The Blender Fund is up around 65K Euro right now... so close, yet still so far! This would be a great time for anyone who was on the fence about donating (wondering if the fund would make it, etc.) to pitch in and help put us over the top."
Of all the stupid things Redhat has bought or funded over the last few years, why can't they step in and front some cash and open up blender. At least blender is useful and the investment to buy it is dirt cheap. Finally the community has pretty much proven that it will actively develop the project. Perhaps this can be part of a Linux's new MM distribution.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? HS
not to mention the cadre upon cadre of available PL/SQL programmers
When SAP/DB was Addabas it was one of the least popular commercial databases, and it run pretty counter to way everyone else it. To be honest aside for the multitude of SQL's there is Postgres and IBM -DB2, there just isn't need for an oddball database that is harder to program for than anything else.
They actually move 12 megs of the ram ON THE DIE ITSELF.
ATI did that for the chip inside the Nintendo gamecube, so that isn't all that impressive. Considering that the top Nvidia and ATI top end GPU's are some of the most complex silicon on the planet this wouldn't that hard for another manufacture to do. 1024 bit buses have been used in supercomputing circles before, this isn't an accomplishment like Tile-based rendering was.
All bitboys has done is made a wider memory bus. They try to make the case in the press release that memory is handicapping gfx performance no gpu. Historically gfx cards have used some of the fastest memory they can get, but the capability to widen the bus is nothing new and not an accomplishment. The graphics card business is cutthroat and widening the memory bus made for better performace than the industry giants would widen it (and have). No matter how fast you can fill you memory and retrieve data from it, you need a GPU that can process the data fast enough so that it isn't just sitting there. What the bitboys have done is relatively easy, not new and if it was such a good idea than NVIDIA would do it first. Instead they only do it when necessary(for instance the N-force needed a wider bus to utilize cheaper system memory to also serve as a frame buffer.)
Somewhere there are some really stupid venture capitalists funding these guys.
this seems awful similar to the Debian Multimedia Distribution [demudi.org] slashdot covered a awhile ago?
But the difference is that Redhat will box it, and support it. This might put Linux in the hands of music professionals who wouldn't consider using anything that isn't well supported. Personally I am not sure if Redhat will pull this off. It is more likely that a sound equipment company or 3rd party will come up with a better Linux dist for these purposes, ie. someone who understands the market better.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himeself could not eat it? HS
Can't wait to see this, I hope that it is headless, and can be controlled by pedals and synths like a Roland box. If small linux boxes can duplicate the power and features of sage sound enquipment, it will make for some cool possibilities.
Late reply here, sorry about that, had to catch some shuteye. I wish you and the rest of your team luck with all your endeavors. And I also hope that we send more probes to Europa, which is the most interesting body in the solar system IMO.
very little (if any) of the life on Mars findings have been proven or disproven. Very true, although I seem to remember the first major martian bacteria in a meteorite annnouncement a few years has widely been panned as "sloppy science." I was just making the point that these announcements aren't really that important, and are generally just a media field day.
Well, maybe if the general public keeps eating these Mars stories up, they will demand greater funding for NASA and more Mars missions.
Seems like their is a Major life on mars discovery every few months. Most of the time they are disproven within a couple of weeks. Take the wait and see approach and see if this "discovery" holds up to peer review.
Science press releases are usually half bs.. A good way to get research funding.
First, thank you Gogo for the link, I have been wanting to know what was in SP3 all week. Second, to be fair microsoft has writers and secretaries and corporate accounts to cater too. Alas the SP3 update is a major update, NT service packs are almost as important as new OS's to enterprise customers. Whereas second decimal point Kernel releases are frequent. Changelogs are written by Kernel developers that can better spend time kernel hacking than making organized concise changelogs. All things considered Marcelo has done a good job compiling this log, if you want more information on any change just do a search for it or the developer who contributed it in the Kernel mailing list.
15-20cm is more than you think. Considering that the world population (and corresponding heat generation) Has more that quintupled in the last fifty years and is going to double in the next 30 we might have some problems. 15-20cm in a city with a high water table wil destroy sewer systems, contaminate fresh water aquifers, soften and weaken building foundations, further erode beaches, and generally require expensive engineering solutions to alleviate problems.
