The iPod costs $299/399/499 because people are willing to pay for it at those prices.
Example: People wanted to change the battery in the iPod, there was no option to do this. This angered people. 3rd party options became available to prove the market existed. Once Apple found out they could make money here, they offered a battery replacemnt option. To do everything Apple charges you $99 and you don't get your original iPod back. If you want to do it yourself, you shop around and pay as little as $30, but run the risk of voiding your warranty (which should have expired)
Apple is in a pretty interesting position. Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac -- it's recorded on a Mac, it's mixed on a Mac, the artwork's done on a Mac.
Now I am a mac fan, but other than this coming from Jobs' mouth, can it be substantiated? what are the partnerships? reasons? The DSP effects of the chips? The ease of use?
plus why not mac the iPod a recorder? Not voice at 8kHz, but full bit sampling? I want to belive
I would like to introduce bill HR-12AB-FAB (Microsoft is sooper!)
impose a 25 cent tax on all uses of long file names. It's not our fault you used our crappy old method of file naming and had to convert when we forced you to
impose a.0095 cent tax on all uses of 'Mircorsoft', 'micro$oft', and 'microshaft' through out the web. To protect our intellectual uh doohickies
impose a.0098 cent tax an all uses of the colors red, blue yellow and green Our paint program developed those colors!
impose a.002 cent tax on the use of the the adverbs 'today', 'where'; verbs 'do','want','go' and pronoun 'you'. We thought of this phrase first DAMNIT!!
"There was no modding to the systems"
So they are exactly as they were purchased...
"they added an InfiniBand card to them, that's it." so they modded them?
Like I said I didn't know what they did but you and the pictures show they modified them, so this nullifies your idiotic statement. I only made a guess it was cooling.
How can a coward with no guts know what gutting is? How can you gut a building in a mere three months? I can understand modifing it, but gutting? Adding a new condenser, adding a foyer and running cable underneath a panelled floor counts as gutting? I suppose you think moving cubes around changes the structure of a building. Is your hair pointy?
If you think it's so easy to build one...go...you have the same three months...well, go...clock's ticking...and I'm counting.
Counting on what? your fingers? Give me $5.2 million, a building and an army of students and I will.
I do think it easy because the way the G5 and OS X are built.
From your tone, it sounds like you worked on this great achivement, but are sadly a moron and do not understand its greater implication to supercomputing. This is not the work of one man "Much as I'd like to take credit for doing everything myself, I didn't,", but simply his idea. This idea of his is spectacular and sparked interest in others as how he did it so easily as compared to: Texas Tech, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. These other computers took years to make and a cost of tens of millions of dollars more. Do you not understand the excitment of this idea? Do you understand the words you read?
Anyone can create one now that he has shown the greater supercomputing community that is is possible, when no one would have thought to use the G5.
Okay for everyone asking about optimizations, why do it?
Look at what they built: a complete COTS supercomputer, miniscule price, functionality in six months, public data in a year. They have >9Tf right outta the box.
Yes they have written their own software, but name a company that doesn't? They modded them (cooling I think, but I couldn't find data only pics.) They bribed students with pizza and soda, they didn't have to buy, make or gut a building. What is amazing is they showed that any simple slashdot pundit could build one if given these resources.
It's as private as anything else can be when your information is stored on a server....
So how secure are the servers? Are they connected to the 'net? Are they local access only? What is their software configuration?
I would hope they get foiled by their own kids using what they learned in computer class.
All in the name of security, we have to watch you 24/7 because well, we don't trust what you have learned or to make the right decisions because we are horrible leaders
For those of you who took 'physics' this should be old hat.
There are many different wavelengths of light. Visible light is a very narrow band of the whole light spectrum. Other radiation (X, gamma, UV, IR) work in different parts of the spectrum, but is still light. Everyone likes the Hubble because it can give us pretty pictures, and truly they are amazing & has made many ground breaking discoveries, but IR can show us much much more.
Why? Because you make a better door than window Einstein. Interstellar space has tons and tons of dirt, which the Hubble can't see through with visible light. IR on the other hand is radiated through it. Just look how different the universe is when observed from a different point of view. Orion is amazingly different when looked at with IR compared with the visible spectrum. The composition, it's purpose and function is vastly different in IR to 'shed some more light' on things we 'already know'.
