Probably because when it mattered a single CPU Itanic was more like $12,000 and not $2,000. After fucking up all their marketing and delivering strategies no one wants one anymore.
I seriously doubt a server just sitting idle with a drop shadowed window and semi-opaque titlebar is going to be gobbling up "resources". It's not sitting there real time 3D rendering frame after frame on the CPU. I mean, minus the "Well if Microsoft codes it, it will." jokes, you know that won't be the case. The CPU will sit at 0% 99.999% of the time to just hold up the UI. Nice try at a slam though.
"By the way if you don't think free software innovates you are just plain ignorant of what's going on out there."
Then again, if someone geeky enough to come to read Slashdot can't think of any landmark open source innovation, then the real problem is making it known. Which, is just as bad.
If I had the cure for cancer, but no one knew about it, what good is it?
The real problem with SGI is that they NEVER overcame the stigma of being a "graphics computer" maker.
And thats why they have failed. A stigma is a good thing if you can take it and run with it. At this very moment if SGI was producing PC video cards that could stomp the ATI and NVidia offerings, and building Alienware-type quality machines that come with said hardware in it, they'd be capitalizing on their stigma. Who wouldn't, even today, lust after a video card with the Silicon Graphics name and logo on it?
But no, they decided to be a big iron company when big iron was going away. Then they're an Itanic company, then for 6 months they're a cheap linux box company. Theyre just idiots and natural selection is doing its job.
I owned an SGI Indy, and had to replace the CPU module 3 times, the power supply twice, all in about 2 years. They make junk like anyone else, they just make pretty junk and put big price tags on it.
It's much better than fingerprint readers. For example, it's known that people who work in certain jobs (such as pineapple farming) actually have their fingerprints removed by the acids and the abrasion.
If only there was one pineapple farmer that owned a computer, let alone needed biometric security measures to access it.
Even Da Vinci noticed that many measurements of human bones were precisely measurable using the Golden Ratio. Humans, and most of Nature, is perfectly balanced so as to result in a great homogeneity across the species.
Da Vinci obviously never travelled to Iowa. Seeing someone with both arms or legs the same length is like seeing a double-rainbow. It's something you tell your grandkids about while they stare in disbelief.
I've spent some time watching the videos on www.boattest.com recently. These are reviews and walk-throughs of brand new, high end 50-100 foot motor yachts built this year. Most in fact nearly all had TV/VCR combo's. Apparently people with so much money they're burning it in the fireplace are really into VHS over DVD.
Is that all it takes to get a Ph.D? Give me a break. I thought a thesis was where you became a vortex of knowledge in a given area, put forth a ground breaking and substantial idea, then defended it. Then ultimately, if successful, coming out as the expert in your field?
This is a cracker jack toy. There's been little multi-angle scenes on cracker jack toys for as long as I've been alive. Your idea is make it move and that's a thesis?
Thank you for using "sh*t" instead of the expletive. So far in my 10 years of internet use I've been able to completely avoid vulgar content. For a second there I thought that was about to end.
I agree. I have never understood the artifical and illogical "acceptable" price for things. Hardly anyone scoffs at $30,000 for a car, but mention spending $5,000 for a comfortable bed you'll rest in 8 hours a night, the effects of which will last all day, and people would think you've lost your mind. They'll spend $2000 on the fastest CPU that will sit idle in Microsoft Word, but suggest $1100 for a 24" widescreen LCD and people think that's an astronomical amount of money to spend on a monitor. I don't really get it.
I would pay $30 a month for just streaming Comdey Central where I refuse to pay $50 a month to Mediacom for Comedy Central and 30 other steaming piles of shit channels.
Surely there's a way for "channels" to sell themselves on their website as well as part of a cable package?
That's one thing I love Firefox for, "missions", opening a ton of pages in tabs, like when comparing products to buy. Half dozen tabs of product info, half dozen of various places selling it.
My biggest wish is that you could add an entire tab-set as a Favorite all at once. Such as "Add Tab Set Favorite -> New PC Research", and choosing that favorite later would open up all the tabs and constituant pages again.
