I had a job lined up in germany this summer, great job. Chance of a lifetime kind of deals. I could get out of the US for a while, out of Kansas specifically, and live in germany. Then the German government put a halt on that one. In order for them to hire a foreign worker, they have to prove to the government that there is nobody local qualified for the job. If there's nobody local, the government will send people that are probably qualified. Only after they discount those people could they hire me. Considering I was fresh out of school, the chances of that happening were slim to none.
So a friend and I packed up our wordly possesions and are now living in Canada, and having a rough time getting work permits. (Which is strange considering that this country relies on 300k immigrants a year to keep its economy going -- according to a Reuters article last week)
Any place is better than Kansas, even in complete poverty. So get out and live someplace strange. You might have to do shady things to make a living, but ehh...
Oh, my interview for that Germany job was during a 2 month stint backpacking across europe. You can read my emails from that at my website. I highly reccomend traveling, and if nothing is cooking for me next year and I have a few thousand, I may travel to south east asia.
Look it up in Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes. If you are into CG and don't have that book, you need to get it. Sleep with it under your pillow.
This very algorithm is also a reason why as to only support beziers. Drawing a bezier in this manner is so quick, that it is usually quicker to convert another type of cubic curve to a bezier, first, then run it through this algortihm, instead of simply calculating the values brute force down the length of the curve. (I could show you the difference in number of calculations but I just crawled out of bed). But go ahead and use your b-spline curve. Before you send it to the render, convert it to a Bezier using:
[1 4 1 0 1/6 * 0 4 2 0
0 2 4 0
0 1 4 1]
This is actually done in many graphics packages because it is that much faster.
You speak of what I dread. While the honor of working for Pixar would be incredible. I think I'd actually prefer to be an in a more independent industry. There's one hope I have. That the backlash against hollywood in the near future becomes so great, that independent movies explode. Then, as visual effects production becomes more affordable, I can work on these independent productions. One great example of CGI hitting the independent channels is last fall's "Waking Life." While I didn't so much care for the movie, the technical side of it was fairly interesting.
The one thing I've always wanted to know what happened to is Jabba's favorite decoration: The carbon frozen Han Solo. Where is this thing? I've always wanted to hang that on my wall and _really_ freak out the neighbors.
My opinion and yours actually have some common ground, but we definately come from different angles.
I have a problem with stamping the word "ART" on some things and "NOT ART" on others. Only art critics will do that, but the artists themselves could care less if something came from the "art world" or not. The perfect example: Duchamp's "fountain" (1917). For those of you that are not familiar, it was litterally a urinal sitting on its side. Is that "ART"? What gave you the right to call it either way?
Last spring, the director of Traffic, when accepting his award for that movie, said something to the effect, "I want to thank everybody who did something creative today." That little blurb meant a lot to me when I read it the next day in the paper. Did you do something creative? Do you go day by day making the widgets for you wumpus? Are you a robot? Or did you code up something unique today? Find a novel solution?
I find physics research every bit as creative as painting (sometimes moreso). So why shouldn't I see the same thing in a video game. Even the programming side. Yes, there is increasing levels of style and design going into modern video games, but I even see the coding that goes into the really great games as creative.
Personally, I think computer science and programming in general could use a bit of artistic style in addition to software engineering. Enginnering is what gave us the chrysler K-cars. Truely ugly cars. Throw artistic style into engineering and you get the Eiffel Tower. This would pull people away from simple program correctness and concentrate more on technique. Look beyond "can" and concentrate on "how".
I need to get back to work.
Maybe this helps to explain why I think the money given to the NEA would be much better given to model rocket clubs around the country, or never taken from taxpayers in the first place.
Shame on you. The NEA keeps many artistic programs alive that this country really deserves. Although, I enjoyed my model rockets as a kid, and they can be just as creative as anything else a kid can do.
paint that "didn't clean up as well as we thought"
As marketing director, maybe you can explain this decision to me. I just don't see this as a very well thought out marketing ploy. It reminded me of Homer Simpson's attempt at marketing:
I saw a Nader speech from American University on C-Span one day and when they panned the audience, there was some kid wearing a corvair tshirt. I laughed for a good 5 minutes on that. Then I made a sandwich.
This is just a student bitching about the "fascist administration".
So is he complaining about the administration or student life?
