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Bob Albert
That is all well and good, but my experience predates all of this.? I dscovered it as far back as the 1940s.? A look at people like Sarnoff and Napoleon should prove that greed is nothing new. We are taught not to be greedy, to share with the less fortunate, but those who preach those values are not examples of their own teachings. Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a member of the human race.? Sure, people are basically honest, as long as they think they are being watched. Bob
On Sunday, April 19, 2020, 05:39:47 PM PDT, Jim Ford <james.ford@...> wrote:
Yes, indeed.? Why do we need faster and faster hardware?? Slower and slower software, of course!? The problem is that software is getting slower and slower faster than hardware is getting faster and faster. :( Jim Ford? Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@...> Date: 4/19/20 5:03 PM (GMT-08:00) Subject: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes > I must say that I saw a pattern in my professional life.? Everywhere I > went, including the military, I was told that things were really nice a > while back, and I should have been there then.? Perhaps nostalgia isn't > what it used to be. ? This didn't just happen at random.? This, along with another major problem, software bloat, can be traced to just about the same time and the same type of attitude. ? Sometime in the 1970s, I think it was, some clueless economics professor in some ivory tower said something to the effect of "the sole purpose of any corporation is to make money by any means possible," all other considerations be damned.? Suits all over the world took this as if they'd just been released from some sort of prison (where many of them arguably belong) and they went absolutely wild.? It was then that the decline of these corporations, and the rise of extreme levels of sleaze at the executive level, began.? Enron, Worldcom, etc.? Crime no longer need take place in dark alleys and crack houses, it moved to the comfort of the boardroom!? We all get screwed daily by the result of this. ? Also sometime in the 1970s, another moron, probably related to the one described above, said "programmer time is more valuable than processor time".? This similarly caused the laziest programmers to act as if they'd be unchained, and the decline of computing efficiency, and caring about same, began.? This is why modern OSs require multi-GHz clock speeds and billions of bytes of memory just to boot, much less get any work done. ? If I ever get my hands around the neck of either of these men, they will have a difficult day. ????????????? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA |
