I forgot to add this in my previous comment. I said "generation Web" because adding to what I wrote earlier, to me the interface of the current crop of applications looks a lot like something you would do if all you know is making web pages and having no experience with anything other than that.
Style, the way of thinking when developing your application. Notice how the older versions of Skype and MSN Messenger bothered trying do the job right and worried about the details. Now notice how the newest versions seem made by someone who only cares about making interfaces that make sense only to him, not caring about details and nastily doing the basic work for which the application was made. As if you took a professional developer and swapped him for an amateur with no experience in making professional applications and having more ego than skill.
You do not understand anything of what I wrote, and in an epic way... I am hitting some nerve here? I did not write at any time about security, I'm talking about programming experience and good sense that the "generation Web" seens to lack and the worst part is that they seem not to care about such gaps.
The explanation is that the senior developers are retiring and being replaced by brats who think writing a crappy web page is the same thing as writing a desktop application.
... this will translate into a product that I can use in less than 20, 30 years? Or will become another of the military toys we civilians will never know are there?
I think I should add details. in 1440p works perfectly for me, but as I said I am aiming at the goal of 4K @ 60fps (I do not really like to try to play at 30fps). Without ENB works (4K @ 60fps using my rig), but with ENB the framerate drops to around 30~40fps. And funny enough, that with or without heavy effects activated like SSAO, somewhere in the ENB code there is a large loss of performance when you increase the resolution to 4K.
Uh... What part of "USA is not the center of the universe" you did not understand?
Do you think that only north-americans can afford to buy things and therefore only they matter? I know that the studios focus on making films to please only the north-americans, but that in any way mean that they're right.
Well... How I will even argue with you, if your very way of thinking is amerikacentric? You sound as if the only thing that matter in the world was the USA and the rest of the planet was shit, completely ignoring what I said about numbers (Tron is not the only movie to get more money globally than on USA). The world is a little bigger than you think.
You can do 4K now, but you will need SLI. But it depends on the game too, if I do not make any changes in Skyrim for example, then I can run it in 4K with a single GTX980 easily.
Depends on the resolution you use. Here I have two GTX980 (Gigabyte G1) in SLI and still is not enough to run my Skyrim at 3840x2160 with ENB (4K display user).
And why not? The north-american population is currently 321 million, more or less. The world population is 7 billion. Even if you sell tickets globally to 10% of the North American ticket, you still will earn more money. And moreover the global audience is more diverse, and therefore is more open to unusual films than the north-americans. So you are not obligated to do "amerikacentric" movies in order to succeed. For a recent example, see the "Chappie" film.
North-american public = only likes "amerikacentric" films with many bimbos and car explosions sequences (with few exceptions), so do not take their opinion too seriously;
And finnaly world wide public = paying public too, so they are as important (or more) as north-american public. And note that the global audience is much more numerous and diverse than the north-american public.
Well... You do not even need to go testing to see that if you writes to a file and do not clear it at some point, soon or later you will have size problems. Today's developers do not pay attention to details like the previous ones.
After having a fun conversation with an AC that he thinks is the greater design of the universe, I should add that they are not only incompetent to make a good icon, they also fail to realize the mediocrity of what they are doing.
Ohhhhhhh I hurt your delicate feelings, AC? Sorry, but the the only idiot here is YOU.
I do not know from where your very limited understanding capacity took I would be saying that the icons I showed are better than Microsoft's, dumb one. And as I predicted in time to show something better as I asked, you set off for the offense, for failing to to present something better and not knowing how to do something better. Try harder next time dumb one;-)
Uhh... The Metro, "intuitive"? Are you smoking crack? Clean it is, after all is difficult to be more "clean" than a plain pastel-colored rectangle with some text. "Aesthetically pleasing"? Bah, just look for a few seconds to realize that the real reason is laziness/lack of time to do something more elaborate than pure rectangles with some text (good UI elements are a art and good art is HARD).
Trust me, when I make a button using "flat elements" is because I have no time to make a more elaborate button that is appropriately represented in several resolutions and can be resized, I'm deliberately compromising the elegance in exchange for facilities on a limited UI or limited time. Now want to justify such a decision with "easy plain dumb rectangle is more elegant" is simply ridiculous.
P.S:
Just between us, even when I have to do something as soon as possible I give myself the trouble to do something more decent than damn rectangles without even edges to serve as buttons as they are doing in interfaces like the Lollipop crap (Android 5.0).
So what? Why you should have a problem with that? Or are you one more of these useless new "designers" that draws a rectangle and call button it by sheer laziness or incompetence to do something better?
My guess is that this is an invasion of "design experts" who have zero ability to make a beautiful and usable UI element at the same time. Or if you prefer, is plain incompetence in an area where the subject needs to be an artist. For example, why my Windows icons cannot be like this ones? Everaldo Coelho (the designer of my example link) is too expensive for Microsoft?
You did not understand what I meant. A cheap SoC is okay if you have a good OS to put on it, and a toy OS such as FirefoxOS is usable if you have hardware to throw on it. The problem happens when you have the combination of a bad OS and a cheap SoC, then you're asking for trouble. As for upgrades, see the trouble with Android and Samsung cellphones for example.
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I forgot to add this in my previous comment. I said "generation Web" because adding to what I wrote earlier, to me the interface of the current crop of applications looks a lot like something you would do if all you know is making web pages and having no experience with anything other than that.
