I finally threw out my irix box from SG. It was so cute sitting in the corner being all purple...what is wrong with me...its a friggin computer...I needed to move on.
I tried GLQuake on the machine above, got about 3 frames a second
Ah, GLQuake, yes, that was much more demanding. I was only talking about original software rendering Quake. You know... I am going to have to play that through again!
I have a Pentium 166 MMX and 64MB of RAM running Slackware 9.1. Hey, it works, even if it can't play Quake very well.
Really? I played all the way through Quake on my "Pentium 75" machine. Then I discovered it was some sort of overclocked 133mhz 486 made by AMD. That's another story...
Anyway, when I upgraded that brute with real 166mhz Pentium (no mmx) it absolutely ripped through any Quake levels I cared to try. Maybe you need a better graphics card? A Matrox Millenium 1 worked pretty good for me. God, Quake was soooo unbelievable at the time...:)
If you strip Sun down to basics, you have unix first, then sparc, big smp hardware, workstations and bunch of other hard-core hard-to-make hardware and low-level software. By comparison, Java is just this over-visible little skunkworks project that people got way too excited about for a while.
This analysis, therefore, seems to me a bit like buying an ice cream, throwing away the cold bit and then wondering what kind of value you have left in your hand.
The engine? Just two corporate VW DOHC V8s bolted together.
No, it's more like two W8s bolted together length-wise.
Otherwise, I agree. Audi is about to launch dual-clutch systems in their lowly TT Coupe!
The engine in the Bugatti is not that impressive to me. It has low specific output (horsepower/litre) and is not that far ahead of cars I could buy just down the street at the mercedes dealer or the audi dealer, such as the AMG CL65 or RS6. Ferrari sells a car that gets 118 bhp/liter normally aspirated. Now that's a new benchmark.. any of the top manufacturers can build a giant engine, strap a flock of turbochargers to it and get headline grabbing otuput figures. I just don't see the point.
Every bit of extra torque and power it can deploy is successfully resisted by the huge mass of the car, such that it's not the fastest car in the world, nor is it the most luxurious, It's, perhaps the most luxurious supercar, or some such silly thing. Maybe it's the best car to pose at Monaco in!
This month came news that the car had been delayed again, despite assurances that deliveries would start in April this year. Bugatti now says none will be delivered until late 2005.
Volkswagen has postponed the launch of the super sports car Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron until next year amid technical problems, the news magazine Der Spiegel reports.
I seriously doubt anyone has the Bugatti Veyron in stock. AFAIK It has not been released yet and is still a seriously troubled car. Maybe they have 4 accepted orders... not something you can drive.
A lot of the commentary I've read still gives the McLaren F1 props as ultimate supercar ever. i'd take a normally aspirated BMW 7 liter engine pushing out ~640 bhp any day over whatever the veyron eventually settles on.
I have a turbocharged car myself, and if I had the money to get the same outright performance and handling without having to use forced induction, i certainly would. Throttle response - yeah baby!
Eric Raymond a few years ago was preaching that while Open Source software doesn't permit you to make money by selling software, at least you can sell documentation, and consulting services, and t-shirts, and still put the beans on the table. Well I guess they don't even believe in non-free documentation. Next they'll be insisting that all Debian t-shirts be made only from wild open-range hemp, harvested and woven by young virgin volunteers, stone-washed in the Rocky Mountain heights, and given away freely to anyone who knows how to sing the Free Software Song properly.
Ah, but which side of the rocky mountain heights produce the most ideal stone-washing? Those dirty east slope washers give the free t-shirt community as a whole a bad name.
Jonsathan Swift (big-endians, little endians) or Monty Python (People's Popular front of Judaea) already said it all when it comes to parodying tribal warfare of this sort.
I agree with Miguel here,in '94/early '95, at least in the UK, there was talk that if Windows95 slipped much more, OS/2 Warp might take over! That's how weak windows was (then known as Windows for workgroups 3.11 I think).
I'm sceptical, XServe G5 was a little late, and it's THAT cpu (90nm 970fx) that you'd want in a laptop. G5 desktop machines have the original PowerPC 970 which in my opinion is just a little hot for any laptop.
I'm guessing we'll see desktop G5 workstations move up to 970fx some time this summer, so I don't foresee g5 laptops until a year after that.
Or am I just indulging in wishful thinking that my 867Mhz 12" g4 powerbook wont be hopelessly dated for a while longer? Could be...
