I think Android is moving nicely in that direction. Once Google's patches are in mainline it'll be possible to run Android and other distros in parallel.
How much money has disappeared and is still disappearing from bankruptcies, foreclosures and defaults? There's a reason we're seeing no noticeable inflation despite the Fed printing like crazy. The general economic environment is severely deflationary.
Yup. Latency alone in 30/rpm on average and the fastest seek times (in 15krpm drives) are about 3ms so that's just over 5ms best case. Consumer drives have 8ms average seek times in the best case and 7200rpm, that's over 12ms for the fastest consumer drives.
My main box runs Debian. For work I still need Outlook so I run XP in a VM. Code needs to be compiled on/ported to/tested on CentOS 5/6, RHEL 5/6 and SuSE 10/11. And some Java code like IPMI clients only runs correctly on 32-bit Java so I have a 32-bit Xubuntu install for that.
The force of wishful thinking is strong in you. Did you read the paper? CO2 generally isn't the limiting nutrient for agricultural plant growth - water, nitrogen and minerals are. OTOH, weather events like drought and floods have serious consequences on productivity, as can be seen around the world right now.
No, what we need to do is burn more carbon. Seriously. The only way that global warming is going to be stopped is by civilization and the economy strangling itself, through the combined effects of global warming and peak oil. The sooner that happens the better for the planet and the fewer people will have to die early.
The number of landfalling hurricanes is random. There were several above average hurricane seasons over the last years but the majority of storms went out to sea or affected other countries.
Hurricanes convert the energy inherent in the temperature difference between ocean water and air into mechanical work by lifting air and water up. And yes, they cool the ocean doing that.
I do have a question though...why are you choosing the 8350 over the X6? Do you have a specific workload that can use 8 integer cores that doesn't have much if any use for floating point?
Yes: A SW workstation mostly for compiling in VMs, running Linux.
The problem isn't so much the module design in Bulldozer (I consider it very similar to Intel's HT and the rest is hype by AMD's moron marketers.) It's mostly the speed/effectiveness of the memory interface, the L3 cache and the instruction decoder. All of those are way behind what Intel has, leading to stalls, and if AMD could fix those the Bulldozer arch would be competitive. Clearly Piledriver only improved these slightly given that IPC didn't improve much. Oh well. I'm still going to buy an 8350 as soon as there's general availability and we're past Newegg's ridiculous markup.
Well right now Intel's server CPUs are way more efficient in terms of W/MIPS and similar metrics. Ivy Bridge has maintained that and Haswell will too. Yes that might change if somebody started making ARM CPUs with the latest tech but as long as Intel has a full node worth of advantage it won't.
Look at the Phoronix benchmarks. Vishera beats the 3770k in many benchmarks as long as you're running multithreaded code. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx8350_visherabdver2&num=1 And do the math about power savings. Unless you're a folder you'll need several years to recap the additional cost of an Intel CPU.
Same here. I built a Bulldozer machine for compiling projects in VMs last year and it works very nicely. If Intel had had a CPU with ECC memory and hardware virtualization support at a reasonable price I would probably have bought it, but I would have needed at least a $500 Xeon for that, with a more expensive motherboard, and I wouldn't be able to overclock it. For the same performance I have now I would probably have needed a $1k CPU.
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I think Android is moving nicely in that direction.
Once Google's patches are in mainline it'll be possible to run Android and other distros in parallel.
I run Linux on the laptop I'm typing this on and I do all my work on Linux, except for Outlook in a Windows VM.
A byte was 6 bits on 12 or 24-bit systems, you insensitive clod!
What you're looking for is an octet.
ATM is considered legacy tech these days.
AFAIK fiber backhaul lines use IP all the way.
Bah. Zealot. /EDT is the only way on VMS!
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How much money has disappeared and is still disappearing from bankruptcies, foreclosures and defaults?
There's a reason we're seeing no noticeable inflation despite the Fed printing like crazy. The general economic environment is severely deflationary.
Yup. Latency alone in 30/rpm on average and the fastest seek times (in 15krpm drives) are about 3ms so that's just over 5ms best case.
Consumer drives have 8ms average seek times in the best case and 7200rpm, that's over 12ms for the fastest consumer drives.
But you can only make popcorn on an x86 - an ARM CPU doesn't put out enough heat.
Accessing a CentOS IPMI console in the Virtualbox Windows VM on the Xubuntu system at work in a NX window on my Debian box is confusing enough for me.
"Software preference" clearly falls under "politics/religion"!
Only Emacs.
Preferring Vim is 100% rational.
(Ducks...)
My main box runs Debian. For work I still need Outlook so I run XP in a VM.
Code needs to be compiled on/ported to/tested on CentOS 5/6, RHEL 5/6 and SuSE 10/11.
And some Java code like IPMI clients only runs correctly on 32-bit Java so I have a 32-bit Xubuntu install for that.
I did it in the meantime, ordered a Shimian QH270. It's stuck in customs waiting for a FCC declaration right now :(
The force of wishful thinking is strong in you. Did you read the paper?
CO2 generally isn't the limiting nutrient for agricultural plant growth - water, nitrogen and minerals are. OTOH, weather events like drought and floods have serious consequences on productivity, as can be seen around the world right now.
No, what we need to do is burn more carbon.
Seriously.
The only way that global warming is going to be stopped is by civilization and the economy strangling itself, through the combined effects of global warming and peak oil.
The sooner that happens the better for the planet and the fewer people will have to die early.
The number of landfalling hurricanes is random. There were several above average hurricane seasons over the last years but the majority of storms went out to sea or affected other countries.
Hurricanes convert the energy inherent in the temperature difference between ocean water and air into mechanical work by lifting air and water up.
And yes, they cool the ocean doing that.
Oh no. I sat in front of them for hours. But then the college got some of those newfangled "glass TTYs", yay!
Yes.
http://pckeyboard.com/
Yay for Yamakasi and Crossover. Why isn't any of the big boys importing them yet? I'm a little hesitant to buy on eBay with questionable warranty.
I agree.
I do have a question though...why are you choosing the 8350 over the X6? Do you have a specific workload that can use 8 integer cores that doesn't have much if any use for floating point?
Yes: A SW workstation mostly for compiling in VMs, running Linux.
The problem isn't so much the module design in Bulldozer (I consider it very similar to Intel's HT and the rest is hype by AMD's moron marketers.) It's mostly the speed/effectiveness of the memory interface, the L3 cache and the instruction decoder. All of those are way behind what Intel has, leading to stalls, and if AMD could fix those the Bulldozer arch would be competitive. Clearly Piledriver only improved these slightly given that IPC didn't improve much. Oh well. I'm still going to buy an 8350 as soon as there's general availability and we're past Newegg's ridiculous markup.
Well right now Intel's server CPUs are way more efficient in terms of W/MIPS and similar metrics. Ivy Bridge has maintained that and Haswell will too.
Yes that might change if somebody started making ARM CPUs with the latest tech but as long as Intel has a full node worth of advantage it won't.
500 to 2,000 Euro.
Look at the Phoronix benchmarks. Vishera beats the 3770k in many benchmarks as long as you're running multithreaded code.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx8350_visherabdver2&num=1
And do the math about power savings. Unless you're a folder you'll need several years to recap the additional cost of an Intel CPU.
Same here. I built a Bulldozer machine for compiling projects in VMs last year and it works very nicely. If Intel had had a CPU with ECC memory and hardware virtualization support at a reasonable price I would probably have bought it, but I would have needed at least a $500 Xeon for that, with a more expensive motherboard, and I wouldn't be able to overclock it. For the same performance I have now I would probably have needed a $1k CPU.