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News Credits: 150 · Mon May 26, 2008 3:38 pm

I run Mac on a Macbook and dual boot XP and Linux on my home machine.

Windows architectually is a piece of ****. Who would have thought that every succesive release of Windows would make a system run slower. If this was the case in the late 70's early 80's, I think we would be 10 years behind computing technology today. I remember using HP-UX and each succesive release would make your machine faster. So basically we traded real power and reliability for ease of use.

Computer technology has basically stifled itself so that non-engineers can do stuff they probably shouldn't be doing. Case in point, design a system on any RDBMS and then design the same system on a Network Hierarchical Database and watch the RDBMS get its doors blown away...but no one use NHDBMSs because it actually takes skill to set one up.

We'd all be running this on our desktop if technology wasn't stifled by crappy guis:
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/sca ... index.html

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 26, 2008 4:10 pm

I use Windows because I like to play games. Incidentally, that's the same reason I don't use Mac or Linux.

News Credits: 150 · Mon May 26, 2008 4:28 pm

Shadowman wrote:I use Windows because I like to play games. Incidentally, that's the same reason I don't use Mac or Linux.

That's fine, but I'm sure if you were actually using your computer to program very intense or mission critical applications, you'd throw it in the garbage.

Though I have to say the porn industry is one of the biggest drivers of modern computing technolgies.

News Credits: 38 · Mon May 26, 2008 5:07 pm

And I thank them for that on a daily basis. :lol:

News Credits: 150 · Mon May 26, 2008 6:38 pm

Iron-Man wrote:And I thank them for that on a daily basis.

I actually laughed out load when I read that! :APPLAUSE:

But it's true, AVI was really driven by that when they first had porno movies on CD (pre-DVD). Then with the Internet they needed to show video and AVI wouldn't cut it, so they really drove MPEG. Although now the latest craze is H.264, which is really driven by iPod.

I remember the first nude picture I saw on a computer was one of those grainy GIFs from the old BBS days. I couldn't believe that my friend had just displayed a nude picture that he actually "downloaded" from a BBS, it was like being on f'n Star Trek...the porn version of Star Trek that is.

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 26, 2008 6:48 pm

GetterDragun wrote:
Shadowman wrote:I use Windows because I like to play games. Incidentally, that's the same reason I don't use Mac or Linux.

That's fine, but I'm sure if you were actually using your computer to program very intense or mission critical applications, you'd throw it in the garbage.

No, but I generally let the people making the game do the programming for me. Though, they generally do it on Windows based PCs as well. I seem to remember seeing a video--I think it was about a LucasArts game, not necessarily Star Wars, though--and it showed them programming on a computer with a big ol' "Dell" logo on the side.

News Credits: 226 · Mon May 26, 2008 6:57 pm

Not to forget a "large" image was around 400x400 and 40k in size. I know we use to swap a lot of images just on floppy DISKS (yeah i'm emphasizing that word because I know some of you gits will try to twist it around).

Now days a small image is around 800x800 and 100k in size. Given the size of monitors a lot of people want their images around 1400 mark and have no qualms about the file size being around 1mb.

So hate and despise the porn industry all you want, but they've done a hell of a lot for pushing for better technology.

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 26, 2008 7:23 pm

Burn wrote:So hate and despise the porn industry all you want, but they've done a hell of a lot for pushing for better technology.

It's also done a lot for pushing for better chaffing creams, and carpal tunnel syndrome treatments.

News Credits: 226 · Mon May 26, 2008 7:47 pm

Shadowman wrote:
Burn wrote:So hate and despise the porn industry all you want, but they've done a hell of a lot for pushing for better technology.

It's also done a lot for pushing for better chaffing creams, and carpal tunnel syndrome treatments.

There you go speaking from experience again ...

News Credits: 150 · Mon May 26, 2008 8:36 pm

Shadowman wrote:
No, but I generally let the people making the game do the programming for me. Though, they generally do it on Windows based PCs as well. I seem to remember seeing a video--I think it was about a LucasArts game, not necessarily Star Wars, though--and it showed them programming on a computer with a big ol' "Dell" logo on the side.

Dell sells Linux Servers too. I think all movie special effects are done in Linux, I know ILM has close to 2000 processors running Linux and last I hear Pixar was running Linux on Dell Servers. Also, they said it would take something like 2,300 to 10,000 years to render a movie on a single processor, hence the CPU Farms.

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 26, 2008 10:07 pm

GetterDragun wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
No, but I generally let the people making the game do the programming for me. Though, they generally do it on Windows based PCs as well. I seem to remember seeing a video--I think it was about a LucasArts game, not necessarily Star Wars, though--and it showed them programming on a computer with a big ol' "Dell" logo on the side.

Dell sells Linux Servers too. I think all movie special effects are done in Linux, I know ILM has close to 2000 processors running Linux and last I hear Pixar was running Linux on Dell Servers. Also, they said it would take something like 2,300 to 10,000 years to render a movie on a single processor, hence the CPU Farms.

Nope, it was 100% most definitely Windows XP. And it was Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Huh.