Hardware designed specifically for software that was designed specifically for said hardware seems to be where it's at.
So much emphasis on compatibility in the dominant markets is quelling innovation.
You can't just build the best possible machine. You have to build a machine that is also compatible with : never ending laundry list of protocols, standards, API's , hardware, form factors etc etc.
Are you old enough to understand the pain of device configuration that was pre-USB? Assigning IRQs by hand and such?
And how having one plug was great? Until we had a bunch... and then, by sheer fucking accident, politicians did something intelligent and mandated a single plug standard again.
And then we did this all over again.
Standards allow the rest of us who just want to Get Shit Done, to Get Shit Done, instead of, "oooh shiny!".
Are you old enough to understand the pain of device configuration that was pre-USB? Assigning IRQs by hand and such?
And how having one plug was great? Until we had a bunch... and then, by sheer fucking accident, politicians did something intelligent and mandated a single plug standard again.
And then we did this all over again.
Standards allow the rest of us who just want to Get Shit Done, to Get Shit Done, instead of, "oooh shiny!".
Hence the part where i included :
"It is both unfortunate and apparently necessary."
If i want to build a machine that will be marketable, the standards are necessary. If I really wanted to build ONE machine that was REALLY good at something, I'd have to ignore them.
What if Dinosaurs never went extinct? (Score:3)
Hardware designed specifically for software that was designed specifically for said hardware seems to be where it's at.
So much emphasis on compatibility in the dominant markets is quelling innovation.
You can't just build the best possible machine. You have to build a machine that is also compatible with : never ending laundry list of protocols, standards, API's , hardware, form factors etc etc.
It is both unfortunate and apparently necessary.
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Are you old enough to understand the pain of device configuration that was pre-USB? Assigning IRQs by hand and such?
And how having one plug was great? Until we had a bunch... and then, by sheer fucking accident, politicians did something intelligent and mandated a single plug standard again.
And then we did this all over again.
Standards allow the rest of us who just want to Get Shit Done, to Get Shit Done, instead of, "oooh shiny!".
Re:What if Dinosaurs never went extinct? (Score:2)
Are you old enough to understand the pain of device configuration that was pre-USB? Assigning IRQs by hand and such?
And how having one plug was great? Until we had a bunch... and then, by sheer fucking accident, politicians did something intelligent and mandated a single plug standard again.
And then we did this all over again.
Standards allow the rest of us who just want to Get Shit Done, to Get Shit Done, instead of, "oooh shiny!".
Hence the part where i included :
"It is both unfortunate and apparently necessary."
If i want to build a machine that will be marketable, the standards are necessary. If I really wanted to build ONE machine that was REALLY good at something, I'd have to ignore them.
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If I really wanted to build ONE machine that was REALLY good at something, I'd have to ignore them.
That's why CRAY was so weird.