What guys are you doing with so huge hard drivers?
Me? Two words : digital video.
The mini-dv cartridges I use hold 1 hour of high quality footage and only cost $10 or so. That is unfortunately 13GB when imported into my laptop. When I finish a project, I dump to an external Maxtor 250GB drive I bought six months ago for about $300.
These capacities make home movies more affordable than ever, it's great.
I expect RotK:EE's extra FX work will mean it won't get pushed much closer than November.
Perhaps they've ordered 10,000 more CPUs and are re-rendering all the CGI scenes in excruciatingly high quality/resolution. Some of the orcs towards the back were a bit sketchy I thought...
I thought that too, however since Ford is not even human (or at least not from Earth), insisting he be white and speak with a Britishaccent is a little limiting. After all, Ford grew up with Zaphod, right? Zaphod grew a third arm and second head on a whim, right?
Yes, I have felt the odd twinge of guilt. I have a stonking great scsi-based Linux workstation (athlon, geforce, genuine tulip fast ethernet card, 4 scsi hard disks, scsi cd burner, scsi tape drive etc). Do I use it? Hell no, I just keep returning to the powerbook 12".
I'm not saying I SHOULD feel guilty. After all, I got a lot of use out of Linux as my workstation before I bought a Mac for myself. It's that damn iBook I bought my wife that converted me (just like other people posted). And I do mean converted.
But I do get the odd twinge. It goes away when I consider the total user experience I've had with OS X. I now rely on iTunes for most of my music needs, I make movies with iMovie and iDVD for a friends band (from mini-DV footage, works brilliantly).
Sure, I can do some of it on Linux, but it's fiddly. I just gave up, sorry.
Linux is still 100% required for my webserver - that's different!
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If everyone is blogging then it seems like there would be so much useless crap out there that you wouldn't know what to look at
Um... I don't know how to break this to you, but...
I finally threw out my irix box from SG. It was so cute sitting in the corner being all purple...what is wrong with me...its a friggin computer...I needed to move on.
So do you!
Ah! No! not my NeXT Cube!
Ah, GLQuake, yes, that was much more demanding. I was only talking about original software rendering Quake. You know... I am going to have to play that through again!
I have a Pentium 166 MMX and 64MB of RAM running Slackware 9.1. Hey, it works, even if it can't play Quake very well.
Really? I played all the way through Quake on my "Pentium 75" machine. Then I discovered it was some sort of overclocked 133mhz 486 made by AMD. That's another story...
Anyway, when I upgraded that brute with real 166mhz Pentium (no mmx) it absolutely ripped through any Quake levels I cared to try. Maybe you need a better graphics card? A Matrox Millenium 1 worked pretty good for me. God, Quake was soooo unbelievable at the time ... :)
The article covers this. Canon makes HP's laser printer imaging engines, but not their inkjet components.
As for the other intelelgence, we score better then you in literacy and most educational benchmarks.
Evidently!
I'm sure the rule of mandatory typos in communication asserting superiority must be, like, quantum mechanical or something.
I guess I have the ability to just enjoy a movie without criticizing every thing about it.
That would be nice, but I didn't completely enjoy phantom menace or attack of the clones completely even on first viewing, despite really wanting to
Then as i watched them again and again I noticed some bits were complete and utter shit
Yeah, rock on!
"Doctor, Doctor, pleeeeasse, oh the mess I'm in" etc
If you strip Sun down to basics, you have unix first, then sparc, big smp hardware, workstations and bunch of other hard-core hard-to-make hardware and low-level software. By comparison, Java is just this over-visible little skunkworks project that people got way too excited about for a while.
This analysis, therefore, seems to me a bit like buying an ice cream, throwing away the cold bit and then wondering what kind of value you have left in your hand.
No, it's more like two W8s bolted together length-wise.
Otherwise, I agree. Audi is about to launch dual-clutch systems in their lowly TT Coupe!
The engine in the Bugatti is not that impressive to me. It has low specific output (horsepower/litre) and is not that far ahead of cars I could buy just down the street at the mercedes dealer or the audi dealer, such as the AMG CL65 or RS6. Ferrari sells a car that gets 118 bhp/liter normally aspirated. Now that's a new benchmark.. any of the top manufacturers can build a giant engine, strap a flock of turbochargers to it and get headline grabbing otuput figures. I just don't see the point.
