{"id":1498,"date":"2011-10-17T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2011-10-17T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:09:23","slug":"amazingly-cheap-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/10\/17\/amazingly-cheap-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingly cheap computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the younger you are, the less this post may resonate.<\/p>\n<p>Computers and computing gadgets and software is staggeringly cheap. Yes, games, but practially everything. I recently bought Sony Vegas HD 11 video editing software. It does EVERYTHING, and it cost under \u00a3100, as I recall. I&#8217;ve spent more than that on getting my boiler serviced. This is software that I could use to run an entire video editing business. It&#8217;s mad.<\/p>\n<p>I also bought an external 1 terrabyte back up drive yesterday for \u00a345.<\/p>\n<p>FOURTY FIVE POUNDS for a TERRABYTE.<\/p>\n<p>I need not remind you that a terrabyte is over 1,000,000 megabytes, which is a million zipped copies of war and peace. And I got a device that can store all that for less than the price of a tank of petrol. This is staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, to compensate, the rest of the world gets stupidlty expensive. I just bought a 990mm by 395mm piece of 2mm thick polycarbonate (plastic) and it cost me \u00a327 including tax and delivery. Madness. Getting a drain unblocked cost me over \u00a3100.<\/p>\n<p>We live in strange times indeed. Everything is so expensive its a wonder people can afford to live, and yet anything encoded digitally is so cheap as to be laughable, and the technology that would have been dismissed a decade ago as a pipe-dream is now practically disposable. As an IT engineer I worked on 30MB hard drives you could practically crush a car with. You now wouldn&#8217;t bother buying a hard drive below a terrabyte, and you could put that in a large pocket.<\/p>\n<p>If only all this crazy advances in computing tech co0uld be applied to making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XuAJTDCSMfA&amp;feature=related\">this stuff<\/a> cheaper. Insulation FTW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the younger you are, the less this post may resonate. Computers and computing gadgets and software is staggeringly cheap. Yes, games, but practially everything. I recently bought Sony Vegas HD 11 video editing software. It does EVERYTHING, and it cost under \u00a3100, as I recall. I&#8217;ve spent more than that on getting my<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Amazingly cheap computing<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/10\/17\/amazingly-cheap-computing\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}