There are various other issues why 5-1/4â donâ(TM)t work, it has to do with physics. I think the last 5-1/4â I used were an IBM DeskStar series on a SCSI bus and they had a rotational speed of 3600rpm.
The bus is fast enough, but there is a limit to the mechanical motion. You can make the drive spin faster (10k, 15k) and the arm move faster but at some point the forces involved becomes an issue (so you end up with 10k, 15k drives only being in 2.5" packages). So to answer your questions, no, there won't be any significant upgrade in speed and yes, the rebuild times for these will be tremendous and you can't really think about your data as "RAID sets" anymore, that model is quickly becoming outdated. You have to think about "storage nodes" as a single, really large hard drive.
As always, the drops will come when the new tech arrives. 10TB drives are about half the price (~$350) now as they were when they came out (~$6-800). A 5TB drive is now at the $100-150 price point so it's dropped by 30-50%.
1TB is surprisingly small these days. Most people I know have ~500GB in home videos and pictures alone, let alone media they may still have for iPod's and similar devices.
2-4TB is right now the range in what most "consumers" buy hard drives at. Not because of availability, but because of necessity.
There is a bunch of stuff that goes on in these software updates, Apple obviously can't test dozens of third party modules, what's surprising to me is that they fixed it at all given they were under no obligation to do so and only did so for customer service reasons.
Windows breaks a lot more third party stuff on a regular basis and never fixes it, hence the reason why people still run outdated versions of Windows XP.
I don't know if you know how stupendously fast modern GPUs are, they can analyze entire scenes several times faster than real time. I would also hope that, once completed, most of the detection happens in FPGA, not in GPU, the latencies and processing capabilities of a PCIe bus are several orders of magnitude inferior compared to an FPGA.
I can't fathom having thousands of watts in FPGA, that would be ludicrously expensive even to be able to program and keep track of that many.
It's unclear what the parent is referring to, he said 40W for LIDAR, the most powerful LIDAR I can find commercially uses a 10W laser module although it's power consumption is only 250mW because, as I said, you're pulsing the signal around at 20kHz, not just beaming everything on full power.
You do need a powerful enough laser to be able to reach the further distances, but that is not a continuous thing. It's similar to those really big laser laboratories, they are reported to use as much power as the entire United States - for about a femtosecond.
A 40W laser is what you'll find in a cheap laser cutting machine. A 1W laser won't cut much, you can find those in cheap laser pointers, you can perhaps put some tissue paper on fire if you're lucky.
A LIDAR doesn't consume that much power, commercial units for the 100m range have 10W lasers. 40W lasers are dangerous and stupendously big, it's what you use to cut woods and plastic. Also, the power output of a laser for these applications isn't continuous, they are pulsed to match acquisition rates so your power consumption (and heat production) is a lot less, even if it were a 40W laser (which it isn't), you're talking about 20 kHz pulses.
My cluster is doing data analysis and I can show you graphs of it's power consumption, a modern Tesla uses 200W, the CPUs another 200W (110W is the power consumption on a Kaby Lake Xeon), the rest of the machine doesn't do much power consumption between the SSD, the RAM and some fans. On idle, the thing uses less than 100W, on full tilt, it uses a little over 600W. The power supplies are rated for 1500W, but for that to even matter I would have to fill it with GPU's.
I work with lasers, IR and high-end computers all the time, I know what I'm talking about.
I run a small cluster on less than 2kW of power which would include 3 nodes with each 16 cores, 256GB RAM, 1TB in SSDs and a Tesla GPU.
Just to give you an idea, 2kW of power on your standard 12V car requires a current of 167A.
I'm not even sure what you would have to put in to get a package of 2kW, that's 2000W. Camera's take up less than 2W each, even if you need 10 of them, you're still at only 20W LIDAR take up perhaps 10W each, one for each end of the car is another 20W. Give or take another 10W for various sensors, you've got 50W. A computer unit with a decent GPU for highly parallel tasks can be done in 200W.
Facebook even recognizes people that are NOT on Facebook. You can find "your full name profile" on Facebook, just in case.
Facebook keeps track of everything, if you have 2 accounts, but use the same browser, a cookie will keep track of that easy. Facial recognition does the rest.
Even LinkedIn does this, one of my retired colleagues walked into the office, he had the LinkedIn app on his phone and everybody got a notice not even 5 mins later "you may know so-and-so". GPS tracking on the app had matched their locations.
