Try to use a Playstation 2 emulator on a fast PC (hint: most quad-core processors can't do it smoothly). The performance penalty for emulation is bigger than you think, especially when you have to emulate both a processor and a GPU.
On top of the raw horsepower problem, the 7-vector-core Cell processor is ill-suited to the task of emulating the single-threaded PS2 processor.
I think I have hit a thousand (repair bench work). Right now I've taken a Seagate hiatus because I had the same drive take me down a 5-incident RMA chain. I'll try again when 7200.13 rolls out.
Hard drives fail. Consumers tend to take the hilarious path of refusing to use again any hard drive brand that ever fails on them.
For what it's worth, I've had to replace drives made by WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Samsung, JVC, JTS, Quantum, Conner, Miniscribe, IBM, IMS, CDC, Imprimis, ExcelStor, Fujitsu, Micropolis, and I swear to god one Plus Hardcard.
50 cents to call someone and tell them something to sort out a misunderstanding is what I file under "marginal cost of being a functional member of civilization", along with those pennies you drop into the cup at the gas station checkout counter.
In technical support, I've talked to, oh, dozens of geezers who talk about how they programmed COBOL in the 80s. They're addled, harebrained Packard-Bell daredevils, to a one.
Saying you're agnostic is like painting a big target on your back for evangelists and zealots of all kinds. My recommendation: say you're an atheist, just so everyone will shut the christ up.
We already know that causes can be completely obscured by a simple singularity. Just because the cause is impossible to discern doesn't mean it's not there.
Assuming there was a god, if you don't believe in the right god, and the 'right' god is a vengeful god, you'll have wasted your life and you'll go to hell anyways.
The bad news is, the universe is not guaranteed to be fair. We could all be going to some strange meaty hell or something.
It's a light covering over most people's greatest desire - as that damned snake said, "Ye shall be as gods". For most people, the most important aspect of that is immortality.
That's the big half of it. The hidden half is, when you have a personal code that didn't come out of a book, it tends to mature (and sometimes change drastically) with time and experience. You don't often see a person of (blind) faith have a crisis of conscience.
Slashdot Mirror
Try to use a Playstation 2 emulator on a fast PC (hint: most quad-core processors can't do it smoothly). The performance penalty for emulation is bigger than you think, especially when you have to emulate both a processor and a GPU.
On top of the raw horsepower problem, the 7-vector-core Cell processor is ill-suited to the task of emulating the single-threaded PS2 processor.
Just replyin' to the parent...
I think I have hit a thousand (repair bench work). Right now I've taken a Seagate hiatus because I had the same drive take me down a 5-incident RMA chain. I'll try again when 7200.13 rolls out.
Having tried to solve this problem myself (I have an SDTV, so I used TVersity + XBox360), I'll tell ya that it's a damned jungle out there.
Hard drives fail. Consumers tend to take the hilarious path of refusing to use again any hard drive brand that ever fails on them.
For what it's worth, I've had to replace drives made by WD, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Samsung, JVC, JTS, Quantum, Conner, Miniscribe, IBM, IMS, CDC, Imprimis, ExcelStor, Fujitsu, Micropolis, and I swear to god one Plus Hardcard.
But more Seagate than anything else.
Minor note: The free version of Tversity has the oddly-specific cripplement of not working with iOS devices.
-1 responded with sarcasm instead of addressing what I said
50 cents to call someone and tell them something to sort out a misunderstanding is what I file under "marginal cost of being a functional member of civilization", along with those pennies you drop into the cup at the gas station checkout counter.
No, you've got it wrong. It's "Did Sarah Jones beat her children and smoke crack in front of them while doing it in 1991?"
IBM mainframes are leased.
But it is that much faster.
In technical support, I've talked to, oh, dozens of geezers who talk about how they programmed COBOL in the 80s. They're addled, harebrained Packard-Bell daredevils, to a one.
Consider a spherical Jesus...
One theory I've heard: Time and space are toroidal. It's not turtles all the way down, it's turtles in a big, horrible loop.
I'm pretty sure most singularities contain... matter. But I could be wrong.
You've forgotten a possible expansion-collapse cycle.
Saying you're agnostic is like painting a big target on your back for evangelists and zealots of all kinds. My recommendation: say you're an atheist, just so everyone will shut the christ up.
We can't even elect the government of our choice. Good luck making useful and correct decisions about God.
That's the "God is just another law of physics" concept. It's without evidence as far as I know.
We already know that causes can be completely obscured by a simple singularity. Just because the cause is impossible to discern doesn't mean it's not there.
Why not? Maybe there's an almighty god out there, who has no idea where she came from.
Assuming there was a god, if you don't believe in the right god, and the 'right' god is a vengeful god, you'll have wasted your life and you'll go to hell anyways.
The bad news is, the universe is not guaranteed to be fair. We could all be going to some strange meaty hell or something.
It's a light covering over most people's greatest desire - as that damned snake said, "Ye shall be as gods". For most people, the most important aspect of that is immortality.
That's the big half of it. The hidden half is, when you have a personal code that didn't come out of a book, it tends to mature (and sometimes change drastically) with time and experience. You don't often see a person of (blind) faith have a crisis of conscience.
They Will Be Eaten First.