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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    McGyver said:

    No NVIDIA for iMac. I used to like Mac, but they nickeled and dimed away my good will... I only recommend them as playthings now... They don't seem to be geared towards serious use... More like iPads on a stand now.  Maybe the Pro machines are still serious, but no NVIDIA there either, no more open GL... Too much trying to control and funnel the user into their plans... No thanks,anymore.

    ...yeah, the cost of membership in "Club Mac" has pretty much kept me on the PC end of the pool. Plus, I can build a PC for less than buying a ready made one. Can't build a mac.

    When Apple decided to nix Nvidia for ATI that was the final coffin nail for me. Iray and Octane are supported by Nvidia's CUDA architecture, For ATI it's pretty much Lux/Reality and I gave up on them as the latest releases have been particularly buggy.

    Crikey for the price of a fully decked out 64 GB "coffee can" Mac Pro, I can build my Dual 8 core Xeon, 128, GB DDR4 Quad Channel Memory  (expandable to 1TB), x4 Titan-X GPU, multiple SSD./HDD beast of a workstation and still have change in my pocket.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Cold, snowy day.   Spending my day sorting and indexing my CD collection while sipping hot cocoa and listening to snatches of things.  Rediscovered one of my favorite dark mood amplifiers; Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony.  heart   Not a namby-pamby dance or love song, it's sophisticated mental anguish, life's dark side. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-09g9oU58

    The beginning drops you straight into the depths of darkness overcome by terror and chaos, you fight and almost stop a few times but are unable to control your fall till you hit bottom at the end of the movement. 

    The 2nd movement @ 13:50 is relief from the chaos and depression and terror of the fall of the 1st movement and is perhaps memories of a better time with glimpses of the impending darkness. 

    The 3rd movement @ 21:00 is peaceful drifting, blissful ignorance of the turmoil of reality.  Quietude, a soul at peace.  Then the darkness drifts in and out like a fog but under control.

    The final movement @ 29:55 thrusts you from the depths back into the light, emboldened by memories and wisdom you rise above the chaos letting it flow through you without effect, seeing the pattern in it all.  Conquering destiny.

    This is such a beautiful piece it's a shame that it's first performance was so badly panned because of a drunken conductor and an audience unprepared for Rachmaninoff's darkness.  Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 because of the revolution and the score was lost for over 25 years.  He didn't compose another symphony for 10 years after the debacle of the 1st.

    Another dark moody but hopeful piece of his is the single movement symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead" representing the boat ride of the soul crossing the river Styx. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

    These pieces are so different from his greatly popular piano concertos and his 2nd and 3rd symphonies.  He knew how to compose darkness but the public wasn't ready for it.

    ...both very excellent works.  Light cannot exist without darkness.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,429

    Barnes and noble website is acting up for me right now.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    edited February 2016
    hphoenix said:

    PCI Express has had several 'versions'.  1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0....

    Each one has maintained backwards compatibility with the prior ones.  The higher the number, the more bandwidth and speed it supports.

    But to ease your worries, A PCI-E 3.0 card will work in a PCI-E 2.0 slot.  Or a PCI-E 1.0 slot.  But it won't run as fast as it could in a newer (higher version number) slot.

    edit to add:  The x1, x4, x8, x16 numbers represent the number of IO lanes the slot supports.  And by virtue of that (to some extent) the form-factor of the slot (x1 and x4 slots are very short, and you can't plug a full size (x8, x16) slot into them.

     

    ...the new generation GPUs by both ATI and Nvidia are going to a smaller form factor.  Should be hearing within a month about the release of Nvidia's new Pascal GPUs.  From what I read the consumer version should have 16 GB HBM 2 memory and somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5.000 - 6,000 CUDA cores.  The Pro version (Quadro line) may offer up to 32 GB video memory..  Crikey, that's 4 GB more than the maximum physical memory my systems MB supports.

    Nvidia has also developed a new interface called NV-Link which makes PCI 3.0 look like a  2 lane country road compared to the TGV.  It currently is being used for the new generation of supercomputers which employ GPUs for computational rather than graphics purposes.  Most likely it will not be offered in consumer systems however we may see it eventually in high end servers and workstations.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Cold, snowy day.   Spending my day sorting and indexing my CD collection while sipping hot cocoa and listening to snatches of things.  Rediscovered one of my favorite dark mood amplifiers; Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony.  heart   Not a namby-pamby dance or love song, it's sophisticated mental anguish, life's dark side. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-09g9oU58

    The beginning drops you straight into the depths of darkness overcome by terror and chaos, you fight and almost stop a few times but are unable to control your fall till you hit bottom at the end of the movement. 

