Capricious Me

Well, on Friday the 29th I advanced to candidacy after passing my qualifying exams.

As a present to myself, I’m visiting Boston for a few days before my internship starts. Woo!

30 inch monitor. dell workstation with nehalem processor… WOOO. still waiting on 12 gigs of ram for it and 2 more hard drives… :-P

Best quote ever regarding cloud computing (from Oakland 2009 conference, not necessarily verbatim):

It should be called swamp computing. It’s dark and grimy and you don’t know what’s going to bite you.

The other good moment was the proposal for a “West Oakland Conference.”

Why does Apple put 2 different graphics cards in the macbook pro rather than putting 2 of the same, so that you can take advantage of SLI?

It’s retarded. A 9400gt and 9600gt. You can only use one at the same time. They could have made a killing off gamers who want a pretty laptop for games… after all, those gamers can always dualboot to windows for games. Or actually, why don’t they enable SLI mode at all? It’s still possible. It just means both run like 9400gt cards, if what I learned is correct.

Bah. What potential. Wasted.

I’m on a mini-high right now because my user study data actually seems to support my arguments. ^_^

Don’t you love it when raw data turns into meaningful figures???