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in comparisons i did several years ago, MIPSPRO was definitely faster, but compared to not having an executable at all, gcc is acceptable. most of the work in getting the MIPSPRO version working at that time was dealing with the issues that blender was written assuming gcc and GNU tools. which meant you had to keep all of those up to date too. now with nekoware it's easier - you may only have to deal with the lazy data typing gcc lets you get away with.
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Rhys wrote: UNIX purity
Replaced by Linux garbage
Die, x86


it's funny because it's true!
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dingofarmer wrote:
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you forgot the other colon. you can also pick them off the 'view more smiles' selection.

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tesla wrote: Just to see how ridiculously high the prices actually were.


at the time they were not 'ridiculous', merely expensive.
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hamei wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/BU3H1938SL.DTL

"The companies will continue to cooperate on many fronts, with Google providing the search engine for Apple's Safari Internet browser as well as several default applications on the iPhone."

Oh. Look at the way that is written. What a crock of poo. People with an iPhone can use the google search engine. Wow, what an intimate connection. Will someone please hurt the blithering idiots who write this junk ?


it means the the query is sent to google, with a google button in a google window inside the application. it's branding, and i'm not sure you can easily change that setting. or why you would want to bother.

google has 'kneenex'ed itself.

swap the search engine but leave the google button there, nobody would know the difference on the iphone.

edit: ok, so i can set yahoo in safari at least. whoop dee do!
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At least you have the pronounciation part down, with the Japanese sounds being just about the same as Spanish.


that's weird, i really, really, hate the sound of spanish, but i love the sound of japanese.

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mattst88 wrote: I talked with him about cool stuff like IRIX x86.


Whoa whoa whoa, back up. This was in the pipeline at some point? While I obviously have my heart reserved for MIPS, I would still kill to be able to run IRIX on PCs of the future.


large engineering organizations do this all the time. a couple of guys 6-9 months tops for an Advanced Development project. actually making it a reliable product is at least two orders of magnitude more work.

it would be more surprising if someone DIDN'T do it.

edit: oh i said that before... welp still true.
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to be honest, i think SGI hobbiest get WAY more of their dream than any other tech-humper. SGI's biggest beast are peanuts now. you can't give them away. i was never able to get an of the DEC equipment - it held it's value far too long.

OS source code is a pipe dream - even if you got it you would be just be bug fixing forever - boring...
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porter wrote:
skywriter wrote: OS source code is a pipe dream - even if you got it you would be just be bug fixing forever - boring...


But you might get a USB driver out of it!


i seriously doubt it.
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anyone know when 'ponyo on the cliff by the sea' comes out on dvd? english or japanese ok!


Rumor has it that July 3rd, '09 is the release date for the Japanese DVD. It's supposed to have English subs too. Not sure about a BluRay release.


thx! was just wondering that again yesterday :)


ponyo finally hit the local theater. i'll try to see it this weekend

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ponyo finally hit the local theater. i'll try to see it this weekend


visually another Miyazaki masterpiece! great storyline.

not wild over the english 'voice talent' though. a lot of famous film/tv names without bringing anything to the film. should have used real voice talent.

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10.5.8 still isn't debugged on dell yet.

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10.5.8 still isn't debugged on dell yet.


I'm sure Apple are working on it. :shock:


i was saying that hackintoshing OS X 10.5.8 on a Dell isn't working yet. the people that do that sort of thing haven't finished. 10.5.7 was fairly straight forward. i believe that chart was for 10.5.7.

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Seems everything works on a Mini 10v


aside from the audio/sleep issues yes :)

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i have had a copy of electrogig on the shelf for years, also version 2.4. i remember loading it up on the crimson/re and not being all that impressed by it compared to blender at the time, at least not enough to spend much time on it. i also had the linux version, that was really a mess. apparently from the cd label they also had a sun version.

unless you really enjoy running retro-software (i don't) it only nice shelf-ware. i forgot who gave it to me. hmm.
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i've got to believe the worst environmental computer offender is the consumer PC market. this group has the collective hardware attention span of 6 months. we would probably be much better off all around if consumers never had access to computer products, period.

probably an unpopular view but wtf.
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inventory costs money, lots. nobody was buying the systems. scrap 'em. what's so hard to understand?
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hamei wrote: In this case, rather than sell valuable assets in public and receiving money which would go to creditors and stockholders, they paid to crush hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets in secret.


let's go back to the original problem - what customers bought what products again?

it's not evil, it's business.
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oh god not you too with the bold and italics. *sigh*
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so, why exactly did you even get this thing? it's not at all note worthy AFAIK. if you're going to give your dad a good reason to get pissed off don't waste it on junk.

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yes, but sgi gear at least has a notable lineage in graphics, cad/cam, etc... they have innovative systems architecture, and design points. that's what most people i imagine people collect it for. the hp 9000? wassat?!

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firstly, i don't think you have enough logic there for anything but the drive electronics; head, front panel, and spindle. but some m-logic cards were pretty advanced. doubtful though.
secondly, wth would you get those for without disk packs and processor?
thirdly, check out bitsavers for any hope of software and/or docs.

