I'd strongly disagree on this point. This year my school (Cornell Univ) introduced a minor in Game Design (offered through the CS department). I'd say if you know you'd like to work in the video game industry, go for the degree in Game Design. Seems logical. An employer isn't going to extinctively throw it in the trash because it will say right next to M.S. Game Design that it came from University of Colorado, not some "profit-motivated, crank 'em out, trade school company."
I'll get one as well. If they can incorporate a phone with an iPod (dock connector and all) I would essentially be able to only carry one electronic device everywhere I go rather than two (cell phone and iPod). The reason current music phones haven't even begun to challenge the MP3-player market is because its ridiculously difficult to use. I mean, for my current phone (an LG VX9800) in order to listen to my own MP3s I have to first enter the service menu (which isn't hard, but the average user would never bother to do this) then transfer them to the right folder on a MiniSD memory card (which requires a PC memory card reader). From there, I can listen to it on the tinny speakers included on the phone or can purchase an adapter if I wanted to really go crazy and listen to music on a pair of headphones.
If Apple made it so I had something like 8 GB of space and a dock connector built into my phone, with a similar interface to that of an iPod, I'd be down at the Apple Store on launch day buying one. And I think there'd be many other people right there with me.
I definitely don't see any good uses for the public in having this information real-time. Just because some people somewhere might have nothing better to do with their time than to see where in their city emergencies are happening doesn't outweigh the potential negative uses.
Even for something like kidnapping - someone is kidnapped, locked into the basement of some house or whatever and left alone while his or her captors go upstairs. Somehow this person gets a hand free and is able to dial 911, but the savvy kidnappers have one of their dudes upstairs monitoring where 911 calls are coming from in real-time. They see a 911 call for their exact location, go downstairs and find their hostage has gotten a hand free. Grab him/her and split before the police can arrive. Or even if they don't have time to leave, they are well aware a SWAT team might be sneaking up on the house to try and break into the basement and free the 911-caller, thereby preventing any swift recovery of the hostage. Really, the same could be applied for any crime. Robbery - someone malicious finds out there's a family in a neighborhood thats gone away for the week so they break in. A neighbor who the robbers haven't seen in real life spots them and calls 911. Luckily for the robbers, one of their man is back in the getaway car monitoring 911 calls in real time, sees that a neighbor has called, calls his buddies and they leave long before the police can arrive.
If someone could give a good, reasonable use for this information provided real-time to the general public, I'd be open to listening. But merely the fact that some number of people find it "interesting" doesn't mean it wouldn't be just as interesting being offset by 1 hour.
This group is asking politicians to make decisions based on logic and scientific evidence when the voters aren't even using these processes. I remember the 2004 election and I remember plotzing when I heard someone was voting for Bush. Often times, I got a canned response of something crazy like, "John Kerry is for abortion. Bush is against it. If my mother had had me aborted, I wouldn't be here and that's why I'm voting for Bush." Now, whether any of that is true or not can be debated forever, that's not the point of this post. The point is that someone or something had gotten to them the message that if Kerry was president, all fetuses would be aborted. They didn't pay attention to any other issues except that one and they made a very emotional decision based on it.
And the voters that think they are being "smart" and "logical" by prescribing to the pseudo-religion that is "public reason" will generally spat out some pro-choice argument that, even if science has proven human embryos to be living, breathing members of our species, it's clearly not as morally wrong to destroy them as it is to kill babies or the mentally incompetent for purely emotional reasons. We have funerals and cry when babies die, but an abortion? No big deal.
37 credits in a semester while getting mostly A's (which the article implied)? That's more than twice as many as the average student.
I'm sorry, but you have to do more (or "have" more) than just study your ass off to take 72 credits worth of AP classes in 3 years in high school and then get a double-major in math and physics from a top university in a single year.
Some of the replies here are amazing...it's almost like people are trying to just shove this aside and pretend they could have done this if they felt like it. Get a grip.
Except the frequency of the Orleans 3800+ is 2.4 Ghz, whereas the Windsor (and Manchester before it) clocks in at 2.0 Ghz (which is clearly pointed out in the article).
