It's funny because it's true. We still have to use that crap to design yearbooks. If it weren't for budget constraints, Quark would be outta there faster than you can say "Pagemaker".
I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part.
Uh oh, looks like somebody thinks that the platform tail should be wagging the applications dog. Sorry, it works the other way around. An OS is nothing without useful applications. The other way around, not so true, considering that the two OSes in question provide basically the same functionality. And, frankly, Mac hardware is slow and overpriced when compared to PC hardware. As someone who has used Photoshop both on my home PC and the (very high end, dual proc) G4s at school, I have to say that there is no noticable difference in performance on any image that I've worked on (going from web-sized stuff all the way up to high-quality print media).
a very long and interesting comparison between the most popular desktop environments today: Windows XP Luna, Mac OS X Aqua, BeOS/Zeta and Unix's KDE and Gnome.
Venezuala isn't located on any continent, because it doesn't exist. Now, if you were referring to Venezuela, I'd tell you South America, but of course, this could be a trick question...
I'd have to disagree. I manually masturbate animals at a reproductive laboratory, and I'd have to say that they are much easier to pull off than humans (they don't even need porn most of the time).
I mean, it seems like such a pointless endeavor. Why not just use live actors? If you're going to make an animation, make an animation. Art trying to imitate reality is a pointless and silly thing.
...until someone enters a Hummer with their own AI system on board. Then, the thing runs amok and moves at full throttle towards the Vegas strip. What'll they do then, shoot it with a missle? This is just plain irresponsible!
You have no idea what a high traffic website is. None. I work on the IT staff of a certain Fortune 100 company, and I can tell you that
Slashdot traffic (forget about just link clickthroughs) is piddly compared to what we see on a regular basis (you should've seen the logs on Superbowl Sunday!). Slashdot is not special. You are not special.
We have a business model more concrete and certainly less offensive than "throw up 20 obnoxious banners and make readers look at things 2 paragraphs at a time".
Your site is ugly.
You are ugly.
It takes more bandwidth to serve up 14 requests than it does to serve up one moderately larger one.
And so is buying petroleum-based products. What's their point? Nearly anything can be made to "fund terrorism". I wouldn't be surprised if terrorist groups owned a couple of t-shirt factories in third world countries.
I hope you realize you're indirectly assisting the U.S. military in perpetuatating American hegemony around the globe while killing thousands of innocents. Oh, but you live in Canada, I guess you don't have to worry about that...
You've invented an Object-Oriented database! Wowee zowie! Wait, what's that? You say this is nothing new? Well, you'reright. Of course it's faster than an Oracle database stored in RAM. Oracle is not designed for the purpose of storing objects. It's a relational database, which is something else entirely.
FilmGook, FilmNigger, FilmGreaser... the list goes on. What the fuck were they thinking, giving it a nice, inoffensive name like "CinePaint"? It makes absolutely no sense!
You've got to be kidding me. Oracle probably costs more than the software and hardware of a proprietary UNIX machine combined. What a total nitwit. They could be running... Solaris, for all the cost of the OS matters in such a situation. Does he have any idea how much Oracle costs?
Okay, I think you've got what to do down - this is a great idea. The problem is, when to use it?
Here's what I propose: setup a large number of bogus email accounts. Broadcast them everywhere, and let them be honey-pots for spam. The point is, since you NEVER use this account for anything but dropping in spammable places, anything you receive on it *must* be spam. As soon as you get a connection from a mail server to one of these addresses, you *know* it's an open relay, and you put it in your database -- automatically, with no interaction required.
Step 2: You also do a "fingerprint" on the spam you get in your honeypot (you know the routine - what's the length, average use of the word "dildo", etc) so that you can identify this particular spam "copy" by the message -- NOT the header. This allows you to automatically filter out spam messages. If the spammers want to adapt, they have to rewrite their copy. As long as your signature algorithm is fairly lose -- that is, not a true hash algorithm -- they should have to do a total rewrite if they don't want to be detected. You can then filter these at the relays. Thus, once again, you raise the cost for them to do their spam. Since you are filtering by actual known-spam content -- that is, you're doing this like they do virus signatures -- you should get virtually no false positives.
And, anybody whose friends who are emailing them about penis enlargement doesn't really deserve email anyway.
Wouldn't their time and talents be better spent on a statistical method of preventing dupe stories? I'm sure there's some way we could stop this scourge of the Internet.
It's being single-minded. Find something other than computers, or whatever else your acane obsession may be, to talk about (not that there's anything wrong with obsession). Get outside, get involved with a school sport or two, that's helped me to meet people in the past. Don't catagorize people as being "jocks" or "nerds" or whateverthefuckelse you may have in mind. People are individuals, judge them as such, they may not turn out to be as horrible as you thought they were.
