The 1655 CPU cluster is expected to deliver 25 Tflops, while the Virginia Tech machine, with 1,100 CPU's (if I remember properly) is rated at 10 Tflops. What else is different? Are they using a different interconnect?
Had you read the article you would have known that thr Army machine is connected using standard gigabit ehternet whereas the Big Mac used Infiniband.
Since this is Slashdot you are par for the course.
Does not happen to me. Mostly likely because my font is smaller than the default font?
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Yes, you're correct. Hence in my original post there is the modifier of "just about" - but here's to hoping you are wearing underwear and have lots of free time as well!:)
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"some guy in his underwear with too much free time"
Uh, doesn't this just about describe any Slashdot reader? I mean, I don't know about too much free time but I hope everyone is wearing underwear!
Yeah, I looked at the word twice myself and wonder if it was a misspelling.
From dictionary.com: quoth tr.v. Archaic
Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following: "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" (Edgar Allan Poe).
Firewire technology (FW400 & FW8000) is much superior to USB2 in my opinion yet there is a dearth of FW peripherals i.e FW flash drives, FW multi-flash readers, digital cameras (photographic) with FW interface, etc. Is it just cost?
It is said that the next version of OS X (10.4 aka Tiger) will finally support the Home on iPod feature (storing one's user directory on the iPod) first announced in 10.3 Jaguar.
In addition, any of the modern Macs can also boot off the iPod as well. Therefore, I would not be surprised if the next generation of iPod/Mac supports a feature where you can plug in one's iPod into any Mac and it would behave like one's own Mac.
It has always been hard to beat Dell on value. But for everything else, such as innovaiton, aesthetics, and ease-of-use, the iPod is still the one to beat.
I know of people whose job was watching porn (writing porn DVD reviews). As with most jobs, after a while it becomes routine and one just becomes numb (no pun intended!) to the content.
Not sure I want that as my career.
Being a pr0n star, however, is another question...
Espresso does not have more caffeine compared to drip coffee in general.
I mention in general because espresso is more uniform in their bean selection (arabica), roast (dark), grind (fine) and method of extraction (less tha 20-25 seconds @ 8-10 bars of pressure). Compared to drip coffee which can be prepared in a variety of ways i.e bean (arabica or robusta), roast (light, medium, dark), grind (coarse to medium), and methods (ideal way is 4 minutes in french press but drip machines are inconsistent and some use metal filters whereas some use paper filters which absorbs the natural coffee oil/flavor, etc).
Anyway, back to my point. Espresso generally has 80 mg per serving (2 oz = doppio) than drip coffee which has 160 mg (could vary from 120-240) per 16 oz. serving.
And what is thing about Starbucks coffee being over-roasted and Cook's Illustrated say so? Roast, much like one's taste in color, music, etc, is entirely personal. You would not start wearing belts with big buckles just because Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for Straight Eye say so, do you?
Coffee Geek is a great resource for information. Here too: http://www.ynhh.org/online/nutrition/advisor/caffe ine.html
Better OS and included productivity suites like iLife? Yes.
Comparable in price? I do not think so.
Most Mac lovers are used to paying the MSRP as set by Apple - no discounts, no sales. As a result, when they need a price comparison, they go to Dell.com and price out a system. However, what they fail to realize is that most PC consumers price-shop!
To use more lame automotive analogies, Mac users are like Saturn car buyers who have always paid the no haggle price and are happy with it. However, they also expect PC buyers who buy Yugo (cheap white box), Toyota/Honda/Ford/GM/VW (Dell, HP, etc), or Lexus/Audi/Mercedes/BMW (Alienware, VAIO, IBM Thinkpads), to not price shop i.e. negotiate at the dealership!
Case in point: The Inspiron 600m was recently advertised to be $1050 after discount and rebate, 2/3 the price of a 12" PB.*
The price comparison with 4600 is even more ridiculous. At $770 and with free shipping, you could get a 2.8 gHz 4600 with a 17" LCD! Many web sites advertise such sales. Personally, I have recommanded http://www.techbargains.com/query.cfm to friends and family members.
So in summary, Macs maybe better in many, if not most, aspects compared to an x86 running Windows but one thing it is not is cheaper!
*NOTE* - I would still buy the PB anyway and recommand Macs to friends and families. I am just a (disgruntled) Mac user who had to pay $280 to fix my iBook's logic board that was not covered by the recall!
*NOTE 2* - Sure there is little difference when doing everyday tasks but when it comes times to encode AAC/DivX/render etc, I find a higher clocked P4 or similarly clocked Pentium-M to be superior to G4.
"Basically you can plug in just about any USB input device and it'll Just Work."
As a Mac user, I can tell you that this is not really true. Visit the Mac forums you will see many scanners, all-in-one print/scan/fax devices, etc do not work well on Macs.
