The Kernel handles the SIGKILL entirely, the process is suspended in the same way it would be during a time-slice context switch, never to be resumed, having all its resoures deallocated by the kernel.

Comfortably fit on a CD ROM (640-800 MB).

Which is a medium that was designed to play back audio albums, approx 64 min to 80 mins.

Interestingly it takes the human cell approximately 1 hour to copy all the information during cell division which is approximately the same order of magnitude as the playback speed of a CD ROM as originally designed.

Just think of the applications for such information density and playback speed, considering aggregation to increase bandwidth, maybe there is a huge market for this to replace Amazon S3 Glacier service (which might use tapes for such huge storage requirements)

Your description is correct for what it promises in the future.

But today, if you are using NVMe, and you are using Win11 (it has new NVMe kernel IO method support), and you are using DirectStorage, then you will get...Everything still loaded through main memory via the CPU.

Now you will get a performance benefit of it not having to be copied into user-mode memory space on the way to the GPU, it can stay in a Kernel IO buffer to be copied direct to GPU, not via user-mode process memory space.
You will also get a multiplatform API to use, that maybe smaller indie game titles can consume easily to get the benefits on platforms that support (such as XBox).

If you are on Win10, or not on NVMe, then DirectStorage still uses ReadFile in chunks through the process address space, just like before. But you still get a nice new API to use.

Now in the future Microsoft DX12+ team hopes that GPUs will provide optimisation (new silicon) and support to allow for NVMe to GPU transfers over PCIe directly. But today the closest thing is the proprietry Nvidia RTX IO. Or as others have said the AMD card that has storage built into it.

There is another news reports within hours of DirectStorage GA release citing Linux and HPC use of GPU for computation and I think ultimately that will be the driver to getting in GPU silicon a general purpose mechanism for volume data transfer directly from storage that I'm sure DirectStorage will consume. But it is all a few years away still.

Well as you are the only store in the world that would make you a monopoly.

No one is suggesting that Apple don't deserve to be paid something, nor the currency or method to receive that payment. What is being objected to is dictating how the main value provider in the proposition gets to receive their payment.

They are also not simply providing a price for your value added services so that a bill can be paid. They are insisting on a high tax % of all my revenue, instead of being clear what you are doing for me and proving me a rate card.

They are making me fund your less succesfull revenue generating customers getting onto their platform, that ultimately costs me but only benefits them, making the platform have more world appeal through more apps.

They are insisting I can not inform the customer of a breakdown of how the total cost of ownership is derrived, I need to keep quiet during the transaction checkout about how much of this money is going to Apple and not to the value provided by the app creator.

They are insisting I provide best pricing to the users of their platform even though the costs to develop, maintain and take payment might be significantly more for their platform than another platform. Forcing my other platform sales to fund any extra expenses incurred being involved in their platform so pricing is as good as.

Luckly a government of a non-US country can tell a US company to "go fuck yourself" over the need to comply with whatever regulations that region deem to be anti competitive.

huh... you are the party providing the main added value right ? your added value is probably not a monopoly ? your added value is not regulated ? so you can decide how you need your customer to pay you.

Clearly it does not cost 30% of all sales revenue to provide the service apple does, based on the revenues generated, based on knowns costs for running a website and equivalent content delivery network, based on known costs for managing payment services and customer support, based on the automation possible to inspect, run, test the application in sandboxes.

So main elements left are managing the legal agreement and terms, checklists, manual app verification, tooling, SDKs and API development which are all monopoly elements.

huh... the 1 month free AOL did also benefit the store, in UK they were cover disks to magazines for which the shop earnt their usual magazine sale commissions on, but in the case of a free disc pickup from a basket by the till, this generated foot fall the shop can capitlize on to market and sell other products while the person was in the shop. have you any idea how much money it costs to get someone who has no reason to enter your shop to turn up and spend 30 seconds in there? and another company wants to give you a stack of free CDs and point of sales material to an audience that is interested in the technical feats of getting online to shops that also appeal to that cohort. win-win.

apparently...

