Moore’s Law: Computer hardware doubles
in speed and capacity every 18 months.
Gates’s
Law: Computer software doubles in languor and bloat every
18 months.
The
Cyber-Siesta: Computer boot-up time remains a constant
60 seconds over many computer generations. Show me a petaflop machine, and I
will show you a machine that must do 60 quadrillion floating-point operations
just to turn on.
Hellerstein’s Limit: If you keep your computer loaded with the
very latest software, then over its lifetime it will do at most twice as much
work as it did in the first 18 months.
Proof:
1 + ½ + ¼ + 1/8 + 1/16 + … = 2
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