I can tell you that you should explore the roots of speculative fiction and what it means. For example, here are the novels that we read in my class(which was admittedly a college-level course).
Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) The Invisible Man (Wells) The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Whatever you do, don't try to do so thoroughly. The Hobbit alone is a lot of material. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende) - HIGHLY recommend this one. Divine Right's Trip (Gurney Norman) - This was an excellent book that I still reference today, but is probably the first one on this list that I'd drop. Neuromancer (Gibson)
We also covered numerous short stories. A few of the more memorable ones:
The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin) - Excellent, if dated. there's a film of it, as well, but it added a lot of side material. The Celestial Railroad (Hawthorne) - Highly recommended after Pilgrim's Progress. The Last Question (Asimov) - Required reading.
Heinlein is also an excellent choice, though we didn't cover it in my class.
Brain dead simple. You're given the option to overwrite, or to archive the old system and try to keep your data, which works 95% of the time from what I hear. I didn't have any problems with it either. You should still back up critical documents and such, but that's SOP for an upgrade, right?
I think that's a little harsh. He saw something about Roleplaying, has some experience in a similar vein, and chipped in his opinion in a way he thought was helpful. Insightful? No, not really. But Interesting. Outside viewpoints don't exactly hurt, and it definitely wasn't off-topic.
As I recall, the Orion project was sacked because of a treaty signed among several nations to not detonate nuclear warheads in space. So while technically feasable, it's politically not going to happen. Although I will point out that the movie Deep Impact used an Orion spacecraft. Surprised me.
Oddly enough, I once read a story in the Weekly World News that was TRUE! I nearly fell out of my chair!
Admittedly, it wasn't one of their more outlandish claims... just a story about a guy escaping prison using dental floss. But it was still strange to see.
The fact that you use Mac OS X, and program for it apparently, weakens your argument.
Unfortunately, I do the same, and have no choice but to agree with you;)
Windows has failed to impress me in OS design, though the original concept for NT was surprisingly good. As usual, in implementation it was screwed up.
Heh... I was unaware of that, but the fact is, you can't compare an in development system to one that's being used NOW. And take a look at the front end system requirements... THAT is where your nonlinear editing is done, not on the cluster. Cinelerra does more than nonlinear editing, so it makes sense to use cluster support, and such a product is quite a good idea... but it isn't the same as saying Final Cut Pro could be clustered. So what I said still goes. For the mixing and cutting and splicing, a cluster does little good. It simply requires too much disk access with large files, which just doesn't work over an interconnect. I suppose it's theoretically possible, given a low latency high bandwidth interconnect, but then you're talking big bucks and a specialty system anyway.
So yes, I'm still right;) Though thank you for the link to Cinelerra. All it does is farm out the rendering and other computations that CAN be farmed out... though I suppose it could give a boost to compression and such. In two years, it might be a competitor to Final Cut Pro, assuming Apple doesn't add cluster support(which is doubtful, as their compiler, for example, already supports distributed systems compilation)
What really would help Linux video editing is the development of a nonlinear editor that's easier to use than Final Cut Pro, and does what Cinelerra seems to do... farms out computations that can be done on other nodes. Final Cut is nice, but it isn't the easiest to use program, unlike most Apple products.
And you've just proven you have no idea what Final Cut Pro does
I looked at every link you've provided, and I can indeed see that the industry is standardizing on Linux for their 3d animation and rendering needs. The render clusters are cheap, powerful, and produce high quality results that are equal to a more expensive Mac solution, making them the choice for 3d animation and effects.
However, Final Cut Pro isn't a 3d animation program, and has absolutely nothing to do with this. It's a nonlinear editor, something which really can't be clustered effectively, especially not with dirt cheap boxes. And before you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about, I used to build and maintain clusters professionally. Final Cut Pro is an app that doesn't benefit from openMosix, probably not even if you put in some vastly expensive interconnect like Myrinet.
