When Doom3 came out, I remember playing it on my brothers then-2yr old box...A P4 and a Geforce 4 TI series. Sure, the graphics weren't cranked, but it looks beautiful and scared me just the same.
I remember being amazed it looked so good and ran as well as it did on then aging hardware. Were the requirements really that high?
I had a serial-to-USB adapter that didn't have drivers in the kernel pre-.24, but they are in Hardy, so I upgraded during the beta. Also, the new kernel has b44 native drivers for my broadcom wireless..no more ndiswrapper for me!
So I was in a first year programming course, and one kid in the back hadn't shown up in about 2 weeks. Our professor asked if anyone knew what happened to him, and some idiot in the back shouts "Maybe he divided by zero!"
Maybe the missing kid knows the answer to your question?
The Ohio State University does this now on a smaller scale. It's new this year, but they've tested it a couple times and it's entertaining when everyone's phone goes off in a short period of time. It txt's and/or calls(you can choose) everyone who has signed up, emails everyone, and calls all dorm phones.
I'm in a small indie band as well. A few years ago we did a cd ourselves. Simple thin jewel cases, black printed labels on burned cds with a 2sided color insert. We figured they cost about $2.50 each including cds, labels, cases, and ink. Last year, we did another project(with diskmakers.com), 4-panel full color insert, reverse color inside, inside back color insert, 3-color cd, glass mastered, at a quantity of 1000, they came out to about $1.80 a disc. We can reorder for cheaper now because we can forget about the setup fee.
I live in a college dorm, and I've been helping people get away from Vista. I have a friend practically begged me to put linux on his box simply after witnessing compiz on mine. I didn't even touch his vista install, we wiped the 10GB dell media partition, and kubuntu was running in about 20 min. A few minutes of setting up his ndiswrapper drivers and compiz and he was set.
I agree. My father and my brother are heavily involved in FIRST robotics. Apparently, when it started, the competition was all autonomous. Now, they have been giving the team more and more direct control of the robot every . year
"But seriously, for the price of that $3000 laptop, you could have one hell of a mothership desktop, a NAS and a Eee, n810 or whatever you need for mobile/kitchen computing."
I'm first year at a university this year, and I should have thought about that more. I bought a laptop(a sub-$1k, but still nice) with the intention of it being my sole PC here. I find it rarely leaves my desk being 15"(Ok, it's not that huge, but it's a larger burden then I was expecting). I could have spent basically the same on a better desktop and eventually a EeePC, etc.
"They worked on the premise that hardware would progress faster than it did, but people have hit the point of "good enough." More and more I don't see people upgrading their PC's."
I've been thinking about that too. I have a ~3 year old P4 I do audio production work on. I bought it basically barebones for half the price then of what my new C2D notebook costs now. They are both quick machines, and I don't really notice any speed differences between them. In fact, you may find the desktop faster because of the faster HD(I should have opted for the 7,200RPM drive in the notebook). The average home/office user is not going to notice(or care about) the difference between a new C2D and a few year old machine.
PC's keep getting faster, but it's not necessary for most users.
I have a Dell Vostro 15" C2D with a Geforce 8600M. It's a pretty beastly machine and I use it on my lap all the time. There's a little vent on the side which spews fairly hot air when the card is cranking(games), but even then it's not getting to my lap. I also get over 3hours on the standard battery.
I have a friend with a tiger direct special athlon machine, it seems nice, but I can barely touch the keyboard, it's so damn hot! I definitly wouldn't use that on my crotch.
I think many people with some basic computer knowledge associate unix-like systems with a CLI and they consider that archaic. I'm a college student using kubuntu as much as I can, and lots of people in the dorms get wide eyed at compiz. When my roommate first saw it he asked me what it was and I told him it was linux. His response was "That's a really old system".
I "wobbled my windows" and "rotated my cube" and replied "Yeah, it's real ancient"..
Last year I was in the decidedly odd position of having to teach third year CS students (who had primarily used Java), what pointers were, how memory allocation worked, and how to use C.
I'm a freshman at the Ohio State University and I just started my 2nd quarter. My 2nd quarter general engineering course is basic C/C++. It's all C for 70% of the quarter and then they will dive into classes. The very first day of class my prof walked in and wrote on the board "Pointers contain a memory address to another variable" or something much clearer. He told everyone to drill it into their heads, even though the majority didn't know the first thing about computer science.
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When Doom3 came out, I remember playing it on my brothers then-2yr old box...A P4 and a Geforce 4 TI series. Sure, the graphics weren't cranked, but it looks beautiful and scared me just the same. I remember being amazed it looked so good and ran as well as it did on then aging hardware. Were the requirements really that high?
