Also what resoloution were things set to, early 3D games got much slower if you tried to crank up the resoloution from the default 320x200 to say 640x480.
can demand prices based on the hardware you run their software on. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of charging for server software to me. Charging per machine means those who buy big beefy servers get the software cheaper than those who buy equivalent hardware in the form of more lower end boxes. Charging per end user makes it very expensive for a new customer to set up with you, and makes your product virtually unusable for certain classes of system (e.g. those systems that provide a small ammount of service to a lot of users and/or offer services to the general public over the internet). It is also difficult to audit.
Can you suggest anything better than charging based on the ammount of hardware someone has in their machines?
The majority of normal people don't care until it actually happens to them and even then they may tolerate it. Add in piracy paranoia and amazons huge marketing power and I fear that they and similar services may remain a dominant force despite this shit.
I plan to continue buying my books in dead tree format but if ebooks become too popular that may either cease to be an option or become very expensive.
While I don't go to mcdonalds much anymore due to trying to lose weight I found that they offered food that I liked and equally importantly they did so consistently. If i'm away from home and hungry I can go into a mcdonalds buy a box of mcnuggets and a milkshake (I don't like chips) and be pretty sure it would be as nice as the ones bought in the mcdonalds locally. It's not fancy but the batter doesn't have any weird tastes and the chicken inside is fine too.
I'm sure the same applies to other chain outlets but mcdonalds is one of the most common and one where I know I can get food I like.
Independents can be good but they can also be terribly bad and when I'm hungry, in an unknown place and just want something nice quickly then consistency is very attractive.
Why does everyone pick on mcdonalds? I know fried food isn't particually healthy but why pick on mcdonalds in particular? is there something worse about their food than comparable food from a local outlet?
Indeed, which raises a problem for the operators. Satphone networks have high fixed costs and in particular high initial launch costs. This is especially true of the LEO networks. The result is that almost anyone who tries to set one up ends up hugely in debt and struggling to repay that debt.
Afaict there are only two LEO satphone networks in the world and both went bankrupt and pretty much wiped out their original investors and creditors (according to wikipedia the irridium network was sold of for about half a cent on the dollar, no figures are given by wikipedia for globalstar). GEO networks have been a bit more successful but it's still a tough game.
Out of interest do you have a link for the second video (in particular i'd like to know if it was a T-Bird, an XP or both that were retested)? I remember discussion about the causes but I don't recall a second video.
As I understood it on the thunderbird athlon there was no thermal protection system and with the athlon XP the thermal diode was on the processor and working fine but the protection mechanisms controlled by it were on the motherboard and not able to react in time to save the CPU from a heatsink removal.
IMO a cloud is more about attitude and software than hardware.
The traditional attitude to hosting is to give each server a workload or set of workloads (which may be either yours or a clients) on a semi-permanent basis and if there is a problem with a server get an admin to deal with it ASAP because while there may be some redudancy losing a few servers in the wrong place or an overload of the machines providing a particular service is likely to be a big problem.
The cloud attitude is to decouple the logical structure from the physical structure such that no human has to know or care what workload is on what server. Once you've done that you can further introduce automatic scaling of the resource allocation to meet current workloads and automatic migration when a host needs to be taken offline, is overloaded or just plain crashes (though in the last case the migration will be less seemless, probablly comparable to an unexpected reboot of a conventional server).
Regardless of the supposed efficiancy improvements with IPV6 prefixes the basic fact remains that routing with longer addresses requires more time to do in software and wider tables to do in hardware.
But afaict the main issue is that older routers can route V4 in hardware but can only route V6 in software.
The sad fact is that it's now too late for a smooth transition to IPV6. There will still be V4 only clients and servers past the end of net V4 allocations.
That means the ISPs have little choice but to deploy ISP level V4 nat and use the recovered addresses for those that really need and are prepared to pay for a public V4 IP (servers etc). They will need to buy and deploy all this ISP level V4 nat gear regardless of whether they also deploy IPV6.
I think it will be a long time before IPV4 addreses aren't available for important servers and also a long time before users don't have some means of reaching servers on the IPV4 internet.
Really there are only two compelling reasons to go v6 for a company at the moment.
