-What sucked me in though, was the scope and detail of the world. What I really wanted to do was to see it. When I did venture out along a well traveled path, I'd soon be dead after nightfall.
You need to try Star Wars Galaxys. I'm about as lame as you are and I enjoy SWG quite a bit - for exactly that reason. The barrier to entry is pretty much non-existant with respect to levels, no death penalty, and if you just want to crank up the eye candy and walk around and explore the metaverse... that's cool. Granted you need to kill a FEW things to gain access to some of the theme parks (Jabba's palace, for example) but they are really not that difficult or time consuming (hour or two, maybe three or four if you want to get up close and poke Jabba in his belly.) The only limiting factor is cash to buy shuttle tickets between planets, but if you wanna be a regular ol' guy that goes around the Star Wars galaxy just checking things out - you can do that... it is an incredibly beautiful and rich rendition of the Star Wars era - simply amazing on a high powered computer.
I almost forgot, it also monitors the airbag. If your airbag deploys it calls the car phone. If you don't pick up the phone and tell them everything is just peachy they roll EMS (ambulance, etc.) to your location.
Actually medical records are just the tip of the iceburg. The reaming we have coming in the next few years caused by all this outsourcing is going to be ass-tronomical... make the goatse guy look like a newbie.
-Consider that for most musicians the motivation to make music is to make money.
No, the motivation behind most musicians is getting lots of ass. Mick Jagger is about the ugliest moose lips rascal I have ever seen and his latest girlfriend was a model in Brazil - he was tapping it like a keg and for all I know still is.
Money is a nice side effect, but sex makes the world go round.
-"Sic" translates to English as "so" or "thus" and in the context in which he uses it is not inappropriate,[sic]
I always thought it meant 'I am quoting some other illiterate bastard that spelled / used this word / sentence incorrectly and since I am quoting him exactly I need to let you know that he, not I, totally thrashed the rules of the English language in the afore mentioned quote.
-Trees are good, but not when they are all the same Tree
Why is that? Asthetics and treehuggery aside, of course.
This is probably buried WAY too deep in the second page to get read, but I think all that really needs to happen is to put everybody on an airplane and fly them over Seattle or New Hampshire. Every ten seconds look out the window and point at the fields of trees growing as far as the eyes can see and say 'hey look, another tree. and over there... more trees. hey look over that direction - see the massive green and brown things? those are trees also. hey look over there (you guessed it) more trees!'
Anybody that has flown anywhere in the past few years knows what I am talking about.
They are pretty proud of those bad boys, I was entirely too thrilled with the thought of going with a few in my new (SATA enabled) box until I found the Raptor SATA drive marketing slogans : the new Raptor SATA drives, cost as much as SCSI, now available in the new massive 36G size!
I passed, heck they even made SCSI look reasonable.
When you implement hardware RAID buy spared (identical) drives. Buy a spare (identical) card too.
And RAID 5 is a cheap used AMI MegaRAID card with 32M - 128M of read/write cache and SCSI drives. Cost you about $100 delivered. I think the company may be called LSI now(?) Regardless... MegaRAID card - accept no substitutes.
Oh man I was reading this thinking 'yes! Yes! YES! I have an answer!' right up until I read the last few lines about actual platforms.
I was headed towards setting up perfmon as a service and having one machine lookup the values from all the other machines and display them in either graph or save it as data - but this is obviously not the answer you were looking for.
Hey, I tried. I am only just now coming up to speed on Linux so it will be a while before I am useful in that arena. Slashdot motto : if you can't be right, at least post early (hey, I tried.)
Gotta do something while XP installs over the course of the next 37 minutes.
A 5 gig database isn't a monster if we are talking Oracle or MS/SQL, but a 5 gig Foxpro database with associated index and memo fields is a monster.
But I agree with you... along the lines of 'if you are gonna dream, dream big' I see where you are going : if you are going to throttle your box with a large database (in order to make it look good against a 32 bit machine,) go for broke.