Excessive stock piling due to POTUS causing issues with China and compainies like Huewei, trade, use of tech, etc...
Now everyone wants 3 to 6 months stock, rather than just-in-time.

I read it as "Power Supply" failure, as my thinking was something more than a single device was affected, due to power supply interruption.

Surely signing extensions and signing software updates use two different certs and either cert is uses the existing HTTPS SSL/TLS CA system for that ?

Mozilla are a company that clearly deals with and understand X.509 certificates, so surely anything they do themselves where they control both the distribution and verification they use their own CA.

The only purpose of the "trusted CA" system is to issue certificates where there are three parties involved, a mutually trusted CA, a server (that needs to verify its legitimacy) and a client (that needs a mechanism to verify the servers legitimacy). But there is only 1 party involved with Mozilla extension and Mozilla browser software updates (although thats not completely true to OS vendor might also be involved for OS level code signing).

So while the might use HTTPS under that system, the payload it carried is also signed right ? And that verification process is using a CA system that only Mozilla control ?

As per the official comments in https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-3-interview/ "USB and PXE network boot" when will the updated Firmware/BIOS image be ready that will enable Raspberry-Pi 3 MMC cardless PXE booting ?

Keep up the great work,
Thanks

Isn't there OCSP stapling now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling ?

The HTTPS webserver asks the OCSP server for a signed by CA & timestamped message every few hours to validate the certificate serial it is using is still valid (i.e. the certificate has not been revoked by CA).

The HTTPS webserver then provides this extra bit of signed information to the browser during the TLS handshake.

So now the load on the OCSP scales better (by website, not by all web users), has minimal latency impact (just the extra bytes in the handshake), no out-of-band communication from browser to OCSP server is needed at all.

Hopefully when SPDY or HTTP/2.0 is running even the bytes in the handshake can be reduced to nothing by higher reuse of a single TCP connection to multiplex and also if the client has a recent TLS sessionID that is represented to the server. You'd think they can optimize the extra bytes away and speed up the handshake for the 2nd .. Nth reconnection for HTTPS to the webserver.

In the case of PC software though I would expect there to be multiple channels for getting OCSP data and only one channel needs to work to validate firmware/driver is still usable. But I'm sure there are other issues with invalidating important drivers for graphics/network that would be more like a nag screen every day to get you to reinstall driver.

Yes I'm sure you are correct, but... the lower TCO is in using consumer drives, they have lower replacement warranty periods but they must actually be lasting significantly well enough that the cheapest cost per month to ownership is in consumer drives.

This presumes you have factored in costs to replace, diagnose, deal with issues that might crop up more often due to partial/complete failure in units. I guess the mean variation is within 150%, when the consumer drive is 2 year warranty, the cost of replacement doesn't seem that high if you are doing it every 3.5 years.

UNDO burden ??? UNDUE burden ???

What all that new found free time and money, with no one to track them. Will the citizens go buying guns and ammo to finally overthrow their political overlords ?

No, me thinks they will keep watching "reality" TV programs.

It has to be the same amount of money for everybody.

It is upto society to reorganise itself around making that situation work. For example people would move out of London to a place where they can be that is within their budget. London would suffer from lack of workers for such tasks and proper supply/demand would start to take place.

Actually I can not believe this as many foreign workers are happy to be 10 to a house taking shifts on using bedrooms or sharing beds. But then maybe these people would also not be eligible for this payment, until they have many years of their own taxes paid into the system on record when formally completing a naturalization process.

I agree people in prison do not get the allowance, well they do, but it is forced to be spent on the cost of their stay. Which brings up another point that society should not treats its prisoners better than its regular citizens. A state income improves the citizens situation but I think prisoners should have a more harsh basic existence behind what state income can provide.

Another real issue is if everyone gets lower wages (but fixed state income amount), so the total is same or higher. Will the cost of buying bread and water increase ? Thus the purchasing power of the state income is reduced. Where and how will an equilibrium be met?