Re: Looking in the wrong places
I though last year's The Shadow Line was bloody good. (Right up until the end of the last episode when it suddenly put in a cretinous twist in the tale)
Anyway, Rafe Spall was utterly brilliant
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I can't speak for these new machines, but the previous generation of Supermicro twin servers are much much quieter than the first few generations. We first bought a bunch when they originally came out (was around the Intel 5000 chipset time I think), and have bought a few more as time has gone by. All of these machines were insanely loud. Our most recent purchase was a 2u twin squared of the outgoing Xeon architecture, so that made for 48/96 cpu cores/hyperthreaded cores for the unit. It is a hell of a lot quieter. In fact you almost work with it sitting next to you.
As someone who works in the industry, I don't know anyone who does 'serious video editing' on an internal hard drive. In my office we have a 12TB Raid-6 disk system connected to our edit station by mini SAS. From what I've seen of other video editor's computers, they also put everything on an external disk, and a large number of them use 15 inch Macbook Pros (connected to big screens when possible, but not always)
So, as I see it, this is the story so far...
Microsoft wants into the lucrative smartphone business.
Microsoft places one of their executives at Nokia.
Said executive fucks Nokia in the butt repeatedly until it becomes worthless.
Microsoft buys Nokia for peanuts (and possibly discards everything it doesn't want) giving it a lucrative smartphone business.
This article reminds me of my attempts to play Diablo 3 recently. I'm only playing the single player game, yet on 3 days over the last 10 or so I haven't been able to play because of various server-side problems. It's just crazy, and I won't be buying Blizzard's next game.
It looks like this way of thinking is coming to us at the operating system level too. God help us all.
"a few niggling problems"
Oh really? I haven't been able to play twice so far in the last week. First time was the whole of Sunday afternoon, and then the whole of Wednesday evening after getting home from work. And that's the single player game only. God knows what's going to happen when I catch up with my friends who are currently playing on 'Hell' difficulty online.
I've only got good things to say about the Super Micro kit we've bought - and we've bought a lot of it. Our entire render farm consists of 1 and 2U twin nodes (an invention of theirs), and it's reliable, fast and was cheaper than anything of comparible quality. It goes without saying that all our workstation motherboards are Super Micro too. Well, except for our edit suite, which is powered by an HP workstation that's (to my surprise) proved to be very flakey indeed - every time you restart it it's a lottery how much RAM the board will see.
Keep up the good work Super Micro.
As brilliant as Manic Miner was - and I lost many hours of my youth to it - I would have included Jet Set Willy, which for me was the first platformer of almost unfathomly massive scope, perfected gameplay, and the first game I played that made exploration a real adventure. With JSW there was no longer a single path to follow, which was pretty ground breaking.
Frankly I'm amazed at this outbreak of common sense by Microsoft, I was bracing myself for at least 15 SKUs, including the Windows 8 for Poor People that comes without mouse and keyboard support (but can be purchased as DLC if you can get to the app store).
The original article also notes there will be a 4th SKU, Win8 Enterprise, but they only mention it in passing. What do enterprise customers get that you can't find in Win8 Pro?
The young lad should be applauded for his demonstration on the creative use of language. To expel him is beyond insane.
I remember an English lesson at school when I was about 15, where the teacher impressed upon us the flexibility of the word 'fuck' by reminiscing of the time he overheard a frustrated motorist, whilst kicking a flat tyre, shout "the fucking fucker's fucking fucked"
How many words can you say that about?
A step in the right direction. There should be a desktop and server version. As for 32 v.s 64 bit it should be an option upon first installation that defaults to the capabilities of whatever architecture you are running. Being asked to buy a specific version is silly.
In other words it should be similar to how things used to be in the 1990s
I know this totally goes against the grain of modern thinking, but personally, my favourite Bond film is 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
It's got the best opening stunt, an awesome title song, a brilliant soundtrack, Rodge at the peak of his powers, classic exotic locations such as Egypt, a fantastic bad guy in Jaws, some unforgettable set pieces such as a supertanker that swallows a submarine and an underwater villan's lair, and lastly but most importantly, the most unfeasably hot Bond girl of all time in Barbara Bach.
Having just started playing it here are my thoughts on the game so far:
It plays almost exactly like WoW, but in a different setting, thus anyone who has played WoW will instantly find it very familiar. This is a good or bad thing depending on your perspective.
The art direction is horrendous. The use of colour harmonies is about as far away from what the textbooks suggest as you can get. It's very distracting.
The character models are also pretty bad, which is a shame as you spend a lot of time staring at them in many, many cut scenes.
Speaking of which, cut scenes in an MMO? Personally, I'm not a fan.
So far I'm not massively impressed, but I'll give it until the end of the month.
You can count me in for contributing to number one. Having had my fingers burned recently with a few terrible game purchases, I decided to download a torrent of Crysis 2 to see if it was worth buying. An hour into it I quit and uninstalled. Far from being a a purchase lost, they lost a purchase gained (if you see what I mean)
"It's the most uninformed and unimaginative idea I've heard in a long time."
Is one of the best put-downs I've ever heard. It's the perfect combination of being short but with high impact, beautifully eloquent, and utterly correct. Berners-Lee is, once again, one of my heroes.