My time is valuable. I used to waste untold hours optimizing my Amiga to boot a little quicker or save a few kilobytes of RAM, but not any more.
The problem is not waste, it's the proportion of waste vs resources available. 1GB is nothing for a PC, but it's worth a bunch of money on mobile.
But, hey, go ahead and keep thinking that resources are infinite and everyone has as much money as you do to keep buying hardware that's "really cheap".
Biggest advantage of owning a manual transmission is that you always know how fast you're going. I accidentally speed in automatics because the cars just seem to accelerate by themselves.
Sad thing is that's only what Windows10 actually tells you about. There are many background tasks that Microsoft considers "idle" simple because they are "maintenance" related. Try running an old copy (version 11) of Process Explorer, and it shows you WAY more stuff going on in the background than new versions will, let alone what Task Manager does.
It's quite amusing to hear my hard drive going like mad on my Win10 evaluation machine, but Task Manager shows the hard drive is idle. When I run the old version of Process Explorer, it lights up like a Christmas tree. With so many laptops out there running SSDs, I wonder how many people are aware just how much Windows thrashes the storage device if you can't hear it.
The only difference is that these days, web developers LOVE Chrome and its special way of doing things. That's why so many damn web sites work almost exclusively with Chrome, even though other browsers are perfectly competent.
IE couldn't keep up with the flashy presentational stuff, and that resulted in margins being off by a pixel or two. Web developers howled. Google's stuff cause entire web pages to show up blank and otherwise not function at all in other browsers that are fully HTML5 compliant. No problem, as long as my animated special effects look okay.
Everyone is at fault, and it's a goddamn mess. That's mostly why I quit web development years ago.
I'm old enough to remember when chiclet keyboards were a thing on low-budget computers, and how much people hated them. When laptops started using them almost exclusively, lots of people I know cursed them. Personally, I still can't use a laptop keyboard. They SUCK.
Only Apple could think the design was so great, that they made them standard even on their ultra-expensive desktop computers, where thin profiles and limited key travel isn't desirable in the slightest.
WebP is another one of those things as Google that was thrown together as a test vehicle for a compression algorithm. It sucks as a format and comes in multiple inconstant flavors (versions) that make it a PITA to support. Just getting the image dimensions requires a lot of low-level bit shifting and twiddling for no damn reason, and how that's done depends on how the chunks are organized. It's a mess. It's no surprise to me why it didn't catch on. After trying to add support for it on my image board, I just gave up. Retrieving image information is too difficult as there's too many gotchas.
Of course, Google would prefer that you just use their huge, complex WebP library, so you don't have to worry about how to unwind that horrible mess.
Deleting stuff isn't new. My first experience with Win10 (as an upgrade from Win7 on a test system) was that 11 applications were removed after the upgrade as they were deemed "incompatible". No warning... no asking permission... all the files were just toasted. I knew immediately that I wasn't going to install that shit on my production machine. The best part is that running the Compatibility Appraiser before the upgrade told me my system was compatible with Windows10. In fact, not only did many of my apps get deleted, but my sound and network interfaces were not supported and didn't work. Thanks for the heads up, Microsoft!
Working on other peoples' systems, I've found that deleting the whole user profile is a frequent problem when performing any update to Win10. All your files can disappear at any time.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
It's probably helping him more than anything else. People have been so obsessed about the sex accusation (which can't be proven) that they're ignoring his complete track record, which is shady to say the least.
I'm certain he will be confirmed. Conservatives have shown time and time again that they don't care about sex scandals and "locker room talk," so this little distraction is just getting him sympathy points.
If he hasn't retired by age 72, then he's the kind of person who never will. Does it really seem like the guy knows when to stop?
Normal people want to retire early and enjoy family life. They can't relate to what motivates politicians and corporate cronies who have no concept of "enough". That's why the public keeps falling for the sales pitches over and over again, and evil continues to persist. People like Trump are so corrupt, they're almost not even human anymore.
I think it's well established that any software company cannot be trusted with the words "free" and "privacy" in the same policy, let alone the same sentence.
Cloudflare seems like the Amazon of web hosting. Lose money on paper, and continue swallowing up as much share in their market as possible until they're so big you can't refuse their services. It pains me how many web sites I visit (or used to) have all of their content flowing through Cloudflare.
I don't believe you need to be an asshole to be a leader. Assholes tend to treat everyone like dirt, not just the people who deserve it.
Keeping people in line takes talent, not teeth. I've read a lot of books about startup tech companies, and it's remarkable how varied personalities can be among people who really get stuff done.
