The cray you speak of was used both for ICE, In Circut Emulation, simulation at the hardware level, and also for building system 7.0, through 7.1, as well as Quicktime.
They retired it and started using a cluster for System 7.5, i.e Protype 9000s ( to be released as 9500s )
I actually have had the provilege of working with a bemoth such as this.
One thing they use it for is, in molecular biology, is doing a Smith-Waterman search. i.e. they use it to match a given sequence of DNA to the known sqequenced DNA databases. When you use something of this power, to search a large database, you get results quickly.
Umm. I have a few texts from the late 1800s, and they are absolutly completely worse. Bourbaki's is the abstraction. ( I have their volume on abstract algebra, that I referred to while I was taking that graduate level course. Theirs is a terse work, much more accurate, and well though out. ) A few Springer-Verlag texts are worse also.
Funny, this is EXACTLY what the head of the industry association for Flash memory said at their trade show a few months ago. You...are...not...perhaps...him?
Block allocation? Like track devices in AmigaDOS? What a GREAT FRIGGIN IDEA! Brilliant actually. Ill just hack up the driver...er...better start from sratch on that one. The trick u suggest is to delay writes until a full block can be written, or an arbitrary part. NetWare borrowed it from VMS, XP borrowed it from NT, borrowed it from NetWare. Still dont know where AmigaDOS got it.
I have a old Dell 8200. I have two usb slots, and I have a 4GB USB with a BartPE XP for USB build on it, and a 16GB USB with about 6 GBs of Applications. I let it run that way for about a month, and then took the damn drive out. The internet cache is in a ram disk, so not a lot of small files.
It runs now for somewhere between 4 hours and 6 hours at reduced power. good enough for the trip to work, and the trip home.
Although I have asked to be on their do not call list, BEFORE the first call( I got the scam post card), I have recieved three calls. The prerecorded messages point to the same Florida/Pennsulvania dirt bags. The FCC has done nothing after repeated complaints.
The internet 3.0 has been laucned, superceding both the internet 1.0, as well as !The!Internet!Public!Beta, and the Internet 2.0. We are taking our time, inching along with this one, as we are completely reinventing the wheel on this one, ( 18 Wheeler, +steering wheel, +3rd wheel comes to an even x14 ( Thats Hexidecimal for 20 )).
Just another private network only for use in ivory towers. Nothing for us serfs....
( Isnt there some long-beard inventing Internet 4.0? )
Yea, I read Apples, Read Microsofts( Yech! ), had a hand in Macromedia's, Did a bunch of stuff on Macromedia's Apps... I am kinda a seasoned pro.
Apples was very, very good, but not perfect. (Apple would be good to follow their own guidelines ). ( and I completely disagree...Apples are NOT usefull for Mac OS X, in fact interms of consistancy, it be comes a problem )( also its not OS X Dock its a cheap plastic NeXT doc tyvm ).
"Simple rule: keep the UI consistent with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system." - This is very good, but I would add:
"Keep the UI consistant with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system, except to fix glaring errors, or provide some improvement with restraint."
I did my UI work, and was suprised that it got questioned. I had compelling reasons for my choices, and nothing from my specs was altered.
I would say its a tossup to, because the realism is a give-and-take from the speed. No realtime ray tracing there, but its more than detail. Call it grokking, looking at the whole picture's realsim, the color, depth of field, camera tricks, detail. It was fun grabbing all the shots, and slideshowing through them and not looking at the source, until I had analysed the pictures. Most of it is quite striking, and I cant wait to get my hands on Crysis now. I have a box running both XP DX9, XP DX10, and vista DX10, but since I have an nVidia GPU, I am having issues with the vista drivers still....
Thats LARGE FANS. There are probibly about 3 fans per actual GPU. One on the card, one on the box, and one on the Powersupply/etc...
You could just as easily bathe the thing in cooling oil. Although I am not a fan of water cooling, I can't see it as being any more unreliable than fans, done well, water cooling will outlast the machine.
I dont see that at all. There is at least in the second shot a increable diffrence in the mid-foregroud detail. The second shot shows it off the best, and the backround is really 3D looking, wheras, the other shots look like its a bollywood set. Im loading and stripping (vlite) Vista next weekend, so Ill have a look at DX10, as well as hacking DX10 to work under vista.
Hey! I found a new repeatable calculation error! Yes! Office 2003/Excel 2003, SP2!
Add vertically 2047-2048=-1 Nice... Now horiziontally 2047-2048=0 ERROR
Microsoft Office 2003 Calculation ERROR! Find the nearest trash can. and, just to save microsoft money, its NOT SUPPORTED. ( Please send them $149 to FIX THE ERROR! ). Nice business model..., Again, it proves my point.
Microsoft: First Class Marketing, First Class Business, First Class engneering, that never sees the light of day, LAST CLASS SUPPORT.
No wonder medical expenses keep going up. I think your accounting department would be overjoyed to see the errors crop up, extra padding in budgest, extra padding in billing. They must do all the payroll by hand.
Open Office is just the first choice, there are *many* other offerings both free and for a slight cost that would be able to do simple addition.
have you ever looked on the web for Excel Calculation errors?
