Why does this bring to mind a stepford kind of vibe? Or is it Logans run? Not sure but I know I just do not like this idea.
What really bugs me is how middle-schoolers will use this as a way to cyber-bully the kids outside of their cliques, perhaps in a way that lasts waaay beyond middle school years? I just don't see a happy ending for this one.
Re:Win 95 + Office 95 only needed 8 meg!
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Keeping things in perspective: My first IBM System/3 mini ran entire businesses with 8K of RAM.
How did it get to 8Meg? 8Gig? And how long till it's 8TB?
C'mon folks, this is just a tool like any other presentation software.
The problem isn't that powerpoint exists - the problem is that people don't know how to communicate any other way, having been trained to use powerpoint.
This is strictly an education issue...
That's the benefit of the Costco 90 day return policy.. get a new computer, use it for tax season, return it (and maybe take a tax deduction for its purchase before you return it??)...sheesh. I'll bet there are lots of "new" computers out there that have been in at least one user's hands before.
I look at the multitude of senior citizens out there who carry phones - and wouldn't be able to even place a call with most smartphones. Not a huge surprise that so many are still "dumb" phones. Also consider the cost - most people on planet earth just cannot pay the extra thirty bucks a month or so for internet capabilities/data plans.
My in-laws are in this category too... but besides that there are still those who absolutely need dial-up as an option.
I work from home and rely on internet and phone for my job. If connectivity is down I can't host webcasts... so I pay for cable internet (even though I'm a satellite TV customer), DSL as a backup, and Dial-up from AT&T as the backup to that. There have been many occasions over the past two years where I've suddenly had to switch from cable to DSL. I haven't had the double failure yet but if I do i'm ready. As for my in-laws - they have DSL but insist they need to pay for AOL too. I'm just tired of telling them not to.
About time... a total anachronism
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Look at PCs and storage as the bellwether here - both have considerably declined in price per unit of (whatever) over time. Storage was $1 per byte for RAM around the time Moore made his prognostication. Disks held 5MB per 14" platter. Today quite a lot more in quite a lot less volume. Same for compute power. A million transistors on a chip seemed like a lot just 20 years ago. Now we're pushing a billion and the CPUs still cost less than they did a score ago. Is it an exact straight line over time? Of course not. But I wish I could get the same value per dollar from just about any other commodity. Pizzas would be about.001 cents per slice by now. Mmmmm Pizzas.
Exactly. you beat me to the punch... we used Delay Lines in KEYPUNCH machines like the IBM 5496 data recorder... seems like an update of that with new magnetics.
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Why does this bring to mind a stepford kind of vibe? Or is it Logans run? Not sure but I know I just do not like this idea. What really bugs me is how middle-schoolers will use this as a way to cyber-bully the kids outside of their cliques, perhaps in a way that lasts waaay beyond middle school years? I just don't see a happy ending for this one.
Keeping things in perspective: My first IBM System/3 mini ran entire businesses with 8K of RAM. How did it get to 8Meg? 8Gig? And how long till it's 8TB?
Remember it well, fortunately don't need to run it anymore. Wasn't it Win95 that had the "Start it up" campaign hyping the "start" button?
C'mon folks, this is just a tool like any other presentation software. The problem isn't that powerpoint exists - the problem is that people don't know how to communicate any other way, having been trained to use powerpoint. This is strictly an education issue...
I think that sums it up perfectly.
Or is this just the quasi-science that Michael Crichton based "Timeline" on?
That's the benefit of the Costco 90 day return policy.. get a new computer, use it for tax season, return it (and maybe take a tax deduction for its purchase before you return it??)...sheesh. I'll bet there are lots of "new" computers out there that have been in at least one user's hands before.
I look at the multitude of senior citizens out there who carry phones - and wouldn't be able to even place a call with most smartphones. Not a huge surprise that so many are still "dumb" phones. Also consider the cost - most people on planet earth just cannot pay the extra thirty bucks a month or so for internet capabilities/data plans.
My in-laws are in this category too... but besides that there are still those who absolutely need dial-up as an option. I work from home and rely on internet and phone for my job. If connectivity is down I can't host webcasts... so I pay for cable internet (even though I'm a satellite TV customer), DSL as a backup, and Dial-up from AT&T as the backup to that. There have been many occasions over the past two years where I've suddenly had to switch from cable to DSL. I haven't had the double failure yet but if I do i'm ready. As for my in-laws - they have DSL but insist they need to pay for AOL too. I'm just tired of telling them not to.
'Nuff said.
What matters is having that "Netflix" button on your remote - isn't content still king here?
Look at PCs and storage as the bellwether here - both have considerably declined in price per unit of (whatever) over time. Storage was $1 per byte for RAM around the time Moore made his prognostication. Disks held 5MB per 14" platter. Today quite a lot more in quite a lot less volume. Same for compute power. A million transistors on a chip seemed like a lot just 20 years ago. Now we're pushing a billion and the CPUs still cost less than they did a score ago. Is it an exact straight line over time? Of course not. But I wish I could get the same value per dollar from just about any other commodity. Pizzas would be about .001 cents per slice by now. Mmmmm Pizzas.
Exactly. you beat me to the punch... we used Delay Lines in KEYPUNCH machines like the IBM 5496 data recorder... seems like an update of that with new magnetics.