On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:22:37AM -0700, hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org wrote:
balance sheet
value of 1.6 G bytes
($200 IBM 20Gb drive, y2k) $12
value of 50 hours programming
($100 per hour, y2k) $5000
net gain (loss) to society
from the Zimm Buddism
("every byte is sacred"): ($4988)
The 2nd millenium is over. Save programmers, not bytes.
This is a misleading comparsion. There are circumstances where bytes can
be extremely costly, such as in the new wave of wireless devices, smart
You miss the biggest point.
Value of 50 hours programming - $5000.
value of 0.6 Mb (I assume this is the number) - $12 PER DRIVE.
Assuming it will be installed on more than 416 drives it is cheaper to
pay a programmer to shrink the application.
You may have noticed this if you had to upgrade CPU, Memory, or Disk
when going from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000.
(and if you use a Palm Pilot's ram as an example the cost goes way up)