Not anyone attribute does a good system make. However, the average joe consumer does not realise this. They are caught up in the malestrom of advertising and hoopla. Remember in the EARLY 80's when 300 baud modems were it, floppy disks were literal, and you were DAMN lucky to have color! Programer has very little to work with (looking back). They had to write tight efficient code or not at all. Now any fool can write a bit of code and processor speed makes it all even (on some levels). If MORE people who were writting usable code tighten it up, things would increase on their own. If people would take memory into consideration when writting, etc... I think the "I got a 12 gig HD for my PC" would also deminish. What we would be left with is an industry that would HAVE to make marked improvements. Instead of just jazzing up the existing material.
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Not anyone attribute does a good system make. However, the average joe consumer does not realise this. They are caught up in the malestrom of advertising and hoopla. Remember in the EARLY 80's when 300 baud modems were it, floppy disks were literal, and you were DAMN lucky to have color! Programer has very little to work with (looking back). They had to write tight efficient code or not at all. Now any fool can write a bit of code and processor speed makes it all even (on some levels). If MORE people who were writting usable code tighten it up, things would increase on their own. If people would take memory into consideration when writting, etc... I think the "I got a 12 gig HD for my PC" would also deminish. What we would be left with is an industry that would HAVE to make marked improvements. Instead of just jazzing up the existing material.