If you're talking about the SGI 1600SW wasn't that LCD $2500 when it was introduced? I purchased one years after it was first made available. It's very nice.
Desktop Linux has had and will continue to have a big impact on the corporate/technical workstation. Since OS X doesn't exist in that space whatsoever, this entire discussion is a non-starter.
The GIS vault keepers for New York City, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT, or more appropriately, DoNOT) have a similar policy. All non City employees are treated as potential terrorists hell bent on devastating the City's infrastructure and bringing chaos to all. It's a shame. The layperson you ask on the street will likely have no idea this is the situation. Non City employees working in GIS have to fight these absurd policies. (I'm not bitter, btw.) The solution is to make some noise about this. I don't know about CT but New York City holds public forums concerning the use of technology. Contacting the Department and asking for the next appropriate venue to voice your opinion would be an excellent start. Prepare yourself for arrogant and dismissive City officials.
I used to work in GIS in NYC (not for the City). As far as I can recall all New York City employees have free access to all NYC GIS data via the CityShare network (Which, from what I hear is quite extensive). I don't know for sure if City Council members and their staff fall into this category but I can't imagine why they wouldn't. You may have to contact your local MIS dept if you yourself don't have direct acess to the City's intranet.
e-mail me, c h r i s b w a t g m a i l d o t c o m if you have questions. It's mostly about asking the right people.
I checked their jobs page and the minimum is 6 years experience with large scale C++ projects. I didn't realize there was a huge pool of 21 year olds with 6+ years of large scale C++ experience that they can dip into.
9/11 doesn't have much to do with it. Factors: NYC's infrastructure is older. It's very expensive to do stuff like this in NYC. Demand is less. Older cities have trouble adding/changing/etc. technology. LA got their subway system up in 15 years. Adding one new like to the east side of Manhattan is like a 30-40 year plan.)
Can we please let go of the dream of using X, NX, VNC or anything else over dial-up or slow links? It's not happening people. It's too slow; it doesn't work. The REAL question is, why is X slow even over fast links. I've used X and VNC over 100Mbit LAN and 802.11b. It's useable but frustratingly slow. If we consider making X faster instead of coming up with something completely new (which will no doubt have it's own set of problems. like uptake, which someone already mentioned), that would be much better. Hopefully full desktop X and VNC will finally be usable over gigabit LAN/WAN, 802.11g or at least the upcoming 802.11n/gigabit Wifi.
It would be much easier to write a BIOS flashing virus,
Thats kind of the point, you would flash the BIOS so your microcode changes would be used on every subsequent reboot. As processors become more feature rich, grow in complexity and have more of a need to be field reprogrammable, these types of hacks could be inconspicuously devastating to the security of a a system.
I'm billing Sun for my lunch that just came up, out and onto the floor.
Seems like a good idea, but these new screenshots look nasty. Maybe with insanely high resolutions their tricks might look decent. With Openlook, NeWS and CDE, sun has a history of putting craptastic UI's on their user's desks. My guess is Sun realized they were going nowhere with this one too and decided to foist it on the public. Nice try, Sun. Shortly after the hype dies down this monster will be relegated to the annals of the failed UI's museum.
Make the calculator sticky.
Right now, I have no need for this type of interface, I find multiple monitors with multiple virtual screens roomy and easy to manage.
I have a VT100 LCD screen. It was made by Planar. They sold a rack kit with it. I'm not sure they still sell this stuff though. The other option is to get one of those laptop rack kits and get a cheap laptop and just run a terminal emulator. That's the better way to go IMHO; you get more flexability.
I did something similar. But what I did could more accurately be described as 'shelves', not racks. I spent about $20. It ain't pretty to look at but at least I have room for more computers. Picture
"When QRIO determines that its actions will not prevent a fall, it instinctively sticks out its arms, swivels its hips, and assumes an impact position. At the same time, the control system instantaneously commands the servos in the joint actuators to relax slightly. In this way it lessens the shock of the fall, enabling it to survive unscathed.
QRIO is also programmed to check its position after a fall, turn itself face up, and recover from a variety of prone positions."
They won't since there's no compiler team at AMD. There are AMD engineers that work on the GCC project. That's as close as you're going to get. I think ICC yields slightly better performance on AMD anyway.
Linux has a windowing system. It's a good one. It's the one Unix has. It's called the X Window System. It's not a really a GUI in and of itself. Open layers built on top of it provide nice looking interfaces. X is more "standard" than any other windowing platform out there especially Win32/MFC. It's open. It's multi-vendor. There are free implementations. There are commercial implementations. It's a standard. Microsoft Windows is not a standard. The problem this author and most people who make this argument have is that they are so locked into one way of thinking about computing; they try to force things to go a certain way; The Redmond Way. The fact of the matter is, right now, Linux is a Unix work-a-like, not a Windows look-a-like. As for what users want; Linux users want the same thing and Unix users. Power and Simplicity. Sometimes that means a specially tailored system out of a base standard. If anyone tries to take that away then will probably be burned. Forcing a high level GUI standard under the notion of progress is dangerous. They probably need Linux to be more interoperable with the Unix system than with Linux. A successful "Standardization" will break that. Anecdotally, any users who dip their finger tips in a system comprised of a Linux kernel, a GNU userland and an X GUI framework want openness and choice, not monolithism and information hiding. Want more users? Keep doing what Unix and Linux has done. Keep building more powerful software. Users will come. I came. You came.
