Doing the morning boot up at work this week, it crossed my mind that the inevitable trend toward faster computers isn’t necessarily helping us do things faster.
Well, duh.
That’s no big shock, it’s well known that software, like gas, expands to fill the available space.
Or does it? Something else occurred to me, too.
This rule only holds [...]
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Now is the Time!
I promised myself I wouldn’t write any gratuitously snarky things about Microsoft, but the way they’ve been behaving lately with the whole “235 patents” nonsense, I just couldn’t help it, especially when I accidentally stumbled upon Jim Allchin’s Windows Vista: Now is the Time! sales-pitch to developers on MSDN (it turned up in a mostly [...]