Because then you can tell them that their connection is fine and be technically telling the truth. Their connection IS fine it's the core network that isn't;)
Not that I agree with such tactics but I can see the point in them...
The vast majority of systems have either no graphics card at all or one graphics card. Intel optimises their mainstream CPUs for that case whether hobbyists like it or not. AMD are also moving in that direction (look up socket FM1).
you might want to compare to a dual processor Xeon machine
Well you can get 8-12 cores with one of those BUT they are previous-generation cores (the dual-socket variant of LGA2011 isn't out yet) and you have to pay through the nose to get a decent clockspeed. The only people I know of who have purchased dual xeon workstations have done so for the ram support.
What's disappointing is the platform, no USB 3.0, two SATA 6 Gbps ports, no SAS support, it seems like PCI express 3.0 made it in but no cards support it yet
But you have far more lanes. Afaict LGA2011 has 40 lanes from the processor. So even if PCIe3 doesn't pan out you can have two graphics cards running at 2.0 x16 and still have room for a nice LSI sas controller straight off the processor.
so there's nothing besides the processor that really screams high end.
The thing is with modern highly integrated platforms the processor is what defines the key features of the platform.
they are bench-marking a $1000 processor against a $300 processor?
They are benchmarking the topen end desktop part of the current generation* against both thetop end desktop parts of the previous generation (990x), the upper-mainstream of the current generation (2700K) and the best chip the competitor can come up with (FX-8150). What else are they supposed to compare it with?
It is a bit dissapointing is that they don't have the 3930K in the test, it should be only slightly slower thant the 3960x while being a lot cheaper. From what I can gather this is because intel didn't bother sending out samples of that chip to the reviewers.
The fact it wins is as you say hardly surprising, what is more important is how much it wins by and in what tests. As expected it beats the 2700K by a wide margin in highly multithreaded tasks but has little advantage in thread count limited tasks. The 990x OTOH gets beaten by the 3960X in pretty much every test.
* With this generation intel released the mainstream long before the top-end, this is the opposite of what they did with previous generations.
IMO the most important feature of ZFS is the ability to provide better than raid protection for your data through the combination of checksuming and duplication. Afaict (unless there has been major development since the kernel.org wiki was last archived) BTRFS does not yet have this feature.
If you have documentation to the contary please post it.
Opensolaris was released under a MPL variant in 2008. It seems pretty clear to me that it was sun who chose to make opensolaris code incompatible with linux.
It depends on how you define "out of our atmosphere". The atmosphere doesn't really have a hard edge.
There is a range of altitudes where the atmosphere is thin enough to make orbiting possible but thick enough that those orbits have a relatively short lifetime unless reboosted periodically. As the altitude increases the required reboost frequency decreases.
The problem is that for certain purposes, Linux just isn't a viable alternative because it does not contain production-quality support for ZFS. If you're building a NAS device, this is (or should be) a deal-breaker.
ZFS seems to me like one of the biggest reasons to use something other than linux*. Afaict it is the only mature FS that can protect your data through the combination of checksums and multiple copies. Conventional RAID1 can protect you against drive failures but if there is silent corruption then the raid implementation has no idea which copy is correct and may end up overrwriting the correct copy with the incorrect one during a resync.
BTRFS seems to have aspirations to be a ZFS replacement but afaict it's not finished yet.
* be that solaris, freebsd, debian GNU/kfreebsd or whatever
But afaict it was going on in volumes low enough that noone really cared. Getting catalogues, looking stuff up in them and mailing or phoning through an order was just too much trouble for people to do it when they didn't have to.
Whereas now the retailers largest competitors are the internet firms that avoid paying sales tax. Wouldn't you bitch about it if your largest competitors were given a massive tax advantage?
Now unless you buy something large (for instance I just bought a very expensive camera and need to declare the purchase) it's probably going to fall within the "nobody will notice" class of tax evasion
My understanding is that many states gave up on trying to get their citizens to calculate the exact ammount of out of state purchases and allowed them to pay an "estimated use tax" instead that covered all out of state orders below a certain per-order value.
Though afaict it does create the distortion that areas that were rich in 1991 (the year on which valuations are based for england and wales) will pay more tax than those that were poor in 1991 regardless of their current status.