I decided I would turn off the safe mode filter. I was surprised just how many completely innocent searches would bring up tons of naughty pictures. It reminds me of surfing the web in the 90's, where endless porn pop-ups would regularly be thrown in your face every 2 seconds, to the point where it crashed your browser. Ah, nostalgia!
Incidentally, if anyone thinks naughty pictures are a problem on the Internet and that kids need more protection, they should get into a time machine and see the 'Net from 20 years ago. We all survived. Plenty of progress has been made, and we don't need to censor stuff even more.
Shoots from the hip and acts like a rockstar. Geeks love him for it, and it works for private companies, but it's completely irresponsible for public companies to be run that way. Public companies are supposed to be run with the public interest in mind.
The SEC is being totally arbitrary.
The SEC is set up to deal with greedy animals that will cause mass panic in the market and stampede if they see a way to make an extra penny. Hence, all those pesky regulations that exist for good reasons, whether you feel they're fair or not.
Well, that was quick. A billionaire CEO of a major corporation, who can influence untold amounts of money in stocks, can get a settlement within days of the public announcement that he would be sued. It amounts to a slap on the wrist.
I wonder how many years an ordinary person would be dragged through the mud over a shady business deal amounting to a few thousand. They'd probably have to register for a sex offender list, just to be on the safe side.
The fact that Intel still hasn't dominated the low end / low power market already is a clear sign that trying to squish CISC into that place is silly -- the chips are wildly power inefficient as their is a vast amount of circuitry to support all those various extended instructions.
It's worth nothing that x86 is a really horrible instruction set with an unusually hard stance on backwards compatibility. That's why it's so expensive to make. Other CISC designs are far, far more efficient and easier to design, and there are plenty of CISC designs used in the embedded market (ie, where unmarketable designs go to retire). The 68060 was a really nice design -- far ahead of x86 processors of the time in all regards except floating point math -- but nobody used it since Motorolla (and everyone else) had already announced they were dumping CISC.
Personally, I'd like to see an all-new CISC ISA that was designed from the ground up to work with a RISC core. That should be able to blow the doors off both existing RISC chips and x86. If it weren't open, RISC-V would already be dead, because from a technical perspective, nobody cares.
The real reason x86 will continue to dominate is because all the major RISC processors are pretty much the same, so compiler designers basically support two ISAs: x86 and everyone else. It's just too damn hard from a marketing perspective to establish a new ISA.
At the same time, it's easier to compromise your morals when when you're starving, like when people have to turn to crime to pay the bills. Kinda hard to feel sorry for someone who made literally thousands of times as much money as he needed to sustain himself, and still kept going for years anyway. At that point, the only reason you develop "morals" is because you've gotten bored or weary of your day job and the money doesn't seem worth it anymore.
Don't enable the "Files On-Demand" function and it'll make every file available always.
I think you're missing the point. There's no sane reason to let a 3rd party decide if you need stuff or not, and the fact the company is doing this strongly suggests they have an agenda. Combine this with the massive push many companies are making to get people addicted to the cloud, plus the rise of EULA changes that automatically opt you in to certain behavior, making you jump through hoops to opt out, and it should be clear this feature is not being implemented for the benefit of end users.
In other words, you can bet this feature will become the default setting sooner or later.
When I upgraded Windows7 with Windows10 on a test machine, I was told that 11 applications had been deleted from my system since they were "incompatible" with Windows10. The installer never gave me any kind of notification and I was not asked permission to delete anything -- they were just removed and I only found out when the installer was finished. That was my first and last experience with Windows10 and I now refuse to let Microsoft make ANY decisions on my behalf.
Are you kidding? How many times have web pages been replaced by "apps?" Hell, the web pages for a lot of companies just redirect to Facebook these days.
In other words, the goal should not be specifically bringing jobs back to America, but taking jobs away from cheaters.
Too bad the MAGA crowd would never tolerate that. For them, it's the hardball pitch of USA jobs or no jobs at all. No progress will be made with that policy.
This represents a more fundamental problem with society. We're getting used to the idea that intellectual property is licensed and sold as a service, and that license can be revoked at any time without legal consequence. Almost all digital products are "sold" under the EULA terms that you have a right to use it until you don't, and the license is perpetual until it's not. It's madness.
The real issue here is not that prisoners are being treated unfairly. It's that, in most cases of licensed properly, it's perfectly legal for stuff like this to happen.
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My time is valuable. I used to waste untold hours optimizing my Amiga to boot a little quicker or save a few kilobytes of RAM, but not any more.
The problem is not waste, it's the proportion of waste vs resources available. 1GB is nothing for a PC, but it's worth a bunch of money on mobile.
