She has no way of knowing that her GEMS program is using multiple sets of books, because the GEMS interface draws its data from an Access database, which is hidden.
*smashes forehead on desk* Please God, make the badman go away!
...a slightly larger roundup. xServe is supposedly the best bang for the buck when it comes to big cluster servers. How about:
P4-, AMD-, G5-Linux roundup?
Here at work, we have two Applied Art & Design labs of 20+ eMacs running OS X 10.3.5. Here are some interesting statistics for you:
They are heavily used by classes over a 16-hour period in a variety of applications: Dreamweaver '04, Flash '04, MS Office, Painter 8, Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, ImageReady, Final Cut Express, Maya Complete, Carrara 3D, Quark Express 6.0, iMovie, iDVD, and a variety of other resource intensive apps. They are never shutdown, until the end of the semester when the new images are loaded.
Out of both labs during the course of a semester, we reboot maybe 1 or 2 in each lab of 24 eMacs. 9 times out of 10 in this case, it's because someone yanked their USB thumbdrive out while it was still mounted and being accessed, rather than ejecting properly.
Thanks for helping to prove my point. ATI happens to be one of the biggest GPU distributors, and if Linux can't utilize that reliably, then I have no reason whatsoever to switch. The ability to put just about any video card in a Wintel and play CS [including ATI] is something I don't want to have to worry about in my gaming experience. Granted, Windows gives me enough sh*t as it is, I don't need even more problems and limitations.
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I'd never buy one from Walmart, on two accounts:
1. Walmart isn't a fair-trade company. [google it if you don't know what I'm talking about]
2. Can't play Counterstrike easily, reliably and efficiently without Windows. Linux just doesn't have all the games Windows does. Yes, you'll see a popular title here and there supporting Linux (Like Neverwinter Nights), but the pickings are still slim.
On a side note, that article posted not too long ago about Linux surpassing Apple in the desktop market is a bit of a stretch. Their "desktops" included enterprise servers, business workstations, and even ATMs & cash registers. Since 99.99% of homeusers don't use a servers as their home computer, or have an ATM in their house, you can eliminate nearly half of these Linux desktops, which, unsurprisingly, puts Linux far behind Apple in the home-consumer market.
...against Hawking would be something to tell the grandchildren about. Hell, it would be an honor to lose a bet to him.
Don't be a looter...and yes, I know that it's spelled with an "A" instead of an "E"
Interestingly enogh, he didn't make the bet that black holes don't exist because he doesn't believe they do (most of his work is centered around proving they do), but rather, he made the bet, "so [he] would at least have the satisfaction of winning something if all [his] work has been for nothing."
My lunatic, idiot-savant friend. I, a die-hard PC-o-phile of 14 years, switched to the Mac 3 years ago at home and work. Why?
I can count on it to not crash, halt, & freeze; or be deleted, hijacked, trojaned, wormed, or otherwise infected, rendered useless, or comporomized. My operating system won't destroy the USB port on my scanner, or do any number of other things Windows does to make your day absolutely miserable.
I don't have the time nor inclination to figure out why in God's name my SoundBlaster Live card is causing severe packet loss. Nor do I have the want or need to troubleshoot for hours on end when something doesn't work. Checking for IRQ conflicts, driver conflicts, sifting through thousands of lines of registries to find that ONE little sh*t that's screwing up my whole goddamn system.
I want my computer to simply work, and if that means purchasing a $20 two-button wheel mouse and plugging it in for added functionality (something, my good friend, you aparently haven't figured out how to do), and an extra $500 for quality assurance, then I'll do that.
But please, don't go jumping to conclusions because a person prefers a Macintosh. I, unlike you, have a VERY good reason for using a Mac. My life is dependent on it. And if SOE won't bother to make a game for the SECOND most popular operating system in the world, and giving me a little bit of entertainment inbetween work loads, then my statement still stands:
Unfortunately [fortunately?] for us Mac-users, we (will) never had/have the chance to enjoy the vast fortunes prominent in the moisture farming industry.
This is neat, but certainly not a huge deal. Hopefully, if succesful, the major car companies (Toyota, GM, Ford, Daimler, VW) will take notice and do something similar...
They already did this with VW. Remember the, "Pods Unite" add campaign?
It's Geek equivalent of tweaking your hotrod. You don't need neon lights or spinning rims, but they look cool and it's fun to do. Besides, who said having fun needs to be productive or have a purpose?
That's ATI's fault. Tell them to stop price-gouging Apple users. The stupid (intelligent?) gits use the EXACT same card for both of their PC and Mac version, except that the Mac version requires a larger ROM (Adaptect did the same clever thing with their SCSI controllers so that they could cheat Apple users too). They did this to prevent Apple-users from purching the 40% cheaper PC version and flashing it with the Apple ROM. Can't do it anymore with the newer cards.
