30 Dec
2017
30 Dec
'17
5:24 p.m.
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Sean Conner wrote:
Except that it seems like it didn't used to take so long to get the
machine started up.
Really.
But, we could also do our web-surfing standing in the kitchen?
4K should (had we truly doubed everything every 18
months) now be 1T
(terrabyte):
2) What did
Gordon Moore actually say in 1965?
That the number of transistors in an integrated
circuit double every 18
months.
3) How much is $500 of 1976 money worth now?
It depends upon how you calculate it. I'm using this page [1] for the
calculation, and I get:
$4,960.00 using the relative share of GDP 4) Consider
how long it took to use a text editor to make a grocery
shopping list in 1976. How long does it take today?
I would think the same
amount of time. Typing is typing. Does having
the grocery list consist of pictures instead of words, with
audio commentary, and maybe Smell-O-Vision (coming soon), improve the
quality of life?
For me, not really. How much does
it help to be able to contact your
refrigeratior and query its knowledge of its contents?
It could be helpful, but
with the current state of IoT, I would not want
to have that ability. EMACS is lean and mean compared to some of the
"text editors" coming out
today, based upon Javascript frameworks. It's scary.
When a simple peice of software comes on a DVD, because a CD-ROM is no
longer big enough, . . .
-spc (Yeah, I realize these were probably rhetorical
in nature ... )
Don't you hate rhetorical questions?