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,990,000 for excel calculation errors. (0.23 seconds)
p.s. look at the Math example. its REAL. The OWNERS want the switch, i.e. they want a spread sheet that can actually do things like.. umm.. addition?
The GAIN in productivity from not having to check all the work, and double check all the totals, will be enormous. The OWNERS prime concern is NOT having mistakes get to the customer.
Although Microsoft has techincal talent, the business talent runs the show, charges the money...etc. The technical talent tries hard, releases poor products...etc...etc.
The real genuis and sucesss of microsoft is that the Marketing department is able to sell junk, and have the business talent to back it up. Too bad the technical talent again takes a back seat. ( They are very talented, they just dont get a chance to show it )
For instance: Excel 2003, latest update: ( Oh I didnt know they now longer supported it:( Nice business decision there..)
Math in the real world: 285,355.80+14,135.80=299,490.80 Math in Redmond Washington: 285,355.80+14,135.80=305,990.80 ( inflation of 10,600.00. ).
So, on a multi-million dollar contract bid, I now have a purhcase order for hard disks for the entire company, as well as a DVD burner to burn ISOs of open office. ( The sales guy at the local computer store quoted us the list price for Office Upgrades...)
Excellent. I did just that, but I paired them all up with like drives. So, altough I have 18 Drives, I only have about 1.5TB of space, because of the mirrors. some in striped sets of four, six and eight. Raid lvl 10, so the stripes are mirrored. Have had two drives fail, but I think it took a few hours to get back to full efficency... I dont know. I just took it down, replaced the drives, and brough it back up, and had it rebuild.
Its in an old Thermatake box with a 450w power supply.
Try using only the largest 20 or so, and look into the promise cards. I got 4 promise cards for $6/per::))
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The quote is from Genesis. But otherwise OFF TOPIC. ( very interesting links ). Power Down Troll.
The cray you speak of was used both for ICE, In Circut Emulation, simulation at the hardware level, and also for building system 7.0, through 7.1, as well as Quicktime.
They retired it and started using a cluster for System 7.5, i.e Protype 9000s ( to be released as 9500s )
I actually have had the provilege of working with a bemoth such as this.
One thing they use it for is, in molecular biology, is doing a Smith-Waterman search. i.e. they use it to match a given sequence of DNA to the known sqequenced DNA databases. When you use something of this power, to search a large database, you get results quickly.
say it...
SAY IT!
SAY IT!
Can you imageine a Beowolf Cluster of these? Wait... Its a cluster, but isnt Beowolf made from ...
STONE SOUP? i.e. commodity hardware?
Umm. I have a few texts from the late 1800s, and they are absolutly completely worse. Bourbaki's is the abstraction. ( I have their volume on abstract algebra, that I referred to while I was taking that graduate level course. Theirs is a terse work, much more accurate, and well though out. ) A few Springer-Verlag texts are worse also.
MOD PARENT +1 Informative.
Funny, this is EXACTLY what the head of the industry association for Flash memory said at their trade show a few months ago. You...are...not...perhaps...him?
Block allocation? Like track devices in AmigaDOS? What a GREAT FRIGGIN IDEA! Brilliant actually. Ill just hack up the driver...er...better start from sratch on that one. The trick u suggest is to delay writes until a full block can be written, or an arbitrary part. NetWare borrowed it from VMS, XP borrowed it from NT, borrowed it from NetWare. Still dont know where AmigaDOS got it.
I have a old Dell 8200. I have two usb slots, and I have a 4GB USB with a BartPE XP for USB build on it, and a 16GB USB with about 6 GBs of Applications. I let it run that way for about a month, and then took the damn drive out. The internet cache is in a ram disk, so not a lot of small files.
It runs now for somewhere between 4 hours and 6 hours at reduced power. good enough for the trip to work, and the trip home.
You have the gift of some various and sickening psychological problems. Get help immediatly.
Mod parent +1, really.
Brilliant. If you look 25 years into the future, just look 50 years into the past to see the amount of change.
I would add an Digital Optical link, but the Ethernet is sufficent. Imagine finding a device from years ago with a BNC connector. What would you do?
If you found a stack of punch cards, you could line them up, and OCR the data.
Although I have asked to be on their do not call list, BEFORE the first call( I got the scam post card), I have recieved three calls. The prerecorded messages point to the same Florida/Pennsulvania dirt bags. The FCC has done nothing after repeated complaints.
The internet 3.0 has been laucned, superceding both the internet 1.0, as well as !The!Internet!Public!Beta, and the Internet 2.0. We are taking our time, inching along with this one, as we are completely reinventing the wheel on this one, ( 18 Wheeler, +steering wheel, +3rd wheel comes to an even x14 ( Thats Hexidecimal for 20 )).
Just another private network only for use in ivory towers. Nothing for us serfs....
( Isnt there some long-beard inventing Internet 4.0? )
Best to look at Microsoft's UI evolution as the way NOT to do it. This is the process that gave us the abhorrent Word 6.0!
The point is ANY simple metric, is going to run afoul of making it better. Novices are the best testing grounds.
