Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011

Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> > > How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively
> > > sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing,
> > > engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational
> > > resources.
> >
> > 75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities.
>
> Yes, it is gobs.  If you have 4GB+, perhaps it's not, but not everyone 
> has 4GB+.  Particularly in non-Western countries.  I have just 
> returned from Ethiopia, for example, where owning a computer is rare; 
> for those who do, 256 MB is common.  I suspect that we *do* live in 
> different realities.
>
> > RAM is extremely cheap these days.
>
> If $100 bucks is cheap to you, then so be it.  It's not to me, a 
> graduate student.
Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on 
the internet.  In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap.  Also a 
500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD 
burner for less than $20.  The fact is, a copy of MS Office can well 
cost more than the entire computer system it is used on. 

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