Many common and modern devices such as KB/Mouse, printers, cameras, etc do just work fine though.
"Is the site hosted on a the original server with 16K RAM and a 10 megabyte hard drive becase it is Slashdotted!!!!!"
"Yes, but does it run Linux?"
"Bill Gates said 640K ought to be enough for everyone." which is then followed by 10 variations of "Actually, Gates never said that."
"I actually owned one of those (insert archaic by modern standards technology here)"
which is followed by another 10 variations of
"That's nothing. We didn't even have those abovementioned technology because Big Bang just occurred and we only had hydoren and helium available, you insensitive clod!!"
My majors were chemistry and Asian Studies in college. Am I working in a chemical factory in Asia now? No. Am I a geek reading Slashdot at work and replying to you? Hell yeah!
If you cannot go beyond judging a book by its covers, you should not be judging.
Started off as a curiosity but the more I listened the more I was hooked.
There is thematic unity, progression, variation, and transformation on a theme, different styles (baroque vs a classical symphony), structure, etc. The same piece performed by different artists added additional insights and interpretation as well.
Not to sound snobby or anything but a classical music can be both something to enjoyed simply or an intellectual exercise if you want it to be.
Lastly, I know 10, 20, 30, 40 years down the line, I can still listen the the same Mozart, Paganini, Bach pieces I enjoy today. So may my kids. Would I enjoy Coldplay or Coolio 30 years later? Not likely.
---Such a machine may well fall into your lap from somewhere
Don't tell me.
Your real name doesn't happen to be Tony Soprano and you don't happen to live in New Jersey, where many such G5s fall into your lap from a truck somewhere, right?
As a certified (PADI Advanced) diver, I will say your post is filled with distorted facts, if not downright factual errors. I pray for your safety when you dive and hope you are not my dive buddy!
For example:
---when you dive to a depth of 30 to 60 feet or so you can only stay down safely a bit less than an hour or you risk getting the bend
Incorrect.
Bends, more correctly known as decompression sickness, is caused by rapid decompression i.e. ascending too quickly. It is not caused by how long you were underwater as you had claimed.
Bends can be induced even if you are under water, say 60 ft, for one single minute and then shot up too quickly. This is why the recommend ascent rate is less than 1 ft per minute followed by one or more safety stops at 15 ft.
---its failsafe in many ways that scuba is not.
I would disagree with you again. Scuba is actually one of the safest sports out there because 1) it requires its users to be trained and certified and 2) and because of the redundancy built-in.
Every diver has a primary regulator (the thing you suck air from) and a secondary regulator just in case if the primary fails. Even if both fails, many diver carries a pony bottle that gives one just enough air to reach surface. In the case if that fails or if you do not have a pony bottle, you can always use your dive buddy's secondary regulator. What if your buddy's secondary reg also fails? You can either share the primary regulator with your buddy or, as you mentioned, ascent without air while breathing out the remaining air in your lung.
So, is a scuba diver, who is by definition certified, safer than ScubaDoo user? I think so.
---Likewise there is no way to suddenly find the tank is empty. when the tank goes empty you still have a head bubbles worth of air left
Not true either. Even if you are tank is empty and you had to ascend rapidly (forgetting for a second that you should be diving with a buddy), it is recommended to keep your regulator in your mouth because the remaining little air in your tank will expand as well and give you one last breath. In a sense, this is not too different from the Scubadoo's head of air bubble.
Lastly, while a pulmonary barotrauma (burst lung) is possible, it is extremely rare.
I have Chinese MP3 that I was able to tag in iTunes in OS X easily so the fact that they are Hindi does make a difference (what, your OS does not support unicode/hindi/whatever????).
Furthermore, tagging is the easiest and, dare I say it, universally recognized way to organize digital msuic music, which is why virtually all digital music player support tagging. Arranging by folders is, as you call it, an alternative solution when one cannot correctly tag MP3's for whatever reason (#1 being user error).
To blame Apple or anyone else for not doing the stupid way is just, well, stupid.
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I see you have not used iTunes. Why not create a smart playlist that automatically grab all songs that got added to the library in the last x days?
Oh right, you rather navigate through the nested folders to find your music!
You are the perfect candidate for Linux on iPod that proudly proclaims it plays MP3.
You license AAC from Via Licensing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dolby Lab.
The quality of its product aside, Dolby is the Microsoft of its industry. It is good in that it creates a 'standard', bad in the sense that it makes other audio formats (DTS) hard to compete.
And for the nth time, AAC is a closed and proprietary codec owned solely by Dolby Laboratories. In that respect, it is no different than WMA (Microsoft), RA (Real), ATRAC (Sony), and MP3 (FH), each one of them owned by a corporation.
