Water gets thinner and less viscus as it heats up, and it also has the highest heat capacity of any liquid at normal temperatures and pressures.
However at 50 micron of flow, it would be quite thick dimensionally and require some pressure to pump through. They must use a self contained water system because any blocked passages would certainly cause overheating, and put the chip in danger. But that's hardly an engineering problem that couldn't be figured out and prevented.
If you read the link, air is ~1000 less efficient at removing heat than water. Which is the whole point of the water cooling in the DIY computer market.
Start out with the simple PCV, Hairspray, BBQ ignition. Engineer smaller, bigger, longer, shorter versions. Try new fuels like propane or lighter fluid, and learn about air/fuel ratios.
Or go the compressed air route. PVC seals well, but you can move to metal pipes and soldier them together. Use mechanical valves opened by hand, or electronic actuators (lawn sprinkler valves work good).
Try different materials as the projectile. Potatoes, apples, eggs (usually hard boiled, but raw are fun if you do it right), or melt down plastic pop bottles in a toaster over and mold your own slugs (use it outside, because you'll eventually need to learn what temp is too hot and burns the plastic at.)
The best potato gun launch I've see was conducted by my old HS chemistry teacher. We wrapped a chunk of sodium in aluminum foil, loaded it into hollowed out potato, and launched it into the swamp behind the high school. Sodium + Pond = cool. It was his last year teaching there, so with retirement 2 weeks away he let us get away with a lot of cool stuff.
How much extra are you gonna get paid with an MIT degree compared to someone from their state college?
I too have been to the MIT campus, crashed at a frat house there, and on St Patties Day no less. It's an impressive campus and amazing city. I'd loved to have gone to MIT for my undergrad degree. But my bachelors from MTU (middle of nowhere if you don't know) is something I'm proud of even if it cost MUCH less than half an MIT degree. And now that mommy and daddy aren't paying for my life any more, I'm quite happy with my miniscule amount of student loans.
And when I continue my career with new prospective employers, I certainly don't worry about competing with a guy who has an MIT degree. They learned from the same textbooks as I did, and I thought my teachers were all as good as anything I'd expect at any other great college. They had to work for their grades just as hard as I did.
I've had conversations about this topic with executive types responsible for hiring. Resumes are just there to get you the interview. Once you arrive and talk to the company, what college you came from doesn't matter so much as you being able to show them you have the skills needed for the job and the personality of someone they want to work with. Skill, experience, personality.
I certainly hope no one believes that having an Ivy degree means the world owes them something when they graduate. I especially hope they don't think that investing in MIT will get you paid any more than graduating from another college. You're paying for an image. A label.
MIT is outrageously expensive, but will have no effect in determining to an employer that your a better candidate than someone at any other 4-year accredited university. But you don't want to be just a guy with a degree. You want to be a guy with an MIT degree.
I'm not sure what CS guys get at MIT that they won't be eligible to find at any other college. But if you work your ass of at any other college, with the grades and extras to prove it, I don't see how it matters.
Unless of course you just want to get the "MIT" label for the brand name.
Despite how interesting mars is with the possibility (and now confirmation of) water in Mars' ancient past, the planet seems to continue to show that it's just too sterile a place, and that if there is any life it's retreated to the last reservoir of water still there. Underground and hidden.
Now we learned a ton in sending probes and satellites to the red planet. In a decade it's changed from a pale red dot with the monolithic red face to a well mapped and explored surface. But no life, and only forensic proof that liquid water was once there.
I've had my eye over on what the Cassini mission has gotten with pics of Titan and Enceladus. Enceladus is a giant glacier, while Titan has lakes filled with liquid organics. Titan is obviously the next spot to look, since all the organic chemicals seem to me there is excess. And a probe to swim under the ice sheet of Enceladus after that would be cool. Europa seems similar to Enceladus, so maybe Europa too.
The point being, we've only tested for life on our moon and on Mars. Our moon never had a hope of life, so Mars is the only real place of possibility so far. So by any real count, we've only looked hard for life at on other place. It's stupid to claim completion after looking at one other place.
Lets say we treat voting with the same care and encryption as a credit card account.
Your SS number is like the credit card number. You add in some confirmation information like your birth date and voting registration address.
