Has SGI really gone Itanium? They have waffled on a LOT of things for years now. They kind of went wintel then backed out, then kind of went x86 linux then backed out. Are they planning any new ia-64 products? The 750 is a legacy product and the Pro64 compiler seems to be gone.
The embedded market seems to still be competetive.Consoles would definately fall into this catagory. We do seem to be settling on a few ISA's in that arena ie MIPS, ARM, x86, and powerpc. But my understanding is that there are several implementations of each of these so that things are still interesting.And others in this catagory are not completely crushed, and probably won't be any time soon. What I fear (and maybe this is only FUD) is that intel will suck the high end workstation market into its fold and kill competetive innovation there.
Even though intel controls the desktop market pretty tightly they do not control the high end and low end. IMO this is because inteligent people can take their time to make decisions either when designing an embedded device or spending tens-of-thousand$ or million$.
Ok, guess I'm a little out of the loop. In my rather limited experience I have only ever seen Power4's used for database/mainframe kind of stuff. For example, at a previous job we had an AIX box running the backup/tape robot machine and used Alphas for compute tasks. Most of the marketroid crap i have heard relating to power4 has had to do with reliability at the hardware level. IIRC they have multiple identical cpus that execute the same instruction stream and check the results, or is that only in the BIG mainframes?
Personally I like how each page in the ppt presentations used a slightly different USIII ranging from 800 to 1050Mhz. Hmm smells like marketing picked out the best from a bunch of (simulated?) benchmarks. Everything was labeled 'simulated' or 'estimated'.
Nothing to see here folks please move along.
Well other than the slow death of competing high end architectures.
Lets see here we have: SPARC... still competitive I think Itanium... taking over Alpha... going the way of the dodo (im really sad about this) PA-RISC... transitioning to Itanium MIPS... never really liked them for big compute stuff, lets hope SGI can turn things around. Power4... still competitive in performance but AFAIK to get a high end system you need to give your first born to IBM. And, IMO not really designed for the HPC kind of stuff I'm interested in. Cray... ? I've heard of some really cool stuff being developed, i'll believe it when I see it.
What eles is out there? I haven't really been in the market for a high end system in a while, but it feels like the market is shrinking and soon Itanium will be "the choice," unless legacy support is a concern .
Tsk tsk tsk... Carmack doesn't use no stinking Direct3D! Every 3D accelerated Id game out there uses OpenGL. Carmack will write a back-end that uses each popular card's OpenGL extensions to the max. I would love to see what he could do with the P10 architecture from 3dlabs that takes programability WAY beyond PS1.4 or whatever... although unfortunately the 'consumer version' will probably suck when it comes out.
But remember: Even though ppt presentations look very cheesy, everyone uses ppt so therefore it is profesional to use ppt. M$ has a way of setting standards even if they are crap. And what other format are you going to use when you travel to a custumer's site to give a presentation and you need to deal with whatever computer setup they have in their conference room? As a policy at my work we bring a CD with the presentation in PPT and a "PDF'ed" version of the ppt.
RTF is dead... M$ embraced and extended it until it suffacated. There are plenty of 'read only' cross platform document formats, PDF, HTML, jpg, gif, png,... The only truly editable cross platform format is good old ASCII, well as long as you are carefull about line endings... This gives rise to the next generation of file formats: XML based. In particular I am thinking of SVG as being the forefront of this movement, OK its not moving all that fast. But, SVG could be used to do an entire PPT work alike that would make PPT look like crap. The problem at the moment is that not very many people have an SVG interpretter on their machine, although adobe is slowly tring to change that. Personally I think the only company out there (at the moment) that is in a position to realy change things is adobe. If they created an "editable PDF" and were able to get lots of people to support it well, then things would be a bit different. For this to really work we would need a _perfect_.doc "editable PDF" converter (since M$ sure as hell aint going to support this thing). And of course all the other Office suites out there would need to support.
If you can't tell I am a big fan of adobe. They have created the two most important(IMHO)(and very flexible/forward looking) file formats for office documents out there (PS and PDF).
What exactly is the definition of price fixing? It seems that with other products manufacturers can only state an MSRP(manufacturer suggested retail price, but with consoles (and to a very slightly lesser degree games) the manufacturer gets to choose the price that stores sell it for. Why is this?