1: They want a large proportion of machines to be reachable from outside thier organisation and they see that number continuing to grow. 2: Their network is so massive that it will in the forseeable future outgrow the combination of 10.0.0.0/8 plus whatever v4 space they have aquired to date (comcast has this problem).
In DNS speak a "zone" defines names with a common suffix. It may either define those names directly or it may delegate them to sub-zones hosted on other servers.
So when you lookup www.slashdot.org then (asusming nothing is cached) the recursive resolver looks up www.slashdot.org in servers responsible for the root zone which tells it where the.org zone is hosted. Those servers tell the resolver where slashdot.org zone is hosted and finally those servers tell the resolver the requested details for www.slashdot.org .
in the USA there are no borders to check through. Afaict other than moving between the british isles and mainland europe there aren't in the EU either these days.
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I didn't, on the HDTVs I tried one didn't like PC resoloutions through the HDMI port at all and the other gave a maginally better picture than via VGA but was still far from acceptable for desktop use.
In the end I gave up and bought a device specificaly sold as a "monitor TV" (LG M2762D). Connected it via DVI and got a perfect picture right off the bat:).
And even the face is covered up if you select the "gimp suit" item of clothing.
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Afaict it's a bios issue. During the early boot phase the bios is doing the job of providing basic input from the keyboard and output to the screen (hence the name bios;) ).
Unfortunately there was a long time lag between the introduction of USB and proper bios support for UISB keyboards (especially for keyboards behind hubs such as the ones in most USB KVM switches). And even when the bios does support it it's not always turned on.
After windows loads there is another phase of annoyance if devices have moved ports and windows trys to figure out what is going on and load the right drivers.
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Ghosting isn't really about frequency response. Lack of high frequency response would cause bluring.
If you really have ghosting it is likely a result of impedence mismatches either because you are attempting to use a passive splitter, because the characteristic impedance of the cable is wrong or because the termination in the devices sucks.
Personally I've had pretty good luck with VGA EXCEPT when trying to drive HDTVs. My conclusion is that the VGA inputs on those things just suck.
"FULL HD" isn't really that much higher than 1280x1024, especially when you condsider that LCDs usually run at 60Hz while late CRT monitors were often run much higher than that.
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As far as I know there are no VGA-DVI adapters (DVI-VGA does exist) The adaptors you speak of are just wiring adaptors. They (along with DVI-I sockets) let a computer or monitor manufacturer offer both analog and digital on the same port but the analog output hardware still has to be present in the computer. Afaict if the monitor supports it you can use them at the monitor end as well.
There are adaptors that actually convert between digital and analog but they don't come cheap.
I think it's only the US where they're really more convenient than other forms of payment. In the UK your choices basically boil down to
Cash (I find this most conviniant for small purcahses myself) Debit card (two main systems one of which is run by visa the other is run under license from mastercard) Credit card (visa, mastercard and a few others)
Afaict POS terminals accept all the cards mentioned above equally easily though I belive the fees to merchants vary.
So, yeah, online purchases. What other alternatives are there? Not many at least not that are in any way quick and conviniant (some suppliers will let you mail a check but that kind of goes against the whole "online" side of things.
Thing is the memory support on desktop boards is already ahead of what most people need even with todays "bloatware". LGA1156 supports 16GB and desktop LGA1366 suports 24GB yet even among "enthusiast" forums the consensus seems to be that 8GB is plenty.
Apple are already using DDR3 ECC (they don't say if it's registered or unregistered but I suspect it's registered) in the mac pro and xserve. It's not like apple had a lot of choice in the matter, memory controllers are now in the CPU so the CPU vendors call the shots as to what will be supported.
I don't see why it shouldn't be. Despite the "ultra" in the name UHF isn't all that high frequency by modern standards and by using very directional. That should have said and by using very directional antennas it should be possible to keep the transmit power low.
I don't see why it shouldn't be. Despite the "ultra" in the name UHF isn't all that high frequency by modern standards and by using very directional.
The real question is how directional can you make the antennas before the antennas themselves become insanely expensive. Line of sight is also important.
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Also what resoloution were things set to, early 3D games got much slower if you tried to crank up the resoloution from the default 320x200 to say 640x480.
