I think that a 10x10 cube would be luxurious to me. Sadly, I'm still going to school, and am rather penniless (withholding my beer and caffiene money) but I litterly live in an 8Wx8Dx6.5H (feet) room, along with 2SGIs, 2Athlon boxes, 2 16 port 100tx ethernet switches --don't ask why-- a 13" T.v., bed, 2desks (one folds down off of my wall, but is cluttered most of time, so is rather pointless of doing so), a small 19" rack for some audio grabage, a ton of books, and a celing fan that must be ducked from(I'm 6'2", do the math), and whatever else I may be working on at any moment.
So, to me 10x10 would be a utter blesing. That's an amazing 64% more square feet than I already have. You have no idea how appealing an air conditioned office cube would be to me, versus my little ventilated, over heated (4+ computers, 4 20"CRTs, 500W torchiere lamp, a 40W desk lamp, and a laptop that follows me around) sweatshop o' death. I should do some thermal calculatons on all hte energy I use in here, it gets damn hot.
BTW, I live in a 100+ year old house that I'm really concidering taking a loan out on, rebuilding the Right Way(tm), or burning the bitch down, and collecting on the insurance (not that I really would)
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bleahgh, stupid extrans.. sorry for the cruft, but I'm too lazy to fix it. I should really change that someday...
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No, actually, HaLFlife was based on the quake 2 engine, heavily modified. (not the grandparent)
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If it has enuf disc space, install the X libraries, and Ethereal, and operate all your fun X stuff over ssh tunnel. As easy as that.
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Agreed...XFS and GRIO...*drewl* I'd like to see some other systems pump through a 1GigaByte movie in ~50 seconds(uncompressed video here, at full frame speed), while not going above 30% load (keep in mind, that we are playing a video, with sound while this is happening, afterall, this is real world stuff...) At that point, the SCSI bus is the only bottle neck... It's really too bad to see SGI so undervalued on the market, and continously so... My $0.02
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SGIs have very fast buses which is a huge help...
Yep, I agree here, my nifty O2 has a bus that can do about 1.2GB/s...Intel is just now catching up with this machine in memory bandwith(RDRAM)... The O2 is made in 1996. However, we really need to move away from bus (low-latency switching is where it is at) technology if we want to squash the bottlenecks in the pipeline.. Can anyone say XIO? Of course, I'm sure all the lucrative switching technologies like XIO have been bought by the big companies(and probably rightfully so).. Why does a PC in this age need that kind of preformance anyway?
I have a solution for your friends: They might try printing somewhere on the CD/Album cover some plead for the end user not to make their works available online. My guess is that most of the Gaelic folk song audience is comapssionate, and would be quite understanding of the artist's plight; hence they would not make it available to download for others. I'm not saying that the music should not be ripped, and encoded to mp3; clearly it is up to the user how they wish to listen to it.
I'm sure that this would have a positive affect on the both the artists, and the audiance, as it will likely thwart much violation of their property, and it will strengthen the bond (by mutual understanding) between the audiance and artist.
Good luck on getting this to work with a large label, however.
Was just wondering if anyone else remembers the old PC game 'Avoid the NOID'. It placed you as a pizza delivery guy that had to dodge the NOID (an advertising characater from Dominos' Pizza), as you ascended a into an apartment building..It was kinda' tough...I should see if I can find that somewhere....
I suppose a scale would do the trick, but I think it was a bit more complicated. I think the word is gravitomiter(sp?) I'm not sure exactly, but gravitomiter implies more accuracy to me (and it sounds like a StarTrek device, all the spiffier).
Yeah, thanks for the rotating body point. I recall an article in which a heavy disc was spun very quickly underneath of some sort of gravity sensor. The effect was that the gravity above the disc was of less magnitude than the surronding space. The moon/Earth system could be a very similar instance. I still know enough to know that I know relatively nothing though.
You know, I can't see the logic in this. Both the moon and Earth gather how many thousands of tons of space dust, debris per day? I forget right off, but the ammount is staggering. (I tend to think that a marginally large percentage of that dust gets trapped in my computer cases, but that is a different issue--I digress) My point being that if both bodies have been gaining mass, then the mutual gravitational pull will increace, as long as the distance between them is constant. In other words, the moon would have to have some very large force on it for it to be moving away. Maybe it's due to the spin as dosowski said, I know that I don't have the physics knowledge behind that sort of problem, so I won't go there.
