>> Compare pretty much any criteria and cars have vastly improved.
>
> How about, uh, speed?
>
> 30 years ago, cars could do 70 MPH. Today, cars can do 70 MPH. As far as
> I know, there's little to no improvement in acceleration either.
> Expensive cars were always faster than cheap cars, but other than that,
> not much change in three decades. Braking is the only thing I can think
> of which might have improved; we have ABS now.

This is what happens when you hit [send] too fast. ;-)

I wonder how much computers would have improved if it was illegal for a 
computer to perform more than seventy billion instructions per second?

Brings a whole new meaning to the words "Internet Explorer has performed 
an illegal operation and must be shut down". ;-)

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