    The 2nd movement @ 13:50 is relief from the chaos and depression and terror of the fall of the 1st movement and is perhaps memories of a better time with glimpses of the impending darkness. 

    The 3rd movement @ 21:00 is peaceful drifting, blissful ignorance of the turmoil of reality.  Quietude, a soul at peace.  Then the darkness drifts in and out like a fog but under control.

    The final movement @ 29:55 thrusts you from the depths back into the light, emboldened by memories and wisdom you rise above the chaos letting it flow through you without effect, seeing the pattern in it all.  Conquering destiny.

    This is such a beautiful piece it's a shame that it's first performance was so badly panned because of a drunken conductor and an audience unprepared for Rachmaninoff's darkness.  Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 because of the revolution and the score was lost for over 25 years.  He didn't compose another symphony for 10 years after the debacle of the 1st.

    Another dark moody but hopeful piece of his is the single movement symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead" representing the boat ride of the soul crossing the river Styx. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

    These pieces are so different from his greatly popular piano concertos and his 2nd and 3rd symphonies.  He knew how to compose darkness but the public wasn't ready for it.

    ...both very excellent works.  Light cannot exist without darkness.

    I love the first, can't get enough of it sometimes and hey thanks for Isle linky, haven't heard that for a while :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited February 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    hphoenix said:

    PCI Express has had several 'versions'.  1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0....

    Each one has maintained backwards compatibility with the prior ones.  The higher the number, the more bandwidth and speed it supports.

    But to ease your worries, A PCI-E 3.0 card will work in a PCI-E 2.0 slot.  Or a PCI-E 1.0 slot.  But it won't run as fast as it could in a newer (higher version number) slot.

    edit to add:  The x1, x4, x8, x16 numbers represent the number of IO lanes the slot supports.  And by virtue of that (to some extent) the form-factor of the slot (x1 and x4 slots are very short, and you can't plug a full size (x8, x16) slot into them.

     

    ...the new generation GPUs by both ATI and Nvidia are going to a smaller form factor.  Should be hearing within a month about the release of Nvidia's new Pascal GPUs.  From what I read the consumer version should have 16 GB HBM 2 memory and somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5.000 - 6,000 CUDA cores.  The Pro version (Quadro line) may offer up to 32 GB video memory..  Crikey, that's 4 GB more than the maximum physical memory my systems MB supports.

    Nvidia has also developed a new interface called NV-Link which makes PCI 3.0 look like a  2 lane country road compared to the TGV.  It currently is being used for the new generation of supercomputers which employ GPUs for computational rather than graphics purposes.  Most likely it will not be offered in consumer systems however we may see it eventually in high end servers and workstations.

    Got a 1 TB ssd plugged into one of the Radeon D700s, Apple souped up the PCI bus to some incredible speed to accomodate it :)

    But that machine cost as much as a small car, can see why it puts people off :)

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    My turn to build a Win box next, am terrified !

    laugh

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,429

    Looking for free nook books and it would help to pay attention on the website that shows the freebooks to see if it is available on Nook or not.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    edited February 2016
    ps1borg said:

    My turn to build a Win box next, am terrified !

    laugh

    ...aww, it's not that bad,  Took me only 18 months in my spare time (I should say "sparse" time considering I was away from home an average of 13 hours a day between my job and the commute) to learn the concepts of design and construction.  The main thing to be concerned with when selecting components is compatibility with each other. If the parts don't want to play together well, you could very well find yourself having spent all your funds and time to create a flashy looking doorstop.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited February 2016

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    LIGO signal.jpg
    320 x 425 - 29K
    Post edited by ps1borg on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    My turn to build a Win box next, am terrified !

    laugh

    ...aww, it's not that bad,  Took me only 18 months in my spare time (I should say "sparse" time considering I was away from home an average of 13 hours a day between my job and the commute) to learn the concepts of design and construction.  The main thing to be concerned with when selecting components is compatibility with each other. If the parts don't want to play together well, you could very well find yourself having spent all your funds and time to create a flashy looking doorstop.

    crying

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,599
    edited February 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Cold, snowy day.   Spending my day sorting and indexing my CD collection while sipping hot cocoa and listening to snatches of things.  Rediscovered one of my favorite dark mood amplifiers; Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony.  heart   Not a namby-pamby dance or love song, it's sophisticated mental anguish, life's dark side. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-09g9oU58

    The beginning drops you straight into the depths of darkness overcome by terror and chaos, you fight and almost stop a few times but are unable to control your fall till you hit bottom at the end of the movement. 