A hard G when pronouncing gigabyte is just fine. It's listed as an alternate pronounciation. Doing so isn't "wrong", and saying "jigabyte" isn't "more right" (though it does make you sound like a retard, especially after you do so then [incorrectly] insist everyone else is wrong when they don't).
It's like "forte", you can say it "fortay" or "fort", both are right, dictionaries list them in different orders. Pronounciation alternates are just that, alternates, not orders of correctness.
The question then becomes this:
Was your CD burning failure your fault, because you didn't check for the correct options when you burned the disk? Or is it Microsoft's fault for not supporting Rock Ridge extensions, which is, after all, a completely open specification?
I can answer this one. It's the developers fault when a relatively seasoned user (obviously one who can install Linux and even attempt to burn a CD is seasoned) can't figure out how or why he/she can't burn CDs that work in "most machines" under Linux.
I don't consider not going out to Barnes and Noble and buying books to read all about ISO 9660 and Rock Ridge before attemping something crazy like burning a CD "user error", and it's unfortunately quite common in the OSS world to do so. Nice cop out.
Many new laptops can have a hard drive password set in BIOS, that is written to the drive at a low level. Moving the laptop drive to another machine will not let you read the data unless you know the password (or have some really high end equipment to take it apart I imagine).
I think there's just simply 2 completely diametric mindsets about games. One, which is like you and I, sees cheating or rule bending, or things like this as just cutting the knees out of the game.
If I play a card game with you and you got up to go to the bathroom, you could lay your entire hand down face up on the table and I'd never look. The whole game is an artifical structure with artificial value and balance and it only "works" if you adhere to the rules. Cheating defeats the whole purpose. However, I have some little cousins of various ages that are the exact opposite. The game is about the win or the top and the ends justify the means. The first thing they do with ANY new game is google for cheat codes.
I simply can't explain it. It makes me personally ill to witness. But I wouldn't be surprised if you and I are severly outnumbered by kids more than willing to run up mom and dad's credit card for a level 50 uber warrior. Then again, you can no longer use red pens to mark up errors on tests in school because it stresses out the kids, so I'm not sure I understand or agree with anything relating to the pussy children we're raising anymore.
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Wouldn't this be like replacing the factory leather seats in a Lexus with lawn chairs?
Man if this isn't the biggest cripple fight Slashdot post I've seen in awhile. What's next, Blue Thunder vs Airwolf? Kirk vs Picard?
God damn it what is with you people that force line breaks, its annoying as fuck.
Probably because when it mattered a single CPU Itanic was more like $12,000 and not $2,000. After fucking up all their marketing and delivering strategies no one wants one anymore.
I seriously doubt a server just sitting idle with a drop shadowed window and semi-opaque titlebar is going to be gobbling up "resources". It's not sitting there real time 3D rendering frame after frame on the CPU. I mean, minus the "Well if Microsoft codes it, it will." jokes, you know that won't be the case. The CPU will sit at 0% 99.999% of the time to just hold up the UI. Nice try at a slam though.
Then again, if someone geeky enough to come to read Slashdot can't think of any landmark open source innovation, then the real problem is making it known. Which, is just as bad.
If I had the cure for cancer, but no one knew about it, what good is it?
And thats why they have failed. A stigma is a good thing if you can take it and run with it. At this very moment if SGI was producing PC video cards that could stomp the ATI and NVidia offerings, and building Alienware-type quality machines that come with said hardware in it, they'd be capitalizing on their stigma. Who wouldn't, even today, lust after a video card with the Silicon Graphics name and logo on it?
But no, they decided to be a big iron company when big iron was going away. Then they're an Itanic company, then for 6 months they're a cheap linux box company. Theyre just idiots and natural selection is doing its job.
I owned an SGI Indy, and had to replace the CPU module 3 times, the power supply twice, all in about 2 years. They make junk like anyone else, they just make pretty junk and put big price tags on it.
