10 or a million, it's the same content douchebag. Public speaking is a forte of those in this position and while it takes some work, "months" is insane, not to mention sacrificing personal health and holidays with family. All I'm saying he's not demoing table-top fusion that he needs to write a masters thesis on, they're refreshes of flippin' iPods and PeeCees that he sells to the masses that, in general, would buy his feces in a bag if he offered it up.
And I got modded troll - for a brief instant in time I forgot why I never post up here....
Seriously - months to prepare? I've seen massive numbers of keynotes in my day, and while they're impressive speeches, they're just that. Why would anyone need more than a couple weeks for this, much less a techno-weenie like Jobs? I've given a talk to 1,400 with a week to take over someone else's content....
You seem to have missed the point of COTS entirely. And you're way off the mark on the price differential - unless you're talking about an 8 CPU "supercomputer".
The whole reason HPTC bled down to COTS product was the outrageous costs of more proprietary hardware AND the fact that COTS product performance and reliability were on a massive upswing.
I work with LOTS of customers using HPTC - and very, very few of them are still running a single application. It's the nature of growth & development - there are older apps and there are newer apps.
There's a 235 node 10G InfiniBand connected HP-based supercomputer humming right behind me as I type this....
I'm not a MAC owner, but I do know that it's the only platform that can "run all three" - Windoze, Linux, and Mac OS. Seems quite the logical choice for a developer.....
Mike and others have said that there's really no way that anyone will ever be able to "afford" to put MST3k back on the air. Yet we now have Best Brains, Riffraxx/The Film Crew, and Cinematic Titanic all obviously spending relative wads of cash to bring product to the teeming masses.
So I again pose the question: Do you think there will ever again be a television show MST3k? Has any studio or network even hinted at the possibility? If you feel that it won't ever happen as well, why? Is it purely because none of you can work for "minimum wage" anymore? Thanks for all the laughs. JL
BFD - another rich boy does something totally useless and selfish. How better a place the world is now. How many people could have been fed or clothed or housed with the millions wasted on this crap?
What I'd really like is a unit like this that has analog inputs, so old geezers like me can get our vinyl into other formats. Yeah, I know I can do it with a PeeCee (in fact, my sound card even has digital optical in and out) but I like the idea of a dedicated appliance rather than something that boots, etc.
And I agree with many of the comments re:price. This thing should be sub-$500. In it's current form it's doomed, unless HP simply wants to sell a few dozen units to UberGeeks that simply have to have every new toy out there. Smells like Kerbango! all over again.....
Comapq has been doing this w/Alpha Beowulfs for a long time through CSSD - a/. reader just found it so it's news???
PS - try to find a Compaq supported tape backup solution for it - HA!
Compaq - we put the "HaHaHa" in HA.....
The Samuel L. Jackson and Gwyneth Paltro school of wooden acting prodly present:
(a small, hacked, poorly acted portion of) Frank Herbert's DUNE!!!
This sucked so bad I won't even waste any more electrons on it - but it just goes to show that $100M in CGI cannot save $.5M in acting
That's right - all over Ohio D.A.R.E. has provided local municipailties with the ability to buy bitchin' Camaros, get sweeeeet paint jobs, justify thousands of hard earned tax-dollars in engine go-fast parts and chrome goodies and mill work, and hot-rod at the local supermarket and, of course, donut shops! Go D.A.R.E. go! D.A.R.E. - Donut Awareness Resistance Education - keep cops off crullers! Do your share!
What is so important about the Amiga? Really - someone explain to me the need to keep the Amiga alive. You can get an Intel based peecee for $600 that will blow it's doors off and run orders of magnitude more software & apps. What a waste of development time.
Has anyone bothered to contemplate the size of a 1 POUND heat sink? This guy is on serious dope - I've seen the Pentium four and the heat sink is nowhere near that large that it could possibly weigh in at a pound. And for that matter, since when would a one pound heat sink, when spread across the face of a CPU footprint, require FOUR supports on a motherboard? Wake up and smell the troll....
Yahoo! does NOT buy boxes "from some guy who sells them really cheap". I know, because I work for the vendor that sells servers to Yahoo!. Think about it - Yahoo! buys servers from "some guy"... yeah, sure they do...
Don
Largest reseller of Comapq (IA and Alpha), IBM (IA and RISC), and Intel - we'll load whatever you want. We have production capacity for 40,000+ systems a month. We have an entire division dedicated to service.
http://www.pios.com
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Idea: Every week JarJar gets killed through his own stupidity, much like Kenny on South Park.....
I just built this last week:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancod/3679263377/
8 x 1TB drives: $712
PSU: $92
Case: $29
RAM: $34
CPU/MOBO: $131
Intel RAID card: $275
Cache/Battery: $112
Total: $1385 (all items free shipping)
Don't know how you're going to get $1000 for 10TB and have it be worth a shit.
