When I read this article by Thomas Claburn about Web 2.0 Arrives to Find Web 3.0 Under Way I immediately thought about two things. First what’s web 3.0 and unfortunately nobody knows exactly what it is and the another point came to my mind when I read about a government agency that its system “required 22 terabytes of random access memory to handle the complex data processing and it was still unstable. When it crashed, he said, it took a week to boot up.” , is who is doing better job people trying to work in hardware or people working in software and also to which level they affect each other.
I find it really interesting when the prices of memory RAM and the Hard drives went down after being ridiculously expensive. Was that because the new software do not need that much memory as it used to be or it is just that the cost of producing decreased.
As I’m thinking of changing my major from Computer Science to IT another thing jumped to my mind is it better to study and work in software development or hardware development or know some of both. Is it enough to know how to use the technology or I must know how it was made.
If you have answers to my questions please help me out here
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- majid
- I'm from Saudi Arabia ( Riyadh).In the past, I worked for a consulting engineers company as adminstration manager.Right now I'm studying computer science in the American University and minor in IT.
4 comments:
Majid - The cost of hard drives and RAM rapidly decreased because the material and final products are much cheaper to produce than before. Also, there is a far greater demand for such when computer use has increased dramatically over recent years. Overhead costs are now spread among far more products and individual costs have gone down. Also, competition has increased in the hardware industry forcing vendors to drop prices in order to compete. Hope these answered your questions!
Alex
LOL...What he ^^^^^ said. You know I just think that it all comes down to the bottom line in bussiness. So, take a step back, see what supply and demand require, see where you can cut costs, and then you will find the answer grasshopper...LOL.
Alex thanks a lot for the information and I would like to add China as big part of the decline in prices.
divinereflection I agree with you.
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