How about a really nice salary to keep quiet and respect from the boss for having to live under a cloak of secrecy? Bonus Points each week redeemable at the canteena could also generate some interest.
Yep, it's amazing how low rent you can get to build a supercomputer...especially with web resources and an exploitable, educated labor market. Take the United States for example... sometimes you don't even need a datacenter, just a cheap prefab building on cheap tax break land. Hire one person to be software/storage/network/admin. Then contract a hardware jockey cause noone likes doing it and we're cheap. These said two guys could build cluster using supermicro setups installed into APC cabinets, hook up the I/O, and rock n roll. Biggest cost unless your nationalized: Power/Cooling.
As an American, I will explain it. We are no different than anyone else who becomes corrupted by money and power. In fact, throughout existence it has been this way. Regardless of any viewpoint of morality or sense of right regardless of country, money talks to these people. Its the only thing they answer to. Sad, but true from the beginning of human nature.
What can be done to fix it? lol
"So, hey, Adobe: have you started porting Photoshop yet?"
--or creating a fucking viable version of 64bit flashplayer for even the most basic Linux OS? One not buggy as fuck IMHO?
I like that by following the link of "Go Daddy Sucks", their google keyword ad is still on the right selling domains for 6.99. I wonder how many clicks they just got?
Even more boggling is when ISP's refuse to blacklist these zombies. Kill the modem after you send out a nice letter stating their box is hosed and must be repaired before they are allowed back on the pipe.
There is no price/performance contest in comparing AMD Phenom Sexcore processors versus competitors. You could build a whole system around DDR3/i7 architecture, but it is unaffordable in large clusters. BTW, I am an AMD fanboy, especially after upgrading a cluster to the new Phenom chips. It was able to work perfect with DDR2 and saved a fortune just upgrading CPU's to get about a 15 percent performance increase.
This only helps AMD.
I think God built in many fail-safe mechanisms for destruction in case he forgets to push the red button. The earth colliding with Mars? Bring back the cosmic death movies on television!!
I will gladly do hardware support for system developers and admins both. Break the machines all you want, you are under maintenance with my company, who unlike devs and admins, doesn't treat me with the least bit of respect. The random "failures" caused by experimentation keeps my job interesting. Only my customers at any IT job have ever respected my skills.
Trade your games directly on craigslist. It works everytime for me. You don't lose 70 percent of the value by trading it in and you can just keep the cycle going...
I agree completely. IMHO, what is controversial today gets released tomorrow and it turns out society doesn't collapse with an explosion of rapists, murdering fiends, etc. All this is a lame attempt by the "moral majority" to keep us looking at the past and present through rose-colored glasses. No controversy here...nothing to see...move along.
Your right about the hardware for sure. When I got my first Tyan S2466 mainboard with Dual AMD's and 2gb of Ram I knew the party was over for exclusive vendors like Sun and SGI. Powerful and cheap like my last girlfriend.
It shouldn't surprise anyone who has paid the least bit of attention to hardware prices. It is almost impossible to compete with the x64 blades and clusters which are all the rage. Itanium? No thanks the customers I work with only want the best value AMD 64-bit setup. And the maintenance prices for equipment have fallen through the floor except for SGI's pricing model. It isn't 1999 pricing anymore and they lost.
Technology has moved how far since the 80's? I am talking out my ass, but wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient to just buy someone's newer DARPA creation instead?
would it be unreasonable for companies to release end of the road chipset development including all engineering white papers, etc.? Especially those companies who found a niche market and pissed it all away? I just can't help but think someone would be interested. Copyrights, etc. be damned because the money has already been made.
Marijuana spiked coffee for sure. You get the high and the low all at once. And coffee isn't illegal like cocaine. coffee-flavored marijuana is the same as when someone tries to sell me a bag of blueberry flavored weed...pointless.
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How about a really nice salary to keep quiet and respect from the boss for having to live under a cloak of secrecy? Bonus Points each week redeemable at the canteena could also generate some interest.
Yep, it's amazing how low rent you can get to build a supercomputer...especially with web resources and an exploitable, educated labor market. Take the United States for example... sometimes you don't even need a datacenter, just a cheap prefab building on cheap tax break land. Hire one person to be software/storage/network/admin. Then contract a hardware jockey cause noone likes doing it and we're cheap. These said two guys could build cluster using supermicro setups installed into APC cabinets, hook up the I/O, and rock n roll. Biggest cost unless your nationalized: Power/Cooling.
