The A1000 was actually a quality bit of kit, made in Japan out of top materials. That's a big reason why Commodore never turned a profit on it, and found it difficult to support the machine while the C64 was still kicking, and why they even bothered wasting time and money on the C65.
IMO, Bagnall's next book, "The Amiga Years" is an even better read. It really hits home how much turmoil there was inside Commodore trying to figure out how to transition from the [insanely profitable] 8-bit era to the Amiga.
Actually, the PC was built on the insistence that it be constructed entirely out of off-the-shelf parts. A clear indication that it was just a means of testing the waters without actually committing.
Amiga's mistake was the lack of modularity from the beginning, but the PC was nothing short of a trainwreck of design and was cobbled together. The first Mac (which was originally supposed to use an 8-bit CPU) wasn't much better.
Well, at the very least they could implement a filtering hack so apostrophes are no longer broken, which is the most common UTF-8 problem I see around here. A partial solution would be better than nothing.
More like, they all know what the problems are, but their hands are tied because Home Office. The middle managers may want to do something, but they have bosses, too, and they know all too well they are cogs in the machine, so they just succumb to policy, even if they know it's wrong.
After spending months telling multiple bosses what the problems are, an exit interview with an RH rep isn't going to fix anything. I still showed up to work and gave them 3 weeks notice, but I was all done trying to explain why I was leaving.
Perhaps at smaller companies Hanlon's razor still applies, but I lost my faith in Fortune 500-esqe companies a long time ago.
Never mind that. While it's been known since forever that time is money, it's also well known that not all time is equal. There's no correlation between how much time you put into your job and what you get paid for it, because sometimes the work you do is just worthless (hence, the endless begging for money).
I remember when people did stuff for free because it was fun. Today everyone and their grandma has a Patreon, and whines that they can't make a living posting recycled crap online.
Given how many people are confused as to what x32 is, that 25% explanation in the summary clearly isn't enough.
But, hey, never pass up an opportunity to claim, "User error, as usual!", especially when talking about obscure technologies few people even know about.
The problem is, if each application is running its own web browser, then you end up installing and running a bunch of web browsers simultaneously
The irony is that "simple" is the key buzzword on each of those Electron apps to which you linked. Nothing says simple like static linking to a huge runtime environment. Another popular keyword is "beautiful". I've been seeing that word picking up even more in popularity lately, as it's always been among the highest priorities on the Internet.
Interpolation is never good. It's just another example of uncanny valley.
This is part of why modern cartoon animation pisses me off so much. I much prefer the slightly jerky motion of older cartoons to modern "tweened" nonsense. In the old days, in-betweening was done by artists who knew what they were doing -- not algorithms.
All modern applications try to cache the hell out of everything, and they don't often release memory when they do.
I don't use Chrome, but I have multiple other browsers installed, each one for different purposes. I've have plenty of experience where I close every window/tab except for the last, and point that last window to "about:blank". The result is that the browser still holds on to at least a GB of memory, and sometimes uses CPU time as well. You can't blame bloated web pages for idiotic resource usage when no web pages are running. Firefox is the worst at this in my experience, as even when you use the "minimize memory usage" feature in "about:memory", it basically does nothing.
Browsers are are slow and bloated because they are trying too hard to be fast, gobbling up more resources than they need or can manage. That's why, even with the introduction of separate processes, I still have to restart my browsers regularly. Individual web pages don't cripple my machine, but over time the browser just craps itself.
Alas, unlike IE, Chrome is extremely popular with web developers, since it allows people to do all the latest, fashionable UX nonsense. Everyone designs for Chrome first and makes whatever changes necessary to "make it work" on everything else. "Standards compliance" isn't a talking point anymore, because Chrome gives designers all the fun toys they want.
This time, it's our own fault (as developers) that Chrome took over the web and put Google in charge of dictating standards. As long as Google keeps catering to the ad companies and "artists", I don't see Chrome getting the same bitter hatred IE did, and we'll be stuck with it for a long time.
Performance was always really good until version 27 (the "re-fork"). After updating to 27, I noticed immediately that the garbage collector memory management engine was acting up again. I suspect that version 26 and earlier used some kind of compile-time configuration that helped memory management, but newer versions hog memory like crazy (and freeze/pause), just like old versions of Firefox. I've had no luck tracking down the issue by investigating the easy stuff.
