On 22/04/2014 09:30 AM, scott wrote:
>> The party is over, my friends.
>
> I would imagine a lot of people said the same in 1850 about the
> Industrial Revolution. And look what's changed since then (in terms of
> manufacturing).

Um... has anything changed? Apart from the invention of plastic, I can't 
really think of anything.

> Sure, desktop CPU clock frequency is not as important as it used to be,
> but there are plenty of other metrics. Two off the top of my head are
> battery energy density and internet connection speed, both show no sign
> of having reached the limit, and both will give real benefits to a large
> number of people.

I don't know, man. I think Internet speeds have now reached the point 
where page loading is near-instant, and any further boost is of no real 
benefit.

...until you try to download a large file, but that's reasonably rare. 
Still, with Bioshock: Infinite clocking in at 17 GB, I'm sure glad of 
the speed on the rare occasions where I use it! o_O

Actually, come to think of it, it seems that now Firefox is that's 
holding things up! It seems to take longer for Firefox to do the page 
rendering than it does to actually download the files! So all that stuff 
I said about CPU speed not mattering anymore? I guess I was wrong. :-S 
(Assuming it's actually CPU-limited, and not disk-limited...)

> Bring on 8000x4000x120p streaming video, projected from my phone :-)

 From what I've seen, the limitation is that all projectors work at 
800x600, or if you buy an expensive one, 1024x768. Christ only knows why 
they don't make them in any higher resolutions...

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