Also note that council tax for homes* in the UK is NOT proportional. Homes in the highest band only pay three times as much as homes in the lowest band despite being over 8 times the value.
* Commercial property is subject to buisness rates which are proportional to rental value at a given date.
My question would be what happens to the rubish AFTER these people have removed it from the streets have removed anything they can recycle? Does it end up in the air as fumes from a crude incinerator or precious metal extraction furnace? does it end up buried in crude landfill with no protection against leaching? does it end up just dumped in the countryside somwhere?
IEC 60309 connectors go up to some pretty high powers. You can easilly pick up 125A 3 phase 230V/400V models from any decent electrical supplier in the UK. That gives you 86KW. I belive there is a 250A IEC60309 but i've never seen one for sale.
Beyond that there are camloks and powerloks which are single pole connectors rated at hundreds of amps. These are trickier to find but afaict you don't need a "secret handshake" or anything. You do need to ensure that idiots don't mess with them though, especially with camloks (powerlocks are safer than camlocks because they require a special key to disconnect and are designed to be touchproof when disconnected but they are still only suitable for use by people who know and understand the dangers)
The trouble is that high power EV charging has special requirements above and beyond a general purpose mains connector.
1: The charging station must be able to indicate maximum current to the car and large charging stations may need to change that maximum current dynamically to avoid overloads further back in the system. 2: There should be protection against disconnection under load. 3: Unless the car has a very high power charger built in an external charger will be needed in the charging station with electriticity delivered straight from the connector to the batteries. That likely means lower voltages and higher currents and it also means DC which makes the need for protection against disconnection under load far more acute.
AIUI what he is proposing is a car that can be converted between a pure electric car and a hybrid by adding or removing a trailer which sounds very reasonable to me. You avoid hauling the ICE arround most of the time and yet you keep the ability to make long journeys in your own car without worrying about charging stops.
According to wikipedia a cop is paid arround $50K per year. Assuming a working year of 250 days that means each working day. Assuming a working day is 8 hours it will take three working days of cop time to monitor someone for 24 hours. That means round the clock monitoring would cost around $750 per day in salary costs alone, add overheads and it's likely over $1K per day. Afaict using cops to watch someone is so expensive that it is only done in extreme cases.
Whereas a tracker is placed on a car and remains there until either the cops chose to remove it or the suspect finds it. So unless the suspect is being extremely paranoid you are likely to get months of surveillance out of it.
I repair old pinball machines, some people I know also do and always look for sources of obsolete ics. It's amazing how many times you find a 'stock' of obsolete parts that's available.. sometimes the scam is clear (datemarks that are too recent) but sometimes it's not so obvious and only after testing you see that the parts you received are fakes..
And presumabllly sometimes the fakes are good enough that they seem to work and get installed but they don't work quite right and/or fail prematurely. Not such a big deal if it's just a pinball machine but potentially a very big deal if it's some more critical system.
And because of onerous certification requirements critical systems often end up with very long life cycles (redesigning means recertifying which means high costs) so they are likely to run into parts sourcing issues.
Does it show the URL in the status bar when you hover over a link to make sure it's not Goatse? (Oh, wait, the Fx UX team doesn't think I need a status bar.)
While the status bar has gone the main information that used to be displayed there (hovering over links, page load progress etc) now pops up in one of the bottom corners of the window (usually the bottom left but if you move your mouse to the bottom left the notification moves to the bottom right. So it's not really that big a change for normal web browsing.
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Because then you can tell them that their connection is fine and be technically telling the truth. Their connection IS fine it's the core network that isn't ;)
Not that I agree with such tactics but I can see the point in them...
Could this be the processor for a new Mac Pro? Or will Apple wait for Ivy Bridge.
Early next year intel will be coming out with dual socket capable LGA2011 xeons. Those are what I would expect apple to put in the mac pro.
They've had SB Xeons for awhile now, the E7-8830 is an example.
At least according to wikipedia that chip isn't actually SB based.
their market share is now about 60%
Intel now integrates a GPU in all their current gen mainstream processors. So many many people will end up owning an intel GPU without ever using it.
