Put it another way, the processor architecture you would choose to achieve 80MFLOPS in 1976 is very different from the architecture you would choose in 2006. Telecomms has exactly the same concerns.
Maybe 2006 but not, ironically, necessarily in 2012. The vector processors of the early supercomputers are very much alive in the GPUs of clusters that incorporate GPGPU work for their FLOPS count (which includes 3 of the top 10 right now)
2. You can't carry a spare battery for long journeys.
While I'll give you this, I had spares for both my 2006 macbook pro and my powerbook before that. Before *that* I had a Compaq Armada 1750 that was a beast and held 2 batteries when I needed internally. When I replaced the MBP with an air this summer I didnt worry about needing a spare so much, the machine holds a (realistically, when working) 5hr-6hr charge. That's far better than I got swapping batteries with either of my 2 recent machines. I haven't had many days when I need more than that on battery, and it's nice to get that now without needing to swap batteries. I suspect most people feel the same way.
3. You can't safely dispose of the machine yourself, you have to get Apple to deal with the battery. Since the SSD can't be removed either if the machine dies there is no way to remove your data first.
The SSD *can* be removed, as can easily be seen here. OWC already sells a (admittedly expensive) third part SSD as well., and an external enclosure that can hold said SSDs
I've replace the PCB before to get at damaged platters, but both times I was lucky enough to have *exact* same model and run drives around, it typically doesn't work otherwise.
I've had luck with freezing a drive once, though I was only able to recover a few files before it gave up the ghost completely (luckily, expecting that, I'd created a script to hunt for and copy the important files before I ever took the drive out of the freezer.
Thinking about it, and based on your other comment as well, I believe you are confusing NT4 (which had an internal alpha build that was shown, discussed, and in some cases devd on but was never was released) with Win2k, in short, your memory's OBOBing:-)
I got the 4 Samsung 2TB drives in my main tower in a semi regular newegg sale for $65/each back pre-flood, and even without the sale they were ~$80. Now they're ~$120, with sales to ~$100:-/
Technically Win2k (which did have 64bit versions released) was part of the NT release line, still competing with win98/me in the consumer end of things - and absolutely technically the NT line is what we use today, Win7 is NT 6.2.
Compared to Just post flood, spinning disk prices are down sure. But pre-flood prices were significantly lower than now, whereas SSDs have just been dropping like a stone recently.
To win a competition at Supercomputing several years ago, to save power and enhance I/O speed we had an entire cluster running off a very lage ram disk on the headnode exported over IP over IB on QDR Infiniband to all our compute nodes. Since we couldn't use battery backup and couldn't back things up to the one hard drive in the cluster (the head node's boot drive) particularly often (and certainly not in the middle of data crunching, we did save results back to disk eventually) I spent the whole competition biting my nails (way back in 07 we actually had a power outage).
"In 2291, in an attempt to control violence among deep space miners, the New Earth Government legalized no-holds-bared fighting. Liandri Mining Corporation, working with the NEG, established a series of leagues and bloody public exhibitions. The fights' popularity grew with their brutality. Soon, Liandri discovered that the public matches were their most profitable enterprise. The professional league was formed; a cabal of the most violent and skilled warriors in known space, selected to fight in a Grand Tournament. Now it is 2341. 50 years have passed since founding of DeathMatch. Profits from the Tournament number in the hundreds of billions. You have been selected to fight in the professional league by the Liandri Rules Board. Your strength and brutality are legendary. The time has come to prove you are the best. To crush your enemies; to win the Tournament." (video here)
To be fair the mod system is already doing its thing and the OP was modded down into oblivion. In fact, for example, I wouldn't have even known the comment existed were it not for your post, and my browse threshold is lower than most visitors to the site are at.
As far as I can tell because people dont actually obey the law, they try to hide the phone instead, which makes it *worse*. In other words, one good reason not to ban them is that people seem to use them regardless, at least we can not force them to try and hide it!