They are not legally skirting anything, they are sovereign nations (although on US soil) and the state cannot regulate them. They are free to do whatever, do not have to pay taxes and have their own legal systems. You can see a 'true' map of the US here: https://nativeheritageproject....
Also makes you shudder when you think that USCS and DHS have designated 100 miles away from every border a constitution-free zone.
I think it's talking about the football team. But the "pathway to success" here makes no more sense than a bunch of buzzwords. There is no way in hell that legislation will change in less than a decade to let this all through. Just opening a case with the FTC will take that long.
What does one have to do with the other? We all know Putin is vicious, but no worse than the Clintons and Bushes that did the exact same thing. But that has nothing to do with Kaspersky.
They may have found a hole in the Kaspersky software and not shared it with them but I highly doubt they willingly put it in there. If that is the case, then make the same objective analysis for Microsoft and Cisco.
He can only repeal what wasn't put in effect by Congress. To that effect, the Obama administration did a rather poor job at governing, simply laying the groundwork for a Clinton presidency where the same 'ruling by executive order' would be common place.
The US works (or doesn't) based on more than just the President, it was time all parties got that through their little skulls. Elect your congress critters to make laws that make sense for you and if they don't, vote them out. Congress has been "lame duck" since about the time they couldn't agree on the Iraq War.
But pushing on your point, any blogger can say anything they want about any product. You can't have a company liable for third party speech, good or bad, it would be too easy to punish anyone you want simply by having a third party say good things and then suing them for false advertising. All you can do about that is educate better so that people can assess the veracity of a claim.
Biometric IDs are fine if they are used as a portion of a key to unlock data.
The best way to assure that hacks like this wonâ(TM)t have an impact is by expecting Equifax is only allowed to store an encrypted version of your data. They can still make encrypted queries against the data and get encrypted results but they donâ(TM)t get the true data. And although homomorphic encryption isnâ(TM)t all that fast yet, for what banks need it for (adding and subtracting numbers) its actually very doable.
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There are various other issues why 5-1/4â donâ(TM)t work, it has to do with physics. I think the last 5-1/4â I used were an IBM DeskStar series on a SCSI bus and they had a rotational speed of 3600rpm.
The bus is fast enough, but there is a limit to the mechanical motion. You can make the drive spin faster (10k, 15k) and the arm move faster but at some point the forces involved becomes an issue (so you end up with 10k, 15k drives only being in 2.5" packages). So to answer your questions, no, there won't be any significant upgrade in speed and yes, the rebuild times for these will be tremendous and you can't really think about your data as "RAID sets" anymore, that model is quickly becoming outdated. You have to think about "storage nodes" as a single, really large hard drive.
As always, the drops will come when the new tech arrives. 10TB drives are about half the price (~$350) now as they were when they came out (~$6-800). A 5TB drive is now at the $100-150 price point so it's dropped by 30-50%.
1TB is surprisingly small these days. Most people I know have ~500GB in home videos and pictures alone, let alone media they may still have for iPod's and similar devices.
2-4TB is right now the range in what most "consumers" buy hard drives at. Not because of availability, but because of necessity.
There is a bunch of stuff that goes on in these software updates, Apple obviously can't test dozens of third party modules, what's surprising to me is that they fixed it at all given they were under no obligation to do so and only did so for customer service reasons.
Windows breaks a lot more third party stuff on a regular basis and never fixes it, hence the reason why people still run outdated versions of Windows XP.
I don't know if you know how stupendously fast modern GPUs are, they can analyze entire scenes several times faster than real time. I would also hope that, once completed, most of the detection happens in FPGA, not in GPU, the latencies and processing capabilities of a PCIe bus are several orders of magnitude inferior compared to an FPGA.
I can't fathom having thousands of watts in FPGA, that would be ludicrously expensive even to be able to program and keep track of that many.
Thicker wiring. I have built systems that use 12V @ 200A, the wiring is very, very thick and requires quite some special tools to crimp.
Wow, you failed math and Moore's law together.
It's unclear what the parent is referring to, he said 40W for LIDAR, the most powerful LIDAR I can find commercially uses a 10W laser module although it's power consumption is only 250mW because, as I said, you're pulsing the signal around at 20kHz, not just beaming everything on full power.
You do need a powerful enough laser to be able to reach the further distances, but that is not a continuous thing. It's similar to those really big laser laboratories, they are reported to use as much power as the entire United States - for about a femtosecond.
A 40W laser is what you'll find in a cheap laser cutting machine. A 1W laser won't cut much, you can find those in cheap laser pointers, you can perhaps put some tissue paper on fire if you're lucky.