As for it being a standard, every company calls its implementation the standard (Sony- Betamax). As a consumer, I decide what is the standard.
Conclusion: This makes it OK for Apple to fuck up its product rollouts and goals for Mini, xServe, and iTunes, and many of its other products?
By your logic, since a lot of companies cook their books so it is OK for Apple to do it too?
As for settling down, I am as cool as a cucumber (and an OS X user too). Apple apologists are the ones who are insecure and squirms whenever someone shines a light on them!:)
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I guess this must prove there is more than one sucker born every minute!
Had you read the article you would have known that thr Army machine is connected using standard gigabit ehternet whereas the Big Mac used Infiniband.
Since this is Slashdot you are par for the course.
Does not happen to me. Mostly likely because my font is smaller than the default font?
Yes, you're correct. Hence in my original post there is the modifier of "just about" - but here's to hoping you are wearing underwear and have lots of free time as well! :)
Uh, doesn't this just about describe any Slashdot reader? I mean, I don't know about too much free time but I hope everyone is wearing underwear!
From dictionary.com:
quoth
tr.v. Archaic
Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following: "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" (Edgar Allan Poe).
Firewire technology (FW400 & FW8000) is much superior to USB2 in my opinion yet there is a dearth of FW peripherals i.e FW flash drives, FW multi-flash readers, digital cameras (photographic) with FW interface, etc. Is it just cost?
In addition, any of the modern Macs can also boot off the iPod as well. Therefore, I would not be surprised if the next generation of iPod/Mac supports a feature where you can plug in one's iPod into any Mac and it would behave like one's own Mac.
It has always been hard to beat Dell on value. But for everything else, such as innovaiton, aesthetics, and ease-of-use, the iPod is still the one to beat.
Not sure I want that as my career.
Being a pr0n star, however, is another question...
I mention in general because espresso is more uniform in their bean selection (arabica), roast (dark), grind (fine) and method of extraction (less tha 20-25 seconds @ 8-10 bars of pressure). Compared to drip coffee which can be prepared in a variety of ways i.e bean (arabica or robusta), roast (light, medium, dark), grind (coarse to medium), and methods (ideal way is 4 minutes in french press but drip machines are inconsistent and some use metal filters whereas some use paper filters which absorbs the natural coffee oil/flavor, etc).
Anyway, back to my point. Espresso generally has 80 mg per serving (2 oz = doppio) than drip coffee which has 160 mg (could vary from 120-240) per 16 oz. serving.
And what is thing about Starbucks coffee being over-roasted and Cook's Illustrated say so? Roast, much like one's taste in color, music, etc, is entirely personal. You would not start wearing belts with big buckles just because Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for Straight Eye say so, do you?
Coffee Geek is a great resource for information. Here too: http://www.ynhh.org/online/nutrition/advisor/caffe ine.html
Better OS and included productivity suites like iLife? Yes.
Comparable in price? I do not think so.
Most Mac lovers are used to paying the MSRP as set by Apple - no discounts, no sales. As a result, when they need a price comparison, they go to Dell.com and price out a system. However, what they fail to realize is that most PC consumers price-shop!
To use more lame automotive analogies, Mac users are like Saturn car buyers who have always paid the no haggle price and are happy with it. However, they also expect PC buyers who buy Yugo (cheap white box), Toyota/Honda/Ford/GM/VW (Dell, HP, etc), or Lexus/Audi/Mercedes/BMW (Alienware, VAIO, IBM Thinkpads), to not price shop i.e. negotiate at the dealership!
Case in point: The Inspiron 600m was recently advertised to be $1050 after discount and rebate, 2/3 the price of a 12" PB.*
The price comparison with 4600 is even more ridiculous. At $770 and with free shipping, you could get a 2.8 gHz 4600 with a 17" LCD! Many web sites advertise such sales. Personally, I have recommanded http://www.techbargains.com/query.cfm to friends and family members.
So in summary, Macs maybe better in many, if not most, aspects compared to an x86 running Windows but one thing it is not is cheaper!
*NOTE* - I would still buy the PB anyway and recommand Macs to friends and families. I am just a (disgruntled) Mac user who had to pay $280 to fix my iBook's logic board that was not covered by the recall!
*NOTE 2* - Sure there is little difference when doing everyday tasks but when it comes times to encode AAC/DivX/render etc, I find a higher clocked P4 or similarly clocked Pentium-M to be superior to G4.
"Basically you can plug in just about any USB input device and it'll Just Work." As a Mac user, I can tell you that this is not really true. Visit the Mac forums you will see many scanners, all-in-one print/scan/fax devices, etc do not work well on Macs. Many common and modern devices such as KB/Mouse, printers, cameras, etc do just work fine though.
"Yes, but does it run Linux?"
"Bill Gates said 640K ought to be enough for everyone." which is then followed by 10 variations of "Actually, Gates never said that."
