Christ, I should have written that long ago. I always thought it would be an excellent way to monitor a network, if you hear a certain sound happen a little too often, you know to take a peek. . .
Oh well, on to finishing my perpetual motion machine
I dunno about most of ya, but I've got fatpipe over here and could view the movies in less than a couple of minutes worth of download time. The movies were pretty nice, at least they weren't static. But from what I'm seeing here on Slashdot, these were all on SGI? If so, I'm rather disgusted, since it doesn't even represent the real power of the xbox which is all most of us care about. . . Does anyone know if the quicktime movies are from an XBox or if they're just SGI rendered?
Sounds like these things would be great for my work, which is video editing. The problem with many drives I've used is that they get trashed by capturing video constantly, slamming data on to those drives for sustained periods of time can trash them in a few short months due to the constant accessing. Any of you who've used a Media100 or other hardward packages similar to it may know what I'm talking about.
My main concerns are: A) Is this here to stay, or is it going the way of the SparQ?
B) Is it going to be cost-effective? Granted an Art Director like myself can just get the company to pay for the drive as part of a new system or upgrade, but many freelancers would have trouble with a super expensive drive. . .
C) Are they really going to be worth using, or am I going to have constant trouble getting the damned things to work on my Operating System(s) of Choice[tm]?
Recently it's seemed as if, due to larger and faster computers, lean and mean code isn't such an issue. I gotta say first off, that inefficient code should not be tolerated in ANYTHING. With faster PCs, more RAM available, and more HDD space, apps are becoming more and more bloated, and definitely not efficient. What happened to the days of building an engine that would tweak the he11 out of a program's code to get the absolute best out of junky slow hardware? If we were to continue working like this, we'd have some blazing fast apps out there that would beat the pants off of anything else out there right now. Unfortunately, everyone's now just racing to get their products out first, and then issuing patches that fix bugs, not even the other problems such as inefficiency. are there any good works to read which focus on programming for the Web, as in avenues the programming medium affords? Have I just been oblivious and missed them?" Unfortunately, I mostly wanted to rant about the first paragraph, and don't know of any really good books that'll help you program efficiently for the web content, but I'm sure it's out there, and of course you can always look into getting books on efficient programming and look at them similarily for web. When you find one, post it on Slashdot! I want to know more! TZ
I don't know what everyone's problem is here. . . Most of the replies I've read are negative "This just can't work out for the best" type posts. I've gotta say, lighten up! A lot of open source programmers don't even get paid for many of their programs, and often see the source and/or concepts get stolen and plugged into closed source, COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS! I happen to know one of the guys who is in on Asynchrony, and he's got me quite convinced this CAN work. And trust me, I aksed a lot of the questions you cats have. . . The dude had a perfectly valid answers to each of my questions. . . And for those of you who are saying this has been done before: Sure there's other attempts, but this is built on a completely original business model and all the others attempts I have seen are close, but not the same. My Asynchrony Servlet programmer and I kept an eye on any projects that we heard about or found during the pre-beta stage. . . Go ahead and moderate this down, but keep an eye on asynchrony. . . Oh, and one more thing. . . Quit yer btichin' because this is one of those companies that WILL make Linux a viable alternative to M$ OS's. Remember that when you decide to complain about this. . . *sniff* TeamZERO
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Christ, I should have written that long ago. I always thought it would be an excellent way to monitor a network, if you hear a certain sound happen a little too often, you know to take a peek. . . Oh well, on to finishing my perpetual motion machine
Anyone else having massive trouble getting the damned sign up form to work?
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I dunno about most of ya, but I've got fatpipe over here and could view the movies in less than a couple of minutes worth of download time. The movies were pretty nice, at least they weren't static. But from what I'm seeing here on Slashdot, these were all on SGI? If so, I'm rather disgusted, since it doesn't even represent the real power of the xbox which is all most of us care about. . . Does anyone know if the quicktime movies are from an XBox or if they're just SGI rendered?
Sounds like these things would be great for my work, which is video editing. The problem with many drives I've used is that they get trashed by capturing video constantly, slamming data on to those drives for sustained periods of time can trash them in a few short months due to the constant accessing. Any of you who've used a Media100 or other hardward packages similar to it may know what I'm talking about.
My main concerns are:
A) Is this here to stay, or is it going the way of the SparQ?
B) Is it going to be cost-effective? Granted an Art Director like myself can just get the company to pay for the drive as part of a new system or upgrade, but many freelancers would have trouble with a super expensive drive. . .
C) Are they really going to be worth using, or am I going to have constant trouble getting the damned things to work on my Operating System(s) of Choice[tm]?
Recently it's seemed as if, due to larger and faster computers, lean and mean code isn't such an issue. I gotta say first off, that inefficient code should not be tolerated in ANYTHING. With faster PCs, more RAM available, and more HDD space, apps are becoming more and more bloated, and definitely not efficient. What happened to the days of building an engine that would tweak the he11 out of a program's code to get the absolute best out of junky slow hardware? If we were to continue working like this, we'd have some blazing fast apps out there that would beat the pants off of anything else out there right now. Unfortunately, everyone's now just racing to get their products out first, and then issuing patches that fix bugs, not even the other problems such as inefficiency. are there any good works to read which focus on programming for the Web, as in avenues the programming medium affords? Have I just been oblivious and missed them?" Unfortunately, I mostly wanted to rant about the first paragraph, and don't know of any really good books that'll help you program efficiently for the web content, but I'm sure it's out there, and of course you can always look into getting books on efficient programming and look at them similarily for web. When you find one, post it on Slashdot! I want to know more! TZ
I don't know what everyone's problem is here. . . Most of the replies I've read are negative "This just can't work out for the best" type posts. I've gotta say, lighten up! A lot of open source programmers don't even get paid for many of their programs, and often see the source and/or concepts get stolen and plugged into closed source, COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS! I happen to know one of the guys who is in on Asynchrony, and he's got me quite convinced this CAN work. And trust me, I aksed a lot of the questions you cats have. . . The dude had a perfectly valid answers to each of my questions. . . And for those of you who are saying this has been done before: Sure there's other attempts, but this is built on a completely original business model and all the others attempts I have seen are close, but not the same. My Asynchrony Servlet programmer and I kept an eye on any projects that we heard about or found during the pre-beta stage. . . Go ahead and moderate this down, but keep an eye on asynchrony. . . Oh, and one more thing. . . Quit yer btichin' because this is one of those companies that WILL make Linux a viable alternative to M$ OS's. Remember that when you decide to complain about this. . . *sniff* TeamZERO