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Yep, that's why you would like to cache as much in RAM as possible. AMD can help you there.
http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3784&p=15
The Opteron 6100 series offers up to 24 DIMMs slots, the Xeon is “limited” to 18. In many cases this allows the server buyer to achieve higher amount of memory with lower costs.
maybe we should instead focus the FDA on doing something about the "supplement" and "herbal remedy" market that is currently totally uncontrolled.
You're right that ephedrine containing products caused thousands of preventable deaths. However, you're not right to blame the FDA. Sure, the FDA has had numerous failures of science in the service of citizen protection in the past decade, but with regard to dietary supplements their hands are tied by actual legislation. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 was among the dubious legislative achievements of the Newt Gingrich's Congress. Call on your congress persons to repeal the law that categorizes such supplements as food products. This effectively places the burden of proof on the FDA to prove that an ingredient is unsafe, rather than on the manufacturer to prove than an ingredient is safe.
Read here:
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dietsupp.html
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration regulated dietary supplements as foods, in most circumstances, to ensure that they were safe and wholesome, and that their labeling was truthful and not misleading. An important facet of ensuring safety was FDA's evaluation of the safety of all new ingredients, including those used in dietary supplements, under the 1958 Food Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). However, with passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), Congress amended the FD&C Act to include several provisions that apply only to dietary supplements and dietary ingredients of dietary supplements. As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the premarket safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions.
You know allude to it, but don't post a link? Here, let me fix that for you. NSFW, of course.
A while back, Ars Technica had a good piece: "Why modular Windows will suck for Microsoft and suck for you". This was the persuasive snippet that stuck with me.
The issue is that modularization strikes a blow against the very concept of a platform. When a software developer writes a program for Windows XP, they more or less know what they're going to get...
With a modularized Windows, that could fly right out the Window.
As our friend in Redmond, Steve likes to say, "developers, developers, developers, developers...".
Anyhow, the full article is a good read. If nothing else, it serves as some inoculation against the MS PR machine that got its claws into that NYT story.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/modular-windows-will-suck.ars
If you look like your driver's license photo -- see a doctor. If you look like your passport photo -- it's too late for a doctor.