Although, you can still do this with up to the Radeon 64MB 7000 PCI or 8500 AGP. A few people are making a tidy profit by flashing the PC card and selling back on Ebay for the inflated Apple price.:/
If quantum computing becomes a reality for consumers, it would be interesting to see how this (and emulation in general) fairs. With no clock, the processor(s) will run as fast as is needed. So emulation shouldn't take any hit at all.
Wow...that would seriously change things in the OS market, being able to run your favorite operating system, then emulate whatever you can't run natively just as effectively as your primary OS.
...Longhorn won't be out until 2006, wait, 2007, wait, 2008. In any event, every computer will have all those bells and whistles by then. So it's not some incredible breakthrough on Microsofts part. Old news.
Apple could swing a lot of converts with a write once, compile everywhere system. I'm not interested in Aqua on windows or Linux, in fact I'd prefer the interface to be OS consistent, (one of the big swing gui and X11 on OS X issue). Being able to produce an app for which ever platform the customer wants or has the best processors.
There's a company here that sort of does this for DirectX based games - write once, compile for both Windows / OS X, with very little modification (if any) to the code. Unfortunately, I still won't see many of my favorite DirectX-based games on OS X, despite ease of portability. It always runs into the requirements of more tech support, coders, and personell to address Macintosh-related issues and bugs, which all adds up to more costs.
I wonder if it can also be used identify damaged proteins, such as those which cause Mad Cow Disease. Nasty buggers, 'cuz they're not living, so it can be transferred from patient to patient even after going thru sterilization.
Speaking of horrible movie adaptations, I thought the Time Machine was a fairly decent movie, so long as I wasn't associating it with the book. Same with Jurrasic Park and Starship Troopers. Jurrasic Park had awesome digital effects and animatronics. Starship Troopers, as mentioned before, had some really good satire, gfx, etc.
So, I'll probably go ahead and give WotW a try, even though I don't much care for Tom Cruise. It might surprise me, and be a half-decent movie so long as you don't associate it with the book.
On a similar note, here a few additional books I'd like to see ported to movie fomat:
Ender's Game
Sojourn, and the other two Driz'zt Novels. Could make for a good trilogy, so long as the same people who did the Dungeons & Draogns movie don't make it.
Dragonlance Chronicles, with the same stipulations mentioned above. This could be the next big LotR-style sfx fantasy blockbuster.
A good 1985 adaptation.
Footfall
And, just for kicks, I think a live-action Robotech full-length movie would be really kick-ass. Especially with all the sfx tech we have nowadays. I just hope, if it comes about, it's a good adaptation of the cartoon.
How about a virus that attacks the firmware, or sets a random password at the firmware level, forcing the owner to purchase a new mobo or new computer alltogether.
Why select a slower, more expensive platform and take on the cost of porting one's in-house software to yet another platform, when multi-processor AMD-64 chips running GNU/Linux are a dime a dozen?
And what price list are you referring to? It cost Virgina Tech $5.2 million US for a #3 spot in the worlds fastest computers.
On the other hand, an equally equipped Opteron (albeit an extra 600 processors over Big Mac) cluster cost about $10 million and trails Big Mac at #6.
My math may be a bit rusty, but isn't 3rd place better than 6th place, and 5 million less than 10 million?/p.
ATI is a perfect example I think. Ya'll remember the various mods to convert their otherwise identical top-of-the-line video card into their top-of-the-line 3D rendering graphics pro card? Sometimes the designs are basically identical for good reason. Cost savings comes to mind. They simply use software and/or a few well-placed jumpers to differentiate between the two.
You could also flash the ROM with a Mac ROM and save yourself $80.00 by paying for the cheaper PC model. Now ATI uses a larger ROM for the Mac version and slightly bigger ROM chip so that you can't flash the PC versions and save yourself money. Same with Adaptec and their SCSI controller cards.
I talked with an ATI developer at MacWorld about flashing the PC cards with Mac ROMs, and he said the reason ATI changed it is because the programmers get royalties based on the number of cards sold. They can't keep track of the number of cards sold for Macs if people are buying the PC version and flashing it for their Mac, so they started a completely seperate production line for their Mac cards (identical to the PC cards, except for a larger ROM chip). In addition, to keep pay equal among their programmers, they charge a premium for the Mac cards to compensate for the lower sales compared to the PC cards. That way, their Mac and PC programmers get fair-pay.
Fiscally, this makes sense, but I don't think it's a nice thing to do to the consumers. I think they should raise the price on all their cards by $2.00 instead of charging an extra $80 on every Mac card.
I didn't see any info on cost/performance ratios. How much does it cost to print out an OLED paper-light-thing? If you can stick an OLED cartridge into your Epson printer for $150, and print out 5000 OLED lights from it, you'll be in good shape at 3 cents a lightbulb. Even if you have to replace 5 or 10 or even 20 times for every 1 regular lightbulb.