The 286 (special version) was chosen because it was radation shielded relatively easily. They reused parts from previous missions, probably to save on R+D. I'm not totally sure, but I'm relativley sure thate the Hubble telescope runs on 386s (massive floating point performance here;), that are radation shielded as well.
I was just wondering: are the shuttle and Hubble programmed in ADA? Just a thought. yeech.
It may or may not be what you need, but Rhinoceros has a feature like the one you describe. There is a 'draw2d' function that takes the current view, and makes an isometric-style line removed flat 2-d drawing. This can be easily converted to dxf, and a host of other formats. I'm unsure of the ability to output to ps, or whether or not it can do this with a wire-mesh (triangulated-non-NURBS model). I have used it on engineering projects, and the complexity that can be easily acheived left some stunned.
I would also reccomend watching the IMAX movie on the same topic. The IMAX crews went to Saudi, and caputred all the wacky ways they put the wells out. If you ever get the oppourtunity to see it, definitely do so. That's been a while ago, granted, but the films still gotta be around somewhere...
This SO-DIMM sounds good, I'm glad that it finally has been done. It's nonsense to have it otherwise, as it does save tonnes of money for the manufactuers, especially on the custom fabrication of those boards; not to mention the headaches for consumers. Thanks for the enlightenment,as it's been a while since I have opened a brand-new laptop:D
Finaly, laptops are a different business model than PCs. People don't upgrade laptops and they don't buy cheap ones, which is the main two reasons why you can buy the parts.
I will have to agree with you on this, however I have to disagree too. I agree that people do not upgrade their laptop machines often (if at all). The problem that I see with this statement is that manufactuers do not make laptops easily upgradable. The last machine that I have seen that I could plug a new processor in was a 486 25/SX. Maybe there were a few that poped up later, but most modern machines cannot have many of their core componnents swapped. Laptop memory has always been proprietary, and as a result, 3X more expensive than consumer RAM. Yeah, sure you may be able to put a new hard disc in; most of those have been standardized on size. A CDROM maybe.
I realize the problems that standardization would cause to the laptop market. Creativity would stiffle, form factor would probably increace, etc. That's why I don't necessairly think it's a good idea. Being able to upgrade processors and having the ability to cram some regular DIMMS, however, would be priceless.
Sorry about the formatting, slashcode seems to be on the fritz this morning.
I will have to agree on the latency issue. Using a terminal remotely over a 1200bps modem (direct connection to the server) is alot easier to put up with than having a T1, and using a terminal somewhere in Taiwan (with a latency of 3 seconds - [if the packets aren't dropped multiple times by then that is]). For me, operating a remote terminal is only bearable with a latency under 250ms, and then preferable to be under 100ms. That's just my opionion, though.
I'd be willing to contribute stuff/money to FreeDB, to help the costs issue. I'm by no means rich, but it they asked, I'd likely toss something their way. If they setup a Paypal account, or somesuch, I imagine that many others would be willing to help keep a community supported service alive.
I'll have to agree with you on the fact that Seven would have had to have been abducted before the STNG borg series (with the possible exception being where the Enterprose is taken to the Delta quadrant by Q) However, Seven's family followed the borg through a slipstream portal somewhere in the Alpha quadrant, on the other side ot the DMZ, to the Delta quadrant. They studied them, and all got assimilated.
*Me cleans the drew off my chin, and wanders off...*
I agree, a full open-sourced (not necessairly the engine, but that would be a bonus) flight simulator/war simulator would be really sweet. 'specially for M-M internet games, but I digress...
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The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Heh...I still have that blinky thing around...been going for a month at least.. It's still fun to intimidate the cat with it. I must be really bored, or atleast easily entertained.
