I have to say its a pretty slick way of asking her, and I am glad she responded so quick (I can see Taco clicking send/recieve every 2 seconds until the reply came).
Best of luck to you both, and post wedding pics!!!!!!
What if I wanted to do a search on vitamins that were of an orange color.
Not the best example, but having google *decide* what context my word is, I don't think I would like it.
Google already has a pretty strong search engine, typing this in the google search box should pull up what you were looking for, "orange vitamins -color". You could probably even add a few more to the end of it to further refine the search, but its better then having them decide automatically.
(As a computer scientist lacking the ability to summon lightning storms, I fall into the "could not give a flying fat rat's ass" camp, but that's never helped settle a dispute.)
Sorry I dont have an answer for you but that has got to be one of the funniest things ive read in a while =).
Its a rule thats been in just about every agreement when signing up for broadband. If you run a server, they want you to get a buisness account, mainly to charge you more money.
Im not saying its right, but they do have a right to tell you you cannot run a server. If your not happy with it, get a different provider that doesn't care. You probably wont find many though.
Id agree though, it seems like since they cap the upload bandwidth to about 15k/sec they shouldn't have any problems with servers, unless someone is hosting an ftp site that people upload stuff to.
Your analogy about the phone company is wrong though. Its more like this, "You can use the phone as much as you want, you just cant run a telemarketing buisness from this phone".
I dont *know* for a fact on any of this but im guessing.
And yes, im aware that Sony can create/manufacture cds.
The original poster said that Sony can send you a blank cdr that has the copy protection *built in*. From this magic cd, you can burn whatever to it, and the ps2 will think its a normal ps2 disk or whatever.
I don't believe this. Reason being, is that the cdr you would get from sony would have to be one that uses certain metals/chemicals that a cdr alters to make a cd. If the cd already has a copy protection thing built in, then when your cd burner tries to use the disk, you would get an error of some sort, because part of the copy protection shows up as bad sectors and whatnot.
Now, for sony to actually create a cd that has, lets say safedisc built into it, they would *need* to create this using a special presser that makes cds. You can't 'burn' safedisc to a cd, as the safedisc stuff *has* to be put there by something that is not a laser.
Me and my friend got in a discussion as to why you cant take the retail cd for lets say some game that has safedisc on it, and create an EXACT copy of it. The reason being is that your trying to reproduce something with a laser that can only be done by 'pressing' the cds. A cdrom has a lot of error correction built in, and so if you scratch your cd, you can probably still use it. Reason being is that cdroms automatically will correct itself if needed. If you wanted something that made exact copies, you would need a cd burner which did not do any error correction (in the hardware), but then I would imagine you could only burn *perfect* cds, because if there was any scratches on the cd, lint or anything, there would be no way to correct for the error. The cdburner would think that this dust and stuff on the cd is part of the data of the cd, not part of the media itself.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I dont think that sony, with all its power, could send me a blank cdr that had copy protection built into it, and I could burn it, and use the copy protection on my softare.
Im pretty amazed that Sony could have a blank cdr disk with copy protection already built in. I thought that it *had* to be done by a normal cd press (or whatever they use to mass produce cds) and not something you could put on a cdr (from what I know its different then a cd, the chemicals/metals used in the disk).
You can also take a few machines, hook them all up together in a network, and have each one be a seperate display for FS2000.
http://wideview.00server.com/
Pretty amazing actually, I have talked to people who have up to 6 or so pc's linked together all playing the same simulator. There were monitors for the instrument panels, left/right/forward views, it was quite the sight =).
Im glad you replied back.. I have a question for ya.
(Im assuming your the one that was quoted in Wired)
This technology is great, im sure it works as well as you say, but im just curious why you chose a 230 page book on how to build a beowulf cluster, and compared it to your one page pdf? The book talks about architecture of clusters, and you could probably teach a college class on clustering with it, yet your manual is a very basic manual.