Did the machine have a turbo button and if so did you make sure it was turned on?
can demand prices based on the hardware you run their software on.
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of charging for server software to me.
Charging per machine means those who buy big beefy servers get the software cheaper than those who buy equivalent hardware in the form of more lower end boxes.
Charging per end user makes it very expensive for a new customer to set up with you, and makes your product virtually unusable for certain classes of system (e.g. those systems that provide a small ammount of service to a lot of users and/or offer services to the general public over the internet). It is also difficult to audit.
Can you suggest anything better than charging based on the ammount of hardware someone has in their machines?
I hope you are right but fear you are wrong.
The majority of normal people don't care until it actually happens to them and even then they may tolerate it. Add in piracy paranoia and amazons huge marketing power and I fear that they and similar services may remain a dominant force despite this shit.
I plan to continue buying my books in dead tree format but if ebooks become too popular that may either cease to be an option or become very expensive.
While I don't go to mcdonalds much anymore due to trying to lose weight I found that they offered food that I liked and equally importantly they did so consistently. If i'm away from home and hungry I can go into a mcdonalds buy a box of mcnuggets and a milkshake (I don't like chips) and be pretty sure it would be as nice as the ones bought in the mcdonalds locally. It's not fancy but the batter doesn't have any weird tastes and the chicken inside is fine too.
I'm sure the same applies to other chain outlets but mcdonalds is one of the most common and one where I know I can get food I like.
Independents can be good but they can also be terribly bad and when I'm hungry, in an unknown place and just want something nice quickly then consistency is very attractive.
Why does everyone pick on mcdonalds? I know fried food isn't particually healthy but why pick on mcdonalds in particular? is there something worse about their food than comparable food from a local outlet?
Indeed, which raises a problem for the operators. Satphone networks have high fixed costs and in particular high initial launch costs. This is especially true of the LEO networks. The result is that almost anyone who tries to set one up ends up hugely in debt and struggling to repay that debt.
Afaict there are only two LEO satphone networks in the world and both went bankrupt and pretty much wiped out their original investors and creditors (according to wikipedia the irridium network was sold of for about half a cent on the dollar, no figures are given by wikipedia for globalstar). GEO networks have been a bit more successful but it's still a tough game.
Out of interest do you have a link for the second video (in particular i'd like to know if it was a T-Bird, an XP or both that were retested)? I remember discussion about the causes but I don't recall a second video.
and it was also when CPU heat output was going up to previously unprecedented levels.
As I understood it on the thunderbird athlon there was no thermal protection system and with the athlon XP the thermal diode was on the processor and working fine but the protection mechanisms controlled by it were on the motherboard and not able to react in time to save the CPU from a heatsink removal.
IMO a cloud is more about attitude and software than hardware.
The traditional attitude to hosting is to give each server a workload or set of workloads (which may be either yours or a clients) on a semi-permanent basis and if there is a problem with a server get an admin to deal with it ASAP because while there may be some redudancy losing a few servers in the wrong place or an overload of the machines providing a particular service is likely to be a big problem.
The cloud attitude is to decouple the logical structure from the physical structure such that no human has to know or care what workload is on what server. Once you've done that you can further introduce automatic scaling of the resource allocation to meet current workloads and automatic migration when a host needs to be taken offline, is overloaded or just plain crashes (though in the last case the migration will be less seemless, probablly comparable to an unexpected reboot of a conventional server).
Regardless of the supposed efficiancy improvements with IPV6 prefixes the basic fact remains that routing with longer addresses requires more time to do in software and wider tables to do in hardware.
But afaict the main issue is that older routers can route V4 in hardware but can only route V6 in software.
The sad fact is that it's now too late for a smooth transition to IPV6. There will still be V4 only clients and servers past the end of net V4 allocations.
That means the ISPs have little choice but to deploy ISP level V4 nat and use the recovered addresses for those that really need and are prepared to pay for a public V4 IP (servers etc). They will need to buy and deploy all this ISP level V4 nat gear regardless of whether they also deploy IPV6.
I think it will be a long time before IPV4 addreses aren't available for important servers and also a long time before users don't have some means of reaching servers on the IPV4 internet.
