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We're now requesting 512GB and 36 cores -- for database (SQL Server) servers anyway. I got no response when asking about a similar desktop.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: for database (SQL Server) servers anyway
Makes sense. One of the reasons why SO is insanely fast is that it runs in RAM. 
/ravi
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Runs in RAM? I thought RAM was supposed to save the data. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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32GB because ... Batman!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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64 GB. 
Not upgrading for a while.
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I've got 32GB in my home machine because about 2 years ago I started bumping far enough into swapland on my 12GB LGA1366 box that I was noticing performance hits I fixed that by putting some old ram into the box to get to 18GB but wanted a bigger buffer for my new system. At that time my peak numbers were:
3.5GB Heavily loaded 32bit browser #1
3.5GB Heavily loaded 32bit browser #2
3.5GB Distributed computing (8x 400MB CPU tasks + stuff on the CPU)
3GB Combined lesser applications and the OS
6GB Whatever game I was playing (or tabbed out of instead of quitting)
For about 19GB maximum total memory usage. From keeping an eye on task mangler for a bit before doing the upgrade 14GB total (2gb swap) didn't have any noticeable impact shuffling to/from the SSD. My typical max of 16GB (4GB swap) was noticeably slower if I was paying attention. 17+GB (+5GB) swap was enough slower that I noticed even if I wasn't looking for a problem. For a while I was shooting browsers thinking the core issue was them fragmenting their heap to hell and back; this worked to the extend that restarting the browsers would temporarily free a GB or two of memory and reduce pressure on the swap file.
At work I only have 8GB and have found that I can't comfortably run more than 2 instances of VS along with all my other crap before bogging down. Only having a spinning drive makes any swap usage here quite painful.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google today revealed a new smart home hub in the form of the OnHub, a $200 cylindrical router that promises a "new way to Wi-Fi." Users can control it via an app, and Google has promised frequent software updates for the device. Why wait to give them all your data? Bring the scrubber into your house!
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“Everything that ran in Windows 7 should also run in Windows 10. There are just two silly exceptions: antivirus software and stuff that’s deeply embedded into the system needs updating – but the developers are on it already – and then there are old games on CD-Rom that have DRM. This DRM stuff is also deeply embedded in your system, and that’s where Windows 10 says “sorry, we cannot allow that, because that would be a possible loophole for computer viruses.” That’s why there are a couple of games from 2003-2008 with Securom, etc. that simply don’t run without a no-CD patch or some such. We can just not support that if it’s a possible danger for our users. There are a couple of patches from developers already, and there is stuff like GOG where you’ll find versions of those games that work.”
TLDR: DRM platforms were using loopholes in the PS that were closed because they were also exploited by malware. In other news today: Water is wet. The Pope is Catholic. Bears ahem in the woods.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? At last!
I know 'everyone needs a hobby', but I think someone needs a new one.
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I'm afraid you underestimate the true power of COBOL. It has had OO features defined way before C# even existed, have a look at http://www.objs.com/x3h7/oocobol.htm[^]
What else can you simply hope for? 
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Oh, oh - COBOL. Yeah, that's my usual reaction too 
I'm not doubting it's power, I'm doubting the effort required to get going with the language. Also, the main point of posting it was just how wide a range of technology was covered by those two languages - COBOL and Node (yeah, yeah, JS, but weirder JS).
I wonder just how much OO COBOL has ever been written though - I suspect printed it wouldn't be enough to kill the programmers that use it.
I see there's also OO APL, Fortran, and even Forth. (The last of which also seems to predate C# by a number of years). Just because they "were there" before C# doesn't mean I'm going to switch back.
TTFN - Kent
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Intel’s ACAT, or Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit, is an open source platform developed in C# using .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 at Intel Labs to allow people with disabilities to communicate with ease, even in very constrained situations, like Stephen Hawking’s, What? It's not "universal"?
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Google has revealed what the M in Android M stands for: Marshmallow. The Android 6.0 update, set for release this fall, was first previewed at the company's I/O conference in late May. "I tried to think of the most harmless thing."
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Remember not to cross the streams!
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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The New York Times has painted a dire picture of Amazon as a place to work, but CEO Jeff Bezos says that's not the company he knows. So, just dystopian then?
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It's good to be the king.
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and that is the salient point
Bryce
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This is exactly why humans are outmoded. All they do is talk.
Robots communicate and work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWFjS3Ci7A[^]
Amazon's Kiva Robot in action.
But I bet if you owned a business and you could pick whiny humans or robots, you'd pick the robots too.
While you were reading this message, Amazon, shipped another 100,000 orders.
It's not soul-less yet, but it soon will be.
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And there I was, expecting him to respond by saying "yes, that's us, suck it".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: suck it".
Isn't that Dyson's slogan?
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The chips on the inside are designed to behave like neurons—the basic building blocks of biological brains. Modha says the system in front of us spans 48 million of these artificial nerve cells, roughly the number of neurons packed into the head of a rodent. Stuffing cheese into your phone might get to be a problem though
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The hamsters will not be amused!
No really, as soon as they get wind of this, bad things are bound to happen. 
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"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 21-Aug-15 5:43am.
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Which do you prefer? The red pill or the blue one?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Even with aggressive setup switching, Edge has been adopted by a minority of those running Windows 10, according to two metrics vendors. "Livin' on the edge. You can't help yourself from fallin'"
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Hah! told ya!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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