In other words, you don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know much about the Deja Vu program, but Srinidhi knows his stuff. I used to work with him on cluster visualization now and then, and he was always talking about fault tolerance problems. That's actually one of the biggest concernts with clusters, and at the moment it seems to be done 'in-house' by most. And the quoted FLOPS figure is theoretical... it's likely not anywhere close to that in reality. It's difficult to get more than 60-70% of that, but I'm betting Srinidhi can tweak a bit more out with familiarity of the system. He's good at that sort of thing.
even the superold PIII 1GHz mangles the G4 1GHz in basic calculations, so don't even bother talking shit about GHz myth)
Okay. I won't. Instead, I'll point out that the P4 is much slower than an equivalent P3 of the same clock speed. Nothing to do with the Mac, it's a well-known fact. So I don't even need to try refuting that powerspec benchmark, nor care to, since I have yet to see a meaningful powerspec benchmark.
Chrono Cross? Best RPG of all time? What are you smoking?
I mean, yeah, it wasn't bad... other than the bizarre decision to make about a bajillion characters that you had to play through 3 times to get, many of which were boring, and despite this only having a handful of combo attacks... definitely NOT my favorite game.
Then again, I seem to be about the only person who loved Star Ocean 2.
Sitting on my desk next to the computer I'm on(my company Dell laptop) is a brand new PowerBook. Impulse buy, really... one I can't really afford, but oh well.
This is just another confirmation that I made the right decision. And heck, more and more games are coming out for Mac, too! I should have waited a few weeks, though, when they are planning on upgrading their models. Everyone else should take note of that.
Looking at the prices, they aren't as bad as I had thought. The features on the PowerBook I got are expensive on PC laptops, too. You get what you pay for.
The only bad thing is Apple's tendency to try to lock you in. They're open about many things, but they can be bad about pushing their own bundled applications. On the other hand, they don't purposefully break things(with the exception of Dock extensions, which is an annoyance) or try to STOP you from running your choice of software.
Not at the moment... I'm at work. It was in the Dragon Magazine annual a few years back, I think... had a lady riding a dragon on the cover, with a gold border(not that it helps unless you have the issue)
TSR isn't wholly to blame for their treatment of D&D. A lot of the developers wanted things changed, but from my understanding, one of the big guys(actually, it was a female), like the CEO or something, hated gamers. What she was doing with the company is anyone's guess, but it's no surprise that things started going badly for them.
Except that some states no longer impose speed limits on certain sections of the interstate. Some keep them. I personally hate driving in PA, since the speed limit is only 65, despite the fact that the roads are in better condition, and flat.
of course. D3D is optimized more for the hardware in Windows, unless you have a nice driver. Glide implements a subset of OpenGL that is mapped directly to 3dfx hardware, so it's naturally faster.
I think he was saying that as long as programs include spyware, someone else will be there to release a castrated version.
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It's not that bad... the police sided with the guy, saying the manager shouldn't have done that. Seems like they're doing just what they should, in this case. Best Buy are being assholes about it, and they're getting slapped for it. No news here.
As another person pointed out, that does little good when trying to use the Nvidia cards on another platform. While the binary driver is their choice, and I applaud the work they have done, there are other reasons to choose an open-source driver.
As for ATI doing "almost nothing," they were, until very recently, paying developers to work on their open-source drivers, in addition to releasing specs, which was all the community asked for.
... god, calm down... isn't the point of this article to inform people, so that they can try to stop this? As for the requirement... I love my job, and they treat me well. I even use linux all day at work, and get to work on some cool projects. But we're big enough that we have to file electronically... you only need like 200 employees.
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I can tell you that you should explore the roots of speculative fiction and what it means. For example, here are the novels that we read in my class(which was admittedly a college-level course).
Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
The Invisible Man (Wells)
The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Whatever you do, don't try to do so thoroughly. The Hobbit alone is a lot of material.
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende) - HIGHLY recommend this one.
