Isn't it just a tad ironic that these people can do things with amigas and peecees that no sane person would ever require of them, but can't make a web page that validates
Later my retarded brain became so sophisticated that I bought the boxed distros for the accompanying documentation to see which distro cares more about their customer's fullblown retarded brains.
Which distribution cares the most... now, let's see...
Redhat - You've paid for the OS, now pay for the upgrades. Then we'll love ya.
Storm - We love you so much we'd die for you. Oh, wait. We did.
Debian - If you promise to be good and not use any of that... that... other software it's ok. We give you all you need
Slackware - We'd like you to meet a good friend of ours, Mr Gcc. You two will get to know each other really well, we're sure
Was I the only one thinking that the name 'Gamma Flux' sounded stupid and cheezy until i realized that it's actually and appropriate name for a project dealing with radioactive radiation?
I can't find the original site I got that info off of, but here is a paragraph from www.thegia.com:
Tried to find this, but couldn't. How hard is it to implement a search engine on your own site? Not very, I think.
Entire floors are filled with artists -- each with the greatest rendering weapon known to man, a Silicon Graphics Octane.
Apparently, not everyone knows the distinction between modelling and rendering. At least, that's how I interpret it. Since each artist has his/her own machine, this is about the workstation that the individual artist uses to make the models on. The actual rendering (that is, making the images from the models with all effects added) is probably done on Sun or Linux boxes situated elsewhere. As described earlier with the Onyxes, the Octanes aren't very good for actual rendering, but they're excellent for modelling, since they have 3D cards that blows pretty much everythings else out of the way. Not very good for beowulf clusters, tho...
--
In the credits for "A Bugs Life" I noticed that Pixar uses Sun Microsystems for rendering the final theatre quality version, however they use SGI workstations. I would imagine that Squaresoft has a similar setup. Pixar probably has several fully loaded Sun Enterprise 10000 machines that do their rendering.
Someone mentioned that he thought the Final Fantasy people used Onyxes, but that'd really surprise me, since the Onyxes usually are used for realtime graphics things, and not rendering. It would seem kinda pointless to put a really high-end graphics system in a box that's gonna do cpu-intensive things only. Unless, of course these boxes can use some of their graphics hardware for rendering nonrealtime stuff as well. You'd probably want to have one Onyx to see quick previews without having to push it through your rendering farm, but that won't be production-level quality. --
The nice thing about the mismatch is it really highlights the power of the alpha when fed properly optimised executables.
For more info about why a good compiler is a lot more critical to RISC-machines, read <A HREF="http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?Articl eID=RWT021300000000&PageNum=1">this</A> piece about CISC/RISC architectures.
It seems to me that a multi-processor athalon would be the way to go.
...and where were you planning to buy that?
<i>The reality of precompiled binaries means that there is a real benefit in sticking with a x86 compatible architecture.</i>
Not everyone runs debian/redhat/others with precompiles. Furthermore, some apps really benefit from being compiled at the user's preferences, so that one can optimize for that specific machine and to specific preferences.
<i>I guess for more specialized applications where either only a small set of programs need be run or custom programs need be run (i.e. scientific applications) the alpha would be ideal. </i>
What do you think it's the reason people run those boxes as their primary computers? The software available? Not likely. What was only available for the Amiga has long since been ported or replaced on other platforms. The OS? A very limited single-user OS holding up to Linux or BeOS? I don't think so. The hardware? You gotta be kidding me, even with a powerPC-addon, any pc still laughs at the Amiga. Could it possibly be... the community, then? Consider a community where people actually are more interested in getting things to work and doing cool stuff instead of screaming "Bill Gates can su*k my di*k" all the time (even though the ami-community has its fair share of those as well). Posting this here might be considered as swearing in church, but as far as I've had anything to do with any of the two communities, the Linux-jyhad still has something to learn from the ami-fanatics.
(Note that I don't take any sides here, as I don't use either Linux or Amiga as my primary OS)
The IBM people ran the POV-RAY as a benchmark for their cluster.
