It's interesting looking at your user page after a long time. Posts you don't even remember making have been modded up or down, and that things that you vaguely remember writing about near-future events have already passed by. I think that's why I like technology- it keeps changing in new and exciting ways. Just two years back I was dead-set against ever using Wine again, but just the other day, I decided I wanted to play Portal at the recommendation oif a friend, so I grudgingly merged the l

Are people spoiled on efficiency now? I love what AMD did and continues to do for the market of desktop processors. But I have to question why it is that people INSIST that this new "Cell" doodad will be only as good as the new AMD/Intel; chip when it comes out. Someone made the point that it might be good for a few things, but for general computing it will suck. Why would you say this? If Intel has proven anything, raw MHz can, to a certain extent, compete with efficient execution. When y