According to Yoda, speaking to Anakin: "Fear is the path to the Dark Side! Fear leads to anger..... anger leads to hate........ hate leads to suffering! I sense much fear in you."
So, if Yoda had known about this, he could have treated Anakin and prevented him from becoming Darth Vader.
I actually *liked* the magazine -- as opposed to the annoying site (with its reader letters back and forth -- which strike me as the absolute height of pomposity and "in-joke-ness". If you just try to browse Slate, you're hit with all these things referencing other things -- and if you don't know what the "Fray" is and if you haven't been following all the oh-so-elegantly written missives between experts, you're lost.
That (hot grits) sounds (goatse) familiar (beowulf). Where (karma whore) have (first post!) I (Natalie Portman) seen (/. effect) that (anonymous coward) before? (troll)
The "profile" link on the state's portal page reports the population as "6,03,85,118." I'm not familiar with this notation, but I'm guessing that means about 60 million people. This strikes me as a reasonably large state - about 17th the total population (of 1.045 billion, according to the CIA) while there are 28 Indian states.
It was bad enough reading Slashdot when you might get tricked into clicking a link to the goatse page; what the goatse guy is trying to do to himself, that page does to your hard drive.
Do you want to come with me to the boys' room, then we'll see who is Jewish? -- Bobby Fischer (on being reminded by a reporter that he was half Jewish)
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised. -- Bobby Fischer
I think the author of this article should be a little more careful when throwing numbers around. According to the AdAge article, More U.S. homes have outhouses (671,000) than TiVos (504,000 to 514,000).
According to Crain Communication, AdAge has a circulation of 70,900 paid subscribers.
I'd be more worried about the future of AdAge than of TiVo.
Ad copy promoting using Linux to connect to their service? Most of the big service providers include software to configure your connection if you're on a Windows PC, and fill your computer with advertising at the same time, for which the service provider is probably paid. Promoting a connection that potentially bypasses all that ad revenue seems to be shooting yourself in the foot, if you're Sprint.
I thought the grand-parent post idea that this page was created by Sprint was interesting, but knee-jerky. A quick look at his other pages (stuff he's done with Linux, photo album) and WhoIs suggests he's a real guy with his own site.
However, in general, I kind of disagree with your suggestion that Sprint would be shooting themselves in the foot by promoting Linux. On the contrary, I think it's conceivable that Sprint would try to woo the techie crowd, with particular interest in its early-adopters and bandwidth-lovers.
Even if Sprint concedes a few bandwidth-loving users from some advertising program, they surely make more on the per-minute fees from those users than they would from the ad revenue.
So the little yellow circle says "Available in Winter 2002." Hasn't that already passed in the Southern Hemisphere? Let's have those reviews, you upside-down people!
For the market IBM's going after, big corporations looking to do occasional heavy-duty computing, it could make lots of sense. It's like leasing machines, which lots of places already do, only without the hardware overhead.
Also, and I believe this was addressed in the article, look at all those failed startups that were left with expensive hardware and koosh balls. With a way to rent time on a supercomputer, certain kinds of startups become a much more economical possibility.
By way of comparison, I once visited a company that does high-end CG for movies, videos, and commercials. They showed me their render-farm, which they said they supplemented by renting computers to lighten their load at busy times.
For a company like that one, IBM's plan would further eliminate the need to rent the space to stick those computers, the cost of running an overpowered AC system at less than full-power (when they don't have so many machines going,) the cost to order, ship, hook up, and maintain the machines.
If IBM's system were available and I were to start a CG house, I would get some smart programmers, animators, etc. and some modest workstations, but rent time as needed from IBM for creating finished product. (Just a toy example, if you're ripping my "business plan" apart, you've missed the point.)
Finally, many industries have a tendency towards consolidation. Larger and larger companies could be a good market for systems like this one, simply due to their size. Also, larger companies could be a good market for IBM because they make bigger moves when they enter new markets. (Look at IBM itself, committing $10 billion to this project.)
I was wondering myself what use a supercomputer would be for Canada. I mean, as far as I know they don't have a nuclear weapons testing program, and how hard is weather prediction in Canada, anyway?
"Cold again, eh?"
Reminds me of the weather forecaster character that I think was played by Steve Martin in "The Single Guy," who pre-recorded his LA weather forecasts.
I mean, really, what was the last 'innovation' that occured in the *nix/world?
(I can't believe I didn't see this anywhere on the page yet.) What about Beowulf clusters? I would argue that being able to do super-computing with a bunch of "off-the-shelf" PCs qualifies as 'innovation.'
Scene 1: Godfather Bill is sitting with his trusted goons.