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Blender 2.5 is widely believed to be the version of Blender that will overcome the (perceived) notion of being difficult to use by users of other 3D applications.


that's kind of a strange statement.

if it's perceived as difficult and it's not; it's generally those other 3d users throwing FUD, or it really is difficult, but blender folks don't want to admit it.

i don't see how a new version would address that problem.

anyway i wish them good luck with that. someday i'll have the time to relearn the arcane interface!

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first impressions: yes it's different, and yes it's yet another rearrangement of the same buttons, icons, and funky value entry widgets. it's great there are new features, and functionality. however, i don't think they are addressing the complaint that people have: blender is non-intuitive. coming up with a new way to represent the same old confusion doesn't solve that problem.

no matter how you dress this pig up; i still like blender.

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fwiw you don't 'remove interlace', you combine/blend/average two fields in an interlaced format to make a frame. it will never look 'good' unless you play interlaced video on an interlaced display. a computer screen is not interlaced hence the ugliness. you could also video capture motionless scenes and get much better results. THIS IS NORMAL.

as tomo says you can use imagemagick to blend the fields, or mediaconvert which has several special field combination algorithms.

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and I like Pro/e .... do you s'pose we'll end up in the same corner of Hell ? :D


nah, i'll be in the 8'th circle for managers, you'll be in the 1'st with the janitors. ;)

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pentium wrote:
Ah, so I'll need an external application to recombine the frames. Sounds ugly but I guess it's all Ic an do as I don't see anyone making a way to do so on Irix any time soon...


mediaconvert IS on irix. it is supplied by dmedia.

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you could also video capture motionless scenes and get much better results.

hat certainly would eliminate interlacing but wouldn't that mean a reduced framerate as the system can only capture so much at a time?


that my young friend was sarcasm.

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PiZzA EnGiNeEr wrote: Apparently this was sold my multiple vendors as a rebranded reference system... HP supports HP-UX on the i2000 and this looks almost identical to the i2000. Are there any chances HPUX for IA64 will run on this?


i think the vw320 and vw540 were the only x86 machines (other than altix) sold with any sgi customization that would preclude doing whatever you want with it. if what you say is true, then the only problem would be hp customization required to run hp-ux. as long as it's not linux, how can you go wrong?
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i originally saw the foam air channels in intel reference designs for their servers. usually this is where all the cheapness starts.

anyway it's just a pc.
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most people are not aware that 'blender' has a non-linear editing capability built-in. like everything in blender, it's a bit involved getting up to speed, but once you know the ropes you can get a lot done with it in this capacity; manage multiple sequences, write plug-in's, etc...
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i didn't know there was 2gb limit. that's file size right?

the speed problem is probably related to how much it can buffer vs reading from disk. although the sequencer is really meant for batch mode editing for small projects it can work in real-time. you seem to be above the useful limit. can you break it down by scenes maybe?

at one time i had premiere for win2k, i thought i had an irix version too, but i've lost track of my stuff.

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you have to maintain the MJPG format (Motion JPG). also, i think it was dmconvert? there is a command line capture program that works much better than the gui tools, it might also be a part of dmconvert.

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skywriter wrote: i'm waiting for early next year hoping the issues calm down. then i'll buy the awesomest one i can :)


well... i'm on the fence every time i go shopping. i expect the 'Refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo' model is going to be everything i need in a mac, but for an extra 500, i can max it out with quad core i5, and 27 inches. this is the only computer i'm going to use besides a netbook, so i would like 'go for broke'!

however, that would make my imac better than my wive's imac and she wouldn't appreciate that! she got the top of the line 24 inch one earlier this year. too bad there isn't a 21.5 inch i5.
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for non-diy, over $600 stuff i get usually the extended plan, and i've almost always needed it.

recondas wrote: I was impressed. <tho I might like to run that 27" panel at a higher resolution>.


2560 x 1440 resolution not good enough? wowsa! 27inch is really big though!
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recondas wrote: <though to be fair I had just got done helping a friend rebuild the tranny on a harley and rode through just enough rain to have accumulated some patina so I probably did look a little rough around the edges>.


hehe! silly sales people :) i hope you had a greasy wrench in your back pocket. my wife says i always get this look on my face when someone says 'can i help you?'. 'as if' it seems to say...
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tomorrow will be my imac shopping day :)

my first choice is the 21.5 inch, 3.06ghz, ati 4670 model. instead of getting the top of the line imac, i'll spend the remainder on an iomega ix4 nas, and a cheap atom htpc nettop in january.

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Isn't Apple releasing a new product within a month..?
A tablet or something...?

I would wait.
My toy budget has been eliminated so I can't really say but..


yes the tablet rumor mill is at high speed now. however, i'm in the market for an imac first, then a tablet if/when they release one. i have had 5+ microsoft based tablets, none of them were more than marginally useful. if anyone can make an expensive tablet useful, i think apple can. for that reason i'll seriously entertain their tablet. but it's nothing i'm going to hold my breath over.

meanwhile i really want that imac! :)

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i gots my imac, it's a wunnerful!

i really need a comfortable chair now that i clean off my desk and have something to sit in front of.

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