And for you cynics, much of this data will be given straight to the community at large, making it truly a public endeavor.
Holly: We could use some fresh odds & sods aboard, like cows milk.
Lister: What milk are we using now?
Holly: We're on the emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.
Lister: DOG'S MILK!! Hol, why didn't you tell me?
Holly: What, and spoil your tea? Besides full of goodness, vitamins and marrow bone jelly. And on the plus side it tastes the same when it's gone off as when its fresh!
At first I thought this was a real time system to send out bleeps during TV shows.
How come we do not have a system to warn us about: Anthrax Birds Cancer ??? Underpants Panties Noams ?? Congressmen Businessmen Stupidity ??
or crazy rich people from Autrallia: FOX ?
This was an interesting article. I enjoyed the 'There is no one answer' stance the article took. Being a mac user I know all about the holy wars and punishment due. Being a developer in the Aerospace embedded market processor choice is very important.
This goes to show you what (even educated) people think because of TV/marketing. The CPU is the 'brains' & mark of a computer, Intel chips are the fastest,.. etc. I tell most people that there calculators have more computing power than the Lunar Lander, they scoff. If you tell them there are computers in their car, they ask where the mouse & monitor are. Computers are only used to surf and type. Don't even tell them they have uP in their phones.
People are just like computers, they can be programmed.
I hope this two missions take place, mainly because I want to get the project I work on off this stinky dirty ball. They took our rockets because of planetary restriction which we don't have.
If you can stream, checkout a video feed of the 17A/B pads which hold the Rovers A & B resp. Plus it has the countdown!
Gov Owens has banked his popularity on the Colorado economy which is heavily dependant on the 'New' economy of IT,internet, prog etc. Owens has touted that he is resonsible for making Colorado a prominent player in this economy. Very much so in the last election.
Well the economy sucks here, many people have been laid off, no new jobs, just like most places. He had to do this or he'd be out of a job too.
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Don't forget those file permissions!
hell:~satan> chmod 666 your.sol
octal my A$$! I tell ya, they are telling you to back Satan!!!
the market.
The iPod costs $299/399/499 because people are willing to pay for it at those prices.
Example: People wanted to change the battery in the iPod, there was no option to do this. This angered people. 3rd party options became available to prove the market existed. Once Apple found out they could make money here, they offered a battery replacemnt option. To do everything Apple charges you $99 and you don't get your original iPod back. If you want to do it yourself, you shop around and pay as little as $30, but run the risk of voiding your warranty (which should have expired)
All of these costs are driven by the market.
Apple is in a pretty interesting position. Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac -- it's recorded on a Mac, it's mixed on a Mac, the artwork's done on a Mac.
Now I am a mac fan, but other than this coming from Jobs' mouth, can it be substantiated? what are the partnerships? reasons? The DSP effects of the chips? The ease of use?
plus why not mac the iPod a recorder? Not voice at 8kHz, but full bit sampling?
I want to belive
impose a 25 cent tax on all uses of long file names. It's not our fault you used our crappy old method of file naming and had to convert when we forced you to
impose a .0095 cent tax on all uses of 'Mircorsoft', 'micro$oft', and 'microshaft' through out the web. To protect our intellectual uh doohickies
impose a .0098 cent tax an all uses of the colors red, blue yellow and green Our paint program developed those colors!
impose a .002 cent tax on the use of the the adverbs 'today', 'where'; verbs 'do','want','go' and pronoun 'you'. We thought of this phrase first DAMNIT!!
Maybe they took the red pill and believe whatever they want to.
... MORPHEUS!?
Or is it the blue pill....?
For a coward you make a lot of noise, oh wait....
...
"they added an InfiniBand card to them, that's it." so they modded them?
"There was no modding to the systems" So they are exactly as they were purchased
Like I said I didn't know what they did but you and the pictures show they modified them, so this nullifies your idiotic statement. I only made a guess it was cooling.
How can a coward with no guts know what gutting is? How can you gut a building in a mere three months? I can understand modifing it, but gutting? Adding a new condenser, adding a foyer and running cable underneath a panelled floor counts as gutting? I suppose you think moving cubes around changes the structure of a building. Is your hair pointy?
If you think it's so easy to build one...go...you have the same three months...well, go...clock's ticking...and I'm counting.
