Josh Resnick (Pandemic President) in 1995

[GSH]

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOuR1CTJss&eurl .

-- GSH

[Warfreak]

Hmm, wasn't MechWarrior2 one of the games placed to make BZ1's engine?

[bb1]

You might be thinking Heavy Gear.

[Warfreak]

I think so too...

Wow, I'm glad we kept moving forward in tech, nice to see textures on models.

[TheJamsh]

. All i can say to that

[Blue_Leader]

Wow, 3000 dollars for that? I thought my computer was slow but mine could walk circles around it and I only paid about 500 for it. How far we have come indeed.

[bb1]

A 4666 or what did he say? I don't even know what that is.

[AcneVulgaris]

Wow... what's the framerate on that thing? 4fps?.  I remember seeing those cases from my early days as an IT guy, and pondering the mighty 133mhz 486 pentium inside.  I think RAM was around $100/meg... so a gig of ram would have worked out to ~ $100k, assuming you could find something to plug all those 4meg simms into.

My $200 iPod (probably $150 then, adjusted for inflation) blows that PC out of the water.  Never in my wildest dreams back then did I imagine such a thing. 

[mrtwosheds]

Never in my wildest dreams back then did I imagine such a thing. 

I, unfortunately, imagined things far greater than we have now, been a scifi reader most of my life, today's computers are still just dumb number crunchers, less intelligent than an amoeba and it seems that one of their main purposes is simply to be a retail item.
Disappointed is an understatement.

[AcneVulgaris]

I think we'll see true AI in our lifetimes, but I'm not looking forward to it.  There's going to be a major upheaval as most jobs are taken over by machines owned by the rich, and the ensuing nastiness probably won't be over in our lifetimes.  Last thing I want when I'm old and feeble is to live through (or not) a revolution.

[mrtwosheds]

A useful true AI, Or synthetic intelligence, as it would be better named, is I suspect still along way off and would probably not be used (or let themselves be used) in the ways you imagine.
As far as jobs go, it is an old fear stirred up by every new technology, things usually work out better in the end though. Revolutions generally only occur when they need to, if a system allows itself to become so unbalanced that one occurs, it is probably for the best. Democratic Capitalism relies on a sizeable proportion of its population being not very well off, but not so poor that they cannot play their part in the economy, if the gulf between rich and poor grows too wide, democracy and freedom will have failed anyway so revolution can only be an improvement. 

[Red Devil]

Was hanging up the outdoor speakers yesterday and a buddy handed me his iPod tOuch so I could make them plumb.  Darn thing has a level app that uses the accelerometer; displayed it in tenths of a degree, too.   

[Ultraken]

Wow, that's a blast from the past.   

[Angstromicus]

With a double-barrel shotgun  ! I haven't seen you post since February 13, 2008 06:32:39 PM eastern time! Long time no see, Ken.

[sabrebattletank]

I'm blasted.