But, hey, go ahead and keep thinking that resources are infinite and everyone has as much money as you do to keep buying hardware that's "really cheap".
Are we that used to updates slowing down our devices we've just accepted, blindly, that good design is impossible?
Maybe a simple security update shouldn't require a complete database rebuild, staged over several days.
Biggest advantage of owning a manual transmission is that you always know how fast you're going. I accidentally speed in automatics because the cars just seem to accelerate by themselves.
Sad thing is that's only what Windows10 actually tells you about. There are many background tasks that Microsoft considers "idle" simple because they are "maintenance" related. Try running an old copy (version 11) of Process Explorer, and it shows you WAY more stuff going on in the background than new versions will, let alone what Task Manager does.
It's quite amusing to hear my hard drive going like mad on my Win10 evaluation machine, but Task Manager shows the hard drive is idle. When I run the old version of Process Explorer, it lights up like a Christmas tree. With so many laptops out there running SSDs, I wonder how many people are aware just how much Windows thrashes the storage device if you can't hear it.
The only difference is that these days, web developers LOVE Chrome and its special way of doing things. That's why so many damn web sites work almost exclusively with Chrome, even though other browsers are perfectly competent.
IE couldn't keep up with the flashy presentational stuff, and that resulted in margins being off by a pixel or two. Web developers howled. Google's stuff cause entire web pages to show up blank and otherwise not function at all in other browsers that are fully HTML5 compliant. No problem, as long as my animated special effects look okay.
Everyone is at fault, and it's a goddamn mess. That's mostly why I quit web development years ago.
I'm old enough to remember when chiclet keyboards were a thing on low-budget computers, and how much people hated them. When laptops started using them almost exclusively, lots of people I know cursed them. Personally, I still can't use a laptop keyboard. They SUCK.
Only Apple could think the design was so great, that they made them standard even on their ultra-expensive desktop computers, where thin profiles and limited key travel isn't desirable in the slightest.
I thought everyone was dumping Linux for Android/Fuchsia/Googleware.
WebP is another one of those things as Google that was thrown together as a test vehicle for a compression algorithm. It sucks as a format and comes in multiple inconstant flavors (versions) that make it a PITA to support. Just getting the image dimensions requires a lot of low-level bit shifting and twiddling for no damn reason, and how that's done depends on how the chunks are organized. It's a mess. It's no surprise to me why it didn't catch on. After trying to add support for it on my image board, I just gave up. Retrieving image information is too difficult as there's too many gotchas.
Of course, Google would prefer that you just use their huge, complex WebP library, so you don't have to worry about how to unwind that horrible mess.
Deleting stuff isn't new. My first experience with Win10 (as an upgrade from Win7 on a test system) was that 11 applications were removed after the upgrade as they were deemed "incompatible". No warning... no asking permission... all the files were just toasted. I knew immediately that I wasn't going to install that shit on my production machine. The best part is that running the Compatibility Appraiser before the upgrade told me my system was compatible with Windows10. In fact, not only did many of my apps get deleted, but my sound and network interfaces were not supported and didn't work. Thanks for the heads up, Microsoft!
Working on other peoples' systems, I've found that deleting the whole user profile is a frequent problem when performing any update to Win10. All your files can disappear at any time.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
It's probably helping him more than anything else. People have been so obsessed about the sex accusation (which can't be proven) that they're ignoring his complete track record, which is shady to say the least.
I'm certain he will be confirmed. Conservatives have shown time and time again that they don't care about sex scandals and "locker room talk," so this little distraction is just getting him sympathy points.
Real-time is just the illusion of instantaneous.
If he hasn't retired by age 72, then he's the kind of person who never will. Does it really seem like the guy knows when to stop?
Normal people want to retire early and enjoy family life. They can't relate to what motivates politicians and corporate cronies who have no concept of "enough". That's why the public keeps falling for the sales pitches over and over again, and evil continues to persist. People like Trump are so corrupt, they're almost not even human anymore.
I think it's well established that any software company cannot be trusted with the words "free" and "privacy" in the same policy, let alone the same sentence.
Cloudflare seems like the Amazon of web hosting. Lose money on paper, and continue swallowing up as much share in their market as possible until they're so big you can't refuse their services. It pains me how many web sites I visit (or used to) have all of their content flowing through Cloudflare.
I don't believe you need to be an asshole to be a leader. Assholes tend to treat everyone like dirt, not just the people who deserve it.
Keeping people in line takes talent, not teeth. I've read a lot of books about startup tech companies, and it's remarkable how varied personalities can be among people who really get stuff done.