I don't think this was so offtopic(ok maybe a bit, but it was a joke).
In Max Headroom network 23 was able to watch people watching tv (a standard 2-way sampler) in order to get realtime ratings... sort of like Macromedia enabling the webcam to watch you surfing the web (ok I really doubt they really would do this, but it could be done given what is suggested in the article).
The REBUS tape I refer to showed a person exploding b/c of watching too many 'blipverts'
I actually had a 'heatsink failure' once, thankfully it happened before I had finished setting up the machine so nothing died. The mode of failure was that one of the plastic clips that the retention mechanism connects to bent. It was on a very old MOBO so I just tossed it rather than try toasting chips. Theoretically I could see this cheap bit of plastic failing during operation.
This is an overstatement. This bug can be triggered from a web page that references the MSN Chat ActiveX Control, so if at some time in the past you installed the control then you are vulnerable even if you use trillian. The advisory states that the chat control is not installed by default with any other software so you are probably safe. Of course a better course of action for trillian users would be to verify that the control is not installed and uninstall it if it is installed.
This leads to a couple questions I do not personally know the answer to: Is there a way to uninstall ActiveX controls?!? Can I get a list of the ActiveX controls installed on my machine??!?
Well I went ahead and tried to compile style/diction and it bailed out complaining: In file included from/usr/include/math.h:350,
from style.c:33: /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:427: warning: no previous prototype for `__atan2l' /usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:442: warning: no previous prototype for `__sqrtl'/usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:448: warning: no previous prototype for `__fabsl'
When compiling style.c. WOW! I never realized that you need arctangents in order to do style checking:)
Pretty cool programs though, I sort of assumed (you know what happens when we assume) these kind of things wouldn't really show as OSS since grammer aint really the domain of most hackers. Thanks for the pointer. I really need to browse gnu.org more often.
So basically you are suggesting a sophisticated grand jury, but for civil cases.
The only problem I see is that "The Powers That Be" would (for good reason) want this to work 100%, and of course perfect geographic net filtering is only a pipe dream. It might be more interesting to set up a system more like how journal articles are peer reviewed.
I guess I didn't explain the situation very well. This was RH 4.x or 5.x (not sure) and I was in root's home directory (ie/root/ ) so recursively deleting all the files in.. effectively eviscerated the entire system.
I pulled something like that when I was still a linux newbie (and logging in as root regularly). I was having some trouble with a program and decided it must be a problem with one of those 'dot files' , so I figured I would be slick and delete all of them:
rm -rf.*
that should do it...
...
why is the disk still churning...
/me slaps forehead
.* matches..
I have never logged in as root since, and I'm very carefull with su
I was under the impression that the dark side of the moon got very little sunlight.
Where did this whole 'dark side of the moon' thing come from(yeah yeah pink floyd)?? The moon rotates so that the same side faces earth at all times. So what do you think is happening during a new moon. We can't see the moon because the OTHER side (dark side) is getting the sun light.
Not to be annoying, but actually I think it is more appropriate to say that it is removing information from the image. The theory behind antialiasing ti to remove aliasing (duh;). Where aliasing is caused be having visual information that is at a higher frequency than the sampling frequency (800x600, 1600x1200....) So when properly done it removes high frequncy information. On high end SGI's and profesional cards like 3Dlabs wildcat boards it is done *BEAUTIFULLY*. The difference is just stunning. I have a GeForce3Ti at home and with antialiasing on I still get texture shimmer and crawling edges(temporal aliasing) that can be annoying, especially since I have seen how good anti-aliasing can be.
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Actually there are three. There is a small fan on the northbridge/graphics chip. Its probably not a big noise source, but it is another moving part.
I sure hope you are right about Alpha or PA-RISC.
Has SGI really gone Itanium? They have waffled on a LOT of things for years now. They kind of went wintel then backed out, then kind of went x86 linux then backed out. Are they planning any new ia-64 products? The 750 is a legacy product and the Pro64 compiler seems to be gone.
The embedded market seems to still be competetive.Consoles would definately fall into this catagory. We do seem to be settling on a few ISA's in that arena ie MIPS, ARM, x86, and powerpc. But my understanding is that there are several implementations of each of these so that things are still interesting.And others in this catagory are not completely crushed, and probably won't be any time soon. What I fear (and maybe this is only FUD) is that intel will suck the high end workstation market into its fold and kill competetive innovation there.
