Yeah, dude, I was in pretty much your situation last year. I had a crappy GPA and class rank, and only decent scores on SAT/ACT (1350/32) I just took an assload of AP courses and tried to make up for my three previous years of non-extracurricular activities. I did the Academic Decathalon thing, and we went to state, though if it helped at all it was just the fact that I had made the school's official team, becuase that is all we knew by the time I sent in my application.
I took the SAT IIs, too. The maths were fairly easy and the English and Physics were a joke. If you have any aptitude whatsoever, I would suggest taking the SAT II Physics. The school I got into, the University of Texas at Austin, has a damn fine engineering school and will throw credit at anything they can, SAT II, AP, CLEP. Just take as many standardized tests as you can and you will be allright.
That Microsoft sucks is an opinion. That Young Earth creationists are idiots is practically proven. I didn't say this about the Old Earthers, their philosophy makes a little more sense. I merely stated that the reality-challenged New Earthers, or their brothers the Flat Earthers will try to adopt this as "proof".
Young Earth creationists have always used this as part of their "theory" of how light from stars that are millions of light years away could have gotten to earth in just under 7,000. They will probably put a creat deal of effort into mischaracterizing as an airtight proof that "God" exists.
>1. built untold nuclear arms, enough to wipe out the world multiple times.
well would you have rather have only the soviets had them, and don't try and tell me they wouldn't have.
Not saying that we should have stayed out of the arms race here, I was just saying that you cannot expect to get ethics out of an organization that builds excessive amounts of weapons meant to kill millions at a time.
2. that placed Japanese citizens in internment camps on the ridiculous notion that they would help a Japanese invasion of the West coast.
stupid, but considering how many other western countries did the same, the only ones that didn't were the ones that didn't allow them in the first place. This is not an excuse for what happened, but you must look at it in contex.
Studid? The other countries were supposedly fascist states. The revokation of habeas corpus was caused by hysteria and racism. And just because Nazi Germany did it too, doesn't make it right.
3. that tested LSD on its agents without theiri knowledge. This is the same government that did Vietnam, and is currently doing the same thing to Columbia.
There were thought to be few long term effects of LSD at the time, there is now far better testing. Learn from you mistakes.
Wasn't long term effects here. They gave the agents LSD, didn't tell them, and a few ended up killing themselves because they were going insane. As for Columbia, they are not learning from their mistakes, which is my point.
4. that will put you in jail for smoking a joint. 5. that arrested someone for violating its laws while in another country.
You do not get put in jail for smoking a joint. Selling it, or multiple offences might get you in jail, but as someone who was busted in hight school (i was 18), i can tell you that it really isn't taken as seriously as NORML might make it seem. The second part is to protect prostitutes in central America.
1. Obviously, you don't live in the Bible belt, which I unfortunately do.
2. What the hell were you talking about there? I was talking about Skylarov
6. is composed of politicians who seem primarily concerned with redistributing my wealth to people as a bribe to vote for them.
Its good to see that you are not fooled by sterotypes.
What? The redistribution of wealth is fundamental to the current political system. It is all about bribing the right groups with the right things. Health care coverage? More Medicaid? Sure. More entitlements? Sure. More free crap for the elderly? Sure. They will do anything to get elected, and most of it involves making us dig deeper every April 15.
imagine double italics to quote what has been quoted:
"but science also was sure that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the world was flat and if you got to the edge, you would fall off. "
Nah, those were just products of the nastiness that happens when you try to apply science and literalism to religion. The flat earth and the geocentric universe are the products of an attempt to explaint the world with a literal interpretation of the Bible.
As for your comment:
Without federal oversight, you're going to see experiments that simply ignore ethical boundaries
Like the federal government is a bastion of ethics and morals in the first place. This is the same government that:
1. built untold nuclear arms, enough to wipe out the world multiple times.
2. that placed Japanese citizens in internment camps on the ridiculous notion that they would help a Japanese invasion of the West coast.
3. that tested LSD on its agents without theiri knowledge. This is the same government that did Vietnam, and is currently doing the same thing to Columbia.
4. that will put you in jail for smoking a joint. 5. that arrested someone for violating its laws while in another country.
6. is composed of politicians who seem primarily concerned with redistributing my wealth to people as a bribe to vote for them.
