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I had been thinking about buying a used i7 970 to upgrade my desktop and get an extra 2 cores, and while trawling through ebay I found one of these bad boys for about the same price:
http://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/poweredge-r900/pd
It has 4 quad cores and can accept 4 6 core xeons. 32GB of RAM, will take a max of 256 I think. 140GB HD or so.
I'm really tempted but it has a 1500 watt power supply, if I leave the thing running 24/7 and it is pulling down 1500w constantly it will cost about $1000 yearly in power costs. It probably doesn't draw
that much, the xeons can't be more than 100W a piece and I could put a low power flash drive and bare bones video in it and probably get the power envelope down to 500-600W max. And make sure I make aggressive use of sleep mode. Or shut it off.
What do you guys think? It is less than $400 shipped.
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These cold snaps remind me of "A Pale of Air", a SF story we read in English class in Jr. High in MN where the earth has been ripped from the Sun into cold space and the whole atmosphere has frozen into slush on the ground.
One family survives by sealing their apartment and venturing outside into the cold periodically to scoop up a bucket of oxygen slush to heat up and evaporate by their constantly burning fire. They didn't have frost on their wall, however.
We seemed to get a lot of stories about people in desperately cold circumstances. I remember another about a guy a a trip through the forest and one small thing after another goes wrong until he just has to give up and freeze to death.
I think I've heard of that one but never read it. I'll have to look it up.
But yeah, after seeing that frost I was starting to think that I might be seeing walrus (walruses?) and penguins outside my door.
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I don't know anything about a quark processor or if it's X86 compatible code-wise.
I think you'd have to run a 1998 version of A:M on it with power like that.
I'm sure hobbyists who need some sort of tiny low power CPU will love it.
The big problem with using it for A:M is that A:M needs a substantial display area to be useful and there's no way to miniaturize that.
Supposedly it is completely x86 compatible, just in an embedded cpu type form factor. The Arduino shield thingy I posted might
work better since it has the same CPU with a decent amount of memory and proper I/O. Not sure how you would output video unless you did it over the USB or mini PCIe somehow. Doesn't seem to have any other video out options unless I missed them in the schematics.
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This might actually have a better chance of running AM, it is the same chip but on top of an Arduino board with some RAM and other bits you would need:
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Well, SD card. But still:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-...elf/edison.html
Not sure what this costs retail or if it is even available yet, but if it is in the range of $10-$20 or so you could find all sorts of interesting
things to do with this.
I wonder if you could run AM on it. Not sure how you would hook it up to any peripherals, you'd probably have to make some sort of
dock for it.
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So of the two operating systems, are there any known issues with AM under Win 8? I admit I'm more comfortable with Win 7, although I can't imagine there is a huge difference other than the Metro interface.
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Well that's no good. I imagine XP is still supported but I doubt that will last too much longer with it falling off Microsoft's radar.
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I've heard that Vista is not best for using with AM, although I haven't run into any problems with it (although I haven't been using AM heavily recently, either) and haven't used it on Vista in a while.
I have a Win 7 laptop that is my primary AM machine, and I have some graphical glitches on that sytem that are either due to the Nvidia Quadro card or due to the integrated intel HD graphics (or the fact that it is switchable via something called Optimus. I haven't been able to figure out what is causing the problem yet.
I've been thinking of either picking up Win 7 Ultimate to upgrade the Vista box, but I haven't seen anything beyond service pack 1 from MS and my concern is Win 7 is going to be an orphan product due to Win 8. I am not sure I want to purchase Win 8, I don't care for the interface and I don't see it being adopted where I work, so there really isn't a benefit to me picking it up beyond a potentially extended lifespan.
I would honestly rather just run AM in a Win 2k virtual machine and just use Linux, but it seems like that is introducing unnecessary complications.
What would you go with? Win 7 or Win 8?
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I had been working on this story since before Halloween. In the beginning I felt it should be an easy one to pull off. The original concept contained no human actors, so the animation should be easy, simple sets so that should be easy, short story so no time would be required. Well, that's not really how it worked out. The first script felt too light to properly convey the story I envisioned. Characters were needed, humans. A deeper plot was needed to create a back story. No worries, I had some models built a while ago, not rigged very well, but it should do. So I soldiered on. I thought that I could jump right into the choreography, skip story boards, skip the animatic. Wrong again. Even though I knew the story, even though I was the only one working on the project, I found that it became a very real struggle in building a scene and keeping the pacing consistent from one cut to another, and in hind sight storyboards and animatics would alleviate that problem.
