Gets the dust behind your glasses too, that small space is like a hundred hectares of sahara in dust particle scale. Thats the answer I got when I asked exactly that:)
Can't remember who told me this, but apparently the EM field of a CRT hyper-accelerates dust particles in front of the monitor, so the burning sensation of eye strain is actually the sensation of a constant physical abrasion against your peepers. Could be a load of old cobblers though..
Rule #1. Pixar will only be eclipsed by Pixar. Square is about as "kid stuff" as it gets. The whole 'acid trip in a fun park' bullshit is getting rather tired as a vehicle for storyless, meaningless, tits an' ass Japanimation. My advice if this stuff turns you on, go out and get laid kids. The FF8 movie was tweaked MoCap. How do we insult animator's where I'm from, we call them MoCap tweakers. You go figure. Gerry's Game (thats the chess dude to you) is considered by animators, even the tweaker's at Square, to be a paradigm of the art of animation. An almost faultless display of every aspect of putting a story to film. Camera, lighting, composition, colour design, timing, editing and on and on. The lesson here is even you can have a worthless opinion, but if you don't have a clue, don't embarrass yourself by telling everyone.
Just think how fast your mouse will run!!!
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USB2 Specs Are In
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From the IEEE Trade Associations FAQ
"1394.b is a significant enhancement to the basic 1394 specification that enables speed increases to 3.2 Gigabits/sec., supports distances of 100 meters on UTP and optical fiber, and reduces latency times to well under the 125 microseconds now provided under the spec. 1394.b, which is an important step forward in simplifying the link between PC products and CE systems over 1394, will be completed and ready for ballot by midsummer 1999"
When are Intel going to stop flogging this dead horse. USB 2.0 by mid 2000? Sounds just about the right timing to be smacked down by Firewire 2.0. There are a lot of consumer electronics giants hustling to put out current and future technologies incorporating the IEEE 1394 standard, these guys have the sort of market penetration that Intel can only dream about.
Yet another moronic generalisation from a spotty little game freak. Games DO NOT define the high end of computing, as clock speed has absolutely NO relevence to performance between different families of chip sets. The feature set of AltiVec is far more functional and accessable than the arcane and mentally retarded MMX family of instructions. The GeForce is a card optimised for DirectX 7, the idiot-child of OpenGL, I expect it to be just as useless for programs such as SoftImage as its predecessor the TNT2. Get out of your basement, there are users with more pressing needs than getting 600 fps out of QuakeIII who welcome real technological advancements such as AltiVec.
I doubt if you really see the humor in your comment. YES it will be years before the Wintel world will be able to catch up with the simple premise of good industrial design. Not so much of an affirmation of Apple's brilliance as a confirmaton of the MEDIOCRITY(TM) of the Wintel product.
I counted more than there were instances of the Fuck word in "Scarface". Just look for the Pro-monitoring arguments. All companies monitor employees to a certain degree and more often than not make the employees aware of such practice. But 'Stealth monitoring' = Entrapment. Pure and simple. I've been witness to the true extent of abuse this power can afford the upper management hatchet boys. I've also seen some right little shits shown the door. There's nothing really dignified about having to skulk about in your own backyard. Disrespect your employees and you can expect the same sentiment in return, then you'll be looking at much worse issues than abuse of work practices. As an aside, lets start monitoring the sysadmins, the true core of irresponsible computer abusers. I know, cause I do:)
The rest of the Unix world never had a piece of th VFX pie. Sure Sun, HP, IBM et al have had the occasional stab in the past and backed away just as fast. Their current offerings (strike Sun) are typified by the generic "NT too" offerings. The platform SGI defined is solely responsible for the proliferation of graphics visualisation at the high end. It is a credit to their hardware and software vision that they garnered the richest core of software developers. Remember my response was to a comparison of SGI's worth to a cheap PC and 3D card and I would agree that there are better flavours of Unix for enterprise level businesses. "Most high end benchmarks" is a big call though. What percentage is most? Benchmarks for what? And no, I don't particulary think it is a big issue unless those O2000 users spend most of their business time running benchmarks, is there money in this? Please explain. Last general impression I had of benchmarks was they were generally useless for measuring application* specific performance. *as in "use of" not "software"
May be that Elbrus are not willing to cede either control or marketing issues with the potential investor. This would make it less inviting for a company such as Sun for example, who have already partnered with Elbrus on the design of their Ultra chip. Why would they fund a chip that may find a home in SGI servers.
Yet another gameboy freak who thinks real world performance is measured by fps in Quake. Snap out of it kid, why do you think that every major VFX studio in Hollywood uses SGI for their grunt work. Its cause these monsters don't choke when the benchmark is over, they keep on truckin'. Flexibility, scalability, reliability. A frontend to backend solution in hardware and software. These are the other measurements of performance. You'd be suprised how quickly any initial saving on a NT box dissapear when they go belly up during production. Stick yer head out the window, see it, do ya? That's the real world mate!
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10+ Gig Removables?
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Hmmm, sounds famliar. Didja try sending them off to a data recovery agency, they are basically hard disk platters inside. I was kinda hoping this would work (I have about a years worth of artwork stored on a bunch of these) but haven't tried it yet. Switched to a CD burner, slow but reliable... so far.