...the sort of important cultural discussion governments have historically suppressed and without which American democracy cannot exist.
You mean like freedom of religion? Cultural discussions are just as important as political ones. When culture clashes with politics, censorship and oppression occur. Pornography, Slavery, Apartheid, Religous Persecution. Examples of cultural influences on laws, and usually it doesn't have very good results.
When the Founding Fathers broke away from England and enacted the bill of rights, they didn't intend for it to apply to this sort of situation.
That depends which founding father you ask. Freedom of speech was argued during the original draft of the Constitution and ultimately left out. This act you speak of left many people scratching their heads and thinking, "maybe we should have put that in afterall." The Bill of Rights came only one year later. Thomas Jefferson pardoned everybody arrested under the Sedition act shortly after.
the lowest form of speech you can get (excluding pornography and flag burning, which aren't even speech).
This is really irrelevant to the discussion, but both are protected under free speech, and for good reason. Everybody has a different definition of pornography, how can you set the line anywhere? Flag burning? The flag is a symbol of our country. Burning is a symbol of hatred. Burn the flag, insult the nation. Seems like a political statement to me. If the flag burning amendment ever goes through, I'll burn a flag because then our nation is truely dead.
your Web-enabled wireless phone will be able to recommend a nearby restaurant based on your fondness for French, Italian or Mexican cuisine -- and then make your reservation for you
Or maybe that phone that you bought (or the particular wireless service you use) has deals with certain restaurants in the area. Possibly, it might match your tastes against the highest value deal they have. If I have a taste for Italian, is it going to just point me to the nearest Fizzoli's (utter crap) or will it reccomend the little restraunt right in front of me that doesn't have some multi-million deal?
Here's are different ways to find the best restaurants in a strange town: Look for the one with the most cars, but ignore the ones with all out of state license plates. Avoid fast food.
McNealy's proposal does nothing but screw the little restaurant on the corner and direct your tastes to the highest bidder. If this idea became reality, we all would eat McCrap on our travels. Blech.
I bought Breathed's kid's book "Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big" for my niece this christmas, and it has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read. It has all of the great political satire (many references to Bill Clinton) and absolutely beautiful illustrations.
It's a shame I had to give it to the little two year old.
This GUI does not need a third button, or even a second button. Get over it.
Not so fast there sparky. We plugged one of those Microsoft optical mice (with like 4000 buttons and a small easy bake oven underneath) into our new G4 with OSX PB and it's amazing how much of the stuff works with it. Sure, the right mouse button works (as it did in Classic if I remember correctly), but start using the programs that come with it like their mail app, and the wheel works as well. Ironic how the only program on there that doesn't work with the wheel is Internet Explorer.
I have some ideas I would like to throw into the pot of ideas for speeding up Gnutella (which is the primary concern now. Interface be dammned!). However, I'm having trouble finding any discussion groups that are talking about the fundemental protocol and infrastructure (sp?) issues of Gnutella. Where can I go for this kind of discussion? I just have a couple ideas:
1) A caching system that keeps track of what the lower bandwitdth systems have already returned from queries. That way, they only need to ping the low band client to see if the client is still up instead of sending the whole query over. Think about it, most queries will cover the same thing over and over, why repeatedly bog down pipe with the same reqest every two seconds (porn... porn... porn...) if you already know what that client has?
2) Prioritize the clients used to forward to in a list by their bandwitdth, number of returned queries (instead of what the browser claims to falsely have. It will resolve a little bit the clients that report they are sharing 10TB). Forward queries based on this list by weighting who you send the query to toward the higher priority while still getting some information out of the lower ones.
If you know a better forum than slashdot to post my naive ideas, please reply, I would like to throw my $.02 into the hat.
Has anybody heard of Wavelet compression? If the DivX guys really want to do something revolutionary, check out the theories behind this. There was a company at SIGGRAPH that showed off some awesome capabilities using this technique and the format blew the doors off of anything MPEG I've ever seen. They are relatively new theories and would probably be a chore to implement. However, the payoff would easily revolutionize desktop video.
That makes me wonder. Is there a Guinness theme for sawfish? Will all of my windows have a nice frothy head that will get stuck in my beard? Or maybe I will have to wait a few minutes before I can use the Guinness OS while the bubbles (hard drives) are still churning.
