2GB isn't even enough. I bought a Lenovo laptop where 2GB was "suggested". Ran like crap until I updated to 4GB... which is the max the motherboard can handle.
So much for my theory that paying more will lead to a longer lifespan for my laptop. Vista smells like WinME - maybe it's getting to be like Star Trek movies, you should avoid every other (or in this case every third) release...
Um, absolutely none. If he managed to create the actual organic molecules, the atoms in those molecules, the quarks, (presumably) the strings, and the fundamental forces governing those physical objects, then there would be some uncomfortable questions. But I'm not holding my breath for that day.
This is great and all, but if I had to choose, give me more SSD storage. It's got plenty of speed right now, I'll be impressed when SSDs can be an actual alternative to disks.
Aw, damnit! The borg... I would've loved to see that!! Double bum me out.
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BFD, Yale has about the same amount and Harvard has about $35B. The people that attend those colleges are rich, and colleges are ranked by how much money their alumni donate. Every major university has an endowment, though the best obviously stand out, as they do in academics.
Congress got irked at all the money just "sitting" there tax free and forced the university's hand by offering reduced, or sometimes even free education to certain lower income families. In this case "lower income" could mean $120,000/yr.
I think the universities could put the money to better use, but singling Stanford out is not telling the whole story. Also, I think VC investing in your students' business ideas is a great use of money and a great way to keep the virtuous cycle going. The key is selling at some point.
Hey, didn't that look like the pic from when Bill got arrested for speeding?
In fact I think it was! I thought the commercial was kind of amusing, esp with that speeding pic in there. HAW HAW (Doesn't do anything to push product, but I guess they must not care about that)
Yes, you do... you can have terrible karma where you post at -1. No one comes back from that, it's like you're dead to the rest of/. You inhabit the world of shit eaters and racist bigots (who probably play lots of hockey).
They are competing against Apple and the Apple business model. They are priced at exactly where Apple is priced at.
And if I'm not mistaken (and if I am, I'm sure someone will correct me) Amazon doesn't put DRM on their downloads. I already use them for music, and I may start using them for video.
'Fun' is a very subjective thing, but major advances in algorithms enabled by greater processing speed and other hardware related improvements are much less subjective.
Those are the advances which can be projected and measured - if a new game is on the horizon using a completely different paradigm, no one would know. And if they did know, they certainly wouldn't know if it was going to be a success or failure.
To answer your point... no, I hadn't noticed a change in the (specifically) Canadian attitude towards the USA. But tell your friends, neighbors, and coworkers... in terms of international diplomacy, change for the better is coming (regardless of who wins)
I think the NW passage disagreement is garbage... it's clearly in both nation's interests to have that regarded as Canadian waters. I honestly don't understand what the beef by the US government is here.
Maybe we're concerned we couldn't get to Russia if we needed to??? But hell, you'd think we could just sign a treaty because we'd want to have Russia avoid coming to US.
It doesn't make any damned sense. I must be missing something here...
I think that's a helluva good point and one I've never considered before. I've got to admit, I like games primarily for the graphics... though I'm not much of a gamer, so I suppose I'm probably the typical eye candy gamer.
However, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I love technology... I like to watch it advance before my eyes... and in no other place is that quite as startlingly evident than video games.
Of course, I can get hooked on a good video game with ok graphics (I LOVED Alpha-Centauri for years), but great graphics done properly can add quite a bit to a game, IMHO.
And in terms of parent's comment, I'd say that's a very good point... the obvious place to push the envelope (and the easiest, in certain respects) is graphics. Once we've reached the threshold of "realism", the creative impulses can move in other directions.
Yes, I know this is probably a very naive question, but has anyone here actually had the privilege of working on one of these things? I mean, what do they actually use this for?
I think it's awesome, but are there any concrete advancements that can be attributed to having access to all this computing power?
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Or does this sound like my dad when he talks about just HOW great rock 'n roll was in his day and how everything is crap now?
2GB isn't even enough. I bought a Lenovo laptop where 2GB was "suggested". Ran like crap until I updated to 4GB... which is the max the motherboard can handle.
So much for my theory that paying more will lead to a longer lifespan for my laptop. Vista smells like WinME - maybe it's getting to be like Star Trek movies, you should avoid every other (or in this case every third) release...
... it will be now
Um, absolutely none. If he managed to create the actual organic molecules, the atoms in those molecules, the quarks, (presumably) the strings, and the fundamental forces governing those physical objects, then there would be some uncomfortable questions. But I'm not holding my breath for that day.
