I was wondering how this World Community Grid stands up to Folding@Home?
I'm a member of a F@H team and it seems like there are a lot of people participating. Are these efforts competing against one another or are they different areas of study? I don't quite understand.
Also, I know that the F@H client can run in the background and take up no system resources, only unused processor cycles, (which is part of the reason I use it.) Does the World Community Grid project's clients take up a lot of system resources...?
Well, even though most people don't actually look at their media player while it's playing music, I think there can be improvements on interface design, especially while browsing files.
It's sort of like windows explorer, we don't really need cool flying files effects and transparencies, but it's nice to look at. When we found what we want to find or we've done what we want to have done, we bring something else to the front of the desktop and we don't even see windows explorer anymore, but we still care about effects.
So hopefully Windows Media Player 11 will improve file browsing, and maybe make it fun while I look for the song I want to play, and then get the hell out of my way.
I think the mac = photoshop thing is a myth. It was that way in the 90's. Most everyone I've come in contact with in the industry is using windows.
Render farms, however, are an exception.
Another thing to remember I guess is personal preference. On art teams for example, some houses will let you model on whatever you want as long as you export to a common format. It all depends how the studio is set up and how much support there is for the applications you're using.
I often think about switching away from windows but I keep seeing there is no need, and it's not really possible at this point.
Take for instance, the major tools you need to make a 3d model. Most people use 3dsMax and/or Maya, and Photoshop. You can't run those on Linux (at least well.) People can jerry-rig something, sure, but many creative industries require things to work. That's why most production houses still use Photoshop 7. It's stable. Don't even get me started with in-house tools that we use that require windows.
So, the major advantage to using windows is that it can be used for so many different things at the same time, (yes I'm aware that OSX and Linux have the ability to use different tools, but the support just isn't there yet.)
No offense, but most open source applications just aren't up to par with major releases from major corporations. Not yet, anyway.
In my opinion the average end user won't want to wait 45+ minutes, (being conservative), to rip and encode an entire DVD. I'm assuming Apple would use one of their new HD codecs to encode anything from a DVD from an ipod, and as I remember those take forever to encode into even a web usable format.
If you're watching something on an ipod screen, or especially keeping a movie on your ipod and watching it on your desktop/laptop, quality is going to be a very big issue.
The only thing that's not going to matter as much is all the sound information, but that doesn't take up very much space on the DVD, anyway.
I don't think a video ipod is practical right now.
I formatted about a month ago and I was looking for a BIOS update to my Asus A7N8X that would allow for USB device boot, but I couldn't find one.
Anyone know where I can find one or a pirate bios that supports it?
As of right now I use a Trillianplugin to notify my when I have a new instant message by flashing the three LED's on my keyboard.
This is useful to me because I usually have IM sound off (I have a lot going at once and it gets annoying as hell) and when I'm passing by my computer at home I can take a quick peek at my keyboard to see if I have any messages rather than go to the computer, turn on the monitor, unlock windows, and check my message windows.
Also when running full screen games or applications, a secondary visual indicator comes in handy.
It's probably nothing to worry about...
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Maybe all the employees are just trapped in a book somewhere.
Those of us who are members of the SomethingAwful.com forums have been following this blog for more than a day now because our servers are in the same building, I think the floor under the DirectNIC ones.
We have a hurricane information channel going on zirc in #hurricane. This guy has pretty much been our hero.
"At the same time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking airlines to build similar backdoors into the phone and data networks on airplanes."
Are they nuts? What happens when data networks improve on airplanes in the next few years and people are using wireless connections on a plane? It's going to be a security nightmare.
I don't even want to think of what could happen if a plane had its network connected to the cocpit...
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I was wondering how this World Community Grid stands up to Folding@Home?
I'm a member of a F@H team and it seems like there are a lot of people participating. Are these efforts competing against one another or are they different areas of study? I don't quite understand.
Also, I know that the F@H client can run in the background and take up no system resources, only unused processor cycles, (which is part of the reason I use it.) Does the World Community Grid project's clients take up a lot of system resources...?
Well, even though most people don't actually look at their media player while it's playing music, I think there can be improvements on interface design, especially while browsing files.