It's my favorite beer as well. They may not get Linus, but it's enough to lure me in. Especially if they get that Guinness theme with it.
in the article linked, they give a quote by Metallica saying they didn't put anybody on the list that only had downloaded bootleg music. While this keeps with Metallica's tradition of allowing bootlegs (they are an incredible live band and their live stuff is extremely good), I hardly believe anybody sat down to listen to every Metallica file all 300,000 had downloaded. But I digress, the real matter here is that they only were after the songs that were off of albums, which means they're after the money. Therefore, this leads me to believe this is the lawyer's battle, not the band's. How could Metallica truely be after a sum of money as small as this? 300,000 people * 50% that actually would buy the cd * $.50 per album? That's $75,000. Hell, take the $2 million that napster is paying Limp Bizkit to go on the free tour in consolation and you'd be sitting pretty. As our own little protest, the (college) radio station I work at has banned Metallica from our tower. (Sometimes it gets played by the less-intelligent DJ's, but they get punished accordingly) Check us out: WildCat Radio 91.9 Taos
I'm a 3D Animator/Programmer and a student so I find myself looking at the game cards to find which one is the best solution for my work. I can't afford the top of the line GL card that just gives me the raw crunching power I need. Therefore, fill rates and all the other bells and whistles don't phase me at all.
The one thing that is most important to me, however, is support. I don't mean telephone, but platform. I recently got burnt on buying a Viper 2000 because they refuse to make NT drivers with any sort of hardware acceleration. Then Linux runs into the same problem. I was sold by their web site when I was deciding on the card for my new computer. Their web site turns out to be a flat out lie. And if there's one S3 developer out there reading this, I have a size 12 boot that has your name all over it.
So now I'm incredibly leary of these game cards coming out with all these whiz bang features but will probably only develop for WinBlows 2000. I need drivers for NT4 because that's where the software is these days, and I need Linux drivers because that is where the graphics software is going and where I create most of my custom software. So when a company now comes out saying they're going to support this and that, but don't have the drivers to back it up, I'm just going to wait.
This summer, I will probably just buy a GeForce I. Because now they have released the drivers for it under Linux (it isn't open source but I don't really care) and they've always had stellar NT support. I know people here like their drivers open source and their cards to be screaming fast, but I just want one that works as advertised and fits into my meager budget.
I was sitting around the house and watching Sesame Street with my little niece the other day and out of the blue, came some Luxo animation. I'm not sure if it is the original animation or not, but I recognized the models. Does anybody know of some sort of deal between Pixar and Sesame Street? I nearly peed my pants when I saw that, right along with my niece.
Here at Kansas State University, my we recently ran into this problem in my Chemistry I class. She mentioned all the standard professor complaints of intellectual property and all that BS.
Now doesn't the concept of "intellectual property" seem a bit ironic in a college setting. In a sense, the term means you can't distribute something I know. Doesn't that go against the whole philosophy of teaching? If you don't want the information of your course to be spread, why the hell are you telling a class of 400 people everything?
In addition, use of these sites can be very useful. Look up notes from other universities in the same course. You can find different examples of the same material. It will only help you learn.
Even if old tests become posted, it can only be of benefit to the students. If the professor is so assinine as to never change his/her tests, the whole course devolves into a course on memorizing old tests. It's easier sometimes to just memorize an old test and regurgitate it on the test than it is to rationalize and learn the material to take the test properly.
There's something they're not telling us here. It's an issue I think needs to be properly discussed among professors to make them realize what their purpose at their respective university is.
Now this is what I've always wanted and more. I had always imagined something between the main point of this article and the link you show here. I've always wanted to be able to sit down and read a book in the lay-z-boy that I've just downloaded off the net. Try doing that with your laptop. And how they do it is incredible. Sign me up, I'll buy one. I don't care if it's not color... this is exactly what we need to practically eliminate paper consumption. Hey, newspapers would literally disappear in their traditional sense. Download the paper everyday and you can still read it at lunch. I think this could one of the more revolutionary things to come down the pipe in a long time.
