Posts by Tony Reeves 1 29 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2009
"The company believes the Habanero site has around nearly 60,000 petajoules of recoverable thermal energy which would, it says, deliver around 7,000 petajoules of end user power"
So it is only a little better than 10% efficient, way less than current PV efficiency. Is this wasting too much natural resource?
Let's see. Apple has 68% of the tablet market and is still growing strongly, with only a 10" offering. Rest of world, including dogs sells 10" and 7" tablets - mostly 7". Rest of world plus dogs fighting for market share and only seem to make progress by cutting price.
Tell me again, why do Apple NEED a mini tablet?
Not only that, there is the past stellar results of media predictions on Apple products.
New Zealand's "constitution" is effectively the same as the UK, a tangle of legal precedent, a few laws and aging treaties... http://gg.govt.nz/role/constofnz.htm
The reason the judiciary appears to operate in a more transparent way here is that the country is small and it is very hard to hide stuff for long.
"Aren't all cancerous cells immortal?"
Sort of, most are. My own personal cancer cells have proven to be mortal (to date) when exposed to chemo and the surgeon's knife.
My understanding of the main reason I got colon cancer was because the mortal bit flipped in one cell. RAM is not the only entity that suffers random bit errors when they get older.
"Dotcom remains under house arrest in his New Zealand mansion where he waging an aggressive social media campaign against the MPA and the U.S government’s actions."
He has never been on House Arrest. Earlier on he was bailed to a specific location, now he pretty much free to wander around NZ as he chooses.
Having been on the foot plate of a Ja class loco in NZ, going down a slight gradient at an indicated 70mph I would not want to be there at 130mph. 70mph was like the gates of hell, noise, fire, smoke, swaying (we only have narrow gauge). I only really enjoyed it because I was well primed with alcohol. I think the driver was as well.
"The Amazon storage cloud "was used internally at Amazon for over a decade. It stores billions of objects with over 99.9 per cent availability and 99.999999999 per cent of data durability"
99.9% availability would note come close to satisfying our users. And WTF is data durability?
There is no report of new evidence, including in the linked report. The primary reason for granting bail appears to be that there is no new evidence of significant funds available. The FBI and supposedly NZ police have been unable to uncover the cash stash which the prosecution said existed and would have facilitated flight.
A bit like supposed weapons of mass distruction....
41% of sites surveyed are running Oracle database on x86. Assumption is that all/most sites are running Oracle databases. So 59% are running on UNIX/RISC near exclusively (there may be one or two on ZOS). As there will be some overlap of sites running UNIX/RISC and x86 there must be at least 60% of sites not running Linux/x86, and only 6% of pure UNIX shops thinking of moving to x86.
While Sun is 3rd behind Windows and Linux, above figures would suggest that UNIX/RISC is still doing the heavy lifting and Solaris is 25% ahead of the next UNIX platform (AIX).
(Some of the above data is from the full report).
Is it any wonder Larry bought Sun?
"One of the key factors behind the wimpy nodes doing so well is that on such a node, processing, main memory, and flash memory speeds are more in synch than they are on a modern x64 or RISC server."
Not all RISC servers - sounds just like the design logic of a SPARC T series cpu.
"Here we are, nine years later, and Sun's "Niagara" family of Sparc T servers are not competitive with the most recent x64 boxes."
Sun's processors have never been competive with Intel/AMD CPUs. However the systems have had consistently better IO, threading and reliability than most x86 systems. If the CMT chips are so uncompetitive, why the continued increase in volume sales of the T series boxes during the 25+% drop in other systems over the past few quarters?
And how come Sun got to 54%, by volume, of UNIX server shipments a couple of quarters back, according to Gartner? This could only be due to shipments of the cheaper T series systems as they were behind IBM and HP on revenues.
"I'd love to buy the full commercial version... if Sun would just let me."
Why? You can use the "full commercial version" for free. From Virtual box Editions page... http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions "The full VirtualBox package is available in binary (executable) form free of charge from the Downloads page....... If, instead, you wish to purchase licenses for enterprise use and/or enterprise support for VirtualBox, please do not hesitate to contact your Sun representative. "
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