Posts by Tony Reeves 1

"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?

Prediction

I predict that they will find rubber molecules in the test sample, indicating the passage of Martians on rubber tired vehicles in the past.....

Media Hype

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.

House Arrest!!!

"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.

Sun Ray?

And this differs from the SunRay in what way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

Hell That's Fast

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.

Not NZ Erupts

Rather bored NZ media erupts. As ACT returned around the margin of error in the last election there are few people in NZ who really care.

Don't Get The Status

"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?

New Evidence?

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....

Maturity

One of the early signs on maturity in the IT space. A 4 year upgrade cycle is about the same for the automobile industry now.

So What?

We have been outnumbered by grains of sand, litres of water in the oceans, number of birds (avian variety) for many years, why should this make a difference?

In Perspective

Great to see El Reg raising major local authority issues which allow me to put our wee earthquake in Christchurch, NZ, into proper perspective.

Way To Go In These Times Of Financial Trouble

Surely (Shirley?) it would be safer and easier to just burn several hundred millions of dollars in bank notes in a big bonfire rather than a big bang shortly after launch or some time later during de-orbit?

Conspiracy Alert

Had a look at the linked patent, very little text detail so went took at the images, Firefox needed a plugin to view them, guess which one - Apple Quicktime. I did not corrupt Firefox so cannot see the images.

Not That Unique

"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.

Re: Do the math Matty!

Using the Risc/Itanic figues from Gartner....

Total 57789 100.00%

HP 8358 14.46%

IBM 16635 28.79%

Sun 30997 53.64%

More customers have confidence in Sun/Sparc than any other Risc architecture. Perhaps Larry is on the money when he says Oracle will continue with Sparc.

It's Not All About 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.