And to the other replies I meant every AM2 tested...as in there is not a single-core AM2 4200+, 4600+, or 5000+. The only processor where you could even present an argument is for the 3800+, and the frequency clears that right up.
Thanks to ExtremeTech for becoming the 519th hardware website to make such a proclamation.
I normally just lurk but I felt compelled to comment given the fact that something like this made the front page. Did you guys just hear about the Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire too?
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I'd strongly disagree on this point. This year my school (Cornell Univ) introduced a minor in Game Design (offered through the CS department). I'd say if you know you'd like to work in the video game industry, go for the degree in Game Design. Seems logical. An employer isn't going to extinctively throw it in the trash because it will say right next to M.S. Game Design that it came from University of Colorado, not some "profit-motivated, crank 'em out, trade school company."
I'll get one as well. If they can incorporate a phone with an iPod (dock connector and all) I would essentially be able to only carry one electronic device everywhere I go rather than two (cell phone and iPod). The reason current music phones haven't even begun to challenge the MP3-player market is because its ridiculously difficult to use. I mean, for my current phone (an LG VX9800) in order to listen to my own MP3s I have to first enter the service menu (which isn't hard, but the average user would never bother to do this) then transfer them to the right folder on a MiniSD memory card (which requires a PC memory card reader). From there, I can listen to it on the tinny speakers included on the phone or can purchase an adapter if I wanted to really go crazy and listen to music on a pair of headphones. If Apple made it so I had something like 8 GB of space and a dock connector built into my phone, with a similar interface to that of an iPod, I'd be down at the Apple Store on launch day buying one. And I think there'd be many other people right there with me.
I definitely don't see any good uses for the public in having this information real-time. Just because some people somewhere might have nothing better to do with their time than to see where in their city emergencies are happening doesn't outweigh the potential negative uses. Even for something like kidnapping - someone is kidnapped, locked into the basement of some house or whatever and left alone while his or her captors go upstairs. Somehow this person gets a hand free and is able to dial 911, but the savvy kidnappers have one of their dudes upstairs monitoring where 911 calls are coming from in real-time. They see a 911 call for their exact location, go downstairs and find their hostage has gotten a hand free. Grab him/her and split before the police can arrive. Or even if they don't have time to leave, they are well aware a SWAT team might be sneaking up on the house to try and break into the basement and free the 911-caller, thereby preventing any swift recovery of the hostage. Really, the same could be applied for any crime. Robbery - someone malicious finds out there's a family in a neighborhood thats gone away for the week so they break in. A neighbor who the robbers haven't seen in real life spots them and calls 911. Luckily for the robbers, one of their man is back in the getaway car monitoring 911 calls in real time, sees that a neighbor has called, calls his buddies and they leave long before the police can arrive. If someone could give a good, reasonable use for this information provided real-time to the general public, I'd be open to listening. But merely the fact that some number of people find it "interesting" doesn't mean it wouldn't be just as interesting being offset by 1 hour.
37 credits in a semester while getting mostly A's (which the article implied)? That's more than twice as many as the average student. I'm sorry, but you have to do more (or "have" more) than just study your ass off to take 72 credits worth of AP classes in 3 years in high school and then get a double-major in math and physics from a top university in a single year. Some of the replies here are amazing...it's almost like people are trying to just shove this aside and pretend they could have done this if they felt like it. Get a grip.
Except the frequency of the Orleans 3800+ is 2.4 Ghz, whereas the Windsor (and Manchester before it) clocks in at 2.0 Ghz (which is clearly pointed out in the article). And to the other replies I meant every AM2 tested...as in there is not a single-core AM2 4200+, 4600+, or 5000+. The only processor where you could even present an argument is for the 3800+, and the frequency clears that right up.
Every AM2 processor is dual-core, or "X2."
Thanks to ExtremeTech for becoming the 519th hardware website to make such a proclamation. I normally just lurk but I felt compelled to comment given the fact that something like this made the front page. Did you guys just hear about the Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire too?