The vast majority of systems have either no graphics card at all or one graphics card. Intel optimises their mainstream CPUs for that case whether hobbyists like it or not. AMD are also moving in that direction (look up socket FM1).
Of course giving someone a suspended sentance of jail time is very different from actually giving them jail time.
you might want to compare to a dual processor Xeon machine
Well you can get 8-12 cores with one of those BUT they are previous-generation cores (the dual-socket variant of LGA2011 isn't out yet) and you have to pay through the nose to get a decent clockspeed. The only people I know of who have purchased dual xeon workstations have done so for the ram support.
What's disappointing is the platform, no USB 3.0, two SATA 6 Gbps ports, no SAS support, it seems like PCI express 3.0 made it in but no cards support it yet
But you have far more lanes. Afaict LGA2011 has 40 lanes from the processor. So even if PCIe3 doesn't pan out you can have two graphics cards running at 2.0 x16 and still have room for a nice LSI sas controller straight off the processor.
so there's nothing besides the processor that really screams high end.
The thing is with modern highly integrated platforms the processor is what defines the key features of the platform.
they are bench-marking a $1000 processor against a $300 processor?
They are benchmarking the topen end desktop part of the current generation* against both thetop end desktop parts of the previous generation (990x), the upper-mainstream of the current generation (2700K) and the best chip the competitor can come up with (FX-8150). What else are they supposed to compare it with?
It is a bit dissapointing is that they don't have the 3930K in the test, it should be only slightly slower thant the 3960x while being a lot cheaper. From what I can gather this is because intel didn't bother sending out samples of that chip to the reviewers.
The fact it wins is as you say hardly surprising, what is more important is how much it wins by and in what tests. As expected it beats the 2700K by a wide margin in highly multithreaded tasks but has little advantage in thread count limited tasks. The 990x OTOH gets beaten by the 3960X in pretty much every test.
* With this generation intel released the mainstream long before the top-end, this is the opposite of what they did with previous generations.
IMO the most important feature of ZFS is the ability to provide better than raid protection for your data through the combination of checksuming and duplication. Afaict (unless there has been major development since the kernel.org wiki was last archived) BTRFS does not yet have this feature.
If you have documentation to the contary please post it.
For better or worse the linux kernel is stuck on GPLv2, there are far too many copyright holders to make a license change feasible.
The FSF had said as far back as 2001 that they considered the MPL incompatible with the GPL.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010728064920/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Opensolaris was released under a MPL variant in 2008. It seems pretty clear to me that it was sun who chose to make opensolaris code incompatible with linux.
Or did it actually get out of our atmosphere
It depends on how you define "out of our atmosphere". The atmosphere doesn't really have a hard edge.
There is a range of altitudes where the atmosphere is thin enough to make orbiting possible but thick enough that those orbits have a relatively short lifetime unless reboosted periodically. As the altitude increases the required reboost frequency decreases.
Just not enough to be worth paying 3x as much every month.
That is really the bottom line isn't it. Faster broadband is nice but for most people (myself included) it's pretty low down the priority list.
The problem is that for certain purposes, Linux just isn't a viable alternative because it does not contain production-quality support for ZFS. If you're building a NAS device, this is (or should be) a deal-breaker.
What about freebsd or debian GNU/kFreeBSD?
especially version 10+ (DTrace, ZFS).
ZFS seems to me like one of the biggest reasons to use something other than linux*. Afaict it is the only mature FS that can protect your data through the combination of checksums and multiple copies. Conventional RAID1 can protect you against drive failures but if there is silent corruption then the raid implementation has no idea which copy is correct and may end up overrwriting the correct copy with the incorrect one during a resync.
BTRFS seems to have aspirations to be a ZFS replacement but afaict it's not finished yet.
* be that solaris, freebsd, debian GNU/kfreebsd or whatever
That's been going on a lot longer.
But afaict it was going on in volumes low enough that noone really cared. Getting catalogues, looking stuff up in them and mailing or phoning through an order was just too much trouble for people to do it when they didn't have to.
Whereas now the retailers largest competitors are the internet firms that avoid paying sales tax. Wouldn't you bitch about it if your largest competitors were given a massive tax advantage?