Security has never been a problem. They don't really make any significant changes to the engine other than removing telemetry and trademarks. I've spent quite a bit of time comparing the sources of PaleMoon and Firefox, and it's remarkable how little is actually different, which makes sense given how massive the codebase of a browser is.
Porn is fantasy and not meant to be taken seriously. If porn is interfering with your relationship, or ability to have one, then you're doing it wrong. If you're indulging in porn, you're doing it wrong. If you have little self-control when it comes to porn, chances are you have little self-control in other parts of your life, too. Discriminating against porn is just making it a convenient scapegoat. That's especially true here in the USA, where we love to demonize porn, which results in a paradox where our porn is just terrible, and we indulge in it because we know it's terrible.
This is why I have such a love/hate relationship with porn. On one hand, I like what it represents, both physically and emotionally. On the other hand, I can't stand most mainstream porn, because it's often boring, stupid, and strongly emphasizes only the physical aspect of sex. It's too shallow, fantastic, over-the-top (like CGI in movies), tends to overplay the "naughty" angle, and it hardly ever looks like anyone is enjoying what they're doing.
I'm an artist, but I cut my teeth on comic strips and comic books. To me, story, character development, and humor are very important. I draw lots of porn, but I try to make my stuff more creative, and it usually focuses on committed couples enjoying the finer parts of their relationship. Alas, this seems to be a bit uncommon, and it's probably why I have so many fans, despite the fact that I have little spare time and don't post artwork very often. Given that my content is, in my opinion, a bit better than the typical hedonistic trash, I certainly don't agree with the decision to ban porn just because other people, arguably even most people, do it "wrong".
The porn we tend to like is a symptom of more fundamental cultural issues. Discriminating against adult-rated content will not fix that, and it just reminds me of all those web sites that try to enforce quality standards (which never works and always causes the death of the site). In your case, I think you just finally realized that the kinds of porn you used to like... just sucks. Good for you, but that doesn't justify making it harder for me to responsibly enjoy what I like (or try to fix it if I don't).
Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks.
Yeah, but that's a culture problem, not a porn problem. Cue the movie with the heroine with no zits or wrinkles, slashing bad guys left and right with a katana, and then emerges from the scuffle with perfect hair and all her makeup intact. That's also why I hate most mainstream movies!
The consumer oriented model of recharging nightly or constantly buying new batteries deserves to become a thing of the past.
Moore's Law will never fix that, as it's a design problem, not a technical one. Like with storage space, every time a better device comes out, designers find new and improved ways of completely wasting whatever resources are available. Also, managers have a say in the design process, which is why most batteries these days aren't easily replaceable.
I'm all for pushing Moore's Law along, but being the cynical old bastard I am, I'm sick of new devices being such a pain in the ass because of the idiotic and irresponsible use of technology. Overly relying on scheduled progress, lazy development practices, and outsourcing to 3rd world countries are what should be things of the past.
Given how many people use cards by choice, it sounds like the problem is already getting better on its own. So yeah, why the need to force people to use cards?
Also, no duh cash takes time to handle. That's why the credit card companies charge for their services (the convenience factor). Realistically, after tallying up all the pros and cons, cash probably isn't any or much more expensive than anything else. If it were, credit card companies would have to lower their rates.
The mad dash to eliminate cash is just the good ol' American tradition of either profiling or whittling things down to the bone and crying over every last penny. You know, the pennies that most people throw in the garbage because they are worth so little.
In general, search on Windows has been broken since the search 4.0 update was released for XP. Windows can't find anything that isn't in the index, nothing goes in the index unless it's a registered filetype, and partial word matches have been totally broken since forever. In a lot of cases on my Windows7 box, if I use the Explorer search bar to look for a file that's right in front of my face, Windows can't find it. All this worked just fine before the 4.0 update. On top of all this, despite full system-wide indexing, search is abysmally slow.
For launching files, I just use QuickLaunch which still works fine under Win7. For any other searches I use FileLocater Lite, which is actually way faster than the native Windows search engine, and it's... not broken.
They had to do that to get out of warranty and long-term service obligations.. seeing how they lost money on every one they built. That's why they only leased them in the first place.
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The A1000 was actually a quality bit of kit, made in Japan out of top materials. That's a big reason why Commodore never turned a profit on it, and found it difficult to support the machine while the C64 was still kicking, and why they even bothered wasting time and money on the C65.
IMO, Bagnall's next book, "The Amiga Years" is an even better read. It really hits home how much turmoil there was inside Commodore trying to figure out how to transition from the [insanely profitable] 8-bit era to the Amiga.
