On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 04:51 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Gregory Ewing > <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> Plus the downtime and labour needed to install the memory, if the computer >>> will even take it. >> >> >> Obviously we need an architecture that supports hot-swappable >> robot-installable RAM.
Isn't there a firmware update to the RAM that will double the available memory? > Cloud computing is the answer. > > If you don't believe me, just watch the sky for a while - new clouds > get added without the sky turning off and on again. Yeah, but they also disappear without notice, just when you need them the most. And there's no privacy, they leak private information constantly: everyone in the area knows exactly how many clouds you have and what they're doing. There's even a website that tells you what clouds have been ordered and where they're going: http://www.bom.gov.au/ -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list