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Ian Stirling wrote:

Slickwater wrote:
Slickwater wrote:

Someone tell me what the freakin deal is. 4 years ago, the cutting
edge of technology was at an acceptable grueling pace. Now it has
slowed down to a pitiful, stomach-wrenching crawl and it makes me
sick. Then, for example, we invented the Pentium chip and the DVD
player, now everyone thinks were makin the same leaps by making

The pentium was only a fair bit faster than the fastest 486 systems.
DVD players only had a little better picture quality than VCD players.

Yes, the Pentium 60 wasn't much faster than the 48DX at 100 MHZ (or
thereabouts - whatever they maxed out at wasn't much faster). So what?
Find me a commercially-available 486 that outperformed a Pentium 90
(which hit the market within a year or so). Stupid comparisons. Try
measuring processor floating point performance; measure disk, video and
overall data throughput for a bit more meaningful comparison.

VCDs use MPEG-1 compression; DVDs use MPEG-2. If you think that's "only
a little better picture quality" you're using a REALLY crappy TV. For
better video still, try getting a progressive scan DVD player hooked up
through component video.

existing Pentium chips a few Megahertz faster and a DVD player that
hold slightly more gigabytes. What the hell is the matter with
scientists today. The fact that we haven't colonized the moon yet and
had several manned missions to mars makes me want to puke. What the
heck is takin these chumps so long? I'm so mad.

Funding, and huge aerospace companies not wanting to lower the cost of
anything.

Oh, please. You must be a graduate of the "It's All a Big Conspiracy!"
school of higher education.

--
Herb Schaltegger, Esq.
Chief Counsel, Human O-Ring Society
"I was promised flying cars! Where are the flying cars?!"
~ Avery Brooks