Re: [9fans] datakit

["boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>]

> I think the rise will be short-lived; it has to.  Nature doesn't like
> waste, and wont allow it indefinitely.  Natural selection would
> dictate that those companies that use complex software will spend more
> time and resources managing the software rather than using it, and
> will be less profitable;

well you would think that.  in france someone who designs and
writes code is payed less than a sysadmin who nurses the broken
junk.  now, if it was the other way around, as it should be, the
broken junk would not be written and the pay situation would
reverse.

on the one hand i fear, but on the other hand i hope, that it
will reach critical mass and collapse.

the skill of good design has been [almost] lost.

> I doubt that can continue over the next twenty years.

iirc, we are at photolythographic limits, but as Feynman said:

    there's plenty of room at the bottom

i have 2nd hand knowledge that the next generation of chips
will be built from tracks of atoms.  my source [reliable] was
doing research in this field.

it was done at York uni.  i think plessey were funding it.