greed (was)
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Fri Feb 7 21:08:57 EST 2003
"Brandon Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> writes:
> >> Things are working fine here for me. W2K SP3...
> > I would say that's good evidence you aren't a power user, but just a
> > user with an application that soaks up CPU power.
> So I gotta run cron jobs all day long to be a "Power User" in your circle,
> is that it? I can't just punish the 3D graphics HW?
No, you have to have a few dozen apps open at once. Using one hungry
app just makes you a user of that app, not a power user. I punish a
the 3d graphics engine on my PS2 regularly, but there's no way I'm a
power user of the thing.
> 20% of the world is real.
> 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.
You should spend less time in the 80%, and more time in the 20%.
<mike
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