19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
9:24 a.m.
On 19 Mar 2007 at 8:38, Dan wrote:
This is a ridiculous. Do you think people only play
MP3s or videos on
their machine ? You forget there a numerous hobbies out there--amateur
radio/astronomy,etc,etc-- besides the home automation industry that let
_home users_ make good use of the new technology.
Cool down, there. I was merely observing that connectivity (being
the highway) has trailed Moore's Laws (at least in the US) for quite
some time. Given that the bulk of the use for home PCs is net-
based; there will come a time that there is simply not enough
bandwidth *commonly* available to feed a petaflop machine.
Really, in m neck of the woods, broadband capacity has increased very
slowly--1.5 Mb/sec is as good as I can do today--and was as good as
was offered 5 years ago.
Remember that most of the nation is still on dialup.
Certainly, today, I can purchase a Bugatti Veyron, but I might have
finding a palce to open it up. Not only is it expensive because
there's some uncommon enginnering, but also because the market is
limited.l The same evenutally must apply to a PC--yes, you can
have the power, but if you're only offered dialup service, what are
you going to do with it. There will be no mass market for the ultra-
powered PC, so while it might be available, it will be not be the
model in common use.
Regardless of the needs of home hobbyists, who don't drive production
of consumer PCs, most people I know of still use the box primarily
for email and web browsing. I don't consider amateur astronomy to
be in the "killer app" class.
Cheers,
Chuck