Let's see who buys this and what is performs like when installed. I like the idea of single image OS.
I doubt however it's going to make a dent in the Super Computer top 100. It sure as hell ain't going to beat that Japanese monster.
The Japanese made an order of magnitude increase in processing power and you think this toy from SGI is leading edge? LOL
SGI is rapidly becoming the transmeta of super computer manafacturers. There product fills a very small niche, yet all the stupid kids like you think they're so neat.
As an aside the open critical component in a supercomputer is memory, fast memory, whith out that it matters not a jot how quickly your processors work. So what is the memory bandwidth of this baby?
The current here can be pretty mean. Rumour has it that some yachts have sailed down hill going out the gate. too much water in the bay trying to leave. I've spent one unplanned after noon out the gate due to sailing backwards out.
But let's be real no one in their right mind is going to put a tidal generator in 300ft of water. Servicing would be a dangerous job. the current would ensure only a few hours a day available to work. Shove it up north in some of those tidal races were tides go up and down 20ft.
SQL is a tool to interrogate RDBMS. For most IT people it takes a couple of hours to get to grips with basics of select, update etc Joins, sub queries come next.
You can do useful work in one hour of tuition. We have users using SQL after maybe two hours. 20-30 hours of practice, what the hell are you trying to do?
Elections are not meant to smooth anything out. They are meant to be a way to elect our goverment. Currently they elect the incumbent and/or the wealthy. Joe public has no voice in our goverment.
And the Amercian public were sufficiently gullible not to throw Bush out on his ear. Hey, there might be a lot of similarities between Bush and Hitlers elections.
Bureaucracy is not goverment but rather the infrastructure to allow the geoverment to rule and I agree the should be based on higher test scores. This is how most unelected positions are filled in the UK it's called the civil service.
Elections are un-democratic in that less than half of all eleigable voters vote. Elections are being used to give the illusion of democracy and are in fact returning the same old farts time after time.
I still think that the lottery would be the best way to choose a goverment, radicals would still be isolated just as they are in mainstream society. It would also mean we would have a much closer mix of gender/race/religion in goverment to that in the general population. Think of it as a microcosim of America.
Politcal seats are won in a lottery. Everybody eligable to hold office is thrown into a draw. No more career politicans, no more family dynasty.
The best thing is that the goverment becomes very much like the general population. If this is not what you want then are you really in support of democracy?
It is the same way we draw jurors so why not politicans?
Currently IBM big customers buy a new machine every four years or so, they pay a yearly maintenance bill. IBM has trouble predicting it's revenue quarter to quarter, in a downturn everyone stops capital expenditure and IBM mainframe sales plummet.
Under this model everyone should pay less but they'll pay every month like clockwork.
Computer Associates has a similar scheme for software. You rent your software on a monthly basis.
On a technical level I'm all for it. I have a suite in my current site that is run yearly and takes for ever. Currently IBM has a big box sitting here and we just sip from it, until year end when we max it out for like two weeks. Let me rent time on a huge box and I'll be happy. Gurantee my data and response time and I'll be ecstatic.
In my last company I had a multi monitor set up. I was the only developer with such a set up, I basically bought the video cards and acquired the monitors.
Your central monitor has your code/compiler/debugger your left usuall has your documentation/email and the right has your running app/browser. Mostly I have my email open on the left unless I'm rtfm my right has my web browser unless I'm testing/debugging.
Onc you've used multi monitor you wonder how the hell you got along with out.
Hmm,
it's called research there maybe no application for it. You are also extremely ignorant if you cannot gues what a an array of logic gates might be used for.
Yes but it would make me feel important. God how I loved room fulls of racks with lights and tapes and switches. I could stroll through my domain and feel like a king.
Now I have a tiny cube with a PC connected by ethernet to a tiny server no bigger than a chopping cart. AND we still don't get any more done than we did back in the day.
You have a two party system because it's modeled on Westminster.
The current system has virtually no input from the population and is becoming more and more like the royal courts of Europe used to be. A quick example is the number of career politicans and the number of Father/Son teams. Republican = Democrat there is so little difference as to be insulting.
You can stick your head in the sand and trot out the party line about democracy, freedom, liberty etc but please do not try and use examples to back you up that you obiuosly have not researched.
Research how closely related by blood American politicans are to European. Then go on to research where your current politicans were educated? Then see if you can guess why the population of America has virtually no say in their goverment or laws?
The two part system gives the illusion of a democracy when in reality all we do is change dictators.
I see this as a really cool idea but I'll wait for the cheap knock off, no way is it worth $200 to me. It might be worth $200 if it didn't need special paper.
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WTF...
Let's see who buys this and what is performs like when installed. I like the idea of single image OS.
I doubt however it's going to make a dent in the Super Computer top 100. It sure as hell ain't going to beat that Japanese monster.
The Japanese made an order of magnitude increase in processing power and you think this toy from SGI is leading edge? LOL
SGI is rapidly becoming the transmeta of super computer manafacturers. There product fills a very small niche, yet all the stupid kids like you think they're so neat.
As an aside the open critical component in a supercomputer is memory, fast memory, whith out that it matters not a jot how quickly your processors work. So what is the memory bandwidth of this baby?
Fire, fire!!!
No it's just a test get back in the kitchen.
Try Stella a 2600 emulator
I think MLLW is much more than 75ft, think 200+
The current here can be pretty mean. Rumour has it that some yachts have sailed down hill going out the gate. too much water in the bay trying to leave. I've spent one unplanned after noon out the gate due to sailing backwards out.