I could go on, but I think I have made a point: government is not benevolent. It is a hive of greedy, self-promoting politicians that have no morals or ethic, or even goals beyond getting re-elected.
Yes, but it ran captioned correctly in the St Petersberg rag, but it did not say if it did in US News and World Report, where the woman saw the picuture.
NO, I don't think I do. The picture of Dmitry in this case was taken by an actualy human, and the picure of the other fellow was taken by that human. The picture was taken for the express purpose of reporting news.
The photo of the other guy was taken by an automated, always on camera system. The picture, and many like it, were taken to monitor citizens.
There is a difference, and this is the camera systems fault.
Yes, it is not the fault of the software, but the Florida surveillence cameras did claim a victim. Stop and think about it for a second. We have surveillence cameras pointed at ordinary, presumably innocent citizens. Combine constant surveillence and the fact that people tend to be stupid and stuff like this happens.
What happened was this:
1.Cops wanted publicity for shiney system, press wanted photos.
2. Some photographer took a photo, and the AP or some news wire requested it. It got sent, correctly captioned as saying "this mas is not a suspect".
3. Some intern at US News pulls the photo from the wire (I used to do this job in a major newspaper, stuff like this does get overlooked from time to time), redoes the caption, or perhaps forgets to include the caption, and it is sent to layout people.
4. Layout people redo the caption to suit space requirements and the focus of the story that accompanies it. They change the headline to the sensationalistic "You Can't Hide Those Lying Eyes in Tampa." and put the dudes face below it.
5. Magazine is published and read by an idiot. She calls cops.
I have not seen the caption of the photo, but I assume that the part about the dude being free of all suspicion was dropped to conserve space.
No matter whose fault it is, this still happened because we have cameras in public places, face recognition software enabled or not. This is a shining example to show to the people who support invasions of privacy what kind of harm they can really do, and it does a good job of eroding the "Well, if they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about" argument. This kind of crap is wrong, and the fact that the mistake was made by human eyes and not a digital ones does little to fix it, and little to sooth my worries
Yes. We are apparantly aiming for that. Take an act that harms no one, that something like 60 million Americans do or have done: the peaceful, harmless act of lighting a plant on fire and inhaling the smoke, punish it with jail time and use it as an excuse to impose a police state.
Go further by starting a propaganda campaign that indoctrinates the youth with lies that they will inevitably find to be false (causing disallusionment), and two political parties that have the same effective stance on the issue, parties that will control the government for a very long time, and you have a scenerio where a large portion of the population will become, at some point, familiar with the interior of a jail cell.
I seem to remember from the past/. story (DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers) that sateliette broadcasters had no legal recourse against pirates, on the principle that they are beaming their signals on private property, and the people who live there can do whatever they want to with those signals. It would be the content providers' responsibility to keep the signals off non-customers' lawns.
Though I suppose the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions do apply to doctored smart cards. Sigh.
Has anyone ever thought about applying this concept to a Visor or a Palm Pilot while it is cradled? You would have a touch sensitive (Sort of) changable screen, and a lot of people would already have the hardware.
Does anyone know if the movie was all CGI? There was this scene with an eagle flying that looked like it was stock footage from a National Geographic special, and neither my brother nor I could tell one way or another.
Its cool, no plot spoilers below, this is mostly what I think of the movie and the animation.
I was lucky enough to get into a sneak preview on Monday, and I must say that the graphics are impressive. They are still a little bit away from actually making you forget that you were looking at CGI because the characters do look too stiff, and the skin tones are a bit off, but overall it is damn good.
Animation-wise, they did a very good job on the clothes and the hair. Also, the characters use a 3D holographic interface when interacting with computers, and it looks really cool, especially the one on Aki's wrist in the beginning. However, I was a bit disappointed with the monsters, which were mostly vague outlines. At least as far as I can tell, there is a strong anime influence in the movie, especially in the monsters, which are done in the tentacle style of art.
Also, if you thought about it while watching the movie, you could see how it tied into a quest RPG style video game. Before characters could do stuff, they would have to collect objects or do things. I wouldn't say that the plot is outstanding, but it is defintly more than decent. Oh yeah, I was very much impressed with the soundtrack.
