Wait a second? Doesn't distance play a factor here? I thought that regardless of the fact that your data travels at the speed of light, the distance to reach the nearest planet is so great that there is a 3-5 min. gap between the send and receive functions?
I have tackled this idea myself as of late. I support so many old (but not quite legacy) systems. There are two problems as I see it. First, the average user isn't any smarter. How many of you use more than 25% of all the features in Microsoft Word? Most people don't even know how to do a mail merge. Yet, Microsoft insists on putting more and more features into it. Honestly, I can do most of the things that I need to do in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win95.
Second, the industry itself isn't as innovative as it could be because it keeps retrofitting all the technology, which isn't bad, but creates a lot of overhead. Moreover, PC manufacturers don't worry about efficiency. For example, RAM today is cheap as ever, as is HD space in terms of MB per dollar. BUT, is it any more efficient? I say no. You just got this new blazin fast 1.7 GHz computer, and it boots slower than my old Pentium I running Windows 95. All the industry does is make a bigger operating system, then make a bigger processor, and follows that loop. We are no more efficient today than we were yesterday. We're just operating on a bigger scale. The time has come to make OSes that can work on older machines, and are more efficient. So, we should all probably switch to some UNIX. Hell, with Linux you can load the whole kernel on one disk. Just try doing that with Win9x.
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Wait a second? Doesn't distance play a factor here? I thought that regardless of the fact that your data travels at the speed of light, the distance to reach the nearest planet is so great that there is a 3-5 min. gap between the send and receive functions?
I have tackled this idea myself as of late. I support so many old (but not quite legacy) systems. There are two problems as I see it. First, the average user isn't any smarter. How many of you use more than 25% of all the features in Microsoft Word? Most people don't even know how to do a mail merge. Yet, Microsoft insists on putting more and more features into it. Honestly, I can do most of the things that I need to do in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win95. Second, the industry itself isn't as innovative as it could be because it keeps retrofitting all the technology, which isn't bad, but creates a lot of overhead. Moreover, PC manufacturers don't worry about efficiency. For example, RAM today is cheap as ever, as is HD space in terms of MB per dollar. BUT, is it any more efficient? I say no. You just got this new blazin fast 1.7 GHz computer, and it boots slower than my old Pentium I running Windows 95. All the industry does is make a bigger operating system, then make a bigger processor, and follows that loop. We are no more efficient today than we were yesterday. We're just operating on a bigger scale. The time has come to make OSes that can work on older machines, and are more efficient. So, we should all probably switch to some UNIX. Hell, with Linux you can load the whole kernel on one disk. Just try doing that with Win9x.