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I think that a 10x10 cube would be luxurious to me. Sadly, I'm still going to school, and am rather penniless (withholding my beer and caffiene money) but I litterly live in an 8Wx8Dx6.5H (feet) room, along with 2SGIs, 2Athlon boxes, 2 16 port 100tx ethernet switches --don't ask why-- a 13" T.v., bed, 2desks (one folds down off of my wall, but is cluttered most of time, so is rather pointless of doing so), a small 19" rack for some audio grabage, a ton of books, and a celing fan that must be ducked from(I'm 6'2", do the math), and whatever else I may be working on at any moment.
So, to me 10x10 would be a utter blesing. That's an amazing 64% more square feet than I already have. You have no idea how appealing an air conditioned office cube would be to me, versus my little ventilated, over heated (4+ computers, 4 20"CRTs, 500W torchiere lamp, a 40W desk lamp, and a laptop that follows me around) sweatshop o' death. I should do some thermal calculatons on all hte energy I use in here, it gets damn hot.
BTW, I live in a 100+ year old house that I'm really concidering taking a loan out on, rebuilding the Right Way(tm), or burning the bitch down, and collecting on the insurance (not that I really would)
bleahgh, stupid extrans.. sorry for the cruft, but I'm too lazy to fix it. I should really change that someday...
No, actually, HaLFlife was based on the quake 2 engine, heavily modified. (not the grandparent)
<br><br>
--</i>cheers</i>
If it has enuf disc space, install the X libraries, and Ethereal, and operate all your fun X stuff over ssh tunnel. As easy as that.
Agreed...XFS and GRIO...*drewl* I'd like to see some other systems pump through a 1GigaByte movie in ~50 seconds(uncompressed video here, at full frame speed), while not going above 30% load (keep in mind, that we are playing a video, with sound while this is happening, afterall, this is real world stuff...) At that point, the SCSI bus is the only bottle neck... It's really too bad to see SGI so undervalued on the market, and continously so... My $0.02
SGIs have very fast buses which is a huge help...
Yep, I agree here, my nifty O2 has a bus that can do about 1.2GB/s...Intel is just now catching up with this machine in memory bandwith(RDRAM)... The O2 is made in 1996. However, we really need to move away from bus (low-latency switching is where it is at) technology if we want to squash the bottlenecks in the pipeline.. Can anyone say XIO? Of course, I'm sure all the lucrative switching technologies like XIO have been bought by the big companies(and probably rightfully so).. Why does a PC in this age need that kind of preformance anyway?
I have a solution for your friends: They might try printing somewhere on the CD/Album cover some plead for the end user not to make their works available online. My guess is that most of the Gaelic folk song audience is comapssionate, and would be quite understanding of the artist's plight; hence they would not make it available to download for others. I'm not saying that the music should not be ripped, and encoded to mp3; clearly it is up to the user how they wish to listen to it.
I'm sure that this would have a positive affect on the both the artists, and the audiance, as it will likely thwart much violation of their property, and it will strengthen the bond (by mutual understanding) between the audiance and artist.
Good luck on getting this to work with a large label, however.
If you would have done a bit more investigating (on the 'net namely) you would have found: Direct Client to Client Protocol.
Was just wondering if anyone else remembers the old PC game 'Avoid the NOID'. It placed you as a pizza delivery guy that had to dodge the NOID (an advertising characater from Dominos' Pizza), as you ascended a into an apartment building..It was kinda' tough...I should see if I can find that somewhere....
I suppose a scale would do the trick, but I think it was a bit more complicated. I think the word is gravitomiter(sp?) I'm not sure exactly, but gravitomiter implies more accuracy to me (and it sounds like a StarTrek device, all the spiffier).
Yeah, thanks for the rotating body point. I recall an article in which a heavy disc was spun very quickly underneath of some sort of gravity sensor. The effect was that the gravity above the disc was of less magnitude than the surronding space. The moon/Earth system could be a very similar instance. I still know enough to know that I know relatively nothing though.
You know, I can't see the logic in this. Both the moon and Earth gather how many thousands of tons of space dust, debris per day? I forget right off, but the ammount is staggering. (I tend to think that a marginally large percentage of that dust gets trapped in my computer cases, but that is a different issue--I digress) My point being that if both bodies have been gaining mass, then the mutual gravitational pull will increace, as long as the distance between them is constant. In other words, the moon would have to have some very large force on it for it to be moving away. Maybe it's due to the spin as dosowski said, I know that I don't have the physics knowledge behind that sort of problem, so I won't go there.
