"Hvidsten, Leif" <hvidsl at parknicollet.com> writes:

> > 
> > Only in terms of processor power, not in usefulness.  It seems to me
> > that the relationship is something like
> > 
> > 	P*B=1
> > 
> > where P is power, subject to increases following Moore's law, and B is
> > bloat, due to trying to add "idiot friendliness." ;)
> > 
> 
> I'm no mathematician but shouldn't it be P/B = 1?  That way as power
> increases, so does bloated code essentially maintaining a value
> close to 1.

Yes.  

I've heard the principle codified more, um, personally as "What Andy
giveth, Bill taketh away".
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