They floundered for years before SGI snapped them up. In the early 90's, they seemed to be on the front page of the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune's Business section every other week, reporting poor earnings and talking about various approaches toward becoming profitable again, by reducing costs and expanding their reach by using scalable MPP systems. At the time, it was perceived that the HPC market had dried up because of defense cutbacks and export restrictions.
In hindsight, it may have also had something to do with the big IBM shutdowns in Rochester (MN) at the same time. I disrecall what lines IBM cut there, but it was something along the mainframe line, which is something completely different. It may have also been the ongoing "dumping" lawsuit they had with Hitachi(?) that was regularly featured, too.
Cray used to be big shit here in Minnesota, just like Control Data (well, that IS where Cray came from), and we've been used to the notion that they've been dead for almost a decade.
Nobody needs million$ of dollar$ in capital for HPC anymore -- unless their software really kicks ass or they have some sort of edge in price or support, they're just another cluster vendor.
Any one of the servers on a large IRC network is likely to have significantly more than 20k simultaneous connections at any given time.
I think that this could also fall under the zero, one, infinity rule, which essentially means that software shouldn't have arbitrary limits, like the old MS-DOS 8.3 filename limit.
I see no reason why virtual child abuse should be any different than the virtual murders committed daily in virtually every video game known to man.
Logically, the only way to rule would be against the prosecution, but in a country so full of "family values", such as sexual uptightness and the protection of children, you never know.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I used to work with a guy that was an assembly programmer (later on a tester) with NCR for years back in the 70's. Their corporate strategy was simple; figure out what IBM is doing, then copy it.
Of course, IBM was something of a fuckup themselves a while back, and with NCR making cheap knockoffs of everything IBM was doing, I suppose it could only be for the better of that software to be placed in the hands of some other company.
The same could be said for the products of my company. We were one of dozens of fragments that were cast from Control Data Corporation in its tailspin before they crashed and burned -- most of them are doing OK, but AFAIK what remains of CDC is gone, at least by name.
I dropped out at about the same time as you did. It was when I realized they were just going to keep reinventing the same games like MK or Wolfenstein over and over again, with more intricate controls and graphic detail.
Every now and then I find a game simple and fun enough to to play. Warcraft II was great, Starcraft was too much. Star Wars Rogue Squadron was another fun game to play, but I haven't seen another flight combat type game quite as fun before or after that.
Remember what happened when 800 got crowded? They added 888, then 877 shortly after that. The TLD space is overcrowded, so shouldn't the same thing be happening?
WRT vanity 8xx numbers: Have you been to PhoneSpell? A phone number that spells one thing usually spells several others. My company's customer service number (software sales) spells the company name, although it can also spell several other things that could be construed as sexist/misogynist statements...
Yeah, DNS is such a waste of time. God forbid we use anything other than 32bit numbers or conserve the limited number of IPv4 addresses with HTTP 1.1 host headers (aka virtual hosting). I liked the olden days of Compuserve, when everybody was 7112313,342423413. user@12.34.56.78 works just fine for email... do you know how many things depend on DNS?
People need DNS, and they want their own TLD's. I don't think it's unfair to ask for them. All the dictionary and Latinesque TLD's are taken, and considering how much Business.com went for, a sufficiently descriptive TLD would cost even more than lobbying ICANN to get off their fat fucking asses, anyway.
Only the most anal^H^H^H^H organized people seem left to work on Everything, and thanks to the steep learning curve they put into place, only the compulsive dare even trying to make a contribution. I don't want to spend time evaluating whether I should post something at all, when to create a nodeshell, and all this other highly structured nonsense. I just want to make a contribution, but I know that I will get flamed to hell for making some trivial mistake.
It's a direct contradiction with a flat topology. You see the same problem with Internet directories -- sites like Yahoo! make the easy things easy, but there is no way to extract obscure information without digging into a raw text search, and in most cases, sites like Google make the easy things just as easy, and the hard things *possible*
Enough with the Pokemon stories already! It's starting to sound like "Mir to be deorbited/saved" or:Cue::Cat: or a Napster story!
Sheesh, Pokelinux was kind of cool, but now they're suing people for putting their copyright out in public? Maybe we'll find out that this whole thing has been cancelled, because both the plaintiff and defendant are clients of the same law firm again...
Congratulations to Nintendo on extending their copyrighted franchise into the open community.
This is excellent news for Linux, because it will suck young blood into the Linux community. Ask Joe Camel whether cartoon images sell! With the the popular images of characters of Ash Ketcham, Pikachu, Team Rocket, and the assortment of fantastically dimensioned women in Pokelinux, children will learn to use Linux as their first operating system, unshackling them from a lifetime of Windows or Macintosh dependence.
