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leadeater got a reaction from thorhammerz in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Oh they can and do sandbag, it's about how. It's called product segmentation. You have Intel spending a lot of engineering resources on making their uarch slightly better and slighter faster which is not sandbagging however leaving the actual consumer product portfolio in a complete state of underdevelopment due to lack of competition while on their enterprise/datacenter product portfolio actually bringing to market significant product developments not just based on uarch improvements but actual full SoC/CPU development and progression.
Intel was never forced to do this, there was no logical business reason to over invest and over spend in consumer desktop products with no reason to do so, so they didn't.
There is very little demand for performance scaling in the consumer market, small gains is actually "enough" while enterprise/datacenter actually does demand and required generation over generation significant improvements to sustain and maintain that market growth and their requirements overwise datacenter operators would actually run out of rack space, floor space, building space, land area, power deliver etc. Not only do they actually require it, truly, but will also pay for it meaning Intel delivered on product developments to suit those customer demands and requirements.
There is a huge difference in product development between Intel consumer and enterprise/datacenter portfolios up until consumer market competition reappeared.
And if you think otherwise then Intel actually halving their price of entire product stacks in workstation and server literally as soon as AMD showed real market competition, on existing products!, is very damning evidence of this. You can't half the price if it's not still actually profitable which means the margin on it before was significantly higher specifically due to lack of competition not engineering costs etc.
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leadeater reacted to porina in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Not sure what you're trying to say here. If it is there are 0 PCIe lanes between CPU and chipset, that is correct and normal. Intel use their own protocol connection. You still use chipset lanes like normal.
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leadeater reacted to StDragon in Microsoft fixes the Teams app on Windows 11
New Teams is for business (enterprise) use only at this time, so I don't think MS cares about this from a PR perspective as this isn't launched for the general consumer.
As to why they've done this with two versions in parallel; that's because MS wrote the Teams client from Electron (which is very slow) to use WebView2 (more responsive) instead. New Teams was buggy as hell (most of which haven shaken out by now). So, they couldn't just replace Classic Teams with New Teams. But they also needed feedback from the user base of Classic Teams. MS thought this was the best way to transition per their roadmap.
I'm not arguing the opinion of the matter, just stating facts as stated by Microsoft.
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leadeater got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Moving 200TB of Data quickly?
I'm not saying don't have another unit but having another isn't really as much extra protection as you might be thinking. Unless you have a good system of both keeping the data in sync real time and an automated or quick way to switch across that is practiced and understood by multiple people then you're throwing money at a solution that doesn't actually offer the benefits sought after.
So long as you have your RAID group properly laid out and using RAID-DP or RAID-TEC then disk failure is minimal if almost no concern, up until passing 8 year mark with the original disks still in use.
It is not the cost of another system and you are not relying on a single layer other than the physical disks, which again you have to be neglecting your maintenance and replacement life cycle to ever really be a factor.
Two Synology's is not better than one NetApp. Two Synology's also costs more than one NetApp 🤷♂️
But also like I mentioned QNAP dual controller ZFS is a cheaper option
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leadeater reacted to metadaddy in Moving 200TB of Data quickly?
[Full disclosure - I'm Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze].
Unfortunately, we don't allow you to do something like that. Our data centers are secure areas, and we don't let folks plug in their own machines there to transfer data.
What we do have is the Fireball - a 96 TB NAS that we can ship to new customers for them to plug in to their network, copy their data over, and ship back to us. We then plug it into our high speed network and copy it into one of their Backblaze B2 cloud object storage buckets. I don't think this is useful in this case, though, unless you want to keep a copy of your data in B2.
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leadeater got a reaction from Lurick in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from Lunar River in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Apple terminates Epic Games Developer Account (again)
That is actually a legitimate legal strategy, without grounds to start litigation you cannot do it so if you need to create the situation to do so to try and get the legal ruling for or against then you do it. You may not like it but needs must sometimes.
