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Wait. See what the rest does. Make your moves in response to that.
Keep the architecture of the PS3. 2-4x as many CPU cores. 4-8x as many SPEs. Some general chip architecture improvements.
Shop a new gfx chip that is compatible with the old one.
Offer more RAM than the others. Go to 8G to make a difference from where PC games are today.
Don't reinvent the wheel once more with a new cpu...
>I've reviewed some of the various enterprise grade products, and none of them did as well as this self-built product.
You have to quantify that.
We are a large public institution that is employing one of the big enterprise products. Now, I'm not saying that the product was smelling of roses, but the publisher has been working with us internationally to add functionality and everything we need for administration and security, and it is shaping up to be what it should be. We have even been presenting the work at conferences.
You are all messing up the original quote. The best I could come up with using Google is
"If Commodore had to market sushi, they'd call it cold, raw fish."--Peter J. Kunz
You think the Apple of today exhumes cool every which way?
Flash back to 1985 and re-discover the double-page spreads Electronic Arts did for their Amiga software and developers when they said "We see farther".
EOA (as they used to shorten it) were actually coooooooool once upon a time.
Does anyone know of an alternative kind of ad blocker?
I'm thinking of something that actually _does_ download the ad, but does not show it in the browser. Everyone happy?
Impossible Mission
Zork
Dropzone/Datastorm
Uridium(II)
Gauntlet
Baldur's Gate.
If someone wants to do Zork as a graphical thing we might need a few generations of Moore more before trying.
Last year I installed OpenSUSE 10.1 on my new home pc with the intention of having a new linux workhorse. All very fine and dandy. Except the updater that took several minutes of cpu time to figure out I was all up to date...
Downloaded the 10.2 upgrade and intended to use that. First doh: You seem to be supposed to boot the dvd to do the upgrade. Second doh: Going to the 64bit version threw me into dependency handling hell. I could _not_ get the installer to shut up or remember my choices about ignoring, deleting, or whatnot for the 300-odd packages it complained about. Abort mission. Third doh: Boot the 32bit version. "Package so-and-so is locked" it said and showed a single name. Ok, I unlock. Then it repeats that 6-7 times (how about figuring them out all in one go?). Click next. Core dump. Repeatable. Fourth doh (mostly my own): I forced an install (from Yast I think?). It warned me about not being compatible. It wasn't. After a _lot_ of mucking about with a second install and copying back and forth it booted and thinks it is 10.2. I hope it is. Fifth doh: The install URLs from 10.1 are still in the list. It somehow let me install an older kernel than the 10.2 one. WTF? Sixth doh (my own?): I don't get the partitioning limits with primary and extended partitions and MBRs on PCs. I use IDE drives in my Pegasos and "it simply works". OpenSUSE 10.2 really messed with the booting setup. MBR or not, GRUB or not, a gazillion entries in the boot selection, most of them the same. Seventh doh: I tried upgrading from 32bit 10.2 to 64bit. The install did nothing at all. I guess it thinks that 10.2 is 10.2, no matter what cpu you have... Eigth doh: The OpenSUSE upgrader now uses more than an hour to check my upgrades. In pure cpu time. Nineth doh (I forgot this one): I looked for some backup utility to save my hide before I begun all this. What on earth are you supposed to use for a rescue install? Tar?
So this probably shows I'm a bit of a noob in linux handing. Next time someone tests a distro I hope they test it as an _upgrade_ too.
Oh, and to show the other side of the coin; I handle AIX systems at work. I use TSM SysBack to do a network bootable system backup before upgrades (mksysb to local dvd or tape works just as well). I transfer or just nfs mount the new filesets for all but the most major upgrades. I commit current filesets, install new ones as applied so I can roll back, do the install while running, and then just reboot. Painless and _remote_install_ friendly (the servers are 270 kilometers away so that kinda helps). IBM has even promised no-boot upgrades for the future. This is what I call enterprise class handling. Do not settle for less.