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SGI 1600SW. Superior.
As if DFM wasn't hard enough for small geometries. This should give EDA vendors an excuse to charge twice and much for their tools.
If you're talking about the SGI 1600SW wasn't that LCD $2500 when it was introduced? I purchased one years after it was first made available. It's very nice.
Desktop Linux has had and will continue to have a big impact on the corporate/technical workstation. Since OS X doesn't exist in that space whatsoever, this entire discussion is a non-starter.
MIPS, the first RISC architecture, was around before 1986.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
The GIS vault keepers for New York City, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT, or more appropriately, DoNOT) have a similar policy. All non City employees are treated as potential terrorists hell bent on devastating the City's infrastructure and bringing chaos to all. It's a shame. The layperson you ask on the street will likely have no idea this is the situation. Non City employees working in GIS have to fight these absurd policies. (I'm not bitter, btw.) The solution is to make some noise about this. I don't know about CT but New York City holds public forums concerning the use of technology. Contacting the Department and asking for the next appropriate venue to voice your opinion would be an excellent start. Prepare yourself for arrogant and dismissive City officials.
I used to work in GIS in NYC (not for the City). As far as I can recall all New York City employees have free access to all NYC GIS data via the CityShare network (Which, from what I hear is quite extensive). I don't know for sure if City Council members and their staff fall into this category but I can't imagine why they wouldn't. You may have to contact your local MIS dept if you yourself don't have direct acess to the City's intranet. e-mail me, c h r i s b w a t g m a i l d o t c o m if you have questions. It's mostly about asking the right people.
I checked their jobs page and the minimum is 6 years experience with large scale C++ projects. I didn't realize there was a huge pool of 21 year olds with 6+ years of large scale C++ experience that they can dip into.
9/11 doesn't have much to do with it.
Factors:
NYC's infrastructure is older.
It's very expensive to do stuff like this in NYC.
Demand is less.
Older cities have trouble adding/changing/etc. technology. LA got their subway system up in 15 years. Adding one new like to the east side of Manhattan is like a 30-40 year plan.)
It's spelled "spelled". Not that I never make spelling mistakes; I'm just saying..
wake me when i can get a good viop+wifi celly
zzzz.. *snore*
Can we please let go of the dream of using X, NX, VNC or anything else over dial-up or slow links? It's not happening people. It's too slow; it doesn't work. The REAL question is, why is X slow even over fast links. I've used X and VNC over 100Mbit LAN and 802.11b. It's useable but frustratingly slow. If we consider making X faster instead of coming up with something completely new (which will no doubt have it's own set of problems. like uptake, which someone already mentioned), that would be much better. Hopefully full desktop X and VNC will finally be usable over gigabit LAN/WAN, 802.11g or at least the upcoming 802.11n/gigabit Wifi.
Why does Microsoft copy so many ideas? With all their resources, shouldn't they be coming up with this stuff before everyone else?
I'm billing Sun for my lunch that just came up, out and onto the floor.
Seems like a good idea, but these new screenshots look nasty. Maybe with insanely high resolutions their tricks might look decent. With Openlook, NeWS and CDE, sun has a history of putting craptastic UI's on their user's desks. My guess is Sun realized they were going nowhere with this one too and decided to foist it on the public. Nice try, Sun. Shortly after the hype dies down this monster will be relegated to the annals of the failed UI's museum.
There are people working on 3D SVG too.
I don't know about all this. My GMail invite when stright to my Yahoo! inbox last night.
Make the calculator sticky.
Right now, I have no need for this type of interface, I find multiple monitors with multiple virtual screens roomy and easy to manage.
I have a VT100 LCD screen. It was made by Planar. They sold a rack kit with it. I'm not sure they still sell this stuff though. The other option is to get one of those laptop rack kits and get a cheap laptop and just run a terminal emulator. That's the better way to go IMHO; you get more flexability.
I did something similar. But what I did could more accurately be described as 'shelves', not racks. I spent about $20. It ain't pretty to look at but at least I have room for more computers. Picture
I found that on Sony's website.
They won't since there's no compiler team at AMD. There are AMD engineers that work on the GCC project. That's as close as you're going to get.
I think ICC yields slightly better performance on AMD anyway.
Sun, you can keep your Java Desktop. I want Looking Glass.
Linux has a windowing system. It's a good one. It's the one Unix has. It's called the X Window System. It's not a really a GUI in and of itself. Open layers built on top of it provide nice looking interfaces. X is more "standard" than any other windowing platform out there especially Win32/MFC. It's open. It's multi-vendor. There are free implementations. There are commercial implementations. It's a standard. Microsoft Windows is not a standard.
The problem this author and most people who make this argument have is that they are so locked into one way of thinking about computing; they try to force things to go a certain way; The Redmond Way. The fact of the matter is, right now, Linux is a Unix work-a-like, not a Windows look-a-like. As for what users want; Linux users want the same thing and Unix users. Power and Simplicity. Sometimes that means a specially tailored system out of a base standard. If anyone tries to take that away then will probably be burned. Forcing a high level GUI standard under the notion of progress is dangerous. They probably need Linux to be more interoperable with the Unix system than with Linux. A successful "Standardization" will break that. Anecdotally, any users who dip their finger tips in a system comprised of a Linux kernel, a GNU userland and an X GUI framework want openness and choice, not monolithism and information hiding. Want more users? Keep doing what Unix and Linux has done. Keep building more powerful software. Users will come. I came. You came.