+1
As recently as ten years ago the third fastest supercomputer offered
12 Teraflops and 12Tb of storage. Today the same can be bought for
$6,000.
A Raspberry Pi casts $35 and has the same performance as the
workstation class of ten years ago.
Any proposal that says we should lock ourselves in to the technology
constraints of the valve tube era of computing is stupid.
There should be an immutable principle that people who want to
contribute to the cutting edge of technology have access to recent
software and reasonably up to date hardware and those that don't
bother have to take responsibility for their personal choices rather
than forcing the rest of us to adapt to their self-imposed
limitations.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Paul Hoffman
<paul(_dot_)hoffman(_at_)vpnc(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:59 AM, t.p. <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com> wrote:
There should be an immutable requirement that any alternative format
MUST NOT increase the size by more than a factor of two compared to
ASCII text.
<tongue position="incheek">
Given Moore's law, would that change 18 months from now to an immutable
requirement of a factor of four?
</tongue>
--Paul Hoffman
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