Would it be possible for me to write a one page manual on how to hookup a beowulf cluster? I read one yesterday that was linked from www.beowulf.org, and it was about 4 pages. Why compare your very basic manual with a very large book? It seems to me it would be better saying, "Beowulf has an FAQ on how to setup a cluster linked from their page that is 4 pages long. I have a pdf that is only one page long that will tell you how to build a pooch cluster".
I guess my problem with the way you portrayed this software is that your comparing something that you made to be easy to use, to something that was not made to be easy to use, and your saying that your technology is better because of it.
Oh, im sure it is expensive to send up a satellite, but if you have 100,000 subscribers at 40 bucks a month, that is 4 Million dollars a month. They probably have more then 100,000 subscribers, and they have been doing it for a couple years, so I would say that they have probably made their money back.
I first looked at the site with IE6, worked fine for me, and I was kinda impressed on how the slideshow looked.
After reading your comment, I tried the page with mozilla and opera and neither worked, i even tried changing what opera reports as the browser and no luck.
I use adelphia, and ive had their techs tell me how to put more then one machine behind my cable modem (well not exact instructions, he said that I should probably replace my faulty nic with another one if I wanted to have other machines hooked up to it.)
Ive also downloaded/uploaded well over 15gigs in a month and not had any complaints from them. Although im kinda waiting for it to happen, not a word yet from them.. =)
Ive heard a lot of bad stories about cable isp's, ive been using adelphia and its not been bad at all.
I do have a problem with adding or changing info from their website, as well as how long it takes to get to their support, but when it works it works well.
I had a much worse problem with a dsl provider in my town who went out of buisness. I guess there is some sort of contract or something similar to long distance that says a company is the provider of such a service. Well when my dsl provider went out of buisness, we could not contact them to cancel our service. We tried to get dsl from another provider and they could not do it for some reason because we had the other company as a provider. It was a pretty large mess that finally got straightened out, and things are much better with dsl (this is at my parents house, I have cable at my house).
I was also pretty happy when I got a letter from adelphia saying that with the @home change, all they were doing was changing from powerlink@home to powerlink, and that was it, as they were not depending on any @home hardware at all, just using their service or something I have no idea.
They will have to support only some standard distributions of Linux, with no modifications or modifications limited to their "supported" subset they will create.
Actually I doubt this would happen at all. I can't imagine if I were to call them up, that they would pick apart every part of my system to make sure that it is *exactly* how it supposed to be setup, without even looking at the problem first. If they care about their customers at all, the call would be a bit different.
I take support calls for software, not anything as large or important as oracle software or anything, but when someone calls me up, I pretty much ask them what is the problem, they tell me, and I troubleshoot until i can determine how to fix it. Sure, I run into people who maybe have tried to uninstall directx or something like that, and I will reinstall it for them to fix the problem lets say. Let me remind you that the support that I do is free support, the customers do not pay anything but long distance fees. The products I support are usually under 100 bucks, usually around 40..
I may be wrong, who knows, but I find that if a company wont help me because I installed a beta video driver or something like that, its bullshit. Its pretty easy to reinstall or change things back to how they should be, and for the price your paying, they had better help you do that.
Well, if it was a small enough town, you *could* put up a transmitter for each house, and if you wanted to change channels you could just call them up and tell them to change tapes =)
I agree with what your saying, it probably does work pretty good. I guess the point I was making is this.
Lets say I run 2 clusters, a Beowulf/Linux cluster, and an Apple one. To run these I am going to need documentation. According to this guy, for his cluster the most I am going to need is going to be a 1 page document. He is also telling everyone that to run a Beowulf cluster, you need a 230 page manual. Ok, taken those 2 *facts* given to us by this guy, I should be able to run and keep running each cluster using the above manuals. Note also that the book he says to use for Beowulf is a 230 page book, it also teaches you about clustering, and the architecture behind it, etc. His PDF lacks that information for some reason.
His PDF for running Pooch is a very extremely basic manual. The book he is talking about is a large manual that talks about a lot more then just how to set it up. (by the way I can't find the book he mentions *anywhere*, found one thats close, thats where im getting the book info from). I would imagine I could write a manual on how to setup a beowulf cluster in under 230 pages.
