This "chic" is not exclusive to IT. It appears that bitching and moaning, and taking things for granted, is common in popular spoon-fed TV-enslaved western culture.
Personally, I find that sort of 'pleasure' abhorent. Sitting around bitching about things, or criticizing something just for the social effect... that's fully lame.
(i'm thinking less general-purpose computing purchase, and i think you are thinking more...)
yeah, so i thought 6Megs was a typo at first, but then i considered the mere possibility that they may just have spec'ed their RAM to their direct process requirements, 'embedded system' style.
and, i still don't see why not... though your point about RAM being available in sizes less than 64 megs is valid, i've seen 8meg dimm's for 2ghz Pentium systems, cheap, all over the place. remember, this is new zealand we're talking about, not fry's, burbank. they want something easily replaceable, locally.
maybe then the question would be 'where did the other 2megs go', and that might answer your videocard situation. plenty of 2ghz Pentium mobo's do video sharing...
i know it doesn't make 'sense'. but, on the other hand, i don't see why not. why buy so much ram if you've determined that you don't really have to for your specific application? i've seen tons of systems designed, and put into exceptional use, that way... not all general purpose computing laws (of economics, of use) are applicable in specific-purpose stuff...
but hey, it could be a typo. 6gigs would 'make more sense', I suppose...
If you've got renderman set up to render to disk, and your disk arrays are pretty fast, I don't see any reason why these dedicated render machines shouldn't have only 6 megabytes of RAM per CPU.
okay, it doesn't make a -ton- of sense to render direct to disk, but maybe it can be done and not require so much RAM?
I saw the Motorola Linux phone at CeBIT, and I thought the same thing until I saw video's and TV shows being played on it... I'd quite happily carry around a high-definition capable player in my pocket, if it doubles as a cell phone, media player, and PDA.
Seems thats the direction its going... and btw, the Mot phone ws -superb-... soon as its available in my market, I'll get one.
... the only real items of note were the pocket, personal media players. And the really, really interesting ones were the ultra-cheap, ultra-trendy, well designed movie players, out on the periphery edges of the sprawling metropolis...
Apple, with the iPod, still have a lot of swing left in the market. They broke things wide open with iPod.
They can keep doing that. They do keep doing that. As long as they do keep doing that, they'll survive, in some form or another, as a company.
Of course, if BlueTooth fails, we'll be contending with Motorola vs. Apple in the portable media player space, and subsequently portable computing-device, soon enough.
The much-coveted Motorola linux phone, which strangely enough, did not have its own fancy display attachment, but was only available for demo by request was playing Pink, pretty darn well... I'd happily throw away my TV and watch all trash media on that thing. It is, practically, an "OSX in your pocket".
Apple just need to keep making good computers. They do make good computers, even if other people do as well.
... don't get me wrong, i wanted to be in LA because it was a massive city. but... after 15 years... and very many other massive cities well-visited in the world with LA as a base, i decided that country-life, wherever you find it in the world, is healthier.
you know, just my personal experience. its not an absolute or anything, just a post on a message board somewhere in the universe.
the other book you would read to get this cheap joke would be "G.E.B", or "Goedel, Escher and Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid", which is another treatise, very well worth reading, on the subject of infinity.
strictly crapper reading though. try not to take it too seriously, is my 'review'...
dude, coming from where i am right now, spending time in a place called woking in order to steal a martian war machine would be a -grand- weekend.
i'd probably have a wicked after-bite afterwards though, from walking awound saying 'thats woking' at everything cool i thought i liked... in the process of stealing the martian war machine, that is...
Apple need only respond to the 'death' of their cult-item iProduct, with the release of another one:
The Apple PDA(*).... thus hastening the death of PocketPC forever. (Amen.)
(*- When Apple make a PDA - again - its going to fucking rock... **-Why will PPC fail? Fuck, who cares? Its Windows, for crying out loud. Who wants Windows in a palmtop any more? What do you think PalmOS was?)
you're right. world annihilation as a result of something creepy escaping from Evil American Laboratories is a poor excuse to grab your girl, a bag of weed, and head to a motel for the weekend.
who needs an excuse. i'd do that anyway, if i had a girlfriend...
i totally want to steal it. how cool would that be! its just -gone- one day, and nobody knows where it is... except me, and the parties i would throw in its honor, every friday night, in my underground bunker...
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the only thing i can say is, when someone offers to help, let them.
My role is Professional Virus Maker.
... but I think you get the point. :)
(Well, not really. It says "r&d" on my visitenkarten
This "chic" is not exclusive to IT. It appears that bitching and moaning, and taking things for granted, is common in popular spoon-fed TV-enslaved western culture.
... that's fully lame.
Personally, I find that sort of 'pleasure' abhorent. Sitting around bitching about things, or criticizing something just for the social effect
Me too. I couldn't be a happier hacker! I work for a truly great company. And not only that, our products are designed to be nothing but hands-on, so its not even funny ...