I would definitely say that it is worth 7 bucks to go see. It was fun to pick out all the little details (especially the clothes and hair) and be amazed at how much time a effort went into every little frame
though there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government, when America has lasted half as long as the Ming or Han dynasty, then lets talk
Firstly, China's current form of governent (communist dictatorship) a much poorer track record than their previous form of government (dynastic imperialism), and considering the imperial periods to be the same as the communist regime today is stupid. China's current government has been in power less than 100 years. Ours has been in power for 225. You could also say that the lack of a government lasted far longer than any other form of government, a period of time equivalent to the age of the universe (roughly 15 billion years, though I haven't checked on what the most accurate estimation is in a while) minus the amount of time since any human has had power over another, but it would be as meaningless as your comment was.
Also, I hate to be a spelling nazi, but perhaps you should check your spelling before belittling other people as childish and ignorant. It makes you seem like less of a moron.
I was hoping for a Jedi Edition, which contains no Jar Jar, no Anakin, no Pods, and no Padme/Amidala. The only scenes included would be ones with lit light sabers or Yoda. If Lucas doesn't do this, I will see if I can do it in DivX.
My dad gave me the Intensor for Christmas, and I brought it back to my dorm. The best game to play it on was Hydro Thunder, for the DC, but as you said, one could only play it for a few minutes before being very, very uncomfortable.
On the plus side, the girls on our floor seemed to like it a LOT, usually blushing and excusing themselves from the room.
Another demographic of people that liked it were those on Ecstacy, and they claimed that it was awesome.
Jamie's trollism about the Republicans is just as pathetic. I dislike Democrats and Republicans equally, but remember that it was the VP candidate Joseph Lieberman that pushed the hardest for censorship in the Fall campaign.
If more latency means increased capacity for one of these devices, as the article suggests, then I am betting that they could achieve capacity that would rival that of holographic media if they use DALnet as part of the path of the packets. I have seen ping times in the hundreds of seconds.
I believe that MS was judging Linux as threat because its usablity has become much better. Aside from server type applications, where I think MS knew it had serious competition all along, I don't think that it thought that Linux would ever grow much in the desktop market. But the usability has grown very much over the years, and people are starting to choose it over windows. These people are not novices, but they aren't necisseraly hard-core computer junkies. I fall into this catagory, I am slightly less than a computer wizard. I use Gnome quite a bit, and I find it as easy to navigate as Windows, though it did take a bit of getting used to.
Additionally, Linux seems to be making a toehold in the embedded markets, and since the convention wisdom seems to forsee a migration from large, centralized desktop computers to individual devices, I know MS wants a hefty share of what it sees as the future. Hell, Windows CE wasn't exactly a smash hit.
My dad is a professional photographer, photoshop is a nessecity. Even if computers are just an entertainment center to some people, they should still give a rats ass about what is inside them. Woudld anyone, car enthusiast or not, buy a car when they don't know what milage it gets, or what type of engine is under the hood? Of course not. If you are gonna invest more than a few hundred bucks in a product, you should have a rudimentary understanding of what is inside it and how it works. Shielding people from the complexities of an OS will not help either. When stuff goes wrong, they need to know why and how it can be fixed.
As for the integration of modern interfaces, I acknowledged that in my comment. Yes, Apple has done a good job with PnP devices, certainly much better than the x86 architecture people have.
With the speed of the OS, yes it is a Beta version. I think that we can both agree that the animations and graphical excesses in OSX will take up quite a few cycles. I do not see how they can justify wasting as much time on meaningless eye-candy. A computer is a tool, not a television, and if the GUI hampers the tool, then the computer is hobbled. Do you really need to see the icons in the dock dance up and down after a program start?
Finally, the Motorola chips are more effecient in terms of work. done per cycle. I would love to get a PPC box and slap linux on it, but I will stick to x86 for now thank you.
In short, I do not like what Apple is doing to computers. The most important choice you make when you buy a box is not the decision between Key Lime or Strawberry "Flavors". My dad, a computer illiterate, was almost suckered into buying one, before I explained to him that he was gonna need more than 32Mb of RAM and 4 Gb of HD space to run photoshop properly. Increasing the superficiality and illiteracy of the masses does nothing to help computers out.