"I actually owned one of those (insert archaic by modern standards technology here)" which is followed by another 10 variations of "That's nothing. We didn't even have those abovementioned technology because Big Bang just occurred and we only had hydoren and helium available, you insensitive clod!!"
Snooze...
My majors were chemistry and Asian Studies in college. Am I working in a chemical factory in Asia now? No. Am I a geek reading Slashdot at work and replying to you? Hell yeah!
If you cannot go beyond judging a book by its covers, you should not be judging.
http://www.loch-ness.org/files/surfacephotographs. html
There is thematic unity, progression, variation, and transformation on a theme, different styles (baroque vs a classical symphony), structure, etc. The same piece performed by different artists added additional insights and interpretation as well.
Not to sound snobby or anything but a classical music can be both something to enjoyed simply or an intellectual exercise if you want it to be.
Lastly, I know 10, 20, 30, 40 years down the line, I can still listen the the same Mozart, Paganini, Bach pieces I enjoy today. So may my kids. Would I enjoy Coldplay or Coolio 30 years later? Not likely.
Don't tell me.
Your real name doesn't happen to be Tony Soprano and you don't happen to live in New Jersey, where many such G5s fall into your lap from a truck somewhere, right?
As a certified (PADI Advanced) diver, I will say your post is filled with distorted facts, if not downright factual errors. I pray for your safety when you dive and hope you are not my dive buddy!
For example:
---when you dive to a depth of 30 to 60 feet or so you can only stay down safely a bit less than an hour or you risk getting the bend
Incorrect.
Bends, more correctly known as decompression sickness, is caused by rapid decompression i.e. ascending too quickly. It is not caused by how long you were underwater as you had claimed.
Bends can be induced even if you are under water, say 60 ft, for one single minute and then shot up too quickly. This is why the recommend ascent rate is less than 1 ft per minute followed by one or more safety stops at 15 ft.
---its failsafe in many ways that scuba is not.
I would disagree with you again. Scuba is actually one of the safest sports out there because 1) it requires its users to be trained and certified and 2) and because of the redundancy built-in.
Every diver has a primary regulator (the thing you suck air from) and a secondary regulator just in case if the primary fails. Even if both fails, many diver carries a pony bottle that gives one just enough air to reach surface. In the case if that fails or if you do not have a pony bottle, you can always use your dive buddy's secondary regulator. What if your buddy's secondary reg also fails? You can either share the primary regulator with your buddy or, as you mentioned, ascent without air while breathing out the remaining air in your lung.
So, is a scuba diver, who is by definition certified, safer than ScubaDoo user? I think so.
---Likewise there is no way to suddenly find the tank is empty. when the tank goes empty you still have a head bubbles worth of air left
Not true either. Even if you are tank is empty and you had to ascend rapidly (forgetting for a second that you should be diving with a buddy), it is recommended to keep your regulator in your mouth because the remaining little air in your tank will expand as well and give you one last breath. In a sense, this is not too different from the Scubadoo's head of air bubble.
Lastly, while a pulmonary barotrauma (burst lung) is possible, it is extremely rare.
Stop scaring the Slashdot non-divers!
I have Chinese MP3 that I was able to tag in iTunes in OS X easily so the fact that they are Hindi does make a difference (what, your OS does not support unicode/hindi/whatever????).
Furthermore, tagging is the easiest and, dare I say it, universally recognized way to organize digital msuic music, which is why virtually all digital music player support tagging. Arranging by folders is, as you call it, an alternative solution when one cannot correctly tag MP3's for whatever reason (#1 being user error).
To blame Apple or anyone else for not doing the stupid way is just, well, stupid.
Oh right, you rather navigate through the nested folders to find your music!
You are the perfect candidate for Linux on iPod that proudly proclaims it plays MP3.
You license AAC from Via Licensing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dolby Lab.
The quality of its product aside, Dolby is the Microsoft of its industry. It is good in that it creates a 'standard', bad in the sense that it makes other audio formats (DTS) hard to compete.
As for it being a standard, every company calls its implementation the standard (Sony- Betamax). As a consumer, I decide what is the standard.
"Apple is growing like crazy." Agreed.
"Lots of companies are bad at that." Agreed
Conclusion: This makes it OK for Apple to fuck up its product rollouts and goals for Mini, xServe, and iTunes, and many of its other products?
By your logic, since a lot of companies cook their books so it is OK for Apple to do it too?
As for settling down, I am as cool as a cucumber (and an OS X user too). Apple apologists are the ones who are insecure and squirms whenever someone shines a light on them! :)
Kill the AOL Running Man or
Kill the Puma/Jaugar/Panther/or whatever cat the next OS X version is called after or
Kill the (gasp!) Penguin