Divine Right's Trip (Gurney Norman) - This was an excellent book that I still reference today, but is probably the first one on this list that I'd drop.
Neuromancer (Gibson)
We also covered numerous short stories. A few of the more memorable ones:
The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin) - Excellent, if dated. there's a film of it, as well, but it added a lot of side material.
The Celestial Railroad (Hawthorne) - Highly recommended after Pilgrim's Progress.
The Last Question (Asimov) - Required reading.
Heinlein is also an excellent choice, though we didn't cover it in my class.
Brain dead simple. You're given the option to overwrite, or to archive the old system and try to keep your data, which works 95% of the time from what I hear. I didn't have any problems with it either. You should still back up critical documents and such, but that's SOP for an upgrade, right?
I think that's a little harsh. He saw something about Roleplaying, has some experience in a similar vein, and chipped in his opinion in a way he thought was helpful. Insightful? No, not really. But Interesting. Outside viewpoints don't exactly hurt, and it definitely wasn't off-topic.
As I recall, the Orion project was sacked because of a treaty signed among several nations to not detonate nuclear warheads in space. So while technically feasable, it's politically not going to happen. Although I will point out that the movie Deep Impact used an Orion spacecraft. Surprised me.
Oddly enough, I once read a story in the Weekly World News that was TRUE! I nearly fell out of my chair!
Admittedly, it wasn't one of their more outlandish claims... just a story about a guy escaping prison using dental floss. But it was still strange to see.
The fact that you use Mac OS X, and program for it apparently, weakens your argument.
Unfortunately, I do the same, and have no choice but to agree with you ;)
Windows has failed to impress me in OS design, though the original concept for NT was surprisingly good. As usual, in implementation it was screwed up.
Heh... I was unaware of that, but the fact is, you can't compare an in development system to one that's being used NOW. And take a look at the front end system requirements... THAT is where your nonlinear editing is done, not on the cluster. Cinelerra does more than nonlinear editing, so it makes sense to use cluster support, and such a product is quite a good idea... but it isn't the same as saying Final Cut Pro could be clustered. So what I said still goes. For the mixing and cutting and splicing, a cluster does little good. It simply requires too much disk access with large files, which just doesn't work over an interconnect. I suppose it's theoretically possible, given a low latency high bandwidth interconnect, but then you're talking big bucks and a specialty system anyway.
So yes, I'm still right ;) Though thank you for the link to Cinelerra. All it does is farm out the rendering and other computations that CAN be farmed out... though I suppose it could give a boost to compression and such. In two years, it might be a competitor to Final Cut Pro, assuming Apple doesn't add cluster support(which is doubtful, as their compiler, for example, already supports distributed systems compilation)
What really would help Linux video editing is the development of a nonlinear editor that's easier to use than Final Cut Pro, and does what Cinelerra seems to do... farms out computations that can be done on other nodes. Final Cut is nice, but it isn't the easiest to use program, unlike most Apple products.
And you've just proven you have no idea what Final Cut Pro does
I looked at every link you've provided, and I can indeed see that the industry is standardizing on Linux for their 3d animation and rendering needs. The render clusters are cheap, powerful, and produce high quality results that are equal to a more expensive Mac solution, making them the choice for 3d animation and effects.
However, Final Cut Pro isn't a 3d animation program, and has absolutely nothing to do with this. It's a nonlinear editor, something which really can't be clustered effectively, especially not with dirt cheap boxes. And before you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about, I used to build and maintain clusters professionally. Final Cut Pro is an app that doesn't benefit from openMosix, probably not even if you put in some vastly expensive interconnect like Myrinet.
