but i guess it is better than just yea/nay answers.
and not a single mention of the PL supercomputer. I thought we were nerds here people, i want numbers! bandwidth, gHZ, specnumbers... number of leds, cans of spraypaint. teh important stuff!
i would want to see a windows box running all of teh software i use on a daily basis. winamp, office, ie, photoshop, email.
then i would want to see a "free" box next to it doing all of the same things. xmms, openoffice, mozilla, gimp, evolution.
then go on to show them how it is different thatn windows in terms of cost, freedom, opensource, configurability. then show them all of teh aditional software. show tehm sourceforge and fresh meat.
the command line is scary for non-geeks, i bet very few OSX users even know they have it, let alone use it, (and im not refering to the/. crowd OSX users) show them it only to enhance, not confuse, their experience.
in short, show them linux as an alternative, and how it can seamlessly replace their current tools, and extend their computiong functionality.
where do you think the seqouias and 4runners are marketed, in europe, NO, in japan, NO, in america YES! they make money off of us so they make shit for us, its a simple concept.
but then what do they make for them selves? you may ask. well the k class in japan is a good place to start and includes the Honda Beat. IN europe Audi and Mercedes make the A2 and A class respectively, as well as the Smart car.
the rolls royces and ferraris are niche vehicles and are made with extremely low production numbers, hence there price. they are not made to be economical in any way because merely owning one is extravagent.
and yes american cars are on the whole behemoth pieces of shit, get a clue about what your talking about before you open your pie hole again. A little market research goes a long way.
oh and by the way, the G500, was originaly made for military only purposes, like range rovers, and their production numbers are also exceptionally low.
yes, but is it required that they post there blueprints for the world to see? you could take your own measurements walking across it, but youd never know what their material specs are, how much rebar density in their concrete pilings, what alloy coats the inner walls of the tube steel.
your walking analogy makes better sense when paired with reverse engineering, which should not be illegal.
i assume you need more power than a pal pilot can provide, but what about using an iPaq, or even one of the sub notebooks like sony makes. see them on the japan site here, but i believe i saw one the last time i was in the sony store in chicago, if not you could import one. what about other sub notebooks, have you seen whats out there?
a little googling found this based on the crusoe chop, and it gets 9hrs off teh battery, i think the site said the vaio works off of the crusoe as well.
be sure to link pics of th finished project in your sig when your done, id like to see what you end up doing with it.
i want to SEE it. What does it look like, give me some jpgs to oogle over. Im sick of just imagining these supercomputers and beowulf cluster, lets see them now! Or dont they have digital cameras at these fancy affairs.
the first shippments of xboxes had roaches in them. my girlfriend works at funcoland, and when they cut into the boxes to unpack them roaches came skittering out and scared the shit out of them.
SGIs are nice, and i mean NICE. but if you want to do anything other than Maya, your screwed. The software library for it is nil, of course you can use OSS stuff, but very little of that is up to par with Maya's quality. But overall its the best hardware, ive used SGIs since the days of the Indy and the Indigo, later the original Octane and mostrecently a dual Octane 2 with r14ks and v12 graphics. i damn near wet my pants using it. I wish i could use a SGI as my daily bix but unfortnately theres no photoshop, illustrator, premier, aftereffects, dreamweaver, office suite, etc.
then theres the mac, maya rund on my G4 400, slowly but i think thats more my rage 128's fault. I hear its awesome on the newer G's though. THe problem is the graphics card, there are no DCC (digital content creation)class graphics card available. sure you can get a GF4TI4600 but, it lacks the developers of a quadro card, or fire gl card. OSX has all teh apps though.
wintel/lintel boxes are cheap, run reasonably well and will rovide the best bang for the buck. I would get dual processors at least to speed up rendering and look into using xeons for the multithreading capability. you can also get DCC cards, like Quadros, wildcats and fire gls that support things like hardware overlay planes and other advanced features. unfortunately your left to decide between Windows and Linux. I dont know about linux, but we all know how windows is. you may have drivers problems in linux though, but nVidia might have a nice developer solution for that. Windows has all of the commercial software you need and linux has oss, just like the SGI.
these are your options as i see it, i hope it helps.
try and submit your site, theres only one free option. there are three paid placement potions including a cost per click solution. Bull shit!
i know these places need to make money, but i sure makes it hard for struggling sites to be seen, especially since i pay out of my pocket for hosting to keep it ad free. this is why i love google, its bot is always on my site, and im even starting to come up in the rusults on certain search terms, thanks to a fair ranking system.
Parappa the Rappa's success was overwhelming in Japan. In fact, Parappa the Rappa has sold over 800,000 copies in Japan. It's a big phenomenon. Now, the question is whether to release Parappa the Rappa in US? Sony did hesitate about bringing Parappa the Rappa over as they feared that US audiences might not like it as it did in Japan. Luckily, Parappa the Rappa managed to be released in the United States and had an impressive sales.
i would much rather put this in my car than a hdd that will go smashing over every detroit pothole, and if your from teh area youll know what im talking about. if teh price comes down to be reasonable, this will be a nice high vibration environment solution to disk storage.
good lord make a choice, the less choices the kids have to make the quicker they will start learning. when i was 8 we had mathblaster and some stupid animal based typing program. thats it. and thats all the poor commodors could handle.
just rember that theyre 8, and theyre not you, a rare few will even care what is running as long as it continues to do so. Dont shove your os politics down their throughts, just give them something that works and isnt complicated.
as for paper writing just use openoffice, i cannot even understand vi or emacs or whatever, nor am i willing to take the time to learn, because i alerady have a solution that works for me with OO.
and you may want to ask the teachers what they NEED and want. they will most likely give you genres and not specifics
i believe you can do digital out over usb and i know you can do stereo 2.1. some mac speaker kits only hook up this way, the isub comes to mind. and i believe harmen kardon makes a usb to optical convertor to hook your comp up to the stereo thats usb and 5.1 i think. its also mac and pc compatable as well as expensive, 140 i think.
as for usb 2, it competes too much with firewire, an existing mac standard interface, ading it would only complicate the device. it dosent make business sense for apple although it would be a nice feature.