If you check out this page:
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/beowulf-faq.txt
You'll see you have *many* options when it comes to building a beowulf cluster. In some ways its bad, as there is a lot to learn. If you were to take time and learn it well, you could built a very fast high performance cluster I would imagine.
It sounds like with Pooch, all I have to do is drag and drop a couple icons and im set. Can I do more, its hard to say, as his 'reference manual' is about as informative as the directions on a shampoo bottle.
I have digital cable, and I watch, at a max, 12 different channels, and *usually* there is something good on, but not all the time.
I really really love to see this happen though. Lets say I have 250 channels. I pay 40 bucks a month for that, so each channel is costing me about 16 cents. I only watch 12 of those channels, so why can I not just pay 1.92 dollars a month instead of 40? I only watch those channels maybe 3 hours of the day, yet im paying for tv at my house for 24 hours a day. So, taking that, each hour of the day (in a 30 day month to make it easy), im paying roughly 5 cents an hour to get TV pumped into my house, yet I only watch roughly 90 hours of tv in a 30 day month (out of 720 hours), so taking that pricing route, I should only have to pay about 5 bucks a month for TV. I understand a lot of the money I give them goes for other things besides just getting tv to me (setting up all the cable, equipment, employees, etc.), so I guess thats why I pay out the ass for my 12 channels.
What really bugs me is DirectTV. After sending up a few satellites, what more do they have to do when adding new customers? They make more dishes but thats probably about it. Once in a while they might have to do some upgrades but I doubt it. These people are now paying 40 bucks a month to a company that is probably taking 35 dollars of that and putting it right in their pocket. Its discusting, I just wish I would have came up with the idea sooner =-).
"It took NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory two weeks to put together a 16-node Linux cluster." he added. "I could do the same thing in less than an hour."
I would love to see a team of NASA's engineers go against this single guy in a battlebot type of competition with that statement. Give the whole entire team of NASA engineers to build a Beowulf cluster in 2 weeks, and give this guy an hour to make his with Pooch and Apple computers. Then have them both run a predetermined test (that both groups can look at while building their cluster) and see whos cluster *performs* better.
It seems like to me that if I wanted a bigger dick, I would buy a bunch of apples and tell all my friends how easy it was to get this cluster working. If I wanted to get work done, I would use something that I know works, is used in a lot of places, and I know can work fast.
Ah well, that guy sucks, the technology might be pretty slick, im not really smart enough to be able to pick apart the systems or anything, but that seems like a Mr. Ego way of trying to sell your product...
I think this guy has some marketing blood in him..
""There's a book called How to Build a Better Beowulf that's 230 pages long and tells you how to set up clusters with Linux," Dauger said. "We have a one-page manual (PDF) that shows you how to do it on PowerMacs."
I went ahead and looked at the PDF, and I admit, it does look easy. Essentially, the PDF states the system requirements, as well as installation instructions (run setup on this certain program on all machines). The next part is a 3 step process, first, start a parallel application, second, select the nodes to use, and lastly, hit the launch button.
First of all, he picks a book that I can't seem to find anywhere, at least on amazon or bn.com. I found one that was similar, How to Build a Beowulf (239 pages), and from what the reviews say, it *teaches* you about clustering computers. One would think, that this guy, *should* mention a book that is comparable to the information available in his PDF, but no, he choses a book which is essentially something you could proabably teach a college class on.
Im not really saying that its not as good, as I don't have the expertise to really know the differences between the 2, which works better, etc.. but this guy is spouting crap in my opinion.
Ok, my next problem with this. This company or guy or whoever, created a program to do this. He sees something that is on Linux already, applefies it (making it so a 6th grader could do it) and then tries to compare the 2. Obviously whoever wrote beowulf didn't write it so a 6th grader could install it. From what I remember reading about beowulf, someone from NASA wrote it. I could be wrong, but im sure it was someone in a scientific field of some sort that needed to do this. So, the area the beowulf programmer wanted this to be used was in a fairly technical enviorment, where the people setting this up would know how that its a complex job, but its probably fairly configurable as to how its going to work. Now, could I not create a very similar program for linux? Could I not, essentially keep everything as default or whatever, make a wizard that was a 3 step process, that made a cluster in linux? He makes it sound like there is something special with Apple computers that makes this thing work, but from what I read, its just a program that links them together. You don't need anything special that an apple has, he just decided to write it there.
