I have studied the price improvements going back 16 years. The long term average space improvement per dollar spent, year on year is about 100%. That is, you'd get twice as much space for your dollar each year. That was until about 4 years ago. These days you can only expect a 50% year on year improvement.
40 Meg drive had a huge 10 year life span from about 1984 to 1994. So 13 to 23 years ago.
Given that many Slashdoters had their first computer at 10 years old, its entirely posible for you to be only 23 which for many people isnt old at all.
CD's in this country are not that expensive. I think they have been about $25AU for at least 15 years. Infaltion seems to have had no effect on music. If anything music has gotten cheaper due to the competition from iTunes. I used to buy a lot of CD singles. I have one that still has the price sticker on it, $9! (The average was more like $5.50) Today, I can get a CD single for about $3.50. Not only that but wages growth has exceeded infaltion by a very healthy amount here so I can buy a lot more music that I used to for the same proportion of my income. Music may be cheaper in other parts of the world but it certainly isnt expensive here.
Concert tickets, on the other hand, now there's inflation. It wasnt that long ago that a concert ticket was the same price as a CD. Now, you can pay 4 to 12 times the price of a CD for a concert ticket.
Well I have 1 year old son and have to tell you that you are just as much an asshat as him. Seriously, how did you make it to reproduction age with all those terrible drugs around? Why do you feel the need to have your ideas on drugs implemented upon everyone else?
My website on historical hard disk pricing shows that 10GB HDs were only sale roughly between 1998 and 2001. given the maximum extremes this puts the poster current age range between 15 to 20.
Dear coward, here is an interesting concept in science I think you should learn. When someone puts forward a hypotheses, providing a single example, like you did, does not prove it is true. But, when someone provides a single counterexample, like I did, it is considered sufficent to prove the hypothese false.
"Name one complete sub-assembly inside of your computer which had the majority of the R&D and Fabrication done in the USA. Of that sub-assembly (assuming you have named one), which components are utilizing NEW technology developed here in the USA."
err, the Intel Pentium CPU.
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The correct spelling in Australia is organisations. Considering that the person who posed the question and the responder are both Australian this seems logical.
"Current insightful joke making the rounds of technical recruiters and some hiring managers is "How do you make a CCIE leave your front door?" "Pay for your pizza"."
Strange. I can tell you the in Australian market a CCIE is an automatic high paying job.
I work in networks, have no degree, my only cert is an expired CCNA but I have 4 years experience in a large coporate network (2000+ cisco devices). Prior to that, I worked in desktop. I am currently looking at jobs for $110k Australian. With a CCIE, I could get 20 to 30k more.
A 12 hour charge is the same as a full tank of fuel.
You can insert sarcastic comments here about how it always takes me a full tank of fuel to get to the cinema or go to work or drive to the shops.
In reality the cinema is often less than 20kms away (,mine is only 2kms), which is takes less than a movie to re-charge. This means the grandparents suggestion is totally suitable.
Agree with your general sentimenet but I want to point out that free, compulsary, public education benefits the rich enormously more than if it didn't exist. It benefits every one, I cant think of any big losers.
I'm glad you dont run the socialised medicine system in my coutry. I think if they care about helping their people they will expend their money in areas where they get the most benefit for the least money. You do realise that plenty of medical discoveries that are not patentable and are governement funded get used in these systems. Just off the top of my head, Vitamin K injections in newborn babies.
If the US army funds the testing of anti malarial drugs by a private company do you count that as a discovery comming from the governement or a private company?
"Anybody who can think of a better way to provide resources to the people interested in developing medecines, besides patent royalties and the like, please come forward."
You talk like there is no alternative to the patent system for encoruaging drug development. Countries with socialised health systems could have an economic incentive to develop this.
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I have studied the price improvements going back 16 years.
The long term average space improvement per dollar spent, year on year is about 100%. That is, you'd get twice as much space for your dollar each year. That was until about 4 years ago. These days you can only expect a 50% year on year improvement.
See my data and analysis here:
http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddrives.html
40 Meg drive had a huge 10 year life span from about 1984 to 1994.
So 13 to 23 years ago.
Given that many Slashdoters had their first computer at 10 years old, its entirely posible for you to be only 23 which for many people isnt old at all.
If you ever want to put a date on a hard drive you can use my page here:
http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddiskdata.html
CD's in this country are not that expensive. I think they have been about $25AU for at least 15 years. Infaltion seems to have had no effect on music. If anything music has gotten cheaper due to the competition from iTunes. I used to buy a lot of CD singles. I have one that still has the price sticker on it, $9! (The average was more like $5.50) Today, I can get a CD single for about $3.50. Not only that but wages growth has exceeded infaltion by a very healthy amount here so I can buy a lot more music that I used to for the same proportion of my income. Music may be cheaper in other parts of the world but it certainly isnt expensive here.
