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All In The Name Of Porn

"...computing power that "is 10 billion times faster than the one we [Amstrad] made 23 years ago"."

So if we divide the Library of Congress by Station Wagons hurling down the highway filled with tape drives, factor in Moore's Law and, let's see, carry the one... that pretty much accounts for my porn collection...

Less flippantly recently El Reg ran an article wherein an American scientist/engineer spoke of how modeling had come to take a place in science equal to theory and method. The noted increase of 10 billion times in computing speed is mind boggling in terms of the likely speed at which science is advancing.

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