On Mon, 2019-12-30 at 16:52 -0800, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > Who needs more than 640Kb of memory? > > We don't know what the future holds. This is an interesting read, > featuring 5g to perform a "hologram" phone call: > https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45009458
While I appreciate that this is just "an example" of why I might need more than "640Kb of memory" (or more pertinently, more than just a few MBits/s of phone bandwidth), it's not a realistic/relevant example. Holographic phone calls? I barely ever use even video calling of any sort. The "picture" portion of the call almost always adds zero value -- helping my mom load paper in her printer using Duo to actually see and navigate the physical restrictions of her printer from 300KM away, aside. But really, these are still all just weak excuses (and to be clear, not reasons) for why we "need more" of what is already sufficient. Consumerism as it's worst[1]. I'm not saying that maybe one day we won't need 25Mb/s to a hand-held device, but hologram telephone calling, Netflixing and even video calling, are not the use-cases, IMHO. To head way O/T: [1] I chuckled a this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-chromecast-cheap-streaming-device-older-tvs-2019-12 Any TV which you can plug a Chromecast into, which is by any definition a TV with HDMI, which is by just about any definition any "flat screen" TV is not "old", IMHO. Call me an old fuddy-duddy but an "old" TV is that 13" B/W with 13 (was it?) VHF channels that my parents used to have in the living room. The very idea that any flat-screen/HDMI TV is "old" is just more evidence of the rampant replace-anything-older-than-two-years-old consumerism that grips North American society and is filling our (or third-world countries') landfills. North Americans need to learn to be happy with what they have and buy (and pay for) the kind of quality that lasts (i.e. press-board furniture need not apply). b.
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