Global warming won't kill us, but it is a royal pain in the ass.
Very true, I don't play video games at all, no consoles in my apartment. Hence, I usually have a girlfriend.
Although right after my/.karma topped out, my girlfriend dumped me, then I had the longest dry spell I have had in years. Maybe I shouldn't have spent so much time reading/., or maybe I shouldn't have slept with that bartender. I am still holding out for a hot rich girl, with a convertible.
A little late to reply to this but. You are correct on AMD, but they have contracted work out in the past. Transmeta used IBM initially, but has switched to TMSC in Taiwan.
Our network monitors are watching for port scanners on the inside as well as the outside, and it wouldn't take them long to notice itLooks like your company is more diligent than most. Most companies I have dealt with couldn't find thier own asses with a map, especially when it comes to security.
IBM doesn't make G4's, for the Altivec licensing issue, which I believe they lost in a tiff with Motorola and Apple with the first gen G4's. IBM will like use this new process to make the next gen Power server chip and rule the RISC roost. I think HP's latest PA-Risc chip, kinda scares them. IBM also uses its fabs to etch chips for other companies, so a much faster Transmeta or AMD chip is possible, or maybe even a GPU.
Whatever they do use this new fab for, Apple will probly be the last to benefit.
I once talked to a very high level consultant working for one of the big consultancy firms, at a bar. He told me this,
"Look at there business and come up with the most complicated solution, and describe it in the most vague and unintelligible way you can. Make sure to use lots of big technical words,especially trendy ones, feel free to make up entirely new terminology to desribe everyday things. For instance a gateway is now a "Inter/Intra network liason device", and a router is now a "packet traffic management switching and delegation processing unit." Do not spell out clearly how to implement your plan. If the business does well, take all the credit. If not, claim they did not implement your plan correctly, and that it is their own fault for leaving out the most "critical" piece of your solution."
That was from a guy I knew in Philly who made 7 figures a year, and that he employed the strategy on all consultant gigs from management, to manufacturing and IT.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it? HS
deserves to stay alive until they can find a real business model so they can pay all the contributors
I propose that they use the $12,000 to throw themselves a really killer going out of business party. At least they can show all of their contributors a good time, rather than toil with a poverty stricken news site for another few weeks.
Wow I thought Dr. Wallace was supposed to be shy, I think every answer is more than 300 words. Did anyone actually make it through all three parts? Be honest. If I were Wallace I would be worried that my competition is going to reverse engineer A.L.I.C.E based just on these interview responses.
I know what a linear tracking turtable is, no this one had a tonearm that looked like a linear tracking system but rotated on a ring on the outside of the record. I can't say that it was a good idea.
I would have killed for a PII 366 to replace my K6-2 400 at the time!
To be fair, K6-2 performace was VERY dependent on the motherboard and the size of its cache. With a decent board it was competitive with the PII's. I had a K6-2 500, on a decent MSI board and it performed nearly identically to a Celeron 400 OC'ed to 500 mhz. The real neat thing about the chip was that it could be used in old socket 7 motherboards, a 2 times multiplier would be interpreted as 6 times by the chip.
My company began really using AMD's in workstations and (non MP)servers for our clients when the T-birds came out.(Athlon classics ran way too hot) We spent alot of time testing to establish stability and found that once again that the motherboards made all the difference in the world. We settled on Gigabyte boards with the Via kt133 chipset, these had the addded security of dual-bios. After a couple years in service we havn't run into any problems with the 50 or so systems we built. Intel, whom we also use did have some serious well documented stablility issues, remember the pentium III 1.13 that had to be recalled.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? (HS)
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The Blender Fund is up around 65K Euro right now... so close, yet still so far! This would be a great time for anyone who was on the fence about donating (wondering if the fund would make it, etc.) to pitch in and help put us over the top."
