A distrubited Environment (as opposed to a pure operating system) would be useful. Something where a cordoned off program could accept arbrtiary instructions from another machine, exectute them and return the results. What we would need is a Seti@home type distribution scheme but with a scheduling scheme like a supercomputer.
Everyone would submit jobs to be excuted on the distributed machine and the central server would coordinate and pass out calculations to all the machines. This would be useful to everything from universities with idling (but powerful) workstations sitting in its labs to even places like NASA that occasionally need more computing power than they even have (Searching for a signal from Mars).
And btw, fortran SMP works rather well for beowulf type systems. Just code like normal, compile and run. -Kashent
This isn't going to make movies any smaller to download. What it's going to do is make 3D worlds smaller to download. It's not the compression technique that will allow you to view in complete 3D the inside of a house, but the fact that you can record a 3D model of a house and still have it small enough to download. The biggest improvent would probably be for VRML type technologies. And it's not going to make quake faster, but it could possibly let someone on a 28.8 use a customized skin that can be quickly sent to all other computers. Most people download quake worlds before they start playing rather than on the fly. -Kashent
What has really surprised me the most is how much work Cartoon Network is actually putting into their release of Tenchi- I was expecting any of the scenes which contained nudity would have been cut out and thus severely hampered the storyline.
Instead, they're actually spending the time and money (and it takes a lot of time and money) to go back and overlay swimsuits on all the frames of Tenchi in order to bring it to U.S. standards. Granted, I think there's nothing wrong with nudity, but somewhere between the Greeks and now, nudity became taboo, and we must appease the majority of conservative america.
Even being a fairly hardcore anime fan I would say we ought to really applaud what C.N. is doing. Even with Escaflowne, all that's changed are the opening and closing, so I'd say anime is gaining more respect in its original art form. (music and the opening is more action oriented)
(well, except for Cardcaptors, (C.C.S.) but lets not go there.)
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And lastly, a blatant plug- for those of you living in the Houston area, come visit the Rice University Anime club. Drop me an e-mail (kashent@rice.edu) or drop by the webpage http://www.rice.edu/anime for info. We'll officially start back up again this year first week of September. And there is a big library of all of this fan subtitled anime that everyone keeps mentioning for free to all members.
Well, my download just finished. Those pics are different, so, here's a mirror I put up with the new pics. Let's see if Rice University's got the bandwidth... http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~kashent/yopy/ Oh, and they are uncompressed, for those of you who care. -Kashent
Mirror (actually, uncompressed pics available at..
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It's a tar gzip'ed file, as (just about) any UNIX user would know. If you're running linux, type 'tar xvfz beta.tgz'. It's like pkzip in the UNIX world. Winzip will handle it too if you're stuck in Windows land.
One of the reasons IBM/Motorola aren't all that excited about producing faster and faster G4 chips are licensing agreements with Apple that don't allow IBM to use those chips in their own machines. The G4 is definitely one of IBM's best processors, yet they don't make any of their Power line of RS/6000 workstations with it. Why make it faster, when all it's for is Mac's?
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What we would need is a Seti@home type distribution scheme but with a scheduling scheme like a supercomputer.
Everyone would submit jobs to be excuted on the distributed machine and the central server would coordinate and pass out calculations to all the machines. This would be useful to everything from universities with idling (but powerful) workstations sitting in its labs to even places like NASA that occasionally need more computing power than they even have (Searching for a signal from Mars).
And btw, fortran SMP works rather well for beowulf type systems. Just code like normal, compile and run. -Kashent
This isn't going to make movies any smaller to download.
What it's going to do is make 3D worlds smaller to download.
It's not the compression technique that will allow you to view in complete 3D the inside of a house, but the fact that you can record a 3D model of a house and still have it small enough to download.
The biggest improvent would probably be for VRML type technologies. And it's not going to make quake faster, but it could possibly let someone on a 28.8 use a customized skin that can be quickly sent to all other computers. Most people download quake worlds before they start playing rather than on the fly. -Kashent
Instead, they're actually spending the time and money (and it takes a lot of time and money) to go back and overlay swimsuits on all the frames of Tenchi in order to bring it to U.S. standards. Granted, I think there's nothing wrong with nudity, but somewhere between the Greeks and now, nudity became taboo, and we must appease the majority of conservative america.
Even being a fairly hardcore anime fan I would say we ought to really applaud what C.N. is doing. Even with Escaflowne, all that's changed are the opening and closing, so I'd say anime is gaining more respect in its original art form. (music and the opening is more action oriented)
(well, except for Cardcaptors, (C.C.S.) but lets not go there.)
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And lastly, a blatant plug- for those of you living in the Houston area, come visit the Rice University Anime club. Drop me an e-mail (kashent@rice.edu) or drop by the webpage
http://www.rice.edu/anime
for info. We'll officially start back up again this year first week of September. And there is a big library of all of this fan subtitled anime that everyone keeps mentioning for free to all members.
Well, my download just finished. Those pics are different, so, here's a mirror I put up with the new pics. Let's see if Rice University's got the bandwidth...
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~kashent/yopy/
Oh, and they are uncompressed, for those of you who care. -Kashent
http://www.pdabuzz.com/Features/Yopy.html Seems to be the new pics. (not sure, since my download is crawling)
It's a tar gzip'ed file, as (just about) any UNIX user would know. If you're running linux, type 'tar xvfz beta.tgz'. It's like pkzip in the UNIX world. Winzip will handle it too if you're stuck in Windows land.
One of the reasons IBM/Motorola aren't all that excited about producing faster and faster G4 chips are licensing agreements with Apple that don't allow IBM to use those chips in their own machines. The G4 is definitely one of IBM's best processors, yet they don't make any of their Power line of RS/6000 workstations with it. Why make it faster, when all it's for is Mac's?