Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Pete Turnbull]

On Mar 24 2005, 23:48, David V. Corbin wrote:

> But some of the things that strike me are.....

> It STILL takes the same amount of time  [ for lots of things ]

I've just come back from a network conference
(http://www.ja.net/conferences/networkshop/index.html) where we had a
wonderful talk from Vint Cerf (see http://www.mci.com/cerfsup
particularly the presentation about the Internet and IT which has some
of the same slides he used yesterday).  He made the point that in
several decades we've seen hardware get bigger and faster by several
orders of magnitude, but software hasn't done anything of the sort.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York