It's a shame I share your conclusions when your thinking is so fundamentally flawed.
You should look up the word 'logic' in a dictionary.
Well, just pick up the phone and call him then :)
This is great and all, but if I had to choose, give me more SSD storage. It's got plenty of speed right now, I'll be impressed when SSDs can be an actual alternative to disks.
Aw, damnit! The borg... I would've loved to see that!! Double bum me out.
BFD, Yale has about the same amount and Harvard has about $35B. The people that attend those colleges are rich, and colleges are ranked by how much money their alumni donate. Every major university has an endowment, though the best obviously stand out, as they do in academics.
Congress got irked at all the money just "sitting" there tax free and forced the university's hand by offering reduced, or sometimes even free education to certain lower income families. In this case "lower income" could mean $120,000/yr.
I think the universities could put the money to better use, but singling Stanford out is not telling the whole story. Also, I think VC investing in your students' business ideas is a great use of money and a great way to keep the virtuous cycle going. The key is selling at some point.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/30080
Hey, didn't that look like the pic from when Bill got arrested for speeding?
In fact I think it was! I thought the commercial was kind of amusing, esp with that speeding pic in there. HAW HAW (Doesn't do anything to push product, but I guess they must not care about that)
Yes, you do... you can have terrible karma where you post at -1. No one comes back from that, it's like you're dead to the rest of /. You inhabit the world of shit eaters and racist bigots (who probably play lots of hockey).
Yeah... duh... I wasn't thinking before I posted :P
Damn. I guess it's just music then. Ok, phooey on them...
They are competing against Apple and the Apple business model. They are priced at exactly where Apple is priced at.
And if I'm not mistaken (and if I am, I'm sure someone will correct me) Amazon doesn't put DRM on their downloads. I already use them for music, and I may start using them for video.
Because 'fun' is not a technology.
'Fun' is a very subjective thing, but major advances in algorithms enabled by greater processing speed and other hardware related improvements are much less subjective.
Those are the advances which can be projected and measured - if a new game is on the horizon using a completely different paradigm, no one would know. And if they did know, they certainly wouldn't know if it was going to be a success or failure.
I've gotten some really interesting responses... I knew there would be people who had a few things to say.
Question: You guys don't actually still use OS2 on desktops, do you? I work for a company that used it at an enterprise level up until about '01/'02.
Does anyone read these things? I can say though I may have read over a few, I don't do so on a regular basis.
It's rather pointless when every single one of them (of the few I've read) says "subject to change at our discretion without notification".
Does anyone not use Google (for example) because of their privacy policy, or their use of beacons?
To answer your point... no, I hadn't noticed a change in the (specifically) Canadian attitude towards the USA. But tell your friends, neighbors, and coworkers... in terms of international diplomacy, change for the better is coming (regardless of who wins)
I think the NW passage disagreement is garbage... it's clearly in both nation's interests to have that regarded as Canadian waters. I honestly don't understand what the beef by the US government is here.
Maybe we're concerned we couldn't get to Russia if we needed to??? But hell, you'd think we could just sign a treaty because we'd want to have Russia avoid coming to US.
It doesn't make any damned sense. I must be missing something here...
I think that's a helluva good point and one I've never considered before. I've got to admit, I like games primarily for the graphics... though I'm not much of a gamer, so I suppose I'm probably the typical eye candy gamer.
However, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I love technology... I like to watch it advance before my eyes... and in no other place is that quite as startlingly evident than video games.
Of course, I can get hooked on a good video game with ok graphics (I LOVED Alpha-Centauri for years), but great graphics done properly can add quite a bit to a game, IMHO.
And in terms of parent's comment, I'd say that's a very good point... the obvious place to push the envelope (and the easiest, in certain respects) is graphics. Once we've reached the threshold of "realism", the creative impulses can move in other directions.
You know I doubted claims, so I looked them up... you're right! What the hell are we (USA) thinking here?
Perhaps this is what the funding is actually for... Nah, that'd be giving the government way too much credit, right?
Yeah, I hear it might even be able to run Vista... that is once they upgrade the memory.
Yes, I know this is probably a very naive question, but has anyone here actually had the privilege of working on one of these things? I mean, what do they actually use this for?
I think it's awesome, but are there any concrete advancements that can be attributed to having access to all this computing power?
Just wondering...
Not if I'm the one paying for those damn sweaters! (Yes, I donate to PBS as well as pay taxes)
Sorry, replying to my own post here, but my final point meant to say ...
"But still, neither PBS nor BBC should be charging for content..."