In other words, you don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know much about the Deja Vu program, but Srinidhi knows his stuff. I used to work with him on cluster visualization now and then, and he was always talking about fault tolerance problems. That's actually one of the biggest concernts with clusters, and at the moment it seems to be done 'in-house' by most. And the quoted FLOPS figure is theoretical... it's likely not anywhere close to that in reality. It's difficult to get more than 60-70% of that, but I'm betting Srinidhi can tweak a bit more out with familiarity of the system. He's good at that sort of thing.
even the superold PIII 1GHz mangles the G4 1GHz in basic calculations, so don't even bother talking shit about GHz myth)
Okay. I won't. Instead, I'll point out that the P4 is much slower than an equivalent P3 of the same clock speed. Nothing to do with the Mac, it's a well-known fact. So I don't even need to try refuting that powerspec benchmark, nor care to, since I have yet to see a meaningful powerspec benchmark.
Chrono Cross? Best RPG of all time? What are you smoking?
I mean, yeah, it wasn't bad... other than the bizarre decision to make about a bajillion characters that you had to play through 3 times to get, many of which were boring, and despite this only having a handful of combo attacks... definitely NOT my favorite game.
Then again, I seem to be about the only person who loved Star Ocean 2.
Sitting on my desk next to the computer I'm on(my company Dell laptop) is a brand new PowerBook. Impulse buy, really... one I can't really afford, but oh well.
This is just another confirmation that I made the right decision. And heck, more and more games are coming out for Mac, too! I should have waited a few weeks, though, when they are planning on upgrading their models. Everyone else should take note of that.
Looking at the prices, they aren't as bad as I had thought. The features on the PowerBook I got are expensive on PC laptops, too. You get what you pay for.
The only bad thing is Apple's tendency to try to lock you in. They're open about many things, but they can be bad about pushing their own bundled applications. On the other hand, they don't purposefully break things(with the exception of Dock extensions, which is an annoyance) or try to STOP you from running your choice of software.
Not quite the MOST current, but close enough. They sometimes mask out packages that interfere with important stuff, and Portage broke a while back.
That said, Gentoo is still my favorite distro.
I won't be rushing out the door for it!
I'll be waiting until after Origins, when I don't have pressure to finish other things ;)
Not at the moment... I'm at work. It was in the Dragon Magazine annual a few years back, I think... had a lady riding a dragon on the cover, with a gold border(not that it helps unless you have the issue)
TSR isn't wholly to blame for their treatment of D&D. A lot of the developers wanted things changed, but from my understanding, one of the big guys(actually, it was a female), like the CEO or something, hated gamers. What she was doing with the company is anyone's guess, but it's no surprise that things started going badly for them.
But I live in West Virginia. So yes, Pennsylvania roads are flat, and in good condition.
Except that some states no longer impose speed limits on certain sections of the interstate. Some keep them. I personally hate driving in PA, since the speed limit is only 65, despite the fact that the roads are in better condition, and flat.
Name industries where ecological improvements resulted in better revenues, or other tangible benefits.
Coal. The gunk gathered from the scrubbers turns out to be a good fertilizer, which the companies sell for a profit.
At least, I think it was coal... my father works in that industry, so maybe I should ask him before arguing further.
Planescape: Torment.
Violent, RPG, TONS of plot, a work of art, sexual situations... that would be good.
of course. D3D is optimized more for the hardware in Windows, unless you have a nice driver. Glide implements a subset of OpenGL that is mapped directly to 3dfx hardware, so it's naturally faster.
I think he was saying that as long as programs include spyware, someone else will be there to release a castrated version.
It's not that bad... the police sided with the guy, saying the manager shouldn't have done that. Seems like they're doing just what they should, in this case. Best Buy are being assholes about it, and they're getting slapped for it. No news here.
As another person pointed out, that does little good when trying to use the Nvidia cards on another platform. While the binary driver is their choice, and I applaud the work they have done, there are other reasons to choose an open-source driver.
As for ATI doing "almost nothing," they were, until very recently, paying developers to work on their open-source drivers, in addition to releasing specs, which was all the community asked for.
... god, calm down... isn't the point of this article to inform people, so that they can try to stop this? As for the requirement... I love my job, and they treat me well. I even use linux all day at work, and get to work on some cool projects. But we're big enough that we have to file electronically... you only need like 200 employees.