After Silk Road started picking up steam the currency jumped to its bubble peak of $30+ USD. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed the timeline there.
I think the $30 spike was more likely caused by an influx of noobs who found out that their GPU could print money.
Haven't people been reflowing PS3s and Xboxen in their kitchen ovens? Or does that only work for re-reflowing?
The next generation Cray (XE7?) will attach to the processor via PCIe, so they can use Intel or AMD. They're definitely not going to use IB when their Gemini interconnect is better.
They'll probably make a Windows 8 version (locked) and an Android version (also locked) of each tablet. The demand for anything else is too small to bother with. People who want regular Linux will have to jailbreak.
You might enjoy this proposal: http://www.jordanpollack.com/softwaremarket/
Such a market would annoy customers because it uses DRM and it would annoy sellers because they would make less money.
Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
Microsoft and Cisco do it. That used router you bought? Its firmware was fully licensed, but since it's non-transferable you have to buy it all over again. (And since the router is a brick without firmware, they have you over a barrel on pricing.) I always thought it was unfair that such practices are allowed when they only hurt businesses even though people would scream were they applied to consumer goods.
The problem being that you *can't* really even pretend to 'give away' digital content without DRM.
I agree. But given that I have already agreed to DRM in many cases (e.g. Steam), allowing resale/lending would at least give me some benefits to offset the costs of DRM.
You just pretty much described the "UltraViolet" locker service; unfortunately the implementation is buggy and laden with DRM.
SAS is probably never coming to consumer boards. Too much additional expense for not enough gain.
The X79 (Patsburg) chipset already has SAS; it's just disabled.
Where can I get an x64 or ARM system that scales to 32 or 64 sockets?
You can get them from SGI, although they're marketed for HPC, not for commercial apps. But keep in mind that you're talking about 256-640 cores; there's very little demand for such beasts. 80-core or smaller x64 servers are available from several vendors at reasonable prices and can satisfy 99% of the market.
The RISC/mainframe market is a totally different animal, one that those chips don't even play in.
And neither do the SPARC T series, which only scale up to 4 sockets.
The canceled UltraSPARC V and canceled Rock don't count because they never shipped. It's pretty sad that Sun, the inventors of SPARC, were getting out-designed by Fujitsu.
Mozilla can pay for the license out of their $100M annual revenue; they just don't want to. Free software martyrdom is a choice; it's not some law of nature.
Yeah, but the whole planet has to share 6 Mbps.
Not sure how this is insightful.
They're not trying to cut corners for the hell of it, but for performance, power usage, and other actual engineering reasons.You just cant build smartphones and tablets with that same common architecture, or else you're adding too many chips and circuits you don't need.
A common firmware interface (like BIOS, OF, or EFI) and something like a device tree doesn't require extra chips. At most maybe it's a few KB of flash.
Deleting public Web pages won't have any effect on the lawsuit since cached copies are still admissible. It may reduce confusion, though, since Oracle's policies are definitely different than Sun's in many ways.
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