Actually, the PC was built on the insistence that it be constructed entirely out of off-the-shelf parts. A clear indication that it was just a means of testing the waters without actually committing.
Amiga's mistake was the lack of modularity from the beginning, but the PC was nothing short of a trainwreck of design and was cobbled together. The first Mac (which was originally supposed to use an 8-bit CPU) wasn't much better.
Most people are so desensitized to foul language that swear words don't convey urgency.
Well, at the very least they could implement a filtering hack so apostrophes are no longer broken, which is the most common UTF-8 problem I see around here. A partial solution would be better than nothing.
More like, they all know what the problems are, but their hands are tied because Home Office. The middle managers may want to do something, but they have bosses, too, and they know all too well they are cogs in the machine, so they just succumb to policy, even if they know it's wrong.
After spending months telling multiple bosses what the problems are, an exit interview with an RH rep isn't going to fix anything. I still showed up to work and gave them 3 weeks notice, but I was all done trying to explain why I was leaving.
Perhaps at smaller companies Hanlon's razor still applies, but I lost my faith in Fortune 500-esqe companies a long time ago.
Never mind that. While it's been known since forever that time is money, it's also well known that not all time is equal. There's no correlation between how much time you put into your job and what you get paid for it, because sometimes the work you do is just worthless (hence, the endless begging for money).
I remember when people did stuff for free because it was fun. Today everyone and their grandma has a Patreon, and whines that they can't make a living posting recycled crap online.
Given how many people are confused as to what x32 is, that 25% explanation in the summary clearly isn't enough.
But, hey, never pass up an opportunity to claim, "User error, as usual!", especially when talking about obscure technologies few people even know about.
Remember to spin the right way. Righty tighty, lefty loosy!
The problem is, if each application is running its own web browser, then you end up installing and running a bunch of web browsers simultaneously
The irony is that "simple" is the key buzzword on each of those Electron apps to which you linked. Nothing says simple like static linking to a huge runtime environment. Another popular keyword is "beautiful". I've been seeing that word picking up even more in popularity lately, as it's always been among the highest priorities on the Internet.
I knew there was a reason I quit web development.
It's not who controls the source that matters, but who controls the standard.
Interpolation is never good. It's just another example of uncanny valley.
This is part of why modern cartoon animation pisses me off so much. I much prefer the slightly jerky motion of older cartoons to modern "tweened" nonsense. In the old days, in-betweening was done by artists who knew what they were doing -- not algorithms.
Redundancy is good. What concerns people is exclusivity, which is what runs rampant in today's software store market.
All modern applications try to cache the hell out of everything, and they don't often release memory when they do.
I don't use Chrome, but I have multiple other browsers installed, each one for different purposes. I've have plenty of experience where I close every window/tab except for the last, and point that last window to "about:blank". The result is that the browser still holds on to at least a GB of memory, and sometimes uses CPU time as well. You can't blame bloated web pages for idiotic resource usage when no web pages are running. Firefox is the worst at this in my experience, as even when you use the "minimize memory usage" feature in "about:memory", it basically does nothing.
Browsers are are slow and bloated because they are trying too hard to be fast, gobbling up more resources than they need or can manage. That's why, even with the introduction of separate processes, I still have to restart my browsers regularly. Individual web pages don't cripple my machine, but over time the browser just craps itself.
Alas, unlike IE, Chrome is extremely popular with web developers, since it allows people to do all the latest, fashionable UX nonsense. Everyone designs for Chrome first and makes whatever changes necessary to "make it work" on everything else. "Standards compliance" isn't a talking point anymore, because Chrome gives designers all the fun toys they want.
This time, it's our own fault (as developers) that Chrome took over the web and put Google in charge of dictating standards. As long as Google keeps catering to the ad companies and "artists", I don't see Chrome getting the same bitter hatred IE did, and we'll be stuck with it for a long time.
Performance was always really good until version 27 (the "re-fork"). After updating to 27, I noticed immediately that the garbage collector memory management engine was acting up again. I suspect that version 26 and earlier used some kind of compile-time configuration that helped memory management, but newer versions hog memory like crazy (and freeze/pause), just like old versions of Firefox. I've had no luck tracking down the issue by investigating the easy stuff.
Security has never been a problem. They don't really make any significant changes to the engine other than removing telemetry and trademarks. I've spent quite a bit of time comparing the sources of PaleMoon and Firefox, and it's remarkable how little is actually different, which makes sense given how massive the codebase of a browser is.
