The collected works of R-ten-K - Page 6

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Fear of Artificial Intelligence at March 25, 2016, 4:08 p.m...

fu wrote: what would you do (with all this freedom)?

Read old 60s and 70s articles that professed how people would only have to work less than 10 hours a week by 2000?

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 5, 2016, 12:45 p.m...

pentium wrote: Looking at his other listings and his prices on keyboards specifically, I doubt you'd ever get him to budge more the $20 on an item.

$2K for an old IBM PC keyboard? The guy either has no contact with reality or is trying to launder money.

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 8, 2016, 8:06 p.m...

opcode wrote: I think so too. I would have bought one for sure. I remember running Win2k prof on that box. It looked great on my desk. Why did they go with the whole ARCS prom cobalt custom graphics on a custom mobo? It would have been cool if they had put in some kind of bios compatibility mode.

It was a retarded design, mainly because it was the only way SGI knew how to make a PeeCee product comply with SGI's corporate culture of products with ultra high margins.The Visual Workstation was the embodiment of everything that was wrong with SGI in one nice looking package.

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of archive.org -- SGI Software Library at April 10, 2016, 1:52 p.m...

SAQ wrote: SGI may not care, but that does not mean that SGI's licensors will not care. Best to tread carefully and slowly, and not "tickle the tiger's tail" or some similar phrase that came up at one point.

To be fair. It's most unlikely these licensors would waste time and effort, that they don't have to begin with, on IP/Software this ancient. There's no there there, i.e. there's no tiger.

PS. I'm not condoning anything. Or encouraging people to do any action whatsoever. Etc, etc.

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Putting the C8000 to good use? at May 7, 2016, 12:27 p.m...

SAQ wrote: HP did go through a period where they thought they'd challenge SGI for graphics, but the software end of it just wasn't there.

They did and they won, on the desktop at least, just not with HP-sUX.

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

R-ten-K
From Nor Cal
Who joined Nov. 15, 2004, 10:36 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Rumors of Oracle ending Solaris development at Dec. 8, 2016, 6:43 p.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote: At least Fujitsu still has SPARC, and there are still SPARC things around.

Fujitsu is getting out of the SPARC game, at least they're getting rid of a big chunk of their architecture people.

Honestly, most of the action is moving into the cloud, or towards very distributed systems. Big iron is becoming more and more niche, and with design costs increasing exponentially, SPARC is becoming a harder proposition to justify within Oracle I assume.

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a
pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"