Now take a whole datacenter of those, decrease their idle time by 25% and you'll see a substantial increase on your power bill.
And in your mind, what percentage of a server's power usage is tied up in the CPU? I'd speculate about 20% after you figure in RAM and drives.
So if the CPU is 20% of the total power of the server, and cpu power consumption increases 25% of the 30% low-power idle time (7.5%), that means the servers power usage will increase 1/5th of 7.5%, or 1.5%...
If a 1.5% increase in server power usage is a "substantial increase" you can overcome that increase by running your data center 2-3 degrees warmer.
All created by those free software fans that "lacked the large corporate structure needed to produce anything as complex as an OS".
" Producing" an OS from scratch is incredibly hard and requires a massive effort, coding the missing piece of an otherwise complete software environment by "assembling" existing software into a workable OS is much, much easier. Linux stands on the shoulder of a massive army of GNU and open source developers that came before Linux bought his 80386 CPU.
I'm saying that there is race and gender inequality no matter how you slice and dice it.
OK, let's take two postal workers, with the same time on the job, same performance ratings but one male, one female (same race/ethnicity) - I contend they'll have equal pay - prove me wrong. Instead of male, female, how about a white male & a black female - I contend they'll have equal pay. (If they don't, they can take employer to court, under 50 year-old equal pay rules.)
How about we look at the NBA - do white players make more than black players? No. Do women in the NBA earn less than men? Yes. But neither proves pay inequity.
In America, not France where we are talking about in this article, you would have had A JOB waiting for your return because of the Family Leave Act, Buy your employer is not obliged to hold your previous position for you indefinitely.
However, legislators may require companies to release the average salaries of their male and female employees and analyze them for disparities.
This type of analysis was tried in the US a few years ago, the politicians found pay disparities on gender when they simply did as discussed above (no surprise), but once they factored in things like comparing same jobs and years experience the pay disparity went away.
To save face, proponents liedand claimed the initial comparison was for men and women doing 'exactly the same job' (when it clearly wasn't) and those that believed there was gender-based pay inequities never challenged findings they already believed.
Of RISC-V? That there are an increasing number of competing implementations and, because a lot of them are open source, they can cooperate on common components.
Translation: because RISC-V has forked into an "increasing number of implementations" it is poised to take over the world! Just like Linux, right?
How long would it take to get an 'Open Source chip' to the point that it can run xbill or support a current standards web browser? Heck, how long would it take to make a system that can handle console I/O, store data on SATA drives, and connect to an Ethernet network?
If all design decisions were made, no changes needed, how long would it take to come up with either a chip that plugs into an existing motherboard, or a board that includes both the processor and all supporting I/O, like say a Raspberry Pi does?
The answer is hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands upon thousands of worker-years, and if this is a truly free, open-source effort, don't forget to multiply the above estimate times some multiplier that each worker will only be part-time before you try and 'spit-ball' a number of calendar years before it is available.
RMS famously spent decades trying to develop his own software environment that ran on commercial hardware and failed, due to in-fighting and his constant quest for the ever-elusive, always-evolving "best" architecture for his Kernel... Then Linus came along, cane up with a 'good enough' Kernel and made 'Linux'. As RMS will tell you, Linus didn't build Linux on his own in 18 months, he leveraged countless years of work by hundreds of GNU contributors and came up with the one thing RMS was missing - that's the part that took 18 months.
Enough to not trust my personal data & security to random bits of software downloaded from random sites onthe internet.
I don't know what you do on your computer, but personally my desktop or laptop could go tits-up and losexall it's data, and it wouldn't be so traumatic - but I also mail checks to pay bills, don't manage my bank accounts online, and don't keep my SSN or other high value information on my desktop/laptop. My biggest loss would be to have to recreate my resume, and possibly have to reset my Amazon password.
Remember: there's already one RiscV on silicon out there (SiFive), and the other one (much more ambitious) is not far, judging by the people behind it and their commitment.
Great, a completely new architecture, which means you'll port Debian to it, no one will care, and it will fail to attract a tiny percentage of the fraction of Debian users, who are also but a small fraction of Linux users, who are in turn a tiny fraction of user desktops around the world.
Woo-hoo! It would be much simpler to simply start scavenging old Sun UltraSPARC desktops and running Solaris on them.
"to fix the overutilization of the wirenet and the underutilization of airnets, bringing balance to the wire-versus-air dichotomy, providing choice in how data should travel in each case...But it can only happen if the web takes a courageous step towards its next level."
What the heck does a 'balanced dichotomy' with taking the 'next bold step' in the evolution of the web?
This reads more like a transcript from a slacker boardroom bingo game than anything useful...
I think the submitter needs to stop watching HBOs "Silicon Valley" stoned...
Yes, what you discuss is a bespoke system more reminiscent of a 1980's era personal computer where all I/O is provided by the system manufacturer, third-party support is minimal and limited to mainly emulating the manufacturer's options, runs bespoke software unlike any other computer platform, and performance will be a fraction of the typical "Big Two" (Intel, AMD) entry-level CPU. Your custom, 'Good Enough' computer system will be bestest Raspberry Pi clone, but little more.
