Gates' Law
Posted by Matthew on Friday February 21, 2003 @07:05PM
from the Don't-rock-the-Bloat dept.
Tyson writes: A lesser known collorary to Moore’s law, Slashnot readers should be aware of Gates’ law. In simple terms, Gates’ law is that software will exponentially decrease in effective speed while exponentially increasing in install size, effectively canceling the more troubling consequences of Moore’s law.
Among the relief provided by Gates’ law, the creation of super machines that can take over the world will be delayed indefinetely. In good news for housewives everywhere, robot maids that are better in bed and still know how to cook and clean will not be built until well after Gates’ death.
Intel executives have taken up the challenge, vowing to make machines so powerful that not even Microsoft software can defeat them. Microsoft reportedly scoffed, “Intel engineers are weenies.”
If only this story were less true…