#1: Is there going to be a Mac Version? I would love to put this in my Apple Tower, I have 3 PCI-E x16 slots sitting around doing nothing.
#2: When is this actually going to come out? I mean, I keep reading things on "fantastic pieces of tech" and they either never come out, or they come out everyone forgets about them.
Anyone know what this should retail for, or if software can even take advantage of it yet?
Seeing as how I have both a mid-2007 Macbook and the new early-2008 Mac Pro... I'm somewhat screwed if this is true...:'(
At least I spent all of my time in life on Slashdot, with people that really matter
but what's the real point? Anyone with a website that has any real traffic to it is going to need a more powerful server then that... this device is more of a "hey look guys, this is so cool" instead of a "hey boss, I found a way to cut spending on our new web server"
Aye, me mean, tis' possible t' phrase the same question multiple diffarnt ways, and each time, gettin' a diffarnt answer from the same person. Tis' called "Politics" Ye'll ne'er get me buried booty!
I barely trust human drivers (well, I don't trust them, but I'm willing to somewhat put up with them) and now you want to put Automated drivers on the road?!? Yeah no. I refuse to be driven by one of these.... I mean, what happens when all of the buses start talking together... calling their network "Skynet"?
This being Slashot, I'm just hoping that you forgot to put a at the end of that... The ISPs in the US don't exactly have that clean of a record, with the whole patriot act, so on so forth... USA ISPs have been disclosing information for longer then the UK ISPs. I know that someone is going to say "This just means that we need to start encrypting all of our traffic" I don't think that we should NEED to encrypt our traffic so that the ISPs can't read it. (I'm all for encrypting so that the black hats can't read it, but then again, we don't pay the black hats for a service)
I do want to point out that because this article is being read by thousands and thousands of people, the assorted political groups are likely to not make the same mistake again. They will most likely compensate for this in the future.
Politicians (or their group) editing wiki pages in order to appear better to the public? (the same people who have the power to put them in office) Gasp. Shocked I am. I honestly am starting to expect this kind of thing.
PS: I do think that it's rather interesting, looking for spikes in Wiki traffic to predict assorted events, perhaps we should start monitoring the "US invades the entire middle east" page
Didn't the 8800 series come out at the end of 2006? The first gen 8800GTS 640MB and the 8800GTX 768MB those are still powerful video cards by today's standards.... so if Larrabee is "a GPU from 2006" then isn't that a compliment to Intel?
I hope that this pans out, but the manufacturing of said Renewable energy will probably offset the whole "Green" side of things... Well, hopefully it will all work out for the best. The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
While you are waiting for "Tron 2" go on ahead and play Armagetron. It's quite a lot of fun, and is one of the games of choice for my lan parties now.
http://www.armagetronad.net/
I LIKE IT that less and less features are tied into the command line. It's a lot easier for me to use a computer via GUI then via obscure command line commands. I run Ubuntu on two different computers at home, 3D acceleration, COMPIZ, WINE, all work extremely well. And I didn't have to use the command line to set any of them up. The average person who uses a computer (Example: My Mother) can now use Ubuntu, because the average person depends on a GUI instead of memorization of a bunch of command line commands. Most people don't CARE what Operating System they are using, as long as it is simple, as long as the UI is friendly. Look at OS X. It's rather user friendly. Linux is heading the same way, while Vista.... well, it's Vista.;)
I was part of my school's IT Department, and we had those computers locked down rather well. Each teacher could see what was happening on each student's monitors, and we had the net access very limited. However, the students kept finding new proxies, new ways of getting around the firewalls, and, most of all, they kept bringing in games on flash drives.
Computers don't really help in a classroom environment... at least, not in High School or Earlier, because the kids know enough to be able to play games and email behind the teacher's back. Computers are a tool, yes, but most of the time they are misused... especially by those immature enough to put checking their myspace at a higher priority then doing their schoolwork.
I just graduated High School, and it was depressing, the way that kids wasted their time in the assorted computer classes...
I know that CPU Ray-Tracing is thrown around a lot here on slashdot, and yes, it's slow (for current processors) BUT, lets look at the company doing the mudslinging at Intel. Crytek. Their latest release, Crysis, has abismally poor performance. All of their press releases for the last few years say "oh sure, we support multithreading" / "Get a Quad Core for our game" and I Know quite a few people who's main reason FOR getting a Quad core was Crysis. Then Launch day came, and we realized that the game is single threaded, and that our rather expensive processors had been just that, an expensive waste of money.
It just seems to me that Crytek should impliment advances in technology, rather then just complain about Intel's latest idea.
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#1: Is there going to be a Mac Version? I would love to put this in my Apple Tower, I have 3 PCI-E x16 slots sitting around doing nothing. #2: When is this actually going to come out? I mean, I keep reading things on "fantastic pieces of tech" and they either never come out, or they come out everyone forgets about them. Anyone know what this should retail for, or if software can even take advantage of it yet?
