Its versatility costs it performance. The binary package management really says it all.. you shouldn't be running anything but compiled source on a performance cluster.
Why Debian? A desktop distro? That's got to be one of the least scalable and cluster-friendly distros. If they would invest a little to set things up properly they could get a lot more performance out of their machines.
It still leaves one wondering how the steaming pile of garbage that is Netscape worked for him. I mean, it was OK in the 90s but it's terrible compared to other modern browsers. This is just a stupid mindset; if there are better options then the old one's not "working for you" as it should. Unless he really doesn't care, in which case I don't sympathize with him at all.. you should be aware of the state of technology and what your options are, even if you're not "good with computers" (a phrase I'm sure we've all scowled at).
Oh, I beat Halo on legendary. I'm not talking about the difficulty of the game, I'm talking about how improbably dense the enemy distribution is- to get anywhere you have to fight through hordes of enemies and it just gets tedious.
You're wrong about world perfect- MS Office has always been the premiere office suite. Have you seen Office 08? I don't get why Sarah Connor was trying to destroy The Turk-- it's obvious that Skynet won't start from a chess AI, it'll start when Microsoft adds just one too many features to Office and Visual Studio, and they become self-aware. The VS2008 installer is frankly terrifying with all the features flicking by in the installer animation, some of them are so insane and impressive.
Yeah I'm sure they would be happy to see that Microsoft gave them a copy specifically tailored for submission to the antitrust committee. That's exactly what microsoft wouldn't be allowed to do.
I played through a lot of RE4 on the PC (with a usb controller don't worry) and I was not impressed. Constant fretting about health and ammo (didn't halo teach us how to make health systems fun instead of annoying?), repetitive gameplay (though the environments were amazingly varied), being freaked out constantly which just makes me have to quit for the day after 15 minutes. The third person perspective was very annoying and made the game way harder than it had to be. Mostly I just couldn't enjoy it- it's like guild wars on crack.. if you have to get to an area just 2 map-sectors away, you just know every last inch of it is going to be gueling battle. I remember that the last area I was in was around where you drop into a cage with one of those blinded ogres and have to kill it to open the cage door. How far is that?
Ah yes, bullcrap brainwashing. Get this straight. There is no honor in war. Wars are murder on a massive scale. Good men die on both sides. Homes (and economies) are destroyed. I'm sure a lot of higher officers know exactly what I'm talking about but are too hardened to the reality of it to care. Meanwhile grunts shout hooah and march around in their green dresses blowing trumpets and grinning widely, or just revel in the insanity and violence, which is more respectable IMO than outright ignoring it. Print this out and keep it on you, or pin a peace button to your BDU like Sgt. Joker in Full Metal Jacket.
Ray tracing is the most realistic possible method for rendering. You can "trace rays" in different ways though; photon mapping is just one technique involved.
It's the most realistic possible way of rendering, so when computers get fast enough we'll be able to everything with ray tracing. But effects past simple polygon rendering and water refraction are extremely difficult in ray-tracing.. not necessarily to program, but to simulate in real-time.
Exercising is a waste of time. I don't need to be strong and it takes way too many hours to be strong. I'm not fat or anything, I'm 18 and like 120 pounds or something, bones brittle as balsa wood but we're not cavemen anymore, we don't have to hit each other with clubs. Strength is irrelevant.
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Its versatility costs it performance. The binary package management really says it all.. you shouldn't be running anything but compiled source on a performance cluster.
and it's not even finished, why would they put it on a production cluster?
Why Debian? A desktop distro? That's got to be one of the least scalable and cluster-friendly distros. If they would invest a little to set things up properly they could get a lot more performance out of their machines.
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All I want is sharks with lasers mounted on their heads. Is that so much to ask?
It also uses the word "carrots". I don't get it.
"They could be right"
What? Of course they're right- net neutrality legislation is made to protect peer-to-peer traffic.
It still leaves one wondering how the steaming pile of garbage that is Netscape worked for him. I mean, it was OK in the 90s but it's terrible compared to other modern browsers. This is just a stupid mindset; if there are better options then the old one's not "working for you" as it should. Unless he really doesn't care, in which case I don't sympathize with him at all.. you should be aware of the state of technology and what your options are, even if you're not "good with computers" (a phrase I'm sure we've all scowled at).
Oh, I beat Halo on legendary. I'm not talking about the difficulty of the game, I'm talking about how improbably dense the enemy distribution is- to get anywhere you have to fight through hordes of enemies and it just gets tedious.
You're wrong about world perfect- MS Office has always been the premiere office suite. Have you seen Office 08? I don't get why Sarah Connor was trying to destroy The Turk-- it's obvious that Skynet won't start from a chess AI, it'll start when Microsoft adds just one too many features to Office and Visual Studio, and they become self-aware. The VS2008 installer is frankly terrifying with all the features flicking by in the installer animation, some of them are so insane and impressive.
Yeah I'm sure they would be happy to see that Microsoft gave them a copy specifically tailored for submission to the antitrust committee. That's exactly what microsoft wouldn't be allowed to do.
Yah.
How on earth does this kind of thing not get leaked? Dozens of people with copies of the software, masive portable storage devices commonplace...
Uh we're already doing it. See MPT.
I played through a lot of RE4 on the PC (with a usb controller don't worry) and I was not impressed. Constant fretting about health and ammo (didn't halo teach us how to make health systems fun instead of annoying?), repetitive gameplay (though the environments were amazingly varied), being freaked out constantly which just makes me have to quit for the day after 15 minutes. The third person perspective was very annoying and made the game way harder than it had to be. Mostly I just couldn't enjoy it- it's like guild wars on crack.. if you have to get to an area just 2 map-sectors away, you just know every last inch of it is going to be gueling battle.
I remember that the last area I was in was around where you drop into a cage with one of those blinded ogres and have to kill it to open the cage door. How far is that?
Ah yes, bullcrap brainwashing. Get this straight. There is no honor in war. Wars are murder on a massive scale. Good men die on both sides. Homes (and economies) are destroyed. I'm sure a lot of higher officers know exactly what I'm talking about but are too hardened to the reality of it to care. Meanwhile grunts shout hooah and march around in their green dresses blowing trumpets and grinning widely, or just revel in the insanity and violence, which is more respectable IMO than outright ignoring it. Print this out and keep it on you, or pin a peace button to your BDU like Sgt. Joker in Full Metal Jacket.
Ray tracing is the most realistic possible method for rendering. You can "trace rays" in different ways though; photon mapping is just one technique involved.
I take it "auntie beeb" means the BBC?
It's the most realistic possible way of rendering, so when computers get fast enough we'll be able to everything with ray tracing. But effects past simple polygon rendering and water refraction are extremely difficult in ray-tracing.. not necessarily to program, but to simulate in real-time.
More like: too far to walk to dinner, too sleepy/bored to eat at all during the weekends :)
Exercising is a waste of time. I don't need to be strong and it takes way too many hours to be strong. I'm not fat or anything, I'm 18 and like 120 pounds or something, bones brittle as balsa wood but we're not cavemen anymore, we don't have to hit each other with clubs. Strength is irrelevant.
SFTP is the more fully-featured protocol, says so right on wikipedia.