> From: Robin Whittle <r...@firstpr.com.au> >> In a system which is designed for a very long lifetime, design for the >> outer envelope of technology today - because tomorrow's will be a lot >> more capable.
> I entirely agree with you on this. I will be tempted to cite it as: > ... > If there is a practical way of getting mapping in real-time to local > full-database query servers Hardware improvements often cannot beat _scaling_ issues (such as keeping up with growth in the size of a full database). I mean, scaling issues are the reason we are here now, right? I was talking about relying on more capable hardware in pushing for more advanced _functionality_ - the example that brought up the above was doing crypto in portable devices. Noel _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list rrg@irtf.org http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg