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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: Epaminondas on February 09, 2003, 01:30:00 PM
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Desktop Cray
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Downloading now.
Be done d/ld in about three hours. <gr>
Hope it's worth it.
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The download stopped dead at 2.8mbs!
"Incomplete system" when I tried to open what I got.!.
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OK Bill I downloaded it with no problem. Now, what the heck am I supposed to do with it?
I have it running in the background right now, but I have no idea what it's supposed to do or be doing
Steve
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From what I read on another board Steve,not much.
Seems it doesn't live up to all the big whoop-la.
Glad I'm not going to try d/lding it again.
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It looks like a hoax for sure. Just take a look at their forums, a reply to a worried "user" sure shows how "serious" these guys are.
http://www.xosx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80
Probably just a gang of students having fun, making up diffrent people (some doctors that talks mumbo jumbo for instance) to get a laugh.
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That's cute. The contact's name is "Tokse Lott." Get it, Talks-a-lot?
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Bill,
For every dissastisfied post I have read, I seem to be seeing several that are moderately or even very pleased. Some report - in specific situations, of course - some very impressive performance gains.
Let's let everyone who wishes to try it out and judge for themselves.
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Steve,
You will find it a simple matter to apply the factory settings to your G4:
*** FACTORY SETTINGS ***
Ease of use is one of the great things about Desktop Cray!
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Cyberpet,
I am surprised that such a pretty girl as yourself would come up with such an extraordinary conclusion.
Of course, there is humour in the daily work of any serious endeavor. That in no way invalidates the hard work that is also present.
Now - shouldn't you be in the kitchen?
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Desktop Cray Support Fora
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Oh, MAN, that's the funniest thing I've seen online since the Web site explaining thatApple Computer was promoting devil worship because the operating system core is called "Darwin."
What a brilliant site! "Upon activation, the Matrix works in two ways. Through immediate visual feedback, the user can see the various processes operating at any moment on all the systems, both real and virtual." Man, that is priceless.
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Originally posted by Epaminondas:
Cyberpet,
I am surprised that such a pretty girl as yourself would come up with such an extraordinary conclusion.
Of course, there is humour in the daily work of any serious endeavor. That in no way invalidates the hard work that is also present.
Now - shouldn't you be in the kitchen?
OK, buddy, you picked on the wrong broad!
First of all, why copy Apple layout completly, making it look like it's an Apple Software?
Secondly, why is all replies to complaints in the forums being treated hostile or rude (like your reply to me here... very chauvinistic)?
Thirdly, the questions asked in the forums never gets a proper reply making me think that this is just a non-working-toy to make people BELIEVE they experience better performance. I think doctors calls it Placebo effect.
Forthly, You go and hide in that cave of yours.... you neanderthal man.
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After about two minutes of playing with the interface... I am of the opinion that that is all it is... an interface.
IAWCyberpet
Steve
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<< people BELIEVE they experience better performance. I think doctors calls it Placebo effect >>
I think you may be right.
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Father and I used to discuss this late into the night. He would stress the importance of people's beliefs - belief in themselves, belief in their Physician, belief in the things that they think they know to be true - in heart and in soul and in a kind of human racial biology/memory/psychology that goes beyond the individual - things outside of each of us - all things that I had no means to measure - and how the skilled Physician makes use of his knowledge of these matters to mold them for the benefit of the patient, and how powerful an effect this all can be for good. Or for ill.
I, young skeptic, maintained the mechanistic point of view - the body is a machine, I said, and will respond to mechanistic diagnostic procedures and treatments in a statistically predictable manner. Each patient is an individual. Medicine is a Science, not and Art. Emotions only get in the way.
Medicine is not the place, I said, for poets.
Father would quietly shake his head. Still - I think, somehow, that he was fond of me.
I did listen to him. He was trying to pass thirty - no, forty - years of what he had seen - with his own eyes - on to the next in line - into his son's eyes, as well. As his father had done for him.
I realize now what he was trying to tell me. The need for people to believe in things that are beyond themselves. True or no by methods that one can measure.
And, of course, throughout life, to relish laughter.
Best regards,
Epaminondas
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The Oath
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.
I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asks for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give pessary for abortion. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations, male or female, slave or free.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored among men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite be my lot.
Hippocrates
circa 400 BC
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[ 02-10-2003, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]
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The CEO's name is "Gette Lyfe".
