I find that there is no problem with businesses trying to make a buck, but then again, we have anti-monopoly laws too for a reason. The problem is that municipalities should not be allowed to grant a monopoly to a single internet/cable provider, then you actually have free enterprise, until then we have government granted profit.
Most servers that need to access that amount of storage don't do so locally, they are doing so through things like SANs because maintaining that number of high speed low capacity drives isn't trivial and best consolidated across servers. Getting a 6TB pool would require at least 10 600GB 15k drives (the largest capacity 15k RPM drive that seagate currently makes), and that's not going into your 1x server blade, and typically isn't a great solution.
Network and remote access drives like SANs aren't going away, but that isn't your typical server. For each one of those, there is a ton of servers that have less than 6TB of storage.
And no, I never claimed 6TB of RAM would be enough for everyone, but it's enough for a very very high percentage of people today. But you are correct in that there will likely always been a need for a secondary type of storage interface. USB drives, backups, network storage, cloud storage devices, etc.
No, but you can expect your 2017/2018 laptop to have a general performance increase of maybe 10-15%, but loading things and searching for files will be 150%-500% faster depending on application, and suspend/resume may be silly fast.
You could do that, but probably not for the forseeable future. Files will still be needed, and a standardized way of accessing them will still be needed. Most software will likely use the same old APIs to access them, seek, etc but the driver will be seriously simple. In theory you could remove them, but then what would you do about CDs? DVDs? Backup Tapes and drives? Network connections? Network drives? Your OS will still need a unified way of accessing all that stuff, so it just makes sense to just extend what we have than throw it all away and start new... in most cases. You just call the memory-mapped I/O API, but now it just returns a pointer to where the data actually resides and the actually memory-mapping is silly simple when you need to wring every last bit of speed out of something.
Early demos indicate they are thinking of doing PCIe-style drives, probably first. Which makes sense since it'll be a drop in replacement that nearly anyone can use immediately rather than as a new type of RAM that would require some pretty large architecture changes.
I sold my Revo 3 x2 (which is exactly what you describe) about 3 years ago for $500ish, which I think I bought for $700ish. You can get 1TB drives for cheap now -- $329 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-...
And yet, the rest of the world has already done it, so I suggest that your assumptions on the cost of doing the switch aren't accurate.
As for the current laws regarding building codes, I doubt they are written with such a narrow margin that the conversion to metric would even matter. In the cases that they do, there is no reason why they have to be changed immediately. It's not like saying all pipes must be blue instead of red or some such. If the current law says x must be no more than 24 inches, then find the closest multiple of 60cm that is less than 24 inches and use that.
But that is sort of the point. The prosecution failed to provide enough evidence of their case before the judge. That's their job, and they didn't provide enough facts for him to make a (correct) ruling. Not the judge's fault that they failed to provide a reference of how much their traffic is.
First, a NSL can't demand that. Secondly, it couldn't demand it of a judge.
NSL's are basically for demanding evidence in your possession, or you could have provide access to, and not disclosing it. They aren't just a blank letter they can write anything they want in it.
No, I'd suggest just using tools from the rest of the world. Or are you suggesting that the rest of the worlds construction workers are just so much smarter that they can do it while the US construction worker is incapable of doing things in multiples of 60cm?
As an American, that is a silly argument. Just throw the SAE crap out the window, and use measurements that actually make sense. Stop using 2"x4" lumber, which isn't actually 2"x4", and start using 5cm x 10cm instead. Feel free to actually make it 4cm x 8cm and call it 5cm x10cm if you want.
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Nah, the provider will just declare an outage, and then refund $.25 to your bill for the inconvenience.
That's great number crunching, if you live alone. Now try that with a family of 5. Oops, you just hit your data cap on the 6th of the month.
I find that there is no problem with businesses trying to make a buck, but then again, we have anti-monopoly laws too for a reason. The problem is that municipalities should not be allowed to grant a monopoly to a single internet/cable provider, then you actually have free enterprise, until then we have government granted profit.
