It doesn't feel to me as though there is an equation to these two statements. Do you think that hardware provides a world that is your own, which you control - more than software? I agree with you in that there are fewer variables when you replace code with hardware, but that's due to the fact that the code in the hardware is embedded in such a way that we can't control it.Originally posted by toodamnhip:
More reliance on Operating systems designed to do many things well, such systems constantly upgraded and changing with or without MOTU's approval, such systems bowing to many masters so to speak= More chances for random results.
Corrolary-----(second law stemming from a previous truth or logic)
To the degree you operate in your own world that you control= more predictable results, i.e. stability.
As far as fewer conjugations = fewer negative conjugations I agree, but only if you allow for the same reduction in positive conjugations. Perhaps that software is more tweakable, we are provided with an environment that we can control more, for better or worse.
So I think NO. Fewer options doesn't seem to guarantee or doom a platform. I think it would be a far better proposal to assume the obvious - this is a complex set of tasks we icur on our machines, that is bound to cause mahem. That said, ease of tweakability would seem to put us on the best possible path.
Since software is more easily tweaked than hardware, we typically see many more software revs than hardware, so I lean toward software that is tweakable, and more importantly, more often tweaked. In this way, we can sus out the issues while the software is being developed, then it could be released as hardware once we all bless a given rev.
Who's to say DP 5 won't earn that blessing? Or PT 7? We certainly don't want our expensive hardware to become obsolete or at least more buggy when OS XI is released! We do, afterall, put nearly all of our expectations for revision in software. I estimate 95% or more of the posts in these forums (hardware and software both) are looking to software to solve our issues. Do we typically expect that a hardware issue would be the cause, or that the software driving the hardware is to blame?
-James
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