Bonefishblues wrote:I think it has the potential to be much better, but it's all about the design parameters, I guess.
The usual syndrome is:
This experiment with simple design parameters has revealed the technology is much more complicated than we thought.
Therefore we need to increase the number of design parameters to address all possible behaviours.
The complexity of the design parameters has created 573 unintended consequences, of which 87 are lethal
We will stick the the simple design parameters + some PR as we need to sell the items to make our profit.
The 2948 unintended consequences are really someone else's fault.
The infrastructure and whole society must be redesigned to take account of our wonderful new technology.
Cugel, watching the history of technology reiterate.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes