Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by arethuza on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:08AM (#21833828)

Different budgets probably - I've seen people kicking up an almighty fuss on a ~£40 million pound project about buying ~200 large monitors for one screen in the application (the application screen really did need to be huge due to various constraints).

One of our meetings probably cost ten times the cost of 200 monitors!

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by Aeolun on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:50AM (#21834843)

Those are some huge (or long) meetings.

Back of the envelope:

$400 * 200 = $80000 for the monitors.

You need to have $80000 / ($100000/12/21/8) = 1600 person/hour of meeting time to equal the cost. 100 people can meet for two days!

I feel like something is off with that calculation, but I cannot find it...

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by arethuza on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:05AM (#21834947)

It was a big project - so easily 30-40 people at meetings (usually in multiple concurrent sessions). People flying in from all over the world and staying in decent hotels...

I remember seeing the bill for breakfast for one set of meetings - was nearly $5000.

Yeah - I was off with the "ten times"... but not by a huge amount ;-)

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by Aeolun on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:11PM (#21840612)

Ah, yeah, you can rapidly run up the cost if you fly to your meetings. I was thinking about an all-in-one-office situation. Good point, thanks :)

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