you know these cards cost big bucks to develop and tool for. that is what your paying for when the card is new. when the company begins to pay off its investment it can lower the price and resarts the cycle with another part.
supply and demand also plays a role in it.
this is why im just now considering buying my GF4ti4200, the price has finally become reasonable, ~220ish. than in a few years ill get my GF6 when that comes down too. the best way to save money is to live off of teh bleeding edge.
i actually did, well not so accidentally. it seems that Ford is the only reason there is a Luton. I was folowing my father around europe last summer and he had business in luton so thats where we stayed while in england. the customs guy at heathro was like "where ya headed" luton "im sorry" my father and i just looked at each other and the guy was like "business with ford" yep, then to me "and i assume youll be taking the first train to London?" and thats exactly what i did.
although being from detroit, things werent that bad in luton but the trainride into London hade some scary sights off the way.
you have obviously never developed film before. it requires chemicals (developer, stop, water, etc.), graduated cylindars, a reel to put the film on, a tank to put the film in, a dark room to do it in and a clock to time it.
this is how film is processed, no computers at all, unless you consider teh clock a computer.
please clear your ignorance cache before posting again.
seriously, i lined the door of my antec SOHO case with it and it noticably cut down on the ambient noise given off by the system. im even running 3 case fans, 2 psu fans, 1 cpu fan and 1 gpu fan. trust me it works, its almost as silent as the G4 400 sitting next to it.
can i have your cycles
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ive had this same rendering going for like 15hrs now and its only half done on my P4 1.4 box. just a few of your cycles would really help.
but seriously, what if Pixar did a distributed thing to get its movies rendered faster, wveryone gets like a fraction of a few frames at a time, which are then rendered and sent back to be composited to form an image? id be down.
three engineering students are all standing around the water cooler one day trying to figure out what kind of engineer God is.
"well he must be a mechanical engineer" says the one, "have you looked at how complex the skeleton is, all those joints, man!"
"no, no, no," says another, "have you seen the brain he MUST be an electrical engineer, well never even hope to understand its complexities."
"you both have valid points," says the third "but i must contest that God is a civil engineer, i mean who else would run a hazardous waste line through a recreational area?"
that apple knows what their doing, and probably had a very good reason or doing what they did. I mean its not like they havent had the past four years to change it or anything, but whatever.
It seems to have all of the polish and usability Linux/BSD people dream about, whie still maintainging a fully open source BSD core (Darwin). Have you ever been tempted away from Linux like so many ohers?
in the gym at school our crazy chem teacher filled a baloon with pure hydrogen. it was a fairly large baloon. he then floated it up nearly to the cealing. then with a long stick and a candle he poped it and a crapload of water cam raining down, it was just like the Hindenberg, just, not as, um, catastrophic. he then explined the hydrogen from the baloon + oxygen from the air + energy (candle) == water + bang.
who will never have the chance to use an SGI, you are missing out. We recently(6 mos) received new octane 2s at work to run a high end modeler on( Alias|wavefronts studiotools). using it on a $30,000 SGI is lightyears ahead of using it on a dual proc dell with a fire gl card. the dual mips r1400's put pc chips to shame. they only run at like 300mhz, but GOD DAMN!
so all of you fan boys who say "oh my $900 dollar linux boxen is as good" can shut the hell up cause you have obviously never layed your hands on a real workstation.
if i could afford the price tag, there would be no way that i would even consider buying a mac or a pc, i would go straight to SGI, and im seriously thinking about taking out a loan for an SGI fuel.
Ya know, Word comes with a template for these sorts of occasions
but seriously, in my field (industrial design) your resume is meaningless. its all about your portfolio of work. i know kids that didnt even graduste that got top jobs because they had a hot portfolio. whats my point, employers want to see what youve accomplished, not the paper slips youve accumulated.
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Also expect to see some soft body dynamics like cloth, rubber and jello for the next iteration of physics engines.
Dead or Alive has been doing these for years, well at least the jello part.
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those characters look like their from the original playststion, just with really awesom textures. unless they bump up the polys on the character models its not going to look good.
if youve played resident evil for the GC youll know what im talking about. if doom can incorporaate all of the lighting tricks, textures and high poly models theyll be all set. i think doom has the textures and lights, but the models are horrible.
that has to be the biggest heat sink ever! i wonder why they dont go with on chip active cooling like the pc people. has anyone hacked a pc heatsink onto a g4?
the blue board is f'n gorgeous, but i NEED my zip drive!!!
the homebase anywhere suite appears to be a clone of the.mac/itools services, with its backup/synchronization features. itll be interesting to see if billy g picks up the idea as well.
otherwise it looks good, it looks real good, people friendly even.
if you used an old computer that didnt require active cooling, you could just make a quick mold and set the entire mobo in a block of silicon. you can buy this stuff at home depot for a few bucks a tube, you shouldnt need more than 4/5 tubes. if you use a board with on board video/ethernet or modem/sound your in luck cause you wont have to cover any pci cards. it would also reduce shock to the system since silicon absorbs energy. if you plug in all of your needed cables, their connections will be sealed as well. leave the heatsink partially exposed and you should have no problem. the only thing youll need to worry about are the power supply, disks, or anything else with moving parts.
