From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T05:32:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:16:01AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >Yeah, 'cause things never add up.
> 
> 160 GB of hard drive space cost as much as a month of a 1 pack / day 
> smoking habit. You could almost fit a whole Debian archive into that. 
> E.g. probably more software than most computer users will ever need to 
> use, in several versions, for 10 different computer architectures.
> 
> Computer storage space is so dirt cheap and available in mass quantities 
> it's simply not possible to fill a large amount of it with only software 
> that doesn't have humongous requirements on data needed at runtime. 
> Sometimes things just don't add up. I'd be interested on how a non-edge 
> case workstation setup where they do would contain.

I don't own any 160GB hard drives.  I have no use for them.  My largest
hard drive is exactly half that, and I have storage space to spare.  I
like that situation.

I prefer to keep using what I've got until I need to upgrade to suit
some specific need, rather than running around looking for needs to
justify buying more hardware.

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