Of all the stupid things Redhat has bought or funded over the last few years, why can't they step in and front some cash and open up blender. At least blender is useful and the investment to buy it is dirt cheap. Finally the community has pretty much proven that it will actively develop the project. Perhaps this can be part of a Linux's new MM distribution.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? HS
not to mention the cadre upon cadre of available PL/SQL programmers
When SAP/DB was Addabas it was one of the least popular commercial databases, and it run pretty counter to way everyone else it. To be honest aside for the multitude of SQL's there is Postgres and IBM -DB2, there just isn't need for an oddball database that is harder to program for than anything else.
They actually move 12 megs of the ram ON THE DIE ITSELF.
ATI did that for the chip inside the Nintendo gamecube, so that isn't all that impressive. Considering that the top Nvidia and ATI top end GPU's are some of the most complex silicon on the planet this wouldn't that hard for another manufacture to do. 1024 bit buses have been used in supercomputing circles before, this isn't an accomplishment like Tile-based rendering was.
All bitboys has done is made a wider memory bus. They try to make the case in the press release that memory is handicapping gfx performance no gpu. Historically gfx cards have used some of the fastest memory they can get, but the capability to widen the bus is nothing new and not an accomplishment. The graphics card business is cutthroat and widening the memory bus made for better performace than the industry giants would widen it (and have). No matter how fast you can fill you memory and retrieve data from it, you need a GPU that can process the data fast enough so that it isn't just sitting there. What the bitboys have done is relatively easy, not new and if it was such a good idea than NVIDIA would do it first. Instead they only do it when necessary(for instance the N-force needed a wider bus to utilize cheaper system memory to also serve as a frame buffer.)
Somewhere there are some really stupid venture capitalists funding these guys.
Stole my joke... Nuts
this seems awful similar to the Debian Multimedia Distribution [demudi.org] slashdot covered a awhile ago?
But the difference is that Redhat will box it, and support it. This might put Linux in the hands of music professionals who wouldn't consider using anything that isn't well supported. Personally I am not sure if Redhat will pull this off. It is more likely that a sound equipment company or 3rd party will come up with a better Linux dist for these purposes, ie. someone who understands the market better.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himeself could not eat it? HS
Can't wait to see this, I hope that it is headless, and can be controlled by pedals and synths like a Roland box. If small linux boxes can duplicate the power and features of sage sound enquipment, it will make for some cool possibilities.
/., retinas burn...
Too much
I would think that Ceilinghooks.com was an artistic bondage site.
Late reply here, sorry about that, had to catch some shuteye. I wish you and the rest of your team luck with all your endeavors. And I also hope that we send more probes to Europa, which is the most interesting body in the solar system IMO.
very little (if any) of the life on Mars findings have been proven or disproven. Very true, although I seem to remember the first major martian bacteria in a meteorite annnouncement a few years has widely been panned as "sloppy science." I was just making the point that these announcements aren't really that important, and are generally just a media field day.
Well, maybe if the general public keeps eating these Mars stories up, they will demand greater funding for NASA and more Mars missions.
Seems like their is a Major life on mars discovery every few months. Most of the time they are disproven within a couple of weeks. Take the wait and see approach and see if this "discovery" holds up to peer review.
Science press releases are usually half bs.. A good way to get research funding.
First, thank you Gogo for the link, I have been wanting to know what was in SP3 all week. Second, to be fair microsoft has writers and secretaries and corporate accounts to cater too. Alas the SP3 update is a major update, NT service packs are almost as important as new OS's to enterprise customers. Whereas second decimal point Kernel releases are frequent. Changelogs are written by Kernel developers that can better spend time kernel hacking than making organized concise changelogs. All things considered Marcelo has done a good job compiling this log, if you want more information on any change just do a search for it or the developer who contributed it in the Kernel mailing list.
"hmm, sacrilicous" HS
15-20cm is more than you think. Considering that the world population (and corresponding heat generation) Has more that quintupled in the last fifty years and is going to double in the next 30 we might have some problems. 15-20cm in a city with a high water table wil destroy sewer systems, contaminate fresh water aquifers, soften and weaken building foundations, further erode beaches, and generally require expensive engineering solutions to alleviate problems.
