... and yet, now we have 10TB hard drives and cheap reliable SSD's on pci. we also have 24 core xeons and x-billion-transistor gpu's. let's not forget fiber at home, 40gig ethernet in the datacenter, and reliable 4G on main st.

clearly, something, somewhere is causing progress to happen, despite your inexplicable inability to see it.

the real problem is people keep making software that gobbles up all these gains.