Even the Teabaggers from Glenn Beck's website get to post as AC. Pussies.
As an American, I will explain it. We are no different than anyone else who becomes corrupted by money and power. In fact, throughout existence it has been this way. Regardless of any viewpoint of morality or sense of right regardless of country, money talks to these people. Its the only thing they answer to. Sad, but true from the beginning of human nature. What can be done to fix it? lol
"So, hey, Adobe: have you started porting Photoshop yet?" --or creating a fucking viable version of 64bit flashplayer for even the most basic Linux OS? One not buggy as fuck IMHO?
Or they could stop rewarding millionaires with stock options, spend that loot on upgrading their POS network and make everyone happy.
Duke Nukem Forever to be released Q4 2009.
The EFF strikes fear into the Rotten Apple!!! Couldn't get any better. At least someone is looking out for the users.
I will still go onsite to fix your nodes, blades, and servers when the hardware fails. Clouds, Rainbows, and Dreams all have powersupplies.
I like that by following the link of "Go Daddy Sucks", their google keyword ad is still on the right selling domains for 6.99. I wonder how many clicks they just got?
Even more boggling is when ISP's refuse to blacklist these zombies. Kill the modem after you send out a nice letter stating their box is hosed and must be repaired before they are allowed back on the pipe.
There is no price/performance contest in comparing AMD Phenom Sexcore processors versus competitors. You could build a whole system around DDR3/i7 architecture, but it is unaffordable in large clusters. BTW, I am an AMD fanboy, especially after upgrading a cluster to the new Phenom chips. It was able to work perfect with DDR2 and saved a fortune just upgrading CPU's to get about a 15 percent performance increase. This only helps AMD.
I think God built in many fail-safe mechanisms for destruction in case he forgets to push the red button. The earth colliding with Mars? Bring back the cosmic death movies on television!!
I will gladly do hardware support for system developers and admins both. Break the machines all you want, you are under maintenance with my company, who unlike devs and admins, doesn't treat me with the least bit of respect. The random "failures" caused by experimentation keeps my job interesting. Only my customers at any IT job have ever respected my skills.
A hoax? How could you be such a pessimist when you know those two guys just unveiled the frozen bigfoot they caught? :D
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200834/1806/Shock-Bigfoot-claim-is-frozen-hoax/
All your batteries proven to catch on fire to the following address: Sales / Marketing Any Company USA. Thanks I need new IT stories at work.
Trade your games directly on craigslist. It works everytime for me. You don't lose 70 percent of the value by trading it in and you can just keep the cycle going...
I agree completely. IMHO, what is controversial today gets released tomorrow and it turns out society doesn't collapse with an explosion of rapists, murdering fiends, etc. All this is a lame attempt by the "moral majority" to keep us looking at the past and present through rose-colored glasses. No controversy here...nothing to see...move along.
Your right about the hardware for sure. When I got my first Tyan S2466 mainboard with Dual AMD's and 2gb of Ram I knew the party was over for exclusive vendors like Sun and SGI. Powerful and cheap like my last girlfriend.
It shouldn't surprise anyone who has paid the least bit of attention to hardware prices. It is almost impossible to compete with the x64 blades and clusters which are all the rage. Itanium? No thanks the customers I work with only want the best value AMD 64-bit setup. And the maintenance prices for equipment have fallen through the floor except for SGI's pricing model. It isn't 1999 pricing anymore and they lost.
Technology has moved how far since the 80's? I am talking out my ass, but wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient to just buy someone's newer DARPA creation instead?
would it be unreasonable for companies to release end of the road chipset development including all engineering white papers, etc.? Especially those companies who found a niche market and pissed it all away? I just can't help but think someone would be interested. Copyrights, etc. be damned because the money has already been made.
What about transferring the job to Cyrix chips? With an Open Source installation there should be little problem transitioning.
Marijuana spiked coffee for sure. You get the high and the low all at once. And coffee isn't illegal like cocaine. coffee-flavored marijuana is the same as when someone tries to sell me a bag of blueberry flavored weed...pointless.
HSPLTA - Hire Smart People Leave Them Alone...simple yet never achieved by anyone I've ever worked for.