I decided I would turn off the safe mode filter. I was surprised just how many completely innocent searches would bring up tons of naughty pictures. It reminds me of surfing the web in the 90's, where endless porn pop-ups would regularly be thrown in your face every 2 seconds, to the point where it crashed your browser. Ah, nostalgia!
Incidentally, if anyone thinks naughty pictures are a problem on the Internet and that kids need more protection, they should get into a time machine and see the 'Net from 20 years ago. We all survived. Plenty of progress has been made, and we don't need to censor stuff even more.
And I don't see what Musk did wrong.
Shoots from the hip and acts like a rockstar. Geeks love him for it, and it works for private companies, but it's completely irresponsible for public companies to be run that way. Public companies are supposed to be run with the public interest in mind.
The SEC is being totally arbitrary.
The SEC is set up to deal with greedy animals that will cause mass panic in the market and stampede if they see a way to make an extra penny. Hence, all those pesky regulations that exist for good reasons, whether you feel they're fair or not.
Well, that was quick. A billionaire CEO of a major corporation, who can influence untold amounts of money in stocks, can get a settlement within days of the public announcement that he would be sued. It amounts to a slap on the wrist.
I wonder how many years an ordinary person would be dragged through the mud over a shady business deal amounting to a few thousand. They'd probably have to register for a sex offender list, just to be on the safe side.
I use different web browsers to access my different online accounts. Sometimes I use a different computer.
Monocultures are stupid.
The fact that Intel still hasn't dominated the low end / low power market already is a clear sign that trying to squish CISC into that place is silly -- the chips are wildly power inefficient as their is a vast amount of circuitry to support all those various extended instructions.
It's worth nothing that x86 is a really horrible instruction set with an unusually hard stance on backwards compatibility. That's why it's so expensive to make. Other CISC designs are far, far more efficient and easier to design, and there are plenty of CISC designs used in the embedded market (ie, where unmarketable designs go to retire). The 68060 was a really nice design -- far ahead of x86 processors of the time in all regards except floating point math -- but nobody used it since Motorolla (and everyone else) had already announced they were dumping CISC.
Personally, I'd like to see an all-new CISC ISA that was designed from the ground up to work with a RISC core. That should be able to blow the doors off both existing RISC chips and x86. If it weren't open, RISC-V would already be dead, because from a technical perspective, nobody cares.
The real reason x86 will continue to dominate is because all the major RISC processors are pretty much the same, so compiler designers basically support two ISAs: x86 and everyone else. It's just too damn hard from a marketing perspective to establish a new ISA.
At the same time, it's easier to compromise your morals when when you're starving, like when people have to turn to crime to pay the bills. Kinda hard to feel sorry for someone who made literally thousands of times as much money as he needed to sustain himself, and still kept going for years anyway. At that point, the only reason you develop "morals" is because you've gotten bored or weary of your day job and the money doesn't seem worth it anymore.
So yes, DRM will make it so that your copy can vanish and you're forced to buy it a second time if you want to see the content again.
Who said you're allowed to buy it again?
For security reasons, this version is no longer supported. We took it away from you for your own good!
Don't enable the "Files On-Demand" function and it'll make every file available always.
I think you're missing the point. There's no sane reason to let a 3rd party decide if you need stuff or not, and the fact the company is doing this strongly suggests they have an agenda. Combine this with the massive push many companies are making to get people addicted to the cloud, plus the rise of EULA changes that automatically opt you in to certain behavior, making you jump through hoops to opt out, and it should be clear this feature is not being implemented for the benefit of end users.
In other words, you can bet this feature will become the default setting sooner or later.
When I upgraded Windows7 with Windows10 on a test machine, I was told that 11 applications had been deleted from my system since they were "incompatible" with Windows10. The installer never gave me any kind of notification and I was not asked permission to delete anything -- they were just removed and I only found out when the installer was finished. That was my first and last experience with Windows10 and I now refuse to let Microsoft make ANY decisions on my behalf.
Are you kidding? How many times have web pages been replaced by "apps?" Hell, the web pages for a lot of companies just redirect to Facebook these days.
In other words, the goal should not be specifically bringing jobs back to America, but taking jobs away from cheaters.
Too bad the MAGA crowd would never tolerate that. For them, it's the hardball pitch of USA jobs or no jobs at all. No progress will be made with that policy.
This represents a more fundamental problem with society. We're getting used to the idea that intellectual property is licensed and sold as a service, and that license can be revoked at any time without legal consequence. Almost all digital products are "sold" under the EULA terms that you have a right to use it until you don't, and the license is perpetual until it's not. It's madness.
The real issue here is not that prisoners are being treated unfairly. It's that, in most cases of licensed properly, it's perfectly legal for stuff like this to happen.