"Mo' mem'ry! Mo' mem'ry!"

[poltr1]

Who was it that said 640 *kilobytes* was more memory than anyone would ever need? Ha!

A co-worker of mine has a relatively new computer, with 256 Mb of memory, and running MyEclipse brings it to its knees. When a code rebuild takes about an hour, it's too long. So some of us are getting memory upgrades instead of getting system upgrades.

Gad, I can remember when I shelled out something obscene for *1* megabyte of memory. I think I had it on layway, too. That was in 1990-91.

I'm not as impacted, but I'm spending most of my time staring at code, trying to study it, and feeling like I'm getting nowhere.

I think I'll go find a nice warm corner, curl myself up in a little ball, and go to sleep. (Sometimes I think my cats have it made.)

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[dagonell.livejournal.com]

When we installed my parents new computer, I had to go to the computer place to pick up a cable. 4GB flash drives for $15!!!! Whoa! I had to explain to my parents how much memory a gigabyte is. "The entire Encyclopedia Britannica could fit on this thing, picture included with room for a hundred years or so of updates!
-- Dagonell

[poltr1]

4 Gb? For $15? Damn, that's cheap! I just picked up a 2 Gb flash drive (with U3) at Micro Center for $16 last week. (1 Gb drives are $10.)

Supposedly, Vista can utilize flash memory as RAM.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

If I see a 4GB, or even 2GB, flash drive for $15 when I'm shopping in a brick and mortar store, I will certainly snap it up. I've never seen them close to that cheap in the flesh.

Supposedly, Vista can utilize flash memory as RAM.

Say WHAT? Has the fact that M$ has been getting away with claiming they can require every byte that goes over the system data bus to go through software encryption/decryption and still deliver acceptable performance convinced them they can claim anything at all end get away with it?