Fortunately, technology progresses, so by the time these hit the general market, I doubt you'll have to replace it as often as mentioned. And even if you do, it's hardly an effort to print out a new sheet and throw it on your wall for a new lightbulb.
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She has no way of knowing that her GEMS program is using multiple sets of books, because the GEMS interface draws its data from an Access database, which is hidden.
*smashes forehead on desk* Please God, make the badman go away!...a slightly larger roundup. xServe is supposedly the best bang for the buck when it comes to big cluster servers. How about: P4-, AMD-, G5-Linux roundup?
Here at work, we have two Applied Art & Design labs of 20+ eMacs running OS X 10.3.5. Here are some interesting statistics for you:
They are heavily used by classes over a 16-hour period in a variety of applications: Dreamweaver '04, Flash '04, MS Office, Painter 8, Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, ImageReady, Final Cut Express, Maya Complete, Carrara 3D, Quark Express 6.0, iMovie, iDVD, and a variety of other resource intensive apps. They are never shutdown, until the end of the semester when the new images are loaded.
Out of both labs during the course of a semester, we reboot maybe 1 or 2 in each lab of 24 eMacs. 9 times out of 10 in this case, it's because someone yanked their USB thumbdrive out while it was still mounted and being accessed, rather than ejecting properly.
Thanks for helping to prove my point. ATI happens to be one of the biggest GPU distributors, and if Linux can't utilize that reliably, then I have no reason whatsoever to switch. The ability to put just about any video card in a Wintel and play CS [including ATI] is something I don't want to have to worry about in my gaming experience. Granted, Windows gives me enough sh*t as it is, I don't need even more problems and limitations.
1. Walmart isn't a fair-trade company. [google it if you don't know what I'm talking about]
2. Can't play Counterstrike easily, reliably and efficiently without Windows. Linux just doesn't have all the games Windows does. Yes, you'll see a popular title here and there supporting Linux (Like Neverwinter Nights), but the pickings are still slim.
On a side note, that article posted not too long ago about Linux surpassing Apple in the desktop market is a bit of a stretch. Their "desktops" included enterprise servers, business workstations, and even ATMs & cash registers. Since 99.99% of homeusers don't use a servers as their home computer, or have an ATM in their house, you can eliminate nearly half of these Linux desktops, which, unsurprisingly, puts Linux far behind Apple in the home-consumer market.
Quartz Extreme and Core Video?
Redmond, start your copiers!Interestingly enogh, he didn't make the bet that black holes don't exist because he doesn't believe they do (most of his work is centered around proving they do), but rather, he made the bet, "so [he] would at least have the satisfaction of winning something if all [his] work has been for nothing."
My lunatic, idiot-savant friend. I, a die-hard PC-o-phile of 14 years, switched to the Mac 3 years ago at home and work. Why?
I can count on it to not crash, halt, & freeze; or be deleted, hijacked, trojaned, wormed, or otherwise infected, rendered useless, or comporomized. My operating system won't destroy the USB port on my scanner, or do any number of other things Windows does to make your day absolutely miserable.
I don't have the time nor inclination to figure out why in God's name my SoundBlaster Live card is causing severe packet loss. Nor do I have the want or need to troubleshoot for hours on end when something doesn't work. Checking for IRQ conflicts, driver conflicts, sifting through thousands of lines of registries to find that ONE little sh*t that's screwing up my whole goddamn system.
I want my computer to simply work, and if that means purchasing a $20 two-button wheel mouse and plugging it in for added functionality (something, my good friend, you aparently haven't figured out how to do), and an extra $500 for quality assurance, then I'll do that.
But please, don't go jumping to conclusions because a person prefers a Macintosh. I, unlike you, have a VERY good reason for using a Mac. My life is dependent on it. And if SOE won't bother to make a game for the SECOND most popular operating system in the world, and giving me a little bit of entertainment inbetween work loads, then my statement still stands:
SOE can piss off.Unfortunately [fortunately?] for us Mac-users, we (will) never had/have the chance to enjoy the vast fortunes prominent in the moisture farming industry.
So, SOE can piss off.
It'll run PPC Linux, I'm sure, as the processor is probably the main reason for the backward-incompatability.
The xBox 2 will be sporting some PPC 976 processors, the same ones you see in Apple's G5 lineup.
It's Geek equivalent of tweaking your hotrod. You don't need neon lights or spinning rims, but they look cool and it's fun to do. Besides, who said having fun needs to be productive or have a purpose?
