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BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier
Myrrh writes "Though an official announcement has not yet been made, it would appear that the BOINC project as a whole has exceeded two petaflop/s performance. The top page features this legend: '24-hour average: 2,793.53 TeraFLOPS.' According to last month's Top500 list of supercomputers, BOINC's performance is now beating that of the fastest supercomputer, RoadRunner, by more than a factor of two (with the caveat that BOINC has not been benchmarked on Linpack)."
Too bad it still falls below the nigger record of raping 50 white women per hour
Panties Stink!
They really, really stink!
Sometimes they're red, sometimes they're green,
Sometimes they're white or black or pink
Sometimes they're satin, sometimes they're lace
Sometimes they're cotton and soak up stains
But at the end of the day, it really makes you think
Wooooooo-wheeeee! Panties stink!
Sometimes they're on the bathroom floor
Your girlfriend- what a whore!
Sometimes they're warm and wet and raw
From beneath the skirt of your mother-in-law
Brownish stains from daily wear
A gusset full of pubic hair
Just make sure your nose is ready
For the tang of a sweat-soaked wedgie
In your hand a pair of drawers
With a funky feminine discharge
Give your nose a rest, fix yourself a drink
cause wooooooo-wheeeeeee! panties stink!
He was talking about Freestyle when he said DIY in his earlier
post. That is what Freestyle is, a DIY distributor for independent
movie makers. What happened is that a major, probably Fox bought
the DVD rights and wasn't interested in a theatrical release. So
he sold the DVD rights to Fox, probably for crappy terms, and they
laughed, sure, you can keep the theatrical rights, but we are
going to release this DVD in December so whatever you can do
before then, get it done. And Fox, being Fox, isn't going to help
promote the theatrical release because they don't make any money
from it, and it might cannibalize DVD sales. Then the theatrical
release essentially became orphaned. IOW, a distributor can't even
say, well, we will probably lose some money at the theaters, but
we will make it up in DVD sales (or PPV), and can still turn a
profit. So everybody's prediction that this was a straight to DVD
film was true. But Tucker, like a lot of other deluded film makers
said, I am going to find a way to get this into the theaters
anyway, which is where the sharks at Freestyle come in.
Freestyle says, "Tucker, we can get this movie into theaters, but
here is the deal structure, which says Freestyle takes no risks,
Tucker pays a specific fee per screen, Tucker pays for the prints,
but there is really no scenario where anybody but Freestyle makes
money." But Tucker has no choice because the majors have already
shot him down, and he needs for it to go to theaters to feed his
own ego.
There is an easy answer to your question as to whether there is a
remote possibility that people choose to go DIY (Freestyle) over
the standard route; and Tucker noted it in his blog, "it is almost
never successful." Experienced producers/directors can see a hit
on their hands as well. If DIY is so great, why doesn't everybody
do it? And the answer is because it is never successful. They make
more money jumping into bed with the studios and their
distributors than facing the cold harsh wilderness on their own
and trying to get more points on a film that won't have any
industry backing or promotion. The Yaris bucked the man with
independent distribution, and basically started Freestyle's
predecessor. They are bankrupt.
Yes, Tucker is that delusional. IF his stories are true, then
Tucker is a sociopath. Are you wondering whether a sociopath will
lie even in the face of contrary evidence? In the more likely
event that he is just a pathological liar, well then he is
incapable of even discerning the difference between truth and
falsity. See there is no middle ground with Tucker. Read his
stories. If he is capable of doing the things he says he has done,
then how much of a stretch is it for him to lie about a movie
project. It is always all about Tucker. When the reckoning comes,
(like when he didn't get distribution) he will have another spin
on it. When the film bombs at the box office, you will see Tucker
spin it that he locked up this great DVD deal and that it was
always his plan to take a dive at the box office because DVDs are
where the money is at. And fan boys like you will be then posting
ridiculous message board posts about what a genius he was to put
his marketing efforts into DVDS.