Yea, I read Apples, Read Microsofts( Yech! ), had a hand in Macromedia's, Did a bunch of stuff on Macromedia's Apps... I am kinda a seasoned pro.
Apples was very, very good, but not perfect. (Apple would be good to follow their own guidelines ). ( and I completely disagree...Apples are NOT usefull for Mac OS X, in fact interms of consistancy, it be comes a problem )( also its not OS X Dock its a cheap plastic NeXT doc tyvm ).
"Simple rule: keep the UI consistent with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system." - This is very good, but I would add:
"Keep the UI consistant with the interfaces of the other applications that run on that system, except to fix glaring errors, or provide some improvement with restraint."
I did my UI work, and was suprised that it got questioned. I had compelling reasons for my choices, and nothing from my specs was altered.
I would say its a tossup to, because the realism is a give-and-take from the speed. No realtime ray tracing there, but its more than detail. Call it grokking, looking at the whole picture's realsim, the color, depth of field, camera tricks, detail. It was fun grabbing all the shots, and slideshowing through them and not looking at the source, until I had analysed the pictures. Most of it is quite striking, and I cant wait to get my hands on Crysis now. I have a box running both XP DX9, XP DX10, and vista DX10, but since I have an nVidia GPU, I am having issues with the vista drivers still....
Thats LARGE FANS. There are probibly about 3 fans per actual GPU. One on the card, one on the box, and one on the Powersupply/etc...
You could just as easily bathe the thing in cooling oil. Although I am not a fan of water cooling, I can't see it as being any more unreliable than fans, done well, water cooling will outlast the machine.
What an ICREADBLE BOX. 15 fans on the front and sides. It must sound like a 747/MacProG5. Nice GPUs though...
Been threre done that. Volcano beans, fresh ground in a expresso machine.
I dont see that at all. There is at least in the second shot a increable diffrence in the mid-foregroud detail. The second shot shows it off the best, and the backround is really 3D looking, wheras, the other shots look like its a bollywood set. Im loading and stripping (vlite) Vista next weekend, so Ill have a look at DX10, as well as hacking DX10 to work under vista.
Isn't it a beowulf cluster already? It was FREE as in beer...( Probibly gave them every one they had! ) Now they can run Folding@home!
Hey! I found a new repeatable calculation error! Yes! Office 2003/Excel 2003, SP2!
Add vertically 2047-2048=-1 Nice...
Now horiziontally 2047-2048=0 ERROR
Microsoft Office 2003 Calculation ERROR!
Find the nearest trash can.
and, just to save microsoft money, its NOT SUPPORTED. ( Please send them $149 to FIX THE ERROR! ). Nice business model..., Again, it proves my point.
Microsoft: First Class Marketing, First Class Business, First Class engneering, that never sees the light of day, LAST CLASS SUPPORT.
No wonder medical expenses keep going up. I think your accounting department would be overjoyed to see the errors crop up, extra padding in budgest, extra padding in billing. They must do all the payroll by hand.
Open Office is just the first choice, there are *many* other offerings both free and for a slight cost that would be able to do simple addition.
have you ever looked on the web for Excel Calculation errors?
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,990,000 for excel calculation errors. (0.23 seconds)
p.s. look at the Math example. its REAL.
The OWNERS want the switch, i.e. they want a spread sheet that can actually do things like.. umm.. addition?
The GAIN in productivity from not having to check all the work, and double check all the totals, will be enormous. The OWNERS prime concern is NOT having mistakes get to the customer.
Although Microsoft has techincal talent, the business talent runs the show, charges the money...etc. The technical talent tries hard, releases poor products...etc...etc.
The real genuis and sucesss of microsoft is that the Marketing department is able to sell junk, and have the business talent to back it up. Too bad the technical talent again takes a back seat.
( They are very talented, they just dont get a chance to show it )
For instance: Excel 2003, latest update: ( Oh I didnt know they now longer supported it :( Nice business decision there..)
Math in the real world: 285,355.80+14,135.80=299,490.80
Math in Redmond Washington:
285,355.80+14,135.80=305,990.80 ( inflation of 10,600.00. ).
So, on a multi-million dollar contract bid, I now have a purhcase order for hard disks for the entire company, as well as a DVD burner to burn ISOs of open office. ( The sales guy at the local computer store quoted us the list price for Office Upgrades...)
Excellent. I did just that, but I paired them all up with like drives. So, altough I have 18 Drives, I only have about 1.5TB of space, because of the mirrors. some in striped sets of four, six and eight. Raid lvl 10, so the stripes are mirrored. Have had two drives fail, but I think it took a few hours to get back to full efficency... I dont know. I just took it down, replaced the drives, and brough it back up, and had it rebuild.
::))
Its in an old Thermatake box with a 450w power supply.
Try using only the largest 20 or so, and look into the promise cards. I got 4 promise cards for $6/per
All your rootservers all belong to us!
Seriously. whitehouse.com from Microsoft.com
*.ru from *.gov
mail.*.kr frommail.*.com
p0ned!
Oh last one...
unopedia.org from Wikipedia.org!!!
C ja l8r!