'cause i'm not sure how I fall on the issue of banning phone use entirely at the moment (particularly since I use the tom tom app on my phone as my gps) but..
Why is the NTSB targeting gadgets instead of bad drivers?
Because using cellphones statistically seems to downgrade everyone a bit, so an excellent driver becomes a good driver, a good driver an ok driver, an ok driver a bad driver, and... a bad "barely got my license" driver a motor powered angry bird
I'm tempted to go out to the gas station down the block and take a picture of their sign about holds on debit cards, but I'll settle for a link to This article instead, 'cause I'm lazy, my tea will get cold, and I'm replying to an AC anyway. My bet is either you're paying inside, you're lucky that the gas stations you use don't do the holds that many do, you don't check your account's balance often enough to notice, or you're putting enough in that the difference between the hold and the amount you're *actually* paying doesn't exist.
I've been burned by the above issue though personally, so I can definitely vouch for it, and since I haven't seen a gas station in a long time that has a difference in price between debit and credit at the pump I either pay in cash or use my credit card for gas these days.
That's not HP's fault, that's the fault of how holds on credit cards work (really want to get angry about such things? buy gas with a debit card!). She authorized them to put a $150 hold on her card when she bought the device, it wasn't permanent until the device was ready though. Also I can BS on every Friday, I had the same thing, they did it once every 3 weeks or so, and the Slickdeals and Palmcentral threads about the touchpad are full of people asking about and explaining the recurring the charge.
For the record, I got my touchpad when they made the second batch, and while I wish I had instant gratification it's not like HP didn't send it to me once they made the second batch, and I'm happy to have it!
Quite what happened then I don't know but they got out of medical imaging, but they did at least attempt to adapt to the new scene. Perhaps their financial models revolved too much around the silver they were putting on the old films.
Seems to be the life cycle of many a tech company. I've been wondering if the path Kodak is on now is the same that HP is starting to tread. Even the spinoff of Eastman Chemical reminds me of HP's Agilent spinoff
Agreed./. still has, hands down, the best threaded discussion and moderation system of any site which I frequent, which I think helps keeps all the knowledgeable people around, both of which end up keeping me around:-).
I'll reiterate something I've posted and seen posted here by others before: I don't come here for the news, I come here for the comments
"Oracle says that Intel would have long ago killed off Itanium if not for these payments from HP"
In other news most companies will kill products that don't have paying customers. HP is paying to make sure their supply chain stays open to support their customers, Intel has a customer for Itanium so they're maintaining production of the product. Oracle's a whiny brat who's pissed that customers that still have support on their older stuff have less of an incentive to change providers... If Oracle can't give them a compelling reason to leave that isn't "your old stuff isn't supported anymore 'cause we sued intel to stop support for your hardware" I don't have much sympathy for Oracle
No worries, just a quick correction. For that matter, the subways were just normal late-night MTA awfulness as well (can't wait till jan when they're going to start closing whole line segments for days at a time! yay!). The main content of your post I agree with!
Having grown up here, crossing NYC streets is fitness test to weed out children who cant rant run fast enough and people who look too much like cab food I think:-p
See the wild taxi hunt, they feed on unsuspecting tourists and locals who cannot keep up with the herd. See the cab as it cuts across 3 lanes of traffic and a red light in search of prey. Watch as it carefully stalks its target... and across the sidewalk for the kill! the baby taxis will not go hungry tonight!
I agree with almost all of what you posted except the bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge has been closed Manhattan bound every night for a while now as part of a multi-year repair project, not special to last night. I live right by the bridge, the closures are a giant pain
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Put it another way, the processor architecture you would choose to achieve 80MFLOPS in 1976 is very different from the architecture you would choose in 2006. Telecomms has exactly the same concerns.
Maybe 2006 but not, ironically, necessarily in 2012. The vector processors of the early supercomputers are very much alive in the GPUs of clusters that incorporate GPGPU work for their FLOPS count (which includes 3 of the top 10 right now)
Actually it does, it just doesnt have *spoken* directions
I'll give you three.
