From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 20:34:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDB937B406 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 20:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.34] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A5FC342026A; Fri, 24 May 2002 22:33:16 -0500 Message-ID: <001701c2039d$036e3c20$22e2910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Nils Holland" Cc: Subject: Re: The Road Ahead? Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 22:34:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Probably not the best etiquette to dredge this up, as it's a week or so old now (though it WAS an enjoyable and invigorating thread), but this just hit me, maybe because these days I'm spending more time *fixing* computers and less time *using* them... >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? Maybe I'm not an ordinary user. I have a Windoze box at 475MHz, and during the process of recording and/or mixing multitrack audio, I *very often* wish for faster processors, memory, disk access, protocols, etc., etc., etc., Latency, underruns, and just sitting there while it spends 98% of its processing power doing a task....although computers can process M + MIPS, I still get bored *waiting*. Anyone who's ever built world on a Pentium 90 can relate to that, and I'm told that in many countries 'round the globe a 486DX will still bring a good price. E-mail? (or is it email?---but that's another thread)... any box'll do. But there are some valid reasons to have a "Need for speed...." Nils, if you find yourself with an extra 2GHz CPU floating around, ship it to Missouri. ;-) Coffee's on me this time, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message