I believe that is what he was saying. You don't buy a house outright - you get a mortgage, which is debt.
Also, the price of the house will retain much of its value, unless something catastrophic occurs, whereupon it doesnt really matter so much anymore. eg. If your house is next to a irradiated area after nuclear war, I think all of everyone's accumulated wealth will be worthless. For less severe economic times, the market just drops and ends up eventually recovering when your house will be worth a lot again.
I know of a company where this 'hostage taking' took place - 3 contractors knew all the code, which was pretty obscure and poorly written, with a tacit understanding that if anyone of them was 'let go', the others would go too.
That said, my first company used a bunch of Russian programmers, who were brilliant, but the code was commented... in russian... indispensable? Not really, market forces changed, the company changed direction, and their code was replaced with new, 3rd party shiny stuff.
but not necessarily the Foreigner series, get yourself a copy of Cyteen, Heavy Time, Merchanter's Luck, and Rimrunner and see how the same things can be told from so many different viewpoints. Quite an eye opener once you get to a point in a book where they start describing some cultural aspect that you've read in another book from a different culture's view.
And they're top banana books. All of Cherryh's works are well recommended.
I note you've put the Harry Potter series on your list... if you like them, you will like the Phillip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy.
Best of all, the BBC have just finished broadcasting the adaptation of the trilogy on the radio, and have put them up on the web for download. Note that they come to 7.5 hours duration.
The books are childrens stories, similar in quality to Rowling's.
I'd say absolutely you do want that much storage. I wouldn't think of it as a replacement for disk drives though - a more practical application for that is for backup storage. Some companies have to back up a tremendous amount of data and you usually have to decide what is and isn't important enough to backup. If you have unlimited storage, that was fast enough (and it did write very quickly), then a company could backup all of its worker's computers, every night, just in case the burglars came in a nicked them all.
Personally, I'd like unlimited storage for all the stuff I've even had, that goes double nowadays where I'm starting to store music and video. One day I'll store TV programmes too, and the storage requirements will spiral out of my control!
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"And on top of that you can influence students in a way that nobody else can."
... and why?
I love that quote in the way it was intended... but have you considered how he's using his influence on you?
I believe that is what he was saying. You don't buy a house outright - you get a mortgage, which is debt.
Also, the price of the house will retain much of its value, unless something catastrophic occurs, whereupon it doesnt really matter so much anymore. eg. If your house is next to a irradiated area after nuclear war, I think all of everyone's accumulated wealth will be worthless. For less severe economic times, the market just drops and ends up eventually recovering when your house will be worth a lot again.
I know of a company where this 'hostage taking' took place - 3 contractors knew all the code, which was pretty obscure and poorly written, with a tacit understanding that if anyone of them was 'let go', the others would go too.
That said, my first company used a bunch of Russian programmers, who were brilliant, but the code was commented... in russian... indispensable? Not really, market forces changed, the company changed direction, and their code was replaced with new, 3rd party shiny stuff.
Yuo could say that those people didn't really work in the IT industry at all.. those dotCom companies weren't really companies in the business sense.
All those programmers working for the government or banks etc, who still do boring data processing tasks.. they say 'yes'.
but not necessarily the Foreigner series, get yourself a copy of Cyteen, Heavy Time, Merchanter's Luck, and Rimrunner and see how the same things can be told from so many different viewpoints. Quite an eye opener once you get to a point in a book where they start describing some cultural aspect that you've read in another book from a different culture's view.
And they're top banana books. All of Cherryh's works are well recommended.
I note you've put the Harry Potter series on your list... if you like them, you will like the Phillip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy.
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Best of all, the BBC have just finished broadcasting the adaptation of the trilogy on the radio, and have put them up on the web for download. Note that they come to 7.5 hours duration.
The books are childrens stories, similar in quality to Rowling's.
Cheers.
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because they're a handy way of measurement generally. think of the quarterpounder and measure that in metric (a twopointfivether?)
Here in the UK, the EU is mandating we go metric for measures, but we can still keep our pint.. a very important measurement all things considered.
I found the bit that said 'not accurate enough for practical applicatons' more interesting.. perhaps that's why they're getting super write speeds ;-)
I'd say absolutely you do want that much storage.
I wouldn't think of it as a replacement for disk drives though - a more practical application for that is for backup storage. Some companies have to back up a tremendous amount of data and you usually have to decide what is and isn't important enough to backup. If you have unlimited storage, that was fast enough (and it did write very quickly), then a company could backup all of its worker's computers, every night, just in case the burglars came in a nicked them all.
Personally, I'd like unlimited storage for all the stuff I've even had, that goes double nowadays where I'm starting to store music and video. One day I'll store TV programmes too, and the storage requirements will spiral out of my control!