Re: Campagnolo components and the Tour...

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:01:16 -0700, Mark Hickey
<mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Ningi <ningi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>My first computer, purchased in 1983 had the following spec :
>>
>>1Mhz processor
>>32K memory
>>400K storage
>
>
>That sounds like my first computer (Radio Shack Trash-80, WITH the
>expansion interface allowing up to a whopping 48K of memory). I think
>my storage was 100K on a 5.25" floppy.
>
>>Price : £700
>>
>>Computer I plan on buying this month :
>>
>>3000Mhz processor (3000x improvement)
>>1024MB memory ( 32000x improvment)
>>80GB storage (200000x improvement)
>>
>>Price : £580
>>
>>Have there been any improvements in any area of cycle technology of a
>>similar order?
>
>You're making a bad comparison in your other posts relative to
>database manipulation.
>
>A better comparison would be in the time it takes you to put together
>a one page word document with the two computers. There would be some
>very slight improvements in speed with the new one due to better GUI,
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>and one could equate spell-checking with STI and Ergo shifting I
>suppose. But in the end, the difference would be minor - sadly, "it's
>all in the motor".
>
>Mark Hickey
>Habanero Cycles
>http://www.habcycles.com
>Home of the $795 ti frame

Dear Mark,

If I recall correctly, no tests ever showed that adding a
mouse improved typing speed.

Another amusing question is to ask whether the new computer
arrives at a useful screen 3,000 times faster than the old
computer.

Most of the increased hardware speed in personal computers
is usually gobbled up the insatiable demands of the
software, which either takes longer and longer to load or
else forces the user to jump through more and more hoops to
reach the same place.

My medical office clients spend more and more time filling
out more and more forms and typing longer and longer
descriptions because increased computer capacity makes it
possible for third parties to demand such things.

Turning doctors into typists and clerks is not exactly
productive. The same is often pointed out when managers who
should be managing are spending their time wrestling with
computers instead of people.

Carl Fogel
.

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