Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:45:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:45:03 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:38318 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:45:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5BE1CC.4010600@namesys.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:36:12 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Robert Ladd CC: Steven Cole , "Martin J. Bligh" , LKML , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2012 Lines: 46 Scott Robert Ladd wrote: >"Normal" folk simply have no use for an 8 CPU system. > I had this argument over whether normal people would ever really need a 10mb hard drive when I was 21. Once was enough, sorry, I didn't convince the other guy then, and I don't think I have gotten more eloquent since then. I'll just say that entertainment will drive computing for the next 5-15 years, and game designers won't have enough CPU that whole time. Hollywood is dying like radio did, and immersive experiences are replacing it. HDTV might not make it. I personally don't really want any audio or video devices or sources which are not well integrated into my computer, and HDTV is not. I am not sure if the rest of the market will think like me, but the gamers might.... I am getting a La Cie 4 monitor next week which will do 2048x1536 without blurring pixels for $960, and I just don't think I will want to use an HDTV for anything except maybe the kitchen. I try to watch a high quality movie once a week with a friend because I don't want to miss out on our culture (and games are not yet as culturally rich as movies), but games are more engaging, and I am not really managing to watch the movie a week. I seem to be at the extreme of a growing trend. Scott Robert Ladd wrote: (Note: I drive a big SUV because I *do** haul stuff, and I've got lots of kids -- the right tool for the job, as Alan stated.) You didn't say whether you typically haul stuff and kids over rough roads. If you don't (and very few SUV owners do), then what you need is called a "mini-van", which is what people who are functionally oriented buy for city hauling of kids and stuff ;-), and I bought my wife one. It has more than 16 CPUs in it.... -- Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/