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tommyrot - Oct 21, 2008 5:12:32 pm PDT #7947 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Fancy a $25K Cray on your desk?

Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors. That's long been generally true, but not any more.

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today announced that it teamed up with Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to produce a desktop supercomputer. That's right. It will sit on a desktop. And maybe just as surprising, it has a starting price of $25,000.

The Cray CX1 supercomputer uses up to eight nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors -- either dual-core or quad-core. It's the first Cray machine to use Intel processors. The CX1 has up to 4 terabytes of internal storage and 64 gigabytes of memory per node. The machine also comes pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008 [or] Linux.

omnis_audis - Oct 22, 2008 10:05:27 am PDT #7948 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I just sent a feature request to Apple for the iPhone. I'm wondering if others do it too, it might get put in.

I finally pressed the "Emergency Call" button. I feared it dialed 911, so never pushed it. Nope, it just brings up the dial keypad, but no address book.

My suggestion was to somehow allow a mini-address book for I.C.E. numbers (In Case of Emergency). Should something happen to me, I'd love my phone to be of use in contacting the ones I love without having to know the pass code.

Vortex - Oct 22, 2008 1:17:55 pm PDT #7949 of 25501

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

is there a photoshop guru out there that can answer some of my stupid trial and error questions?

Theodosia - Oct 22, 2008 1:42:26 pm PDT #7950 of 25501

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I can try... I wouldn't claim to be a guru, though.

Ginger - Oct 22, 2008 2:52:49 pm PDT #7951 of 25501

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Not a guru either, but I do spend a lot of time with it. I'd be happy to try too.

Vortex - Oct 22, 2008 4:36:18 pm PDT #7952 of 25501

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

well, hell, ginger, I might just suggest that we do a little work before dinner on Friday :)

I do a lot of stuff by trial and error and I've figured out some stuff, but sometimes I'm just baffled.

Ginger - Oct 22, 2008 4:46:41 pm PDT #7953 of 25501

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Sure. Any program that calls sharpening images "unsharp mask" is not particularly intuitive.

Pete, Husband of Jilli - Oct 22, 2008 7:37:17 pm PDT #7954 of 25501

"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

If anything stumps the others, I'll be happy to pitch in with PS help, as it's one of my primary tools.

Vortex - Oct 23, 2008 5:11:38 am PDT #7955 of 25501

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Thanks guys, I'm almost embarrassed because my questions will be so simple.

Jessica - Oct 23, 2008 5:57:50 am PDT #7956 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My keyboard suddenly decided to swap the @ and " symbols. (When I press the " key, the @ symbol shows up instead and vice versa.) I swear I didn't do anything to make this happen.

WTF???

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