I know in my old highschool (because of my sis) that they are learning how do program in pascal and visual basic 6.0. Its just the basic things but its enough for an introduction to programming logic. As for the ISAs, thats not gonna happen again. Processors are evolving and the ISA are getting so beasty that it would be a hell for even experienced programmers to write meaningful applications on them. I mean how many instructions does an intel processor have today. How many hours of studying does one have to spend to get familiar with it? Definately much more than the old simple obsolete architectures. I remember a Bill Gates quote several years back in a magazine saying, 'Computers will eventually be installed everywhere, but we won't know it. They will be in our cars, coffee machines, tvs, bla bla bla...'. This is already happening. And the reason we won't notice it is because everything is covered up behind a nice interface. Take for example a kid watching his Windows boot up and give him a multimedia ready system to enjoy. Could he be trying to imagine all those complex concepts behind the technology? He won't be trying to program it, he will be enjoying the latest games and browsing the net. On the other hand if you would give the same kid a PC with only DOS on it or Red Hat 4.0 then yes, he would probably be digging the system and tearing it apart. Kids will not program computers like they used to. The ones that will, are probably tomorrow's computer scientists, not the mere programming geek.
Its a completely sensible speed for an old laptop drive, but it would be best to test it with multiple torrent downloads where thousands of little pieces are being read and written vigorously on the drive. Its just gonna oveload at much slower speeds.
Yes I was talking in megabytes, but thats not my point. Most people do not really understand that the reason their X Mbit home connection is the same with a server system's connection, is not because of a bottleneck in the network, but a bottleneck at either their local hard disk speeds, local network wire speeds etc. Everyone blames the bandwidth, but I know wires can be built able to transfer several terrabytes of data in a snap with multiplexed fiber optics and still have the same speeds as those adsl connections. All because a single hard disk would not be able to handle all those reads/writes of data. The only advantage that a monstrous connection will give is the ability to serve multiple clients. People just don't get it. They believe they will download their pr0n faster but this is true only up to a limit. And if you ask me, your 18mb/s speeds are really impressive, the fastest hard disks today have been proven by tom's hardware to reach only up to 23 mb/s.
I have one thing to say about bottlenecks...
I can get 1-2mb/s on my external laptop hdd but I have seen up to 11-12mb/s on a usb 2.0 memory stick on the same connection. Are you sure that bandwidth is what you need to serve movies from your PC?
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I know in my old highschool (because of my sis) that they are learning how do program in pascal and visual basic 6.0. Its just the basic things but its enough for an introduction to programming logic. As for the ISAs, thats not gonna happen again. Processors are evolving and the ISA are getting so beasty that it would be a hell for even experienced programmers to write meaningful applications on them. I mean how many instructions does an intel processor have today. How many hours of studying does one have to spend to get familiar with it? Definately much more than the old simple obsolete architectures. I remember a Bill Gates quote several years back in a magazine saying, 'Computers will eventually be installed everywhere, but we won't know it. They will be in our cars, coffee machines, tvs, bla bla bla...'. This is already happening. And the reason we won't notice it is because everything is covered up behind a nice interface. Take for example a kid watching his Windows boot up and give him a multimedia ready system to enjoy. Could he be trying to imagine all those complex concepts behind the technology? He won't be trying to program it, he will be enjoying the latest games and browsing the net. On the other hand if you would give the same kid a PC with only DOS on it or Red Hat 4.0 then yes, he would probably be digging the system and tearing it apart. Kids will not program computers like they used to. The ones that will, are probably tomorrow's computer scientists, not the mere programming geek.
Its a completely sensible speed for an old laptop drive, but it would be best to test it with multiple torrent downloads where thousands of little pieces are being read and written vigorously on the drive. Its just gonna oveload at much slower speeds.
Yes I was talking in megabytes, but thats not my point. Most people do not really understand that the reason their X Mbit home connection is the same with a server system's connection, is not because of a bottleneck in the network, but a bottleneck at either their local hard disk speeds, local network wire speeds etc. Everyone blames the bandwidth, but I know wires can be built able to transfer several terrabytes of data in a snap with multiplexed fiber optics and still have the same speeds as those adsl connections. All because a single hard disk would not be able to handle all those reads/writes of data. The only advantage that a monstrous connection will give is the ability to serve multiple clients. People just don't get it. They believe they will download their pr0n faster but this is true only up to a limit. And if you ask me, your 18mb/s speeds are really impressive, the fastest hard disks today have been proven by tom's hardware to reach only up to 23 mb/s.
I have one thing to say about bottlenecks... I can get 1-2mb/s on my external laptop hdd but I have seen up to 11-12mb/s on a usb 2.0 memory stick on the same connection. Are you sure that bandwidth is what you need to serve movies from your PC?