With all due respect to the POV-RAY developers, I gotta say that there's still quite a long way until it's up there with the "big boys" (that is, SoftImage, TrueSpace, Maya and LightWave). First of all, POV doesn't have any modeller that is anything as good as those, and it also lacks quite a lot when it comes to shading, especially special effects, like particle systems and such.
I've never used Sketch or KIllustrator, only Maya, and comparing them is, IMHO, pointless. There are a ton of features of Maya that would be irrelevant to Sketch and vice versa. Examples: what would you do with assigning gravity, magnetism or wind to objects in a vector drawing package.
Yes, it's just the renderer, and yes, that's a big deal because the machines that is used for the content-creation are most likely SGI, Intergraph or the like, and Linux doesn't have support for that kind of hardware anyway. At least, not yet. With this software, Content creators can use one machine with $OPERATING_SYSTEM on it and several hundred (assuming he can afford) machines running Linux doing the actual rendering, which is the time-consuming and expensive part of 3D-creation. Throw out the SGI Onyx, replace it with 200 Athlons running Linux, and you have an open, more flexible, and quite possibly cheaper and faster (i won't speculate) rendering engine.
Why does it seem like every time a commercial piece of software is released for GNU/Linux, it's for "RedHat 6.0 on Intel cpus". I know we had a similar discussion here when codewarrior was first released, but IMHO, it's quite important not to set Linux==RedHat. When people start asking where Linux 6.0 is available, things are getting out of hand.
Is there actually anything about RedHat that makes it possible (except the rpms, which can be converted to.tgz or whatever) that makes is possible, or even worthwhile to make it distribution-specific?? (Note: this is not flaming, I ask this because I don't know)
CmdrTaco's post being moderated as troll... Now THAT's something you don't see every day...:)
ACtually, to be serious, the Jesse Berst comparison might not be that far off. I mean, a certain group of people actually listen to what Jesse Berst has to say, and they are likely to see the/.-community as BS, and lots of people listen to CmdrTaco (well... some people anyway:) and well.. you get the picture. It's the exact same thing, just opposite.
It's really too bad that so few of these are free as in speech. If they were truly open-source, we could possibly make the transition to the OSS world a little more smooth for lots of people, in that people could use, say StarOffice on other platforms and then eventually switch the "underlying" system (that is, the OS and everything that comes with it) to GNU/Linux when they're comfortable with that. Also, having people use SOME opensource products would be better that using exclusively proprietary apps, if they're not quite ready to take the complete step yet.
(speaking of beer, check out www.borg.no for the homepages of Borg Breweries in Norway. No english info, unfortunately:)
Why limit this to IRC? Think of all the fun you can have if you eam it up with a plausible speech-synthesis system. Next time a telemarketer called, you'd have him talking for hours, while watching a movie or something. Not to mention all the daily chitchat-conversations you could get out of. "Yes, mother, I AM going to class. Every day. No, I don't eat too much junk food." Most people only hear what they want to anyway.
Could someone please take a time out in the beating-each-other-to-death-with-a-pair-of-socks discussion about odd and even numbers and explain to an ignorant european what Groundhog Day is all about?? Also, some info on what a Groundhog is, would be appreciated. (Tried groundhog.com, but all they want is to sell me stuff:-/)
Oh, you kids today have it so good... I'll tell you one thing, young man, when I was young we didn't have all this fancy-schmancy games with, like, graphics and surround sound and all these silly effects. We had NETHACK, that's what we had, and I'll tell you one more thing, we LIKED it, and we didn't want anything more, that's for sure. I mean, who decided that UNIX should have games, anywyay? Back in the old days, all a SysAdmin would ever want was a LART, rm, and the occasional luser and that's all we needed to have good, clean, wholesome fun.
Am I the only one thinking (after having read the release notes) that the mozilla team might benefit from focusing slightly differently? I mean, they make a browser with an integrated editor and mail/news functionality, but with stop and back-buttons that quote:"fails intermittently"??