1. You have no choice but to buy from Apple and once they drop support you are SOL.
ifixt sells refurbished batteries for last years macbook airs, I suspect they will soon have ones for this years, and the rMBP. There are other places that do as wekk
2. You can't carry a spare battery for long journeys.
While I'll give you this, I had spares for both my 2006 macbook pro and my powerbook before that. Before *that* I had a Compaq Armada 1750 that was a beast and held 2 batteries when I needed internally. When I replaced the MBP with an air this summer I didnt worry about needing a spare so much, the machine holds a (realistically, when working) 5hr-6hr charge. That's far better than I got swapping batteries with either of my 2 recent machines. I haven't had many days when I need more than that on battery, and it's nice to get that now without needing to swap batteries. I suspect most people feel the same way.
3. You can't safely dispose of the machine yourself, you have to get Apple to deal with the battery. Since the SSD can't be removed either if the machine dies there is no way to remove your data first.
The SSD *can* be removed, as can easily be seen here. OWC already sells a (admittedly expensive) third part SSD as well., and an external enclosure that can hold said SSDs
Just utter typo, I meant "damaged drives"
I've replace the PCB before to get at damaged platters, but both times I was lucky enough to have *exact* same model and run drives around, it typically doesn't work otherwise.
I've had luck with freezing a drive once, though I was only able to recover a few files before it gave up the ghost completely (luckily, expecting that, I'd created a script to hunt for and copy the important files before I ever took the drive out of the freezer.
I'm pretty sure Richard Stallman is *everyone's* Richard Stallman, and one is enough :-p
Thinking about it, and based on your other comment as well, I believe you are confusing NT4 (which had an internal alpha build that was shown, discussed, and in some cases devd on but was never was released) with Win2k, in short, your memory's OBOBing :-)
You're quite right that the first 64 bit release was for itanium, but off on the year and OS. Back in 2001 Win2k shipped for the itanium in 64bit goodness
I got the 4 Samsung 2TB drives in my main tower in a semi regular newegg sale for $65/each back pre-flood, and even without the sale they were ~$80. Now they're ~$120, with sales to ~$100 :-/
Technically Win2k (which did have 64bit versions released) was part of the NT release line, still competing with win98/me in the consumer end of things - and absolutely technically the NT line is what we use today, Win7 is NT 6.2.
Compared to Just post flood, spinning disk prices are down sure. But pre-flood prices were significantly lower than now, whereas SSDs have just been dropping like a stone recently.
To win a competition at Supercomputing several years ago, to save power and enhance I/O speed we had an entire cluster running off a very lage ram disk on the headnode exported over IP over IB on QDR Infiniband to all our compute nodes. Since we couldn't use battery backup and couldn't back things up to the one hard drive in the cluster (the head node's boot drive) particularly often (and certainly not in the middle of data crunching, we did save results back to disk eventually) I spent the whole competition biting my nails (way back in 07 we actually had a power outage).
"In 2291, in an attempt to control violence among deep space miners, the New Earth Government legalized no-holds-bared fighting. Liandri Mining Corporation, working with the NEG, established a series of leagues and bloody public exhibitions. The fights' popularity grew with their brutality. Soon, Liandri discovered that the public matches were their most profitable enterprise. The professional league was formed; a cabal of the most violent and skilled warriors in known space, selected to fight in a Grand Tournament. Now it is 2341. 50 years have passed since founding of DeathMatch. Profits from the Tournament number in the hundreds of billions. You have been selected to fight in the professional league by the Liandri Rules Board. Your strength and brutality are legendary. The time has come to prove you are the best. To crush your enemies; to win the Tournament." (video here)
To be fair the mod system is already doing its thing and the OP was modded down into oblivion. In fact, for example, I wouldn't have even known the comment existed were it not for your post, and my browse threshold is lower than most visitors to the site are at.