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The 286 (special version) was chosen because it was radation shielded relatively easily. They reused parts from previous missions, probably to save on R+D. I'm not totally sure, but I'm relativley sure thate the Hubble telescope runs on 386s (massive floating point performance here ;), that are radation shielded as well.
I was just wondering: are the shuttle and Hubble programmed in ADA? Just a thought. yeech.
It may or may not be what you need, but Rhinoceros has a feature like the one you describe. There is a 'draw2d' function that takes the current view, and makes an isometric-style line removed flat 2-d drawing. This can be easily converted to dxf, and a host of other formats. I'm unsure of the ability to output to ps, or whether or not it can do this with a wire-mesh (triangulated-non-NURBS model). I have used it on engineering projects, and the complexity that can be easily acheived left some stunned.
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I would also reccomend watching the IMAX movie on the same topic. The IMAX crews went to Saudi, and caputred all the wacky ways they put the wells out. If you ever get the oppourtunity to see it, definitely do so. That's been a while ago, granted, but the films still gotta be around somewhere...
This SO-DIMM sounds good, I'm glad that it finally has been done. It's nonsense to have it otherwise, as it does save tonnes of money for the manufactuers, especially on the custom fabrication of those boards; not to mention the headaches for consumers. Thanks for the enlightenment,as it's been a while since I have opened a brand-new laptop :D
Finaly, laptops are a different business model than PCs. People don't upgrade laptops and they don't buy cheap ones, which is the main two reasons why you can buy the parts.
I will have to agree with you on this, however I have to disagree too. I agree that people do not upgrade their laptop machines often (if at all). The problem that I see with this statement is that manufactuers do not make laptops easily upgradable. The last machine that I have seen that I could plug a new processor in was a 486 25/SX. Maybe there were a few that poped up later, but most modern machines cannot have many of their core componnents swapped. Laptop memory has always been proprietary, and as a result, 3X more expensive than consumer RAM. Yeah, sure you may be able to put a new hard disc in; most of those have been standardized on size. A CDROM maybe.
I realize the problems that standardization would cause to the laptop market. Creativity would stiffle, form factor would probably increace, etc. That's why I don't necessairly think it's a good idea. Being able to upgrade processors and having the ability to cram some regular DIMMS, however, would be priceless.
Sorry about the formatting, slashcode seems to be on the fritz this morning.
I will have to agree on the latency issue. Using a terminal remotely over a 1200bps modem (direct connection to the server) is alot easier to put up with than having a T1, and using a terminal somewhere in Taiwan (with a latency of 3 seconds - [if the packets aren't dropped multiple times by then that is]). For me, operating a remote terminal is only bearable with a latency under 250ms, and then preferable to be under 100ms. That's just my opionion, though.
I'd be willing to contribute stuff/money to FreeDB, to help the costs issue. I'm by no means rich, but it they asked, I'd likely toss something their way. If they setup a Paypal account, or somesuch, I imagine that many others would be willing to help keep a community supported service alive.
Doh! I musta got that from the new sci-fi series with Hercules... My Bad.
Nah, it was all right there, for the world to watch. Dunno what episode it was (I'm not that nerdy)
I'll have to agree with you on the fact that Seven would have had to have been abducted before the STNG borg series (with the possible exception being where the Enterprose is taken to the Delta quadrant by Q) However, Seven's family followed the borg through a slipstream portal somewhere in the Alpha quadrant, on the other side ot the DMZ, to the Delta quadrant. They studied them, and all got assimilated.
*Me cleans the drew off my chin, and wanders off...*
I agree, a full open-sourced (not necessairly the engine, but that would be a bonus) flight simulator/war simulator would be really sweet. 'specially for M-M internet games, but I digress...
No blubber head!
Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.!
The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Heh...I still have that blinky thing around...been going for a month at least.. It's still fun to intimidate the cat with it. I must be really bored, or atleast easily entertained.