Slashdot Mirror
I had a job lined up in germany this summer, great job. Chance of a lifetime kind of deals. I could get out of the US for a while, out of Kansas specifically, and live in germany. Then the German government put a halt on that one. In order for them to hire a foreign worker, they have to prove to the government that there is nobody local qualified for the job. If there's nobody local, the government will send people that are probably qualified. Only after they discount those people could they hire me. Considering I was fresh out of school, the chances of that happening were slim to none.
So a friend and I packed up our wordly possesions and are now living in Canada, and having a rough time getting work permits. (Which is strange considering that this country relies on 300k immigrants a year to keep its economy going -- according to a Reuters article last week)
Any place is better than Kansas, even in complete poverty. So get out and live someplace strange. You might have to do shady things to make a living, but ehh...
Oh, my interview for that Germany job was during a 2 month stint backpacking across europe. You can read my emails from that at my website. I highly reccomend traveling, and if nothing is cooking for me next year and I have a few thousand, I may travel to south east asia.
Taos
that got kinda nasty didn't it. Anyways, it's:
1/6 * [1 4 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 2 4 0 0 1 4 1]
Look it up in Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice by Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes. If you are into CG and don't have that book, you need to get it. Sleep with it under your pillow.
This very algorithm is also a reason why as to only support beziers. Drawing a bezier in this manner is so quick, that it is usually quicker to convert another type of cubic curve to a bezier, first, then run it through this algortihm, instead of simply calculating the values brute force down the length of the curve. (I could show you the difference in number of calculations but I just crawled out of bed). But go ahead and use your b-spline curve. Before you send it to the render, convert it to a Bezier using:
[1 4 1 0
1/6 * 0 4 2 0
0 2 4 0
0 1 4 1]
This is actually done in many graphics packages because it is that much faster.
Taos
Dude, what the hell does /. to the tech industry?
How often do you check it at work each day?
Taos
You speak of what I dread. While the honor of working for Pixar would be incredible. I think I'd actually prefer to be an in a more independent industry. There's one hope I have. That the backlash against hollywood in the near future becomes so great, that independent movies explode. Then, as visual effects production becomes more affordable, I can work on these independent productions. One great example of CGI hitting the independent channels is last fall's "Waking Life." While I didn't so much care for the movie, the technical side of it was fairly interesting.
:)
Wanna start a company?
Rich
.. isn't on that list.
The one thing I've always wanted to know what happened to is Jabba's favorite decoration: The carbon frozen Han Solo. Where is this thing? I've always wanted to hang that on my wall and _really_ freak out the neighbors.
Rich
I have a problem with stamping the word "ART" on some things and "NOT ART" on others. Only art critics will do that, but the artists themselves could care less if something came from the "art world" or not. The perfect example: Duchamp's "fountain" (1917). For those of you that are not familiar, it was litterally a urinal sitting on its side. Is that "ART"? What gave you the right to call it either way?
Last spring, the director of Traffic, when accepting his award for that movie, said something to the effect, "I want to thank everybody who did something creative today." That little blurb meant a lot to me when I read it the next day in the paper. Did you do something creative? Do you go day by day making the widgets for you wumpus? Are you a robot? Or did you code up something unique today? Find a novel solution?
I find physics research every bit as creative as painting (sometimes moreso). So why shouldn't I see the same thing in a video game. Even the programming side. Yes, there is increasing levels of style and design going into modern video games, but I even see the coding that goes into the really great games as creative.
Personally, I think computer science and programming in general could use a bit of artistic style in addition to software engineering. Enginnering is what gave us the chrysler K-cars. Truely ugly cars. Throw artistic style into engineering and you get the Eiffel Tower. This would pull people away from simple program correctness and concentrate more on technique. Look beyond "can" and concentrate on "how".
I need to get back to work.
Shame on you. The NEA keeps many artistic programs alive that this country really deserves. Although, I enjoyed my model rockets as a kid, and they can be just as creative as anything else a kid can do.
pickler
As marketing director, maybe you can explain this decision to me. I just don't see this as a very well thought out marketing ploy. It reminded me of Homer Simpson's attempt at marketing:
"Bowling" *kablam* "Get your bowling!" *kablam*
Taos
I saw a Nader speech from American University on C-Span one day and when they panned the audience, there was some kid wearing a corvair tshirt. I laughed for a good 5 minutes on that. Then I made a sandwich.
Taos
This is just a student bitching about the "fascist administration".
So is he complaining about the administration or student life?