Bottom line is if you feel something in or all of the ToS is not legal then you don't have to follow it. ToS is not the law. If the ToS is not legal then you are not breaking it, it was never valid to begin with.
Apple's ToS cannot prevent me from scratching my ass, that is not allowed. I can do it regardless of it being in their ToS 😉
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leadeater got a reaction from goodtofufriday in Apple terminates Epic Games Developer Account (again)
That is actually a legitimate legal strategy, without grounds to start litigation you cannot do it so if you need to create the situation to do so to try and get the legal ruling for or against then you do it. You may not like it but needs must sometimes.
Bottom line is if you feel something in or all of the ToS is not legal then you don't have to follow it. ToS is not the law. If the ToS is not legal then you are not breaking it, it was never valid to begin with.
Apple's ToS cannot prevent me from scratching my ass, that is not allowed. I can do it regardless of it being in their ToS 😉
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leadeater got a reaction from Lightwreather in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from wanderingfool2 in Apple terminates Epic Games Developer Account (again)
Don't have non-legal terms in the ToS 🙃
Or more in this case terms that aren't quite not legal but also shouldn't be allowed to the extent Apple was. Either way Apple has little choice in the matter, refuse to give a company like Epic a developer account irrespective of all of this and it would have gone to court. Give them an account and they'll conduct themselves how they see fit per law and/or ToS with law coming first.
Apple shouldn't need to be concerned about it or anything, nothing they do should be a problem and if "you" are worried that your restrictions could be found faulting then maybe "you" are in the wrong.
Like cheating on an exam, if you are worried you'll be found out then probably shouldn't have cheated. Business don't have "morals", generalizing heavily. Point being business can act in harmful, non-ethical or otherwise less than scrupulous ways knowingly and intentionally so long as they think they have the legal right to do so.
Similarly to the above any person or business who may object to any such thing can knowingly choose to violate something such as ToS without breaking any laws and if both involved want to make an issue of it can take the matter to civil court which may or may not have unintended flow on effects, or entirely intentional.
There are a lot of things Apple does very well, preventing In-App purchase processing or even external payment information absolutely is not one of them.
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leadeater got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from lewdicrous in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from StDragon in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater got a reaction from filpo in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
10mbps in 2000? Damn and here I was happy my 56k modem would actually negotiate a connection at above 40kbps.
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leadeater reacted to porina in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
A bit more context would help. It sounds like this is a property that is relatively detached so there is no existing infrastructure reaching it, even if there is some nearby. If there isn't an explicit universal access requirement, then costs can be high. It sounds like this is a push towards something like universal access.
The minimum requirements listed might seem low, but for remote locations it could potentially be provided over the mobile network or even LEO satellite outside of pricing.
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leadeater reacted to wanderingfool2 in Apple terminates Epic Games Developer Account (again)
One issue though is without breaking the TOS and getting banned they might not have been able to even have started up the lawsuit. In some areas of law, you actually have to become the victim in order to actually get things disqualified.
The biggest issue I have though is that Apple did grant them a license, then revoked it when comments were made...the whole idea with DMA was that Apple shouldn't be allowed to be the gate-keeper...and that's exactly what Apple is doing by essentially forcing their "good faith" agreement.
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leadeater got a reaction from StDragon in Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older CPUs
What is the point of running an operating system that cannot run basically most modern software, if your argument is it still works today.
You have a good point about supporting legacy systems and legacy software and that is a step better than just running old unsupported Windows but we all know 1000% that is actually what happens, a lot in manufacturing.
It's like arguing Parallel ports on computers can still be used and are functional, yes they are but good luck getting a new printer to work properly with a Parallel port. Some things shouldn't be done.
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leadeater got a reaction from Sauron in Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older CPUs
Probably along the same lines for why a lot of things are or are not done, if it isn't broke then don't fix it. "Minor" differences or changes go a very different analytical consideration path when you are considering affecting many tens of millions if it's not so "minor" and it does cause problems.