Even though intel controls the desktop market pretty tightly they do not control the high end and low end. IMO this is because inteligent people can take their time to make decisions either when designing an embedded device or spending tens-of-thousand$ or million$.
Ok, guess I'm a little out of the loop. In my rather limited experience I have only ever seen Power4's used for database/mainframe kind of stuff. For example, at a previous job we had an AIX box running the backup/tape robot machine and used Alphas for compute tasks. Most of the marketroid crap i have heard relating to power4 has had to do with reliability at the hardware level. IIRC they have multiple identical cpus that execute the same instruction stream and check the results, or is that only in the BIG mainframes?
Personally I like how each page in the ppt presentations used a slightly different USIII ranging from 800 to 1050Mhz. Hmm smells like marketing picked out the best from a bunch of (simulated?) benchmarks. Everything was labeled 'simulated' or 'estimated'.
... still competitive I think ... taking over ... going the way of the dodo (im really sad about this) ... transitioning to Itanium ... never really liked them for big compute stuff, lets hope SGI can turn things around. ... still competitive in performance but AFAIK to get a high end system you need to give your first born to IBM. And, IMO not really designed for the HPC kind of stuff I'm interested in. ... ? I've heard of some really cool stuff being developed, i'll believe it when I see it.
Nothing to see here folks please move along.
Well other than the slow death of competing high end architectures.
Lets see here we have:
SPARC
Itanium
Alpha
PA-RISC
MIPS
Power4
Cray
What eles is out there? I haven't really been in the market for a high end system in a while, but it feels like the market is shrinking and soon Itanium will be "the choice," unless legacy support is a concern .
Tsk tsk tsk ... Carmack doesn't use no stinking Direct3D! Every 3D accelerated Id game out there uses OpenGL. Carmack will write a back-end that uses each popular card's OpenGL extensions to the max. I would love to see what he could do with the P10 architecture from 3dlabs that takes programability WAY beyond PS1.4 or whatever ... although unfortunately the 'consumer version' will probably suck when it comes out.
But remember:
Even though ppt presentations look very cheesy, everyone uses ppt so therefore it is profesional to use ppt. M$ has a way of setting standards even if they are crap. And what other format are you going to use when you travel to a custumer's site to give a presentation and you need to deal with whatever computer setup they have in their conference room? As a policy at my work we bring a CD with the presentation in PPT and a "PDF'ed" version of the ppt.
RTF is dead ... M$ embraced and extended it until it suffacated. There are plenty of 'read only' cross platform document formats, PDF, HTML, jpg, gif, png, ... The only truly editable cross platform format is good old ASCII, well as long as you are carefull about line endings ... .doc "editable PDF" converter (since M$ sure as hell aint going to support this thing). And of course all the other Office suites out there would need to support.
This gives rise to the next generation of file formats: XML based. In particular I am thinking of SVG as being the forefront of this movement, OK its not moving all that fast. But, SVG could be used to do an entire PPT work alike that would make PPT look like crap. The problem at the moment is that not very many people have an SVG interpretter on their machine, although adobe is slowly tring to change that.
Personally I think the only company out there (at the moment) that is in a position to realy change things is adobe. If they created an "editable PDF" and were able to get lots of people to support it well, then things would be a bit different. For this to really work we would need a _perfect_
If you can't tell I am a big fan of adobe. They have created the two most important(IMHO)(and very flexible/forward looking) file formats for office documents out there (PS and PDF).
Ok IANAL by any stretch of the imagination.
What exactly is the definition of price fixing? It seems that with other products manufacturers can only state an MSRP(manufacturer suggested retail price, but with consoles (and to a very slightly lesser degree games) the manufacturer gets to choose the price that stores sell it for. Why is this?
Not to be pedantic, but what exactly is 'interpolative prediction'?
:)
... definately positive ;) I think everyone would agree its a bit 'chaotic' around here.
Interpolation involvels finding values b/w two known values.
I think extrapolative prediction would be a better way to phrase it
Hmm I wonder what the lyapunov exponent of slashdot would be
I don't think this was so offtopic(ok maybe a bit, but it was a joke).