Counting on what? your fingers? Give me $5.2 million, a building and an army of students and I will.
I do think it easy because the way the G5 and OS X are built.
From your tone, it sounds like you worked on this great achivement, but are sadly a moron and do not understand its greater implication to supercomputing. This is not the work of one man "Much as I'd like to take credit for doing everything myself, I didn't,", but simply his idea. This idea of his is spectacular and sparked interest in others as how he did it so easily as compared to: Texas Tech, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. These other computers took years to make and a cost of tens of millions of dollars more. Do you not understand the excitment of this idea? Do you understand the words you read?
Anyone can create one now that he has shown the greater supercomputing community that is is possible, when no one would have thought to use the G5.
Okay for everyone asking about optimizations, why do it?
Look at what they built: a complete COTS supercomputer, miniscule price, functionality in six months, public data in a year. They have >9Tf right outta the box.
Yes they have written their own software, but name a company that doesn't? They modded them (cooling I think, but I couldn't find data only pics.) They bribed students with pizza and soda, they didn't have to buy, make or gut a building. What is amazing is they showed that any simple slashdot pundit could build one if given these resources.
So how secure are the servers? Are they connected to the 'net? Are they local access only? What is their software configuration?
I would hope they get foiled by their own kids using what they learned in computer class.
All in the name of security, we have to watch you 24/7 because well, we don't trust what you have learned or to make the right decisions because we are horrible leaders
I wonder if he stopped using the Mac OS and started using Windoze too
For those of you who took 'physics' this should be old hat.
There are many different wavelengths of light. Visible light is a very narrow band of the whole light spectrum. Other radiation (X, gamma, UV, IR) work in different parts of the spectrum, but is still light. Everyone likes the Hubble because it can give us pretty pictures, and truly they are amazing & has made many ground breaking discoveries, but IR can show us much much more.
Why? Because you make a better door than window Einstein. Interstellar space has tons and tons of dirt, which the Hubble can't see through with visible light. IR on the other hand is radiated through it. Just look how different the universe is when observed from a different point of view. Orion is amazingly different when looked at with IR compared with the visible spectrum. The composition, it's purpose and function is vastly different in IR to 'shed some more light' on things we 'already know'.
And for you cynics, much of this data will be given straight to the community at large, making it truly a public endeavor.
Holly: We could use some fresh odds & sods aboard, like cows milk.
Lister: What milk are we using now?
Holly: We're on the emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.
Lister: DOG'S MILK!! Hol, why didn't you tell me?
Holly: What, and spoil your tea? Besides full of goodness, vitamins and marrow bone jelly. And on the plus side it tastes the same when it's gone off as when its fresh!
At first I thought this was a real time system to send out bleeps during TV shows. How come we do not have a system to warn us about:
Anthrax Birds Cancer ???
Underpants Panties Noams ??
Congressmen Businessmen Stupidity ??
or crazy rich people from Autrallia: FOX ?
This was an interesting article. I enjoyed the 'There is no one answer' stance the article took. Being a mac user I know all about the holy wars and punishment due. Being a developer in the Aerospace embedded market processor choice is very important. .. etc. I tell most people that there calculators have more computing power than the Lunar Lander, they scoff. If you tell them there are computers in their car, they ask where the mouse & monitor are. Computers are only used to surf and type. Don't even tell them they have uP in their phones.
This goes to show you what (even educated) people think because of TV/marketing. The CPU is the 'brains' & mark of a computer, Intel chips are the fastest,
People are just like computers, they can be programmed.
Fromt he G5 page: And models starts at just $1999.
I can'ts waits tills thens. My hearts is poundings
Pleasure Overload!
Oops, the video feed needs /elv/ since it is on a Delta II which is an Expendable Launch Vehichle.
I hope this two missions take place, mainly because I want to get the project I work on off this stinky dirty ball. They took our rockets because of planetary restriction which we don't have.
If you can stream, checkout a video feed of the 17A/B pads which hold the Rovers A & B resp. Plus it has the countdown!
Gov Owens has banked his popularity on the Colorado economy which is heavily dependant on the 'New' economy of IT,internet, prog etc. Owens has touted that he is resonsible for making Colorado a prominent player in this economy. Very much so in the last election.
Well the economy sucks here, many people have been laid off, no new jobs, just like most places. He had to do this or he'd be out of a job too.