The VT cluster cost about $5.2 Million and get approx. 17TFlops - The NEC Earth Simulator gets 35TFlops and cost one billion dollars. That makes it 192 times more expencive. So you can build 192 VT Clusters. And then in theory get. 3.2PFlops for the same amount of money. If you detract performance for cable lenght etc. - You will most definitly get around 1PFlops.
So, you supercomputerusers out there - build a 1PFLOPS cluster NOW!
Well, it is not like if you use maya you will automaticlly get perfect 3d content. Still MAX is by far the most widely used software for 3danimation and modelling. Especially for industrial visualization and games. Maya has a big name due to clever marketing. It is not like ILM, Weta, Rythm & Hues, Digital Domain etc. etc. - Use of the shelf Maya only. They use a WIDE selection of software, and alot of that is in house made software.
And if you are good and talented, any software package of. LW, 3dsmax, maya, softimage, will produce the result you are after. Especially since alot of different renderers are now availible for many or all of them packages. So basicly it doesn't matter what program you use to push around the polygons. IT is still your talent that put up the barrier.
It is not that I don't understand how it works. The problem is howto get to the function I am looking for. The UI of Maya and I, dont play well with each other.
1. I have been using 3dstudio and 3dstudio max professionaly (mainly as a teacher at various levels, currently university) for more then seven years.
2. I have Maya at my disposal, but I dont like the UI of it. And I dont have the time to spend 1-2 years to learn a whole new 3d-package from the ground up.
3. I am constantly nagging my connections at discreet that they have to port their software to other OS:s, but they are very slow on responding.
4. I am running maya on both OSX and Linux - but since I dont know much about it - it is mainly fiddling around with it.
5. I am not doing much 3d-work from a production basis, I mostly tell other people how they will solve their problems. As an educator.
I have had somewhere between 10 and 15 laptops. This is laptops I have had fore more then 2 weeks to try out and test. - And my 15" powerbook is by far the best laptop I have ever had and used. It is solid quality straight thru.
If you can afford it and all your apps are availible to you, get a powerbook. It is almost the perfect laptop for everyday use. Currently I have a powerbook G4 1GHz, Compaq 12,1" and a Dell 8100. And the apple is the best of thoose three I currently use.
I would only use a powerbook with linux - if it wasn't that I have to use 3dsmax in my day-to-day work.
I cant even count how many times I have seen an ATM in sweeden boot Dos and Windows 95/98. I have also seem them "Out of virtual memory" etc. etc. - Very very broken. So its not in 2005 - it was back in 95. You are 10 years to late.... or you have had a breather for 10 years.. - Well, on the other hand, some really funny pictures has ended up on peoples webpages with bluescreened ATM machines etc. etc.
Almost right - I have a slight hangover, and english is not my first language. So you see what happens then =)
sure they look good
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But what will looks of your desk help when your back and neck is strained? I think that was by far the most non-ergonomical desks I have ever seen. I think I would throw them it out imediatly if my employer asked me to use one of thoose.
It is so many errors with the workspace that I don't even what to go into it.
Only one thing good was probably the iGo's built in lamp for night-work. But that is probably just about it.
When are you people in the US going to have a revolution. When are you going to realize you are not going to be rich. You are not going to be the head of a large corporation. When are you going to wake up and understand that your goverment is taking you from the behind until you feel the nosebleed. Get our assed out of your tv sofa and overthrow your incompetent goverment. One million men march? Don't do anything good. 100 million men march will make you able to invade the goverment and behead the leaders. STAND UP FOR FREEDOM, REAL FREEDOM now - the freedom of the individual that is not focused on corporate freedom. Stop walking around the rich, make the rich pay and makeit better for the poor. Do it now! Stand up, walk out and start the revolution!
Just a couple of weeks ago, we read about the release of ardour. A very competent audio-editing program. And now this. OSS is really emerging as the future for desktop content creation also, and not only server appliancies. And also the prop. software vendors are finding linux. (Maya 5 from Alias|Wavefront is availible for Linux). This is truely exiting times!
The most intressting thing in this equation is. The mediacompanies are selling more records and dvd's then they have ever done. How is that, if people only download everything. (according to the companies)
"I actually think that they earnestly think they're inventing the future, as well as they know how. They've looked at every Microsoft product, from Hotmail to SQL Server, and tried to fit them into a Bold New Vision Thing. But the trouble is that nobody there is actually inventing anything earthshaking. Which isn't surprising: not because Microsoft is stupid, which they're not, but because earthshaking new inventions are so rare and Microsoft only has a finite number of smart people. Only one person in the whole world invented Napster, and he didn't work for Microsoft. Microsoft desperately wants to believe that it can manufacture revolution, but even in the Cambrian explosion of the Internet, there are only a handful of truly revolutionary ideas per year, and the chances that one of them will happen inside the tiny world of Bill Gates and the knights of the Redmond table are vanishingly small. The chances are even smaller when you consider that a typical smart programmer working in the bowels of Microsoft on display drivers for Windows NT, who has a great idea, is probably not going to get his idea listened to." This is a qoute from Joel on Software
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/ar ti cles/fog000000049.html
I think this sums up pretty much why MS is stalling.