The article doesn't go into too much detail about the distribution, but it is my understanding that there will initially be 150 (or more) different CD's using various revisions of kernels 2.2 and 2.4, plus an additional 100 (or more) for the next devel version of the kernel.
GSview is one of the essential apps that most Windows users don't know that they need, or like me, had no idea it existed! Thanks.
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A database is a data set with at least primitive concepts of tables, fields, and records, which could even be delimited text files, and the ability to index and query are added bonuses.
NTFS5 is a real database, though it may not be a real management system.
I would also add that I have a Sony CX-335 CD changer (a 2000 model) that *does* play CD-R. I have never tried it in my S360 DVD player.
What's really criminal is the disparity between single and changer DVD players vis a vis singe and changer CD players. For $100 extra (staying with Sony), you go from a single disc ($150) to a 300 disc ($250) player of the same caliber. In the DVD world, you can't even get a 300 or 400 disc changer, and the 200 disc units are more than double the price of a single disc. Supply/demand my ass, it's just gouging.
Moral of the story: buy a single disc DVD player and spend the spare cash on a separate CD changer with more capacity that WILL read CD-R's.
Most people won't even pay $1 for content. I think $20 would be enough to elicit serious offers only. I'd like to see a.star TLD (star.star, universe.galaxy.star, etc.), but I wouldn't even pay $20 to do it.
If it's money they want, people should be able to post their ideas and have others contribute to some sort of a PayPal escrow. From a central site, people could propose TLD's, and those that backed it could make a contribution. I think there is a bigger mandate from 100 people willing to spend $1/each than there is from some organization that has $50k to burn.
Besides, I think there would be significant support on all sides for a.sex or.xxx domain -- both prudes and pr0n purveyors would love it. There are some problems with it, of course, but it works out much better than it does right now, although things like goat sex would be difficult to categorize. PICS is a failure, but the even larger problem is that parents that DO care what their children see and do won't do it actively, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Nobody actually calls them underpants here -- that's just ridiculous. Pants are items of clothing that cover your legs to at least mid-calf. Undergarments of that length are long johns.
I'm curious to read, but do you have it in some other format? I'm Windows-only at work, which is every hour I don't spend sleeping or going to/from the office lately...
Not that Sony is respectable, but I buy all their electronics anyway...
You could have saved a few bucks and went with the S360, which also has an optical out. Any decent receiver will also have Dolby digital decoding, so the builtin capabilities of the 560 are wasted (not to mention the degradation of analog signal from the player to the speakers via receiver).
Nobody is really going to agree -- some people will tell you to get some piece of crap Korean thing, others will tell you to get the overpriced status symbol garbage like B&O, and some of them will say you should go to the local snob shop and pick up some spendy handcrafted so-called "audiophile" no-name brand. Check out: http://www.epinions.com
You can look at the infinite scale or the infinitesimal scale, but all you're going to find is matter congregating and revolving around other matter. Makes you wonder what if there aren't scales that are even smaller than atomic or more infinite than the universe -- if there are, you'll still find everything congregating and revloving around something else.
Is there a reason we keep seeing it like this? The last time epicycles had a go around, they were trying to use them as proof that the Earth was the center of the universe...
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(stolen without permission from Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, et al of Monty Python)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
[boom]
[slurp]
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
I am sure that most log analyzers point out the well known Class B's such as Roadrunner by name, and it is probably a safe assumption that the most frequent hitters of their page are proxies, and further logic could be derived from the browser's default character set, e.g. EN/US.
I'm guessing that the producers of JP didn't mind getting a little price break by plugging the machines they used to produce the special effects, or maybe they just felt like showing them off -- it's not as if anyone who might need an SGI didn't know about them already.
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In hindsight, it may have also had something to do with the big IBM shutdowns in Rochester (MN) at the same time. I disrecall what lines IBM cut there, but it was something along the mainframe line, which is something completely different. It may have also been the ongoing "dumping" lawsuit they had with Hitachi(?) that was regularly featured, too.
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Nobody needs million$ of dollar$ in capital for HPC anymore -- unless their software really kicks ass or they have some sort of edge in price or support, they're just another cluster vendor.
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I think that this could also fall under the zero, one, infinity rule, which essentially means that software shouldn't have arbitrary limits, like the old MS-DOS 8.3 filename limit.
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Logically, the only way to rule would be against the prosecution, but in a country so full of "family values", such as sexual uptightness and the protection of children, you never know.
