tortoise said:
...Media marketing copy does not constitute a refutation of some pretty basic and well established engineering fact....
...What kind of twit waves content-free marketing copy around as "proof" that all the scientists and engineers are wrong? You don't even have a clue what typical supercomputing loads look like or how they interact with system architectures.
Nobody who works on large clusters thinks the PPCs are good for anything but mult-add codes, and that is a tiny segment of the market. Please show me all the supercomputing cluster folks that are asserting that the G5 is good for STREAM-bound codes, or even non-mult-add floating point codes. Any references? Links?
Go back to playing with Photoshop and leave the supercomputing stuff to the guys that actually do it. You are not technically competent to be making such assertions, and that you use content-free marketing copy to support your position is embarrasing.
I don't know where to start with this bozo
"What kind of twit waves content-free marketing copy around as "proof" that all the scientists and engineers are wrong? You don't even have a clue what typical supercomputing loads look like or how they interact with system architectures."
Since 1988, I have continually heard this kind of crap from "experts," first, to justify staying with DOS, then to justify no user-friendly UNIX interface, and most recently to refute the idea that powerful computing can be accessible to people who can't write C++ (e.g., OS-X).
If we bought this kind of cretin's omniscience, we would stilil be working in raw code on *8088s."
I once had the occasion to meet Grace Hopper (you hard-core coding geeks spin your beenie propellers and you might remember she INVENTED COBOL, the first step toward a real-language programming language). She met huge resistence; in fact, she might have been stymied completely had the Navy not needed to automate.
"Go back to playing with Photoshop and leave the supercomputing stuff to the guys that actually do it. You are not technically competent to be making such assertions, and that you use content-free marketing copy to support your position is embarrasing."
Contrary to your inflated ego, computers are not about programmers; they are about enabling people to DO something. I am a retired technical writer. Yes, I have used Photoshop, Canvas, Corel, FrameMaker, and the whole spectrum of design, publishing, and web apps. What was I doing, documenting the work that elitist, inarticulate, self-absorbed boobs like this produced--because they were unable to explain their products to the people who BUY them!
Be doggone glad that somebody is out here "playing" with Photoshop, et al. Without them you'd have to depend on your personality for a living!