So lesson learned. Do it right, no shortcuts, and give myself the time to do a quality project. I still want to tell this story, but I may take a break from it, clear my head on something else, then revisit the story in a month or so.
I struggle with some of the same things. I've thought about farming out rigging and have spoken with forum members (Robcat being one of them) but I feel like it should be something I should be able to do, it is just a big stumbling block right now. From one standpoint, I look at it like "well
probably is not rigging his own models" so it certainly can't be too out there to delegate work to others (provided you are paying or sharing the credit or both) but from another angle it seems a bit like cheating somehow. Maybe I'm just being silly about it. Another thing that trips me up (and I suspect others) is we look at Pixar shorts (or anyone really talented) and become daunted by trying to match that look or that quality level. I think that is a lot more common with CG than other types of animation.
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Very clever. That is certainly one way to put together a 4 man band
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To everyone on the forums:
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.
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You snooze... you miss out!
I bet a sale will come around again, but $99 is a good price too.
Well, even though I was a day late and a dollar short, Mr. Lango kindly gave me the sale price when I tried Rodney's suggestion.
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How long is the sale on for?
I don't know, it may be the new price.
Well crud, looks like I missed the boat on the ultra-cheap price. I may still get them but may have to wait until after the holidays.
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The pizza place in Funky Winkerbean looked just like a place in my old hometown. Makes me wonder if there is something to the whole "collective subconcious" (or maybe it's just that one small American town looks much like any other)?
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Never would have guessed you were a band director. Did you ever read Funky Winkerbean in the comics? Not sure if it was regionally or nationally syndicated, but there were a LOT of band director strips.
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How long is the sale on for?
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You are correct. Fortunately Win 7 Pro OEM is not much worse than Win 7 Premium. I think if you want a 4 socket system, though, you have to really shell out a lot of cash.
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I think you only need an enterprise server version if you have more than
2 sockets, but that may have changed. Given I'd be looking at
at least 1000 for 2 970s and a dual socket motherboard, a single
970 might be the better upgrade.
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I was thinking about upgrading to an i7 970, and then I got to wondering,
if I were to pick up a dual socket 1366 board, would I be able to use
2 of those on a server board or would I have to get Xeons?
For my purposes a single 970 is probably enough but 2 would be
cheaper than a single 8 or 12 core Xeon for sure.
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You're probably better off getting an actual Cintiq, but I was checkin out Monoprice for cables today when I ran across this:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product/?c_id=113...at=1#largeimage
Looks to be very similar to a Cintiq (one of the smaller ones, anyway) and there is a 30 day return window with no restocking fee, so it might be worth looking into. Just thought I'd pass it along if anyone was interested.
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I was reading that the appeal is that it's an anonymous way to exchange money, but if it's all done electronically over the internet... is that anonymous and untrackable anymore?
I think as soon as someone get arrested for an illegal transaction based on a bitcoin evidence trail, that will pierce the bubble.
Technically it is supposed to be anonymous but it really isn't. There are ways it can be tracked. I would have to dig up the article I found regarding that.
And the guy that was running Silk Road got taken down by the Feds not too long ago for contracting hits online and paying in bitcoin, so obviously there must be a way to track that kind of thing.
I think the bubble will eventually burst, just wish I had more tolerance for gambing (not sure I can call this investing). With something this speculative, though, I could just as easily be out $1000 instead of having that turn into $100,000.
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Sounds crazy to me.
It is crazy. There is nothing behind the value of these coins, other than people thinking they are somehow going to replace the US dollar or provide a hedge against hyperinflation. Like I said, there are only a handful of places you can actually spend them at. On top of that, there will only be 21 million coins, ever, so the incentive is to hang onto them and never spend them as the price will probably keep going up.
16 core server really cheap
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It currently has 4 quad core Xeon E7340 processors at 2.4ghz, it will take hexacores as well. But the upgrade would be expensive.
I found a quad hexacore model for $600 but wasn't looking to spend that much.
I think the E7340 is comparable to an i7 920.