It's not your computer, it's the companies, and giving everyone on the internal side of the firewall the ability to install whatever they want is a quick road to chaos in any large intranet.
my degree in PC programming/Web Development with a certificate in Web Design
You will be a code monkey. You might very well get a paycheck just like that CS grad gets. Try comparing paychecks/careers ten years later. You will still be working on the glory that is web programming, while the CS grad will be doing something much more stimulating.
I don't know exactly when C++ was invented, or how they decided to name addresses. I do know how to write a compiler, evaluate the efficiancy of an algorithim, write code that can use a 500 CPU cluster (doing something useful), etc.
I also know I'll never have to look at a line of HTML again. I'm not trying to be arrogant. I've known many smart folks with IT degrees, or no post-sec education at all. But calling someone an idiot because they took a degree, while you get your certificate in Web Design, doesn't make you look too smart.
Your sig reads (to me) like you are a (younger) CS student. Assuming you are, here's what you're missing; in the real world, we need to max out those cores doing something productive, or we get in trouble. Very few users have apps that can use even more than one core usefully.
A lot of the positive feeling I have for the game is about its vision, not its execution. I like shooting people in the face as much as the next guy, but I'm exited that gamers are getting exited for something a bit more ambitious.
And if it's the Spore I'm dreaming about, it'll be like Civ I all over again...
Regarding your first point; I'm more than a power user. I can actually figure out what those funny numbers mean. But, I never, ever, do. Who the hell does?
Only the one, the WRT54GL. It's simply version 4 (the're now on 5) of the router. It sells for about a $10 premium, and is well worth it, with the functionality of openWRT.
I'm a subscriber, and a strong atheist. I tend to skip the religion article. The rest of the paper is, IMHO, some of the best reporting out there. Don't let the name fool you.
Uhhhh, but it's not a joke. Area 51 is a real place, serviced by daily flights for employees out of Las Vegas from a private terminal at the airport. Hundreds of people (aerospace types, of course) work there. There can't be too many places in the world with those features.
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That would be a "times table".
It's not your computer, it's the companies, and giving everyone on the internal side of the firewall the ability to install whatever they want is a quick road to chaos in any large intranet.
You will be a code monkey. You might very well get a paycheck just like that CS grad gets. Try comparing paychecks/careers ten years later. You will still be working on the glory that is web programming, while the CS grad will be doing something much more stimulating.
I don't know exactly when C++ was invented, or how they decided to name addresses. I do know how to write a compiler, evaluate the efficiancy of an algorithim, write code that can use a 500 CPU cluster (doing something useful), etc.
I also know I'll never have to look at a line of HTML again. I'm not trying to be arrogant. I've known many smart folks with IT degrees, or no post-sec education at all. But calling someone an idiot because they took a degree, while you get your certificate in Web Design, doesn't make you look too smart.
Your sig reads (to me) like you are a (younger) CS student. Assuming you are, here's what you're missing; in the real world, we need to max out those cores doing something productive, or we get in trouble. Very few users have apps that can use even more than one core usefully.
Mot at all. The quad cores are not on the market yet, but when they come out, you'll be able to drop them in your box. I'm jealous.
And if it's the Spore I'm dreaming about, it'll be like Civ I all over again...
Googles desision to 'port' Picassa to Linux by contributing to wine was a nice boon for wine.
No, that's only a (Score:-6, Stupid). A -10 would be hitting the reset, then realizing it was a screensaver.
Regarding your first point; I'm more than a power user. I can actually figure out what those funny numbers mean. But, I never, ever, do. Who the hell does?
Seriously, I don't think too many of the folks drooling over dtrace are waiting for the GUI.
The next big thing? Virtualization. Just like IBM has been doing for 30 years.
So good, in fact, that the anouncment that it will be in the next release of OS X has gotten Apple a new customer.
"and understand those "$50 USD books" (which is doubtful, given your post)"
Only the one, the WRT54GL. It's simply version 4 (the're now on 5) of the router. It sells for about a $10 premium, and is well worth it, with the functionality of openWRT.
I made you my friend. Come over for a beer sometime.
It doesn't have a cowcatcher, airbag, or bumpers. either. What the hell are they thinking!?
I'm a subscriber, and a strong atheist. I tend to skip the religion article. The rest of the paper is, IMHO, some of the best reporting out there. Don't let the name fool you.
Uhhhh, but it's not a joke. Area 51 is a real place, serviced by daily flights for employees out of Las Vegas from a private terminal at the airport. Hundreds of people (aerospace types, of course) work there. There can't be too many places in the world with those features.
This is not the reality of business, this is cybersquatting. Please don't give them a dime for their scam.
The Cell in the PS3 has 7 SPEs. The Cell as used in other places will likely have the full 8 available.
Maybe true on our computers, but not on supercomputers.
I'll second the opinion given above that this person is talking about Area 51.
IMHO, logic is math, not philosophy. Arguing the nature of reality, mind and humanity is all good, but doesn't have a thing to do with CS.
I, also, would like to know just what model of laptop you had, and what OS.
Huh. I guess I agree with you, when put that way...I was reacting against the seemingly simplistic aproach to the question in your OP.