your hand if you believe Sun's offer to "open source" Java will actually become a code dump under an OSI approved license.
See here for a credible precedent.
Does an optical cable REALLY weigh that much that someone would want to replace it with wireless?
Yes, a signal cable in an aircraft really does weigh 'that much'. A signal cable must be protected; fuel, weather and physical damage are all problems for signaling mediums in aircraft. Solution? Conduits, seals and other bulk. The armor needed to protect cables (optical or otherwise) is substantial; a length of fiber optic cable may not simply rattle around in the fuselage or wing like it might in your premises wiring plenums.
I doubt this is viable for passenger aircraft. The risk of interference is simply too high; commercial airliners are expected to take lightning strikes as they fly in and near electrical storms. Military aircraft must tolerate hostile attacks on signaling systems, particularly radio systems.
On the other hand, there are a large and growing number of UAV applications for which this is probably well suited. UAV loiter time is a high priority; less weight translates directly to better performance. UAV maintenance and repair could be greatly simplified by eliminating signal cables throughout the vehicle.
Whatever 'how' you come up with must satisfy one simple criterion: make it possible for the major Linux distributions to include the Sun JVM, runtime (tailored to whatever degree necessary to work well,) and source, in their product.
I did something similar. Many moons ago I created this account and promptly forgot about it for many years while using another account. One day it dawned on me that the account I was using was 'temporary' due to having lost the password for the first. I took a chance and 'recovered' the original account; luckily I still had the email address used during registration, and here I am, 3 digit UID. :)
I suspect most of the sub-1000 UIDs are accounts created and forgotten by whomever. I rarely see any activity. Perhaps they grew up...
I dunno.
As much as you can give. Physics provides depth and quality. Show the way and demonstrate this; be a legend.
Or not.
Your call.
the cultural divide between doctors and veterinarians.
The cultural divide between doctors and veterinarians.
I'm sorry. You have reached a number that is no longer in service. Message 002.
I suspect the cultural divide between doctors and veterinarians can wait till Monday.
commoditized (is that a word?)
:)
Whatever. If you're in IT and you don't invent two words a year you're coasting. Try 'elaborisha': (obviously excessive complexity for the sake of questionable or obsolete tangibles.) Zero hits on Google. Verb it and you have elaborize.
Computing might just become fun again.
It's fun now. Over at Supermicro you have four socket motherboards designed for 1U hosts. Intel is planning 4 core CPUs (MP, blah blah) by Q1 '07. 16 cores in 1U. Meanwhile Sun has an 8 core CPU shipping...
About all the 'fun' I can handle right there. Never mind CPUs dangling on the end of hypothetical cables burning melt marks in the desk. Good way to keep coffee warm I guess.
Processor on a stick. Cool idea. Now we only need to update the USB spec to supply devices with 100W of power! While you're at it don't forget that we'll also want a couple hubs in the path.
Anyhow, it is unfortunate, and hopefully it will be fixed shortly.
Apple has abruptly learned a lesson about their customers and will certainly alter their behavior as a result. They promoted this "Boot Camp" with the intention of making their platform appeal to a larger audience. Result? Damaged computers, angry customers and bad headlines. Now risk adversity kicks in.
Oh well. I guess if you foster an "it just works" mentality among your customers and then throw a free beta dual-boot landmine in their path you get lots of body parts. Not one of Apple's better days.
What do "conservative Christian groups" have to do...
.xxx, .sex, etc. There are sound legal, philosophical and technical reasons why .xxx is a bad idea. Consider what some at the IETF have to say on the matter.
/. blurb is opposition of .xxx from other nations...
/. Slashdot position appears to be; .xxx is cool and it's only those Benny Hinn types getting in the way! This is juvenile, naive and about par for the /. course, so take what you read here on the matter with a large grain of salt.
Little or nothing. The MSNBC wording is suspiciously ambiguous:
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year...
Reading this quickly leads one to think ICANN must get sign-off from Jerry Falwell or somesuch. In fact, the veto power belongs to the US government, not a US church.
It isn't necessary to rely on religious zealots to provide reasons for opposing
EU has full right to complain about us control over the domains
Yes. The EU and any other recognized government. Ommited from the
The default
Indeed, a few Slashdot sections do inflict greater pain than the Ponies scheme.
Watching the webcast it looked to me like the vehicle had a guidance problem; the on-board view seemed to be spinning. The feed didn't really provide enough to tell, however.
It definitely cleared the pad and I think it got to a few thousand feet.
The writing-to-disk software/hardware implements "load balancing."
This will be further enhanced with small, battery backed RAM write cache integral to the device. BBWC is commonplace in storage. Flash storage (eventually it will occur to us that emulating disks isn't useful) will just scale it down to a few hundred kilobytes + tiny battery and some large percentage of writes direct to Flash will not occur. Between the write cache and write balancing you'll get many years of use, and failure predicted by a simple progress bar as the device approaches its write limit.
This will, of course, take about a decade of hashing around with new "standards", including excellent proprietary solutions from Apple that won't go anywhere due to royalties, various bad reimplementations from everyone else that will complicate the market and slow adoption, etc.
Enjoy.
He's turning into worse than Michael ever did.
His assertion that products of this kind have some sort of "retarding effect" on "technological progress" is a bit naive. Making a machine smart enough to distinguish between porn, lingerie and breast examines is fairly remarkable. This is probably and extension of eigenface analysis applied to more general images. Machine vision, in other words.
Porn driving technology, again? Perhaps. A few years from now we'll take it for granted that machines can identify porn.
There won't be a moment when a machine suddenly becomes obviously aware. It will occur slowly, as each attribute of sentience is successfully mimicked and incorporated. This will create a difficult issue, as we will suffer a long, ambiguous period during which we will be both compelled to recognize it and at liberty to dismiss it.
Anyhow, I'm fairly certain this isn't a setback for "technological progress."