You mean like freedom of religion? Cultural discussions are just as important as political ones. When culture clashes with politics, censorship and oppression occur. Pornography, Slavery, Apartheid, Religous Persecution. Examples of cultural influences on laws, and usually it doesn't have very good results.
When the Founding Fathers broke away from England and enacted the bill of rights, they didn't intend for it to apply to this sort of situation.
That depends which founding father you ask. Freedom of speech was argued during the original draft of the Constitution and ultimately left out. This act you speak of left many people scratching their heads and thinking, "maybe we should have put that in afterall." The Bill of Rights came only one year later. Thomas Jefferson pardoned everybody arrested under the Sedition act shortly after.
the lowest form of speech you can get (excluding pornography and flag burning, which aren't even speech).
This is really irrelevant to the discussion, but both are protected under free speech, and for good reason. Everybody has a different definition of pornography, how can you set the line anywhere? Flag burning? The flag is a symbol of our country. Burning is a symbol of hatred. Burn the flag, insult the nation. Seems like a political statement to me. If the flag burning amendment ever goes through, I'll burn a flag because then our nation is truely dead.
Taos
Or maybe that phone that you bought (or the particular wireless service you use) has deals with certain restaurants in the area. Possibly, it might match your tastes against the highest value deal they have. If I have a taste for Italian, is it going to just point me to the nearest Fizzoli's (utter crap) or will it reccomend the little restraunt right in front of me that doesn't have some multi-million deal?
Here's are different ways to find the best restaurants in a strange town: Look for the one with the most cars, but ignore the ones with all out of state license plates. Avoid fast food.
McNealy's proposal does nothing but screw the little restaurant on the corner and direct your tastes to the highest bidder. If this idea became reality, we all would eat McCrap on our travels. Blech.
Taos
Because of all of the independent contractors working on the new death star. They had families to look out for.
Sorry, had to steal that from "Clerks"
Taos
I bought Breathed's kid's book "Edward Fudwupper Fibbed Big" for my niece this christmas, and it has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read. It has all of the great political satire (many references to Bill Clinton) and absolutely beautiful illustrations.
It's a shame I had to give it to the little two year old.
Taos
Not so fast there sparky. We plugged one of those Microsoft optical mice (with like 4000 buttons and a small easy bake oven underneath) into our new G4 with OSX PB and it's amazing how much of the stuff works with it. Sure, the right mouse button works (as it did in Classic if I remember correctly), but start using the programs that come with it like their mail app, and the wheel works as well. Ironic how the only program on there that doesn't work with the wheel is Internet Explorer.
Does this mean Bill Gates is really going to give me $1 Million like that email told me he would?
Taos
I have some ideas I would like to throw into the pot of ideas for speeding up Gnutella (which is the primary concern now. Interface be dammned!). However, I'm having trouble finding any discussion groups that are talking about the fundemental protocol and infrastructure (sp?) issues of Gnutella. Where can I go for this kind of discussion? I just have a couple ideas:
1) A caching system that keeps track of what the lower bandwitdth systems have already returned from queries. That way, they only need to ping the low band client to see if the client is still up instead of sending the whole query over. Think about it, most queries will cover the same thing over and over, why repeatedly bog down pipe with the same reqest every two seconds (porn... porn... porn...) if you already know what that client has?
2) Prioritize the clients used to forward to in a list by their bandwitdth, number of returned queries (instead of what the browser claims to falsely have. It will resolve a little bit the clients that report they are sharing 10TB). Forward queries based on this list by weighting who you send the query to toward the higher priority while still getting some information out of the lower ones.
If you know a better forum than slashdot to post my naive ideas, please reply, I would like to throw my $.02 into the hat.
Taos
Has anybody heard of Wavelet compression? If the DivX guys really want to do something revolutionary, check out the theories behind this. There was a company at SIGGRAPH that showed off some awesome capabilities using this technique and the format blew the doors off of anything MPEG I've ever seen. They are relatively new theories and would probably be a chore to implement. However, the payoff would easily revolutionize desktop video.
Taos
That makes me wonder. Is there a Guinness theme for sawfish? Will all of my windows have a nice frothy head that will get stuck in my beard? Or maybe I will have to wait a few minutes before I can use the Guinness OS while the bubbles (hard drives) are still churning.