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$0.02: Wait. See what the rest does. Make your moves in response to that. Keep the architecture of the PS3. 2-4x as many CPU cores. 4-8x as many SPEs. Some general chip architecture improvements. Shop a new gfx chip that is compatible with the old one. Offer more RAM than the others. Go to 8G to make a difference from where PC games are today. Don't reinvent the wheel once more with a new cpu...
You have to quantify that.
We are a large public institution that is employing one of the big enterprise products. Now, I'm not saying that the product was smelling of roses, but the publisher has been working with us internationally to add functionality and everything we need for administration and security, and it is shaping up to be what it should be. We have even been presenting the work at conferences.
But that is pretty recent (2010-ish).
You are all messing up the original quote. The best I could come up with using Google is "If Commodore had to market sushi, they'd call it cold, raw fish."--Peter J. Kunz
You think the Apple of today exhumes cool every which way? Flash back to 1985 and re-discover the double-page spreads Electronic Arts did for their Amiga software and developers when they said "We see farther". EOA (as they used to shorten it) were actually coooooooool once upon a time.
Does anyone know of an alternative kind of ad blocker? I'm thinking of something that actually _does_ download the ad, but does not show it in the browser. Everyone happy?
Impossible Mission Zork Dropzone/Datastorm Uridium(II) Gauntlet Baldur's Gate. If someone wants to do Zork as a graphical thing we might need a few generations of Moore more before trying.
>Bottom line: Nothing to see here, except a few people that do not understand technology and are now complaining that their expectations are not met.
Or go for some other tech that can detect it. Like end-to-end checksumming.
Last year I installed OpenSUSE 10.1 on my new home pc with the intention of having a new linux workhorse.
All very fine and dandy. Except the updater that took several minutes of cpu time to figure out I was all up to date...
Downloaded the 10.2 upgrade and intended to use that.
First doh: You seem to be supposed to boot the dvd to do the upgrade.
Second doh: Going to the 64bit version threw me into dependency handling hell. I could _not_ get the installer to shut up or remember my choices about ignoring, deleting, or whatnot for the 300-odd packages it complained about. Abort mission.
Third doh: Boot the 32bit version. "Package so-and-so is locked" it said and showed a single name. Ok, I unlock. Then it repeats that 6-7 times (how about figuring them out all in one go?). Click next. Core dump. Repeatable.
Fourth doh (mostly my own): I forced an install (from Yast I think?). It warned me about not being compatible. It wasn't. After a _lot_ of mucking about with a second install and copying back and forth it booted and thinks it is 10.2. I hope it is.
Fifth doh: The install URLs from 10.1 are still in the list. It somehow let me install an older kernel than the 10.2 one. WTF?
Sixth doh (my own?): I don't get the partitioning limits with primary and extended partitions and MBRs on PCs. I use IDE drives in my Pegasos and "it simply works". OpenSUSE 10.2 really messed with the booting setup. MBR or not, GRUB or not, a gazillion entries in the boot selection, most of them the same.
Seventh doh: I tried upgrading from 32bit 10.2 to 64bit. The install did nothing at all. I guess it thinks that 10.2 is 10.2, no matter what cpu you have...
Eigth doh: The OpenSUSE upgrader now uses more than an hour to check my upgrades. In pure cpu time.
Nineth doh (I forgot this one): I looked for some backup utility to save my hide before I begun all this. What on earth are you supposed to use for a rescue install? Tar?
So this probably shows I'm a bit of a noob in linux handing. Next time someone tests a distro I hope they test it as an _upgrade_ too.
Oh, and to show the other side of the coin; I handle AIX systems at work.
I use TSM SysBack to do a network bootable system backup before upgrades (mksysb to local dvd or tape works just as well).
I transfer or just nfs mount the new filesets for all but the most major upgrades. I commit current filesets, install new ones as applied so I can roll back, do the install while running, and then just reboot.
Painless and _remote_install_ friendly (the servers are 270 kilometers away so that kinda helps).
IBM has even promised no-boot upgrades for the future. This is what I call enterprise class handling. Do not settle for less.