Why have lots and lots of PDA:s moved away from the graffit or similar type-in methods and moved onto the keyboard the size of two stamps overlapping?
I dont want to park the stylus when I want to write something, and then have to pick it out again to access menues or other programs. I want one consistent way of accessing the device. Keyboard for typing alot of things, if I want to type much on this digital device, I will use a laptop. And not this tiny keyboard anyway.
More inovative graffiti etc. then keyboards on pdas! - Good thing I bought a Tungsten T, it rules. I just hope for the wavelan-sd-card to be good and to come out sooooon! - Sandisk said it would be out this summer for palmOS5 atleast.
Haven't the technology for making perfect copies of dollarbills been know for the better part of half a century?
Look at australian dollars, apparantly they are the hardest to copy in the world. Also sweden has been pretty successfull with their new ideas for protecting money. Using all kinds of tricks with metal in the bills, uv-print, watermark, special paper, relief and on top of everything very complicated print process.
I can't see how this test say anything? Why use compressed crapmaterial to start with? It is pointless. Or as a compressionguru said in a lecture. Garbage in, megagarbagee out. Use an uncompressed source!
"Fiebig (pictured) also acknowledged the policy of patching was rendered less effective because of administrators' dislike of network downtime."
He should say: "Since we at microsoft has a broken system where you can't upgrade stuff without a reboot, it is hard for us" - I dont think a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in cron is that hard work.
Slashdot Mirror
The VT cluster cost about $5.2 Million and get approx. 17TFlops - The NEC Earth Simulator gets 35TFlops and cost one billion dollars. That makes it 192 times more expencive. So you can build 192 VT Clusters. And then in theory get. 3.2PFlops for the same amount of money. If you detract performance for cable lenght etc. - You will most definitly get around 1PFlops.
So, you supercomputerusers out there - build a 1PFLOPS cluster NOW!
Well, it is not like if you use maya you will automaticlly get perfect 3d content. Still MAX is by far the most widely used software for 3danimation and modelling. Especially for industrial visualization and games. Maya has a big name due to clever marketing. It is not like ILM, Weta, Rythm & Hues, Digital Domain etc. etc. - Use of the shelf Maya only. They use a WIDE selection of software, and alot of that is in house made software.
And if you are good and talented, any software package of. LW, 3dsmax, maya, softimage, will produce the result you are after. Especially since alot of different renderers are now availible for many or all of them packages. So basicly it doesn't matter what program you use to push around the polygons. IT is still your talent that put up the barrier.
-L
Well,
It is not that I don't understand how it works. The problem is howto get to the function I am looking for. The UI of Maya and I, dont play well with each other.
-L
Hello,
It is a good question.
1. I have been using 3dstudio and 3dstudio max professionaly (mainly as a teacher at various levels, currently university) for more then seven years.
2. I have Maya at my disposal, but I dont like the UI of it. And I dont have the time to spend 1-2 years to learn a whole new 3d-package from the ground up.
3. I am constantly nagging my connections at discreet that they have to port their software to other OS:s, but they are very slow on responding.
4. I am running maya on both OSX and Linux - but since I dont know much about it - it is mainly fiddling around with it.
5. I am not doing much 3d-work from a production basis, I mostly tell other people how they will solve their problems. As an educator.
I hope this answers your questions.
-L
I have had somewhere between 10 and 15 laptops. This is laptops I have had fore more then 2 weeks to try out and test. - And my 15" powerbook is by far the best laptop I have ever had and used. It is solid quality straight thru.
If you can afford it and all your apps are availible to you, get a powerbook. It is almost the perfect laptop for everyday use. Currently I have a powerbook G4 1GHz, Compaq 12,1" and a Dell 8100. And the apple is the best of thoose three I currently use.
I would only use a powerbook with linux - if it wasn't that I have to use 3dsmax in my day-to-day work.
-L
I cant even count how many times I have seen an ATM in sweeden boot Dos and Windows 95/98. I have also seem them "Out of virtual memory" etc. etc. - Very very broken. So its not in 2005 - it was back in 95. You are 10 years to late.... or you have had a breather for 10 years.. - Well, on the other hand, some really funny pictures has ended up on peoples webpages with bluescreened ATM machines etc. etc.