Now unless you buy something large (for instance I just bought a very expensive camera and need to declare the purchase) it's probably going to fall within the "nobody will notice" class of tax evasion
My understanding is that many states gave up on trying to get their citizens to calculate the exact ammount of out of state purchases and allowed them to pay an "estimated use tax" instead that covered all out of state orders below a certain per-order value.
Though afaict it does create the distortion that areas that were rich in 1991 (the year on which valuations are based for england and wales) will pay more tax than those that were poor in 1991 regardless of their current status.
Also note that council tax for homes* in the UK is NOT proportional. Homes in the highest band only pay three times as much as homes in the lowest band despite being over 8 times the value.
* Commercial property is subject to buisness rates which are proportional to rental value at a given date.
My question would be what happens to the rubish AFTER these people have removed it from the streets have removed anything they can recycle? Does it end up in the air as fumes from a crude incinerator or precious metal extraction furnace? does it end up buried in crude landfill with no protection against leaching? does it end up just dumped in the countryside somwhere?
IEC 60309 connectors go up to some pretty high powers. You can easilly pick up 125A 3 phase 230V/400V models from any decent electrical supplier in the UK. That gives you 86KW. I belive there is a 250A IEC60309 but i've never seen one for sale.
Beyond that there are camloks and powerloks which are single pole connectors rated at hundreds of amps. These are trickier to find but afaict you don't need a "secret handshake" or anything. You do need to ensure that idiots don't mess with them though, especially with camloks (powerlocks are safer than camlocks because they require a special key to disconnect and are designed to be touchproof when disconnected but they are still only suitable for use by people who know and understand the dangers)
The trouble is that high power EV charging has special requirements above and beyond a general purpose mains connector.
1: The charging station must be able to indicate maximum current to the car and large charging stations may need to change that maximum current dynamically to avoid overloads further back in the system.
2: There should be protection against disconnection under load.
3: Unless the car has a very high power charger built in an external charger will be needed in the charging station with electriticity delivered straight from the connector to the batteries. That likely means lower voltages and higher currents and it also means DC which makes the need for protection against disconnection under load far more acute.
AIUI what he is proposing is a car that can be converted between a pure electric car and a hybrid by adding or removing a trailer which sounds very reasonable to me. You avoid hauling the ICE arround most of the time and yet you keep the ability to make long journeys in your own car without worrying about charging stops.
That means round the clock monitoring would cost around $750 per day in salary costs alone, add overheads and it's likely over $1K per day.
Sorry messed up my arithmetic, that should have said $600 per day in salary costs alone
According to wikipedia a cop is paid arround $50K per year. Assuming a working year of 250 days that means each working day. Assuming a working day is 8 hours it will take three working days of cop time to monitor someone for 24 hours. That means round the clock monitoring would cost around $750 per day in salary costs alone, add overheads and it's likely over $1K per day. Afaict using cops to watch someone is so expensive that it is only done in extreme cases.
Whereas a tracker is placed on a car and remains there until either the cops chose to remove it or the suspect finds it. So unless the suspect is being extremely paranoid you are likely to get months of surveillance out of it.
I repair old pinball machines, some people I know also do and always look for sources of obsolete ics.
It's amazing how many times you find a 'stock' of obsolete parts that's available.. sometimes the scam is clear (datemarks that are too recent) but sometimes it's not so obvious and only after testing you see that the parts you received are fakes..
And presumabllly sometimes the fakes are good enough that they seem to work and get installed but they don't work quite right and/or fail prematurely. Not such a big deal if it's just a pinball machine but potentially a very big deal if it's some more critical system.
And because of onerous certification requirements critical systems often end up with very long life cycles (redesigning means recertifying which means high costs) so they are likely to run into parts sourcing issues.
Thing is if a plugin can install itself it can probablly also add itself to the "enabled plugins" list.
Does it show the URL in the status bar when you hover over a link to make sure it's not Goatse? (Oh, wait, the Fx UX team doesn't think I need a status bar.)
While the status bar has gone the main information that used to be displayed there (hovering over links, page load progress etc) now pops up in one of the bottom corners of the window (usually the bottom left but if you move your mouse to the bottom left the notification moves to the bottom right. So it's not really that big a change for normal web browsing.