On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 22:10:19 PM -0500, Kevin Hunter ([email protected]) wrote:

> >75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities.
> 
> Yes, it is gobs.  If you have 4GB+, perhaps it's not, but not
> everyone has 4GB+.  Particularly in non-Western countries.  I have
> just returned from Ethiopia, for example, where owning a computer is
> rare; for those who do, 256 MB is common.  I suspect that we *do*
> live in different realities.
> 
> >RAM is extremely cheap these days.
> 
> If $100 bucks is cheap to you, then so be it.  It's not to me, a
> graduate student.

Very well said, Kevin. Thanks for a reminder that the world is a mix
of very different situations and that "cheap" is a word that should
used in such a general, meaningless way.

Marco

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