Less Is Moore 342
Hugh Pickens writes "For years, the computer industry has made steady progress by following Moore's law, derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore that the amount of computing power available at a particular price doubles every 18 months. The Economist reports however that in the midst of a recession, many companies would now prefer that computers get cheaper rather than more powerful, or by applying the flip side of Moore's law, do the same for less. A good example of this is virtualisation: using software to divide up a single server computer so that it can do the work of several, and is cheaper to run. Another example of 'good enough' computing is supplying 'software as a service,' via the Web, as done by Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Google, sacrificing the bells and whistles that are offered by conventional software that hardly anyone uses anyway. Even Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon: the next version of Windows is intended to do the same as the last version, Vista, but to run faster and use fewer resources. If so, it will be the first version of Windows that makes computers run faster than the previous version. That could be bad news for computer-makers, since users will be less inclined to upgrade — only proving that Moore's law has not been repealed, but that more people are taking the dividend it provides in cash, rather than processor cycles."
Let's see (Score:5, Funny)
Less: 120884 bytes
More: 27752 bytes
Wow, that's right!
Re:Let's see (Score:5, Funny)
Even more literally..!
$ ls -i /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/more /usr/bin/more
3603778
$ ls -i
3603778
Re:Bad Logic (Score:1, Funny)
Ever heard of "gravity, it's not just 14ft/sec^2, it's the law"
Where do you live?
Re:Let's see (Score:5, Funny)
All the windows experts are scratching their heads now.
That's OK, maybe that'll make them get off of our lawn too.
Re:Faulty on many fronts (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Because you don't need more cycles in biz (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Because you don't need more cycles in biz (Score:5, Funny)
It's Moore's other law - once fast enough is achieved, you have to slow it down with shite like rounded 3d-effect buttons, smooth rolling semi-transparent fade-in-and-out menus and ray-traced 25 squillion polygon chat avatars.
Actually, that's Cole's Law [wikipedia.org], which states that an unused plate space must be occupied with cheap filler that no one really wants.
Re:Let's see (Score:5, Funny)
Those don't exist, and our server has a peculiar way of letting me know that:
:-D
kosh ~ 3 % ls -l $(which Less)
ls: Less not found
ls: not not found
ls: found not found
Re:Let's see (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Because you don't need more cycles in biz (Score:5, Funny)
Its usually expressed as Gate's Corollary to Moore's Law: Whatever Moore Giveth, Gates Taketh Away.
That's the second time this week... (Score:2, Funny)
This new phenomenon of people praising Windows ME on Slashdot is really beginning to worry me.
Re:This is nothing new (Score:1, Funny)
...this is the computer becoming a throw-away consumer item like a toaster. (Running NetBSD obviously ;-) )
Which is running NetBSD, the computer or the toaster?
Re:Let's see (Score:3, Funny)
But if you know that, don't you have your OWN yard to have people get off of?
Your basement has a lawn?
There, fixed that for you.
Re:Or that history repeats itself (Score:3, Funny)
Hmnn? (Score:3, Funny)
1. Take random article from news site
2. Somehow manage to make it justify a new slashdot story that includes a link to ooold blog promoting windows 7.
3. ?????
4. Profit / Win laptop ?
How is vista seven related to this at all? It didn't get faster for doing less... That article states clearly that it is just using a more responsive interface, I mean, come on!...