On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Soner Tari wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 17:08 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Soner Tari <so...@comixwall.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 21:30 +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > >> Making hardware is a lot more difficult than writing software. So it > > >> takes > > >> more resources and more skills. > > > > > > Sorry Matthieu, but I have to say that this is utter bullshit, and I > > > believe such underestimation is the underlying reason that many software > > > suck. > > > > I think the point is the tools to make software are more readily > > available than the tools to make hardware. Let's say so you want to > > make a graphics card. Let's also say that you're only interested in > > playing quake3. What does it take to party like 1999? About 150 MHz > > on a 180nm process. And what does it cost to fab some 180nm chips? > > More than I've ever spent on all the computers I've ever written > > software with. > > To read his comments with such meaning, I would have to replace the > words "difficult" and "skills" in his sentences with others.
Since your reply implicitly replaced "making" with "designing", that shouldn't prove to much of a stretch.
