The funny thing about this is that those two lines, according to the director of ESB, were originally:
"I love you."
"I love you."
Pretty lame, most would agree. So bad, in fact, that they filmed the scene over and over again, frustrating the crew and the actors, until the director (Irvin Kershner) told Harrison Ford to just say whatever came into his head. "I know" was the result. So Lucas's abilities don't even extend to a two-line love scene.
Don't get me wrong... I'm a sucker for these movies, but it's gotta be the bright lights and loud noises. It's sure not the dialogue.
This is true, but last year the world's fastest computer (the Earth Simulator) was running a custom NEC chip. Try running any app you've ever used on the desktop on one of those.
I think the point is, Itanium didn't appeal to business or personal users in a way that would allow production to scale up to the point where the platform would be affordable for personal-computer users. Intel's first shot at 64-bit computing, even with the (imho) pretty damn cool EPIC instruction set, has been a failure. And even though AMD is only showing up at #17 in the Top500 now, I think it's a safe bet that HT-based systems are going to be a larger and larger presence in HPC, mostly due to the advantage of HyperTransport over Intel's traditional North/Southbridge architecture.
That's not even vaguely enough said. If this "Woodrow Wilson" is going to win on Tuesday, I'd like to know something about where he stands on the issues! Someone in the Media (liberal or otherwise) needs to get on this.
You know, the similarities to The Hidden Fortress are often pointed out, but there's stuff in ANH that looks like it was lifted straight out of other Kurosawa, too. For example, the cantina scene (Obi-wan lops off an arm, which you then see center frame) bears more than a strong resemblance to the scene in Yojimbo where Mifune's character takes a guys arm off. Later, in the same film (Yojimbo), there's a shot of Mifune popping up a floorboard that looks like Han Solo rising out of the smuggling compartments on the Millenium Falcon.
I'm probably reading too much into trivial aspects, but it always felt to me like Lucas borrowed more from Kurosawa's cinematic style than his stories. Frankly, if he'd picked up on Kurosawa's ability to write, we'd have been blessed with better movies.
I failed to notice the coffee cup full of sharpened pencils, lead-up, on a customer's desk. While setting his CRT back on the desk, I stabbed myself between the third and fourth fingers of my right hand. I gently lowered the monitor, and turned to the customer, number 2 pencil dangling from my hand. At this point, I probably should have chosen a better course of action, but I stupidly pulled the pencil out, resulting in a stream of blood squirting all over the customer's desktop, but fortunately missing him. I applied pressure as best I could and mopped up my blood with a paper towel, trying not to notice the mortified look on the poor guy's face. For all he knew, I just blew hepatitis, HIV, and god knows what else all over his desk. Thinking about this, eight or nine years later, reminds me how much I hated that job...
I don't think any data was lost or any hardware (other than the pencil) was damaged, though, for what it's worth.
Take a look at OSCAR. We built a nine node cluster out of IBM e-servers using it. It was really quite straightforward.
As far as languages go, you'll need an MPI library (like MPICH, or LAM/MPI (which is also a runtime environment), but the actual code used is usually C, C++, or Fortran. BTW, OSCAR comes with MPICH and LAM/MPI.
Public domain has been a grand experiment, one that should not be allowed to die. The ability to draw freely on the entire creative output of humanity is one of the reasons we live in a time of such fruitful creative ferment.
It seems that copyright, limited or otherwise, is the experiment. It takes active effort on the part of the state to prevent others from profiting off of the creation of an artist.
Speaking of simplistic nonsense, how about attributing the Industrial Revolution in its entirety to the "legal recognition of intellectual property rights"? In one fell swoop, you've negelected a multitude of factors social, economic, and intellectual in nature for one merely legal in nature.
I am very interested in the issues at hand here, but I must confess, I think it would do the cause you seem to espouse much greater good if you presented an argument in more complete terms. My interpretation of your posts on this subject is that the single greatest benefit of intellectual property rights is the "dizzying pace" of progress. This seems to me a narrow-minded and ultimately unsupportable defense of laws and policy which favor individuals of an opportunistic nature, as opposed to one creative or innovative.
See this quote for an old take on the uselessness of knowing pi to the 100th decimal place.
Still, my mind occasionally reels at the implications of an irrational relationship between fundamental concepts such as the circumference of a circle and its diameter. But I'm easily reeled.
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Pretty lame, most would agree. So bad, in fact, that they filmed the scene over and over again, frustrating the crew and the actors, until the director (Irvin Kershner) told Harrison Ford to just say whatever came into his head. "I know" was the result. So Lucas's abilities don't even extend to a two-line love scene.
Don't get me wrong... I'm a sucker for these movies, but it's gotta be the bright lights and loud noises. It's sure not the dialogue.
This is true, but last year the world's fastest computer (the Earth Simulator) was running a custom NEC chip. Try running any app you've ever used on the desktop on one of those.
I think the point is, Itanium didn't appeal to business or personal users in a way that would allow production to scale up to the point where the platform would be affordable for personal-computer users. Intel's first shot at 64-bit computing, even with the (imho) pretty damn cool EPIC instruction set, has been a failure. And even though AMD is only showing up at #17 in the Top500 now, I think it's a safe bet that HT-based systems are going to be a larger and larger presence in HPC, mostly due to the advantage of HyperTransport over Intel's traditional North/Southbridge architecture.
That's not even vaguely enough said. If this "Woodrow Wilson" is going to win on Tuesday, I'd like to know something about where he stands on the issues! Someone in the Media (liberal or otherwise) needs to get on this.
You know, the similarities to The Hidden Fortress are often pointed out, but there's stuff in ANH that looks like it was lifted straight out of other Kurosawa, too. For example, the cantina scene (Obi-wan lops off an arm, which you then see center frame) bears more than a strong resemblance to the scene in Yojimbo where Mifune's character takes a guys arm off. Later, in the same film (Yojimbo), there's a shot of Mifune popping up a floorboard that looks like Han Solo rising out of the smuggling compartments on the Millenium Falcon.
I'm probably reading too much into trivial aspects, but it always felt to me like Lucas borrowed more from Kurosawa's cinematic style than his stories. Frankly, if he'd picked up on Kurosawa's ability to write, we'd have been blessed with better movies.
I don't think any data was lost or any hardware (other than the pencil) was damaged, though, for what it's worth.
Take a look at OSCAR. We built a nine node cluster out of IBM e-servers using it. It was really quite straightforward.
As far as languages go, you'll need an MPI library (like MPICH, or LAM/MPI (which is also a runtime environment), but the actual code used is usually C, C++, or Fortran. BTW, OSCAR comes with MPICH and LAM/MPI.
I am very interested in the issues at hand here, but I must confess, I think it would do the cause you seem to espouse much greater good if you presented an argument in more complete terms. My interpretation of your posts on this subject is that the single greatest benefit of intellectual property rights is the "dizzying pace" of progress. This seems to me a narrow-minded and ultimately unsupportable defense of laws and policy which favor individuals of an opportunistic nature, as opposed to one creative or innovative.
See this quote for an old take on the uselessness of knowing pi to the 100th decimal place. Still, my mind occasionally reels at the implications of an irrational relationship between fundamental concepts such as the circumference of a circle and its diameter. But I'm easily reeled.