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and not a single mention of the PL supercomputer. I thought we were nerds here people, i want numbers! bandwidth, gHZ, specnumbers... number of leds, cans of spraypaint. teh important stuff!
then i would want to see a "free" box next to it doing all of the same things. xmms, openoffice, mozilla, gimp, evolution.
then go on to show them how it is different thatn windows in terms of cost, freedom, opensource, configurability. then show them all of teh aditional software. show tehm sourceforge and fresh meat.
the command line is scary for non-geeks, i bet very few OSX users even know they have it, let alone use it, (and im not refering to the /. crowd OSX users) show them it only to enhance, not confuse, their experience.
in short, show them linux as an alternative, and how it can seamlessly replace their current tools, and extend their computiong functionality.
but then what do they make for them selves? you may ask. well the k class in japan is a good place to start and includes the Honda Beat. IN europe Audi and Mercedes make the A2 and A class respectively, as well as the Smart car.
the rolls royces and ferraris are niche vehicles and are made with extremely low production numbers, hence there price. they are not made to be economical in any way because merely owning one is extravagent.
and yes american cars are on the whole behemoth pieces of shit, get a clue about what your talking about before you open your pie hole again. A little market research goes a long way.
oh and by the way, the G500, was originaly made for military only purposes, like range rovers, and their production numbers are also exceptionally low.
It also explains why im moving to europe in a month from detroit!
only if its running on P4s!
your walking analogy makes better sense when paired with reverse engineering, which should not be illegal.
a little googling found this based on the crusoe chop, and it gets 9hrs off teh battery, i think the site said the vaio works off of the crusoe as well.
be sure to link pics of th finished project in your sig when your done, id like to see what you end up doing with it.
here its his business, err, "real" business.
i want to SEE it. What does it look like, give me some jpgs to oogle over. Im sick of just imagining these supercomputers and beowulf cluster, lets see them now! Or dont they have digital cameras at these fancy affairs.
i like this one. Can render >100 Jurassic Park dinosaurs at 100 frames per second.
powerful, yeah.
OS 9 comes to mind, then 8, 7, 6 ... and they didnt "buy" any of them.
the first shippments of xboxes had roaches in them. my girlfriend works at funcoland, and when they cut into the boxes to unpack them roaches came skittering out and scared the shit out of them.
tiffs and picts are prefered, tgas or jpgs will suffice.
BeOS supports it.
thats insane. Thats equal to what, two or three G4s?
then theres the mac, maya rund on my G4 400, slowly but i think thats more my rage 128's fault. I hear its awesome on the newer G's though. THe problem is the graphics card, there are no DCC (digital content creation)class graphics card available. sure you can get a GF4TI4600 but, it lacks the developers of a quadro card, or fire gl card. OSX has all teh apps though.
wintel/lintel boxes are cheap, run reasonably well and will rovide the best bang for the buck. I would get dual processors at least to speed up rendering and look into using xeons for the multithreading capability. you can also get DCC cards, like Quadros, wildcats and fire gls that support things like hardware overlay planes and other advanced features. unfortunately your left to decide between Windows and Linux. I dont know about linux, but we all know how windows is. you may have drivers problems in linux though, but nVidia might have a nice developer solution for that. Windows has all of the commercial software you need and linux has oss, just like the SGI.
these are your options as i see it, i hope it helps.
you can if you have synaesthesia.
i know these places need to make money, but i sure makes it hard for struggling sites to be seen, especially since i pay out of my pocket for hosting to keep it ad free. this is why i love google, its bot is always on my site, and im even starting to come up in the rusults on certain search terms, thanks to a fair ranking system.
at least until you find new sources. i didnt mean to shoot you down THAT hard though.
funny isnt it.
i also like samba de amigo and the nes keyboard.
of couse then theres the snes bike and the...
i would much rather put this in my car than a hdd that will go smashing over every detroit pothole, and if your from teh area youll know what im talking about. if teh price comes down to be reasonable, this will be a nice high vibration environment solution to disk storage.
just rember that theyre 8, and theyre not you, a rare few will even care what is running as long as it continues to do so. Dont shove your os politics down their throughts, just give them something that works and isnt complicated.
as for paper writing just use openoffice, i cannot even understand vi or emacs or whatever, nor am i willing to take the time to learn, because i alerady have a solution that works for me with OO.
and you may want to ask the teachers what they NEED and want. they will most likely give you genres and not specifics
as for usb 2, it competes too much with firewire, an existing mac standard interface, ading it would only complicate the device. it dosent make business sense for apple although it would be a nice feature.
this is what peer to peer is for, get it of of the news groups and out on limewire and kazaa. please, or give me a good link to what to DL