This is really how I see it, lets say that there is some sort of wizbang technology out there, and its a fairly complex, tunable technology, not for the faint of heart. I create a similar technology, but I keep all the tunable settings, and everything at a default level. I make it extremely easy to setup, because im only making the user provide the very basic of information to get it to work, any sort of *settings* are the same across the board. I then start getting websites to write reviews bashing the more complex system because there is one available that only has a on and off button.
I dunno, its probably pretty cool, but the only place he really mentions this being used at is in grade schools, (and im kinda pissed that in 6th grade we didn't do a damn thing with computers at all, and kids these days in 6th grade are building supercomputers). Also, from his PDF, your limited to the IP address range of 192.168.1.1 to.254. Does this mean it has a limitation of about 253 machines, or has he not yet programmed the button that takes you to an area where you can *configure* that stuff..
Yup, Id agree with you 100% here. From what I can see, if you are trying to cluster a group of Apple computers, and something *goes wrong* (yes it happens), I wonder where on that 1page PDF you could look to find out what happens when it doesn't work. Im pretty sure there is a lot of that in the 230page Beowulf manual.
Also, with an apple, they could pretty much set this up as something that is built into the os/hardware, and they just have to make a pretty little wizard (or is that a Microsoft-patented word) to setup the cluster, where as any other platform there is too much variety to do something like that and have it work more times then not.
Ok, lets say I take 2 of these clusters (I Haven't read the article yet just to let everyone know), a Linux and an Apple cluster. I would imagine, with the linux cluster, I could tune, change, alter, and whatever else possible to get every last ounce of performance out of it. Could I get the same documentation with a 1 page manual?
Thanks, ill give it a shot, i heard from a few that the multi-user problem is no longer there.
(by the way, I hate it how slashdot discrinates against us fellow *fast* typers that can type out a reply and hit submit pretty quick, only making me hit back because i hit reply to quick) =)
Ahh that is good to hear, I may have to try it again, as I liked the interface quite a bit, I just get sick of having to patch these all the time to work with the various messaging clients out there. Thanks for the update!
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If I turn the volume down on the TV, and close my eyes, am I ripping off the Television company?
What if Trillian used ads that were the same as the ads in the AOL client, and even reported the ads to aol and not to trillian, i wouldn't see any problems with that..
Advertisment as a revenue stream is insane in my opinion. Take tv. The television companies charge advertisers money to put their ads on TV. These ads will be played no matter how many people watch tv, they are just sent out. There is no 'direct' way of getting profit from this, because the advertisers are *hoping* the ad will get people to go to the store and buy such product. I really don't see how the advertisers can corralate the data between how many people watch the ad vs. how many poeple buy the product vs. how many people bought the product *because* of the ad.
I tried trillian once.. The only messanger I normally use is MSN Messanger, and I have about 60 contacts on it.
I was sitting at work, on the same acccount that I use at my house, and my friend had logged into trillian using his msn account. What had happened is that ALL of my contacts got added to his list automatically. So ALL my contacts got a message that this person added them to his list.. what a mess that was..
I think trillian is only setup for a single user, and it must put a file on my computer of my contacts, and just uses that file for anyone who uses it..
Ah well, the only reliable clients I am seeing is the ones that are from who runs the service, I have yet to find a 3rd party IM client that works all the time (or just when the service is available) and has all the features that the normal IM client has.
As for how the public is seeing AOL with this, I doubt that more then a few percent of the public ever hears about this stuff, as you don't see it anywhere but tech related websites.
Wasn't there something with the AOL/TW merger that said that AOL had to open up its IM client?
