A similar system to the one in my OP Yes they are cheaper but still way overpriced compared to commodity x64 hardware and I don't know what preformance gains you get from 4x450Mhz over 1x1.8Ghz.
I'd love to try out Solaris on SPARC and get geek points for having obscure hardware but not at those prices.
Oh come on that is not in the Spirit of Open Source. Free is Free no matter what the real overhead it.
I'm not denigrating it, I would love to run Linux or OpenSolaris on an OpenSPARC but I don't have the time to solder that many transistors together, anyway the OpenSPARC documentation is in a hardware description language not the traditional logic-gated schematic that I was expecting.
Is this the death of SPARC?....Or does it have some niche market/capability like PowerPC?
The OpenSPARC certainly serves a niche market, those with fab plants who are able to fabricate enough cpu's so that the per-cpu cost is cheaper than buying them from $cpu_mftr
A government dept considering a thing is far from the same thing as doing it....
I think they leaked the proposal to gauge the public's appetite for taxing on-line ads. They don't have the balls to come out with something just in case they look foolish so they leak, gauge reaction then decide wether to go with it.
why should they not consider all options, even the stupid ones like this one?
I thought my taxes were for the underprivileged and less-well-off, the BBC doesn't strike me as such.
As I already have a Freerunner, here are my experiences: Where did you get it? whats your email on the lists? are there any good points about it?
You seem to have just registered on slashdot, was it to troll on the neo freerunner?
I call BS on that post
We should donate our old memory sticks to them, I've got a 128mb mp3 player which is worthless to westerners but could be of use to people in the third world to dissemenate information.
The guy from the article seems to think someone could stare down the end of the cable,
"I have a two-year-old child," says Nocivelli, "and I would never install a glass optical fibre in my own home, even though I have been working with glass optical fibers for many years."
I'm not sure more bandwidth requires more light, anyway.
More bandwidth may require a higher intensity light to traverse the plastic molecules (IANAfibreopticcableinstaller)
Many people complain about the interface, how it's difficult to learn. Unfortunately, many of these people are trying to 'learn 3D' over the weekend - and I'm sorry, that won't happen, regardless of the package. To become truly proficient in any 3D software package takes a long time.
Amen, People see 'making of' documentries on their pixar DVDs and think its a breeze to do CG, it took me awhile to learn blenders 'one hand on the keyboard, one hand on the mouse' interface but it would have taken longer for me to earn the money to buy Maya,Max3ds,softimage etc..
If you do not pay money for Blender or improve the codebase you are left at the whim of the contributors who are happy with the UI (and as long as it has mouseover help labels so am I)so they improve other areas *cough*image texture file selection*cough*.
Also there are plenty of free resources on the net for blender, models,materials,tutorials, since blenderheads are more likely to be hobbyists they're more willing to share their work freely wheras max,maya owners are probably paid professionals and unwilling to spend time on work they just give away.
Confusing huh? Having read that page, it looks like the Advanced package is just the Base but with a few off-the-shelf extras chucked in (SD cards, etc).
$300 base & $450 advanced will be for the phase 1 developer edition (GTA01 mainboard),$450 base and $600 advanced will be for the phase 1.5 developer/2.0 mass market device (GTA02 mainboard) which will have WiFi, more ram and a faster processor.
The advanced package will also incude a debug board which people are using to debug other devices because it connects through the standard JTAG.
Your link should have pointed to the openmoko wiki. Potential iPhone buyers should give this page a glance, a better screen and more storage space through microSD cards( 8Gb microSD cards will be released soon and who's willing to bet that in two years time the capacity of microSD reachs 32Gb,
I'm not sure if anybody's said it explicitly, but a hardware equivalent to SourceForge would be a great asset to the community, where people can share RTL, schematics, PCB and chip layouts, and so forth.
I do hope that you have at least worked with Windows since 97 or use it from time to time. Windows from 1997 Win95/Win98 is quite different from the NT based model of XP and Vista.
I gave up using windows 98 in 2003, you say the NT architecture is better? I'm not going to spend £180 finding out if that is so, I just installed Fedora 1 on a machine I built to replace my old packard bell and have'nt looked back since.(sort of, I installed win98 on another harddrive to play Deus Ex and DXIW and use my parralel port scanner, but that is because of vendor lock-in)
So I will ask, give us even one example of something that Linux is capable of that Windows is not capable of doing.
Running on many computers as a single system image, i.e. running on a 22 node smp system, Linux thinks its one 44 proccesor computer.
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A similar system to the one in my OP
Yes they are cheaper but still way overpriced compared to commodity x64 hardware and I don't know what preformance gains you get from 4x450Mhz over 1x1.8Ghz.
I'd love to try out Solaris on SPARC and get geek points for having obscure hardware but not at those prices.
Oh come on that is not in the Spirit of Open Source. Free is Free no matter what the real overhead it.
I'm not denigrating it, I would love to run Linux or OpenSolaris on an OpenSPARC but I don't have the time to solder that many transistors together, anyway the OpenSPARC documentation is in a hardware description language not the traditional logic-gated schematic that I was expecting.
Does this mean that there will be a market full of cheap(ish) second-hand Sun servers your average geek might be able to make use of?
Yeah,SUN ENTERPRISE 450 DUAL 300MHz SERVER WITH WARRANTY
A snip at £1,695.00 (although prices on Sun hardware do seem to have come down a bit)
Is this the death of SPARC?....Or does it have some niche market/capability like PowerPC?
The OpenSPARC certainly serves a niche market, those with fab plants who are able to fabricate enough cpu's so that the per-cpu cost is cheaper than buying them from $cpu_mftr
I think they leaked the proposal to gauge the public's appetite for taxing on-line ads.
They don't have the balls to come out with something just in case they look foolish so they leak, gauge reaction then decide wether to go with it.
I thought my taxes were for the underprivileged and less-well-off, the BBC doesn't strike me as such.
We should donate our old memory sticks to them, I've got a 128mb mp3 player which is worthless to westerners but could be of use to people in the third world to dissemenate information.
The link in the summary points to page two of the article, here is the whole article
You in the US? try here or here for the real (glass) deal.
Amen, People see 'making of' documentries on their pixar DVDs and think its a breeze to do CG, it took me awhile to learn blenders 'one hand on the keyboard, one hand on the mouse' interface but it would have taken longer for me to earn the money to buy Maya,Max3ds,softimage etc..
If you do not pay money for Blender or improve the codebase you are left at the whim of the contributors who are happy with the UI (and as long as it has mouseover help labels so am I)so they improve other areas *cough*image texture file selection*cough*.
Also there are plenty of free resources on the net for blender, models,materials,tutorials, since blenderheads are more likely to be hobbyists they're more willing to share their work freely wheras max,maya owners are probably paid professionals and unwilling to spend time on work they just give away.
according to the official site, from were you will be able to order the FIC Neo 1973 from come 9th July
Your link should have pointed to the openmoko wiki.
Potential iPhone buyers should give this page a glance, a better screen and more storage space through microSD cards( 8Gb microSD cards will be released soon and who's willing to bet that in two years time the capacity of microSD reachs 32Gb,
££££'s Maya or £££'s 3DMax will not give you motivation.
let the piss-taking commence
Try this