But also unless there actually is a benefit at all then why do it at all?
Which then leads on to the actual situation, Microsoft latest Insider Preview is using the new Rust Kernel which is the root cause for this. Not because Rust doesn't support older CPUs like those but if you are making such a huge change you want to do a lot of things and one of those is reduce the required testing and the potential for issues which means cutting out support for unreasonable hardware.
If it were just a compile setting change and some code modifications then the reasoning would have to be a lot more specific, but here you have to argue why to support rather than why it was removed.
Windows 11 24H2 is the introduction of the Rust Kernel, so you must justify what hardware is to be supported and if you can't then it's not.
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leadeater reacted to Jarsky in Moving 200TB of Data quickly?
I would take the approach of "if it aint broke, dont fix it", unless the company are adamant that they want a single volume.
If its a mixture of "Working Data" and "Archive Data", then I would do a data shuffle to redesign the volumes to be working projects and archived projects if that makes more sense to them to be easier to find what theyre looking for.
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leadeater got a reaction from voyager_ in Moving 200TB of Data quickly?
I have some bad news, that is essentially unavoidable when seeking any semblance of reasonability in cost.
Absolute best case if you can sustain 400MB/s it's 5 days for each copy so 10 days.
Why not just convert the RAID level from 5 to 6?
https://kb.synology.com/en-br/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/storage_pool_change_raid_type?version=7
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leadeater reacted to Fatty 227 in Moving 200TB of Data quickly?
To be fair not ALL of the data is what could be considered "priceless". As it Stands LTO holds all of the stuff that's "archived". The projects older than a couple of years. LTO tapes also have backups of the stuff that is "priceless". That being said - I do feel uncomfortable with the amount of redundancy - even if the data is something that isn't TOP priority. It still represents a lot of value
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leadeater reacted to porina in Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema
Use the right tool for the job. While I agree that a SLR class camera, with someone who knows how to use it properly, and optionally post process, can get better results than a phone, that's missing the point. Most people, most of the time, are happy enough with the phone output.
To me dedicated cameras only make sense in certain use cases, and remain for those purposes. For my personal use cases, it's mostly due to reach. I tend to use longer focal lengths for most of my past photography. 300mm+ on APS-C sensor. No phone that I'd want to buy can do that. Sony tried add-on modules which were just an ergonomic mess. Even compact superzooms can beat phones in that space. Other use cases where higher end photography is used can include formal portraits, weddings, data gathering for example.
I do still take my DSLR out for fun, but a lot less than I used to. There's only so many variations of duck portraiture before it gets samey. I'm trying to transition to gulls now.
As for processing, we have clearly entered the computational photography era. Revisiting my old shots with current tools do enable things not possible then. I do feel there is a lot of untapped potential still in the realm of computational photography and using camera arrays will be the next step for higher end imaging on phones without requiring a fat lens.
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leadeater got a reaction from Sureshadow in Omdia has calculated the cost of components for the Apple Vision Pro
That will be really difficult to know, mainly since I doubt Apple wants anyone to know, commercially sensitive information yada yada.
What we do know is Apple's Gross Margin is ~45% and their Operating Margin is ~30%, operating margin includes things like R&D but both are overall business metrics not a per specific product like the Vision Pro. Being a new product of a new type gross margin on the product is going to be higher than a MacBook for example since way more R&D cost is involved for the Vision Pro comparatively. that'll go down each generation presumably but could stay relatively high for the first through third 🤷♂️
That said I doubt the ~$1500 is all that accurate. This product requires all new molds and tooling, entirely new manufacturing all of which is actually damn expensive. Like many hundreds of thousands for each new mold alone, not including the original product design just the manufacturing design and engineering required to make the part.
P.S. Nvidia's Gross Margin is ~73% and Operating Margin ~49%, AMD ~47%/~5% respectively.
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