What will they do?

While I was in the bathroom today I was thinking about getting a new computer. The computer I have right now is by no means "slow" but there are much faster processors out there than what I have currently ( 1 GHz). I then started thinking about how fast that they are producing faster and faster processors. Upon further reasearch it is said that "Processor speed doubles every 18 months for the same price" ( I think the guys name is Moore who said that).

I guess this means that today $300 could be my a really fast processor, but in a little over a year that same $300 would buy me a processor double that speed, which would be tremendously fast. Now then, I conclude processor speed doubling to be equal to that of whole numbers when paired with exponets. Take 2^2 for example. It equals 4. Everyone knows that. But look at 2^3, that equals an astounding 8. Now, if processors get a new exponet every 18 months, this will be very startling. First of all, after a certain point (say 4 Ghz?) this will just become rediclious.

When the 4 Ghz chip comes out, just remember that you're only 18 months away from having an 8 Ghz chip. The time gap of only 18 months will mean you'll have to shell out all kinds of cash to keep up with the software changes, and companys will have to shell out billions to keep software using the lastest in speed technology. I see this as a finanical disaster, because the home PC user simply cannot afford to upgrade so often, and for such little relative speed gain. So the only solution wil be for software companies to create several methods for making us think our computer are going slower than they are actually capable of, otherwise we'd see no reason to upgrade to a faster chip.

Here are two "devices" software companies (namely microsoft) will use:

Degrading software: This is where the software actually degrades itself according to a certain time amount of use. The result of this will be the software running at slower speeds and crashing more often (I believe microsoft started testing this with windows 95).

Hard Drive tricks: When games are designed for 4 Ghz chips the graphics will be photo-realisitc, this will need major hard drive/RAM use to keep up. I believe software companies will kindly ask (aka give tons of money (aka bribes)) hard drive manufacturers to slow down the speed of the data that can be read from their products. Causing people to think the processors are slow, but its actually the bottleneck from the IDE cable. Also, I believe software will be coded to make nonsense reads from the harddrive in different areas of the harddrive, causing major slowdown. (I believe microsoft started testing this in windows 95).

The only solution I see to make sure that we are getting the true potential from our processors is for someone to design and impliment a processor that is capable of doing the tasks of a normal operating PC in one simple unit. This would include the functions of the RAM, Hard Drive, Processor, Sound Card, Video Card, etc. As I'm sure if you started developing such a device software companies and processor companies would have you shot, several times.

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Bump.

Well, Smiley informed me several times that no one would start posting again because no one would want to bump my last post. So I figured I'd do it myself. Since I don't feel like typing a whole lot in order to bump it further down the page, I'm including this wonderful fan sign. This nice looking lady is none other than Kalen. Go see her, even though I'm pretty sure that probably anyone who's seen NOTD before has probably already been familiar with the illustrious cherrysugar.

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Remember.

To begin. Many of you know me; many of you know my family. Most of you that know them, also know that my father was diagnosed with oral cancer in December of 2000. He fought, we all fought. Enduring two 12 hour + surgeries; enduring a painful round of radiation; enduring countless rounds of weekly chemotherapy. Enduring. Fighting. Living. Dying. Yesterday 7/26/02 at 2:00PM central time, the enduring, the fighting, the living; it ended. He was my father, my friend, and my hero. There was nothing this man could not do. Cancer is such an evil thing, such a horrid thing, and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. It is also such a blessing. We've known since about April that he was not going to survive. These past four months have been the best four of my life. There is no way to explain how much more each day mattered when you knew there might not be a tomorrow, and you knew that tomorrow would be soon. It brought our whole family closer than we've ever been, closer than we ever would have been otherwise. I loved my father, and I know he loved me. I could ask for nothing more. Please, if you pray, remember him, remember my family, and most of all, remember your own families. You only get one, and when it's gone, life is never the same.

For anyone interested, visitation will be Monday evening beginning at 4:00PM at Memorial Funeral Home in Russellville, KY. The funeral will be Tuesday at 11:00AM at Sacred Heart Catholic Church also in Russellville.

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