Global warming won't kill us, but it is a royal pain in the ass.
Very true, I don't play video games at all, no consoles in my apartment. Hence, I usually have a girlfriend.
/.karma topped out, my girlfriend dumped me, then I had the longest dry spell I have had in years. Maybe I shouldn't have spent so much time reading /., or maybe I shouldn't have slept with that bartender. I am still holding out for a hot rich girl, with a convertible.
Although right after my
A little late to reply to this but. You are correct on AMD, but they have contracted work out in the past. Transmeta used IBM initially, but has switched to TMSC in Taiwan.
Our network monitors are watching for port scanners on the inside as well as the outside, and it wouldn't take them long to notice itLooks like your company is more diligent than most. Most companies I have dealt with couldn't find thier own asses with a map, especially when it comes to security.
How is this different?
Because it is completely automated and it is small and easy to hide.
IHMO.. Very very cool, nice job guys
IBM doesn't make G4's, for the Altivec licensing issue, which I believe they lost in a tiff with Motorola and Apple with the first gen G4's. IBM will like use this new process to make the next gen Power server chip and rule the RISC roost. I think HP's latest PA-Risc chip, kinda scares them. IBM also uses its fabs to etch chips for other companies, so a much faster Transmeta or AMD chip is possible, or maybe even a GPU.
Whatever they do use this new fab for, Apple will probly be the last to benefit.
I work for Phillip Morris, they have me go to parties and bars and bum people cigarettes.
Shit I just got fired...
I once talked to a very high level consultant working for one of the big consultancy firms, at a bar. He told me this,
"Look at there business and come up with the most complicated solution, and describe it in the most vague and unintelligible way you can. Make sure to use lots of big technical words,especially trendy ones, feel free to make up entirely new terminology to desribe everyday things. For instance a gateway is now a "Inter/Intra network liason device", and a router is now a "packet traffic management switching and delegation processing unit." Do not spell out clearly how to implement your plan. If the business does well, take all the credit. If not, claim they did not implement your plan correctly, and that it is their own fault for leaving out the most "critical" piece of your solution."
That was from a guy I knew in Philly who made 7 figures a year, and that he employed the strategy on all consultant gigs from management, to manufacturing and IT.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it? HS
I have been watching the animation full screen on repeat for 15 minutes.
I now have a splitting headache and am dizzy and nauseous.
deserves to stay alive until they can find a real business model so they can pay all the contributors
I propose that they use the $12,000 to throw themselves a really killer going out of business party. At least they can show all of their contributors a good time, rather than toil with a poverty stricken news site for another few weeks.
Because we all know that Linux is the party OS...
Wow I thought Dr. Wallace was supposed to be shy, I think every answer is more than 300 words. Did anyone actually make it through all three parts? Be honest. If I were Wallace I would be worried that my competition is going to reverse engineer A.L.I.C.E based just on these interview responses.
Fly Aeroflot..
I know what a linear tracking turtable is, no this one had a tonearm that looked like a linear tracking system but rotated on a ring on the outside of the record. I can't say that it was a good idea.
I would have killed for a PII 366 to replace my K6-2 400 at the time!
To be fair, K6-2 performace was VERY dependent on the motherboard and the size of its cache. With a decent board it was competitive with the PII's. I had a K6-2 500, on a decent MSI board and it performed nearly identically to a Celeron 400 OC'ed to 500 mhz. The real neat thing about the chip was that it could be used in old socket 7 motherboards, a 2 times multiplier would be interpreted as 6 times by the chip.
My company began really using AMD's in workstations and (non MP)servers for our clients when the T-birds came out.(Athlon classics ran way too hot) We spent alot of time testing to establish stability and found that once again that the motherboards made all the difference in the world. We settled on Gigabyte boards with the Via kt133 chipset, these had the addded security of dual-bios. After a couple years in service we havn't run into any problems with the 50 or so systems we built. Intel, whom we also use did have some serious well documented stablility issues, remember the pentium III 1.13 that had to be recalled.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? (HS)