As far as I can tell because people dont actually obey the law, they try to hide the phone instead, which makes it *worse*. In other words, one good reason not to ban them is that people seem to use them regardless, at least we can not force them to try and hide it!
Why is the NTSB targeting gadgets instead of bad drivers?
Because using cellphones statistically seems to downgrade everyone a bit, so an excellent driver becomes a good driver, a good driver an ok driver, an ok driver a bad driver, and... a bad "barely got my license" driver a motor powered angry bird
I'm tempted to go out to the gas station down the block and take a picture of their sign about holds on debit cards, but I'll settle for a link to This article instead, 'cause I'm lazy, my tea will get cold, and I'm replying to an AC anyway. My bet is either you're paying inside, you're lucky that the gas stations you use don't do the holds that many do, you don't check your account's balance often enough to notice, or you're putting enough in that the difference between the hold and the amount you're *actually* paying doesn't exist.
I've been burned by the above issue though personally, so I can definitely vouch for it, and since I haven't seen a gas station in a long time that has a difference in price between debit and credit at the pump I either pay in cash or use my credit card for gas these days.
You're post made me laugh, went to mod it funny, hit redundant... commenting to fix the modding mistake :-/
That's not HP's fault, that's the fault of how holds on credit cards work (really want to get angry about such things? buy gas with a debit card!). She authorized them to put a $150 hold on her card when she bought the device, it wasn't permanent until the device was ready though. Also I can BS on every Friday, I had the same thing, they did it once every 3 weeks or so, and the Slickdeals and Palmcentral threads about the touchpad are full of people asking about and explaining the recurring the charge.
For the record, I got my touchpad when they made the second batch, and while I wish I had instant gratification it's not like HP didn't send it to me once they made the second batch, and I'm happy to have it!
The alpha 3 release is pretty stable, just a few small kinks. I don't use it that often though, really like webOS :-)
Quite what happened then I don't know but they got out of medical imaging, but they did at least attempt to adapt to the new scene. Perhaps their financial models revolved too much around the silver they were putting on the old films.
Bought by Onex is what happened to it.
Seems to be the life cycle of many a tech company. I've been wondering if the path Kodak is on now is the same that HP is starting to tread. Even the spinoff of Eastman Chemical reminds me of HP's Agilent spinoff
Agreed. /. still has, hands down, the best threaded discussion and moderation system of any site which I frequent, which I think helps keeps all the knowledgeable people around, both of which end up keeping me around :-).
I'll reiterate something I've posted and seen posted here by others before: I don't come here for the news, I come here for the comments
"Oracle says that Intel would have long ago killed off Itanium if not for these payments from HP"
In other news most companies will kill products that don't have paying customers. HP is paying to make sure their supply chain stays open to support their customers, Intel has a customer for Itanium so they're maintaining production of the product. Oracle's a whiny brat who's pissed that customers that still have support on their older stuff have less of an incentive to change providers... If Oracle can't give them a compelling reason to leave that isn't "your old stuff isn't supported anymore 'cause we sued intel to stop support for your hardware" I don't have much sympathy for Oracle
No worries, just a quick correction. For that matter, the subways were just normal late-night MTA awfulness as well (can't wait till jan when they're going to start closing whole line segments for days at a time! yay!). The main content of your post I agree with!
:-p
Having grown up here, crossing NYC streets is fitness test to weed out children who cant rant run fast enough and people who look too much like cab food I think
See the wild taxi hunt, they feed on unsuspecting tourists and locals who cannot keep up with the herd. See the cab as it cuts across 3 lanes of traffic and a red light in search of prey. Watch as it carefully stalks its target... and across the sidewalk for the kill! the baby taxis will not go hungry tonight!
I agree with almost all of what you posted except the bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge has been closed Manhattan bound every night for a while now as part of a multi-year repair project, not special to last night. I live right by the bridge, the closures are a giant pain