No kidding. This Kansas evolution/intelligent design stuff has been going on for years and years. However, in present day it is convenient ammo for anti-republican rhetoric.
Gregarious people are surely going to trade face to face time for a game. "Hey, let's go get a beer after we play." "Ok, I'm headed up to my fridge, tell me when you got your beer and we'll have an online toast."
For almost every year since the early 90s the cost per megabyte dropped by about half. So the cost of a drive at the beginning of 1997 could cost 4 times as much (per meg) as a drive bought at the end of 1998. In those two years the price per meg would have fallen by half two times. The reason you were able to buy a sub $1000 pc, was in part due to the steep drops in the price of drives.
In 1997 the cost per gigabyte was roughly $100. So, yes it would have been under a million for the disks. Still, only 12 to 18 months earlier, a gig was running nearly $1000 so if I said 10 years, it would have cost millions. In 2001, a gigabyte cost about $6. Now it's about $0.50. For the entire history of computing I have heard "X will level off at Y unless some techical advances are made." Technical advances have always been made.
I was just thinking about how 4 years ago you could build a terabyte array for about $5-10,000 down from many millions 8 years ago. Today, you can get a terabyte for less than $500. In a few years, a petabyte is only going to cost $5,000. If you just buying space for future growth, it seems like a total waste of money.
the point is that using THE SAME SOFTWARE on DIFFERENT PLATFORMS
Heh, yeah. Calc is the same on 95 as it is on XP. Of course calc, and all the related libraries, compilers and what not were fully optimized 10 years ago so no changes have ever been required and none have ever been made. It is, of course as you point out in all caps, the exact same piece of software now as it was ten years ago. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Your benchmark is pointless. I just wrote a quick program to calculate 1,000,000 factorial (ten times your number). I ran it on an AMD 800 thunderbird. It took 11 seconds. Blam - my 5 year old AMD is nearly 100 times faster than your modern P4 3.2GHz.
Hmmm...everyone I know with an ipod has pretty much just burned their cd collections. So, does my anecdotal evidence outweigh yours or is it the other way around. I forgot how it works.
Isn't that just loud as hell? When I configure rackmounts in my office, I usually use earphones bacause they are so loud. Oh, and drowing out noise with more noise is not a good idea hearing-wise.
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If it is a even a word: Unimplementable.
No kidding. This Kansas evolution/intelligent design stuff has been going on for years and years. However, in present day it is convenient ammo for anti-republican rhetoric.
Take a string, tie a rock to it and swing it around your head. Then you'll get the picture.
I have a little trick I use from time to time with firefox:
[user@localhost ~]$pkill -9 firefox
I use it once a day at least.
You're not describing love. You're describing getting hookers.
I'm waiting for vast improvements in battery life before I decide. I've waited 10 years. I can wait 10 more.
1 out of every 2 computers is probably not even powerful enough to run vista, let alone some of its features.
I have my own office. The office next to me is 30% smaller yet 3 people share it. Why? Because I'm "more important."
I look forward to 2011, when it's released.
Gregarious people are surely going to trade face to face time for a game. "Hey, let's go get a beer after we play." "Ok, I'm headed up to my fridge, tell me when you got your beer and we'll have an online toast."
Bleh.
But in all my readings, I have learned one thing about physics. Nothing is "as simple as that".
What?! Could you speak up a little bit? I'm having a little trouble hearing you over all the noise this cash is making.
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Steve Jobs
Good luck with your taxes in 2007.
We'll be watching.
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For almost every year since the early 90s the cost per megabyte dropped by about half. So the cost of a drive at the beginning of 1997 could cost 4 times as much (per meg) as a drive bought at the end of 1998. In those two years the price per meg would have fallen by half two times. The reason you were able to buy a sub $1000 pc, was in part due to the steep drops in the price of drives.
I was just thinking the other day the nmap really lacks l33t ascii art. Looking forward to those speed enhancements though.
In 1997 the cost per gigabyte was roughly $100. So, yes it would have been under a million for the disks. Still, only 12 to 18 months earlier, a gig was running nearly $1000 so if I said 10 years, it would have cost millions. In 2001, a gigabyte cost about $6. Now it's about $0.50. For the entire history of computing I have heard "X will level off at Y unless some techical advances are made." Technical advances have always been made.
I was just thinking about how 4 years ago you could build a terabyte array for about $5-10,000 down from many millions 8 years ago. Today, you can get a terabyte for less than $500. In a few years, a petabyte is only going to cost $5,000. If you just buying space for future growth, it seems like a total waste of money.
I'm surprised both of our economies didn't collapse. How could we do without the Ukraine?
the point is that using THE SAME SOFTWARE on DIFFERENT PLATFORMS
Heh, yeah. Calc is the same on 95 as it is on XP. Of course calc, and all the related libraries, compilers and what not were fully optimized 10 years ago so no changes have ever been required and none have ever been made. It is, of course as you point out in all caps, the exact same piece of software now as it was ten years ago. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Your benchmark is pointless. I just wrote a quick program to calculate 1,000,000 factorial (ten times your number). I ran it on an AMD 800 thunderbird. It took 11 seconds. Blam - my 5 year old AMD is nearly 100 times faster than your modern P4 3.2GHz.
Always a thief
Hmmm...everyone I know with an ipod has pretty much just burned their cd collections. So, does my anecdotal evidence outweigh yours or is it the other way around. I forgot how it works.
Oh gee...26% of the adult population smokes in England. Talk about a lucky guess. It's almost like winning the lotto with a guess like that. I think I'll go buy some tickets.
And guess that the 27% of men and 23% of women who would "light up in such a situation" roughly coorelates to the percentage of smokers in England.
Isn't that just loud as hell? When I configure rackmounts in my office, I usually use earphones bacause they are so loud. Oh, and drowing out noise with more noise is not a good idea hearing-wise.