14 Oct
2012
14 Oct
'12
12:04 p.m.
On 10/13/2012 08:11 PM, Pontus wrote:
When I was a child. I suppose there's the occasional exception of
showing my (much younger than I) significant other how to play Zork on a
Kaypro, but that's about it.
Yes, it's
pretty scary. It's disheartening that a brain-vegetating,
time-wasting activity that people should've outgrown by late childhood
is the primary driver of computer performance today. -Dave
"Brain-vegetating"?! - When did you last play a game? "Outgrown"!? - Where is the fun in that?
I have a great deal of fun EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE. And yet I
don't play games. Last night, in fact, I had a lot of fun bringing up a
photomultiplier tube and a scintillator crystal, and building a
sample-and-hold amplifier to capture its output. This is the beginning
of a gamma spectrometer.
"time-wasting"!? - ehm.. well, you got me
there...
;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA