Desktop Cray

[Bill]

Lighten up Petra. Have some vodka.

[beacher]

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!)

[tacit]

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.

[Epaminondas]

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

_______________________________________________________

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
_______________________________________________________
 
 [ 02-11-2003, 08:33 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

[CyberPet]

quote: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!

[krissel]

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.

[MamaMoose]

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