I was in a program for 'smart kids' in middle school, and we had a couple 'top of the line' systems
#1 - A Zenith Data Systems 486DX2/50 with 6MB of RAM and VLB slots. When we weren't using this to run Turbo C++ programs, we were playing Doom! The entire Math class would be huddled around the 14" VGA monitor as one of us would battle the damned
#2 - We had a Quadra Macintosh. This computer was SUPPOSED to be used for internet access with Netscape. We had the Falcon flight simulator. Hi-res graphics at it's best. Kind of a boring game, it had a cult following in our science classes, but the graphics far outshined anything the 486 was capable of.
#3 - We had a Silicon Graphics Indy from the Earth Visions people. I personally didn't do much with it, but from when I seen it was a pretty powerful machine. 133mhz, built in Camera, etc etc
I've worked for small IT shops, and I would personally bail the first week I didn't get a check. (assuming I had another job, or at least something else to do)
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At least to some programmers....
Writing a living, breathing program would be the goal of many of us, not just AI programmers
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A NAS device and a hard drive are very different.
HD's are pretty cheap, lets jack the pricing up by building gig ethernet into them all!
First the space race
:)
Second the Cold War
Good thing they're all out of money
It's been explained before....Ethernet is for NETWORKS, Firewire is for drives, cameras, scanners....
The O2 I worked on at a CAD shop had a really sweet Dolphin screensaver....It was like I was at Sea World
Firewire is so cool, they should just use it for hard drives also.
Integrate the controller on the motherboard if you have to.
Back when the U Force controller for the Nintendo came out.
But then again, that didn't work very well either. Let's hope invisible devices have improved in the last 15 years!
Compaq LaserJet doesn't have a ring to it!
I know it's been said a thousand times...
CDR's are pennies each
A second, 100GB HD is about $120
Tape backups are slow but cheap
I know it can be a pain, buf if you have ANYTHING of importance, back it up!
On a side note, how much work/data/$$$ do you think are lost to data loss, from drives getting smoked to accidently deleting files?
I was in a program for 'smart kids' in middle school, and we had a couple 'top of the line' systems
#1 - A Zenith Data Systems 486DX2/50 with 6MB of RAM and VLB slots. When we weren't using this to run Turbo C++ programs, we were playing Doom! The entire Math class would be huddled around the 14" VGA monitor as one of us would battle the damned
#2 - We had a Quadra Macintosh. This computer was SUPPOSED to be used for internet access with Netscape. We had the Falcon flight simulator. Hi-res graphics at it's best. Kind of a boring game, it had a cult following in our science classes, but the graphics far outshined anything the 486 was capable of.
#3 - We had a Silicon Graphics Indy from the Earth Visions people. I personally didn't do much with it, but from when I seen it was a pretty powerful machine. 133mhz, built in Camera, etc etc
Those are great technological acheivments, but they nowhere near the Japs. It's like comparing a homebuilt PC to a G4 Mac
It's nice to see this kind of development, but does it bother anyone that it's all Sony/Mitsubishi?
We've got plenty of bright people in this country, but we don't make things like this.
We can't afford to fall behind in robot development.
It'll be suing someone for a change
I hate this litigous society
MP3
Porn
Digital Photos
Those three alone make a 40GB look small
Windows XP/Office XP take up a large fraction of disk space alone. Lets not get into games
In case you've been under a rock for the past 5 years...
HP kinda joined forces with INTEL to make their 64 bit CPU
Not flame bait, but a legitimate question. What would someone be using a $34,000 workstation for? Even a $9,000 one?
They can't possibly be selling THAT many of them.
Anyone here using them? What for? Is a PC really not that powerful?
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-860701.html
They don't have Intel Celeron chips, PCI slots, etc
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My watch has a really small 'motherboard' if you want to get into that kind of stuff
Trash the keyboard entirely.
Just use the voice recognition. Wave of the future!
The next Macintosh won't include a keyboard. Did you think it would end with the floppy drive?
I recommend the Phaser 860N
http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/pr
Free black ink for the life of the printer!
You can't beat that!
Very good point. But, wouldn't people take MS jobs as a civillian?
I can just see Linux torvalds and the OPEN SOURCE TELETHON!
Pledge $400 and recieve this great Linux Penguin Doll!
Pledge $1,000 and get this great boxed set of RedHat 7.2!
*sigh*
I've worked for small IT shops, and I would personally bail the first week I didn't get a check. (assuming I had another job, or at least something else to do)
At least to some programmers....
Writing a living, breathing program would be the goal of many of us, not just AI programmers
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