“Rosa sat, so Martin can walk, so Obama could run, so our children can fly.”
Funny things, PCs. My $400 laptop runs circles around my $2300 Sony Vaio (2.8 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) because it is 5 years "younger." Amazing shit. I bought a little USB HDTV ATSC receiver and enjoy beautiful over-the-air HD broadcasts on my laptop... for shits and grins, I plugged it in to my Sony, and it was as if I'd asked it to solve Pi to 3 million decimal places! LOL! It did a decent, albeit, hitchy job of displaying standard definition channels, but HD? Nope. Ah, Moore's law continues, no longer is it clock cycles, but it will be again, and then it will be architecture change again (multiple cores for now), ad infinitum ... until we accidentally build SkyNet. I'm guessing in 10 years, a run-of-the-mill PC will have the computational power of some of the "supercomputers" of today. I know, not a stretch. I'm just trying to get my head around the software that will be inevitably written to bog down that much CPU/Memory horsepower, because those damn d...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3400863/Barack-Obama-draws-on-Americas-economic-brains.html
ReplyDeleteI'm already losing the little bit of confidence in Obama when he brought in the governor of Michigan as part of his "economic brains". Is he trying to figure out how to make our unemployment rate at 8.8%? I guess one thing that is a positive, Michigan no longer has the highest unemployment rate, Rhode Island took that over with 8.9%.
Already losing confidence? LOL! You're so funny. Keep the jokes coming, Jamie. :-)
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