Can anyone point in the direction of rules to international vs. US patent rules? Could I go to the patent number in Norway (where I live) and patent this brilliant new technology that makes people able to buy stuff on the net with a single moose-click. (in Norway, mooses (or is that miise?;) are abundant:)
Also, we must not forget that there are always more than one way to do something. If someone patents a protocol to transfer stuff from a computer to another, well... we'll make a program that does the Exact Same Thing(tm) in a slightly different way AND make it opensource as well, rendering the proprietary one practically useless. (well, not useless, but who would want to pay to use a proprietary thing when they could have something truly free?)
Finally, speaking of this patent-mess, I was wondering if someone could TAKE a technology that was already opensource and close it with a patent? Example: I take the way Linux handles memory and patent it, forcing Mr.Torvalds to come up with something new??
Let me see... reminds me of... TurboLinux... yeah, that's it. I guess it would probably have to be downloadable from the web, or I know of about a million RedHat-users who'd be pretty annoyed with having to buy RedHat all over again just to get this tool. This also mean that it would be downloadable to everybody (well duh...:), but if RedHat's the only one distributing it would only be distributed in rpm (again... duh...) and I can think of quite a few distros that don't like that too much. (This would be a perfect time to start a distribution war. Luckily, it would be an even more perfect time not to.;)
It says that RedHat will be the first to licence and distribute the tech, but does that mean that they're the ONLY one who will? Call me paranoid, but I'm getting images of even greater differences between distributions and possibly what is known as 'unfair advantages' here. I guess the part about 'open standards and community source technologies' hints towards open source, but as we all know, big companies *cough*SUN*cough* doesn't nessecarily (sp?) mean the same when they say open source as the rest of us do.
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Isn't it just a tad ironic that these people can do things with amigas and peecees that no sane person would ever require of them, but can't make a web page that validates
I got just so much more done back in the days when i used MS-DOS than with this fancy-schmancy linux-thingy.
Later my retarded brain became so sophisticated that I bought the boxed distros for the accompanying documentation to see which distro cares more about their customer's fullblown retarded brains.
Which distribution cares the most... now, let's see...
--
Was I the only one thinking that the name 'Gamma Flux' sounded stupid and cheezy until i realized that it's actually and appropriate name for a project dealing with radioactive radiation?
--
Reminds me of an advertisment the danish beer brand Tuborg once had: When does Tuborg taste best?
-Always.
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I can't find the original site I got that info off of, but here is a paragraph from www.thegia.com:
Tried to find this, but couldn't. How hard is it to implement a search engine on your own site? Not very, I think.
Entire floors are filled with artists -- each with the greatest rendering weapon known to man, a Silicon Graphics Octane.
Apparently, not everyone knows the distinction between modelling and rendering. At least, that's how I interpret it. Since each artist has his/her own machine, this is about the workstation that the individual artist uses to make the models on. The actual rendering (that is, making the images from the models with all effects added) is probably done on Sun or Linux boxes situated elsewhere. As described earlier with the Onyxes, the Octanes aren't very good for actual rendering, but they're excellent for modelling, since they have 3D cards that blows pretty much everythings else out of the way. Not very good for beowulf clusters, tho...
--
In the credits for "A Bugs Life" I noticed that Pixar uses Sun Microsystems for rendering the final theatre quality version, however they use SGI workstations. I would imagine that Squaresoft has a similar setup. Pixar probably has several fully loaded Sun Enterprise 10000 machines that do their rendering.
.co m/smi/Press/sunflash/9812/sunflash.981215.2.html for more info. .com/smi/Press/sunflash/1999-08/sunflash.990810.2. html
You would think so, but I guess they got a better deal on E4000 servers, as they used 100 of them for A Bug's Life. See http://www.sun
Since then, they've got a new one, tho. 120 Enterprise 4500s, which are $223,000 EACH.... http://www. sun
Someone mentioned that he thought the Final Fantasy people used Onyxes, but that'd really surprise me, since the Onyxes usually are used for realtime graphics things, and not rendering. It would seem kinda pointless to put a really high-end graphics system in a box that's gonna do cpu-intensive things only. Unless, of course these boxes can use some of their graphics hardware for rendering nonrealtime stuff as well. You'd probably want to have one Onyx to see quick previews without having to push it through your rendering farm, but that won't be production-level quality.