Most servers that need to access that amount of storage don't do so locally, they are doing so through things like SANs because maintaining that number of high speed low capacity drives isn't trivial and best consolidated across servers. Getting a 6TB pool would require at least 10 600GB 15k drives (the largest capacity 15k RPM drive that seagate currently makes), and that's not going into your 1x server blade, and typically isn't a great solution.
Network and remote access drives like SANs aren't going away, but that isn't your typical server. For each one of those, there is a ton of servers that have less than 6TB of storage.
And no, I never claimed 6TB of RAM would be enough for everyone, but it's enough for a very very high percentage of people today. But you are correct in that there will likely always been a need for a secondary type of storage interface. USB drives, backups, network storage, cloud storage devices, etc.
And to explain it using a car analogy, it looked like someone forgot to turn off the emergency brake on the left side of the car.
No, but you can expect your 2017/2018 laptop to have a general performance increase of maybe 10-15%, but loading things and searching for files will be 150%-500% faster depending on application, and suspend/resume may be silly fast.
DRAM would just become a 4th-level external CPU cache.
It has 6400 less millitimes as fast!
Neither, cause I only have a 5/8" spigot, so neither will hook up to it and I'll drag out my old hose from the garage.
You could do that, but probably not for the forseeable future. Files will still be needed, and a standardized way of accessing them will still be needed. Most software will likely use the same old APIs to access them, seek, etc but the driver will be seriously simple. In theory you could remove them, but then what would you do about CDs? DVDs? Backup Tapes and drives? Network connections? Network drives? Your OS will still need a unified way of accessing all that stuff, so it just makes sense to just extend what we have than throw it all away and start new... in most cases. You just call the memory-mapped I/O API, but now it just returns a pointer to where the data actually resides and the actually memory-mapping is silly simple when you need to wring every last bit of speed out of something.
A server system really needs to be able to address hundreds or thousands of terabytes of storage, not just six.
Only in very niche markets is that true. Most servers don't need anything near 6TB of storage, let alone 6TB of (D)RAM.
Early demos indicate they are thinking of doing PCIe-style drives, probably first. Which makes sense since it'll be a drop in replacement that nearly anyone can use immediately rather than as a new type of RAM that would require some pretty large architecture changes.
I sold my Revo 3 x2 (which is exactly what you describe) about 3 years ago for $500ish, which I think I bought for $700ish. You can get 1TB drives for cheap now -- $329 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-...
My gaming PC from 2012 has 64GB. I usually just create a 32GB-ish ramdisk (depending on game) and run whatever game I'm playing from there.
It compresses really well if you downsample to a 2-color palette.
It was looking for signs of intelligent life.
And yet, the rest of the world has already done it, so I suggest that your assumptions on the cost of doing the switch aren't accurate.
As for the current laws regarding building codes, I doubt they are written with such a narrow margin that the conversion to metric would even matter. In the cases that they do, there is no reason why they have to be changed immediately. It's not like saying all pipes must be blue instead of red or some such. If the current law says x must be no more than 24 inches, then find the closest multiple of 60cm that is less than 24 inches and use that.
Humans aren't likely making the most requests, but the prosecutors should have made an attempt to show the magnitude.
But that is sort of the point. The prosecution failed to provide enough evidence of their case before the judge. That's their job, and they didn't provide enough facts for him to make a (correct) ruling. Not the judge's fault that they failed to provide a reference of how much their traffic is.
First, a NSL can't demand that. Secondly, it couldn't demand it of a judge.
NSL's are basically for demanding evidence in your possession, or you could have provide access to, and not disclosing it. They aren't just a blank letter they can write anything they want in it.
No, I'd suggest just using tools from the rest of the world. Or are you suggesting that the rest of the worlds construction workers are just so much smarter that they can do it while the US construction worker is incapable of doing things in multiples of 60cm?
As an American, that is a silly argument. Just throw the SAE crap out the window, and use measurements that actually make sense. Stop using 2"x4" lumber, which isn't actually 2"x4", and start using 5cm x 10cm instead. Feel free to actually make it 4cm x 8cm and call it 5cm x10cm if you want.
Actually car makers often makes changes multiple times throughout the year as well.
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Sorry, that should have been VW at 220 billion, and ING at 150 billion, and Diamler at 148 billion, my bad.