Last I heard about the Smart, they were having *really large problems* with the safety standards in the US... Until they solve some of those problems, it may be a while. --
Right, it is essentially a PC server on a PCI card, with access to all of the I/O advantages that goes along with being in an AS. Provides nice backup and central administration capabilities, and you can reload the Windows image quickly if your app hoses things up, and still have all of your user data nicely separate.
Linux is running on the mainframe as much as OS/390 or z/OS runs on the mainframe... everyone runs on top of a VM on those machines.
Well, that copy of Linux would shut down, and that would be about it... There's no rule against the O/S in a given VM stopping. It could be easily restarted, but none of that would affect anyone else on any othre Linux partition - that's the beauty of the whole thing. --
You can only use up the processor time that is allocated to your partition. The other users wouldn't even notice the difference if you used 100% of your CPU allocation. The whole VM can be admin'd quite closely, so it isn't hard to keep things from getting out of hand if you set things up properly from the start. --
No, you wouldn't get a zSeries for personal use, but there are several ISP/co-los who have already started down this path - one box, central administration, easy storage addition, the best reliability available, and you can give each person a separate image, so they can do whatever they want application wise. If they bork something up, the full image can be reloaded in mere seconds. I/O bandwidth is massive, fairness can be enforced between partitions... and total square feet used and power consumed are way down from having many separate boxes.
This is not your father's S/390;-) --
Re:Aki (girl from Final Fantasy)
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Yes, but when the clothes are moving, the hair blowing, and the head moving/face talking..... does that look as real as a still shot? A static picture is easy... a bunch of static pictures rendered and progressed is easy... to capture the dynamics of real life-like motion is very tough. --
Amen to that - a great, funny cartoon. The lineup of Futureama, Family Guy and the Simpsons is nothing but gold... though it does make my sides hurt. --
I'll have to check that out - I've been waiting to see the Mummy Returns until I can watch The Mummy... the last couple times I went to rent it, it was out (the 'Buster only stocks a couple copys on DVD now, and I wasn't motivated to drive the few miles to Hollywood Vid). With running all over the country this and next weekend, it looks like it will be a while...
From the article:
"Ten years from now, maybe we don't need actors like Tom Cruise anymore, because we've reached the stage where we can render them so well," Fink says.
Funny thing is, we don't need actors like Tom Cruise now... or Hugh Grant, for that matter...
As for the reality of it, there are those certain characteristics that are rapidly improving, but still have quite a ways to go: hair and clothing. I've seen some of the longer previews for "Shrek" and they look quite a bit more real than any previous movie effort, but there is just so much that still hasn't been captured. Subtle facial expressions are another thing that are tough to do... after watching the Shiny Things Network (MTV) for so long, many have lost their sensitivity to the more subtle nuances of human expression... the best actors can do a lot with very small movements. Modeling the expressions isn't as hard as figuring out what they really are, and what muscles of the face are involved.
I wouldn't be surprised if we are only a few years away from some amazingly real looking stuff though. With the ever decreasing cost of processing power and storage bandwidth, we can continue with more complex models and really have something to show for it. --
>A true rim-shot makes a sort of "tock" noise if the drummer holds the bass of the stick on the snare head, or a light "click" noise otherwise. Those sounds are usually used for accompaniment to quiet jazz passages, and are almost never used as accents for comedians.
Actually (one more round), that (the "tock" sound) *is* what I was referring to... of course, it all depends on the comedy club you happen to frequent and the specific performers. I don't count late night TV as an accurate representation for most things, so we'll ignore ChinKilla for now.
It is true that the art of comedic support has been much mangled and maligned by a tragic few, but isn't that always the way. True comedy seems tough to find these days, with pithy jibes and nonsensical tripe replacing thoughtful comedy... I mean, if it wasn't for Mel Brooks, we might have lost the whole genre.... hey... let go!... where are you taking me?! ahhhhhhhhhhh... --
Actually, rimshots after small punchlines aren't all that uncommon as compared with the full treatment ("ba-doom crash" et. al). For example, in the middle of a routine, a quick "Take my wife, Please!" merits only a rimshot, thus allowing a quicker progression to the next joke, since the natural pause from the laughter might be insufficient. Just a little emphasis...
At least, that's my story - and I'm sticking to it. --
> but I like hills, clean air, no traffic jams, stuff like that.
That's among the reasons I moved to MN... well, maybe not the hills... but Colorado isn't too far away, and neither is Vermont for that matter (air travel is nice that way). Cost of living is also rather nice here, and the crime rate is nearly nonexistant (less murders per year than the "New, Safe(TM)" NYC has most *days* of the year.
Oh, and I like cold weather (for a few months at a time, anyway)
Ouch... 1 GB/month... that's not even two iso images for an install of [$LINUX_DISTRO]. Makes you want to read/. in lite mode [shudder]... There was the one weekend I sucked down the images for Alpha Linux (Debian, Mandrake, RH)=> 8 discs. Then updating packages, etc... ouch. There are definitely some advantages to unlimited transfers.
