Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:31:29 +1000, James A. Donald <jamesd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>However, irrespective of the particular events at
>Microsoft, software tends to get slower with time.  The
>reason is that anyone who introduces a feature that
>makes things very slightly slower for everyone and all
>software gets credit for particular benefits of his
>feature, but does not get discredit for the very slight
>slowdown, which mostly affects the vast majority who are
>entirely unaware of this feature, and have absolutely no
>interest in it.  Multiply this by ten million
>programmers and ten million features, and pretty soon
>the computer is wading through cold mol*****.

That is a good point. So what we need is better accounting for resources 
and more programmer responsibility, not necessarily faster hardware.


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chuk