Do you remember the days when you thought who needs 1 GB of space? That seemed way too much space. Except now that everything is faster, all the software is taking up more space. I have a plea to the tech world -- could you PLEASE make programs smaller?? It's ridiculous that I'm getting messages to delete programs because 130 GB of space is not big enough. If we are getting so great at conserving energy, I say please conserve bandwidth/hard drive space/memory. , I'm tired of looking for ways to delete programs, files, defragment, etc. to make room for bigger and bigger files. (Incidentally, Microsoft and Adobe are the worst offenders, at least in my laptop space).
And if we are moving into "cloud" computing (e.g. zoho.com) to make room in local space, I have another plea to make. People don't necessarily want their files stored in 3rd party servers -- please have an option for people to use softwares in the "cloud" but keep files in their own computers. No offense, but I have no faith that any other company or person will be vigilant about keeping my tax files, social security number, and any other documents with sensitive information completely safe. At least if the files are sitting in my laptop, I have only myself to blame (maybe).
The chance of anyone remotely connected to making any of this happen reading this blog post is probably small to nil. But I feel much better having vented out into the cyberspace the frustration of upgrading hard drive or laptop to make way for bigger programs.
1 comment:
You already know that it's in the industry's own best interests to take up space on our hard drives. Makes us want to buy new hardware sooner. It also has partly to do with the programmers trying to meet tight deadlines that redundant scripts end up geting left in the software. Easter Eggs are another possibility.
Btw, as a favor I briefed my connections in the computer industry but neither the guys at Best Buy or Radio Shack said that they could do anything about it.
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