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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