That's ATI's fault. Tell them to stop price-gouging Apple users. The stupid (intelligent?) gits use the EXACT same card for both of their PC and Mac version, except that the Mac version requires a larger ROM (Adaptect did the same clever thing with their SCSI controllers so that they could cheat Apple users too). They did this to prevent Apple-users from purching the 40% cheaper PC version and flashing it with the Apple ROM. Can't do it anymore with the newer cards.
:/
Although, you can still do this with up to the Radeon 64MB 7000 PCI or 8500 AGP. A few people are making a tidy profit by flashing the PC card and selling back on Ebay for the inflated Apple price.
If quantum computing becomes a reality for consumers, it would be interesting to see how this (and emulation in general) fairs. With no clock, the processor(s) will run as fast as is needed. So emulation shouldn't take any hit at all.
Wow...that would seriously change things in the OS market, being able to run your favorite operating system, then emulate whatever you can't run natively just as effectively as your primary OS.
...Longhorn won't be out until 2006, wait, 2007, wait, 2008. In any event, every computer will have all those bells and whistles by then. So it's not some incredible breakthrough on Microsofts part. Old news.
Apple could swing a lot of converts with a write once, compile everywhere system. I'm not interested in Aqua on windows or Linux, in fact I'd prefer the interface to be OS consistent, (one of the big swing gui and X11 on OS X issue). Being able to produce an app for which ever platform the customer wants or has the best processors.
There's a company here that sort of does this for DirectX based games - write once, compile for both Windows / OS X, with very little modification (if any) to the code. Unfortunately, I still won't see many of my favorite DirectX-based games on OS X, despite ease of portability. It always runs into the requirements of more tech support, coders, and personell to address Macintosh-related issues and bugs, which all adds up to more costs.
I wonder if it can also be used identify damaged proteins, such as those which cause Mad Cow Disease. Nasty buggers, 'cuz they're not living, so it can be transferred from patient to patient even after going thru sterilization.
Speaking of horrible movie adaptations, I thought the Time Machine was a fairly decent movie, so long as I wasn't associating it with the book. Same with Jurrasic Park and Starship Troopers. Jurrasic Park had awesome digital effects and animatronics. Starship Troopers, as mentioned before, had some really good satire, gfx, etc.
So, I'll probably go ahead and give WotW a try, even though I don't much care for Tom Cruise. It might surprise me, and be a half-decent movie so long as you don't associate it with the book.
On a similar note, here a few additional books I'd like to see ported to movie fomat:
And, just for kicks, I think a live-action Robotech full-length movie would be really kick-ass. Especially with all the sfx tech we have nowadays. I just hope, if it comes about, it's a good adaptation of the cartoon.
How about a virus that attacks the firmware, or sets a random password at the firmware level, forcing the owner to purchase a new mobo or new computer alltogether.
Why select a slower, more expensive platform and take on the cost of porting one's in-house software to yet another platform, when multi-processor AMD-64 chips running GNU/Linux are a dime a dozen?
And what price list are you referring to? It cost Virgina Tech $5.2 million US for a #3 spot in the worlds fastest computers.
On the other hand, an equally equipped Opteron (albeit an extra 600 processors over Big Mac) cluster cost about $10 million and trails Big Mac at #6.
My math may be a bit rusty, but isn't 3rd place better than 6th place, and 5 million less than 10 million?/p.
Maybe Google's ingenious searching algorithm will be changed from pecking pigeons to mice.
LOL. I love that...
You could also flash the ROM with a Mac ROM and save yourself $80.00 by paying for the cheaper PC model. Now ATI uses a larger ROM for the Mac version and slightly bigger ROM chip so that you can't flash the PC versions and save yourself money. Same with Adaptec and their SCSI controller cards.
I talked with an ATI developer at MacWorld about flashing the PC cards with Mac ROMs, and he said the reason ATI changed it is because the programmers get royalties based on the number of cards sold. They can't keep track of the number of cards sold for Macs if people are buying the PC version and flashing it for their Mac, so they started a completely seperate production line for their Mac cards (identical to the PC cards, except for a larger ROM chip). In addition, to keep pay equal among their programmers, they charge a premium for the Mac cards to compensate for the lower sales compared to the PC cards. That way, their Mac and PC programmers get fair-pay.
Fiscally, this makes sense, but I don't think it's a nice thing to do to the consumers. I think they should raise the price on all their cards by $2.00 instead of charging an extra $80 on every Mac card.
I didn't see any info on cost/performance ratios. How much does it cost to print out an OLED paper-light-thing? If you can stick an OLED cartridge into your Epson printer for $150, and print out 5000 OLED lights from it, you'll be in good shape at 3 cents a lightbulb. Even if you have to replace 5 or 10 or even 20 times for every 1 regular lightbulb.
Fortunately, technology progresses, so by the time these hit the general market, I doubt you'll have to replace it as often as mentioned. And even if you do, it's hardly an effort to print out a new sheet and throw it on your wall for a new lightbulb.