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On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:14 PM, David Barbour <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hypothesis: Mainstream software slows down at a rate slightly less than 
> mainstream hardware speeds up. It's an almost-but-not-quite-inverse Moore's 
> Law.
> 
> Unless someone else has called this out directly, I'm calling it Joe's Law, 
> because I don't want to deal with the backlash!
> 
> It's a variation on Parkinson's Law. 

Haha! I knew if there was prior art, someone here would set me straight. I'd 
*never* heard of this but it's soooo true for sooooo many things. Mass 
corollaries!

Thank you so much for putting me onto such a succinct statement of so broadly 
applicable a truism!

(Seriously this is great. Forwarding link to almost everyone I know...)
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