    The 2nd movement @ 13:50 is relief from the chaos and depression and terror of the fall of the 1st movement and is perhaps memories of a better time with glimpses of the impending darkness. 

    The 3rd movement @ 21:00 is peaceful drifting, blissful ignorance of the turmoil of reality.  Quietude, a soul at peace.  Then the darkness drifts in and out like a fog but under control.

    The final movement @ 29:55 thrusts you from the depths back into the light, emboldened by memories and wisdom you rise above the chaos letting it flow through you without effect, seeing the pattern in it all.  Conquering destiny.

    This is such a beautiful piece it's a shame that it's first performance was so badly panned because of a drunken conductor and an audience unprepared for Rachmaninoff's darkness.  Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 because of the revolution and the score was lost for over 25 years.  He didn't compose another symphony for 10 years after the debacle of the 1st.

    Another dark moody but hopeful piece of his is the single movement symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead" representing the boat ride of the soul crossing the river Styx. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

    These pieces are so different from his greatly popular piano concertos and his 2nd and 3rd symphonies.  He knew how to compose darkness but the public wasn't ready for it.

    ...both very excellent works.  Light cannot exist without darkness.

    For darkness you can't beat the first few measures of Rachmaninov's "The Rock", then it bursts into lively life surrounding the rock.  The rock theme reappears (about 9:45) hard and unyielding but still surrounded by life.  The rock stands at the end an eternal sentinel to the quickness around it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3jMXY7OuU0

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    edited February 2016
    ps1borg said:

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    ...more discussion here

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71557/ot-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night#latest

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    hphoenix said:

    PCI Express has had several 'versions'.  1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0....

    Each one has maintained backwards compatibility with the prior ones.  The higher the number, the more bandwidth and speed it supports.

    But to ease your worries, A PCI-E 3.0 card will work in a PCI-E 2.0 slot.  Or a PCI-E 1.0 slot.  But it won't run as fast as it could in a newer (higher version number) slot.

    edit to add:  The x1, x4, x8, x16 numbers represent the number of IO lanes the slot supports.  And by virtue of that (to some extent) the form-factor of the slot (x1 and x4 slots are very short, and you can't plug a full size (x8, x16) slot into them.

     

    thanks, feel more confidence bout it. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the perils of layering up clothing for the cold weather.  i put on 3 shirts before putting my coat on.  then got an itch under my shoulder couldn't reach.

    i don't want windows 10.  

    thinkin of goin imac i7 for my next machine. utltimately want the final cut pro on it.  have no idea how ot use a mac, it has right-click?

    yeah you just toss out the apple mouse and plug in a microsoft one or option-click for right mouse click if you can't. Um need a bit of grunt to run FC, not sure what the cutoff would be there. I got a pair of D700s in one mac and it runs great :)

     

    eta open GL on macs 

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202823

     

     

    tee hee D's sounds like bra size

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    ...more discussion here

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71557/ot-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night#latest

    thx :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    limp biscuit is like tea baggage?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the perils of layering up clothing for the cold weather.  i put on 3 shirts before putting my coat on.  then got an itch under my shoulder couldn't reach.

    i don't want windows 10.  

    thinkin of goin imac i7 for my next machine. utltimately want the final cut pro on it.  have no idea how ot use a mac, it has right-click?

    yeah you just toss out the apple mouse and plug in a microsoft one or option-click for right mouse click if you can't. Um need a bit of grunt to run FC, not sure what the cutoff would be there. I got a pair of D700s in one mac and it runs great :)

     

    eta open GL on macs 

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202823

     

     

    tee hee D's sounds like bra size

    ..yikes a D700 size!  Isn't that what the Super Heroines in comics wear?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188

    Jose Cuervo Gold + Diet Sundrop = Skinny Margarita? I don't know but it's good. cheeky

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    Tjohn said:

    Jose Cuervo Gold + Diet Sundrop = Skinny Margarita? I don't know but it's good. cheeky

    my kind of math anyhow laugh

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    ...more discussion here

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71557/ot-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night#latest

    thx :)

