Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:38:41 +0530 From: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> To: "FreeBSD.org - Chat" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <019b01c1fca3$4d554ff0$1901a8c0@ti.com>
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From: "Robert Clark" <res03db2@gte.net> To: "Nils Holland" <nils@daemon.tisys.org> > > > So far about what has happened. The question, however, is what we can learn > > from it. Basically, I believe that the computer industry is in serious > > danger - Moore's Law seems to be self-destructing. What I mean by this? > > Well, seriously, if I go to a computer shop these days, then I will find a > > whole lot of hyper-fast machines, but for an ordinary user, these probably > > wouldn't make much sense. If a 500 Mhz machine sits 90% idle while someone > > writes a letter of surfs the web, then why should he upgrade to a 2000 Mhz > > one? > > > > I've seen hundreds of systems replaced at the office, just because they > are no longer fast enough. As software gets bigger and slower, the systems > need to be faster. > Also helps a lot when playing Unreal and Quake > > Will the offshore coding hordes tire of piecemeal work and turn their > sights on knocking humpty off the wall? > The offshore coding hordes are already tired of piecemeal work! he only reason we are still doing it is because we don't know how to do anything else and noone else is giving us a job ! Gautham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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