"Gym Sulkinson Fork" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:19:11 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jym Wulkinson Kunife" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 22:11:51 +0100, NY wrote:
"Jym Wulkinson Kunife" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:59:40 +0100, Bill Wright
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On 23/10/2018 21:12, Jim Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I bet you believed Popular Mechanics when they said computers might
one day weigh less than 1.5 tons.
Yes I did.
Twit.
When computers *were* several tons, the prospect of them being lighter
than
that must have seemed unbelievable. And he was right to believe that
computers would get lighter. They did - and how!
My point exactly, they got a LOT lighter than ever previously thought.
Nobody ever seems to quite grasp that tomorrow's technology will be way
better than what they thought possible.
That isnt true of all technology. It isnt with Peltiers,
It doesn't have to be a Peltier, just something more modern than a
compressor ffs.
or knives and forks
Those don't need upgrading.
or plates either.
Although non-breakable ones would be nice here.
Yes, Corelles
Who?
are rather better than what we had before,
but nothing even remotely like as dramatically as with computers.
Nowadays I have a computer that has a circuit board which is about
3"x2"
and
just needs power, screen and keyboard/mouse external connections (it's
a
Raspberry Pi). OK, it's not as fast as a full-size laptop or desktop,
but
it's bloody good for its size and its power consumption is a lot less.
I
think it weighs about 50 grammes, so about 30,000 times lighter ;-)
The RPi is great for what it does, which in my case is logging weather
station data and recording TV programmes, both tasks which require a
computer to be left on 24/7. I actually get to turn my Win 7 PC off at
night
nowadays :-)
I have 6 Windows PCs and leave them all on all the time. They do all
sorts of stuff, involving heavy computation.
What exactly ?
Scientific research.
Oh bull****.
Short of nicking the electricity, they cost a lot to run.