Sunday, December 2, 2007

Computers in General Posting for March 2006




Battle Tech Card Revealed is "Navigation Computer"


Its funny how technology is whizzing by us in a blink of an eye, computers are slowly getting cheaper to buy for a common person such as I. Well, I still think that my old AMD-K62-500mhz with windows 98 on it is ok. I was looking at E-bay today for a bit for Windows 2000, an somewhat better platform than windows 98, this year around July Microsoft is going to stop support and updates for 98, my first thought of this is "Oh great Microsoft is going to force me to upgrade my entire computer system." There are many of us that can't afford a new 4.3 gigahertz system and buy the time you buy its obsolete already something else is better, faster, and a so called top of the line computer for today's world. Many of the computers on the market comes with the standard goodies such as on board video, sound, network ready, 160 gig hard drive non-partition, modem, etc... My personal thought with the onboad stuff is a waste of money, if they were able to keep the onboad goodies to a minimum such as network ready, no onboard video, a partition hard drive, and or no sound then maybe I would consider it. Probably the next generation computer technology is going to be A.I. or artificial intelligence where the computer learns on its own, give general commands, and tells you what it needs, such as a new video or sound card. However there is a down side to A.I. the Terminator trilogy, War games, 2010 with Hal, and a few others tells that if you give a computer too much A.I. that it might become your worst nightmare. A few years back there was a government project dealing with higher, complex, ...etc A.I., but was kinda scrubbed in the mid to late 1990's.

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