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#198097 26-Jun-2016 18:44

I had a busy weekend. I was reminded - the hard way - yet again of the Fundamental Law of DIY: "it will always take longer and cost more than you think".

However, I believe I have discovered a new (for me at least) Law of Technology: "the ports on your new ethernet switch will fill up much faster than you think".

What are yours?

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#1580648 26-Jun-2016 19:04

Easy: workloads will expand to fill up available capacity - memory, CPU, storage. Also applies to Vodafone cable network usage.

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#1580649 26-Jun-2016 19:10

I'll take the age old easy one (has it been disproven yet?)

Moore's law - the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

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#1580650 26-Jun-2016 19:12

The one seems to inflict often is... the moment you buy it's superceded.

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#1580655 26-Jun-2016 19:17

No storage media will ever have enough capacity. In ten years we'll be probably laughing at computers that had terabyte sized hard drives.

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#1580659 26-Jun-2016 19:24

PhantomNVD: I'll take the age old easy one (has it been disproven yet?)

Moore's law - the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

Moore's Law is dead as of 2016.

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#1580680 26-Jun-2016 20:06

freitasm:

PhantomNVD: I'll take the age old easy one (has it been disproven yet?)

Moore's law - the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

Moore's Law is dead as of 2016.

And it was being changed every so often anyway...

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#1580716 26-Jun-2016 22:29

freitasm:
PhantomNVD: I'll take the age old easy one (has it been disproven yet?)

Moore's law - the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

Moore's Law is dead as of 2016.

That was an interesting read, thanks!

The comment section shows some novel ideas for the future too.

Here's another 'law' though... The Internet connection I have will never be enough to do the things I want it to, at the speed/quality I desire.

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#1580824 27-Jun-2016 05:39

DarthKermit:

No storage media will ever have enough capacity. In ten years we'll be probably laughing at computers that had terabyte sized hard drives.

People will still use local storage in ten years?