I totally agree, the 1$ per cpu hour is an outrage. When you think about forming large computer clusters it may make sense but that is gradually changing. Check this out : http://www.clearspeed.com/
These guys sell a 64 bit 50 gflop co-processor for 10000$ added to the system through pci-e port, and this is a comperatively new practice of good old co-processor technology. As it develops more, we can expect better prices, higher power. For the same processing power, an array made with these babies currently will need to be about half the hardware price. Also it will mean about 1/10 cluster size, further reducing maintenance costs significantly.
Wait Wait Wait... There is something wrong there. Win 95 was great for games compared to dos. Cause you needed optimize that 640k memory differently for different games and virtual memory management of win95 made it a snap. There was some performance loss due to heavy GUI but even then i didnt have to have different boot disks for those games, shortcuts had all the info it needed for a customized auto reboot, which worked smoothly. That said, i was running Win95 on a 486 Dx2 66 with 4mb of ram, which only let me run betrayal of krondor under win95 because it needed 8mb of ram. And until 97, all the games i laid my hands on worked perfectly.
I say "bring it on"!!! A drm scheme taking roots from open source will be much better documented, giving us all knowledge and tools necessary to overcome it:) After all, when it's ready, ball will be on our court right??
From all those calculations, all i can see is these companies run a high cost, inefficient and outdated production/sales model which needs to change, nothing more. Not especially justification of the price tags attached to shelves.
And what makes you think all the data you'll find in the net will be correct and be the result of my own deeds? if someone puts a lie about me on the net and one day it comes agains my face as truth, what am i supposed to do? I guess with this attitude you deserve it:)
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I totally agree, the 1$ per cpu hour is an outrage. When you think about forming large computer clusters it may make sense but that is gradually changing. Check this out : http://www.clearspeed.com/ These guys sell a 64 bit 50 gflop co-processor for 10000$ added to the system through pci-e port, and this is a comperatively new practice of good old co-processor technology. As it develops more, we can expect better prices, higher power. For the same processing power, an array made with these babies currently will need to be about half the hardware price. Also it will mean about 1/10 cluster size, further reducing maintenance costs significantly.
They were predicting the future (which is today), that their OS made grown men, women and software markets cry
Wait Wait Wait... There is something wrong there. Win 95 was great for games compared to dos. Cause you needed optimize that 640k memory differently for different games and virtual memory management of win95 made it a snap. There was some performance loss due to heavy GUI but even then i didnt have to have different boot disks for those games, shortcuts had all the info it needed for a customized auto reboot, which worked smoothly. That said, i was running Win95 on a 486 Dx2 66 with 4mb of ram, which only let me run betrayal of krondor under win95 because it needed 8mb of ram. And until 97, all the games i laid my hands on worked perfectly.
I say "bring it on"!!! A drm scheme taking roots from open source will be much better documented, giving us all knowledge and tools necessary to overcome it :) After all, when it's ready, ball will be on our court right??
From all those calculations, all i can see is these companies run a high cost, inefficient and outdated production/sales model which needs to change, nothing more. Not especially justification of the price tags attached to shelves.
And what makes you think all the data you'll find in the net will be correct and be the result of my own deeds? if someone puts a lie about me on the net and one day it comes agains my face as truth, what am i supposed to do? I guess with this attitude you deserve it :)