Will it be able to compete with HP and Dell servers in price this time? 8 core intels cost less than 10K these days, I hope SUN^wOracle will start understanding competitive pricing for a change.
An empty ship uses way less fuel to travel than a full ship. It moves way less water due to the weight not pushing the boat in deeper. In the real world, lots of containers get stuffed with less profitable goods to be transported to the far east, because that still slightly more profitable than shipping empties. The price of the return trip is usually calculated into the the price of shipping goods from the far east, so it's already paid for.
From what I understand, they usually use the last fuel to put it into a clear and controlled descending orbit. For some reason, I think they ran out of fuel before they could do that on this particular satellite.
How can they use the device if the battery is taken out then? Never turn your phone off and leave the battery in, if you want it to be truly off. Of course, you'd need a device that has a user replaceable battery, not an iPhone or alike.
They already found out 2 years ago that readily available chicken feathers, when carbonized, make perfect carbon nanotubes to store hydrogen. I wonder if using platinum doping with that will have more benefits than costs associated to it. See http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2009/06/25/carbonized-chicken-feathers-hydrogen-storage/ for details on the feathers.
In Europe, taxes are much higher. Then again, a lot of things are cheaper or free, because of government subsidization. You could argue you don't want your government to force you to pay taxes for things you are not using at that moment, but there are a lot less poverty and a lot less insanely rich, mostly because of this. Taxes can be used successfully to distribute wealth easier, even if you have an inefficient government doing the distribution.
Just like there's no monopoly in search engines, digital music stores, desktop operating systems and all those? I'm sure Google will push their street view pretty hard and having an AR shop on "maps" will get you well over 50% of cell phone users. If you don't believe me, just substitute Google for the company you think will dominate this market.
I haven't seen a lot of wars about liberty lately. Most were about economics or territory, some were about religion. To my knowledge, the last time the USA was attacked on own territory was Pearl Harbor and the last time the US mainland was invaded was well over 100 years ago. In the end, only the weapons manufacturers get a good deal out of war, the people just get another sock puppet ruling their countries.
There are a lot of treaties that try to limit the number of nukes, land mines and other non-discriminatory weapons on the planet. Adding new weapons to the list to have treaties about isn't really productive if we ever want to stop innocent bystanders dying in war.
However devastating, the earth quake earlier this year was not "The Big One" for Japan. The real "Big One" is supposed to hit the land mass that Tokyo is on with a magnitude well over 7. The epicenter will probably be about 100 miles south of Tokio and this type of quake is known in Japan as a "Tokai earth quake". They have had several before and the last one in 1854 caused most of Tokyo to burn to the ground and thousands died. Since Tokai quakes tend to happen every 100-150 years, the next one is due any moment now.
If you spoof a controller. One of the first lessons I've learned is to never use dynamically configured devices on a campus. There will always be a geek that will find a way to tell your equipment what the best route for traffic is.
to power my flying car? These figures they promise never end up in production devices for decades and decades. Even though it's very interesting and probably very useful, some patent troll will most likely get away with a lot of money and humanity will have nothing to show for it in the end because of the patent that will be put on this kind of inventions.
a lot of people would probably be telling a "white lie" here and there, on those forms. I have no experience with this, but it's most likely easier to get into heaven than it is to get into the USA, if you answer the questions honestly.
Without knowing what fraudulent answers she gave, it's not unthinkable that they just revoked her citizenship because she lied about getting a ticket for jaywalking before she entered the USA, or something trivial like that.
Your argument about TB USB sticks is right. Imagine SSD drives and portable media players that can actually hold a significant amount of your media collection.
It is bad, but there is a mitigation. It requires two steps in stead of just one to get root access. Given the fact that you usually try to layer your security and have logging/accounting and tripwire type of alarms set up, you have a bigger chance of catching intruders before they get access to anything really dangerous.
If you admin thousands of systems, used by many more users, you will get compromised accounts, on a fairly regular base. Those accounts in general will be used to try and get root access. By setting up logging, accounting and various other tools, you tend to get a lot of the compromised accounts to trigger an alarm before they get root, or run their code as user. With remote root vulnerabilities, you get none.
Any privilege escalation is something to be serious about, but crying wolf that local exploits are just as bad as remote, will make less people take you serious.
You have a point, but you are comparing a business notebook at the inflated suggested retail price (big companies get big discounts) to a consumer grade machine. Try opening the laptop 2000 times, type 1000 hours on it and see which one is still more or less functional. A better comparison would be an HP pavilion. You can get something like a DM4 for $450 on the HP website right now, that compares to your Acer in specs and also has the AMD chipset. The cheapest I3 pavilion is another $100 more expensive. This suggests a retail price difference of about $100 for the AMD set and the I3 set. That is substantial, but less than the $250 or almost double what you came up with initially.
for something more useful than Starcraft. I agree you don't need 6 cores and 4G ram to read your e-mail, but today the workload of the average server or desktop, includes running virtual machines, virus scanners, full encryption, flash websites and whatnot. The laptop I was "given" 2 months ago has a brand new 4 core Intel, 4G ram, Nvidia quadro GFX and it's too slow to run my normal workload of terms, browser and VMs. Given the fact that I'm a contractor, spending a little extra on a faster CPU would probably pay itself back in less than a week for my employer. Sure, if they'd stop mandating W7 on the desktop with full encryption and on-access virus scanning, the world would be a better place for me, but most likely not for the company.
