On 12 February 2011 19:04, Robert Derman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Kevin Hunter wrote: > >> At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote: >> >>> On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: >>> >>>> How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively >>>> sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, >>>> engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational >>>> resources. >>>> >>> >>> 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. >> > Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the > internet. Yes, but for people in some places you would have to use older more expensive RAM or the machine can't be upgraded so they would have to buy another, etc etc. > In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. But in historical terms the majority of people in the world haven't been able to access computer technology. That changes as prices fall and probably for every $10 fall another million can enter the market. So even small changes can have a significant effect on large numbers of people. > Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD > burner for less than $20. The fact is, a copy of MS Office can well cost > more than the entire computer system it is used on. > Not if it gets illegally copied. ;-) PS, hard drive space is likely to be less of an issue than RAM. > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