I had a serial-to-USB adapter that didn't have drivers in the kernel pre-.24, but they are in Hardy, so I upgraded during the beta. Also, the new kernel has b44 native drivers for my broadcom wireless..no more ndiswrapper for me!
Did you make up those statistics?
The site for the Open Source Club at my uni(yes, it exists) asks a simple math question when signing up.
So I was in a first year programming course, and one kid in the back hadn't shown up in about 2 weeks. Our professor asked if anyone knew what happened to him, and some idiot in the back shouts "Maybe he divided by zero!" Maybe the missing kid knows the answer to your question?
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The Ohio State University does this now on a smaller scale. It's new this year, but they've tested it a couple times and it's entertaining when everyone's phone goes off in a short period of time. It txt's and/or calls(you can choose) everyone who has signed up, emails everyone, and calls all dorm phones.
Who the hell modded this insightful?
Nothing relieves stress better then 30 minutes of Counterstrick in my experience.
I'm in a small indie band as well. A few years ago we did a cd ourselves. Simple thin jewel cases, black printed labels on burned cds with a 2sided color insert. We figured they cost about $2.50 each including cds, labels, cases, and ink. Last year, we did another project(with diskmakers.com), 4-panel full color insert, reverse color inside, inside back color insert, 3-color cd, glass mastered, at a quantity of 1000, they came out to about $1.80 a disc. We can reorder for cheaper now because we can forget about the setup fee.
I live in a college dorm, and I've been helping people get away from Vista. I have a friend practically begged me to put linux on his box simply after witnessing compiz on mine. I didn't even touch his vista install, we wiped the 10GB dell media partition, and kubuntu was running in about 20 min. A few minutes of setting up his ndiswrapper drivers and compiz and he was set.
I agree. My father and my brother are heavily involved in FIRST robotics. Apparently, when it started, the competition was all autonomous. Now, they have been giving the team more and more direct control of the robot every . year
I think the better question is, why did you bring that thing on the plane? Do you whittle away the hours checking your integrals on the TI-89?
/.. You probably do...
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"But seriously, for the price of that $3000 laptop, you could have one hell of a mothership desktop, a NAS and a Eee, n810 or whatever you need for mobile/kitchen computing."
I'm first year at a university this year, and I should have thought about that more. I bought a laptop(a sub-$1k, but still nice) with the intention of it being my sole PC here. I find it rarely leaves my desk being 15"(Ok, it's not that huge, but it's a larger burden then I was expecting). I could have spent basically the same on a better desktop and eventually a EeePC, etc.
"They worked on the premise that hardware would progress faster than it did, but people have hit the point of "good enough." More and more I don't see people upgrading their PC's."
I've been thinking about that too. I have a ~3 year old P4 I do audio production work on. I bought it basically barebones for half the price then of what my new C2D notebook costs now. They are both quick machines, and I don't really notice any speed differences between them. In fact, you may find the desktop faster because of the faster HD(I should have opted for the 7,200RPM drive in the notebook). The average home/office user is not going to notice(or care about) the difference between a new C2D and a few year old machine.
PC's keep getting faster, but it's not necessary for most users.
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If parents want to subscribe to a filtering solution, go right ahead, but the goverment doesn't have to spend my money to do it.
I have a Dell Vostro 15" C2D with a Geforce 8600M. It's a pretty beastly machine and I use it on my lap all the time. There's a little vent on the side which spews fairly hot air when the card is cranking(games), but even then it's not getting to my lap. I also get over 3hours on the standard battery.
I have a friend with a tiger direct special athlon machine, it seems nice, but I can barely touch the keyboard, it's so damn hot! I definitly wouldn't use that on my crotch.
I think many people with some basic computer knowledge associate unix-like systems with a CLI and they consider that archaic. I'm a college student using kubuntu as much as I can, and lots of people in the dorms get wide eyed at compiz. When my roommate first saw it he asked me what it was and I told him it was linux. His response was "That's a really old system".
I "wobbled my windows" and "rotated my cube" and replied "Yeah, it's real ancient"..
I'm a freshman at the Ohio State University and I just started my 2nd quarter. My 2nd quarter general engineering course is basic C/C++. It's all C for 70% of the quarter and then they will dive into classes. The very first day of class my prof walked in and wrote on the board "Pointers contain a memory address to another variable" or something much clearer. He told everyone to drill it into their heads, even though the majority didn't know the first thing about computer science.
Wow! You must know my mother.
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