For servers, almost everything is running on VMs now. More power per CPU is very welcome there, since you can run faster/more VMs per box. The less heat you produce, the more servers you can put in a data center. Given the cost for real estate at prime interconnect sites, it's profitable to go green, even if you're not a tree hugging hippie.
on this planet. Maybe for/. readers it is, but for of almost 7 billion people on this planet, the most common languages are Portuguese, Spanish, and most probably Hindi, Mandarin and Arab will be the language they use the most. Even tho these languages require extra effort to use a keyboard for input, I doubt SWYPE will be any better. With the world economy and politics giving China, India and South America one of the fastest rates of growth in wealth, you'd have to account for their language and input methods if you want to successfully sell hardware worldwide.
They get a one time compile of whatever kernel version works on it and then sit in the field with unpatched security leaks until they die, or are replaced with an upgrade. A lot of them still run 2.6.16 or something around that.
Imagine the following scenario:
You Download source code from a tarball at kernel.org. You develop against that. You commit to git. You change only 3 files and git tells you there are 20 files changed. This is when you realize that somehow, the tarball differs in 17 files from the git repository.
How many developers actually develop against a freshly downloaded tarball off ftp/http kernel.org mirror, in stead of a checkout/sync from the clean git branch? Because only the ones that do, and also have commit rights to git, would notice.
It's what all the big companies do to get their agenda taken care of. Democracy in the USA is no longer based on the most votes, but on the most dollars contributed to campaign funds.
However, to stay on subject, how about getting certificates issued for guitars built before these laws came into effect? It shouldn't be hard for A-brand manufacturers to retro-warrant based on serial numbers?
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Would this work with 4 of these in an old P2 or so and a Gbit NIC? It might actually give great CUDA performance for the money?
Will it be able to compete with HP and Dell servers in price this time? 8 core intels cost less than 10K these days, I hope SUN^wOracle will start understanding competitive pricing for a change.
An empty ship uses way less fuel to travel than a full ship. It moves way less water due to the weight not pushing the boat in deeper. In the real world, lots of containers get stuffed with less profitable goods to be transported to the far east, because that still slightly more profitable than shipping empties. The price of the return trip is usually calculated into the the price of shipping goods from the far east, so it's already paid for.
From what I understand, they usually use the last fuel to put it into a clear and controlled descending orbit. For some reason, I think they ran out of fuel before they could do that on this particular satellite.
How can they use the device if the battery is taken out then? Never turn your phone off and leave the battery in, if you want it to be truly off. Of course, you'd need a device that has a user replaceable battery, not an iPhone or alike.
They already found out 2 years ago that readily available chicken feathers, when carbonized, make perfect carbon nanotubes to store hydrogen. I wonder if using platinum doping with that will have more benefits than costs associated to it. See http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2009/06/25/carbonized-chicken-feathers-hydrogen-storage/ for details on the feathers.
Watches? Pocket Calculators? What do Casio make that runs Linux?
In Europe, taxes are much higher. Then again, a lot of things are cheaper or free, because of government subsidization. You could argue you don't want your government to force you to pay taxes for things you are not using at that moment, but there are a lot less poverty and a lot less insanely rich, mostly because of this. Taxes can be used successfully to distribute wealth easier, even if you have an inefficient government doing the distribution.
Just like there's no monopoly in search engines, digital music stores, desktop operating systems and all those? I'm sure Google will push their street view pretty hard and having an AR shop on "maps" will get you well over 50% of cell phone users. If you don't believe me, just substitute Google for the company you think will dominate this market.
I haven't seen a lot of wars about liberty lately. Most were about economics or territory, some were about religion. To my knowledge, the last time the USA was attacked on own territory was Pearl Harbor and the last time the US mainland was invaded was well over 100 years ago. In the end, only the weapons manufacturers get a good deal out of war, the people just get another sock puppet ruling their countries.
There are a lot of treaties that try to limit the number of nukes, land mines and other non-discriminatory weapons on the planet. Adding new weapons to the list to have treaties about isn't really productive if we ever want to stop innocent bystanders dying in war.