($99 / $70) Even with the exchange rate, that's pretty harsh... those gigs can go quite fast some months. I imagine if you are doing any work from home via a VPN (maybe via VNC/Exceed/whatever or just file xfer) 5/10GB could vanish quickly, too... --
I had an old 6020i CD-R (back in '96)... had it replaced under warantee because it started producing nothing but coasters (and discs were still $3-5 at the time). The remanufactured one I got ended up the same way... so now it is just a slow 6x reader (more like a 4x with the slow seeks). Last year I found a class action suit against HP/Phillips for my drive (along with a couple other models). Signed up.
About two weeks ago, I came home to find a brand new Phillips CD-RW (32/8/4 or something) waiting for me... of course it happens to be an IDE drive, not SCSI... and I've long since replaced my CD-R with a nice Plextor CD-RW unit, but hey, now my linux box get upgraded from the old Sony 4x reader.
$1/disc... ouch, they haven't been that expensive here for a couple years... darn VAT. Decent discs run ~$.25-30 each, with cheap ones coming in ~$.15 each. Heck, you can get CD-RWs for $.45-.50 a piece. $1 is a heck of an increase. I think I've seen the Audio CD-Rs for ~$2. So with the VAT, does that mean if you buy a Dodge Dakota (~$25,000) in the UK, the VAT increases it to $100k? (showing my total ignorance) or is media just amazingly taxed?
Being a '99 RPI grad (CSYS)... didn't someone have the script that ran the code (for CS1 or CS2) through a preprocessor, then compared the output (so even if all you did was changed var names, it would catch it)... then did a compare and gave relative percentages? I remember seeing this, and reading some rather revealing results...
Of course, I also heard nasty rumors that CS2 was being taught on MSVC++... --
Re:IT will never unionize...
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IT workers will never unionize, because the entry salary puts one fresh out of school graduate at or well above the median *household* income for the country... and this is before you prove yourself at all, get a few raises, etc.. Tough to unionize when you are making more by yourself with little/no experience than many two-job households with children...
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Last I heard about the Smart, they were having *really large problems* with the safety standards in the US... Until they solve some of those problems, it may be a while.
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I've most heard/used "better living through chemistry". Rolls off the tongue more easily, too.
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Right, it is essentially a PC server on a PCI card, with access to all of the I/O advantages that goes along with being in an AS. Provides nice backup and central administration capabilities, and you can reload the Windows image quickly if your app hoses things up, and still have all of your user data nicely separate.
Linux is running on the mainframe as much as OS/390 or z/OS runs on the mainframe... everyone runs on top of a VM on those machines.
--
Well, that copy of Linux would shut down, and that would be about it... There's no rule against the O/S in a given VM stopping. It could be easily restarted, but none of that would affect anyone else on any othre Linux partition - that's the beauty of the whole thing.
--
You can only use up the processor time that is allocated to your partition. The other users wouldn't even notice the difference if you used 100% of your CPU allocation. The whole VM can be admin'd quite closely, so it isn't hard to keep things from getting out of hand if you set things up properly from the start.
--
No, you wouldn't get a zSeries for personal use, but there are several ISP/co-los who have already started down this path - one box, central administration, easy storage addition, the best reliability available, and you can give each person a separate image, so they can do whatever they want application wise. If they bork something up, the full image can be reloaded in mere seconds. I/O bandwidth is massive, fairness can be enforced between partitions... and total square feet used and power consumed are way down from having many separate boxes.
;-)
This is not your father's S/390
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Yes, but when the clothes are moving, the hair blowing, and the head moving/face talking..... does that look as real as a still shot? A static picture is easy... a bunch of static pictures rendered and progressed is easy... to capture the dynamics of real life-like motion is very tough.
--
Amen to that - a great, funny cartoon. The lineup of Futureama, Family Guy and the Simpsons is nothing but gold... though it does make my sides hurt.
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I'll have to check that out - I've been waiting to see the Mummy Returns until I can watch The Mummy... the last couple times I went to rent it, it was out (the 'Buster only stocks a couple copys on DVD now, and I wasn't motivated to drive the few miles to Hollywood Vid). With running all over the country this and next weekend, it looks like it will be a while...
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From the article:
"Ten years from now, maybe we don't need actors like Tom Cruise anymore, because we've reached the stage where we can render them so well," Fink says.
Funny thing is, we don't need actors like Tom Cruise now... or Hugh Grant, for that matter...
As for the reality of it, there are those certain characteristics that are rapidly improving, but still have quite a ways to go: hair and clothing. I've seen some of the longer previews for "Shrek" and they look quite a bit more real than any previous movie effort, but there is just so much that still hasn't been captured. Subtle facial expressions are another thing that are tough to do... after watching the Shiny Things Network (MTV) for so long, many have lost their sensitivity to the more subtle nuances of human expression... the best actors can do a lot with very small movements. Modeling the expressions isn't as hard as figuring out what they really are, and what muscles of the face are involved.