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Neither did the Chinese. See how that works redneck?
Gets the dust behind your glasses too, that small space is like a hundred hectares of sahara in dust particle scale. Thats the answer I got when I asked exactly that :)
Can't remember who told me this, but apparently the EM field of a CRT hyper-accelerates dust particles in front of the monitor, so the burning sensation of eye strain is actually the sensation of a constant physical abrasion against your peepers.
Could be a load of old cobblers though..
Rule #1.
Pixar will only be eclipsed by Pixar.
Square is about as "kid stuff" as it gets. The whole 'acid trip in a fun park' bullshit is getting rather tired as a vehicle for storyless, meaningless, tits an' ass Japanimation.
My advice if this stuff turns you on, go out and get laid kids.
The FF8 movie was tweaked MoCap. How do we insult animator's where I'm from, we call them MoCap tweakers. You go figure.
Gerry's Game (thats the chess dude to you) is considered by animators, even the tweaker's at Square, to be a paradigm of the art of animation. An almost faultless display of every aspect of putting a story to film. Camera, lighting, composition, colour design, timing, editing and on and on.
The lesson here is even you can have a worthless opinion, but if you don't have a clue, don't embarrass yourself by telling everyone.
From the IEEE Trade Associations FAQ
"1394.b is a significant enhancement to the basic 1394 specification that enables speed increases to 3.2 Gigabits/sec., supports distances of 100 meters on UTP and optical fiber, and reduces latency times to well under the 125 microseconds now provided under the spec. 1394.b, which is an important step forward in simplifying the link between PC products and CE systems over 1394, will be completed and ready for ballot by midsummer 1999"
When are Intel going to stop flogging this dead horse. USB 2.0 by mid 2000? Sounds just about the right timing to be smacked down by Firewire 2.0.
There are a lot of consumer electronics giants hustling to put out current and future technologies incorporating the IEEE 1394 standard, these guys have the sort of market penetration that Intel can only dream about.
Yet another moronic generalisation from a spotty little game freak. Games DO NOT define the high end of computing, as clock speed has absolutely NO relevence to performance between different families of chip sets. The feature set of AltiVec is far more functional and accessable than the arcane and mentally retarded MMX family of instructions. The GeForce is a card optimised for DirectX 7, the idiot-child of OpenGL, I expect it to be just as useless for programs such as SoftImage as its predecessor the TNT2.
Get out of your basement, there are users with more pressing needs than getting 600 fps out of QuakeIII who welcome real technological advancements such as AltiVec.
I doubt if you really see the humor in your comment. YES it will be years before the Wintel world will be able to catch up with the simple premise of good industrial design. Not so much of an affirmation of Apple's brilliance as a confirmaton of the MEDIOCRITY(TM) of the Wintel product.
I counted more than there were instances of the Fuck word in "Scarface". Just look for the Pro-monitoring arguments. :)
All companies monitor employees to a certain degree and more often than not make the employees aware of such practice.
But 'Stealth monitoring' = Entrapment. Pure and simple. I've been witness to the true extent of abuse this power can afford the upper management hatchet boys. I've also seen some right little shits shown the door. There's nothing really dignified about having to skulk about in your own backyard.
Disrespect your employees and you can expect the same sentiment in return, then you'll be looking at much worse issues than abuse of work practices.
As an aside, lets start monitoring the sysadmins, the true core of irresponsible computer abusers.
I know, cause I do
The rest of the Unix world never had a piece of th VFX pie. Sure Sun, HP, IBM et al have had the occasional stab in the past and backed away just as fast. Their current offerings (strike Sun) are typified by the generic "NT too" offerings. The platform SGI defined is solely responsible for the proliferation of graphics visualisation at the high end. It is a credit to their hardware and software vision that they garnered the richest core of software developers.
Remember my response was to a comparison of SGI's worth to a cheap PC and 3D card and I would agree that there are better flavours of Unix for enterprise level businesses.
"Most high end benchmarks" is a big call though. What percentage is most? Benchmarks for what? And no, I don't particulary think it is a big issue unless those O2000 users spend most of their business time running benchmarks, is there money in this? Please explain.
Last general impression I had of benchmarks was they were generally useless for measuring application* specific performance.
*as in "use of" not "software"
May be that Elbrus are not willing to cede either control or marketing issues with the potential investor. This would make it less inviting for a company such as Sun for example, who have already partnered with Elbrus on the design of their Ultra chip. Why would they fund a chip that may find a home in SGI servers.
Yet another gameboy freak who thinks real world performance is measured by fps in Quake. Snap out of it kid, why do you think that every major VFX studio in Hollywood uses SGI for their grunt work. Its cause these monsters don't choke when the benchmark is over, they keep on truckin'. Flexibility, scalability, reliability. A frontend to backend solution in hardware and software. These are the other measurements of performance. You'd be suprised how quickly any initial saving on a NT box dissapear when they go belly up during production. Stick yer head out the window, see it, do ya? That's the real world mate!
Hmmm, sounds famliar. Didja try sending them off to a data recovery agency, they are basically hard disk platters inside. I was kinda hoping this would work (I have about a years worth of artwork stored on a bunch of these) but haven't tried it yet. Switched to a CD burner, slow but reliable... so far.