However devastating, the earth quake earlier this year was not "The Big One" for Japan. The real "Big One" is supposed to hit the land mass that Tokyo is on with a magnitude well over 7. The epicenter will probably be about 100 miles south of Tokio and this type of quake is known in Japan as a "Tokai earth quake". They have had several before and the last one in 1854 caused most of Tokyo to burn to the ground and thousands died. Since Tokai quakes tend to happen every 100-150 years, the next one is due any moment now.
If you spoof a controller. One of the first lessons I've learned is to never use dynamically configured devices on a campus. There will always be a geek that will find a way to tell your equipment what the best route for traffic is.
to power my flying car? These figures they promise never end up in production devices for decades and decades. Even though it's very interesting and probably very useful, some patent troll will most likely get away with a lot of money and humanity will have nothing to show for it in the end because of the patent that will be put on this kind of inventions.
a lot of people would probably be telling a "white lie" here and there, on those forms. I have no experience with this, but it's most likely easier to get into heaven than it is to get into the USA, if you answer the questions honestly.
Without knowing what fraudulent answers she gave, it's not unthinkable that they just revoked her citizenship because she lied about getting a ticket for jaywalking before she entered the USA, or something trivial like that.
Your argument about TB USB sticks is right. Imagine SSD drives and portable media players that can actually hold a significant amount of your media collection.
It is bad, but there is a mitigation. It requires two steps in stead of just one to get root access. Given the fact that you usually try to layer your security and have logging/accounting and tripwire type of alarms set up, you have a bigger chance of catching intruders before they get access to anything really dangerous.
If you admin thousands of systems, used by many more users, you will get compromised accounts, on a fairly regular base. Those accounts in general will be used to try and get root access. By setting up logging, accounting and various other tools, you tend to get a lot of the compromised accounts to trigger an alarm before they get root, or run their code as user. With remote root vulnerabilities, you get none.
Any privilege escalation is something to be serious about, but crying wolf that local exploits are just as bad as remote, will make less people take you serious.
You have a point, but you are comparing a business notebook at the inflated suggested retail price (big companies get big discounts) to a consumer grade machine. Try opening the laptop 2000 times, type 1000 hours on it and see which one is still more or less functional. A better comparison would be an HP pavilion. You can get something like a DM4 for $450 on the HP website right now, that compares to your Acer in specs and also has the AMD chipset. The cheapest I3 pavilion is another $100 more expensive. This suggests a retail price difference of about $100 for the AMD set and the I3 set. That is substantial, but less than the $250 or almost double what you came up with initially.
for something more useful than Starcraft. I agree you don't need 6 cores and 4G ram to read your e-mail, but today the workload of the average server or desktop, includes running virtual machines, virus scanners, full encryption, flash websites and whatnot. The laptop I was "given" 2 months ago has a brand new 4 core Intel, 4G ram, Nvidia quadro GFX and it's too slow to run my normal workload of terms, browser and VMs. Given the fact that I'm a contractor, spending a little extra on a faster CPU would probably pay itself back in less than a week for my employer. Sure, if they'd stop mandating W7 on the desktop with full encryption and on-access virus scanning, the world would be a better place for me, but most likely not for the company.
For servers, almost everything is running on VMs now. More power per CPU is very welcome there, since you can run faster/more VMs per box. The less heat you produce, the more servers you can put in a data center. Given the cost for real estate at prime interconnect sites, it's profitable to go green, even if you're not a tree hugging hippie.
on this planet. Maybe for /. readers it is, but for of almost 7 billion people on this planet, the most common languages are Portuguese, Spanish, and most probably Hindi, Mandarin and Arab will be the language they use the most. Even tho these languages require extra effort to use a keyboard for input, I doubt SWYPE will be any better. With the world economy and politics giving China, India and South America one of the fastest rates of growth in wealth, you'd have to account for their language and input methods if you want to successfully sell hardware worldwide.
Is there a WII edition for that game? I'd love to learn that with the wii-motion.
It just had to happen. You made a typo. "tstate"?
These modern newfangled computer type things come with a built in spell checker.
They get a one time compile of whatever kernel version works on it and then sit in the field with unpatched security leaks until they die, or are replaced with an upgrade. A lot of them still run 2.6.16 or something around that.
Imagine the following scenario:
You Download source code from a tarball at kernel.org. You develop against that. You commit to git. You change only 3 files and git tells you there are 20 files changed. This is when you realize that somehow, the tarball differs in 17 files from the git repository.
How many developers actually develop against a freshly downloaded tarball off ftp/http kernel.org mirror, in stead of a checkout/sync from the clean git branch? Because only the ones that do, and also have commit rights to git, would notice.
Flawlessly. Or didn't you ever learn to write in a foreign language that good?
It's what all the big companies do to get their agenda taken care of. Democracy in the USA is no longer based on the most votes, but on the most dollars contributed to campaign funds. However, to stay on subject, how about getting certificates issued for guitars built before these laws came into effect? It shouldn't be hard for A-brand manufacturers to retro-warrant based on serial numbers?