that's just because the original computer geeks had some strange facination with powers of two.
Binary is set in powers of two (on, off) and hard drives are measured in binary capacity! It's not some obsession, it's how the damn things actually work. Binary is the very basis of this entire technology.
yeah, people invest in porkbellies too. What's your point? I wouldn't trust you to code a FOR loop with your demonstrated grasp of logic--the fact that people invest in both companies is in no way proof of similarity!
Loose cannon? SGI has some of the coolest hardware I've ever seen! I'd love to have 512 Gigabytes of ram! Fact is, most people just don't want to shell out all that money. They used to offer NT boxes for the low-end stuff, and I'm not at all surprised that that fell through.
The fact that they've decided to officially support Linux for the low-end products is a great boon to the OS! Everybody has benefitted from OpenGL, havn't they? What would PC games be like without it? We'd probably all be using DirectX (ack!).
It's allways a good thing for a big-time company to enter the OSS arena. They've merely come to the realization that not everybody has the money to purchase farms of machines like Pixar did for Toy Story, so they're supporting Linux in an effort to make the company accessible to the lower-end market.
In their heyday, I don't question that they were good machines. But let's be realistic. I really don't think they'd be able to get back into the market this late in the game. Do you really think they'd be able to make a comeback, and somehow win out against Winblows, Linux, and even the entire x86 architecture? Truth is, x86 has been around so long that it can be very cheaply made, and if I'm gonna go through the trouble of switching architectures, it'd better be pretty damn cool. I wouldn't switch to anything under 64-bit.
as far as I know, there's no way to do something like this. Let's face it: it's fricking hard to make Windows do anything other than what it was supposed to--it's simply not flexible enough. Considering all of crap it does--swap files, fscking, logs, blah blah blah... I'm pretty sure it's impossible.
If it's just to see which are the most popular cards, then I guess I don't really have that much of a problem with it--but you really can't ever be sure about exactly what they're actually keeping track of. Personally, I could do without this.
No, there's a 1 Ghz Athlon coming out in Jan--wait for that! You see, the superiority of the Athlons is not just in the Mhz speed--they actually process more efficiently. And the P3 bus runs at 100Mhz, while the Athlon bus runs at 200Mhz. Not only that, but they also put a lot more cache on them. The Athlon 800 is supposed to have 8 megs of chip-speed cache! I would be willing to bet one of the Athlon 800's would still run faster thasn a P3 1100.
I think it did a very good job. Okay, maybe not the satellite stuff so much... but did you notice Zabbits was using a SUN with SOLARIS? They could have used a Mac, since he was doing video editing, but they didn't. I gotta respect 'em for that.
I noticed that too! There's another problem as well: the computers seem to be very confused about which OS they're running. In one scene they showed a guy obviously using Mac OS, and then in another scene they show a text command-line that doesn't resemble ANYTHING real (and "system ready" at POST is just stupid).
Are you kidding?! If a good computer flick comes out, I'm there. I'm so constantly fed up with Hollywood morons screwing up the details. Unfortunately, I understand why. I don't think it's possible to make an interesting movie that focuses on only cracking/hacking and keeps the details straight. That would be boring. Instead, you'd have to write a story that closely involves cracking/hacking yet has another side to the story that could add action and excitement to the movie, not just code. Movies such as The Matrix, Wargames, and Sneakers have done this--It's high time someone made a movie that focused on computers... maybe even linux and open source! Or it could be about AI... that would be cool. Not only highly technical, but it would lend for some interesting plot developements if some coders created a sentient AI, and lost control of it (such as the X-Files episode "Kill Switch").
This point has pissed me off to no end, as well. The only movie that I ever enjoyed that centered around computers would be Wargames. Although they never get real technical, they did spend a large amount of the time throughout the movie on a computer, and they kept the stupid stuff to a minium. They even showed the lead character using a wardialer! Unfortunately, after seeing movies such and "Weird Science," "The Net," and "Hackers" (especially Hackers--what a steaming load of crap), as well as countless others that are too numerous to mention, I have little faith that Hollywood will produce any kind of movie that portrays computers and cracking correctly. It would take a linux hacker to write a story like that, and how many linux hackers do you know that would rather write screenplays than code? Not many. The producers would make him rewrite it anyway, 'cause it would be "too boring. let's add some neat effects to keep the audience interested!" Just my 2 cents:)
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Binary is set in powers of two (on, off) and hard drives are measured in binary capacity! It's not some obsession, it's how the damn things actually work. Binary is the very basis of this entire technology.
yeah, people invest in porkbellies too. What's your point? I wouldn't trust you to code a FOR loop with your demonstrated grasp of logic--the fact that people invest in both companies is in no way proof of similarity!
