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IT Growth: Exponential No More
BreadMan writes "The Economist has has an article about growth in the IT industry coming off a period of unsustainable growth. Compares IT to growth industries of the past like railroads and automobiles."
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You mean this powerpoint course I just took won't make me a millionaire?
Why didn't anybody tell me that you actually need some useful skills to be happily employed in this industry?!
People can only view so much porn..
Are you still reading this?
Yes I am. In fact, I'm going to read it all over again.
According the graph (supplied by Intel), processors back in 1960 had one transistor each. They probably didn't have a very extensive instruction set.
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I think they have the date wrong, it should be may 8th 2000.
Bugs are just features that have been fixed.
purabalas?!?
PARABOLAS.
I appreciate the humor that this unbelievable misspelling was followed up 2 sentences later with "Not that I wanted to go to college anyway".
Sure, buddy. You didn't want to.
"Sigmoidal" is not present in "Dumb and Dumber's Fifth Grade Word Looker-Upper" and therefore should not be used in your post. "Exponential" does mean "big big" according to the looker-upper, and "journalists" should be replaced with "writer downers."
The preceding changs will make your post suitable for reading by the 97% of our society. The remain 3%, illiterate and UNIX Wizards, don't buy stuff; therefore they aren't a usefull part of society and can be ignored.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
No it's not, your stoned.
My stoned what?
And it's steam powered. I can't wait for the computing equivalent of Diesel. What would that be? Massive parallelism? Optical computing? Quantum computing? And you just know there will be people bemoaning the death of server racks. They'll be replaced by toaster-sized spread spectrum wireless boxes containing more computing power than the NSA has currently. They'll consume less power than a toaster too. Guys in their 70s will be maintaining authentic rack server rooms, complete with dot-com T-shirts, CRTs, Twinkies, and Jolt (sugarles Jolt, because by then these guys will be diabetic). Hmmm... but we don't have a hat. Train guys wear hats. Otherwise, the scenarios match perfectly.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
You guys don't know what you're talking about! Computer jobs are easy money, all I gotta do is spend a few thousand dollars and in a FEW MONTHS (not 4 LONG YEARS for a degree) I'll be rolling in cash!
buddy, can you spare a dime?