Concert tickets, on the other hand, now there's inflation. It wasnt that long ago that a concert ticket was the same price as a CD. Now, you can pay 4 to 12 times the price of a CD for a concert ticket.
Indeed.
Why did you post a a coward? You are just the kind of person I'd like to add to my friends list.
Well I have 1 year old son and have to tell you that you are just as much an asshat as him.
Seriously, how did you make it to reproduction age with all those terrible drugs around?
Why do you feel the need to have your ideas on drugs implemented upon everyone else?
You hate our freedom right?
What a shame for you that dentists CAN be outsourced to another country.
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The first paragraph is an ad hominem attack. I stopped reading after that.
My website on historical hard disk pricing shows that 10GB HDs were only sale roughly between 1998 and 2001. given the maximum extremes this puts the poster current age range between 15 to 20.
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http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddiskdata.h
This page is great for when you want to date a hard disk or when a certain size disk first became available.
"How do we store it?"
By pumping water uphill.
What are you saying? Why is it a concern? If India gets nuclear are we all in trouble?
Dear coward,
here is an interesting concept in science I think you should learn.
When someone puts forward a hypotheses, providing a single example, like you did, does not prove it is true.
But, when someone provides a single counterexample, like I did, it is considered sufficent to prove the hypothese false.
"Name one complete sub-assembly inside of your computer which had the majority of the R&D and Fabrication done in the USA.
Of that sub-assembly (assuming you have named one), which components are utilizing NEW technology developed here in the USA."
err, the Intel Pentium CPU.
http://www.hybridcars.com/component/option,com_joo mblog/Itemid,0/joomblog_task,blog_view/joomblog_co ntentid,12222/
This guy ran a prius as a taxi for 2 years and 300,000 kms with it before he sold it back to Toyota.
300,000 miles sounds do-able.
Please specify which university in Australia offers this co-operative style education.
The correct spelling in Australia is organisations.
Considering that the person who posed the question and the responder are both Australian this seems logical.
"Current insightful joke making the rounds of technical recruiters and some hiring managers is "How do you make a CCIE leave your front door?" "Pay for your pizza"." Strange. I can tell you the in Australian market a CCIE is an automatic high paying job. I work in networks, have no degree, my only cert is an expired CCNA but I have 4 years experience in a large coporate network (2000+ cisco devices). Prior to that, I worked in desktop. I am currently looking at jobs for $110k Australian. With a CCIE, I could get 20 to 30k more.
A 12 hour charge is the same as a full tank of fuel.
You can insert sarcastic comments here about how it always takes me a full tank of fuel to get to the cinema or go to work or drive to the shops.
In reality the cinema is often less than 20kms away (,mine is only 2kms), which is takes less than a movie to re-charge. This means the grandparents suggestion is totally suitable.
I think your system is easy to defeat or manipulate.
If I am IBM, I just create lots of wholly owned companies that submit patents up to the 50 patent limit each, so no increase in fees.
I submit lots of bogus patents in areas where my competitors have a strong lead shortening the time they have the advantage.
The genocide against the Australian Aborigines was systemic.
The US rendition program is systemic.
Guantanamo Bay - systemic.
The comparison is fair.
"Ethanol is supposed to be a more efficient way of using oil."
I'd say it was a way to let us use coal instead of oil, which is something many people would find politically desirable.
Wikipedia says that natural radioactive decay is dumping 24 terawatts of heat into the earth.
One site I found says we (the world) use only 13 terawatts of energy in every form.
I think we are pretty safe for a while.
references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy
http://analysisonline.org/energy/lewis.html
Agree with your general sentimenet but I want to point out that free, compulsary, public education benefits the rich enormously more than if it didn't exist. It benefits every one, I cant think of any big losers.
I'm glad you dont run the socialised medicine system in my coutry.
I think if they care about helping their people they will expend their money in areas where they get the most benefit for the least money.
You do realise that plenty of medical discoveries that are not patentable and are governement funded get used in these systems. Just off the top of my head, Vitamin K injections in newborn babies.
If the US army funds the testing of anti malarial drugs by a private company do you count that as a discovery comming from the governement or a private company?
"Anybody who can think of a better way to provide resources to the people interested in developing medecines, besides patent royalties and the like, please come forward."
You talk like there is no alternative to the patent system for encoruaging drug development. Countries with socialised health systems could have an economic incentive to develop this.