It is pretty funny:
"With this latest technology, the entire ultra high speed activities of all processors are shown in an aggregated slow motion, in effect, allowing the user great insight into the various ongoing routines in progress. Secondly, the user can put the Matrix into active mode and if quick enough can bring the system up to one or two magnitudes faster through manipulations of various defined parameters in real time."
If quick enough?! I can see it now...
I'm sorry sir, but you're just too darn slow for this product...we are however working on a Hominid Enhancer 3.0, but it isn't quite ready for beta release...we're still trying it out on the chimps.
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Petra. I think he was making a joke. I hope.
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Originally posted by kelly:
Petra. I think he was making a joke. I hope.
If so I wasn't amused. It's rude and proof there's still some neanderthal men out there. Not all men are like this, but a reply to a post that tries to put down a woman ("sweet girl" and "shouldn't you be in the kitchen") is just outrageous!
I can take a joke, but no one... I repeat NO ONE can make a joke about my gender and get a way with it with a laugh. It is not funny!
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Lighten up Petra. Have some vodka.
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Epaminondas, just remember that just because a belief may have no basis in reality, the effect of that belief may still have consequences! The mind is an incredible "machine" that I don't believe we have even started to understand! (I know that I, for one, certainly DON'T comprehend the minds of at least 50% of the population whose gender is different than mine!)
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Guys, guys, guys...
IT'S A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
The software does not DO anything at all. Nothing! It's a subtle joke, as reading the specifications very carefully will tell you.
("Through immediate visual feedback, the user can see the various processes operating at any moment on all the systems, both real and virtual." It's a reference to the movie The Matrix--get it? "Desktop Cray prefetch mode is the world's fastest FIDO fetch." FIDO fetch--as in a dog fetching a bone--get it? "Desktop Cray does graphics acceleration far beyond the original Crays." That's because Crays--like ALL mainframes--do not have any graphics capability at all--the graphics hardware is in the TERMINAL. Get it?)
The entire Web site is nothing but an elaborate joke. The Forums are just a continuation of the joke.
Petra, by telling you "Shouldn't you be in the kitchen?" he was gently chiding you for not getting the joke--in the same oblique, roundabout way that the specifications give away the joke.
When I visited the site, I found it hysterically funny, and I thought the joke was brilliant--but I didn't realize anyone would actually be tricked by it for long.
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Beacher,
I have found that it is not so important to understand women as to enjoy them for what they are.
What little understanding I have of the fairer sex has long been guided by painstaking study of the work of the feminist public figure and philosopher, Lauper.
I find her work to be not inaccessible - perhaps you are familiar with it?
Be well.
Lauper
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Tacit,
I am shocked, shocked at your conclusions in regard to Desktop Cray!
I think it's always best to let people judge for themselves:
Desktop Cray
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[ 02-11-2003, 08:33 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]
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Originally posted by tacit:
Petra, by telling you "Shouldn't you be in the kitchen?" he was gently chiding you for not getting the joke--in the same oblique, roundabout way that the specifications give away the joke.
Let me remind you that I did state from the beginning that it was a hoax, then this neanderthal man started to pick on me and my gender. THAT I don't find funny, not at all.
I'm a highly intelligent person and I do have humor, but I loathe people who's trying to push me down just because I'm a woman. That's where I draw the line. That's not funny, that's plain rude and male chauvinistic.
Enuff said!
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Don't take E seriously, Petra.
Any guy who frequents a gay song site for insights to women has to have a sense of humor or is totally out of it anyway.
Anytime I'm confronted with that expression, "Don't you belong in the kitchen?", I usually respond with,
"Don't you belong in the garage?"
...and with the temperature hovering near zero, I'll take the kitchen anyday.
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My goodness! High power computation, sexism, humor - all in one post. First as an old and current numerical analyst, computational physicist who was at first very excited about Desktop Cray, I realized pretty quickly that it was a hoax - but the authors had me for a few minutes. I will stay with my diual 1 GHz which reminds me of the original Cray ! and the old Control Data 7600 in its processing power.
CyberPet is right on two counts: 1) its a hoax, but as tacit pointed out a very cleaver one and 2) civility is the name of our game on TS. Epaminondas showed asignificant lack of civility with regards to his remarks to CP. What people don't understand is that those kind of remarks keep the myth alive about the inferiority of women (or any other group).
Good fore you CyberPet - sic 'em!!!
MamaMoose