randys.org » patents http://www.randys.org wasting your precious bandwidth since 1998 Mon, 17 May 2010 15:12:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Greenspun on The Old Timers http://www.randys.org/2008/02/16/greenspun-on-the-old-timers/ http://www.randys.org/2008/02/16/greenspun-on-the-old-timers/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:41:00 +0000 randy http://www.randys.org//2008/02/16/greenspun-on-the-old-timers Really good article on Internet software patents and how “the old timers” already thought of most of the things we do today.

They couldn’t build our modern world for us back in the 1960s because the hardware hadn’t caught up. If you’d given them 50 million quad-core 2 GHz Pentium with 4 GB of RAM and 30 Mbps Verizon FiOS connections to every home, they would have built you all of the services of the modern Internet and probably many that would have been better.

What would happen if you gave present-day computer programmers those same powerful hardware gifts? We did that experiment. Our modern day best-and-brightest built Microsoft Windows Vista (TM).

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