10 or a million, it's the same content douchebag. Public speaking is a forte of those in this position and while it takes some work, "months" is insane, not to mention sacrificing personal health and holidays with family. All I'm saying he's not demoing table-top fusion that he needs to write a masters thesis on, they're refreshes of flippin' iPods and PeeCees that he sells to the masses that, in general, would buy his feces in a bag if he offered it up.
And I got modded troll - for a brief instant in time I forgot why I never post up here....
Seriously - months to prepare? I've seen massive numbers of keynotes in my day, and while they're impressive speeches, they're just that. Why would anyone need more than a couple weeks for this, much less a techno-weenie like Jobs? I've given a talk to 1,400 with a week to take over someone else's content....
...perhaps he'll demo the iVagina?
2 Worst MoBos I ever owned: Abit and Abit
You seem to have missed the point of COTS entirely. And you're way off the mark on the price differential - unless you're talking about an 8 CPU "supercomputer".
The whole reason HPTC bled down to COTS product was the outrageous costs of more proprietary hardware AND the fact that COTS product performance and reliability were on a massive upswing.
I work with LOTS of customers using HPTC - and very, very few of them are still running a single application. It's the nature of growth & development - there are older apps and there are newer apps.
There's a 235 node 10G InfiniBand connected HP-based supercomputer humming right behind me as I type this....
Could you be any more wrong?
I'm not a MAC owner, but I do know that it's the only platform that can "run all three" - Windoze, Linux, and Mac OS. Seems quite the logical choice for a developer.....
Toyauto is getting exactly what they wanted - attention. Corporate trolling at its finest.
Move along, nothing to see here...
My guess is $28,000.00 for the complete camera
Yet another camera mere mortals can't afford. Next.
Mike and others have said that there's really no way that anyone will ever be able to "afford" to put MST3k back on the air.
Yet we now have Best Brains, Riffraxx/The Film Crew, and Cinematic Titanic all obviously spending relative wads of cash to bring product to the teeming masses.
So I again pose the question:
Do you think there will ever again be a television show MST3k? Has any studio or network even hinted at the possibility? If you feel that it won't ever happen as well, why? Is it purely because none of you can work for "minimum wage" anymore?
Thanks for all the laughs.
JL
Jeopardy style:
...or would that be DrakHammer.... or HammerDrak?
AMD & Linux-Mandrake
What is: "How do you make a flaming Hammer"?
Yes, Slowlaris and Windoze are the way to go! So sayith the Consultant.
Those that can't do Consult.
http://www.xiph.org/mgm/
BFD - another rich boy does something totally useless and selfish. How better a place the world is now.
How many people could have been fed or clothed or housed with the millions wasted on this crap?
People suck.
And I agree with many of the comments re:price. This thing should be sub-$500. In it's current form it's doomed, unless HP simply wants to sell a few dozen units to UberGeeks that simply have to have every new toy out there. Smells like Kerbango! all over again.....
..just wondering
Comapq has been doing this w/Alpha Beowulfs for a long time through CSSD - a /. reader just found it so it's news???
PS - try to find a Compaq supported tape backup solution for it - HA!
Compaq - we put the "HaHaHa" in HA.....
The Samuel L. Jackson and Gwyneth Paltro school of wooden acting prodly present: (a small, hacked, poorly acted portion of) Frank Herbert's DUNE!!! This sucked so bad I won't even waste any more electrons on it - but it just goes to show that $100M in CGI cannot save $.5M in acting
That's right - all over Ohio D.A.R.E. has provided local municipailties with the ability to buy bitchin' Camaros, get sweeeeet paint jobs, justify thousands of hard earned tax-dollars in engine go-fast parts and chrome goodies and mill work, and hot-rod at the local supermarket and, of course, donut shops! Go D.A.R.E. go!
D.A.R.E. - Donut Awareness Resistance Education - keep cops off crullers! Do your share!
What is so important about the Amiga? Really - someone explain to me the need to keep the Amiga alive.
You can get an Intel based peecee for $600 that will blow it's doors off and run orders of magnitude more software & apps. What a waste of development time.
Has anyone bothered to contemplate the size of a 1 POUND heat sink? This guy is on serious dope - I've seen the Pentium four and the heat sink is nowhere near that large that it could possibly weigh in at a pound. And for that matter, since when would a one pound heat sink, when spread across the face of a CPU footprint, require FOUR supports on a motherboard? Wake up and smell the troll....
Yahoo! does NOT buy boxes "from some guy who sells them really cheap". I know, because I work for the vendor that sells servers to Yahoo!. Think about it - Yahoo! buys servers from "some guy"... yeah, sure they do... Don
Largest reseller of Comapq (IA and Alpha), IBM (IA and RISC), and Intel - we'll load whatever you want. We have production capacity for 40,000+ systems a month. We have an entire division dedicated to service. http://www.pios.com