In the short term you have a point, but the overriding one is that the connections will become wireless as such the storage will shrink because everything will be in the cloud. This the definition of reinvention - how we store and consume, its not evolutionary because most are unwilling to take the step.

At that point such measurements for speed will not be required. But, right now they do, yet most, you must concede, do not appreciate the actual speed they get.

You see I could rise to that, but I know I am right. So many before have contested idea of mine and been proven wrong, its not a war of attrition, even though I have batted back every ball on this thread. Its a matter of course, this is what the people want, its just they don't realise the solution yet - but they know there is a problem.

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the connections will become wireless as such the storage will shrink because everything will be in the cloud.

Your (lack of) understanding of the bandwidth limitation inherent in the RF spectrum label you indelibly as a non-techie...

IOW- you don't have a clue what you're on about.

Edited by billford (Thu 03-Mar-11 02:21:11)

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Do you have any idea how many times I have been right before

I have a fair idea...must be easy to keep count, eh?

When I first started my 'techie' learning, a tutor of mine was one of those guys who had been a teenager in the 70s. Back then most computer techs did their own soldering, electronics, the lot. I was so glad that I came into the industry when hardware was cheaper / easier to replace, as it was one area I didn't like.

Did I declare him obsolete? Of course not. He could setup Unix systems for fun and did too. He basically could do most of the non-specialised stuff (i.e. he had to get folk up to software and hardware IT degree level). One thing he (and my Dad) said. The old stuff is never obsolete...it just changes how it looks (or words to that effect). Electrical theory is the same. It hasn't changed much in (someone take a guess)...

Ever done computer architecture at any level? In other words, "How does a computer stop being a collection of parts with electricity added, and become a computer?". Computer architecture started in the 1940s with code breaking, and still goes on today. The difference is that the average user needs to know nothing about it, but the techies are still needed to program the software, design the hardware and test the whole thing.

The day techies are obsolete is the day computers are obsolete. Techies will just adapt to the demands of the industry.

Because you a tekkie, that's the problem. You don't think about others. If you do design software then maybe you'd be better if you thought more about those less endowed with the technical skills required to operate and even understand todays technological world.

This debate is not for you.

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Your maths teacher must have loved you, but your not there any more.

And you know it.

Depends. I was pretty good at maths until it got to stuff like Trigonometry or matrices. Totally oblivious. But the basics like multiplication and division weren't tough. In this day and age I don't think it would take too long to teach most kids how to convert from bits to bytes just like teaching them to convert feet into centimetres or stones into kilograms. You just need to be shown

I find it obscene that todays understanding of technology is the ultimate in what the human race can achieve.

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Because you a tekkie, that's the problem. You don't think about others. If you do design software then maybe you'd be better if you thought more about those less endowed with the technical skills required to operate and even understand todays technological world.

This debate is not for you.

But this is the technological sphere so you have to have the technical knowledge.

Every arena or area has it's own rules and standards. Either you learn them or you don't.

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I find it obscene that todays understanding of technology is the ultimate in what the human race can achieve.

We don't know everything, I'll agree. But it's clear that you know less than most of those who have taken an interest in the field.

Any field.

The measurement of size is obsolete from your tutors or fathers day, they no longer even pass a fleeting thought for kilobits anymore. Not unless nostalgically, but that is not relevant to the task at hand I bet. Because such speeds/sizes are obsolete, and that it at tech level. Either of them will admit you this.

People are not tekkies and were not from the days of the 70s and of that interest, they are busy with little understanding and so this method of comparing with MB is the best way forward.