WHEN DO YOU MAKE TECHNOLOGY DECISIONS?
So, when is the right time to make technology decisions? Do CPU's have a 'model year', like cars? If you get new technology 'on clearance sale', do you know if you are getting a good price or just getting dumped last cycle stuff, before the new round?
humm...
I don't have answers.
However, year-end is usually when I make a tech assessment.
It gets geeky.
CONVERT EVERYTHING - SEARCH AND SERENDIPITY
While updating, I found a conversion tool that purports to be quintessential:
UnitConversion.org is the ultimate resource for unit conversion. Use our free online unit converters to easily convert between different units of measurement.
You'll never get you mega-bits and mega-bytes confused or hook up a slow DMA burner with a fast DMA burner, or ever have to remember how many teaspoons in a "tibblespoon". (note; this will not help you know when you've walked 1000 yards or follow road directions ...).
NO BUZZ FOR 2008?
Looking over the great Consumer Want-this Show, that comes up in Las Vegas in the first weeks of the new year, one has to be a bit ... non-plussed this year.All of the truly interesting things - like chip-smart, energy-saving appliances and mega bandwidth creation, broadly put, including National WiFi network - are a long way away, except for a few.
For me, based on a very limited read so far, the big excitement is the transition to a 45nm CPU. That will bring better energy efficiency and better machines.
All the money spent on vid games hasn't made it easier to handle or manage very large data files or amounts. So storage, fast and easy, seems likely to continue as a 'frontier', as much or moreso than computing speed, even if the manufacturers of it are no longer capacity constrained, for the current state of the technology.
SOFTWARE
I have almost nothing to say about software. Do you?
