My first programming primer (Fortran ... them days) had a very concise delineation of the difference between neat programming and the much more common alternative -- "given a big enough engine, even brick will fly". I never cared for the american "muscle" cars but was always fascinated with the slick european sports cars. I guess that is the same attraction I have for OpenBSD. I also find that the currently popular obsession with CPU cores, GHz and GBs is nothing more than the computer version of the muscle car. (yes, I am aware that there are specialized applications that do require the use of a monster-sized dump truck with an engine to match, but in reality how many places have a genuine need of a database that even with fully optimized design requires that much physical RAM?)
On 8 Jun 2010 at 1:43, Dexter Tomisson wrote: > No, > "640k ought to be enough for anybody" > > On 7 June 2010 22:12, Bret S. Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:52:50PM +0300, Dexter Tomisson wrote: > > > > "It's the future, where's my goddamn flying car?"
