Hi James, There are several Vorts who make a living doing software, and I as one (mostly embedded stuff) agree for the most part with your comments. Hardware designers (and I lump together logic / CPU / circuit designers) have much better tools (which are software!) than software designers… a modern CPU with tens/hundreds of millions of transistors can be designed/simulated/validated with excellent accuracy. Software tools are not nearly as advanced, although they are moving in that direction. Another is that the pressure of very short development cycles prevents software teams from taking considerable time to come up to speed on the more sophisticated software design tools, like model-driven development.
-mark From: James Bowery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:42 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:doubling speed every 2 years for decades more, Intel silicon photonics now revolutionizing data centers, Michael Kassner: Rich Murray 2015.01.26 People are conflating advances in hardware with advances in software. Software has been stuck in the dark ages for decades and as a result has metastasized to fill whatever capacity Moore's Law has provided with linear, at best, advance in utility. For many day-to-day operations the responsiveness of systems like MS Windows has actually decreased. There are real advances in software but they're generally buried in the noise. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:10 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Steven, Hope you and the catz are staying warm and dry... I guess my point was more of a general observation... I have long thought it interesting that Darwinian theory ala 'survival of the fittest' could be applied equally well to a localized population of animals and to something as large as an entire human civilization. Fully agree with your comment about ISIS/ISIL, and I will add that probably all religions have had their 'embarrasing' eras of fanatical followers, and that by the time that era ends, much pain and suffering will have occurred. The cycle will likely continue until the consciousness of the majority of the human population gets raised considerably... I think you ought to cut the Christians a bit if slack since they were sounding the warning about the fanatical side of Islam long ago, and the liberals used every opportunity to label them as racists/bigots. -mark -----Original Message----- From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:doubling speed every 2 years for decades more, Intel silicon photonics now revolutionizing data centers, Michael Kassner: Rich Murray 2015.01.26 > Steven: > Societies without some form of moral code, a shared sense of right and > wrong, usually don’t last long… Hi Mark, Agreed. But in the meantime, they can do a lot of damage and cause much pain and suffering before they implode. The real irony is that most believe they are truly following the highest moral code of all. I'm thinking of ISIS as an example. Again, I don't disagree with your point. However, is the point you are making in regards to Kurzweil's belief systems or is that my belief system you are referring to? Or something else? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com zazzle.com/orionworks