Really there are only two compelling reasons to go v6 for a company at the moment.
1: They want a large proportion of machines to be reachable from outside thier organisation and they see that number continuing to grow.
2: Their network is so massive that it will in the forseeable future outgrow the combination of 10.0.0.0/8 plus whatever v4 space they have aquired to date (comcast has this problem).
In DNS speak a "zone" defines names with a common suffix. It may either define those names directly or it may delegate them to sub-zones hosted on other servers.
So when you lookup www.slashdot.org then (asusming nothing is cached) the recursive resolver looks up www.slashdot.org in servers responsible for the root zone which tells it where the .org zone is hosted. Those servers tell the resolver where slashdot.org zone is hosted and finally those servers tell the resolver the requested details for www.slashdot.org .
in the USA there are no borders to check through.
Afaict other than moving between the british isles and mainland europe there aren't in the EU either these days.
I didn't, on the HDTVs I tried one didn't like PC resoloutions through the HDMI port at all and the other gave a maginally better picture than via VGA but was still far from acceptable for desktop use.
In the end I gave up and bought a device specificaly sold as a "monitor TV" (LG M2762D). Connected it via DVI and got a perfect picture right off the bat :).
And even the face is covered up if you select the "gimp suit" item of clothing.
Afaict it's a bios issue. During the early boot phase the bios is doing the job of providing basic input from the keyboard and output to the screen (hence the name bios ;) ).
Unfortunately there was a long time lag between the introduction of USB and proper bios support for UISB keyboards (especially for keyboards behind hubs such as the ones in most USB KVM switches). And even when the bios does support it it's not always turned on.
After windows loads there is another phase of annoyance if devices have moved ports and windows trys to figure out what is going on and load the right drivers.
Ghosting isn't really about frequency response. Lack of high frequency response would cause bluring.
If you really have ghosting it is likely a result of impedence mismatches either because you are attempting to use a passive splitter, because the characteristic impedance of the cable is wrong or because the termination in the devices sucks.
Personally I've had pretty good luck with VGA EXCEPT when trying to drive HDTVs. My conclusion is that the VGA inputs on those things just suck.
"FULL HD" isn't really that much higher than 1280x1024, especially when you condsider that LCDs usually run at 60Hz while late CRT monitors were often run much higher than that.
As far as I know there are no VGA-DVI adapters (DVI-VGA does exist)
The adaptors you speak of are just wiring adaptors. They (along with DVI-I sockets) let a computer or monitor manufacturer offer both analog and digital on the same port but the analog output hardware still has to be present in the computer. Afaict if the monitor supports it you can use them at the monitor end as well.
There are adaptors that actually convert between digital and analog but they don't come cheap.
I think it's only the US where they're really more convenient than other forms of payment.
In the UK your choices basically boil down to
Cash (I find this most conviniant for small purcahses myself)
Debit card (two main systems one of which is run by visa the other is run under license from mastercard)
Credit card (visa, mastercard and a few others)
Afaict POS terminals accept all the cards mentioned above equally easily though I belive the fees to merchants vary.
So, yeah, online purchases. What other alternatives are there?
Not many at least not that are in any way quick and conviniant (some suppliers will let you mail a check but that kind of goes against the whole "online" side of things.
Thing is the memory support on desktop boards is already ahead of what most people need even with todays "bloatware". LGA1156 supports 16GB and desktop LGA1366 suports 24GB yet even among "enthusiast" forums the consensus seems to be that 8GB is plenty.
Apple are already using DDR3 ECC (they don't say if it's registered or unregistered but I suspect it's registered) in the mac pro and xserve. It's not like apple had a lot of choice in the matter, memory controllers are now in the CPU so the CPU vendors call the shots as to what will be supported.
I don't see why it shouldn't be. Despite the "ultra" in the name UHF isn't all that high frequency by modern standards and by using very directional.
That should have said and by using very directional antennas it should be possible to keep the transmit power low.
I don't see why it shouldn't be. Despite the "ultra" in the name UHF isn't all that high frequency by modern standards and by using very directional.
The real question is how directional can you make the antennas before the antennas themselves become insanely expensive. Line of sight is also important.