The fact that they've decided to officially support Linux for the low-end products is a great boon to the OS! Everybody has benefitted from OpenGL, havn't they? What would PC games be like without it? We'd probably all be using DirectX (ack!).
It's allways a good thing for a big-time company to enter the OSS arena. They've merely come to the realization that not everybody has the money to purchase farms of machines like Pixar did for Toy Story, so they're supporting Linux in an effort to make the company accessible to the lower-end market.
In their heyday, I don't question that they were good machines. But let's be realistic. I really don't think they'd be able to get back into the market this late in the game. Do you really think they'd be able to make a comeback, and somehow win out against Winblows, Linux, and even the entire x86 architecture? Truth is, x86 has been around so long that it can be very cheaply made, and if I'm gonna go through the trouble of switching architectures, it'd better be pretty damn cool. I wouldn't switch to anything under 64-bit.
as far as I know, there's no way to do something like this. Let's face it: it's fricking hard to make Windows do anything other than what it was supposed to--it's simply not flexible enough. Considering all of crap it does--swap files, fscking, logs, blah blah blah... I'm pretty sure it's impossible.
If it's just to see which are the most popular cards, then I guess I don't really have that much of a problem with it--but you really can't ever be sure about exactly what they're actually keeping track of. Personally, I could do without this.
Overclocking an Athlon involves soldering the chip. No. Just... no. Tempting, but no way am I taking a soldering gun to one!
No, there's a 1 Ghz Athlon coming out in Jan--wait for that! You see, the superiority of the Athlons is not just in the Mhz speed--they actually process more efficiently. And the P3 bus runs at 100Mhz, while the Athlon bus runs at 200Mhz. Not only that, but they also put a lot more cache on them. The Athlon 800 is supposed to have 8 megs of chip-speed cache! I would be willing to bet one of the Athlon 800's would still run faster thasn a P3 1100.
I think it did a very good job. Okay, maybe not the satellite stuff so much... but did you notice Zabbits was using a SUN with SOLARIS? They could have used a Mac, since he was doing video editing, but they didn't. I gotta respect 'em for that.
I noticed that too! There's another problem as well: the computers seem to be very confused about which OS they're running. In one scene they showed a guy obviously using Mac OS, and then in another scene they show a text command-line that doesn't resemble ANYTHING real (and "system ready" at POST is just stupid).
Are you kidding?! If a good computer flick comes out, I'm there. I'm so constantly fed up with Hollywood morons screwing up the details. Unfortunately, I understand why. I don't think it's possible to make an interesting movie that focuses on only cracking/hacking and keeps the details straight. That would be boring. Instead, you'd have to write a story that closely involves cracking/hacking yet has another side to the story that could add action and excitement to the movie, not just code. Movies such as The Matrix, Wargames, and Sneakers have done this--It's high time someone made a movie that focused on computers... maybe even linux and open source! Or it could be about AI... that would be cool. Not only highly technical, but it would lend for some interesting plot developements if some coders created a sentient AI, and lost control of it (such as the X-Files episode "Kill Switch").
This point has pissed me off to no end, as well. The only movie that I ever enjoyed that centered around computers would be Wargames. Although they never get real technical, they did spend a large amount of the time throughout the movie on a computer, and they kept the stupid stuff to a minium. They even showed the lead character using a wardialer! Unfortunately, after seeing movies such and "Weird Science," "The Net," and "Hackers" (especially Hackers--what a steaming load of crap), as well as countless others that are too numerous to mention, I have little faith that Hollywood will produce any kind of movie that portrays computers and cracking correctly. It would take a linux hacker to write a story like that, and how many linux hackers do you know that would rather write screenplays than code? Not many. The producers would make him rewrite it anyway, 'cause it would be "too boring. let's add some neat effects to keep the audience interested!" Just my 2 cents :)