Style, the way of thinking when developing your application. Notice how the older versions of Skype and MSN Messenger bothered trying do the job right and worried about the details. Now notice how the newest versions seem made by someone who only cares about making interfaces that make sense only to him, not caring about details and nastily doing the basic work for which the application was made. As if you took a professional developer and swapped him for an amateur with no experience in making professional applications and having more ego than skill.
You do not understand anything of what I wrote, and in an epic way... I am hitting some nerve here? I did not write at any time about security, I'm talking about programming experience and good sense that the "generation Web" seens to lack and the worst part is that they seem not to care about such gaps.
The explanation is that the senior developers are retiring and being replaced by brats who think writing a crappy web page is the same thing as writing a desktop application.
... this will translate into a product that I can use in less than 20, 30 years? Or will become another of the military toys we civilians will never know are there?
Parallel port interface for a SNES control pad. Very usefull for using with SNES and NES emulators
I think I should add details. in 1440p works perfectly for me, but as I said I am aiming at the goal of 4K @ 60fps (I do not really like to try to play at 30fps). Without ENB works (4K @ 60fps using my rig), but with ENB the framerate drops to around 30~40fps. And funny enough, that with or without heavy effects activated like SSAO, somewhere in the ENB code there is a large loss of performance when you increase the resolution to 4K.
Uh... What part of "USA is not the center of the universe" you did not understand? Do you think that only north-americans can afford to buy things and therefore only they matter? I know that the studios focus on making films to please only the north-americans, but that in any way mean that they're right.
Well... How I will even argue with you, if your very way of thinking is amerikacentric? You sound as if the only thing that matter in the world was the USA and the rest of the planet was shit, completely ignoring what I said about numbers (Tron is not the only movie to get more money globally than on USA). The world is a little bigger than you think.
You can do 4K now, but you will need SLI. But it depends on the game too, if I do not make any changes in Skyrim for example, then I can run it in 4K with a single GTX980 easily.
Depends on the resolution you use. Here I have two GTX980 (Gigabyte G1) in SLI and still is not enough to run my Skyrim at 3840x2160 with ENB (4K display user).
And why not? The north-american population is currently 321 million, more or less. The world population is 7 billion . Even if you sell tickets globally to 10% of the North American ticket, you still will earn more money. And moreover the global audience is more diverse, and therefore is more open to unusual films than the north-americans. So you are not obligated to do "amerikacentric" movies in order to succeed. For a recent example, see the "Chappie" film.
Uhhh... repeat after me:
Professional critics = shit;
Paying public opinion = Is all that matters;
North-american public = only likes "amerikacentric" films with many bimbos and car explosions sequences (with few exceptions), so do not take their opinion too seriously;
And finnaly world wide public = paying public too, so they are as important (or more) as north-american public. And note that the global audience is much more numerous and diverse than the north-american public.
...And you certainly don't blindly append to a file without verifying that you're not going to overflow your space...
This. And I do not need to be a enginner to see that. C'mon people, this one is very, very basic!
Well... You do not even need to go testing to see that if you writes to a file and do not clear it at some point, soon or later you will have size problems. Today's developers do not pay attention to details like the previous ones.
After having a fun conversation with an AC that he thinks is the greater design of the universe, I should add that they are not only incompetent to make a good icon, they also fail to realize the mediocrity of what they are doing.
Ohhhhhhh I hurt your delicate feelings, AC? Sorry, but the the only idiot here is YOU.
;-)
I do not know from where your very limited understanding capacity took I would be saying that the icons I showed are better than Microsoft's, dumb one. And as I predicted in time to show something better as I asked, you set off for the offense, for failing to to present something better and not knowing how to do something better. Try harder next time dumb one
Then prove it, let me see a sample of your work.
Very well AC... So you can do better? :-)
Uhh... The Metro, "intuitive"? Are you smoking crack? Clean it is, after all is difficult to be more "clean" than a plain pastel-colored rectangle with some text. "Aesthetically pleasing"? Bah, just look for a few seconds to realize that the real reason is laziness/lack of time to do something more elaborate than pure rectangles with some text (good UI elements are a art and good art is HARD).
Trust me, when I make a button using "flat elements" is because I have no time to make a more elaborate button that is appropriately represented in several resolutions and can be resized, I'm deliberately compromising the elegance in exchange for facilities on a limited UI or limited time. Now want to justify such a decision with "easy plain dumb rectangle is more elegant" is simply ridiculous.
P.S: Just between us, even when I have to do something as soon as possible I give myself the trouble to do something more decent than damn rectangles without even edges to serve as buttons as they are doing in interfaces like the Lollipop crap (Android 5.0).
Uh... Some shitheaded dude thinks that a "icon pack for Windows" is overrated? When I think I already have seen everything...
So what? Why you should have a problem with that? Or are you one more of these useless new "designers" that draws a rectangle and call button it by sheer laziness or incompetence to do something better?
This. IconPacks for Windows, why not?
My guess is that this is an invasion of "design experts" who have zero ability to make a beautiful and usable UI element at the same time. Or if you prefer, is plain incompetence in an area where the subject needs to be an artist. For example, why my Windows icons cannot be like this ones? Everaldo Coelho (the designer of my example link) is too expensive for Microsoft?
You did not understand what I meant. A cheap SoC is okay if you have a good OS to put on it, and a toy OS such as FirefoxOS is usable if you have hardware to throw on it. The problem happens when you have the combination of a bad OS and a cheap SoC, then you're asking for trouble. As for upgrades, see the trouble with Android and Samsung cellphones for example.