Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by aphextron on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:00AM (#11991761)

> Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling.

This is such a great analogy on so many levels. The natural tendency of software projects to exhibit the effects of entropy.

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by digi_owl on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @06:23AM (#11992615)

Best i can tell, its because humans prefer adding stuff to maintaining stuff. So things end up sprawling over time...

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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by agumonkey on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:53AM (#11993343)

I was thinking about this not long ago. People also prefer buying 'more' rather than 'less but less tech debt, and more solid old'. Nature at work.

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