If they could ever pull their heads out of their butts and use PVRs to their advantage and offer a VOD PVR service rather than a standard cable package. I can't say I prefer cable over dish or vice versa, but if they (or dish people) would do something where you tell them what you want and then my PVR records it, then they have a product that I'd be salivating over. I'd call either one TV bloatware. If I get the handful of shows I care about, I have to get the other programming gold like the home shopping channels, former superstations, and the underwater basket weaving world finals on ESPN 53. I have simple tastes and I wouldn't mind having a simple product that gives me the few I want and the option of picking a few others to give test drives. Make it a good price and my money will talk. I'll even take a pick your own package setup where I just take the few channels that my shows air on. That would be even more simple.
You might want to read it again. It said each node was LESS than $1000USD. Didn't specify how much. Based on info from price watch I'd say they got a rippin' deal. I didn't use a calculator, but they saved about 150 per node if they paid exactly 1000 for those parts. Another thing you need to consider...size does matter. That is a quality that is hard to quantify. It took about have the space of a cluster with less than half as many nodes.
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I'm sure that lab is hotter than an african rainforest
Has Jake Barnes every met a linux user? Or a BSD user? Or a VMS user? Or hell, a BeOS or OS/2 user?
Yeah but the BSD/VMS/BeOS/OS/2/Linux user (man OS/2 really screwed that up) doesn't talk about how much more superior his hardware is as well as the OS.
You could always be something like Reed Richards. Public identity, well known location for base. You just need a super human intellect to know how to exploit the code.
The thought just makes me laugh. I don't have (much of) a problem with apple products. I do have a problem with apple zealots. Sure they might be superior yada yada yada. I just can't stand to hear the apple devotees go on and on about how superior they are. It's a practically a cult and they're out to steal my daughter. And to think that these same people might be saying that the hardware is so superior to machines based on intel chips.
One of the new 750MB zip drives, I believe it encrypts for you. And of course if you keep all your data on a removeable disk, you can keep it with you. If the data is that valuable, you could keep it in one of those traveller's wallets that hangs in your pit. If you need more space for data buy a new disk.
Of course this in no way satisfies the male tech-toy craving.
I'd probably do it with reformatting the HD in mind. I don't care what kind of information is in there, unless it belongs to somebody who is somebody. So I wouldn't care if it had anything that encrypts the "valuable data". Using any data that you steal (credit card numbers and the like) will probably get you caught faster.
I think there are a number of sketches that are not funny on their own, but they are funny in the context of the whole episode. Think about Stevie Ray Vaughn. The album the Sky is Crying was put together after his death from recorded material that never fit in the context of the other albums they were producing. I consider it my favorite SRV album and it was something somewhat similar. I look forward to seeing these, but they won't feel right without the original guys.
That's a tough call. These are supposed to be "real" people. At least with Jeff you knew he was just an actor and the commercial could have had bad writers.
I look at a Mac spec sheet and think this might be the one to try. Then I see one of their commercials and think, I don't want to be associated with this product.
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Wow, cooled by space! How fast could my CPU by overclocked? I'll refrain from 'imagine a Beowulf of these' comments.
If they could ever pull their heads out of their butts and use PVRs to their advantage and offer a VOD PVR service rather than a standard cable package. I can't say I prefer cable over dish or vice versa, but if they (or dish people) would do something where you tell them what you want and then my PVR records it, then they have a product that I'd be salivating over. I'd call either one TV bloatware. If I get the handful of shows I care about, I have to get the other programming gold like the home shopping channels, former superstations, and the underwater basket weaving world finals on ESPN 53. I have simple tastes and I wouldn't mind having a simple product that gives me the few I want and the option of picking a few others to give test drives. Make it a good price and my money will talk. I'll even take a pick your own package setup where I just take the few channels that my shows air on. That would be even more simple.
the lugnet.com link!
I don't know which is funnier, that you didn't get my joke, or that you posted as an anonymous coward.
I'm not going down without a fight.
You might want to read it again. It said each node was LESS than $1000USD. Didn't specify how much. Based on info from price watch I'd say they got a rippin' deal. I didn't use a calculator, but they saved about 150 per node if they paid exactly 1000 for those parts. Another thing you need to consider...size does matter. That is a quality that is hard to quantify. It took about have the space of a cluster with less than half as many nodes.
But it's a dry heat.
Plan to take over the world, oh wait, we have homeland secutity now. Damn.
I won't even dignify that with a response.
I like this guy.
Is it coincidence that the "new religion" of Macintosh started in 1984?
Please, I prefer reluctant conformist.
Yeah but the BSD/VMS/BeOS/OS/2/Linux user (man OS/2 really screwed that up) doesn't talk about how much more superior his hardware is as well as the OS.
Fear the code.
It's all about the pentiums, baby! - Wierd Al
I guess big brother IS watching.
Of course this in no way satisfies the male tech-toy craving.
Don't give your laptop the name Necromonicon if you plan on using the crypto leash.
If you can duplicate the signal, then you can steal the laptop and have all the poor schmucks dirty laundry too.
I'd probably do it with reformatting the HD in mind. I don't care what kind of information is in there, unless it belongs to somebody who is somebody. So I wouldn't care if it had anything that encrypts the "valuable data". Using any data that you steal (credit card numbers and the like) will probably get you caught faster.
But how many sketches did Gilliam really appear in? Sure he was Patsy, but he never was in front of the camera that much.
I think there are a number of sketches that are not funny on their own, but they are funny in the context of the whole episode. Think about Stevie Ray Vaughn. The album the Sky is Crying was put together after his death from recorded material that never fit in the context of the other albums they were producing. I consider it my favorite SRV album and it was something somewhat similar. I look forward to seeing these, but they won't feel right without the original guys.
That's a tough call. These are supposed to be "real" people. At least with Jeff you knew he was just an actor and the commercial could have had bad writers.
I look at a Mac spec sheet and think this might be the one to try. Then I see one of their commercials and think, I don't want to be associated with this product.
Given that M$ has a history of security holes, I'd imagine the fixes weren't much to speak of. They might even make future fixes necessary.