OT: ILM's new computer systems

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Petabyte? That might hurt!

[Renegade 13]

[El_Phil]

Atrocities said:
I want to share with you a phone interview I had with George Lucas about ILM's new computer.

AT
So George what are the specs on your new computer?

GL
Well let me tell ya, the main data center includes a 3,000-processor server farm, approximately 150TB of network-attached storage and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone that may be the largest built by any company to date. It has some 340 10Gbit ports and supports traffic loads of 130TB per day. Power and cooling systems sit in two adjacent rooms, which helps to keep maintenance traffic out of the data center.

AT
Whooa George thats a fantastic, what are you going to use it for?

GL
Games and stuff.

I think he actually should use it from re-writing Star Wars 1/2/3. It really can't do that much worse, if it just removed JarJar and any attempt at romantic dialogue that alone would be a vast improvement!

[dogscoff]

inigma said:
By that time, real-time Google-mobile

{Network busy. Please try later.}

enabled wearable wrist devices will alert you to when your turn is ready,

Damned screen is cracked. I knew I shouldn't have gone for the "wristpod nano".

Accessing SEVII

{Hi! I see you're accessing SEVII! As a valued customer of our mobile network (co-incidentally part of the same as the megacorporation that publishs of MOO13), we like to monitor everything you do and then try to sell you crap you don't want. Our database shows that you may be interested in accessing MOO13! Would you like to access MOO13? Click below to purchase MOO13. }
*click closed*
{Are you sure you don't want to access Moo13?}
*click no*
{here are some screenshots of Moo13. Doesn't it look pretty? Look, look, pretty planets. Are you really sure?}
*Click closed*
{Look, I was only trying to show you some stuff that I know you'll like. If you're not going to be reasonable, I'll just stop working.}
*Sigh. Click Moo13*

over PBW3 via your wrist pad,

{Your wristpad's GPS says you just walked past a McDonalds! Are you sure you wouldn't like a Big Mac? Your wristpad's biometrics monitor shows us that you only took a crap half an hour ago, so we know you've got room for at least a quarter-pounder.}

remotely transmitting its screen data wirelessly

{The data you're transmitting is formatted in some stupid, poxy standard designed and approved by the entire industry. Please use an uneccesarily complicated Microsoft standard format.}

to your job's nearby e-ink

{Your E-ink levels are low. Click below to purchase a new manufacturer-approved e-ink cartridge for $250, or a new monitor for $120.}

rollable-screen mobile-enabled station on your desk

{This station's license for Windows Vespa has expired. you didn't forget to pay or anything, we just changed the license because we felt like screwing some more cash out of you. Send us money immediately, or we'll call the cops. Not nice cops either, but really ugly, bad-tempered ones with illegally-modified tasers and broken CCTV in the interrogation cell. Believe us, we can do that. Love and kisses, Microsoft.}

as you complete complicated tasks using the wireless keyboard and

I really ought to clean those breadcrumbs and curry blobs out of there...

wireless finger mouse rings to manipulate data on the screen,

Ewww... OK, who's been using my finger rings without washing their hands?

or on the 3D projection field

What's this massive pair of boobs doing on my 3D projection field? Bloody hackers...

on the lasertron.

Activate... the Lasertron! *Doctor Evil laugh*

Notcing your boss comming, you make a flick

*flick* *smack* Oops, sorry boss, I was just uh... just...

of the wrist to turn off the transmission,

"It's no use switching your transmission off, Jenkins, I've been monitoring all your computer activity, and I also have 24 hour GPS-linked CCTV footage of every movement you made, since the second you signed your contract of employment, so yes: we know about what you've been doing with Sandy from marketting in the stationary cupboard and yes, we know what you got up to in Amsterdam last year. You're fired. That information has already been entered into the network and shared around the internet, so you'll be blacklisted by every potential employer before you're even considered for interview for the rest of your life. Given the massive unemployment rates caused by the the increasing autonomy of modern computers, I doubt you'll ever work again. You won't even get cash in hand work, since notes and coins were phased out completely and replaced by more easily-taxed and monitored forms of electronic money. Have a nice day.

- now THAT is the future of computing.

No, THAT is the future of computing.

[NullAshton]

I betcha they have killer virtual-reality systems by then.

[Renegade 13]

dogscoff said:

{Your wristpad's GPS says you just walked past a McDonalds! Are you sure you wouldn't like a Big Mac? Your wristpad's biometrics monitor shows us that you only took a crap half an hour ago, so we know you've got room for at least a quarter-pounder.)

That one made me laugh so hard, thanks dogscoff

[NullAshton]

Renegade 13 said:

That one made me laugh so hard, thanks dogscoff

So in the future, America has hope to become an even fatter nation?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Hey, only 30% of the population is suffering from obesity, there's still 35% that's merely overweight and then there's the 35% that still have normal weight.....

[El_Phil]

Well that 35% also has to include those who are seriously underweight. You know models, vegans that sort of thing. So the number without any weight problem shrinks still further.