Dne, 19. 11. 2010 06:37:32 je Dan Serban napisal(a):
Icedove likes to make my computer behave like a 386 (downloading
and indexing millions of IMAP messages..
Erm ... isn't that what computing is all about? I mean, if you look
closer, some programmers think that their mission won't be accomplished
until they make our multigiga-multicore uebermachines behave *exactly*
like the original 8086. So there's still some room to go, but we're
closing in fast.
It's actually more general than that, if you think about it. Give a man
a 6-lane highway, and you can bet your arse he'll make the traffic slow
down to a crawl. Double a man's Internet bandwidth, and you can bet
your other arse that he'll treble the size of his downloads, and
quintuple the complexity of www pages -- effectively managing to make
the Internet slower than before. Hmm, I'm running out of things to bet
here ...
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