A Vision of the Future!

I think that I may have foreseen my own death. I am going to die in a fiery inferno while sitting at my office computer busily working away!

I have come to a startling and horrific realization today... the office building that I work in has absolutely no form of early fire detection and warning system. As in, no smoke detectors or any other type of fire related detectors. Maybe it is just me, but I find this to be frightening and ridiculous. Personally I think it is a good idea to be warned that a fire may be present before being engulfed in flames. It doesn't help any that the building we are in is falling apart, and we have experienced more than a few natural gas leaks in the building.

The most ridiculous part of all is that the company that I work for actually has a division that installs, configures, and tests fire alarm systems. The costs to install such a system would be minimal.

Please No Open Flames!

Rant Department!

Okay, another one from the rant department. I don't know if other states have this problem but it is definitely a big thing here in Utah. What I am referring to is the signs that people make with big plastic cups in the chain link fencing along walkways and other sorts of bridges that span in the air across freeways and other major roads. These signs usually say something like "Welcome Home Matt," or "Welcome Home some other boy's name." I tend to think these are usually directed at returning Mormon missionaries.

The first couple of times that I saw one I actually thought that they were sort of clever, now they are just getting really old. It is really not even the signs that bug me, it is the fact that the same sign sits up there for weeks and weeks, until a strong wind blows the cups away, a poor city worker has to go clean them up, or some other person rearranges them into another person's name.

I have come to a realization that nobody ever goes and takes the cups out of the fence after they have been there for a week or so. I really don't care if you want to make a sign for somebody who has been gone for awhile, but clean up after yourselves people. The fact that people don't ever take their signs down is what really bothers me. In my opinion it is along the same line as graffiti or, at the very least, it is littering!

I am tempted to try an experiment. I want to go and make a sign myself that expresses some sort of derogatory theme perhaps with a four letter exclamatory and see how long it actually sits up there for every passerby to see before people get fed up with it being up there.

Intel Steps Up!

So Intel has released the anticipated next installment in its dual core processor line, known as the Core 2 Duo, and the results are actually impressive. You can get a whole bunch of information about the new processor, including specs, test results, etc. here. The tests and performance ratings are looking very promising. It is about time that Intel put out a good desktop processor. Most people who are somewhat tech savvy converted to AMD a while back, and Intel has seemed to be nipping at their heels ever since (except in the mobile processor category, Intel has so far cornered that market). Well, it appears that Intel may have just stepped it up a notch, all of the benchmark tests show that the new Intel processor significantly out performs AMD.

So here is the question, is the new Intel Core 2 Duo enough to silently convert diehard AMD disciples over to Intel? I tend to think not. It is not likely that AMD will simply sit back and let Intel lead the race, we will see AMD's answer to the Core 2 Duo soon enough. In the mean time, I am hoping to see some prices drop on the current AMD processors I have had my eye on. Like the AMD Athlon 64 FX60. Gotta love competition.