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Yeah, dude, I was in pretty much your situation last year. I had a crappy GPA and class rank, and only decent scores on SAT/ACT (1350/32) I just took an assload of AP courses and tried to make up for my three previous years of non-extracurricular activities. I did the Academic Decathalon thing, and we went to state, though if it helped at all it was just the fact that I had made the school's official team, becuase that is all we knew by the time I sent in my application.
I took the SAT IIs, too. The maths were fairly easy and the English and Physics were a joke. If you have any aptitude whatsoever, I would suggest taking the SAT II Physics. The school I got into, the University of Texas at Austin, has a damn fine engineering school and will throw credit at anything they can, SAT II, AP, CLEP. Just take as many standardized tests as you can and you will be allright.
That Microsoft sucks is an opinion. That Young Earth creationists are idiots is practically proven. I didn't say this about the Old Earthers, their philosophy makes a little more sense. I merely stated that the reality-challenged New Earthers, or their brothers the Flat Earthers will try to adopt this as "proof".
Young Earth creationists have always used this as part of their "theory" of how light from stars that are millions of light years away could have gotten to earth in just under 7,000. They will probably put a creat deal of effort into mischaracterizing as an airtight proof that "God" exists.
If anyone wants to check out an incredibly cool OSS app, go to www.openuniverse.org. It is basically a very good model of the solar system.
>1. built untold nuclear arms, enough to wipe out the world multiple times.
well would you have rather have only the soviets had them, and don't try and tell me they wouldn't have.
Not saying that we should have stayed out of the arms race here, I was just saying that you cannot expect to get ethics out of an organization that builds excessive amounts of weapons meant to kill millions at a time.
2. that placed Japanese citizens in internment camps on the ridiculous notion that they would help a Japanese invasion of the West coast.
stupid, but considering how many other western countries did the same, the only ones that didn't were the ones that didn't allow them in the first place. This is not an excuse for what happened, but you must look at it in contex.
Studid? The other countries were supposedly fascist states. The revokation of habeas corpus was caused by hysteria and racism. And just because Nazi Germany did it too, doesn't make it right.
3. that tested LSD on its agents without theiri knowledge. This is the same government that did Vietnam, and is currently doing the same thing to Columbia.
There were thought to be few long term effects of LSD at the time, there is now far better testing. Learn from you mistakes.
Wasn't long term effects here. They gave the agents LSD, didn't tell them, and a few ended up killing themselves because they were going insane. As for Columbia, they are not learning from their mistakes, which is my point.
4. that will put you in jail for smoking a joint. 5. that arrested someone for violating its laws while in another country.
You do not get put in jail for smoking a joint. Selling it, or multiple offences might get you in jail, but as someone who was busted in hight school (i was 18), i can tell you that it really isn't taken as seriously as NORML might make it seem. The second part is to protect prostitutes in central America.
1. Obviously, you don't live in the Bible belt, which I unfortunately do.
2. What the hell were you talking about there? I was talking about Skylarov
6. is composed of politicians who seem primarily concerned with redistributing my wealth to people as a bribe to vote for them.
Its good to see that you are not fooled by sterotypes.
What? The redistribution of wealth is fundamental to the current political system. It is all about bribing the right groups with the right things. Health care coverage? More Medicaid? Sure. More entitlements? Sure. More free crap for the elderly? Sure. They will do anything to get elected, and most of it involves making us dig deeper every April 15.
imagine double italics to quote what has been quoted:
"but science also was sure that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the world was flat and if you got to the edge, you would fall off. "
Nah, those were just products of the nastiness that happens when you try to apply science and literalism to religion. The flat earth and the geocentric universe are the products of an attempt to explaint the world with a literal interpretation of the Bible.
As for your comment:
Without federal oversight, you're going to see experiments that simply ignore ethical boundaries
Like the federal government is a bastion of ethics and morals in the first place. This is the same government that:
1. built untold nuclear arms, enough to wipe out the world multiple times.
2. that placed Japanese citizens in internment camps on the ridiculous notion that they would help a Japanese invasion of the West coast.
3. that tested LSD on its agents without theiri knowledge. This is the same government that did Vietnam, and is currently doing the same thing to Columbia.
4. that will put you in jail for smoking a joint. 5. that arrested someone for violating its laws while in another country.
6. is composed of politicians who seem primarily concerned with redistributing my wealth to people as a bribe to vote for them.