--
The nice thing about the mismatch is it really highlights the power of the alpha when fed properly optimised executables.
l eID=RWT021300000000&PageNum=1">this</A> piece about CISC/RISC architectures.
For more info about why a good compiler is a lot more critical to RISC-machines, read <A HREF="http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?Artic
It seems to me that a multi-processor athalon would be the way to go.
:)
...and where were you planning to buy that?
<i>The reality of precompiled binaries means that there is a real benefit in sticking with a x86 compatible architecture.</i>
Not everyone runs debian/redhat/others with precompiles.
Furthermore, some apps really benefit from being compiled at the user's preferences, so that one can optimize for that specific machine and to specific preferences.
<i>I guess for more specialized applications where either only a small set of programs need be run or custom programs need be run (i.e. scientific applications) the alpha would be ideal. </i>
Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
(sorry... couldn't help myself
What do you think it's the reason people run those boxes as their primary computers? The software available? Not likely. What was only available for the Amiga has long since been ported or replaced on other platforms. The OS? A very limited single-user OS holding up to Linux or BeOS? I don't think so. The hardware? You gotta be kidding me, even with a powerPC-addon, any pc still laughs at the Amiga.
Could it possibly be... the community, then? Consider a community where people actually are more interested in getting things to work and doing cool stuff instead of screaming "Bill Gates can su*k my di*k" all the time (even though the ami-community has its fair share of those as well). Posting this here might be considered as swearing in church, but as far as I've had anything to do with any of the two communities, the Linux-jyhad still has something to learn from the ami-fanatics.
(Note that I don't take any sides here, as I don't use either Linux or Amiga as my primary OS)
The IBM people ran the POV-RAY as a benchmark for their cluster.
With all due respect to the POV-RAY developers, I gotta say that there's still quite a long way until it's up there with the "big boys" (that is, SoftImage, TrueSpace, Maya and LightWave). First of all, POV doesn't have any modeller that is anything as good as those, and it also lacks quite a lot when it comes to shading, especially special effects, like particle systems and such.
I've never used Sketch or KIllustrator, only Maya, and comparing them is, IMHO, pointless. There are a ton of features of Maya that would be irrelevant to Sketch and vice versa. Examples: what would you do with assigning gravity, magnetism or wind to objects in a vector drawing package.
Yes, it's just the renderer, and yes, that's a big deal because the machines that is used for the content-creation are most likely SGI, Intergraph or the like, and Linux doesn't have support for that kind of hardware anyway. At least, not yet. With this software, Content creators can use one machine with $OPERATING_SYSTEM on it and several hundred (assuming he can afford) machines running Linux doing the actual rendering, which is the time-consuming and expensive part of 3D-creation. Throw out the SGI Onyx, replace it with 200 Athlons running Linux, and you have an open, more flexible, and quite possibly cheaper and faster (i won't speculate) rendering engine.
(fundamentalist-mode=ON)
.tgz or whatever) that makes is possible, or even worthwhile to make it distribution-specific?? (Note: this is not flaming, I ask this because I don't know)
Why does it seem like every time a commercial piece of software is released for GNU/Linux, it's for "RedHat 6.0 on Intel cpus". I know we had a similar discussion here when codewarrior was first released, but IMHO, it's quite important not to set Linux==RedHat. When people start asking where Linux 6.0 is available, things are getting out of hand.
Is there actually anything about RedHat that makes it possible (except the rpms, which can be converted to
Am I the only one unable to reach the link?