I think your proof is wrong, it should be more like, "There could be billions of great minds that read slashdot, but that does not mean theres anything worth reading"
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I have to say its a pretty slick way of asking her, and I am glad she responded so quick (I can see Taco clicking send/recieve every 2 seconds until the reply came).
Best of luck to you both, and post wedding pics!!!!!!
Zeno
What if I wanted to do a search on vitamins that were of an orange color.
Not the best example, but having google *decide* what context my word is, I don't think I would like it.
Google already has a pretty strong search engine, typing this in the google search box should pull up what you were looking for, "orange vitamins -color". You could probably even add a few more to the end of it to further refine the search, but its better then having them decide automatically.
Sorry I dont have an answer for you but that has got to be one of the funniest things ive read in a while =).
Zeno
Its a rule thats been in just about every agreement when signing up for broadband. If you run a server, they want you to get a buisness account, mainly to charge you more money.
Im not saying its right, but they do have a right to tell you you cannot run a server. If your not happy with it, get a different provider that doesn't care. You probably wont find many though.
Id agree though, it seems like since they cap the upload bandwidth to about 15k/sec they shouldn't have any problems with servers, unless someone is hosting an ftp site that people upload stuff to.
Your analogy about the phone company is wrong though. Its more like this, "You can use the phone as much as you want, you just cant run a telemarketing buisness from this phone".
I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
I dont *know* for a fact on any of this but im guessing.
And yes, im aware that Sony can create/manufacture cds.
The original poster said that Sony can send you a blank cdr that has the copy protection *built in*. From this magic cd, you can burn whatever to it, and the ps2 will think its a normal ps2 disk or whatever.
I don't believe this. Reason being, is that the cdr you would get from sony would have to be one that uses certain metals/chemicals that a cdr alters to make a cd. If the cd already has a copy protection thing built in, then when your cd burner tries to use the disk, you would get an error of some sort, because part of the copy protection shows up as bad sectors and whatnot.
Now, for sony to actually create a cd that has, lets say safedisc built into it, they would *need* to create this using a special presser that makes cds. You can't 'burn' safedisc to a cd, as the safedisc stuff *has* to be put there by something that is not a laser.
Me and my friend got in a discussion as to why you cant take the retail cd for lets say some game that has safedisc on it, and create an EXACT copy of it. The reason being is that your trying to reproduce something with a laser that can only be done by 'pressing' the cds. A cdrom has a lot of error correction built in, and so if you scratch your cd, you can probably still use it. Reason being is that cdroms automatically will correct itself if needed. If you wanted something that made exact copies, you would need a cd burner which did not do any error correction (in the hardware), but then I would imagine you could only burn *perfect* cds, because if there was any scratches on the cd, lint or anything, there would be no way to correct for the error. The cdburner would think that this dust and stuff on the cd is part of the data of the cd, not part of the media itself.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I dont think that sony, with all its power, could send me a blank cdr that had copy protection built into it, and I could burn it, and use the copy protection on my softare.
Im pretty amazed that Sony could have a blank cdr disk with copy protection already built in. I thought that it *had* to be done by a normal cd press (or whatever they use to mass produce cds) and not something you could put on a cdr (from what I know its different then a cd, the chemicals/metals used in the disk).
I could be wrong though =)
You can also take a few machines, hook them all up together in a network, and have each one be a seperate display for FS2000.
http://wideview.00server.com/
Pretty amazing actually, I have talked to people who have up to 6 or so pc's linked together all playing the same simulator. There were monitors for the instrument panels, left/right/forward views, it was quite the sight =).
Im glad you replied back.. I have a question for ya.
(Im assuming your the one that was quoted in Wired)
This technology is great, im sure it works as well as you say, but im just curious why you chose a 230 page book on how to build a beowulf cluster, and compared it to your one page pdf? The book talks about architecture of clusters, and you could probably teach a college class on clustering with it, yet your manual is a very basic manual.
Would it be possible for me to write a one page manual on how to hookup a beowulf cluster? I read one yesterday that was linked from www.beowulf.org, and it was about 4 pages. Why compare your very basic manual with a very large book? It seems to me it would be better saying, "Beowulf has an FAQ on how to setup a cluster linked from their page that is 4 pages long. I have a pdf that is only one page long that will tell you how to build a pooch cluster".
