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This is because that what happens in engineering. Even simple things like shovels have evolved. The blade has been shaped to into the dirt. It's got a squiggly
by flogic 14y ago
This is because that what happens in engineering. Even simple things like shovels have evolved. The blade has been shaped to into the dirt. It's got a squiggly bend so it's balanced holding dirt. Stepping up a bit further we have things like clocks. Sundials don't work in the dark so we made mechanical clocks. Those of course have bits of complexity to make them easier to read and more accurate. Now consider computers, they're blindingly fast. We really can't begin to comprehend how much the state of a CPU changes in the blink of an eye. Same goes for memory. If we had to track that as many items as bits in real life, we fail hopelessly. To compensate for this power, we created management systems. Of course the management systems themselves fast and large so we have management systems for those too. The very power of computers makes them complex. All we've been doing is desperately trying to simplify them. Complaining that those simplifications are complicated, ignores just how complicate they would be if we didn't.
- talentdeficit 14y agoi think the point is that when designing clocks we didn't just attach some gears and a timing mechanism and some hands to a sundial, we threw the sundial out. computers are complex because we hardly ever remove anything, and we still bare their cost aeons after they're relevant.
- flogic 14y agoYeah but clocks generally don't interface with other technology. Trailer hitches and screw drivers do. There is a whole slew of different hitch adapters. And, most of us have or at least have seen screw drivers with a set of attachable bits.