You make a transaction that says you voted for Candidates X, Y, and Z. You then print out a receipt that shows you who you paid for, with a confirmation number. Each voting precinct is treated as a store, and required to keep a printed record of all transaction that happened that day, on top of the normal electronic backup.
And you can even set up an encrypted website that lets you check your account. You log in with you SS number and other info, and check to ensure that the candidates you voted for are right there to match the transaction you have on your receipt.
I'm saying that if we hired Visa, Mastercard, and Am Ex to make voting work the same as going to the grocery store, it would not only work but be secure, traceable, and accountable. If we treated credit card fraud the same as we treated voting fraud, then who knows... we might start getting the candidates we vote for.
In no particular order:
F.E.A.R. - As soon as you hit a paranormal flash, it's "oh crap, what's behind me"
Half-Life - Friggin head crabs!
Half-Life 2 - Ravenholm!
System Shock 2 - Highest "creepy" factor of any game I've ever played. Totally immersive for the technology of the time.
Doom 3 - Fear those dark places, because you know it's a trap. ...
As long as you got a descent computer to handle the game, which includes a solid speaker setup, video games can be 10x as immersive as a horror movie in the theater. That 1st person feel, and knowing you directly control the character in is like being inside the chaos. I've broken mice and knocked my keyboard off the desk from playing games too excitedly.
Watching movies rarely makes me yell out obsenities and jump in my seat. But maybe it's because I'm not black.
I'm pretty sure that I learned from thermo class that water is technically a "supercritical fluid" at those conditions. A solid implies a defined structure due to intermolecular bonding of nearby molecules. At those temperatures and pressures, water would just be a super-viscous fluid. Even magma rock stays liquid despite being thousands of miles underground.
So... will the star trek tricorder be apple or java based? My vote is towards java. I just hope they don't stick in DRM or locked out "subscription only" features.
Everyone has a sixth sense about making split second decisions. Professional soldiers who've been in combat situations over their life gain subcontious instincts that let them spot things that "don't seem right." But this is experience one gains over time from encountering lots of examples.
This technology would merely make your subcontious more contious. But it doesn't tell you anything that you don't already know. Green recruits dropped into combat with this technology wouldn't get any use out of it, since they don't have the experience to understand what to look for. And all it would do to senior soldiers is confirm their already itching suspicions.
It's an interesting idea, especially for scientific purposes of visualizing what goes through a soldier's mind during combat. You get the possibility of mapping the subcontious in a visual way. But I have a strong feeling this tech will never make it on a practical side.
I've never cared about the story line of a game too much, as long as it's fun to play.
Mario, space invaders, sonic... They all had incredibly ridiculous story lines (if you even want to call them storie lines). The early days of gaming didn't care a whole lot about writing a dramatic plaot line, when all that mattered was smashing buttons. It's only recently that games like Metroid or Sonic started developing complicated plot lines within the games
Guitar Hero has no story line, but that's a kickass fun game to play. What about DDR? What about pinball or billiards?
Aside from that... I happen to like playing WoW because it looks great, I love doing instances with my guild, and the combat system is easy to use. If anyone finds those elements in any MMORPG, then people will play it and stick around. The story line is seriously the last thing people care about in a game. Top of the list: "is it fun to play?"
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Kids picked on him in middle school. No one stood up for him.
Kids picked on him in high school. No one stood up for him.
Kids picked on him in college. He bought guns, and killing people.
The only time he every really stood up for himself was when he turned violent. And at that point it was too late. I think it's the culture of indifference that caused this to grow inside an emotionally unstable loner. It has nothing to do with the music he listened to, games he played, or lack of prayer in schools. Society did nothing more than try to ignore him, while he finally refused to be ignored. And in a tragic and unforgivable way, we all stood up to finally pay attention to what he had to say.
If legislature ever develops a tax on MMOs, You run into a huge problem with the End User Liscence Agreement. WoW is the main one to look at, just cuz it's so popular.
All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Game and all copies thereof (including without limitation any titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, musical compositions and recordings, audio-visual effects, storylines, character likenesses, methods of operation, moral rights, and any related documentation) are owned or licensed by Blizzard.