(i'm thinking less general-purpose computing purchase, and i think you are thinking more
yeah, so i thought 6Megs was a typo at first, but then i considered the mere possibility that they may just have spec'ed their RAM to their direct process requirements, 'embedded system' style.
and, i still don't see why not... though your point about RAM being available in sizes less than 64 megs is valid, i've seen 8meg dimm's for 2ghz Pentium systems, cheap, all over the place. remember, this is new zealand we're talking about, not fry's, burbank. they want something easily replaceable, locally.
maybe then the question would be 'where did the other 2megs go', and that might answer your videocard situation. plenty of 2ghz Pentium mobo's do video sharing...
i know it doesn't make 'sense'. but, on the other hand, i don't see why not. why buy so much ram if you've determined that you don't really have to for your specific application? i've seen tons of systems designed, and put into exceptional use, that way
but hey, it could be a typo. 6gigs would 'make more sense', I suppose...
If you've got renderman set up to render to disk, and your disk arrays are pretty fast, I don't see any reason why these dedicated render machines shouldn't have only 6 megabytes of RAM per CPU.
okay, it doesn't make a -ton- of sense to render direct to disk, but maybe it can be done and not require so much RAM?
I saw the Motorola Linux phone at CeBIT, and I thought the same thing until I saw video's and TV shows being played on it ... I'd quite happily carry around a high-definition capable player in my pocket, if it doubles as a cell phone, media player, and PDA.
... and btw, the Mot phone ws -superb- ... soon as its available in my market, I'll get one.
Seems thats the direction its going
the IDE disks need to be modified, somehow, to work on the PS2...
some ps2 hacker please correct me, but other than that, I think it would be pretty easy to put together a free linuxPS2 kit, now with xRhino about?
Why collect them? It seems so redundant.
Better to just play whats around and available, and not be encumbered by crap.
is give and take:
give linux hardware, and it will run on it.
yeah, you just can't go ooo-eee-ooooh without thinking of Tom.
... the only real items of note were the pocket, personal media players. And the really, really interesting ones were the ultra-cheap, ultra-trendy, well designed movie players, out on the periphery edges of the sprawling metropolis...
Apple, with the iPod, still have a lot of swing left in the market. They broke things wide open with iPod.
They can keep doing that. They do keep doing that. As long as they do keep doing that, they'll survive, in some form or another, as a company.
Of course, if BlueTooth fails, we'll be contending with Motorola vs. Apple in the portable media player space, and subsequently portable computing-device, soon enough.
The much-coveted Motorola linux phone, which strangely enough, did not have its own fancy display attachment, but was only available for demo by request was playing Pink, pretty darn well... I'd happily throw away my TV and watch all trash media on that thing. It is, practically, an "OSX in your pocket".
Apple just need to keep making good computers. They do make good computers, even if other people do as well.
... don't get me wrong, i wanted to be in LA because it was a massive city. but ... after 15 years ... and very many other massive cities well-visited in the world with LA as a base, i decided that country-life, wherever you find it in the world, is healthier.
you know, just my personal experience. its not an absolute or anything, just a post on a message board somewhere in the universe.
the other book you would read to get this cheap joke would be "G.E.B", or "Goedel, Escher and Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid", which is another treatise, very well worth reading, on the subject of infinity.
...
strictly crapper reading though. try not to take it too seriously, is my 'review'
Here, also.
http://www.ampfea.org/files
Ssssshhhh!!!! ;)
... from the sprawling metropolis known as "LA" to a quiet, old, relatively bustling, small country German town.
Best thing ever. Great experience. Massive out of control Cities are a crime!
(Of course, I work for one of the coolest companies in the world too, so that might have something to do with my glee...)
If you can, get out of the city. At least for some portion of your life.
its 2004, and we're seeing UFO's ... on MARS!!
:P}
cool.
dude, coming from where i am right now, spending time in a place called woking in order to steal a martian war machine would be a -grand- weekend.
i'd probably have a wicked after-bite afterwards though, from walking awound saying 'thats woking' at everything cool i thought i liked
... whatever. Big fat whatever.
... thus hastening the death of PocketPC forever. (Amen.)
Apple need only respond to the 'death' of their cult-item iProduct, with the release of another one:
The Apple PDA(*).
(*- When Apple make a PDA - again - its going to fucking rock... **-Why will PPC fail? Fuck, who cares? Its Windows, for crying out loud. Who wants Windows in a palmtop any more? What do you think PalmOS was?)
you're right. world annihilation as a result of something creepy escaping from Evil American Laboratories is a poor excuse to grab your girl, a bag of weed, and head to a motel for the weekend.
...
who needs an excuse. i'd do that anyway, if i had a girlfriend
i don't see whats so funny about that line? i've thought it (and been wrong) many times, sitting down at SGI boxen ...
oh man, the woking war machine is awesome ...
... except me, and the parties i would throw in its honor, every friday night, in my underground bunker ...
i totally want to steal it. how cool would that be! its just -gone- one day, and nobody knows where it is
damn, i want one.
its true, being mod'ed as flamebait probably means i was being flamebait'y.
but it could also mean that i've made a point that nobody likes to think about.
fuck, if they remake blade runner i'm outta here, and i'm taking my secret clique of androids with me ...