You know, why do we call these positions "czar" whatever? What, are we living in pre-revolutionary Russia? Who started the whole czar title thing? Wasn't there just one czar in Russia too? Or maybe that's Czar with a capital C? Hmmm....
700+ of O2's, 300+ of Origin 2000's, 50+ Origin 200's, 35 Octanes, 3 Onyx2's.
I've seen SGI memory die, processors die, video problems, VICE chip problems, bad NICs on the motherboard, bad Gig cards (eg0's). Failure to power up. We have a constant stream of parts being RMA'd.
The problem is SGI costs you an arm and a leg for hardware support contracts....not to mention their stuff is getting slower and slower as time goes on with no real future. It's just not a good choice anymore unless you have very specific needs and deep pockets.
Exactly my point. Federal sales might be there and perhaps oil companies (makes sense to put them on a oil exploration ship...I didn't think of that before).
But then again, this is IRIX. No one wants to write code for that anymore. Well, maybe if you paid up the wazoo for contractors. Everything in IRIX is yucky compared to other Unices. And hell, they'll have to carry a lot of spare parts on board too....SGI hardware is utter crap when it comes to reliability.
And if "homeland security" is running on IRIX, that's just a scary notch above Windoze. Oh wait, I'm forgetting this is the Federal Government we're talking about. Of course the wrong decision is the one they go with. And we the taxpayers pay for it all. *sigh*
OK, nice engineering demo, but is there really a market for this? Like others have said, space is *not* an issue. Cost is. Reliability is. For the handful of places that can afford these things, they also have to be thinking "how many Linux boxes can I buy for 2.9M?" Or maybe I can forklift upgrade my Linux cluster 4 ot 5 times for that same 2.9M. Perhaps SGI Federal might be able to sell these to power-hungry customers wiht money like NSA and various national labs...but I think the commercial market is almost nil.
And the major factor is that nobody in their right minds buys SGIs anymore. IRIX is nearly dead unless you have legacy apps that require it.
Yet another hard to use interface that ensures the product's death. What, do you have to press the orange key and those little numbers (BTW not arranged like a regular phone) just to dial a damn number? How about then you have both hand on the wheel? And is the headset a noisy, loose fitting piece of crap? Does it cost RIM $0.05 and is quality made-in-China? Oh yeah. I still think the best phone-PDA combo is the Kyocera SmartPhone. You can dial with one hand (like any other cell phone), use a headset or NOT, and have a 8MB Palm.
Wasn't there some guy who worked with the Air Force 20 years ago to fly planes with brain wave manipulation? (The real-life basis for Firefox's control systems) I remember seeing a PBS documentary about him where he piloted his sailboat using his brainwaves.
Did anyone read the article in IEEE Spectrum a few months ago?
For every study that points to this kind of radiation causing cancer, there is another that proves it to be a wash and cancer rates are unaffected by this kind of radiation exposure. The UW paper/study was recreated and found to be a wash.
Each human being has different sensitivities to radiation. There might be a genetic trait to susceptibility to cancer. Maybe not. Sure, at some point we all get cancer, but at what frequency (ionizing radiation) and what power level? Radio waves pass through us all day.
It comes down to this: your choice. If you don't need a cell/PCS phone, don't use it. If you do, use a headset. What causes most deaths? People not paying attention when they're driving and talking. Not the radiation. That's where the first laws need to be established.
Well, you can look at the "sinister" side of this, but really it just says "pirating is rampant...if you know the customer is just going to install a pirated OS, don't let them leave without a copy." This isn't directed at Linux-savvy people...it's the people who you know will run Windows and warez and don't give a sh*t about where it came from. MS has to have a written stance on this kind of thing, so here it is.
Western Multiplex makes radios from 2Mb/sec to 720 Mb/Sec full-duplex, with ethernet 10/100/Gig interfaces. No more latency than a wire network; no bandwidth fall-off. If you get license clearance for higher power, they can do line-of-sight over 40 miles. No license up to 15 miles. Yes, you'd have to build a chain of repeaters, but it is possible.
How remote? They make a climate-hardened box with AC, a heater and DC battery backup for harsh environments. Who uses them? Many cell phone companies (Cellular One) put them on mountains where no fiber or wire trunks could go. They might be able to help design a custom solution for you.
Call them and ask: 408-542-5200
This is a major step forward for anyone who has done film or video motion capture work. The fact that is runs on Linux just makes it all that much easier to bring into a production environment where you already have SGI's, Suns, etc.
FiLMBOX is a great tool...as with all effects work it's just another piece that makes the whole. You can't think in the box of "one computer/one software package does it all"; use the best of each to make the image on the screen. Use a Mac, use a PC, use a Linux box, use a BeOS box, then render it on an Alpha. As long as it works well, you can spend your time on the creative part of the image...and that's what people will remember in the end, not what you used to make it.
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....would she be czarinna?