I could go on, but I think I have made a point: government is not benevolent. It is a hive of greedy, self-promoting politicians that have no morals or ethic, or even goals beyond getting re-elected.
Yes, but it ran captioned correctly in the St Petersberg rag, but it did not say if it did in US News and World Report, where the woman saw the picuture.
NO, I don't think I do. The picture of Dmitry in this case was taken by an actualy human, and the picure of the other fellow was taken by that human. The picture was taken for the express purpose of reporting news.
The photo of the other guy was taken by an automated, always on camera system. The picture, and many like it, were taken to monitor citizens.
There is a difference, and this is the camera systems fault.
Yes, it is not the fault of the software, but the Florida surveillence cameras did claim a victim. Stop and think about it for a second. We have surveillence cameras pointed at ordinary, presumably innocent citizens. Combine constant surveillence and the fact that people tend to be stupid and stuff like this happens.
What happened was this:
1.Cops wanted publicity for shiney system, press wanted photos.
2. Some photographer took a photo, and the AP or some news wire requested it. It got sent, correctly captioned as saying "this mas is not a suspect".
3. Some intern at US News pulls the photo from the wire (I used to do this job in a major newspaper, stuff like this does get overlooked from time to time), redoes the caption, or perhaps forgets to include the caption, and it is sent to layout people.
4. Layout people redo the caption to suit space requirements and the focus of the story that accompanies it. They change the headline to the sensationalistic "You Can't Hide Those Lying Eyes in Tampa." and put the dudes face below it.
5. Magazine is published and read by an idiot. She calls cops.
I have not seen the caption of the photo, but I assume that the part about the dude being free of all suspicion was dropped to conserve space.
No matter whose fault it is, this still happened because we have cameras in public places, face recognition software enabled or not. This is a shining example to show to the people who support invasions of privacy what kind of harm they can really do, and it does a good job of eroding the "Well, if they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about" argument. This kind of crap is wrong, and the fact that the mistake was made by human eyes and not a digital ones does little to fix it, and little to sooth my worries
Yes. We are apparantly aiming for that. Take an act that harms no one, that something like 60 million Americans do or have done: the peaceful, harmless act of lighting a plant on fire and inhaling the smoke, punish it with jail time and use it as an excuse to impose a police state.
Go further by starting a propaganda campaign that indoctrinates the youth with lies that they will inevitably find to be false (causing disallusionment), and two political parties that have the same effective stance on the issue, parties that will control the government for a very long time, and you have a scenerio where a large portion of the population will become, at some point, familiar with the interior of a jail cell.
I seem to remember from the past /. story ( DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers ) that sateliette broadcasters had no legal recourse against pirates, on the principle that they are beaming their signals on private property, and the people who live there can do whatever they want to with those signals. It would be the content providers' responsibility to keep the signals off non-customers' lawns.
Though I suppose the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions do apply to doctored smart cards. Sigh.
well, yes. Some of the better DVDs have outtakes.
Sounds like the title of a really good porno I bought a few months ago.
Has anyone ever thought about applying this concept to a Visor or a Palm Pilot while it is cradled? You would have a touch sensitive (Sort of) changable screen, and a lot of people would already have the hardware.
Does anyone know if the movie was all CGI? There was this scene with an eagle flying that looked like it was stock footage from a National Geographic special, and neither my brother nor I could tell one way or another.
Its cool, no plot spoilers below, this is mostly what I think of the movie and the animation.
I was lucky enough to get into a sneak preview on Monday, and I must say that the graphics are impressive. They are still a little bit away from actually making you forget that you were looking at CGI because the characters do look too stiff, and the skin tones are a bit off, but overall it is damn good.
Animation-wise, they did a very good job on the clothes and the hair. Also, the characters use a 3D holographic interface when interacting with computers, and it looks really cool, especially the one on Aki's wrist in the beginning. However, I was a bit disappointed with the monsters, which were mostly vague outlines. At least as far as I can tell, there is a strong anime influence in the movie, especially in the monsters, which are done in the tentacle style of art.
Also, if you thought about it while watching the movie, you could see how it tied into a quest RPG style video game. Before characters could do stuff, they would have to collect objects or do things. I wouldn't say that the plot is outstanding, but it is defintly more than decent. Oh yeah, I was very much impressed with the soundtrack.
