Big Video Cards, and Bigger Egos

Out of curiosity, WHY THE HELL DO PROFS MAKE US DO TWICE THE WORK OVER SPRING BREAK?????? did they forget that break means not work? These guys mostly have Phd's so they have been though it, they know nobody wants to do work over the break. Ehh... this ranting is being brought on out of disgust for my profs dropping a double work load on us because the university closed for a day do to weather. In general I wouldn't mind the work, but, to double it, and for it to be nothing but busy work?! Well its busy work for us, for him its his next free research study... and I'm not getting compensated for that.

Ok, so thats the Ego part of my rant for the day.... I hate Profs that think that students dont have lives outside of their class. Now on to the tech rant...

Video cards... we all have them... we all have to have them... why the hell do they have to cost 600 bucks and take 600 watt power supplies? The technology is out there to make a processor in the ghz... these cards could run whole computers from 4 years ago, and these new ones come with a gig of on board video ram, why do we need this much stuff???? Consoles don't seem to need all this crap, and if thats the case, why do I? I love PC gaming, the flexibility of it, but why the hell do I need 2 600 dollar video cards to play at the cutting edge, o and that brings us to the offloaded Physics card.... o yeah, thats great, make it so that 4 games will use it before it flubs, but you'll still need it and more cooling and more wattage... This crap is getting insane, I speced out a new gaming rig, from scratch, with 2 monitors, being that thats all the rage these days... 11 grand.... 11 grand for the top of the line system. That never used to be a thought 2 or 3 years ago. The gaming world needs to come to a head, consoles are wireless... and use nice big HD screens now... make me a keyboard mouse for that and i'm sold... hell they have HD's.... I'll live in that world.