Seeing as how I have both a mid-2007 Macbook and the new early-2008 Mac Pro... I'm somewhat screwed if this is true... :'(
At least I spent all of my time in life on Slashdot, with people that really matter
then by using the "Back to my mac" feature it's possible to log into other Macs that are logged into your ".me" account. http://images.apple.com/mobileme/docs/L358808A_BackMac_UG_070708.pdf
but what's the real point? Anyone with a website that has any real traffic to it is going to need a more powerful server then that... this device is more of a "hey look guys, this is so cool" instead of a "hey boss, I found a way to cut spending on our new web server"
Aye, me mean, tis' possible t' phrase the same question multiple diffarnt ways, and each time, gettin' a diffarnt answer from the same person. Tis' called "Politics" Ye'll ne'er get me buried booty!
I barely trust human drivers (well, I don't trust them, but I'm willing to somewhat put up with them) and now you want to put Automated drivers on the road?!? Yeah no. I refuse to be driven by one of these.... I mean, what happens when all of the buses start talking together... calling their network "Skynet"?
since when did the DOJ actually use warrants to get what it wanted?
This being Slashot, I'm just hoping that you forgot to put a at the end of that... The ISPs in the US don't exactly have that clean of a record, with the whole patriot act, so on so forth... USA ISPs have been disclosing information for longer then the UK ISPs. I know that someone is going to say "This just means that we need to start encrypting all of our traffic" I don't think that we should NEED to encrypt our traffic so that the ISPs can't read it. (I'm all for encrypting so that the black hats can't read it, but then again, we don't pay the black hats for a service)
I do want to point out that because this article is being read by thousands and thousands of people, the assorted political groups are likely to not make the same mistake again. They will most likely compensate for this in the future.
Politicians (or their group) editing wiki pages in order to appear better to the public? (the same people who have the power to put them in office) Gasp. Shocked I am. I honestly am starting to expect this kind of thing. PS: I do think that it's rather interesting, looking for spikes in Wiki traffic to predict assorted events, perhaps we should start monitoring the "US invades the entire middle east" page
Didn't the 8800 series come out at the end of 2006? The first gen 8800GTS 640MB and the 8800GTX 768MB those are still powerful video cards by today's standards.... so if Larrabee is "a GPU from 2006" then isn't that a compliment to Intel?
I hope that this pans out, but the manufacturing of said Renewable energy will probably offset the whole "Green" side of things... Well, hopefully it will all work out for the best. The question is, apart from Government financing, is it possible for Normal People to buy a Green Home / Car / Life?
I breath Oxygen you insensitive clod!!
While you are waiting for "Tron 2" go on ahead and play Armagetron. It's quite a lot of fun, and is one of the games of choice for my lan parties now. http://www.armagetronad.net/
I LIKE IT that less and less features are tied into the command line. It's a lot easier for me to use a computer via GUI then via obscure command line commands. I run Ubuntu on two different computers at home, 3D acceleration, COMPIZ, WINE, all work extremely well. And I didn't have to use the command line to set any of them up. The average person who uses a computer (Example: My Mother) can now use Ubuntu, because the average person depends on a GUI instead of memorization of a bunch of command line commands. Most people don't CARE what Operating System they are using, as long as it is simple, as long as the UI is friendly. Look at OS X. It's rather user friendly. Linux is heading the same way, while Vista.... well, it's Vista. ;)
I was part of my school's IT Department, and we had those computers locked down rather well. Each teacher could see what was happening on each student's monitors, and we had the net access very limited. However, the students kept finding new proxies, new ways of getting around the firewalls, and, most of all, they kept bringing in games on flash drives.
Computers don't really help in a classroom environment... at least, not in High School or Earlier, because the kids know enough to be able to play games and email behind the teacher's back. Computers are a tool, yes, but most of the time they are misused... especially by those immature enough to put checking their myspace at a higher priority then doing their schoolwork. I just graduated High School, and it was depressing, the way that kids wasted their time in the assorted computer classes...
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these... Wait, isn't that basically a "Think Tank"?
I know that CPU Ray-Tracing is thrown around a lot here on slashdot, and yes, it's slow (for current processors) BUT, lets look at the company doing the mudslinging at Intel. Crytek. Their latest release, Crysis, has abismally poor performance. All of their press releases for the last few years say "oh sure, we support multithreading" / "Get a Quad Core for our game" and I Know quite a few people who's main reason FOR getting a Quad core was Crysis. Then Launch day came, and we realized that the game is single threaded, and that our rather expensive processors had been just that, an expensive waste of money. It just seems to me that Crytek should impliment advances in technology, rather then just complain about Intel's latest idea.