Bruce, It makes you wonder how we made it to the moon, doesn't it?
I guess it also explains why no one's there right now. Horrifying thought... What if Apollo missions had used on-board computers running Windows? Tom C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:47 AM Subject: Re[4]: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...) > Tom, > > I think you give them too much credit. I don't think they really put > 2+2 together (except for maybe Bill Gates). Pretty much schedule is > king. All else (quality and features) be compromised. > > > Bruce > > > > Friday, November 09, 2001, 10:40:38 AM, you wrote: > > a> Well I tend not to want to believe a conspiracy... I've also been writing > a> code for 20 years and there have been no direct orders to write inefficient > a> code. > > a> But is there much difference between a deliberate *attempt* to make a > a> product inefficient and deliberately *allowing* it to be inefficient? The > a> results are the same and innocence can be claimed. > > a> Stockholders and boardmembers hold multiple positions in multiple > a> corporations. When you sell software that works inefficiently and requires > a> new hardware, you profit at both ends. > > a> I speak somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because this is the way the system works, > a> but if the number one goal of corporations is to increase stockholder > a> wealth, what larger conspiracy could there be? > > a> Tom C. > > a> ----- Original Message ----- > a> From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a> To: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:08 AM > a> Subject: Re[2]: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...) > > > >> aimcompute, > >> > >> I've been writing code for 20 years and have never encountered a > >> company requiring the code to be ineffecient. On the contrary, > >> programmers are quite capable, without being told, to write > >> ineffecient code. Most commonly are deadlines, which don't allow the > >> code to be optimized. The other big problem is that code is very > >> heavily layered, such that most of the layers were not written by the > >> programmer trying to do the optimization. They are many times viewed > >> as black boxes. > >> > >> In the old days, hardware was more expensive than software > >> development, so you had to be very careful to not overtax the > >> hardware. Today, hardware is quite cheap, so many just rely on > >> hardware upgrades to make up for ineffecient code. > >> > >> Conspiracy? No. > >> Something else (attitude, economics, ineptitude)? Yes! > >> > >> For the ultimate in inefficiency, try checkout out the Palm OS world > >> to the PocketPC world. PocketPC tries to overcome in hardware, great > >> waste and inefficiency in software. It is a real eye opener. > >> > >> > >> Bruce Dayton > >> > >> > >> > >> Friday, November 09, 2001, 9:54:53 AM, you wrote: > >> > >> a> Do you know better? > >> > >> a> I've worked with some commercial software products where when you look > a> at > >> a> the internals, a program may be doing something thousands of times that > a> it > >> a> only needed to do once. Or it's not filtering data at the appropriate > >> a> places and hence tablizing tens of thousands of records and moving them > a> all > >> a> over the place. > >> > >> a> As time goes by, data volume grows, and performance nose dives. Time > a> to > >> a> upgrade the hardware! > >> > >> a> Suspicious that the software and hardware companies always "partner" to > >> a> bring the best to corporate America and consumers. > >> > >> a> Tom C. > a> - > a> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > a> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > a> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