I wouldn't be surprised if we are only a few years away from some amazingly real looking stuff though. With the ever decreasing cost of processing power and storage bandwidth, we can continue with more complex models and really have something to show for it.
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Yeah, them and everyone else who combined a little relish with Thousand Island dressing...
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Nah, there's no cat, mouse, etc...
The Cheese Stands Alone...
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No - The People's Front of Judea! The Judean Peoples Front disbanded at lunch.
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>A true rim-shot makes a sort of "tock" noise if the drummer holds the bass of the stick on the snare head, or a light "click" noise otherwise. Those sounds are usually used for accompaniment to quiet jazz passages, and are almost never used as accents for comedians.
Actually (one more round), that (the "tock" sound) *is* what I was referring to... of course, it all depends on the comedy club you happen to frequent and the specific performers. I don't count late night TV as an accurate representation for most things, so we'll ignore ChinKilla for now.
It is true that the art of comedic support has been much mangled and maligned by a tragic few, but isn't that always the way. True comedy seems tough to find these days, with pithy jibes and nonsensical tripe replacing thoughtful comedy... I mean, if it wasn't for Mel Brooks, we might have lost the whole genre.... hey... let go!... where are you taking me?! ahhhhhhhhhhh...
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I'm guessing he just got to the word inane in his 7th grade Word Wealth text, and has been waiting to use the new found knowledge ;-)
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I've been climbing these #$&%!* stairs for hours... how tall is this thing?!
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Actually, rimshots after small punchlines aren't all that uncommon as compared with the full treatment ("ba-doom crash" et. al). For example, in the middle of a routine, a quick "Take my wife, Please!" merits only a rimshot, thus allowing a quicker progression to the next joke, since the natural pause from the laughter might be insufficient. Just a little emphasis...
At least, that's my story - and I'm sticking to it.
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> but I like hills, clean air, no traffic jams, stuff like that.
That's among the reasons I moved to MN... well, maybe not the hills... but Colorado isn't too far away, and neither is Vermont for that matter (air travel is nice that way). Cost of living is also rather nice here, and the crime rate is nearly nonexistant (less murders per year than the "New, Safe(TM)" NYC has most *days* of the year.
Oh, and I like cold weather (for a few months at a time, anyway)
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Ouch... 1 GB/month... that's not even two iso images for an install of [$LINUX_DISTRO]. Makes you want to read /. in lite mode [shudder]... There was the one weekend I sucked down the images for Alpha Linux (Debian, Mandrake, RH)=> 8 discs. Then updating packages, etc... ouch. There are definitely some advantages to unlimited transfers.
($99 / $70) Even with the exchange rate, that's pretty harsh... those gigs can go quite fast some months. I imagine if you are doing any work from home via a VPN (maybe via VNC/Exceed/whatever or just file xfer) 5/10GB could vanish quickly, too...
--
I had an old 6020i CD-R (back in '96)... had it replaced under warantee because it started producing nothing but coasters (and discs were still $3-5 at the time). The remanufactured one I got ended up the same way... so now it is just a slow 6x reader (more like a 4x with the slow seeks). Last year I found a class action suit against HP/Phillips for my drive (along with a couple other models). Signed up.
About two weeks ago, I came home to find a brand new Phillips CD-RW (32/8/4 or something) waiting for me... of course it happens to be an IDE drive, not SCSI... and I've long since replaced my CD-R with a nice Plextor CD-RW unit, but hey, now my linux box get upgraded from the old Sony 4x reader.
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$1/disc... ouch, they haven't been that expensive here for a couple years... darn VAT. Decent discs run ~$.25-30 each, with cheap ones coming in ~$.15 each. Heck, you can get CD-RWs for $.45-.50 a piece. $1 is a heck of an increase. I think I've seen the Audio CD-Rs for ~$2. So with the VAT, does that mean if you buy a Dodge Dakota (~$25,000) in the UK, the VAT increases it to $100k? (showing my total ignorance) or is media just amazingly taxed?
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Don't forget about the added S/390 arch files, too...
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Just think... you could update the fortunes to related quotes...
"You've had too much to drink... or... too little - I can never remember how it works with you."
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Being a '99 RPI grad (CSYS)... didn't someone have the script that ran the code (for CS1 or CS2) through a preprocessor, then compared the output (so even if all you did was changed var names, it would catch it)... then did a compare and gave relative percentages? I remember seeing this, and reading some rather revealing results...
Of course, I also heard nasty rumors that CS2 was being taught on MSVC++...
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IT workers will never unionize, because the entry salary puts one fresh out of school graduate at or well above the median *household* income for the country... and this is before you prove yourself at all, get a few raises, etc.. Tough to unionize when you are making more by yourself with little/no experience than many two-job households with children...
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