> not by technical reasons but by how much the users are willing to tolerate. Realizing this one clause is what helped me understand so much, including economi

> not by technical reasons but by how much the users are willing to tolerate. Realizing this one clause is what helped me understand so much, including economics and traffic (induced demand). I call it the "misery constant." Number of lanes doesn't matter: People will adjust their lifestyles until they arrive at the highest level of misery they can tolerate. Add a lane and wait for equilibrium to reestablish at exactly the same level of congestion as before. Add a 10,000% (more??) increase in CPU and disk speed from the 128K Macintosh to the MacBook Pro, and oh look, it takes basically the same amount of time to boot or to launch an application as it did then, as the developers adjusted their wastefulness until they achieved the maximum level of delay the customers were willing to bear.