scott wrote:
>> And I think the problem here is that software writers *expect* to just 
>> be able to waste RAM whenever they feel like it because, after all, 
>> "everybody has lots of RAM now, don't they?"
> 
> Yup, and in the same way that game writers make 3D models with 200k 
> faces instead of 200 faces, just because everyone has a decent 3D card 
> nowadays.

No, that's not *wasting* the extra GPU power, that's *using* the extra 
GPU power to do something useful. That's a good thing. (And typically 
you can still run using an older GPU because each mesh usually has 
multiple LOD versions anyway.)

What I object to is software *wasting* resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) just 
because it can. There's really no need for that.

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