So lets say that someone is making 6 figures a year off WoW property. There are people with server closets full of bots that farm, and they do have websites where they (illegally) sell gold and items to people for cash. These people should be taxed. Yet they'd never put it on their taxable income because their activities are technically black market and illegal. They're selling property of Blizzard to other people, when they don't have the rights to do so.
I'm waiting for the day Blizzard files suit against gold farmers. I honestly think there's more money in WoW than RIAA suits.
Doesn't the US have something equivalent to the British Trades Description Act. If they tried selling 'unlimited' internet access with a limit in the UK it would be, de facto, illegal, whatever the small print.
Yes, we do. It's called "Truth in Advertising," and it's part of the Federal Trade Commission's job to enforce that business don't lie about their services. We also have the Better Business Buerue as a watch group to identify unfair and unethical business practices.
Anyone who's had their service dropped by verizon for the 5GB limit, and isn't hosting a pirating service, should be suing verizon under truth in advertising. When you use the word "Unlimited" in big bold letters on the cover of the plan, you can't lie about it in the fine print.
Sounds to me like they want something out of the Terminator 2 movie. I'm not exactly sure what they want with a robotic slug though. The design request seems pretty weird to me.
The only people that seem to be excited about the DMCA are the lawyers going to town on YouTube.
It gives them an excuse to spend pointless hours watching viral videos of some guy getting hit in the face with a blunt object. "It's research, I tell ya. Research!"
Evolution is directionless. It doesn't see "an oportunity". All you can say is that it might happen. True. However, if you give "might" enough time and opportunity, it eventually will happen. Lab studies on bacterial mutations have shown that when a particular pressure causes a need to adapt or die out, not only will adaption happen but but the random mutations tend to stumble on a similar (or damn near same) genetic mutation that solves the problem with the least amount of change. The simple genetic modification done to the mosquitoes that causes them to be resistant will probably have a simple mutation in the parasite to let it dwell in the insect.
I think it's stupid to believe malaria won't evolve and adapt. By placing an increased pressure to adapt on the organism, there WILL be an evolutionary response. The studies I've seen on evolutionary change to environmental pressures all show that life will find a way to adapt and survive. Not because it's directed to move in any direction but because in the battle for life an death there's always those stubborn few who get inventive and choose life.
Species go extinct because of the following reasons:
-You destroy their ecosystem. We aren't destroying their ecosystem. We're only making another species of mosquito that they can't live in... yet
-You destroy their food source. There's still normal mosquitoes for them to grow up in, and there's still people for them to mature and spread from.
-You kill them off faster than they reproduce With mosquitoes? Not goona happen!
There's a reason your doctor tells you to take the full bottle of antibiotics, even after you start to feel better. Because if you stop have way and don't kill it off entirely, the infection comes back and is twice as hard to kill because it's become resistant to the stuff you took before. Trying to fix malaria with super mosquitoes may solve a short term problem, but the invection will adapt and come back twice as strong.
Unless you still live in a red state that denies evolution happens, you will have to come to grasp about the fact that the malaria will adapt to the new super mosquitoes.
Not only will scientists have produced a more robust mosquito that multiplies faster, but we'll also find new strains of malaria living in them and passing on. This isn't a maybe, it's going to happen. When you leave an opportunity open for malaria to find a better host for transmission, you better bet it will evolve to fill that niche.
I don't see Blizzard or Steam complaining about lack of sales due to piracy. The 3.5 million who bought the WoW: BC expansion seemed more than happy to fork over $40 on top of the $15/month fee to play something they enjoy. And the HL series from steam are still my favorite FPS games on my shelf. I actually spent another $200 for a new video card to throw saw blades and headcrab zombies.
Perhaps people aren't buying id software because they've been siting on their thumbs.
If I was reading the picture on the second page correctly, it looks like AMD plans to use a "4x4" type motherboard architecture, but with the second CPU spot made for a dedicated GPU chip instead of another redundant CPU. The CPU and GPU wouldn't be on the same die in this case.
I think this would make sense to me. Right now when I upgrade my video card, I throw out the ram, GPU, and integrated circuitry of the entire package to replace everything with the new video card upgrade (which happens every 6 months for me). What if I could buy the GPU and DDR3 separately and not throw out everything each upgrade? Not only would the infrastructure be faster, but the upgrades could be cheaper since you don't need to buy the whole package every time.
