right, and 640k ought to be enough for anyone. Some classes of applications do not stand to benefit from parallelism, but there are so many other types of programs that beg for it. Also, just because a system is typically under utilized doesn't mean that it shouldn't be able to perform when necessary.
I would guess that about 50% of the time, I'm running some CPU intensive computations that completely occupy at least a single core on my machine (usually neuroscience simulations). Please, don't assume that your "average user" needs are the end all for everyone...
it is a way of coping with the exceedingly slow speed of daily life. In my family (with a large number of siblings), my sister and I have obvious hyper-attention problems. Everything is much too intense. So I multitask to take the edge off of things. I can't hold a conversation without millions of thoughts running though my head. While it certainly is a problem, it isn't specifically a problem with me -- I think it's simply a mental divide.
Things just need to be fast and complex enough to be interesting. And multitasking systems shouldn't be piles of crap either, it certainly doesn't help to do more things crappily at once.
Yuppies might not need helmets, but I sure as hell do. Actually, even with a helmet I've managed to score a pretty serious concussion. The activity you are engaged in dictates the amount of protective gear you wear.
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right, and 640k ought to be enough for anyone. Some classes of applications do not stand to benefit from parallelism, but there are so many other types of programs that beg for it. Also, just because a system is typically under utilized doesn't mean that it shouldn't be able to perform when necessary.
I would guess that about 50% of the time, I'm running some CPU intensive computations that completely occupy at least a single core on my machine (usually neuroscience simulations). Please, don't assume that your "average user" needs are the end all for everyone...
it is a way of coping with the exceedingly slow speed of daily life. In my family (with a large number of siblings), my sister and I have obvious hyper-attention problems. Everything is much too intense. So I multitask to take the edge off of things. I can't hold a conversation without millions of thoughts running though my head. While it certainly is a problem, it isn't specifically a problem with me -- I think it's simply a mental divide. Things just need to be fast and complex enough to be interesting. And multitasking systems shouldn't be piles of crap either, it certainly doesn't help to do more things crappily at once.
Yuppies might not need helmets, but I sure as hell do. Actually, even with a helmet I've managed to score a pretty serious concussion. The activity you are engaged in dictates the amount of protective gear you wear.