A high end CAD workstation today is simply a PC with a powerful CPU and high-end gaming card + different firmware and extra graphics memory. Once the high-end PC gaming cards and the high-end PC CPU's disappear, CAD workstations will need to find something else to build on.
Or, they'll just go back to what they were before PCs became powerful enough to use -- specially-built workstations that cost an arm and a leg. If the aerospace industry needs them badly enough, they'll pay whatever it takes. I remember the days when graphics cards for CAD workstations cost well over $10k.
Yeah, so the military should stop using weapons because that's what the other guy knows they're going to do?
There will always be a market for a company that caters to the high end of the market as long as they have appropriate products for that market segment. Sometimes even when that market is very, very small (i.e. Rolex, Ferrari) but you can still be very profitable.
I realize that shiny sells, but I still don't understand why I can't buy a 4:3 laptop these days. Everyone I talk to says he'd prefer one to the current wide-screen offering. Do people really only use computers for watching movies?
I just bought a new HP ProBook with 1366x768 resolution, but at least it has a matte screen.
Probably because none of the LCD manufacturers aren't making very many 4:3 LCDs any more. Now that TVs and computers are using basically the same LCD panels we can get them pretty cheaply, but only as long as you have that enormous economy of scale that dual-purpose gets you. If you want 4:3, there isn't nearly as much demand so the unit costs will end up a lot higher.
MAS90, MAS200, and MAS500 are made by Best Software (formerly Sage Software, though originally Best Software).
Actually, it was originally made by State of the Art Software, who was bought by Sage software (a UK company), who then also bought Best Software and decided to use the Best name for their US operations.
...your entire network -- not just Macs -- you can also view and control the screens of any Virtual Network Computing (VNC)-enabled computer, including Windows, Linux, and UNIX.
When I first started College (1981) they had just purchased a brand-new CDC Cyber 730 (IIRC). It used 6-bit bytes. After I graduated (1986), I worked on another CDC box. It also had 6-bit bytes. The systems programmers tended to do a lot of calculations in octal (two digits per byte). It was said that one of the senior programmers once was having a hard time balancing his checkbook when he suddenly realized he had done his calculations in octal...
The entire point, is that there is that there is no decision to make. Decisions, if made at all, should be made when you're getting ready to have sex with someone, not 3 weeks later when you realize how utterly fucking retarded you were.
If only life were that simple. What about:
The young med student who is careful, uses contraception and still gets pregnant? Who will have to drop out of school and flip burgers for a living to support her child. Who decides if the embryo she carries is more valuable than the lives she would save as a doctor?
The mother of two, working two jobs but couldn't make the rent last month because her kids had been sick. The landlord persuades her to have sex with him in exchange for not evicting them. Now how is she going to survive? Who will pay the rent when she's 8-months pregnant and can't work?
The rape victim
The mother who finds out her unborn child has a major birth defect and will be severly mentally and physically handicapped. Forever.
The woman whose parents never let her attend sex education in school, but never bothered to teach her themselves. She has no idea sex creates babies. (My brother had a neighbor with three kids who still didn't know how babies were made)
It's not always an easy decision. I would love it if we could always be sure that the decision to carry the baby to term was the right one. I would also love to live in a world where everyone would live in peace and harmony. But we have to live in the real world, where nothing is ever as simple as we would like.
Nobody ever said that abortion is a good thing. The main argument is over who should be the one to make the decision -- the prospective mother or the government.
It's a tough decision to make. One I personally don't think the government is particularly qualified to make.
My dad's a TV repairman, and he tells me that if you have a 16:9 direct view TV but watch mostly 4:3 stuff on it in "reverse letterbox" (i.e. with big black bands on the left and right) you can end up with your picture tube burning in unevenly -- more in the middle than the sides. Then, when you do watch some 16:9 stuff it'll look brighter on the sides than in the middle. It's not covered in your warranty, either. And a replacement 16:9 picture tube will cost you nearly as much (if not more) than the original TV.
Even if the Bush administration wants to drop the Microsoft case (or even settle the case in a manner beneficial to Microsoft), they still have to convince the 19 states that are included in the suit to go along. Not bloody likely.
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A high end CAD workstation today is simply a PC with a powerful CPU and high-end gaming card + different firmware and extra graphics memory. Once the high-end PC gaming cards and the high-end PC CPU's disappear, CAD workstations will need to find something else to build on.
Or, they'll just go back to what they were before PCs became powerful enough to use -- specially-built workstations that cost an arm and a leg. If the aerospace industry needs them badly enough, they'll pay whatever it takes. I remember the days when graphics cards for CAD workstations cost well over $10k.
Yeah, so the military should stop using weapons because that's what the other guy knows they're going to do?
There will always be a market for a company that caters to the high end of the market as long as they have appropriate products for that market segment. Sometimes even when that market is very, very small (i.e. Rolex, Ferrari) but you can still be very profitable.
I realize that shiny sells, but I still don't understand why I can't buy a 4:3 laptop these days. Everyone I talk to says he'd prefer one to the current wide-screen offering. Do people really only use computers for watching movies?
I just bought a new HP ProBook with 1366x768 resolution, but at least it has a matte screen.
Probably because none of the LCD manufacturers aren't making very many 4:3 LCDs any more. Now that TVs and computers are using basically the same LCD panels we can get them pretty cheaply, but only as long as you have that enormous economy of scale that dual-purpose gets you. If you want 4:3, there isn't nearly as much demand so the unit costs will end up a lot higher.
MAS90, MAS200, and MAS500 are made by Best Software (formerly Sage Software, though originally Best Software).
Actually, it was originally made by State of the Art Software, who was bought by Sage software (a UK company), who then also bought Best Software and decided to use the Best name for their US operations.
Not that I expect anyone to care...
If all you want is the original game in color, you can get it now:
http://www.deltatao.com/darkcastle/
When I first started College (1981) they had just purchased a brand-new CDC Cyber 730 (IIRC). It used 6-bit bytes. After I graduated (1986), I worked on another CDC box. It also had 6-bit bytes. The systems programmers tended to do a lot of calculations in octal (two digits per byte). It was said that one of the senior programmers once was having a hard time balancing his checkbook when he suddenly realized he had done his calculations in octal...
If only life were that simple. What about:
It's not always an easy decision. I would love it if we could always be sure that the decision to carry the baby to term was the right one. I would also love to live in a world where everyone would live in peace and harmony. But we have to live in the real world, where nothing is ever as simple as we would like.
It's a tough decision to make. One I personally don't think the government is particularly qualified to make.
The CNN article only mentions 3 awards for LoTR. Were there others, or is this just a bunch of hype over a measly 3 awards?
My dad's a TV repairman, and he tells me that if you have a 16:9 direct view TV but watch mostly 4:3 stuff on it in "reverse letterbox" (i.e. with big black bands on the left and right) you can end up with your picture tube burning in unevenly -- more in the middle than the sides. Then, when you do watch some 16:9 stuff it'll look brighter on the sides than in the middle. It's not covered in your warranty, either. And a replacement 16:9 picture tube will cost you nearly as much (if not more) than the original TV.
I'm so ashamed.
Even if the Bush administration wants to drop the Microsoft case (or even settle the case in a manner beneficial to Microsoft), they still have to convince the 19 states that are included in the suit to go along. Not bloody likely.