It's my favorite beer as well. They may not get Linus, but it's enough to lure me in. Especially if they get that Guinness theme with it.
in the article linked, they give a quote by Metallica saying they didn't put anybody on the list that only had downloaded bootleg music. While this keeps with Metallica's tradition of allowing bootlegs (they are an incredible live band and their live stuff is extremely good), I hardly believe anybody sat down to listen to every Metallica file all 300,000 had downloaded. But I digress, the real matter here is that they only were after the songs that were off of albums, which means they're after the money. Therefore, this leads me to believe this is the lawyer's battle, not the band's. How could Metallica truely be after a sum of money as small as this? 300,000 people * 50% that actually would buy the cd * $.50 per album? That's $75,000. Hell, take the $2 million that napster is paying Limp Bizkit to go on the free tour in consolation and you'd be sitting pretty. As our own little protest, the (college) radio station I work at has banned Metallica from our tower. (Sometimes it gets played by the less-intelligent DJ's, but they get punished accordingly) Check us out: WildCat Radio 91.9 Taos
I'm a 3D Animator/Programmer and a student so I find myself looking at the game cards to find which one is the best solution for my work. I can't afford the top of the line GL card that just gives me the raw crunching power I need. Therefore, fill rates and all the other bells and whistles don't phase me at all.
The one thing that is most important to me, however, is support. I don't mean telephone, but platform. I recently got burnt on buying a Viper 2000 because they refuse to make NT drivers with any sort of hardware acceleration. Then Linux runs into the same problem. I was sold by their web site when I was deciding on the card for my new computer. Their web site turns out to be a flat out lie. And if there's one S3 developer out there reading this, I have a size 12 boot that has your name all over it.
So now I'm incredibly leary of these game cards coming out with all these whiz bang features but will probably only develop for WinBlows 2000. I need drivers for NT4 because that's where the software is these days, and I need Linux drivers because that is where the graphics software is going and where I create most of my custom software. So when a company now comes out saying they're going to support this and that, but don't have the drivers to back it up, I'm just going to wait.
This summer, I will probably just buy a GeForce I. Because now they have released the drivers for it under Linux (it isn't open source but I don't really care) and they've always had stellar NT support. I know people here like their drivers open source and their cards to be screaming fast, but I just want one that works as advertised and fits into my meager budget.
Taos
I was sitting around the house and watching Sesame Street with my little niece the other day and out of the blue, came some Luxo animation. I'm not sure if it is the original animation or not, but I recognized the models. Does anybody know of some sort of deal between Pixar and Sesame Street? I nearly peed my pants when I saw that, right along with my niece.
Rich
Here at Kansas State University, my we recently ran into this problem in
my Chemistry I class. She mentioned all the standard professor
complaints of intellectual property and all that BS.
Now doesn't the concept of "intellectual property" seem a bit ironic in a
college setting. In a sense, the term means you can't distribute something
I know. Doesn't that go against the whole philosophy of teaching? If you
don't want the information of your course to be spread, why the hell are you
telling a class of 400 people everything?
In addition, use of these sites can be very useful. Look up notes from other
universities in the same course. You can find different examples of the same
material. It will only help you learn.
Even if old tests become posted, it can only be of benefit to the students.
If the professor is so assinine as to never change his/her tests, the whole
course devolves into a course on memorizing old tests. It's easier sometimes
to just memorize an old test and regurgitate it on the test than it is to
rationalize and learn the material to take the test properly.
There's something they're not telling us here. It's an issue I think needs to
be properly discussed among professors to make them realize what their purpose
at their respective university is.
________________
/ A O S
my professors smoking dope because the way it was worded. But I have proof of that anyways, I smoked up with one over labor day.
Now this is what I've always wanted and more. I had always imagined something between the main point of this article and the link you show here. I've always wanted to be able to sit down and read a book in the lay-z-boy that I've just downloaded off the net. Try doing that with your laptop. And how they do it is incredible. Sign me up, I'll buy one. I don't care if it's not color... this is exactly what we need to practically eliminate paper consumption. Hey, newspapers would literally disappear in their traditional sense. Download the paper everyday and you can still read it at lunch. I think this could one of the more revolutionary things to come down the pipe in a long time.
Hey, now we can actually test that claim of BeOS
that they can support gargantuan file systems.