Oh yea, and just like we saw when we went from 8 bit to 16 bit computing, and again when we went from 16 bit to 32 bit computing, going from 32 bit to 64 bit is going to afford us three things: 1. The first generation out of the box is going to probably run slower than the fastest release of the older chip. This because the compilers don't take the new stuff into account and the OS doesn't use the new stuff in efficient ways yet. Also because the old chip is generally running at a faster clock speed than the prototype new chips. P60 showed us that when the 486 chips were running 133 or so. 2. You get more memory to address, but until you actually buy and add the additional memory that potential is untapped. 8088 boxes peaked at 1M, 286 boxes peaked at 16M (so did the 386sx, IIRC), Pentium class boxes peaked at 4G, and the new 64 bit machines are going to peak at some unGodly amount of RAM that this time I guarantee nobody will ever be able to afford to totally fill one up and even if they did they wouldn't be able to use it all (sound familiar?) 3. Generally the next generation of chips scale higher than the previous generation of chip. 8088 : 12MHz. 286 : 25MHz or so. 386 : 40MHz or so. 486 : 133MHz. 586 : 233MHz. 686 : 450MHz or so. 786 : 1,400MHz. 886 (P4) : 3.2GHz. These new Opterons, and the next generation P5 (64bit?) chips : who knows. Granted a 1.4GHz PIII is faster than a 1.4GHz P4, but the P4 runs all the way to 3.2GHz or more.
Big monster databases, assuming you loaded it with much memory as you could afford. You start doing work on a 5G database on a machine with 6G or so of RAM and can actually use it all... and leave the Wintel boxes behind eating your dust.
The first thing I thought of was FFFFFFFF being a negative number, but it wasn't until much later that I saw he wasn't doing a less than, he was doing a not equals.
Then I realized I was up pretty late tonight, and went to sleep.
-Yet some people seem to think that being rabidly anti-paedophile is some sort of shining badge of virtue -//- Myself, I wonder what these people are over-compensating for.
Actually the really violent anti-paedophiles are generally making good on a promise they made to themselves when they were (abused) children : to get revenge (often hidden behind 'make sure it doesn't happen to someone else.') Maybe they can't get the one that abused them, but they will find a child abuser and they will make him pay for every night they cried themselves to sleep.
Has nothing to do with hard drive space, but you asked.
Same reason MADD has such a hardcore following.
A particularly exaggerated example of this is found in prison : most really bad criminals had really bad childhoods, I would wager a majority were abused in one way or another as children... guess how long convicted child molesters last once they hit prison? That priest from Boston lasted what, 48 hours? and he was in protective custody.
Actually putting together a petabyte system is a no brainer for the tech users here at/.
Wait 10 years. Go down to Best Buy. Get four 300TB IDE drives. Install them in your home computer. 1.2 petabytes in your home computer.
Easy.
In 15 years you will be retiring computers with a petabyte of drive space in them, perhaps using them as doorstops or donating them to poor college kids that can't afford real computers.
Pretty much it was Doom III on the C=64. Of course my memory may be fading - but it still kept me coming back for more. I can still hear that music in the back of my head when the voices aren't talking.
-How many students can afford 16-way servers with many 32G of memory to refine their SMP code on, for example?
Lets see, thats 16 single CPU machines with 2G apiece... 16 times $300 plus 32G of RAM at about $200 per gigabyte... carry the two... $11,200 plus or minus. Damn, even a RAIC (Rsomething Array of Inexpensive Computers) of that power is out of reach for most college kids.
That said, a 4 machine RAIC at that level (4x$500=$2,000) is pretty much within reach of today's college kids if they save their student loans and don't buy AV (stereo and television toys for their apartment) equipment instead. Four 2.4GHz HyperThreading P4 machines with half a Gig of RAM apiece on a gigabit backbone... Jesus where was this kind of supercomputer hardware at RamenNoodle pricing when I was a college kid. Two grand for a 386sx16 with a 40M MFM drive, 2M of RAM and a 2400 baud modem and I was THANKFUL.
Incoming fax calls are distinctive because they actually send beeps while they are calling (they actually start sending the beeps, synch tones, before the other line even picks up.)
A dead call indicated either a modem (modems wait for the answering phone to respond with the initial synch tones, it is why a modem can tell if a person or a modem picks up) or the telemarketers predictive / predator dialing machines.
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Ya get laid much, Bob?
-What sucked me in though, was the scope and detail of the world. What I really wanted to do was to see it. When I did venture out along a well traveled path, I'd soon be dead after nightfall.
... that's cool. Granted you need to kill a FEW things to gain access to some of the theme parks (Jabba's palace, for example) but they are really not that difficult or time consuming (hour or two, maybe three or four if you want to get up close and poke Jabba in his belly.) The only limiting factor is cash to buy shuttle tickets between planets, but if you wanna be a regular ol' guy that goes around the Star Wars galaxy just checking things out - you can do that ... it is an incredibly beautiful and rich rendition of the Star Wars era - simply amazing on a high powered computer.