what interested me the most was the absolute limitless posibility of enhancements, and hacks. mind you 3d can go from flat like QE and South Park(they use Alias|Wavefront software) to Quake 3. i wonder when OSX is going to show more of its 3d nature soon. like 3d modeled icons would be cool, and theyd animate when you clicked them, like the dock icons. or a screensaver that replaced the defailt lighting to two spotlights that dance around on your desktop, with real shadows.
theres plenty of good GLhackers out there, itll be interesting to se what they can do, mac kack 2003/4 will be prove interesting.
im sure that is a minute fraction of it but, if you read the article,
A Go-playing computer would take about 30,000 years to look as far ahead as Deep Blue can with chess in three seconds...... If processing power were all there was to it, the solution would be simply a matter of time, since computers are growing ever faster. But the obstacles go much deeper. Not only do Go programs have trouble evaluating positions quickly, they have trouble evaluating them correctly.
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supply and demand also plays a role in it.
this is why im just now considering buying my GF4ti4200, the price has finally become reasonable, ~220ish. than in a few years ill get my GF6 when that comes down too. the best way to save money is to live off of teh bleeding edge.
although being from detroit, things werent that bad in luton but the trainride into London hade some scary sights off the way.
this is how film is processed, no computers at all, unless you consider teh clock a computer.
please clear your ignorance cache before posting again.
bla bla bla... roll your own!
bla bla bla... real men...
bla bla bla... im an ubernerd kernalhacker wannabe!
or at least i think it goes something like that? right gentoo users?
dont we all
and its so easy to open them up.
seriously, i lined the door of my antec SOHO case with it and it noticably cut down on the ambient noise given off by the system. im even running 3 case fans, 2 psu fans, 1 cpu fan and 1 gpu fan. trust me it works, its almost as silent as the G4 400 sitting next to it.
but seriously, what if Pixar did a distributed thing to get its movies rendered faster, wveryone gets like a fraction of a few frames at a time, which are then rendered and sent back to be composited to form an image? id be down.
"well he must be a mechanical engineer" says the one, "have you looked at how complex the skeleton is, all those joints, man!"
"no, no, no," says another, "have you seen the brain he MUST be an electrical engineer, well never even hope to understand its complexities."
"you both have valid points," says the third "but i must contest that God is a civil engineer, i mean who else would run a hazardous waste line through a recreational area?"
rimshot... ahem right, back to work.
that apple knows what their doing, and probably had a very good reason or doing what they did. I mean its not like they havent had the past four years to change it or anything, but whatever.
It seems to have all of the polish and usability Linux/BSD people dream about, whie still maintainging a fully open source BSD core (Darwin). Have you ever been tempted away from Linux like so many ohers?
it was cool at the time i swear
so all of you fan boys who say "oh my $900 dollar linux boxen is as good" can shut the hell up cause you have obviously never layed your hands on a real workstation.
if i could afford the price tag, there would be no way that i would even consider buying a mac or a pc, i would go straight to SGI, and im seriously thinking about taking out a loan for an SGI fuel.
but anyways, relevent links are here
sgi octane 2
sgi fuel
studiotools
but seriously, in my field (industrial design) your resume is meaningless. its all about your portfolio of work. i know kids that didnt even graduste that got top jobs because they had a hot portfolio. whats my point, employers want to see what youve accomplished, not the paper slips youve accumulated.
the checks in the mail
Also expect to see some soft body dynamics like cloth, rubber and jello for the next iteration of physics engines. Dead or Alive has been doing these for years, well at least the jello part.
if youve played resident evil for the GC youll know what im talking about. if doom can incorporaate all of the lighting tricks, textures and high poly models theyll be all set. i think doom has the textures and lights, but the models are horrible.
but its still in pre prod. so...
and i though niggles were the cousins of lemmings
btw its slashdotted, so see a cooler chair here
the cool chair linky thing
the blue board is f'n gorgeous, but i NEED my zip drive!!!
otherwise it looks good, it looks real good, people friendly even.
otherwise cool, even though im not a mod fan at all, you have to admire the effort and craft.
if you used an old computer that didnt require active cooling, you could just make a quick mold and set the entire mobo in a block of silicon. you can buy this stuff at home depot for a few bucks a tube, you shouldnt need more than 4/5 tubes. if you use a board with on board video/ethernet or modem/sound your in luck cause you wont have to cover any pci cards. it would also reduce shock to the system since silicon absorbs energy. if you plug in all of your needed cables, their connections will be sealed as well. leave the heatsink partially exposed and you should have no problem. the only thing youll need to worry about are the power supply, disks, or anything else with moving parts.
its the ultimate embedded solution
theres plenty of good GLhackers out there, itll be interesting to se what they can do, mac kack 2003/4 will be prove interesting.