It's sort of like windows explorer, we don't really need cool flying files effects and transparencies, but it's nice to look at. When we found what we want to find or we've done what we want to have done, we bring something else to the front of the desktop and we don't even see windows explorer anymore, but we still care about effects.
So hopefully Windows Media Player 11 will improve file browsing, and maybe make it fun while I look for the song I want to play, and then get the hell out of my way.
...Actually I'll probably stick with Media Player Classic.
I think the mac = photoshop thing is a myth. It was that way in the 90's. Most everyone I've come in contact with in the industry is using windows.
Render farms, however, are an exception.
Another thing to remember I guess is personal preference. On art teams for example, some houses will let you model on whatever you want as long as you export to a common format. It all depends how the studio is set up and how much support there is for the applications you're using.
I often think about switching away from windows but I keep seeing there is no need, and it's not really possible at this point.
Take for instance, the major tools you need to make a 3d model. Most people use 3dsMax and/or Maya, and Photoshop. You can't run those on Linux (at least well.) People can jerry-rig something, sure, but many creative industries require things to work. That's why most production houses still use Photoshop 7. It's stable. Don't even get me started with in-house tools that we use that require windows.
So, the major advantage to using windows is that it can be used for so many different things at the same time, (yes I'm aware that OSX and Linux have the ability to use different tools, but the support just isn't there yet.)
No offense, but most open source applications just aren't up to par with major releases from major corporations. Not yet, anyway.
...if it's hidden in Flash.
...and your parents are already dead.
These sorts of things can be modified and are fun to learn so they're perfect.
Sure, it all seems like fun and games until the damn things become sentinent.
In my opinion the average end user won't want to wait 45+ minutes, (being conservative), to rip and encode an entire DVD. I'm assuming Apple would use one of their new HD codecs to encode anything from a DVD from an ipod, and as I remember those take forever to encode into even a web usable format.
If you're watching something on an ipod screen, or especially keeping a movie on your ipod and watching it on your desktop/laptop, quality is going to be a very big issue.
The only thing that's not going to matter as much is all the sound information, but that doesn't take up very much space on the DVD, anyway.
I don't think a video ipod is practical right now.
rome wasn't built in a few shows
'The big one' has to be funded by someone.
For every successful test they can say they've done, that's another milestone to use for more corporate funding.
However insignificant scientifically it may be, it still looks good on paper.
According to this site the reactor will cost between $100 to $120 million.
So I guess it is a misprint.
I formatted about a month ago and I was looking for a BIOS update to my Asus A7N8X that would allow for USB device boot, but I couldn't find one. Anyone know where I can find one or a pirate bios that supports it?
Yes, that happened in earlier versions of Trillian, but doesn't seem to be happening in Trillian 3.1.
As of right now I use a Trillian plugin to notify my when I have a new instant message by flashing the three LED's on my keyboard.
This is useful to me because I usually have IM sound off (I have a lot going at once and it gets annoying as hell) and when I'm passing by my computer at home I can take a quick peek at my keyboard to see if I have any messages rather than go to the computer, turn on the monitor, unlock windows, and check my message windows.
Also when running full screen games or applications, a secondary visual indicator comes in handy.
Maybe all the employees are just trapped in a book somewhere.
Come to think of it what happened to this placeholder forums/website we were promised?
Backup forum: http://excruciate.org/disaster or http://www.kittensteaks.com/viewforum.php?id=3
Those of us who are members of the SomethingAwful.com forums have been following this blog for more than a day now because our servers are in the same building, I think the floor under the DirectNIC ones.
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We have a hurricane information channel going on zirc in #hurricane. This guy has pretty much been our hero.
Except our servers are down, now.
Wouldn't that be -5? :/
I wonder if Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was a quantum physisist.
"At the same time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking airlines to build similar backdoors into the phone and data networks on airplanes."
Are they nuts? What happens when data networks improve on airplanes in the next few years and people are using wireless connections on a plane? It's going to be a security nightmare.
I don't even want to think of what could happen if a plane had its network connected to the cocpit...
It clogs my pores.