After working in the tech/IT sector from 97 thru summer 2000, I started college that fall, and graduated this past December with a BSCS, and I'm having a hell of a time finding a job (admittedly, I'm looking in Michigan). When I went in, only a few signs of a failing tech industry were present, and now that I'm out, it's been quite decimated. I take solace in that everything moves in cycles, and that the tech industry in Bangalore will implode in on itself someday too. That or a war between India and Pakistan could have companies running out fast (maybe even back to the US).
OS X supports all hardware going back to their various G3 models, which means pretty sizable number of processors, laptops, video cards, motherboards, USB devices, firewire devices, printers, audio hardware, etc. etc.
Just throwing numbers out, I would say 90% of the PC-using people out there use 10% of the hardware thats actually available. They use the most popular video and audio cards, external devices, and so on. Sure, Linux and Windows still support your 1996 video card, but maybe it's time to invest a wee bit more money in your hardware setup?
Indeed, daytime naps are a good way to fast-forward through life's commercials, like family gatherings, boring classes, boring meetings (though that takes some creativity if the lights are on). For instance, having nothing to do this rainy weekend, I napped through the parts where there was nothing good on TV, i didn't want to play Prince of Persia, and my girlfriend was out of the house (yes, I have an attractive human female girlfriend). Call it laziness, call it depression, but I call it effective energy conservation:-D
I guess I wasn't clear. I meant that memories in the brain create all sorts of strengthening and weakening, and its not just some simple 1:1 memory to neural connection. Altering a large number of potentials between neurons to erase one memory would surely mess up a lot of other memories: "There go my piano lessons!";)
Backing up the brain is conceivable an easier thing, as it's a read-only operation, however the brain would have to be in a state of suspended animation to not cause any consistency errors: lock the object before reading so other systems can write to it - the poor human brain has no locking mechanism. Tsk tsk, puny humans.
There was a game that I played on my old P133 called Endorfun, where you moved a cube around on a plane, and you were supposed to roll over certain patterns with the cube. It was never stressful, and what I liked most about it was the kind of techno-ambient-jazzy music it played. Wish I could find a copy of it again
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I figure his parents really liked Simon & Garfunkel, or really hated him ;)
"Hi, my name is Andy
I live on the bottom floor
I live in my mom's basement
Yes I think you've seen me before"
"Working on opposite sides of the red planet, they have begun analyzing rock and soil samples."
They misspelled "a sound stage in the downtown Hollywood"
pig out on candy bars.
on the TG16/PCEngine: Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge, Bonk 3
on SNES: Super Bonk, Super Bonk 2 (aka Super Genjin 2, only released in Japan AFAIK)
oh holy crap thats such a funny song, especially when he starts trying to play the bass "Ahhh! it's not WORKING!"
Johnny Mnemonic: "Whoa, I can hold 80 gigabytes of MP3s in my head!"
I'm so glad someone else got that :)
yes, the poly count is a lot lower than it looks, its just the heavy use of bump mapping that gives the more realistic lighting effects there.
After working in the tech/IT sector from 97 thru summer 2000, I started college that fall, and graduated this past December with a BSCS, and I'm having a hell of a time finding a job (admittedly, I'm looking in Michigan). When I went in, only a few signs of a failing tech industry were present, and now that I'm out, it's been quite decimated. I take solace in that everything moves in cycles, and that the tech industry in Bangalore will implode in on itself someday too. That or a war between India and Pakistan could have companies running out fast (maybe even back to the US).
OS X supports all hardware going back to their various G3 models, which means pretty sizable number of processors, laptops, video cards, motherboards, USB devices, firewire devices, printers, audio hardware, etc. etc.
Just throwing numbers out, I would say 90% of the PC-using people out there use 10% of the hardware thats actually available. They use the most popular video and audio cards, external devices, and so on. Sure, Linux and Windows still support your 1996 video card, but maybe it's time to invest a wee bit more money in your hardware setup?
"McBride, what is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
I hear McDonald's is hiring
I drive a pickup truck... i don't HAVE a back seat! *cries*
Oh, wait, I don't have a laptop either...
Needmonduche, tragjookee. Disaster Zun Rhine. Vishan ut alan altah krumpeltok. Ralde ut topok, flog, tonne ebuch frem. Repetin. Vishan ut alan altah krumpeltok. Ralde ut topok, flog, tonne ebuch frem. Nee pudak poy Feelyat!
The rest of the sketch is here
Indeed, daytime naps are a good way to fast-forward through life's commercials, like family gatherings, boring classes, boring meetings (though that takes some creativity if the lights are on). For instance, having nothing to do this rainy weekend, I napped through the parts where there was nothing good on TV, i didn't want to play Prince of Persia, and my girlfriend was out of the house (yes, I have an attractive human female girlfriend). Call it laziness, call it depression, but I call it effective energy conservation :-D
What did the pirate see when he looked in the Blackbeard's chamber pot?
The Captain's log. ahhhh ha ha ha ha.
I guess I wasn't clear. I meant that memories in the brain create all sorts of strengthening and weakening, and its not just some simple 1:1 memory to neural connection. Altering a large number of potentials between neurons to erase one memory would surely mess up a lot of other memories: "There go my piano lessons!" ;)
Backing up the brain is conceivable an easier thing, as it's a read-only operation, however the brain would have to be in a state of suspended animation to not cause any consistency errors: lock the object before reading so other systems can write to it - the poor human brain has no locking mechanism. Tsk tsk, puny humans.
No. You don't just form/strengthen one new connection for every memory. If we knew enough to erase memories, we would know enough to back them up too.
woot thanks :)
There was a game that I played on my old P133 called Endorfun, where you moved a cube around on a plane, and you were supposed to roll over certain patterns with the cube. It was never stressful, and what I liked most about it was the kind of techno-ambient-jazzy music it played. Wish I could find a copy of it again
No, i would say those are plot elements, but not the plots themselves. E.g. "The 5th Element" has a very different plot from "Scarface"
here's the text of that whole skit
Eddie Deezen trivia: he's a Scientologist
"Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory" - Bruce Lee