Intelligence does not equate to unpopularity, no matter how much the victimized "smart" people would like to tell you. Well, at least that's how things have worked out in high school. Everyone's an asshole in junior high, there's no avoiding that.
Xserves would have equalled or beat Intel hardware had Motorola come through with the G5 when it was supposed to. Motorola didn't, and Apple is rushing around trying to get a next generation CPU as quickly as it can. When Apple does fix this, the Xserve will equal or beat Intel hardware (even if it has to be made of Intel hardware;). GPN sources indicate that the next gen processor will be out before Nov. 3, 2004, as Godzilla wants 50 G5 Xserves for his 50th birthday. (Mothra got OS X for her 40th birthday in 2001. No one knows if Apple is taking seriously King Ghidora's demand for a three headed, gold tone G4 iMac for his big 40 in 2004.)
Ok, I'm just going to move along and pretend that you didn't include a whole paragraph of nonsense to start off your post.
The big expense for servers is per client licensing (Windows 2000 per client licensing can double the price of a server). The Xserve is sold with unlimited client licensing, so it actually is a fairly inexpensive server, much like a Linux based server.
Which still makes it more expensive than Xeon hardware. That they'd be running Linux is a given. What part of that did you not understand?
You are paying for cutting edge hardware (say Firewire 800), but not (at the moment) a cutting edge CPU.
Uh, yeah, except Firewire 800 is totally irrelevant in performing rendering tasks. And not only not a cutting edge CPU; slow memory, a memory bus instead of crossbar memory, an inability to scale beyond 2 processors, a maximum of 2GB of memory... the list goes on.
You are also paying for cutting edge industrial design
Whoopty shit. Nobody cares what your render farm looks like.
True, but Xserve isn't just a server, it can be a workstation. Using a few Xserves for 3D workstations and using a Linux blade server render farm sounds like a pretty good combo. The person creating a model or setting up a scene gets a good, solid, easy to use 3D workstation. The rendering farm can be cheap and not have to waste CPU power or memory on Aqua or X11.
Look man, at this point, your post is totally offtopic. This isn't MacSlash or SpyMac or some other Mac advocacy site - this is Slashdot. Everyone else is discussing render farms. Go crawl back into the Mac zealot woodwork.
Are you kidding? Xserves don't have anywhere near the computational horsepower of the Intel hardware. And, at that, they are probably more expensive than the Xeon machines per unit.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you are not paying for cutting-edge hardware when you buy an Apple. You are paying for easy to use software. Movie production houses which have teams of professional administrators do not need the handholding that OSX Server would provide.
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It's funny because it's true. We still have to use that crap to design yearbooks. If it weren't for budget constraints, Quark would be outta there faster than you can say "Pagemaker".
Uh oh, looks like somebody thinks that the platform tail should be wagging the applications dog. Sorry, it works the other way around. An OS is nothing without useful applications. The other way around, not so true, considering that the two OSes in question provide basically the same functionality. And, frankly, Mac hardware is slow and overpriced when compared to PC hardware. As someone who has used Photoshop both on my home PC and the (very high end, dual proc) G4s at school, I have to say that there is no noticable difference in performance on any image that I've worked on (going from web-sized stuff all the way up to high-quality print media).
I love it! That's a killer! Hahahahahaha!
Venezuala isn't located on any continent, because it doesn't exist. Now, if you were referring to Venezuela, I'd tell you South America, but of course, this could be a trick question...
I'd have to disagree. I manually masturbate animals at a reproductive laboratory, and I'd have to say that they are much easier to pull off than humans (they don't even need porn most of the time).
I mean, it seems like such a pointless endeavor. Why not just use live actors? If you're going to make an animation, make an animation. Art trying to imitate reality is a pointless and silly thing.
If your time is worthless (and, judging by your logic, it is), then, yes, you are right.
Can anybody imagine how much R&D would have to go into even an attempt, much less a successful one? $1 million doesn't even scratch the surface...
...until someone enters a Hummer with their own AI system on board. Then, the thing runs amok and moves at full throttle towards the Vegas strip. What'll they do then, shoot it with a missle? This is just plain irresponsible!
- Slashdot traffic (forget about just link clickthroughs) is piddly compared to what we see on a regular basis (you should've seen the logs on Superbowl Sunday!). Slashdot is not special. You are not special.
- We have a business model more concrete and certainly less offensive than "throw up 20 obnoxious banners and make readers look at things 2 paragraphs at a time".