... sort of like Macromedia enabling the webcam to watch you surfing the web (ok I really doubt they really would do this, but it could be done given what is suggested in the article).
In Max Headroom network 23 was able to watch people watching tv (a standard 2-way sampler) in order to get realtime ratings
The REBUS tape I refer to showed a person exploding b/c of watching too many 'blipverts'
Just remember to make a copy of the REBUS tape so that you have evidence that the ZikZak BlipVerts are lethal.
Try the shuttle ss40.
Unfortunately I dont think it is available quite yet, even though its sister the ss50 is available.
So when can we expect to see actual MMIX hardware?
I actually had a 'heatsink failure' once, thankfully it happened before I had finished setting up the machine so nothing died. The mode of failure was that one of the plastic clips that the retention mechanism connects to bent. It was on a very old MOBO so I just tossed it rather than try toasting chips. Theoretically I could see this cheap bit of plastic failing during operation.
This is an overstatement. This bug can be triggered from a web page that references the MSN Chat ActiveX Control, so if at some time in the past you installed the control then you are vulnerable even if you use trillian. The advisory states that the chat control is not installed by default with any other software so you are probably safe. Of course a better course of action for trillian users would be to verify that the control is not installed and uninstall it if it is installed.
This leads to a couple questions I do not personally know the answer to:
Is there a way to uninstall ActiveX controls?!?
Can I get a list of the ActiveX controls installed on my machine??!?
Well I went ahead and tried to compile style/diction and it bailed out complaining: /usr/include/math.h:350,
:)
In file included from
from style.c:33:
/usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:427: warning: no previous prototype for `__atan2l'
/usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:442: warning: no previous prototype for `__sqrtl'/usr/include/bits/mathinline.h:448: warning: no previous prototype for `__fabsl'
When compiling style.c. WOW! I never realized that you need arctangents in order to do style checking
Pretty cool programs though, I sort of assumed (you know what happens when we assume) these kind of things wouldn't really show as OSS since grammer aint really the domain of most hackers. Thanks for the pointer. I really need to browse gnu.org more often.
Hmm very interesting.
So basically you are suggesting a sophisticated grand jury, but for civil cases.
The only problem I see is that "The Powers That Be" would (for good reason) want this to work 100%, and of course perfect geographic net filtering is only a pipe dream. It might be more interesting to set up a system more like how journal articles are peer reviewed.
Wow computer viruses are getting more and more like real viruses!
So the e-mail worm is the vector for this virus!?!
If you are very carefull you can pull a cpu out of the middle of the stack without it falling over :).
....
JENGA JENGA JENGA JENGA
I guess I didn't explain the situation very well. /root/ ) so recursively deleting all the files in .. effectively eviscerated the entire system.
This was RH 4.x or 5.x (not sure) and I was in root's home directory (ie
I pulled something like that when I was still a linux newbie (and logging in as root regularly). I was having some trouble with a program and decided it must be a problem with one of those 'dot files' , so I figured I would be slick and delete all of them:
.*
...
...
..
rm -rf
that should do it
...
why is the disk still churning
/me slaps forehead
.* matches
I have never logged in as root since, and I'm very carefull with su
S-S-S-S-S-Scissors!
It just begged for completion.
I was under the impression that the dark side of the moon got very little sunlight.
Where did this whole 'dark side of the moon' thing come from(yeah yeah pink floyd)?? The moon rotates so that the same side faces earth at all times. So what do you think is happening during a new moon. We can't see the moon because the OTHER side (dark side) is getting the sun light.
Kevin
Not to be annoying, but actually I think it is more appropriate to say that it is removing information from the image. The theory behind antialiasing ti to remove aliasing (duh ;). Where aliasing is caused be having visual information that is at a higher frequency than the sampling frequency (800x600, 1600x1200 ....) So when properly done it removes high frequncy information. On high end SGI's and profesional cards like 3Dlabs wildcat boards it is done *BEAUTIFULLY*. The difference is just stunning. I have a GeForce3Ti at home and with antialiasing on I still get texture shimmer and crawling edges(temporal aliasing) that can be annoying, especially since I have seen how good anti-aliasing can be.
Kevin