This obviously only matters to the enthusiast trying to keep on the edge of Moore's Law. I like the idea, but we'll see how things turn out in reality of 2010.
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Water gets thinner and less viscus as it heats up, and it also has the highest heat capacity of any liquid at normal temperatures and pressures.
However at 50 micron of flow, it would be quite thick dimensionally and require some pressure to pump through. They must use a self contained water system because any blocked passages would certainly cause overheating, and put the chip in danger. But that's hardly an engineering problem that couldn't be figured out and prevented.
If you read the link, air is ~1000 less efficient at removing heat than water. Which is the whole point of the water cooling in the DIY computer market.
Would this 3-D microchip look anything like the one taken out of a T800?
Start out with the simple PCV, Hairspray, BBQ ignition. Engineer smaller, bigger, longer, shorter versions. Try new fuels like propane or lighter fluid, and learn about air/fuel ratios.
Or go the compressed air route. PVC seals well, but you can move to metal pipes and soldier them together. Use mechanical valves opened by hand, or electronic actuators (lawn sprinkler valves work good).
Try different materials as the projectile. Potatoes, apples, eggs (usually hard boiled, but raw are fun if you do it right), or melt down plastic pop bottles in a toaster over and mold your own slugs (use it outside, because you'll eventually need to learn what temp is too hot and burns the plastic at.)
The best potato gun launch I've see was conducted by my old HS chemistry teacher. We wrapped a chunk of sodium in aluminum foil, loaded it into hollowed out potato, and launched it into the swamp behind the high school. Sodium + Pond = cool. It was his last year teaching there, so with retirement 2 weeks away he let us get away with a lot of cool stuff.
How much extra are you gonna get paid with an MIT degree compared to someone from their state college?
I too have been to the MIT campus, crashed at a frat house there, and on St Patties Day no less. It's an impressive campus and amazing city. I'd loved to have gone to MIT for my undergrad degree. But my bachelors from MTU (middle of nowhere if you don't know) is something I'm proud of even if it cost MUCH less than half an MIT degree. And now that mommy and daddy aren't paying for my life any more, I'm quite happy with my miniscule amount of student loans.
And when I continue my career with new prospective employers, I certainly don't worry about competing with a guy who has an MIT degree. They learned from the same textbooks as I did, and I thought my teachers were all as good as anything I'd expect at any other great college. They had to work for their grades just as hard as I did.
I've had conversations about this topic with executive types responsible for hiring. Resumes are just there to get you the interview. Once you arrive and talk to the company, what college you came from doesn't matter so much as you being able to show them you have the skills needed for the job and the personality of someone they want to work with. Skill, experience, personality.
I certainly hope no one believes that having an Ivy degree means the world owes them something when they graduate. I especially hope they don't think that investing in MIT will get you paid any more than graduating from another college. You're paying for an image. A label.
MIT is outrageously expensive, but will have no effect in determining to an employer that your a better candidate than someone at any other 4-year accredited university. But you don't want to be just a guy with a degree. You want to be a guy with an MIT degree.
I'm not sure what CS guys get at MIT that they won't be eligible to find at any other college. But if you work your ass of at any other college, with the grades and extras to prove it, I don't see how it matters.
Unless of course you just want to get the "MIT" label for the brand name.
Despite how interesting mars is with the possibility (and now confirmation of) water in Mars' ancient past, the planet seems to continue to show that it's just too sterile a place, and that if there is any life it's retreated to the last reservoir of water still there. Underground and hidden.
Now we learned a ton in sending probes and satellites to the red planet. In a decade it's changed from a pale red dot with the monolithic red face to a well mapped and explored surface. But no life, and only forensic proof that liquid water was once there.
I've had my eye over on what the Cassini mission has gotten with pics of Titan and Enceladus. Enceladus is a giant glacier, while Titan has lakes filled with liquid organics. Titan is obviously the next spot to look, since all the organic chemicals seem to me there is excess. And a probe to swim under the ice sheet of Enceladus after that would be cool. Europa seems similar to Enceladus, so maybe Europa too.
The point being, we've only tested for life on our moon and on Mars. Our moon never had a hope of life, so Mars is the only real place of possibility so far. So by any real count, we've only looked hard for life at on other place. It's stupid to claim completion after looking at one other place.