If only there was one pineapple farmer that owned a computer, let alone needed biometric security measures to access it.
Da Vinci obviously never travelled to Iowa. Seeing someone with both arms or legs the same length is like seeing a double-rainbow. It's something you tell your grandkids about while they stare in disbelief.
I remember buying a 180 Mhz Pentium Pro that rendered Softimage scenes about 5x faster than a 100Mhz INDY that cost 5x as much.
I've spent some time watching the videos on www.boattest.com recently. These are reviews and walk-throughs of brand new, high end 50-100 foot motor yachts built this year. Most in fact nearly all had TV/VCR combo's. Apparently people with so much money they're burning it in the fireplace are really into VHS over DVD.
This is a cracker jack toy. There's been little multi-angle scenes on cracker jack toys for as long as I've been alive. Your idea is make it move and that's a thesis?
Thank you for using "sh*t" instead of the expletive. So far in my 10 years of internet use I've been able to completely avoid vulgar content. For a second there I thought that was about to end.
Huh?
Well no. If it is I've made a pretty good living the last 2-3 years building functional web and GUI apps for clients using vaporware.
That does rock, I rarely have access to a web browser.
I agree. I have never understood the artifical and illogical "acceptable" price for things. Hardly anyone scoffs at $30,000 for a car, but mention spending $5,000 for a comfortable bed you'll rest in 8 hours a night, the effects of which will last all day, and people would think you've lost your mind. They'll spend $2000 on the fastest CPU that will sit idle in Microsoft Word, but suggest $1100 for a 24" widescreen LCD and people think that's an astronomical amount of money to spend on a monitor. I don't really get it.
Surely there's a way for "channels" to sell themselves on their website as well as part of a cable package?
Agreed my fellow obese American!
That's one thing I love Firefox for, "missions", opening a ton of pages in tabs, like when comparing products to buy. Half dozen tabs of product info, half dozen of various places selling it.
My biggest wish is that you could add an entire tab-set as a Favorite all at once. Such as "Add Tab Set Favorite -> New PC Research", and choosing that favorite later would open up all the tabs and constituant pages again.
It's like "forte", you can say it "fortay" or "fort", both are right, dictionaries list them in different orders. Pronounciation alternates are just that, alternates, not orders of correctness.
Was your CD burning failure your fault, because you didn't check for the correct options when you burned the disk? Or is it Microsoft's fault for not supporting Rock Ridge extensions, which is, after all, a completely open specification? I can answer this one. It's the developers fault when a relatively seasoned user (obviously one who can install Linux and even attempt to burn a CD is seasoned) can't figure out how or why he/she can't burn CDs that work in "most machines" under Linux.
I don't consider not going out to Barnes and Noble and buying books to read all about ISO 9660 and Rock Ridge before attemping something crazy like burning a CD "user error", and it's unfortunately quite common in the OSS world to do so. Nice cop out.
Many new laptops can have a hard drive password set in BIOS, that is written to the drive at a low level. Moving the laptop drive to another machine will not let you read the data unless you know the password (or have some really high end equipment to take it apart I imagine).
If I play a card game with you and you got up to go to the bathroom, you could lay your entire hand down face up on the table and I'd never look. The whole game is an artifical structure with artificial value and balance and it only "works" if you adhere to the rules. Cheating defeats the whole purpose. However, I have some little cousins of various ages that are the exact opposite. The game is about the win or the top and the ends justify the means. The first thing they do with ANY new game is google for cheat codes.
I simply can't explain it. It makes me personally ill to witness. But I wouldn't be surprised if you and I are severly outnumbered by kids more than willing to run up mom and dad's credit card for a level 50 uber warrior. Then again, you can no longer use red pens to mark up errors on tests in school because it stresses out the kids, so I'm not sure I understand or agree with anything relating to the pussy children we're raising anymore.
Now where's my cane and Metamucil?
Great, now I can be even more dissapointed when my new layered LCD has dead pixels in all 3 dimensions.