His name was Bruiser, not because we wanted a fighting dog, but that was his name when we adopted him from a rescue, and he seemed to be traumatized enough without having to adjust to a new, less gladiatorial name. He was incredibly sensitive and loving, especially towards my son; and even became a doting playmate of a little white kitten, named Angel. Pit Bulls are maligned because of the jerks that mistreat them and make them dangerous, not because there is anything inherently wrong with them or the breed. As usual, it is the people, not the animal, that is at fault. Yet, the animal pays the ultimate price.
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...
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