Lets say we treat voting with the same care and encryption as a credit card account.
Your SS number is like the credit card number. You add in some confirmation information like your birth date and voting registration address.
You make a transaction that says you voted for Candidates X, Y, and Z. You then print out a receipt that shows you who you paid for, with a confirmation number. Each voting precinct is treated as a store, and required to keep a printed record of all transaction that happened that day, on top of the normal electronic backup.
And you can even set up an encrypted website that lets you check your account. You log in with you SS number and other info, and check to ensure that the candidates you voted for are right there to match the transaction you have on your receipt.
I'm saying that if we hired Visa, Mastercard, and Am Ex to make voting work the same as going to the grocery store, it would not only work but be secure, traceable, and accountable. If we treated credit card fraud the same as we treated voting fraud, then who knows... we might start getting the candidates we vote for.
In no particular order:
...
F.E.A.R. - As soon as you hit a paranormal flash, it's "oh crap, what's behind me"
Half-Life - Friggin head crabs!
Half-Life 2 - Ravenholm!
System Shock 2 - Highest "creepy" factor of any game I've ever played. Totally immersive for the technology of the time.
Doom 3 - Fear those dark places, because you know it's a trap.
As long as you got a descent computer to handle the game, which includes a solid speaker setup, video games can be 10x as immersive as a horror movie in the theater. That 1st person feel, and knowing you directly control the character in is like being inside the chaos. I've broken mice and knocked my keyboard off the desk from playing games too excitedly.
Watching movies rarely makes me yell out obsenities and jump in my seat. But maybe it's because I'm not black.
Aside from the Cat's Cradle poke...
I'm pretty sure that I learned from thermo class that water is technically a "supercritical fluid" at those conditions. A solid implies a defined structure due to intermolecular bonding of nearby molecules. At those temperatures and pressures, water would just be a super-viscous fluid. Even magma rock stays liquid despite being thousands of miles underground.
So... will the star trek tricorder be apple or java based? My vote is towards java. I just hope they don't stick in DRM or locked out "subscription only" features.
Actually, I read the book. Didn't know there was a Colbert spot about it.
Cool Graph. Too bad Bush would merely have his staff re-title the graph so it says "Threat of Terrorism against the US." Look how low it is today!
Everyone has a sixth sense about making split second decisions. Professional soldiers who've been in combat situations over their life gain subcontious instincts that let them spot things that "don't seem right." But this is experience one gains over time from encountering lots of examples.
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This technology would merely make your subcontious more contious. But it doesn't tell you anything that you don't already know. Green recruits dropped into combat with this technology wouldn't get any use out of it, since they don't have the experience to understand what to look for. And all it would do to senior soldiers is confirm their already itching suspicions.
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It's an interesting idea, especially for scientific purposes of visualizing what goes through a soldier's mind during combat. You get the possibility of mapping the subcontious in a visual way. But I have a strong feeling this tech will never make it on a practical side.
I've never cared about the story line of a game too much, as long as it's fun to play.
Mario, space invaders, sonic... They all had incredibly ridiculous story lines (if you even want to call them storie lines). The early days of gaming didn't care a whole lot about writing a dramatic plaot line, when all that mattered was smashing buttons. It's only recently that games like Metroid or Sonic started developing complicated plot lines within the games
Guitar Hero has no story line, but that's a kickass fun game to play. What about DDR? What about pinball or billiards?
Aside from that... I happen to like playing WoW because it looks great, I love doing instances with my guild, and the combat system is easy to use. If anyone finds those elements in any MMORPG, then people will play it and stick around. The story line is seriously the last thing people care about in a game. Top of the list: "is it fun to play?"
Kids picked on him in high school. No one stood up for him.
Kids picked on him in college. He bought guns, and killing people.
The only time he every really stood up for himself was when he turned violent. And at that point it was too late. I think it's the culture of indifference that caused this to grow inside an emotionally unstable loner. It has nothing to do with the music he listened to, games he played, or lack of prayer in schools. Society did nothing more than try to ignore him, while he finally refused to be ignored. And in a tragic and unforgivable way, we all stood up to finally pay attention to what he had to say.
Rest in Peace.
He was my favorite author of all time.
If legislature ever develops a tax on MMOs, You run into a huge problem with the End User Liscence Agreement. WoW is the main one to look at, just cuz it's so popular.