Every bit of extra torque and power it can deploy is successfully resisted by the huge mass of the car, such that it's not the fastest car in the world, nor is it the most luxurious, It's, perhaps the most luxurious supercar, or some such silly thing. Maybe it's the best car to pose at Monaco in!
This month came news that the car had been delayed again, despite assurances that deliveries would start in April this year. Bugatti now says none will be delivered until late 2005.
Launch of Bugatti Veyron postponed to 2005
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - April 14, 2004
Motor Trend
Volkswagen has postponed the launch of the super sports car Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron until next year amid technical problems, the news magazine Der Spiegel reports.
Check it out for yourself
I seriously doubt anyone has the Bugatti Veyron in stock. AFAIK It has not been released yet and is still a seriously troubled car. Maybe they have 4 accepted orders... not something you can drive.
A lot of the commentary I've read still gives the McLaren F1 props as ultimate supercar ever. i'd take a normally aspirated BMW 7 liter engine pushing out ~640 bhp any day over whatever the veyron eventually settles on.
I have a turbocharged car myself, and if I had the money to get the same outright performance and handling without having to use forced induction, i certainly would. Throttle response - yeah baby!
Ah, but which side of the rocky mountain heights produce the most ideal stone-washing? Those dirty east slope washers give the free t-shirt community as a whole a bad name.
Jonsathan Swift (big-endians, little endians) or Monty Python (People's Popular front of Judaea) already said it all when it comes to parodying tribal warfare of this sort.
I agree with Miguel here,in '94/early '95, at least in the UK, there was talk that if Windows95 slipped much more, OS/2 Warp might take over! That's how weak windows was (then known as Windows for workgroups 3.11 I think).
I'm sceptical, XServe G5 was a little late, and it's THAT cpu (90nm 970fx) that you'd want in a laptop. G5 desktop machines have the original PowerPC 970 which in my opinion is just a little hot for any laptop.
I'm guessing we'll see desktop G5 workstations move up to 970fx some time this summer, so I don't foresee g5 laptops until a year after that.
Or am I just indulging in wishful thinking that my 867Mhz 12" g4 powerbook wont be hopelessly dated for a while longer? Could be...
Shutdown all the code stealers on the detention level. Shut down ALL THE CODE STEALERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL
You don't need to see his headers
These aren't the files you're looking for
You can go about your coding
What guys are you doing with so huge hard drivers?
Me? Two words : digital video.
The mini-dv cartridges I use hold 1 hour of high quality footage and only cost $10 or so. That is unfortunately 13GB when imported into my laptop. When I finish a project, I dump to an external Maxtor 250GB drive I bought six months ago for about $300.
These capacities make home movies more affordable than ever, it's great.
I expect RotK:EE's extra FX work will mean it won't get pushed much closer than November.
Perhaps they've ordered 10,000 more CPUs and are re-rendering all the CGI scenes in excruciatingly high quality/resolution. Some of the orcs towards the back were a bit sketchy I thought...
No flaming, just use Exim!
At least thats my opinion, and that of my ISP (Speakeasy)
Sun servers, make a cluster of these. Don't forget this pile either
Where I work, EVERYONE has an Aeron. Bigger people like me get a bigger size chair.
I thought that too, however since Ford is not even human (or at least not from Earth), insisting he be white and speak with a Britishaccent is a little limiting. After all, Ford grew up with Zaphod, right? Zaphod grew a third arm and second head on a whim, right?
Yes, I have felt the odd twinge of guilt. I have a stonking great scsi-based Linux workstation (athlon, geforce, genuine tulip fast ethernet card, 4 scsi hard disks, scsi cd burner, scsi tape drive etc). Do I use it? Hell no, I just keep returning to the powerbook 12".
I'm not saying I SHOULD feel guilty. After all, I got a lot of use out of Linux as my workstation before I bought a Mac for myself. It's that damn iBook I bought my wife that converted me (just like other people posted). And I do mean converted.
But I do get the odd twinge. It goes away when I consider the total user experience I've had with OS X. I now rely on iTunes for most of my music needs, I make movies with iMovie and iDVD for a friends band (from mini-DV footage, works brilliantly).
Sure, I can do some of it on Linux, but it's fiddly. I just gave up, sorry.
Linux is still 100% required for my webserver - that's different!
Chris Morgan