A LIDAR doesn't consume that much power, commercial units for the 100m range have 10W lasers. 40W lasers are dangerous and stupendously big, it's what you use to cut woods and plastic. Also, the power output of a laser for these applications isn't continuous, they are pulsed to match acquisition rates so your power consumption (and heat production) is a lot less, even if it were a 40W laser (which it isn't), you're talking about 20 kHz pulses.
My cluster is doing data analysis and I can show you graphs of it's power consumption, a modern Tesla uses 200W, the CPUs another 200W (110W is the power consumption on a Kaby Lake Xeon), the rest of the machine doesn't do much power consumption between the SSD, the RAM and some fans. On idle, the thing uses less than 100W, on full tilt, it uses a little over 600W. The power supplies are rated for 1500W, but for that to even matter I would have to fill it with GPU's.
I work with lasers, IR and high-end computers all the time, I know what I'm talking about.
I looked one up for you, the price tag isn't great at $10k but it only consumes 7W and can "see" 100m.
I run a small cluster on less than 2kW of power which would include 3 nodes with each 16 cores, 256GB RAM, 1TB in SSDs and a Tesla GPU.
Just to give you an idea, 2kW of power on your standard 12V car requires a current of 167A.
I'm not even sure what you would have to put in to get a package of 2kW, that's 2000W. Camera's take up less than 2W each, even if you need 10 of them, you're still at only 20W LIDAR take up perhaps 10W each, one for each end of the car is another 20W. Give or take another 10W for various sensors, you've got 50W. A computer unit with a decent GPU for highly parallel tasks can be done in 200W.
Facebook even recognizes people that are NOT on Facebook. You can find "your full name profile" on Facebook, just in case.
Facebook keeps track of everything, if you have 2 accounts, but use the same browser, a cookie will keep track of that easy. Facial recognition does the rest.
Even LinkedIn does this, one of my retired colleagues walked into the office, he had the LinkedIn app on his phone and everybody got a notice not even 5 mins later "you may know so-and-so". GPS tracking on the app had matched their locations.
They are not legally skirting anything, they are sovereign nations (although on US soil) and the state cannot regulate them. They are free to do whatever, do not have to pay taxes and have their own legal systems. You can see a 'true' map of the US here: https://nativeheritageproject....
Also makes you shudder when you think that USCS and DHS have designated 100 miles away from every border a constitution-free zone.
I think it's talking about the football team. But the "pathway to success" here makes no more sense than a bunch of buzzwords. There is no way in hell that legislation will change in less than a decade to let this all through. Just opening a case with the FTC will take that long.
I can get you a component cable for a tenth that cost though.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
What does one have to do with the other? We all know Putin is vicious, but no worse than the Clintons and Bushes that did the exact same thing. But that has nothing to do with Kaspersky.
They may have found a hole in the Kaspersky software and not shared it with them but I highly doubt they willingly put it in there. If that is the case, then make the same objective analysis for Microsoft and Cisco.
If you wanted alien overlords, you should've voted for Clinton!
Oh yeah, Gentoo now costs 100x as much as last year and Linus Torvalds is also talking about increasing his licensing fees by 200%.
He can only repeal what wasn't put in effect by Congress. To that effect, the Obama administration did a rather poor job at governing, simply laying the groundwork for a Clinton presidency where the same 'ruling by executive order' would be common place.
The US works (or doesn't) based on more than just the President, it was time all parties got that through their little skulls. Elect your congress critters to make laws that make sense for you and if they don't, vote them out. Congress has been "lame duck" since about the time they couldn't agree on the Iraq War.
The century has just began, at the current rate, I'm pretty sure that the century will have much greater claims.
But pushing on your point, any blogger can say anything they want about any product. You can't have a company liable for third party speech, good or bad, it would be too easy to punish anyone you want simply by having a third party say good things and then suing them for false advertising. All you can do about that is educate better so that people can assess the veracity of a claim.
Complain to the /. editors about UTF-8 support. It's 2017, even Perl has had UTF-8 support for a few decades.
Biometric IDs are fine if they are used as a portion of a key to unlock data.
The best way to assure that hacks like this wonâ(TM)t have an impact is by expecting Equifax is only allowed to store an encrypted version of your data. They can still make encrypted queries against the data and get encrypted results but they donâ(TM)t get the true data. And although homomorphic encryption isnâ(TM)t all that fast yet, for what banks need it for (adding and subtracting numbers) its actually very doable.