You need to try Star Wars Galaxys. I'm about as lame as you are and I enjoy SWG quite a bit - for exactly that reason. The barrier to entry is pretty much non-existant with respect to levels, no death penalty, and if you just want to crank up the eye candy and walk around and explore the metaverse
I almost forgot, it also monitors the airbag. If your airbag deploys it calls the car phone. If you don't pick up the phone and tell them everything is just peachy they roll EMS (ambulance, etc.) to your location.
Onstar can unlock the door on your car, and can listen into the vehicle to hear what is happening. It can also pinpoint the vehicle's location.
Actually medical records are just the tip of the iceburg. The reaming we have coming in the next few years caused by all this outsourcing is going to be ass-tronomical ... make the goatse guy look like a newbie.
-Consider that for most musicians the motivation to make music is to make money.
No, the motivation behind most musicians is getting lots of ass. Mick Jagger is about the ugliest moose lips rascal I have ever seen and his latest girlfriend was a model in Brazil - he was tapping it like a keg and for all I know still is.
Money is a nice side effect, but sex makes the world go round.
I think Pavlov needs to run a few new experiments. Forget ringing a bell and checking a dog's jowls - this one has some potential.
I just remembered that QED means something to that effect, however.
...' or '... which makes it obvious that ...'
Latin. quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated).
QED was explained to me as '... and thus it follows that
-"Sic" translates to English as "so" or "thus" and in the context in which he uses it is not inappropriate,[sic]
I always thought it meant 'I am quoting some other illiterate bastard that spelled / used this word / sentence incorrectly and since I am quoting him exactly I need to let you know that he, not I, totally thrashed the rules of the English language in the afore mentioned quote.
Well after they changed the value of the constant they had to recompile it.
-Trees are good, but not when they are all the same Tree
Why is that? Asthetics and treehuggery aside, of course.
This is probably buried WAY too deep in the second page to get read, but I think all that really needs to happen is to put everybody on an airplane and fly them over Seattle or New Hampshire. Every ten seconds look out the window and point at the fields of trees growing as far as the eyes can see and say 'hey look, another tree. and over there... more trees. hey look over that direction - see the massive green and brown things? those are trees also. hey look over there (you guessed it) more trees!'
Anybody that has flown anywhere in the past few years knows what I am talking about.
Put it out in Area51. Those guys could use it for target practice.
Priced the new Raptor SATA drives yet?
They are pretty proud of those bad boys, I was entirely too thrilled with the thought of going with a few in my new (SATA enabled) box until I found the Raptor SATA drive marketing slogans : the new Raptor SATA drives, cost as much as SCSI, now available in the new massive 36G size!
I passed, heck they even made SCSI look reasonable.
Oh man, talk about a scam!
1. Convince people that 'oh yea, these will decompose a hundred years after I am dead' and sell CDs for 3x normal cost.
2. ???
3. Profit!
When you implement hardware RAID buy spared (identical) drives. Buy a spare (identical) card too.
... MegaRAID card - accept no substitutes.
And RAID 5 is a cheap used AMI MegaRAID card with 32M - 128M of read/write cache and SCSI drives. Cost you about $100 delivered. I think the company may be called LSI now(?) Regardless
Oh man I was reading this thinking 'yes! Yes! YES! I have an answer!' right up until I read the last few lines about actual platforms.
I was headed towards setting up perfmon as a service and having one machine lookup the values from all the other machines and display them in either graph or save it as data - but this is obviously not the answer you were looking for.
Hey, I tried. I am only just now coming up to speed on Linux so it will be a while before I am useful in that arena. Slashdot motto : if you can't be right, at least post early (hey, I tried.)
Gotta do something while XP installs over the course of the next 37 minutes.
A 5 gig database isn't a monster if we are talking Oracle or MS/SQL, but a 5 gig Foxpro database with associated index and memo fields is a monster.
... along the lines of 'if you are gonna dream, dream big' I see where you are going : if you are going to throttle your box with a large database (in order to make it look good against a 32 bit machine,) go for broke.