I guess my problem with the way you portrayed this software is that your comparing something that you made to be easy to use, to something that was not made to be easy to use, and your saying that your technology is better because of it.
Wow this sounds pretty amazing, its NOW possible to do this, as the technology didn't exist before this morning.
Funny, I thought I remember having a graphical lilo screen when I installed Mandrake 7, but I could be wrong =).
Oh, im sure it is expensive to send up a satellite, but if you have 100,000 subscribers at 40 bucks a month, that is 4 Million dollars a month. They probably have more then 100,000 subscribers, and they have been doing it for a couple years, so I would say that they have probably made their money back.
I first looked at the site with IE6, worked fine for me, and I was kinda impressed on how the slideshow looked.
After reading your comment, I tried the page with mozilla and opera and neither worked, i even tried changing what opera reports as the browser and no luck.
Does this slideshow only work with IE?
I use adelphia, and ive had their techs tell me how to put more then one machine behind my cable modem (well not exact instructions, he said that I should probably replace my faulty nic with another one if I wanted to have other machines hooked up to it.)
Ive also downloaded/uploaded well over 15gigs in a month and not had any complaints from them. Although im kinda waiting for it to happen, not a word yet from them.. =)
Ive heard a lot of bad stories about cable isp's, ive been using adelphia and its not been bad at all.
I do have a problem with adding or changing info from their website, as well as how long it takes to get to their support, but when it works it works well.
I had a much worse problem with a dsl provider in my town who went out of buisness. I guess there is some sort of contract or something similar to long distance that says a company is the provider of such a service. Well when my dsl provider went out of buisness, we could not contact them to cancel our service. We tried to get dsl from another provider and they could not do it for some reason because we had the other company as a provider. It was a pretty large mess that finally got straightened out, and things are much better with dsl (this is at my parents house, I have cable at my house).
I was also pretty happy when I got a letter from adelphia saying that with the @home change, all they were doing was changing from powerlink@home to powerlink, and that was it, as they were not depending on any @home hardware at all, just using their service or something I have no idea.
Actually I doubt this would happen at all. I can't imagine if I were to call them up, that they would pick apart every part of my system to make sure that it is *exactly* how it supposed to be setup, without even looking at the problem first. If they care about their customers at all, the call would be a bit different.
I take support calls for software, not anything as large or important as oracle software or anything, but when someone calls me up, I pretty much ask them what is the problem, they tell me, and I troubleshoot until i can determine how to fix it. Sure, I run into people who maybe have tried to uninstall directx or something like that, and I will reinstall it for them to fix the problem lets say. Let me remind you that the support that I do is free support, the customers do not pay anything but long distance fees. The products I support are usually under 100 bucks, usually around 40..
I may be wrong, who knows, but I find that if a company wont help me because I installed a beta video driver or something like that, its bullshit. Its pretty easy to reinstall or change things back to how they should be, and for the price your paying, they had better help you do that.
Well, if it was a small enough town, you *could* put up a transmitter for each house, and if you wanted to change channels you could just call them up and tell them to change tapes =)
I agree with what your saying, it probably does work pretty good. I guess the point I was making is this.
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Lets say I run 2 clusters, a Beowulf/Linux cluster, and an Apple one. To run these I am going to need documentation. According to this guy, for his cluster the most I am going to need is going to be a 1 page document. He is also telling everyone that to run a Beowulf cluster, you need a 230 page manual. Ok, taken those 2 *facts* given to us by this guy, I should be able to run and keep running each cluster using the above manuals. Note also that the book he says to use for Beowulf is a 230 page book, it also teaches you about clustering, and the architecture behind it, etc. His PDF lacks that information for some reason.
His PDF for running Pooch is a very extremely basic manual. The book he is talking about is a large manual that talks about a lot more then just how to set it up. (by the way I can't find the book he mentions *anywhere*, found one thats close, thats where im getting the book info from). I would imagine I could write a manual on how to setup a beowulf cluster in under 230 pages.
