For all you computer people

[CezeN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

*shock*shock*shock*shock*shock*shock*shock*

[elfprince13]

That's frakking ridiculous.

[Eaquae Legit]

A little summary for those who don't click random youtube links without warning?

[elfprince13]

A little summary for those who don't click random youtube links without warning?

24 x 256GB SSDs in RAID 0 for 6TB of storage and throughput of around 2GB per second.

[locke]

shrug, that sounds like an average work installation for me. though of course with regular HDs rather than SSD

and I'm not sure what the throughput is for single channel or even dual channel fiber.

I know single channel doesn't have trouble streaming SD video to twelve or more computers as well as a couple HD video streams.

[elfprince13]

shrug, that sounds like an average work installation for me. though of course with regular HDs rather than SSD

It was in a desktop computer :p and of course an intelligent SD streaming solution (assuming it was the same video being streamed, or even several different videos, vs something like youtube) would keep the video cached in RAM anyway. The new Mac Pro's support up to 32GB of RAM and dual channel fiber.

[wigginboy]

*drool* OMG I want one!!! So Bad. That was the coolest thing I've ever seen. 6 terabytes? Insane.

[ender1]

I think I saw an article recently with benchmarks that those SSDs actually decrease in performance as time goes on. I'm too lazy to find the article, I think it was was on engadget.

[locke]

oh my.

someone help me.

I actually considered earlier today actually buying photoshop.

I'm scared, hopefully this condition isn't life threatening.

[ender1]

oh my.

someone help me.

I actually considered earlier today actually buying photoshop.

I'm scared, hopefully this condition isn't life threatening.

Buy? Why not "borrow"?

[elfprince13]

oh my.

someone help me.

I actually considered earlier today actually buying photoshop.

I'm scared, hopefully this condition isn't life threatening.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

If the interface offends you, there's always GIMPshop.

[ender1]

The GIMP just doesn't compare to Photoshop.

[elfprince13]

The GIMP just doesn't compare to Photoshop.

Please tell me what you do with Photoshop that you can't with the GIMP. I realize for photo editing professionals the difference is there, but for everyone else? I've never been in an instance where I though "gee, this would be a lot easier with Photoshop"

[Wil]

Photoshop has this fairly steep learning curve. You open it up for the first time and go "what the frack?!". Then you mess around with it for a few hours here and there, for a few years, and you get good with it. Then someone shows you gimp and you go "This is dumb".

It's kind of like Blender in relation to 3dsMax. People tell me that interface is super intuitive, but every time I try and learn Blender I end up going "This is so dumb!!" and going back to 3dsMax.

[elfprince13]

Photoshop has this fairly steep learning curve. You open it up for the first time and go "what the frack?!". Then you mess around with it for a few hours here and there, for a few years, and you get good with it. Then someone shows you gimp and you go "This is dumb".

I've had the opposite reaction. Photoshop is pretty easy to use, but people always complain to me about the GIMP interface, but after a couple weeks of using it, I found it to be the most natural thing in the world. No accounting for tastes I suppose, but seriously, on the feature front, what do you actually use in Photoshop that you can't do with the GIMP. The only thing I can think of is the liquify filter, but I'm pretty sure there's a free plugin to do that anyway.

It's kind of like Blender in relation to 3dsMax. People tell me that interface is super intuitive, but every time I try and learn Blender I end up going "This is so dumb!!" and going back to 3dsMax.

either is massive overkill for the sort of modeling I do :p Milkshape + QuArK ftw.

[locke]

I use a genuine fractals plug in to upconvert pictures to better resolution. blows the generic photoshop upconvert out of the water.

[elfprince13]

I use a genuine fractals plug in to upconvert pictures to better resolution. blows the generic photoshop upconvert out of the water.

Give this a shot if you really like Genuine Fractals: http://members.home.nl/m.weisbeek/gimp/#ps

or try out the GREYCstoration plugin for GIMP: http://cimg.sourceforge.net/greycstorat ... tion.shtml

[ender1]

I use a genuine fractals plug in to upconvert pictures to better resolution. blows the generic photoshop upconvert out of the water.

Genuine Fractals is my friend. It is a must have.

[locke]

sometimes when I hit backspace it takes me back a page, and I have no idea why it works as though I had 'clicked back'.

why does my computer do that, what triggers it to go crazy on me?

[elfprince13]

sometimes when I hit backspace it takes me back a page, and I have no idea why it works as though I had 'clicked back'.

why does my computer do that, what triggers it to go crazy on me?

If you're cursor isn't in a textbox/textarea when you backspace it does that. Usually if you hit forward again you'll find any partially typed posts as you found them.