-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-02 at 13:24 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Que es mas macho? Pineapple or knife? -- Laurie Anderson
Never heard that.
Young'un, eh? I had the good fortune of seeing her perform live twice and attend one of her art installations at UCLA. I don't know what she's up to, now.
No, simply I'm not american, thus my knowledge of your culture is limited. I just looked her up in the wikipedia. Not my kind of music, anyway... I'm listening to parts from "La belle au bois dormant" (P. Tschaikowsky) right now, in fact. But I was refering to that saying you excerpted.
It's nonsense since there's no relationship between program/ming quality and hardware speed. If anything, faster hardware (and especially multi-processor or multi-core systems) can expose certain kinds of programming errors that remain latent in lower-performance hardware.
The relation is that with faster hardware programmers don't have to trim their programs. They can allow their programs to be huge, repetitive, non-optimized, because the hardware is faster, disks are bigger, and the diference will be hardly noticed.
That was not how I understood the complaint. He reported an instability. That's not a matter of program or programming efficiency, but rather one of correctness. And bug manifestation and hardware speed are, if anything, negatively correlated.
He said many things, some I might agree (a bit), some not. But he also expressed the view that present day software is bloated, abusing the fact that most hardware is better than yesteryear and they can get away with it - and some of us more or less think the same. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6LlGtTMYHG2NR9URAhkeAJ4pQxio7krY+YFBfSx4RO6LRLOxMQCfePAM 27wIw5nTT1DSoVC3PdyiJZA= =t2kQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org