That looks like an old ASCII D&D game I had 15 years ago.
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I get disturbing, but what's confusing about needing medicine for your child as a motivation?
Every once in awhile I think, "Man this machine only has 4GB of ram, this sucks." or "This machine has 16GB of ram, this is awesome!"
Then I think back to machines measured in single digit megabytes of memory (yay for extended memory managers!) and that was in the early 90's - just two decades ago.
In 2030 my kids will be having families of their own, and their computers will have memory measured in terabytes, hard drives measured in hundreds of petabytes, and their phones/PDA/portable devices will be 100 times more powerful in computing power and 1000 times more storage space than the best computer I have at home.
I cannot begin to imagine why they would need that much space and computing power - but the reason we don't need that much space now is because no one has it, and thus no one has come up with cool uses for it.
And here I thought Nyan cat was the pinnacle of technological progress - it was all leading up to this, but it's only going to get better, faster.
It boggles my mind.
Just like nyan cat.
Then I think back to machines measured in single digit megabytes of memory (yay for extended memory managers!) and that was in the early 90's - just two decades ago.
In 2030 my kids will be having families of their own, and their computers will have memory measured in terabytes, hard drives measured in hundreds of petabytes, and their phones/PDA/portable devices will be 100 times more powerful in computing power and 1000 times more storage space than the best computer I have at home.
I cannot begin to imagine why they would need that much space and computing power - but the reason we don't need that much space now is because no one has it, and thus no one has come up with cool uses for it.
And here I thought Nyan cat was the pinnacle of technological progress - it was all leading up to this, but it's only going to get better, faster.
It boggles my mind.
Just like nyan cat.
I expect convergence will handle that. The GPU and CPU will merge into one processor, RAM and storage will just be different regions of the same space (once storage speed reaches that of RAM), graphics and sound will exceed what we can perceive (for most, they already do), and with IPv10 and a good mesh network topology, the ISPs and telcos will all be footnotes in history.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Which governments do you expect to back that?
Hells yeah.
Did you have that game where a red Trex and a blue Trex fought? Or that weird oil tycoon one. Or Puyon? I had the cassette version of Puyon.
My best friend had a Coleco Adam. Buck Rogers on a cassette tape drive rocked.
I have an NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, 3 PS2's, xbox, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Nintendo VirtualBoy (yeah...), Sega Gamegear, Sega Dreamcast, Gameboy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS lite, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, 360, PS3...
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Goddamn I've got a lot of shit sitting in a closet.
The SNES has never been disconnected from a TV though. It's still in my bedroom, with Street Fighter 2 Tournament Edition and an arcade stick attached.
The only game console I've ever sold was my Sega Genesis, along with all of my games for it. I sold it as a kid to be able to buy a Virtual Boy, which I was certain was going to be totally awesome.
The trauma of that experience is probably why I've never sold one since.
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Goddamn I've got a lot of shit sitting in a closet.
The SNES has never been disconnected from a TV though. It's still in my bedroom, with Street Fighter 2 Tournament Edition and an arcade stick attached.
The only game console I've ever sold was my Sega Genesis, along with all of my games for it. I sold it as a kid to be able to buy a Virtual Boy, which I was certain was going to be totally awesome.
The trauma of that experience is probably why I've never sold one since.
I remodeled my room as a kid so I would have room for one of those. And when I say "remodeled," I mean "removed the wall between the two closets without asking my mom" just so we could have a separate computer room.This is the first computer we had in the house...
She wasn't happy.
I never got one.
--Patrick
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