For well under $100 I can get a quad-core CPU that will 'hyper-thread' to 8 cores, run at three plus gigahertz, and get a motherboard for less than the price of a big Mac meal at mcDonalds. In round numbers, what do you imagine this programmable gate array with comparable performance will cost, to get a system complete enough to add SATA storage, memory DIMMS, Keyboard/mouse and video monitor to? Add to that the unbridled joy that every software selection you hope to run will either have to be available as open source so you can build it yourself OR have been compiled for your device by the authors.
Do you really miss the days of 1980s personal computing so much that you're willing to forgo 3 decades of improvements because an obscure method exists to dump protected memory space on current CPUs? Intel/AMD will correct this issue in the next 18 months, in silicon, well before your Libre CPU Gate Array computer is able to run faster than 1 Ghz for less than $1,000/cpu.
What socket will this ' free fantasy CPU' use? What chipset will it use? Are we talking about a volunteer clone effort to reverse-engineer the X86 processors, or something wholly new, so that we require new drivers, OS, BIOS, etc?
Only by being ignorant of what's involved can someone make such a proposition.
This is really an over-sized reaction to a minor problem that will be resolved in the next generation of silicon from every chipmaker.
I hope Sen. Elizabeth Warren will submit her DNA for analysis, maybe she'll have more than her high cheek bones to support her claims of Native American ancestry. Maybe her bloodline goes back to this other klan of Native Americans...
So you need an internet connection to control your heater? If true, you are a moron... I'm sorry, that's just stupid. What if your ISP goes down during a snowstorm?
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Exactly what horrors do you imagine will befall FCC staffers and Congress Critters when their HOME internet is limited to 10 Mb/sec?
You realize this isn't a speed LIMIT, it's a target for the MINIMUM SPEED to qualify for broadband - right?
"Pledge to spend one day in January 2018 accessing the Internet only on your mobile device to tell them that's not OK."
To prove what? To accomplish what? How will the [FCC | ISP | Anyone] know what you did? How exactly does this influence the FCCs decision?
This will be even less effective than Hashtag Activisim, like #BringBackOurGIrls - at least with hashtag activism you can see how many people support you.
Now take a whole datacenter of those, decrease their idle time by 25% and you'll see a substantial increase on your power bill.
And in your mind, what percentage of a server's power usage is tied up in the CPU? I'd speculate about 20% after you figure in RAM and drives.
So if the CPU is 20% of the total power of the server, and cpu power consumption increases 25% of the 30% low-power idle time (7.5%), that means the servers power usage will increase 1/5th of 7.5%, or 1.5%...
If a 1.5% increase in server power usage is a "substantial increase" you can overcome that increase by running your data center 2-3 degrees warmer.
Increased power usage is not a winning argument.
All created by those free software fans that "lacked the large corporate structure needed to produce anything as complex as an OS".
" Producing" an OS from scratch is incredibly hard and requires a massive effort, coding the missing piece of an otherwise complete software environment by "assembling" existing software into a workable OS is much, much easier. Linux stands on the shoulder of a massive army of GNU and open source developers that came before Linux bought his 80386 CPU.
I'm saying that there is race and gender inequality no matter how you slice and dice it.
OK, let's take two postal workers, with the same time on the job, same performance ratings but one male, one female (same race/ethnicity) - I contend they'll have equal pay - prove me wrong. Instead of male, female, how about a white male & a black female - I contend they'll have equal pay. (If they don't, they can take employer to court, under 50 year-old equal pay rules.)
How about we look at the NBA - do white players make more than black players? No. Do women in the NBA earn less than men? Yes. But neither proves pay inequity.
Like Lauer, Rose, Conyers, Franken, etc. ?
In America, not France where we are talking about in this article, you would have had A JOB waiting for your return because of the Family Leave Act, Buy your employer is not obliged to hold your previous position for you indefinitely.
However, legislators may require companies to release the average salaries of their male and female employees and analyze them for disparities.
This type of analysis was tried in the US a few years ago, the politicians found pay disparities on gender when they simply did as discussed above (no surprise), but once they factored in things like comparing same jobs and years experience the pay disparity went away.
To save face, proponents liedand claimed the initial comparison was for men and women doing 'exactly the same job' (when it clearly wasn't) and those that believed there was gender-based pay inequities never challenged findings they already believed.
And did those two guys go from specifications to silicon without the help of hundreds, upon hundreds, of engineers?
I think not.
There are easier ways to build a pree-2000 era PC than design your own CPU and scrounge Pentium MB/IDE drives.
Of RISC-V? That there are an increasing number of competing implementations and, because a lot of them are open source, they can cooperate on common components.
Translation: because RISC-V has forked into an "increasing number of implementations" it is poised to take over the world! Just like Linux, right?
A link would have sufficed, that was the Slashdot equivalent of sending an email with a 12 Meg attachment...