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Of course, IBM was something of a fuckup themselves a while back, and with NCR making cheap knockoffs of everything IBM was doing, I suppose it could only be for the better of that software to be placed in the hands of some other company.
The same could be said for the products of my company. We were one of dozens of fragments that were cast from Control Data Corporation in its tailspin before they crashed and burned -- most of them are doing OK, but AFAIK what remains of CDC is gone, at least by name.
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Every now and then I find a game simple and fun enough to to play. Warcraft II was great, Starcraft was too much. Star Wars Rogue Squadron was another fun game to play, but I haven't seen another flight combat type game quite as fun before or after that.
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WRT vanity 8xx numbers: Have you been to PhoneSpell? A phone number that spells one thing usually spells several others. My company's customer service number (software sales) spells the company name, although it can also spell several other things that could be construed as sexist/misogynist statements...
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People need DNS, and they want their own TLD's. I don't think it's unfair to ask for them. All the dictionary and Latinesque TLD's are taken, and considering how much Business.com went for, a sufficiently descriptive TLD would cost even more than lobbying ICANN to get off their fat fucking asses, anyway.
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It's a direct contradiction with a flat topology. You see the same problem with Internet directories -- sites like Yahoo! make the easy things easy, but there is no way to extract obscure information without digging into a raw text search, and in most cases, sites like Google make the easy things just as easy, and the hard things *possible*
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Sheesh, Pokelinux was kind of cool, but now they're suing people for putting their copyright out in public? Maybe we'll find out that this whole thing has been cancelled, because both the plaintiff and defendant are clients of the same law firm again...
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This is excellent news for Linux, because it will suck young blood into the Linux community. Ask Joe Camel whether cartoon images sell! With the the popular images of characters of Ash Ketcham, Pikachu, Team Rocket, and the assortment of fantastically dimensioned women in Pokelinux, children will learn to use Linux as their first operating system, unshackling them from a lifetime of Windows or Macintosh dependence.
The article doesn't go into too much detail about the distribution, but it is my understanding that there will initially be 150 (or more) different CD's using various revisions of kernels 2.2 and 2.4, plus an additional 100 (or more) for the next devel version of the kernel.
Get 'em hooked while they're young!
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NTFS5 is a real database, though it may not be a real management system.
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What's really criminal is the disparity between single and changer DVD players vis a vis singe and changer CD players. For $100 extra (staying with Sony), you go from a single disc ($150) to a 300 disc ($250) player of the same caliber. In the DVD world, you can't even get a 300 or 400 disc changer, and the 200 disc units are more than double the price of a single disc. Supply/demand my ass, it's just gouging.
Moral of the story: buy a single disc DVD player and spend the spare cash on a separate CD changer with more capacity that WILL read CD-R's.
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If it's money they want, people should be able to post their ideas and have others contribute to some sort of a PayPal escrow. From a central site, people could propose TLD's, and those that backed it could make a contribution. I think there is a bigger mandate from 100 people willing to spend $1/each than there is from some organization that has $50k to burn.
Besides, I think there would be significant support on all sides for a
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You could have saved a few bucks and went with the S360, which also has an optical out. Any decent receiver will also have Dolby digital decoding, so the builtin capabilities of the 560 are wasted (not to mention the degradation of analog signal from the player to the speakers via receiver).
Nobody is really going to agree -- some people will tell you to get some piece of crap Korean thing, others will tell you to get the overpriced status symbol garbage like B&O, and some of them will say you should go to the local snob shop and pick up some spendy handcrafted so-called "audiophile" no-name brand. Check out:
http://www.epinions.com
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Is there a reason we keep seeing it like this? The last time epicycles had a go around, they were trying to use them as proof that the Earth was the center of the universe...
---- INTERMISSION ----
(stolen without permission from Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, et al of Monty Python)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
[boom]
[slurp]
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
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I am sure that most log analyzers point out the well known Class B's such as Roadrunner by name, and it is probably a safe assumption that the most frequent hitters of their page are proxies, and further logic could be derived from the browser's default character set, e.g. EN/US.
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Of course, who knows how long OS X is going to stay PPC only... ?
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I'm guessing that the producers of JP didn't mind getting a little price break by plugging the machines they used to produce the special effects, or maybe they just felt like showing them off -- it's not as if anyone who might need an SGI didn't know about them already.
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Ever notice how it's always Macs being used on TV and the movies, even if the outside is usually an x86 PC?
(P.S. please don't ruin this by mentioning that you CAN run GNOME on Windows now -- thank you)
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