If you check out this page:
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/beowulf-faq.tx
You'll see you have *many* options when it comes to building a beowulf cluster. In some ways its bad, as there is a lot to learn. If you were to take time and learn it well, you could built a very fast high performance cluster I would imagine.
It sounds like with Pooch, all I have to do is drag and drop a couple icons and im set. Can I do more, its hard to say, as his 'reference manual' is about as informative as the directions on a shampoo bottle.
I have digital cable, and I watch, at a max, 12 different channels, and *usually* there is something good on, but not all the time.
I really really love to see this happen though. Lets say I have 250 channels. I pay 40 bucks a month for that, so each channel is costing me about 16 cents. I only watch 12 of those channels, so why can I not just pay 1.92 dollars a month instead of 40? I only watch those channels maybe 3 hours of the day, yet im paying for tv at my house for 24 hours a day. So, taking that, each hour of the day (in a 30 day month to make it easy), im paying roughly 5 cents an hour to get TV pumped into my house, yet I only watch roughly 90 hours of tv in a 30 day month (out of 720 hours), so taking that pricing route, I should only have to pay about 5 bucks a month for TV. I understand a lot of the money I give them goes for other things besides just getting tv to me (setting up all the cable, equipment, employees, etc.), so I guess thats why I pay out the ass for my 12 channels.
What really bugs me is DirectTV. After sending up a few satellites, what more do they have to do when adding new customers? They make more dishes but thats probably about it. Once in a while they might have to do some upgrades but I doubt it. These people are now paying 40 bucks a month to a company that is probably taking 35 dollars of that and putting it right in their pocket. Its discusting, I just wish I would have came up with the idea sooner =-).
I would love to see a team of NASA's engineers go against this single guy in a battlebot type of competition with that statement. Give the whole entire team of NASA engineers to build a Beowulf cluster in 2 weeks, and give this guy an hour to make his with Pooch and Apple computers. Then have them both run a predetermined test (that both groups can look at while building their cluster) and see whos cluster *performs* better.
It seems like to me that if I wanted a bigger dick, I would buy a bunch of apples and tell all my friends how easy it was to get this cluster working. If I wanted to get work done, I would use something that I know works, is used in a lot of places, and I know can work fast.
Ah well, that guy sucks, the technology might be pretty slick, im not really smart enough to be able to pick apart the systems or anything, but that seems like a Mr. Ego way of trying to sell your product...
I think this guy has some marketing blood in him..
.254. Does this mean it has a limitation of about 253 machines, or has he not yet programmed the button that takes you to an area where you can *configure* that stuff..
""There's a book called How to Build a Better Beowulf that's 230 pages long and tells you how to set up clusters with Linux," Dauger said. "We have a one-page manual (PDF) that shows you how to do it on PowerMacs."
I went ahead and looked at the PDF, and I admit, it does look easy. Essentially, the PDF states the system requirements, as well as installation instructions (run setup on this certain program on all machines). The next part is a 3 step process, first, start a parallel application, second, select the nodes to use, and lastly, hit the launch button.
First of all, he picks a book that I can't seem to find anywhere, at least on amazon or bn.com. I found one that was similar, How to Build a Beowulf (239 pages), and from what the reviews say, it *teaches* you about clustering computers. One would think, that this guy, *should* mention a book that is comparable to the information available in his PDF, but no, he choses a book which is essentially something you could proabably teach a college class on.
Im not really saying that its not as good, as I don't have the expertise to really know the differences between the 2, which works better, etc.. but this guy is spouting crap in my opinion.
