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Yes,  its no secret they are being sold at a loss. I think there is also
some export restrictions to some countries as these machines can be used for
military purposes. 

Most people wrongly assume these machines are toys, for children etc. They
ARE very powerful computers striped down to do high level processing and
graphics, nothing else.

They aren't even really stripped down, compared to the video game machines
of yesteryear.

 

More than likely there are probably 1 to 2 dozen botnets of storm's size.
It's why I recommend, taking the *nix security approach on viruses,
intrusions. Complete reinstall. Most, even experienced windows techs think
you can actually "Clean" a computer.

Sure you can clean a computer from some automation. But once touched hands
on by a bot-net technician, you're toast. You can't clean against a custom
kernel level program ( at least without spending 10+ times the amount of
effort of a reinstall).

 

 

Sacha Griffin

Southern Digital Solutions LLC

http://www.southern-digital.com

http://www.seeit360.net

404-551-4275

 

 

 

From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On
Behalf Of Fabio Bustamante
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:47 PM
To: #removed#
Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Re: Fast Gigapixel Stitching on the Playstation 3

 

Luca Vascon wrote:
> It is cheap now if compared to even a single good GPU
Is PS3 really being sold at a correct market price? Or is Sony selling 
it at zero-profit or even lower-than-cost just to profit with the game 
industry or even just to smash any possible blu-ray competitor (as they 
just did) and define the new standard?

Is PS3s have such a great cost-benefit we should check out the financial 
math. It seems to me that one of these things must be true, please 
correct me if I'm wrong:

1. some breakthrough on hardware production made by sony that incredibly 
reduces cost (that will be available to other platforms eventually)
2. machines are being sold with money injection in order to fit Sony's 
agenda. If that's true, I wonder if PS3's price tag will keep the same 
if people start buying it for uses that doesn't fit Sony's plans.

About GPU processing, I heard some good time ago about GPUs being used 
by softwares as 3dStudio or Maya in rendering process... anyone knows 
about it?

Anyway, the biggest PS3 cluster won't even scratch my Storm botnet. I 
can stitch a 100 gigapanos per second at 5% power... LOL

(man, this is *very very scary* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet)

 



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