- Your site is ugly.
- You are ugly.
- It takes more bandwidth to serve up 14 requests than it does to serve up one moderately larger one.
But such is the life of a hardware fanboy, eh?Lowering Everybody to the Lowest Common Denominator Since NAFTA (C)
And so is buying petroleum-based products. What's their point? Nearly anything can be made to "fund terrorism". I wouldn't be surprised if terrorist groups owned a couple of t-shirt factories in third world countries.
I hope you realize you're indirectly assisting the U.S. military in perpetuatating American hegemony around the globe while killing thousands of innocents. Oh, but you live in Canada, I guess you don't have to worry about that...
You've invented an Object-Oriented database! Wowee zowie! Wait, what's that? You say this is nothing new? Well, you're right. Of course it's faster than an Oracle database stored in RAM. Oracle is not designed for the purpose of storing objects. It's a relational database, which is something else entirely.
FilmGook, FilmNigger, FilmGreaser... the list goes on. What the fuck were they thinking, giving it a nice, inoffensive name like "CinePaint"? It makes absolutely no sense!
You've got to be kidding me. Oracle probably costs more than the software and hardware of a proprietary UNIX machine combined. What a total nitwit. They could be running... Solaris, for all the cost of the OS matters in such a situation. Does he have any idea how much Oracle costs?
Here's what I propose: setup a large number of bogus email accounts. Broadcast them everywhere, and let them be honey-pots for spam. The point is, since you NEVER use this account for anything but dropping in spammable places, anything you receive on it *must* be spam. As soon as you get a connection from a mail server to one of these addresses, you *know* it's an open relay, and you put it in your database -- automatically, with no interaction required.
Step 2: You also do a "fingerprint" on the spam you get in your honeypot (you know the routine - what's the length, average use of the word "dildo", etc) so that you can identify this particular spam "copy" by the message -- NOT the header. This allows you to automatically filter out spam messages. If the spammers want to adapt, they have to rewrite their copy. As long as your signature algorithm is fairly lose -- that is, not a true hash algorithm -- they should have to do a total rewrite if they don't want to be detected. You can then filter these at the relays. Thus, once again, you raise the cost for them to do their spam. Since you are filtering by actual known-spam content -- that is, you're doing this like they do virus signatures -- you should get virtually no false positives.
And, anybody whose friends who are emailing them about penis enlargement doesn't really deserve email anyway.
Anyway, there's step 1 and 2. To summarize:
Wouldn't their time and talents be better spent on a statistical method of preventing dupe stories? I'm sure there's some way we could stop this scourge of the Internet.
Lines of code?
It wouldn't kill you for your writing hand to get a little exercise.
People get more control over documents they author, corporate secrets get more secure. It's another feature that has been lacking. What's the problem?
Intelligence does not equate to unpopularity, no matter how much the victimized "smart" people would like to tell you. Well, at least that's how things have worked out in high school. Everyone's an asshole in junior high, there's no avoiding that.
Ok, I'm just going to move along and pretend that you didn't include a whole paragraph of nonsense to start off your post.
The big expense for servers is per client licensing (Windows 2000 per client licensing can double the price of a server). The Xserve is sold with unlimited client licensing, so it actually is a fairly inexpensive server, much like a Linux based server.
Which still makes it more expensive than Xeon hardware. That they'd be running Linux is a given. What part of that did you not understand?
You are paying for cutting edge hardware (say Firewire 800), but not (at the moment) a cutting edge CPU.
Uh, yeah, except Firewire 800 is totally irrelevant in performing rendering tasks. And not only not a cutting edge CPU; slow memory, a memory bus instead of crossbar memory, an inability to scale beyond 2 processors, a maximum of 2GB of memory... the list goes on.
You are also paying for cutting edge industrial design
Whoopty shit. Nobody cares what your render farm looks like.
True, but Xserve isn't just a server, it can be a workstation. Using a few Xserves for 3D workstations and using a Linux blade server render farm sounds like a pretty good combo. The person creating a model or setting up a scene gets a good, solid, easy to use 3D workstation. The rendering farm can be cheap and not have to waste CPU power or memory on Aqua or X11.
Look man, at this point, your post is totally offtopic. This isn't MacSlash or SpyMac or some other Mac advocacy site - this is Slashdot. Everyone else is discussing render farms. Go crawl back into the Mac zealot woodwork.
How much less?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you are not paying for cutting-edge hardware when you buy an Apple. You are paying for easy to use software. Movie production houses which have teams of professional administrators do not need the handholding that OSX Server would provide.