CmdrTaco's post being moderated as troll... Now THAT's something you don't see every day... :)
/.-community as BS, and lots of people listen to CmdrTaco (well... some people anyway :) and well.. you get the picture. It's the exact same thing, just opposite.
ACtually, to be serious, the Jesse Berst comparison might not be that far off. I mean, a certain group of people actually listen to what Jesse Berst has to say, and they are likely to see the
It's really too bad that so few of these are free as in speech. If they were truly open-source, we could possibly make the transition to the OSS world a little more smooth for lots of people, in that people could use, say StarOffice on other platforms and then eventually switch the "underlying" system (that is, the OS and everything that comes with it) to GNU/Linux when they're comfortable with that. Also, having people use SOME opensource products would be better that using exclusively proprietary apps, if they're not quite ready to take the complete step yet.
:)
(speaking of beer, check out www.borg.no for the homepages of Borg Breweries in Norway. No english info, unfortunately
Why limit this to IRC? Think of all the fun you can have if you eam it up with a plausible speech-synthesis system. Next time a telemarketer called, you'd have him talking for hours, while watching a movie or something. Not to mention all the daily chitchat-conversations you could get out of. "Yes, mother, I AM going to class. Every day. No, I don't eat too much junk food." Most people only hear what they want to anyway.
Could someone please take a time out in the beating-each-other-to-death-with-a-pair-of-socks discussion about odd and even numbers and explain to an ignorant european what Groundhog Day is all about?? Also, some info on what a Groundhog is, would be appreciated. (Tried groundhog.com, but all they want is to sell me stuff :-/)
Oh, you kids today have it so good... I'll tell you one thing, young man, when I was young we didn't have all this fancy-schmancy games with, like, graphics and surround sound and all these silly effects. We had NETHACK, that's what we had, and I'll tell you one more thing, we LIKED it, and we didn't want anything more, that's for sure.
I mean, who decided that UNIX should have games, anywyay? Back in the old days, all a SysAdmin would ever want was a LART, rm, and the occasional luser and that's all we needed to have good, clean, wholesome fun.
*grumble*mumble*
oh...my back's killing me...
*mumble*
Am I the only one thinking (after having read the release notes) that the mozilla team might benefit from focusing slightly differently? I mean, they make a browser with an integrated editor and mail/news functionality, but with stop and back-buttons that quote:"fails intermittently"??
Can anyone point in the direction of rules to international vs. US patent rules? Could I go to the patent number in Norway (where I live) and patent this brilliant new technology that makes people able to buy stuff on the net with a single moose-click. (in Norway, mooses (or is that miise?;) are abundant :)
Also, we must not forget that there are always more than one way to do something. If someone patents a protocol to transfer stuff from a computer to another, well... we'll make a program that does the Exact Same Thing(tm) in a slightly different way AND make it opensource as well, rendering the proprietary one practically useless. (well, not useless, but who would want to pay to use a proprietary thing when they could have something truly free?)
Finally, speaking of this patent-mess, I was wondering if someone could TAKE a technology that was already opensource and close it with a patent? Example: I take the way Linux handles memory and patent it, forcing Mr.Torvalds to come up with something new??
Let me see... reminds me of... TurboLinux... yeah, that's it. ;)
I guess it would probably have to be downloadable from the web, or I know of about a million RedHat-users who'd be pretty annoyed with having to buy RedHat all over again just to get this tool. This also mean that it would be downloadable to everybody (well duh...:), but if RedHat's the only one distributing it would only be distributed in rpm (again... duh...) and I can think of quite a few distros that don't like that too much.
(This would be a perfect time to start a distribution war. Luckily, it would be an even more perfect time not to.
It says that RedHat will be the first to licence and distribute the tech, but does that mean that they're the ONLY one who will? Call me paranoid, but I'm getting images of even greater differences between distributions and possibly what is known as 'unfair advantages' here.
I guess the part about 'open standards and community source technologies' hints towards open source, but as we all know, big companies *cough*SUN*cough* doesn't nessecarily (sp?) mean the same when they say open source as the rest of us do.
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