My Final Computer Upgrade
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Congrats! :jig: :beer:
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
quad core
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
8gb (can go to 16gb if I want to)
You can now run multiple Linux distros along with Vista virtual machines while testing your network project in VS 2008 that uses SQL Server 2008 meanwhile you can also play a game while a video is playing and 3DSMax is rendering a scene for your new game which is still a solution with tens of projects in VS 2008 and inside the other monitor look at the download manager of Firefox with a few thousands of tabs open... But probably you won't be able to hibernate easily and quickly! :-D
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I hope is my final major computer upgrade
Why?
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
modified on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:57 PM
Hamed Mosavi wrote:
Why?
Like he said, 2012 is around the corner. My guess is that's when he's planning to be cryogenically frozen until they find a cure for ESS (Extreme Sarcasm Syndrome). Either that, or he's retiring and never EVER wants to lay fingers on anything that even remotely feels like a keyboard - after a full career and who knows how many million keystrokes :) :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Anonymous Patrick wrote:
The next day, the next Baktun (the 14th) simply starts.
that is where the great debate comes in, although cosmic event references have been found for astronomical events dating into the 14th baktun, the "official" calendar (official in that historians classified it as the official calendar, it is unknown what the mayans thought of it) is numbered 0-13. Which means there is no 14th baktun. The debate comes up, why did they stop? broke a chisel? got fired? lost count? got married? went on strike? or they started on a new rock because they ran out of bloody room and we lost the 2nd rock. :) who knows? Who knows, maybe the guy was murdered in the midst of counting and never got to finish it. Maybe it was his brother's job to finish it, and his brother was too busy in the red-light district to do his job.... You can come up with a zillion excuses for why the "official" long-block calendar stops at 13. And then you are assuming we are using their "official" calendar. Hind-sight is NOT 20/20, we're assuming we have the most accurate one. perhaps the guy got started on the wrong day, figured it out after counting to 13 baktun's and didn't have a rock shredder handy to destroy it before he started over again, or committed suicide after seeing his error. We're assuming the Mayan's were perfect because they were better at star-gazing than we were until only a few hundred years ago. Perhaps we're assuming too much, after all. :) Me? I've seen many too many budget cuts, I think the calendar guy got canned.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
El Corazon wrote:
I think the calendar guy got canned.
:laugh: Maybe he just figured that by the 21st century microprocessors would be universal, and a million years of calendar could be generated in the same time it took him to chisel the dot on an 'i' ;P
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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However, there is no agreement whether in 2012 there will be the end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level, or a new human species will evolve, or some other major catastrophe will occur.
Since when elevation of humanity to a higher level is considered major catastrophe? :laugh:
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All programs evolve until they can send email. All internet discussions evolve until they reach GW point.
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All programs evolve until they can send email. All internet discussions evolve until they reach GW point.
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El Corazon wrote:
I think the calendar guy got canned.
:laugh: Maybe he just figured that by the 21st century microprocessors would be universal, and a million years of calendar could be generated in the same time it took him to chisel the dot on an 'i' ;P
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.