Porn is fantasy and not meant to be taken seriously. If porn is interfering with your relationship, or ability to have one, then you're doing it wrong. If you're indulging in porn, you're doing it wrong. If you have little self-control when it comes to porn, chances are you have little self-control in other parts of your life, too. Discriminating against porn is just making it a convenient scapegoat. That's especially true here in the USA, where we love to demonize porn, which results in a paradox where our porn is just terrible, and we indulge in it because we know it's terrible.
This is why I have such a love/hate relationship with porn. On one hand, I like what it represents, both physically and emotionally. On the other hand, I can't stand most mainstream porn, because it's often boring, stupid, and strongly emphasizes only the physical aspect of sex. It's too shallow, fantastic, over-the-top (like CGI in movies), tends to overplay the "naughty" angle, and it hardly ever looks like anyone is enjoying what they're doing.
I'm an artist, but I cut my teeth on comic strips and comic books. To me, story, character development, and humor are very important. I draw lots of porn, but I try to make my stuff more creative, and it usually focuses on committed couples enjoying the finer parts of their relationship. Alas, this seems to be a bit uncommon, and it's probably why I have so many fans, despite the fact that I have little spare time and don't post artwork very often. Given that my content is, in my opinion, a bit better than the typical hedonistic trash, I certainly don't agree with the decision to ban porn just because other people, arguably even most people, do it "wrong".
The porn we tend to like is a symptom of more fundamental cultural issues. Discriminating against adult-rated content will not fix that, and it just reminds me of all those web sites that try to enforce quality standards (which never works and always causes the death of the site). In your case, I think you just finally realized that the kinds of porn you used to like... just sucks. Good for you, but that doesn't justify making it harder for me to responsibly enjoy what I like (or try to fix it if I don't).
Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks.
Yeah, but that's a culture problem, not a porn problem. Cue the movie with the heroine with no zits or wrinkles, slashing bad guys left and right with a katana, and then emerges from the scuffle with perfect hair and all her makeup intact. That's also why I hate most mainstream movies!
Loose slips sink ships.
As if that expression needed to be more of a tongue twister.
The consumer oriented model of recharging nightly or constantly buying new batteries deserves to become a thing of the past.
Moore's Law will never fix that, as it's a design problem, not a technical one. Like with storage space, every time a better device comes out, designers find new and improved ways of completely wasting whatever resources are available. Also, managers have a say in the design process, which is why most batteries these days aren't easily replaceable.
I'm all for pushing Moore's Law along, but being the cynical old bastard I am, I'm sick of new devices being such a pain in the ass because of the idiotic and irresponsible use of technology. Overly relying on scheduled progress, lazy development practices, and outsourcing to 3rd world countries are what should be things of the past.
Yeah, I'll never understand why adding "independent 3rd party" is supposed to make things better. That roughly translates to "larger footprint".
All my local grocery stores are practically devoid of employees. Where are all the robot repairmen?
Given how many people use cards by choice, it sounds like the problem is already getting better on its own. So yeah, why the need to force people to use cards?
Also, no duh cash takes time to handle. That's why the credit card companies charge for their services (the convenience factor). Realistically, after tallying up all the pros and cons, cash probably isn't any or much more expensive than anything else. If it were, credit card companies would have to lower their rates.
The mad dash to eliminate cash is just the good ol' American tradition of either profiling or whittling things down to the bone and crying over every last penny. You know, the pennies that most people throw in the garbage because they are worth so little.
Of course. Practice makes perfect, not babies.
In general, search on Windows has been broken since the search 4.0 update was released for XP. Windows can't find anything that isn't in the index, nothing goes in the index unless it's a registered filetype, and partial word matches have been totally broken since forever. In a lot of cases on my Windows7 box, if I use the Explorer search bar to look for a file that's right in front of my face, Windows can't find it. All this worked just fine before the 4.0 update. On top of all this, despite full system-wide indexing, search is abysmally slow.
For launching files, I just use QuickLaunch which still works fine under Win7. For any other searches I use FileLocater Lite, which is actually way faster than the native Windows search engine, and it's... not broken.
They had to do that to get out of warranty and long-term service obligations.. seeing how they lost money on every one they built. That's why they only leased them in the first place.
In Windows Land, almost every app in existence throws a UAC prompt on installation. Just sayin'.
Remember, this is a culture where it used to be acceptable to throw config files directly into the root of C: or the Windows folder.