Godfather Bill: What's this I hear about one of our freelance writers using a Mac? Make her an offer she can't refuse.
Scene 2: Anonymous writer's bedroom.
(The anonymous writer tosses and turns in bed, and rolls over, waking up. She notices something in the bed next to her and pulls back the sheet to reveal the severed LCD screen from her beloved iMac.)
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Hey, that looks like fun, but let me know when the automotive robot builds a car around me, like in Minority Report. Now that was cool.
You must be new here.
Warning: disparaging the dual-boot is a bootable offense.
So, if Yoda had known about this, he could have treated Anakin and prevented him from becoming Darth Vader.
Or this guy. (Warning: many megs, but worth it if you have the bandwidth.)
Wait until Jon Katz takes apart an X10 camera, straps it to a dirt bike, and jumps a shark.
That (hot grits) sounds (goatse) familiar (beowulf). Where (karma whore) have (first post!) I (Natalie Portman) seen (/. effect) that (anonymous coward) before? (troll)
The "profile" link on the state's portal page reports the population as "6,03,85,118." I'm not familiar with this notation, but I'm guessing that means about 60 million people. This strikes me as a reasonably large state - about 17th the total population (of 1.045 billion, according to the CIA) while there are 28 Indian states.
It was bad enough reading Slashdot when you might get tricked into clicking a link to the goatse page; what the goatse guy is trying to do to himself, that page does to your hard drive.
I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised. -- Bobby Fischer
Sure Fischer's half-Jewish - from the waist up.
I don't, but I'm willing to bet that Crazy Eric does.
Other than that, how would you differentiate between Newton and Leibniz?
According to Crain Communication, AdAge has a circulation of 70,900 paid subscribers.
I'd be more worried about the future of AdAge than of TiVo.
I thought the grand-parent post idea that this page was created by Sprint was interesting, but knee-jerky. A quick look at his other pages (stuff he's done with Linux, photo album) and WhoIs suggests he's a real guy with his own site.
However, in general, I kind of disagree with your suggestion that Sprint would be shooting themselves in the foot by promoting Linux. On the contrary, I think it's conceivable that Sprint would try to woo the techie crowd, with particular interest in its early-adopters and bandwidth-lovers.
Even if Sprint concedes a few bandwidth-loving users from some advertising program, they surely make more on the per-minute fees from those users than they would from the ad revenue.
So the little yellow circle says "Available in Winter 2002." Hasn't that already passed in the Southern Hemisphere? Let's have those reviews, you upside-down people!
Also, and I believe this was addressed in the article, look at all those failed startups that were left with expensive hardware and koosh balls. With a way to rent time on a supercomputer, certain kinds of startups become a much more economical possibility.
By way of comparison, I once visited a company that does high-end CG for movies, videos, and commercials. They showed me their render-farm, which they said they supplemented by renting computers to lighten their load at busy times.
For a company like that one, IBM's plan would further eliminate the need to rent the space to stick those computers, the cost of running an overpowered AC system at less than full-power (when they don't have so many machines going,) the cost to order, ship, hook up, and maintain the machines.
If IBM's system were available and I were to start a CG house, I would get some smart programmers, animators, etc. and some modest workstations, but rent time as needed from IBM for creating finished product. (Just a toy example, if you're ripping my "business plan" apart, you've missed the point.)
Finally, many industries have a tendency towards consolidation. Larger and larger companies could be a good market for systems like this one, simply due to their size. Also, larger companies could be a good market for IBM because they make bigger moves when they enter new markets. (Look at IBM itself, committing $10 billion to this project.)
FORTH IF HONK THEN
Amazing that it hasn't been hit by a backhoe in 100 years.
Q: What has eight legs and commits suicide?
A: Squid Vicious.
That's nothing. I've been playing my album at 45 rpm all these years, so my 25th anniversary only took 18 1/3 years.
"Cold again, eh?"
Reminds me of the weather forecaster character that I think was played by Steve Martin in "The Single Guy," who pre-recorded his LA weather forecasts.
Indeed. How many Libraries of Congress is that, anyway?
(I can't believe I didn't see this anywhere on the page yet.) What about Beowulf clusters? I would argue that being able to do super-computing with a bunch of "off-the-shelf" PCs qualifies as 'innovation.'
Godfather Bill: What's this I hear about one of our freelance writers using a Mac? Make her an offer she can't refuse.
Scene 2: Anonymous writer's bedroom.
(The anonymous writer tosses and turns in bed, and rolls over, waking up. She notices something in the bed next to her and pulls back the sheet to reveal the severed LCD screen from her beloved iMac.)
Anonymous Writer: Aaaaah! Aaaaaah! OK, I'll switch!
Yeah, just fundamental mathematical constants.