You know, why do we call these positions "czar" whatever? What, are we living in pre-revolutionary Russia? Who started the whole czar title thing? Wasn't there just one czar in Russia too? Or maybe that's Czar with a capital C? Hmmm....
700+ of O2's, 300+ of Origin 2000's, 50+ Origin 200's, 35 Octanes, 3 Onyx2's.
I've seen SGI memory die, processors die, video problems, VICE chip problems, bad NICs on the motherboard, bad Gig cards (eg0's). Failure to power up. We have a constant stream of parts being RMA'd.
The problem is SGI costs you an arm and a leg for hardware support contracts....not to mention their stuff is getting slower and slower as time goes on with no real future. It's just not a good choice anymore unless you have very specific needs and deep pockets.
Exactly my point. Federal sales might be there and perhaps oil companies (makes sense to put them on a oil exploration ship...I didn't think of that before).
But then again, this is IRIX. No one wants to write code for that anymore. Well, maybe if you paid up the wazoo for contractors. Everything in IRIX is yucky compared to other Unices. And hell, they'll have to carry a lot of spare parts on board too....SGI hardware is utter crap when it comes to reliability.
And if "homeland security" is running on IRIX, that's just a scary notch above Windoze. Oh wait, I'm forgetting this is the Federal Government we're talking about. Of course the wrong decision is the one they go with. And we the taxpayers pay for it all. *sigh*
OK, nice engineering demo, but is there really a market for this? Like others have said, space is *not* an issue. Cost is. Reliability is. For the handful of places that can afford these things, they also have to be thinking "how many Linux boxes can I buy for 2.9M?" Or maybe I can forklift upgrade my Linux cluster 4 ot 5 times for that same 2.9M.
Perhaps SGI Federal might be able to sell these to power-hungry customers wiht money like NSA and various national labs...but I think the commercial market is almost nil.
And the major factor is that nobody in their right minds buys SGIs anymore. IRIX is nearly dead unless you have legacy apps that require it.
Yet another hard to use interface that ensures the product's death. What, do you have to press the orange key and those little numbers (BTW not arranged like a regular phone) just to dial a damn number? How about then you have both hand on the wheel? And is the headset a noisy, loose fitting piece of crap? Does it cost RIM $0.05 and is quality made-in-China? Oh yeah. I still think the best phone-PDA combo is the Kyocera SmartPhone. You can dial with one hand (like any other cell phone), use a headset or NOT, and have a 8MB Palm.
Look at this too: http://www.brainm.com
Wasn't there some guy who worked with the Air Force 20 years ago to fly planes with brain wave manipulation? (The real-life basis for Firefox's control systems) I remember seeing a PBS documentary about him where he piloted his sailboat using his brainwaves.
Did anyone read the article in IEEE Spectrum a few months ago?
For every study that points to this kind of radiation causing cancer, there is another that proves it to be a wash and cancer rates are unaffected by this kind of radiation exposure. The UW paper/study was recreated and found to be a wash.
Each human being has different sensitivities to radiation. There might be a genetic trait to susceptibility to cancer. Maybe not. Sure, at some point we all get cancer, but at what frequency (ionizing radiation) and what power level? Radio waves pass through us all day.
It comes down to this: your choice. If you don't need a cell/PCS phone, don't use it. If you do, use a headset. What causes most deaths? People not paying attention when they're driving and talking. Not the radiation. That's where the first laws need to be established.
Well, you can look at the "sinister" side of this, but really it just says "pirating is rampant...if you know the customer is just going to install a pirated OS, don't let them leave without a copy." This isn't directed at Linux-savvy people...it's the people who you know will run Windows and warez and don't give a sh*t about where it came from. MS has to have a written stance on this kind of thing, so here it is.
Western Multiplex makes radios from 2Mb/sec to 720 Mb/Sec full-duplex, with ethernet 10/100/Gig interfaces. No more latency than a wire network; no bandwidth fall-off. If you get license clearance for higher power, they can do line-of-sight over 40 miles. No license up to 15 miles. Yes, you'd have to build a chain of repeaters, but it is possible. How remote? They make a climate-hardened box with AC, a heater and DC battery backup for harsh environments. Who uses them? Many cell phone companies (Cellular One) put them on mountains where no fiber or wire trunks could go. They might be able to help design a custom solution for you. Call them and ask: 408-542-5200
This is a major step forward for anyone who has done film or video motion capture work. The fact that is runs on Linux just makes it all that much easier to bring into a production environment where you already have SGI's, Suns, etc.
FiLMBOX is a great tool...as with all effects work it's just another piece that makes the whole. You can't think in the box of "one computer/one software package does it all"; use the best of each to make the image on the screen. Use a Mac, use a PC, use a Linux box, use a BeOS box, then render it on an Alpha. As long as it works well, you can spend your time on the creative part of the image...and that's what people will remember in the end, not what you used to make it.