I would definitely say that it is worth 7 bucks to go see. It was fun to pick out all the little details (especially the clothes and hair) and be amazed at how much time a effort went into every little frame
though there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government, when America has lasted half as long as the Ming or Han dynasty, then lets talk
...a too lou ..amke society
Firstly, China's current form of governent (communist dictatorship) a much poorer track record than their previous form of government (dynastic imperialism), and considering the imperial periods to be the same as the communist regime today is stupid. China's current government has been in power less than 100 years. Ours has been in power for 225. You could also say that the lack of a government lasted far longer than any other form of government, a period of time equivalent to the age of the universe (roughly 15 billion years, though I haven't checked on what the most accurate estimation is in a while) minus the amount of time since any human has had power over another, but it would be as meaningless as your comment was.
Also, I hate to be a spelling nazi, but perhaps you should check your spelling before belittling other people as childish and ignorant. It makes you seem like less of a moron.
I was hoping for a Jedi Edition, which contains no Jar Jar, no Anakin, no Pods, and no Padme/Amidala. The only scenes included would be ones with lit light sabers or Yoda. If Lucas doesn't do this, I will see if I can do it in DivX.
My dad gave me the Intensor for Christmas, and I brought it back to my dorm. The best game to play it on was Hydro Thunder, for the DC, but as you said, one could only play it for a few minutes before being very, very uncomfortable.
On the plus side, the girls on our floor seemed to like it a LOT, usually blushing and excusing themselves from the room.
Another demographic of people that liked it were those on Ecstacy, and they claimed that it was awesome.
Jamie's trollism about the Republicans is just as pathetic. I dislike Democrats and Republicans equally, but remember that it was the VP candidate Joseph Lieberman that pushed the hardest for censorship in the Fall campaign.
If more latency means increased capacity for one of these devices, as the article suggests, then I am betting that they could achieve capacity that would rival that of holographic media if they use DALnet as part of the path of the packets. I have seen ping times in the hundreds of seconds.
For those horrible knights of nee, or whatever they are calling themselves these days.
I believe that MS was judging Linux as threat because its usablity has become much better. Aside from server type applications, where I think MS knew it had serious competition all along, I don't think that it thought that Linux would ever grow much in the desktop market. But the usability has grown very much over the years, and people are starting to choose it over windows. These people are not novices, but they aren't necisseraly hard-core computer junkies. I fall into this catagory, I am slightly less than a computer wizard. I use Gnome quite a bit, and I find it as easy to navigate as Windows, though it did take a bit of getting used to.
Additionally, Linux seems to be making a toehold in the embedded markets, and since the convention wisdom seems to forsee a migration from large, centralized desktop computers to individual devices, I know MS wants a hefty share of what it sees as the future. Hell, Windows CE wasn't exactly a smash hit.
My dad is a professional photographer, photoshop is a nessecity. Even if computers are just an entertainment center to some people, they should still give a rats ass about what is inside them. Woudld anyone, car enthusiast or not, buy a car when they don't know what milage it gets, or what type of engine is under the hood? Of course not. If you are gonna invest more than a few hundred bucks in a product, you should have a rudimentary understanding of what is inside it and how it works. Shielding people from the complexities of an OS will not help either. When stuff goes wrong, they need to know why and how it can be fixed.
As for the integration of modern interfaces, I acknowledged that in my comment. Yes, Apple has done a good job with PnP devices, certainly much better than the x86 architecture people have.
With the speed of the OS, yes it is a Beta version. I think that we can both agree that the animations and graphical excesses in OSX will take up quite a few cycles. I do not see how they can justify wasting as much time on meaningless eye-candy. A computer is a tool, not a television, and if the GUI hampers the tool, then the computer is hobbled. Do you really need to see the icons in the dock dance up and down after a program start?
Finally, the Motorola chips are more effecient in terms of work. done per cycle. I would love to get a PPC box and slap linux on it, but I will stick to x86 for now thank you.
In short, I do not like what Apple is doing to computers. The most important choice you make when you buy a box is not the decision between Key Lime or Strawberry "Flavors". My dad, a computer illiterate, was almost suckered into buying one, before I explained to him that he was gonna need more than 32Mb of RAM and 4 Gb of HD space to run photoshop properly. Increasing the superficiality and illiteracy of the masses does nothing to help computers out.