Speaking of old FPSes, does anyone remember Catacombs, which was the first FPS I ever played (and the earliest published that I recall) It was shareware, published by softdisk, and featured a mage killing monsters in (initially) a graveyard IIRC... Was this the first FPS to be published, or was there another?
It's much much worse than that. Versions 1, 2, and 3 were smaller than that. 2 ran on my dad's IBM XT with a 20 MB hard drive, and 3 ran on my old 486 with a 250 MB hard drive. This is going to make that curve quite a bit steeper.
It's a big problem that we in this culture try to "protect" children from anything other than the peachy clean ideal. This ends up hurting them in the long run, when they are abruptly brought into the real world.
Further, it shows a lack of respect for young people when we do not allow them to make more of their own decisions. If you are not morally opposed to disrespect, consider that it tends to cascade through society, and end up manifesting as violence.
It's truly sad that many parents don't have enough respect for their offspring to at least consider allowing them to make their own decisions.
Although most of your facts are right on, you make the mistake of equating Europe and North America with the entire world. In other places, the temperature would rise. This, in turn, alters weather patterns and rainfall, and we have a huge climactic upheaval. The real problem with global warming is not the warming itself, but the changes the warming causes to the global climate system.
The thing pulls ~45W, going by the power specifications (probably padded) of 15V, 3A. Sure, you could rig this up as a wearable, but you'd have to truck around a backpack full of batteries to get any use out of it at all. I guess it's kinda cool that they made a computer that's small like this, but with that kind of power consumption, it's really not all that useful.
I left school at 16, and now, at 17, I'm working (programming) in a university research lab. I have to say that I have had a very good experience with the people here, and everyone treats me as an equal, even though I have slightly less computer experience than many of my coworkers, and much less scientific experience. The only problems I've run up against because of my age are the laws - which mean that I can't work with the x-ray diffraction units that we use, or with any hazardous chemicals.
I think if a young person knows his/her stuff, is professional, and works with intelligent, open minded people (A lot to ask, I know), then there will be few issues regarding age.
This is typical of game console manufacturers. I'm guessing that they weren't able to balance the cost of producing consoles with the revenue from licensing games. Which is too bad, because I'd hate to see Sony the megacorporation take over the console market again. Oh well.
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Speaking of old FPSes, does anyone remember Catacombs, which was the first FPS I ever played (and the earliest published that I recall) It was shareware, published by softdisk, and featured a mage killing monsters in (initially) a graveyard IIRC... Was this the first FPS to be published, or was there another?
Why didn't you order the part the way you wanted anyway?
It's much much worse than that. Versions 1, 2, and 3 were smaller than that. 2 ran on my dad's IBM XT with a 20 MB hard drive, and 3 ran on my old 486 with a 250 MB hard drive. This is going to make that curve quite a bit steeper.
It's a big problem that we in this culture try to "protect" children from anything other than the peachy clean ideal. This ends up hurting them in the long run, when they are abruptly brought into the real world.
Further, it shows a lack of respect for young people when we do not allow them to make more of their own decisions. If you are not morally opposed to disrespect, consider that it tends to cascade through society, and end up manifesting as violence.
It's truly sad that many parents don't have enough respect for their offspring to at least consider allowing them to make their own decisions.
Although most of your facts are right on, you make the mistake of equating Europe and North America with the entire world. In other places, the temperature would rise. This, in turn, alters weather patterns and rainfall, and we have a huge climactic upheaval. The real problem with global warming is not the warming itself, but the changes the warming causes to the global climate system.
The thing pulls ~45W, going by the power specifications (probably padded) of 15V, 3A. Sure, you could rig this up as a wearable, but you'd have to truck around a backpack full of batteries to get any use out of it at all. I guess it's kinda cool that they made a computer that's small like this, but with that kind of power consumption, it's really not all that useful.
I left school at 16, and now, at 17, I'm working (programming) in a university research lab. I have to say that I have had a very good experience with the people here, and everyone treats me as an equal, even though I have slightly less computer experience than many of my coworkers, and much less scientific experience. The only problems I've run up against because of my age are the laws - which mean that I can't work with the x-ray diffraction units that we use, or with any hazardous chemicals.
I think if a young person knows his/her stuff, is professional, and works with intelligent, open minded people (A lot to ask, I know), then there will be few issues regarding age.
This is typical of game console manufacturers. I'm guessing that they weren't able to balance the cost of producing consoles with the revenue from licensing games. Which is too bad, because I'd hate to see Sony the megacorporation take over the console market again. Oh well.
This brings a whole new maining to the term "notebook computer" *snicker*