    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the perils of layering up clothing for the cold weather.  i put on 3 shirts before putting my coat on.  then got an itch under my shoulder couldn't reach.

    i don't want windows 10.  

    thinkin of goin imac i7 for my next machine. utltimately want the final cut pro on it.  have no idea how ot use a mac, it has right-click?

    yeah you just toss out the apple mouse and plug in a microsoft one or option-click for right mouse click if you can't. Um need a bit of grunt to run FC, not sure what the cutoff would be there. I got a pair of D700s in one mac and it runs great :)

     

    eta open GL on macs 

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202823

     

     

    tee hee D's sounds like bra size

    ..yikes a D700 size!  Isn't that what the Super Heroines in comics wear?

    kinda supersize for its  size 

    http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/partner/apple

     

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited February 2016

    .The beginning drops you straight into the depths of darkness overcome by terror and chaos, you fight and almost stop a few times but are unable to control your fall till you hit bottom at the end of the movement.

    The 2nd movement @ 13:50 is relief from the chaos and depression and terror of the fall of the 1st movement and is perhaps memories of a better time with glimpses of the impending darkness.

    The 3rd movement @ 21:00 is peaceful drifting, blissful ignorance of the turmoil of reality.  Quietude, a soul at peace.  Then the darkness drifts in and out like a fog but under control.

    For a second there I thought you were still discussing your Mac purchases and experiences....

    Post edited by sriesch on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,147
    edited February 2016
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    ...more discussion here

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71557/ot-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night#latest

    thx :)

    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the perils of layering up clothing for the cold weather.  i put on 3 shirts before putting my coat on.  then got an itch under my shoulder couldn't reach.

    i don't want windows 10.  

    thinkin of goin imac i7 for my next machine. utltimately want the final cut pro on it.  have no idea how ot use a mac, it has right-click?

    yeah you just toss out the apple mouse and plug in a microsoft one or option-click for right mouse click if you can't. Um need a bit of grunt to run FC, not sure what the cutoff would be there. I got a pair of D700s in one mac and it runs great :)

     

    eta open GL on macs 

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202823

     

     

    tee hee D's sounds like bra size

    ..yikes a D700 size!  Isn't that what the Super Heroines in comics wear?

    kinda supersize for its  size 

    http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/partner/apple

     

    ...even if Lux worked all the bugs out of their GPU mode still wouldn't be enough memory for most of my scenes. I'd need at least one of those Sapphire 8 GB units.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    LIGO came good, this is big:

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

    ...more discussion here

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71557/ot-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night#latest

    thx :)

    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    the perils of layering up clothing for the cold weather.  i put on 3 shirts before putting my coat on.  then got an itch under my shoulder couldn't reach.

    i don't want windows 10.  

    thinkin of goin imac i7 for my next machine. utltimately want the final cut pro on it.  have no idea how ot use a mac, it has right-click?

    yeah you just toss out the apple mouse and plug in a microsoft one or option-click for right mouse click if you can't. Um need a bit of grunt to run FC, not sure what the cutoff would be there. I got a pair of D700s in one mac and it runs great :)

     

    eta open GL on macs 

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202823

     

     

    tee hee D's sounds like bra size

    ..yikes a D700 size!  Isn't that what the Super Heroines in comics wear?

    kinda supersize for its  size 

    http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/partner/apple

     

    ...even if Lux worked all the bugs out of their GPU mode still wouldn't be enough memory for most of my scenes. I'd need at least one of those Sapphire 8 GB units.

    Is the size down to using a hemi light with a large HDRI?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited February 2016

    Fending off mosquitos tonight complaint, using the aussie salute method but some kamikaze ones have gotten through, they are buzzing like they got an elephant size hangover already sucking my blood on TGIF bwahaha

    Post edited by ps1borg on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    skketers. ick, itch.
    the giant spatula of the universe will flip us over in the cosmic frying pan.  

    i've never experienced neg 30F in my whole entire life.
    procrastinating like a pro, havent called taxi yet.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,599
    sriesch said:

    ...

    For a second there I thought you were still discussing your Mac purchases and experiences....

    ROFL !!!!!!!

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    too cold for TGIF ... 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,429
    MistyMist said:

    too cold for TGIF ... 

    Too tired for today 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Kulay Wolf said:
    MistyMist said:

    too cold for TGIF ... 

    Too tired for today 

     

    mucho fatiga

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