{"id":515,"date":"2007-11-06T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2007-11-06T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:53:00","slug":"now-when-i-buy-the-latest-and-greatest-the-performance-goes-down-mr-singleterry-said-this-has-never-happened-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/06\/now-when-i-buy-the-latest-and-greatest-the-performance-goes-down-mr-singleterry-said-this-has-never-happened-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Now when I buy the latest and greatest, the performance goes down,&#8221; Mr. Singleterry said. &#8220;This has never happened in the past.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storage is not the only computer application where vendors are unable to take advantage of ever increasing speeds of processors as the <a href=\"https:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119431303929083370.html\">Wall Street Journal notes:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other users are running into problems already. Robert Singleterry Jr., a researcher at National Aeronautics and Space Administration&#8217;s Langley Research Center, studies the potential effects of space radiation on astronauts. His software depends heavily on each chip&#8217;s clock speed &#8212; a contributor to computing speed, measured in gigahertz &#8212; and has seen disappointing test results based on quad-core chips with slower clock speeds than dual-core chips.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now when I buy the latest and greatest, the performance goes down,&#8221; Mr. Singleterry said. &#8220;This has never happened in the past.&#8221;  &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The urgency to purchase new equipment from  manufacturers has diminished without the steady speed increase.  This change provides a  great bargaining chip to the purchaser of new storage equipment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-6030256629850019691?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storage is not the only computer application where vendors are unable to take advantage of ever increasing speeds of processors as the Wall Street Journal notes: &#8220;Other users are running into problems already. Robert Singleterry Jr., a researcher at National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/06\/now-when-i-buy-the-latest-and-greatest-the-performance-goes-down-mr-singleterry-said-this-has-never-happened-in-the-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}