I don’t have much personal opinion to say about this, so I’ll pull a few quotes from news articles.
George Lucas made a public announcement today, September 20, saying that his Lucasfilm Foundation will give $175 million to the University of Southern California. This is the largest single donation the university has ever received. Part of the money will be used for the construction of a new 137,000-square foot, state-of-the-art home for the university’s acclaimed cinema school.
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This article in the Daily Trojan is about the gas situation. I have two major points to make here.
- Using gasoline is economically beneficial. No other form of energy packs such a tremendously huge amount of power in a small space, especially in a liquid form that can be transferred that extremely high rates (compared to electricity).
- We will not run out of gas. As I learned in Professor Sproul’s microeconomics course, there is such a thing as the law of supply and demand. If the supply goes down, prices will go up, and demand will be satisfied. The only possible way a problem could arise is if the government forces gas prices to stay down at an artificially low level. If free market forces are allowed to work, then we’ll have as much gas as we need (or can afford).
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I’ve decided to start posting some short comments on articles in the Daily Trojan, USC’s student newspaper. This particular article is interesting because it tries to advocate the view that people should stop worrying about Facebook’s changes. Here’s one sentence that makes me sick: Continue reading ‘DT: New Facebook just caters to our use of site’
This morning, I started thinking about how I first got into programming. Indeed, I think the earliest beginnings were from computer games. First, we had a computer that was amazingly fast for the time, an Intel 486DX 33MHz with 16 MB RAM and a 500 MB HDD. We had a 2x CD-ROM and a 3.5″ floppy drive, and we had DOS games from the Learning Company on disk, and later, some CD-ROM games like demos, “55 Ultimate Games” packs, and Disney’s Aladdin.
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Someday I should look more into the invention of the microwave oven. I read several pages about it. Looks like World War II resulted in a lot of technologies that benefit us today. People are lazy. They get so much more done with the proper motivation.
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