I just nabbed this from a picture someone posted on Plurk:: (^_^)<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached the point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you’re done.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s a pretty wicked thought.\u00a0 I mean, initially each scenario has its difficulties.\u00a0 One requires an entire industrialized society while the other requires a manual operation for each utensil.\u00a0 While factories can churn out millions of plastic spoons each day, washing our metal spoons requires less infrastructure. (^_^)<\/p>\n
I love to marvel at stuff like this.\u00a0 Like just a few moments ago I see an Email pop on my screen while a split second later my iPhone vibrates to alert me of the same Email.\u00a0 While it would have been easy enough to hand me a note written on a 4×6″ index card, the sender opted to type an Email and send it which causes the data to be sent to the Email server, stored in a database, be routed through the network so that it reaches my computer, in addition to being made WWW connected server which my iPhone polls every once in a while.\u00a0 The hardware, software, and overall infrastructure necessary to accomplish that is daunting, yet, *PING!* there’s my message.\u00a0 (^_^)<\/p>\n
Same as this, my blog.\u00a0 I’ll just type a couple hundred words of whatever the heck is on my head and the moment I hit the [Publish] button, it gets sent to a database as a public document with a “?p=” number, the contents are added to another document that makes up my RSS feed, and immediately it’s available to nearly the whole frigg’n world!\u00a0 I mean, DUDE!\u00a0 How can that NOT be wicked? (^_^)<\/p>\n
I chat with friends via Gtalk, Skype, YIM, and of course Second Life… Each person is from some different corner of the world; be it U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand… And I can bloody go on for a day with that list.\u00a0 Yet, while we’re chatting, the moment we press enter the text crosses the world and appears on the other person’s screen!\u00a0 …Following a path made up of Cat6 cable, coaxial, fiber-optics, microwave transceivers, and what-have you… Just… *FOOM!* It’s frigg’n there! XD<\/p>\n
That’s hot. (^_^)<\/p>\n
And, mind you, all this infrastructure to tell someone, “… Now I’m bored. (._.)” =^-^=<\/p>\n
With more recent technologies like VOIP, Bittorrent, Cloud Computing, and so on… The infrastructure has to grow to meet a higher demand.\u00a0 Everything has to scale up.\u00a0 Now, we’re getting promises of Gigabit web access.\u00a0 But, what does that entail?\u00a0 Okay, one person with one fiber line using one Gigabit doens’t sound half bad.\u00a0 But, multiply that by 80 people in one neighborhood.\u00a0 What kind of hardware does it take to move 80 Gigabits per second?\u00a0 Frigg’n’eck that’s a serious ton of data! =^-^=<\/p>\n
Where am I going with this?\u00a0 Heck if I know.\u00a0 I keep up just well enough to know what the latest programming and modeling tools are to get my job done as quickly as possible… Which also means pulling tons more data than I push out in order to research and learn about the subject I’m after. (^_^)<\/p>\n
This stuff is big and it’s only getting bigger as time goes by.\u00a0 Just like the plastic spoon; while it is more reasonable to use one metal spoon over and over by washing it… Come time you have a picnic the convenience of having 500 plastic ones that you won’t have to wash is a tempting necessary evil, indeed. (^_^)y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just nabbed this from a picture someone posted on Plurk:: (^_^) “It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached the point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into … Continue reading