:
But I agree with you
Oh yea, and just like we saw when we went from 8 bit to 16 bit computing, and again when we went from 16 bit to 32 bit computing, going from 32 bit to 64 bit is going to afford us three things
1. The first generation out of the box is going to probably run slower than the fastest release of the older chip. This because the compilers don't take the new stuff into account and the OS doesn't use the new stuff in efficient ways yet. Also because the old chip is generally running at a faster clock speed than the prototype new chips. P60 showed us that when the 486 chips were running 133 or so.
2. You get more memory to address, but until you actually buy and add the additional memory that potential is untapped. 8088 boxes peaked at 1M, 286 boxes peaked at 16M (so did the 386sx, IIRC), Pentium class boxes peaked at 4G, and the new 64 bit machines are going to peak at some unGodly amount of RAM that this time I guarantee nobody will ever be able to afford to totally fill one up and even if they did they wouldn't be able to use it all (sound familiar?)
3. Generally the next generation of chips scale higher than the previous generation of chip. 8088 : 12MHz. 286 : 25MHz or so. 386 : 40MHz or so. 486 : 133MHz. 586 : 233MHz. 686 : 450MHz or so. 786 : 1,400MHz. 886 (P4) : 3.2GHz. These new Opterons, and the next generation P5 (64bit?) chips : who knows. Granted a 1.4GHz PIII is faster than a 1.4GHz P4, but the P4 runs all the way to 3.2GHz or more.
Big monster databases, assuming you loaded it with much memory as you could afford. You start doing work on a 5G database on a machine with 6G or so of RAM and can actually use it all ... and leave the Wintel boxes behind eating your dust.
The first thing I thought of was FFFFFFFF being a negative number, but it wasn't until much later that I saw he wasn't doing a less than, he was doing a not equals.
Then I realized I was up pretty late tonight, and went to sleep.
-Yet some people seem to think that being rabidly anti-paedophile is some sort of shining badge of virtue -//- Myself, I wonder what these people are over-compensating for.
... guess how long convicted child molesters last once they hit prison? That priest from Boston lasted what, 48 hours? and he was in protective custody.
Actually the really violent anti-paedophiles are generally making good on a promise they made to themselves when they were (abused) children : to get revenge (often hidden behind 'make sure it doesn't happen to someone else.') Maybe they can't get the one that abused them, but they will find a child abuser and they will make him pay for every night they cried themselves to sleep.
Has nothing to do with hard drive space, but you asked.
Same reason MADD has such a hardcore following.
A particularly exaggerated example of this is found in prison : most really bad criminals had really bad childhoods, I would wager a majority were abused in one way or another as children
Actually putting together a petabyte system is a no brainer for the tech users here at /.
Wait 10 years.
Go down to Best Buy.
Get four 300TB IDE drives.
Install them in your home computer.
1.2 petabytes in your home computer.
Easy.
In 15 years you will be retiring computers with a petabyte of drive space in them, perhaps using them as doorstops or donating them to poor college kids that can't afford real computers.
5 to 8 petabytes a year?
Damn. They're gonna need PKZip.
You missed out on the best game ever : JumpMan.
Pretty much it was Doom III on the C=64. Of course my memory may be fading - but it still kept me coming back for more. I can still hear that music in the back of my head when the voices aren't talking.
-How many students can afford 16-way servers with many 32G of memory to refine their SMP code on, for example?
... 16 times $300 plus 32G of RAM at about $200 per gigabyte ... carry the two ... $11,200 plus or minus. Damn, even a RAIC (Rsomething Array of Inexpensive Computers) of that power is out of reach for most college kids.
... Jesus where was this kind of supercomputer hardware at RamenNoodle pricing when I was a college kid. Two grand for a 386sx16 with a 40M MFM drive, 2M of RAM and a 2400 baud modem and I was THANKFUL.
Lets see, thats 16 single CPU machines with 2G apiece
That said, a 4 machine RAIC at that level (4x$500=$2,000) is pretty much within reach of today's college kids if they save their student loans and don't buy AV (stereo and television toys for their apartment) equipment instead. Four 2.4GHz HyperThreading P4 machines with half a Gig of RAM apiece on a gigabit backbone
Incoming fax calls are distinctive because they actually send beeps while they are calling (they actually start sending the beeps, synch tones, before the other line even picks up.)
A dead call indicated either a modem (modems wait for the answering phone to respond with the initial synch tones, it is why a modem can tell if a person or a modem picks up) or the telemarketers predictive / predator dialing machines.