But let's be real no one in their right mind is going to put a tidal generator in 300ft of water. Servicing would be a dangerous job. the current would ensure only a few hours a day available to work. Shove it up north in some of those tidal races were tides go up and down 20ft.
Nothing I'd guess. So go back to your XP machine and quit worrying about it.
Not every project has to have a purpose. Or be useful. Some people think it's a good thing to do so off they go.
Personally I think Plan9 is the way forward from unix. But I'm not going to rubbish the hurd project.
Rubbish, chess is a very poor analogy for SQL.
SQL is a tool to interrogate RDBMS. For most IT people it takes a couple of hours to get to grips with basics of select, update etc Joins, sub queries come next.
You can do useful work in one hour of tuition. We have users using SQL after maybe two hours. 20-30 hours of practice, what the hell are you trying to do?
Rubbish. What are you xenophobic?
Unless you buy a known grade of electronics you have no hope of getting stable, reliable kit. American or otherwise. Quality costs period.
If you've used a cheap board for a mission critcal server then who is at fault? It ain't the supplier.
Elections are not meant to smooth anything out. They are meant to be a way to elect our goverment. Currently they elect the incumbent and/or the wealthy. Joe public has no voice in our goverment.
And the Amercian public were sufficiently gullible not to throw Bush out on his ear. Hey, there might be a lot of similarities between Bush and Hitlers elections.
Bureaucracy is not goverment but rather the infrastructure to allow the geoverment to rule and I agree the should be based on higher test scores. This is how most unelected positions are filled in the UK it's called the civil service.
Elections are un-democratic in that less than half of all eleigable voters vote. Elections are being used to give the illusion of democracy and are in fact returning the same old farts time after time.
I still think that the lottery would be the best way to choose a goverment, radicals would still be isolated just as they are in mainstream society. It would also mean we would have a much closer mix of gender/race/religion in goverment to that in the general population. Think of it as a microcosim of America.
Easy.
Politcal seats are won in a lottery. Everybody eligable to hold office is thrown into a draw. No more career politicans, no more family dynasty.
The best thing is that the goverment becomes very much like the general population. If this is not what you want then are you really in support of democracy?
It is the same way we draw jurors so why not politicans?
The revolution will be in revenue.
Currently IBM big customers buy a new machine every four years or so, they pay a yearly maintenance bill. IBM has trouble predicting it's revenue quarter to quarter, in a downturn everyone stops capital expenditure and IBM mainframe sales plummet.
Under this model everyone should pay less but they'll pay every month like clockwork.
Computer Associates has a similar scheme for software. You rent your software on a monthly basis.
On a technical level I'm all for it. I have a suite in my current site that is run yearly and takes for ever. Currently IBM has a big box sitting here and we just sip from it, until year end when we max it out for like two weeks. Let me rent time on a huge box and I'll be happy. Gurantee my data and response time and I'll be ecstatic.
Mandrake? Surely you're confusing Mandrake with the US DOJ?
Just pity well that and laughter, and we ain't laughing with you.
Yeah baby so passe, ISeries is where it's at now :-)
They already do it's called Pay Per View
AT&T need to install MBone but hey give it twenty years
Not quite.
In my last company I had a multi monitor set up. I was the only developer with such a set up, I basically bought the video cards and acquired the monitors.
Your central monitor has your code/compiler/debugger
your left usuall has your documentation/email and the right has your running app/browser. Mostly I have my email open on the left unless I'm rtfm my right has my web browser unless I'm testing/debugging.
Onc you've used multi monitor you wonder how the hell you got along with out.
No they said "so what if it costs $1m you get the source to the OS"
Hmm,
it's called research there maybe no application for it. You are also extremely ignorant if you cannot gues what a an array of logic gates might be used for.
I guess the PC has somewhat lowered the bar.
Yes but it would make me feel important. God how I loved room fulls of racks with lights and tapes and switches. I could stroll through my domain and feel like a king.
Now I have a tiny cube with a PC connected by ethernet to a tiny server no bigger than a chopping cart. AND we still don't get any more done than we did back in the day.
Who the fuck modded this up.
You have a two party system because it's modeled on Westminster.
The current system has virtually no input from the population and is becoming more and more like the royal courts of Europe used to be. A quick example is the number of career politicans and the number of Father/Son teams. Republican = Democrat there is so little difference as to be insulting.
You can stick your head in the sand and trot out the party line about democracy, freedom, liberty etc but please do not try and use examples to back you up that you obiuosly have not researched.
Research how closely related by blood American politicans are to European. Then go on to research where your current politicans were educated? Then see if you can guess why the population of America has virtually no say in their goverment or laws?
The two part system gives the illusion of a democracy when in reality all we do is change dictators.
yeah right, /.
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Can you not print your own special paper?
I see this as a really cool idea but I'll wait for the cheap knock off, no way is it worth $200 to me. It might be worth $200 if it didn't need special paper.
Copy the DVD to a hard disk and strip off that encryption guff. OK now you just have to decompress and play.
You can decompress on the server and stream a large quantity of data or stream a smaller quantity of data and uncompress on the client.
I would start doing some quick mental calcs. How many clients can I support with a given infrastructure?
This seems a very expensive way of providing said service. Why not just buy a bunch of TV+DVD players?
Too late and it was modded humorous +5
The US is about as capatilist as the USSR was communist.
Free market means no loans/grants/tariffs etc, bye bye airlines, steel etc.
An investor should be able to see everything about a company, no more Enrons.
Without a common enemy America is finished, let's split up the assets and re-distriubte the wealth.
Why do you say PCI-X is a waste of money? I'm eagerly wating an increase in PCI bandwidth.