Almost right - I have a slight hangover, and english is not my first language. So you see what happens then =)
But what will looks of your desk help when your back and neck is strained? I think that was by far the most non-ergonomical desks I have ever seen. I think I would throw them it out imediatly if my employer asked me to use one of thoose.
It is so many errors with the workspace that I don't even what to go into it.
Only one thing good was probably the iGo's built in lamp for night-work. But that is probably just about it.
When are you people in the US going to have a revolution. When are you going to realize you are not going to be rich. You are not going to be the head of a large corporation. When are you going to wake up and understand that your goverment is taking you from the behind until you feel the nosebleed. Get our assed out of your tv sofa and overthrow your incompetent goverment. One million men march? Don't do anything good. 100 million men march will make you able to invade the goverment and behead the leaders. STAND UP FOR FREEDOM, REAL FREEDOM now - the freedom of the individual that is not focused on corporate freedom. Stop walking around the rich, make the rich pay and makeit better for the poor. Do it now! Stand up, walk out and start the revolution!
Just a couple of weeks ago, we read about the release of ardour. A very competent audio-editing program. And now this. OSS is really emerging as the future for desktop content creation also, and not only server appliancies. And also the prop. software vendors are finding linux. (Maya 5 from Alias|Wavefront is availible for Linux). This is truely exiting times!
At the end, he references Slashdot for more info
oh, so nice with recursion in stories.
The most intressting thing in this equation is. The mediacompanies are selling more records and dvd's then they have ever done. How is that, if people only download everything. (according to the companies)
-P
thx, - I didnt know howto do it =(
-P
"I actually think that they earnestly think they're inventing the future, as well as they know how. They've looked at every Microsoft product, from Hotmail to SQL Server, and tried to fit them into a Bold New Vision Thing. But the trouble is that nobody there is actually inventing anything earthshaking. Which isn't surprising: not because Microsoft is stupid, which they're not, but because earthshaking new inventions are so rare and Microsoft only has a finite number of smart people. Only one person in the whole world invented Napster, and he didn't work for Microsoft. Microsoft desperately wants to believe that it can manufacture revolution, but even in the Cambrian explosion of the Internet, there are only a handful of truly revolutionary ideas per year, and the chances that one of them will happen inside the tiny world of Bill Gates and the knights of the Redmond table are vanishingly small. The chances are even smaller when you consider that a typical smart programmer working in the bowels of Microsoft on display drivers for Windows NT, who has a great idea, is probably not going to get his idea listened to." This is a qoute from Joel on Software
r ti cles/fog000000049.html
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/a
I think this sums up pretty much why MS is stalling.
-P
Why have lots and lots of PDA:s moved away from the graffit or similar type-in methods and moved onto the keyboard the size of two stamps overlapping?
I dont want to park the stylus when I want to write something, and then have to pick it out again to access menues or other programs. I want one consistent way of accessing the device. Keyboard for typing alot of things, if I want to type much on this digital device, I will use a laptop. And not this tiny keyboard anyway.
More inovative graffiti etc. then keyboards on pdas! - Good thing I bought a Tungsten T, it rules. I just hope for the wavelan-sd-card to be good and to come out sooooon! - Sandisk said it would be out this summer for palmOS5 atleast.
Haven't the technology for making perfect copies of dollarbills been know for the better part of half a century?
Look at australian dollars, apparantly they are the hardest to copy in the world. Also sweden has been pretty successfull with their new ideas for protecting money. Using all kinds of tricks with metal in the bills, uv-print, watermark, special paper, relief and on top of everything very complicated print
process.
I was rushing to get a first post - no time to read no stinkn' article!! =)
What is the primary appliance for this device?
hehe - The mac's are nice - especially my powerbook G4...mmmmm
I can't see how this test say anything? Why use compressed crapmaterial to start with? It is pointless. Or as a compressionguru said in a lecture. Garbage in, megagarbagee out. Use an uncompressed source!
Where do you save this cost? You still need a graphicscard in them? And I assume you have more then 32M ram in them. Where is this saveings in
cost?
1. I dont need a windowsystem on a server, console (commandline) works fine.
2. If I am going to use the box as a workstation, why do I want to use something ugly that makes my eyes bleed?
I can't find a valid use for this sort of system. Can anyone?
I would never run the hobby-dist RedHat on anything. Even less on anything remotly in production.
It was just a suggestion, the cron:ed apt-get update etc. - So far I haven't had a single broken package in debian stable.
"Fiebig (pictured) also acknowledged the policy of patching was rendered less effective because of administrators' dislike of network downtime."
He should say: "Since we at microsoft has a broken system where you can't upgrade stuff without a reboot, it is hard for us" - I dont think a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in cron is that hard work.