Ok, my next problem with this. This company or guy or whoever, created a program to do this. He sees something that is on Linux already, applefies it (making it so a 6th grader could do it) and then tries to compare the 2. Obviously whoever wrote beowulf didn't write it so a 6th grader could install it. From what I remember reading about beowulf, someone from NASA wrote it. I could be wrong, but im sure it was someone in a scientific field of some sort that needed to do this. So, the area the beowulf programmer wanted this to be used was in a fairly technical enviorment, where the people setting this up would know how that its a complex job, but its probably fairly configurable as to how its going to work. Now, could I not create a very similar program for linux? Could I not, essentially keep everything as default or whatever, make a wizard that was a 3 step process, that made a cluster in linux? He makes it sound like there is something special with Apple computers that makes this thing work, but from what I read, its just a program that links them together. You don't need anything special that an apple has, he just decided to write it there.
This is really how I see it, lets say that there is some sort of wizbang technology out there, and its a fairly complex, tunable technology, not for the faint of heart. I create a similar technology, but I keep all the tunable settings, and everything at a default level. I make it extremely easy to setup, because im only making the user provide the very basic of information to get it to work, any sort of *settings* are the same across the board. I then start getting websites to write reviews bashing the more complex system because there is one available that only has a on and off button.
I dunno, its probably pretty cool, but the only place he really mentions this being used at is in grade schools, (and im kinda pissed that in 6th grade we didn't do a damn thing with computers at all, and kids these days in 6th grade are building supercomputers). Also, from his PDF, your limited to the IP address range of 192.168.1.1 to
Yup, Id agree with you 100% here. From what I can see, if you are trying to cluster a group of Apple computers, and something *goes wrong* (yes it happens), I wonder where on that 1page PDF you could look to find out what happens when it doesn't work. Im pretty sure there is a lot of that in the 230page Beowulf manual.
Also, with an apple, they could pretty much set this up as something that is built into the os/hardware, and they just have to make a pretty little wizard (or is that a Microsoft-patented word) to setup the cluster, where as any other platform there is too much variety to do something like that and have it work more times then not.
Ok, lets say I take 2 of these clusters (I Haven't read the article yet just to let everyone know), a Linux and an Apple cluster. I would imagine, with the linux cluster, I could tune, change, alter, and whatever else possible to get every last ounce of performance out of it. Could I get the same documentation with a 1 page manual?
Thanks, ill give it a shot, i heard from a few that the multi-user problem is no longer there.
(by the way, I hate it how slashdot discrinates against us fellow *fast* typers that can type out a reply and hit submit pretty quick, only making me hit back because i hit reply to quick) =)
Ahh that is good to hear, I may have to try it again, as I liked the interface quite a bit, I just get sick of having to patch these all the time to work with the various messaging clients out there. Thanks for the update!
If I turn the volume down on the TV, and close my eyes, am I ripping off the Television company?
What if Trillian used ads that were the same as the ads in the AOL client, and even reported the ads to aol and not to trillian, i wouldn't see any problems with that..
Advertisment as a revenue stream is insane in my opinion. Take tv. The television companies charge advertisers money to put their ads on TV. These ads will be played no matter how many people watch tv, they are just sent out. There is no 'direct' way of getting profit from this, because the advertisers are *hoping* the ad will get people to go to the store and buy such product. I really don't see how the advertisers can corralate the data between how many people watch the ad vs. how many poeple buy the product vs. how many people bought the product *because* of the ad.
I tried trillian once.. The only messanger I normally use is MSN Messanger, and I have about 60 contacts on it.
I was sitting at work, on the same acccount that I use at my house, and my friend had logged into trillian using his msn account. What had happened is that ALL of my contacts got added to his list automatically. So ALL my contacts got a message that this person added them to his list.. what a mess that was..
I think trillian is only setup for a single user, and it must put a file on my computer of my contacts, and just uses that file for anyone who uses it..
Ah well, the only reliable clients I am seeing is the ones that are from who runs the service, I have yet to find a 3rd party IM client that works all the time (or just when the service is available) and has all the features that the normal IM client has.
As for how the public is seeing AOL with this, I doubt that more then a few percent of the public ever hears about this stuff, as you don't see it anywhere but tech related websites.
Wasn't there something with the AOL/TW merger that said that AOL had to open up its IM client?
I think your proof is wrong, it should be more like, "There could be billions of great minds that read slashdot, but that does not mean theres anything worth reading"