AW: [guide-user] B1.0/...

Wälchli Hansjörg Jan 22, 2003

James -

I am wondering whether we should change our minds a bit. Is it really that
important to have all the data on your own hard (and touchable) disk? Does
it not become more important to have the most up to date and correct data?
If yes, we will have to get used to access such data online on a remote
database. As you mention, networks become more and more powerful and their
use is less and less bound to a location (mobile access). Maybe in ten years
you will not even dream of copying large data sets to your local machine but
you will be using network services instead.

A bit ironic: Shouldn't we leave the age of the hunter-gatherer and become
industrialized? I'm including myself in here as I downloaded A2.0 as well
;-)))

Hansjoerg


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Von: James Ellis [mailto:board@...]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2003 01:41
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Betreff: Re: [guide-user] B1.0/...


Bill -

We might even find that ten years from now distributing 80 gig or so of
catalogue could take place over an HTTP or FTP connection (or whatever is
around then)... I recently downloaded some Linux distros (Debian, Mandrake,
Suse) over one of the fastest connections in Australia. The complete
download took about a working day ~6-8hrs (from memory) for about 20 gigs.

So we aren't that far off having the fat pipes available to make easy access
(sub hour) to this sort of material just a click away. I suppose ten years
from now we'll be getting into the tens (100?) of megabytes/second to enable
this...

What this means for the entertainment industry I don't know :>

Cheers
James


> Pat's point about increasing storage availability is well-taken.
> Ten years from now, B1.0 won't be distributed on 110 CD-Rs, or nine
> DVD-Rs. It will consume part of the new multi-terabyte XYZ-Rs. (But
> USNO-C2.0 will have come out, requiring several dozen XYZ-Rs.)


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