All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Game and all copies thereof (including without limitation any titles, computer code, themes, objects, characters, character names, stories, dialog, catch phrases, locations, concepts, artwork, character inventories, structural or landscape designs, animations, sounds, musical compositions and recordings, audio-visual effects, storylines, character likenesses, methods of operation, moral rights, and any related documentation) are owned or licensed by Blizzard.
So lets say that someone is making 6 figures a year off WoW property. There are people with server closets full of bots that farm, and they do have websites where they (illegally) sell gold and items to people for cash. These people should be taxed. Yet they'd never put it on their taxable income because their activities are technically black market and illegal. They're selling property of Blizzard to other people, when they don't have the rights to do so.
I'm waiting for the day Blizzard files suit against gold farmers. I honestly think there's more money in WoW than RIAA suits.
Yes, we do. It's called "Truth in Advertising," and it's part of the Federal Trade Commission's job to enforce that business don't lie about their services. We also have the Better Business Buerue as a watch group to identify unfair and unethical business practices.
Anyone who's had their service dropped by verizon for the 5GB limit, and isn't hosting a pirating service, should be suing verizon under truth in advertising. When you use the word "Unlimited" in big bold letters on the cover of the plan, you can't lie about it in the fine print.
Sounds to me like they want something out of the Terminator 2 movie. I'm not exactly sure what they want with a robotic slug though. The design request seems pretty weird to me.
The only people that seem to be excited about the DMCA are the lawyers going to town on YouTube.
It gives them an excuse to spend pointless hours watching viral videos of some guy getting hit in the face with a blunt object. "It's research, I tell ya. Research!"
I think it's stupid to believe malaria won't evolve and adapt. By placing an increased pressure to adapt on the organism, there WILL be an evolutionary response. The studies I've seen on evolutionary change to environmental pressures all show that life will find a way to adapt and survive. Not because it's directed to move in any direction but because in the battle for life an death there's always those stubborn few who get inventive and choose life.
Species go extinct because of the following reasons:
-You destroy their ecosystem. We aren't destroying their ecosystem. We're only making another species of mosquito that they can't live in... yet
-You destroy their food source. There's still normal mosquitoes for them to grow up in, and there's still people for them to mature and spread from.
-You kill them off faster than they reproduce With mosquitoes? Not goona happen!
There's a reason your doctor tells you to take the full bottle of antibiotics, even after you start to feel better. Because if you stop have way and don't kill it off entirely, the infection comes back and is twice as hard to kill because it's become resistant to the stuff you took before. Trying to fix malaria with super mosquitoes may solve a short term problem, but the invection will adapt and come back twice as strong.
Unless you still live in a red state that denies evolution happens, you will have to come to grasp about the fact that the malaria will adapt to the new super mosquitoes. Not only will scientists have produced a more robust mosquito that multiplies faster, but we'll also find new strains of malaria living in them and passing on. This isn't a maybe, it's going to happen. When you leave an opportunity open for malaria to find a better host for transmission, you better bet it will evolve to fill that niche.
I don't see Blizzard or Steam complaining about lack of sales due to piracy. The 3.5 million who bought the WoW: BC expansion seemed more than happy to fork over $40 on top of the $15/month fee to play something they enjoy. And the HL series from steam are still my favorite FPS games on my shelf. I actually spent another $200 for a new video card to throw saw blades and headcrab zombies.
Perhaps people aren't buying id software because they've been siting on their thumbs.
If I was reading the picture on the second page correctly, it looks like AMD plans to use a "4x4" type motherboard architecture, but with the second CPU spot made for a dedicated GPU chip instead of another redundant CPU. The CPU and GPU wouldn't be on the same die in this case.
I think this would make sense to me. Right now when I upgrade my video card, I throw out the ram, GPU, and integrated circuitry of the entire package to replace everything with the new video card upgrade (which happens every 6 months for me). What if I could buy the GPU and DDR3 separately and not throw out everything each upgrade? Not only would the infrastructure be faster, but the upgrades could be cheaper since you don't need to buy the whole package every time.
This obviously only matters to the enthusiast trying to keep on the edge of Moore's Law. I like the idea, but we'll see how things turn out in reality of 2010.