How long would it take for the imagined 'open source chip' to be as fast, feature-full, and robust as a $35 Raspberry Pi is today?
How long would it take to get an 'Open Source chip' to the point that it can run xbill or support a current standards web browser? Heck, how long would it take to make a system that can handle console I/O, store data on SATA drives, and connect to an Ethernet network?
If all design decisions were made, no changes needed, how long would it take to come up with either a chip that plugs into an existing motherboard, or a board that includes both the processor and all supporting I/O, like say a Raspberry Pi does?
The answer is hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands upon thousands of worker-years, and if this is a truly free, open-source effort, don't forget to multiply the above estimate times some multiplier that each worker will only be part-time before you try and 'spit-ball' a number of calendar years before it is available.
RMS famously spent decades trying to develop his own software environment that ran on commercial hardware and failed, due to in-fighting and his constant quest for the ever-elusive, always-evolving "best" architecture for his Kernel... Then Linus came along, cane up with a 'good enough' Kernel and made 'Linux'. As RMS will tell you, Linus didn't build Linux on his own in 18 months, he leveraged countless years of work by hundreds of GNU contributors and came up with the one thing RMS was missing - that's the part that took 18 months.
Just because it's hard, and you don't personally like the potential outcome, doesn't make it unworthy, in itself.
Nor does that require him to support it either. Your support of an idea doesn't require everyone else to suspend disbelief and support your idea.
How much is your security worth to you?
Enough to not trust my personal data & security to random bits of software downloaded from random sites onthe internet.
I don't know what you do on your computer, but personally my desktop or laptop could go tits-up and losexall it's data, and it wouldn't be so traumatic - but I also mail checks to pay bills, don't manage my bank accounts online, and don't keep my SSN or other high value information on my desktop/laptop. My biggest loss would be to have to recreate my resume, and possibly have to reset my Amazon password.
Remember: there's already one RiscV on silicon out there (SiFive), and the other one (much more ambitious) is not far, judging by the people behind it and their commitment.
Great, a completely new architecture, which means you'll port Debian to it, no one will care, and it will fail to attract a tiny percentage of the fraction of Debian users, who are also but a small fraction of Linux users, who are in turn a tiny fraction of user desktops around the world.
Woo-hoo! It would be much simpler to simply start scavenging old Sun UltraSPARC desktops and running Solaris on them.
Red hat had a revenue model, based on a retail product they charge for, and soon went public based on revenue projections and profit targets.
Do you want to build a new chip company that sells these 'open cpus' at a profit?
"to fix the overutilization of the wirenet and the underutilization of airnets, bringing balance to the wire-versus-air dichotomy, providing choice in how data should travel in each case...But it can only happen if the web takes a courageous step towards its next level."
What the heck does a 'balanced dichotomy' with taking the 'next bold step' in the evolution of the web?
This reads more like a transcript from a slacker boardroom bingo game than anything useful...
I think the submitter needs to stop watching HBOs "Silicon Valley" stoned...
Yes, what you discuss is a bespoke system more reminiscent of a 1980's era personal computer where all I/O is provided by the system manufacturer, third-party support is minimal and limited to mainly emulating the manufacturer's options, runs bespoke software unlike any other computer platform, and performance will be a fraction of the typical "Big Two" (Intel, AMD) entry-level CPU. Your custom, 'Good Enough' computer system will be bestest Raspberry Pi clone, but little more.
For well under $100 I can get a quad-core CPU that will 'hyper-thread' to 8 cores, run at three plus gigahertz, and get a motherboard for less than the price of a big Mac meal at mcDonalds. In round numbers, what do you imagine this programmable gate array with comparable performance will cost, to get a system complete enough to add SATA storage, memory DIMMS, Keyboard/mouse and video monitor to? Add to that the unbridled joy that every software selection you hope to run will either have to be available as open source so you can build it yourself OR have been compiled for your device by the authors.
Do you really miss the days of 1980s personal computing so much that you're willing to forgo 3 decades of improvements because an obscure method exists to dump protected memory space on current CPUs? Intel/AMD will correct this issue in the next 18 months, in silicon, well before your Libre CPU Gate Array computer is able to run faster than 1 Ghz for less than $1,000/cpu.
What socket will this ' free fantasy CPU' use? What chipset will it use? Are we talking about a volunteer clone effort to reverse-engineer the X86 processors, or something wholly new, so that we require new drivers, OS, BIOS, etc?
Only by being ignorant of what's involved can someone make such a proposition.
This is really an over-sized reaction to a minor problem that will be resolved in the next generation of silicon from every chipmaker.
I hope Sen. Elizabeth Warren will submit her DNA for analysis, maybe she'll have more than her high cheek bones to support her claims of Native American ancestry. Maybe her bloodline goes back to this other klan of Native Americans...
So you need an internet connection to control your heater? If true, you are a moron... I'm sorry, that's just stupid. What if your ISP goes down during a snowstorm?
Neither of which is Armstong Zoom, so what is your problem?
You also have to be pirating content from your remote, unoccupied, 2nd home.