There's more complications than that in a modern OS. Mostly, there's just way too many layers between the game and the hardware access. JS is just one of them, but at least JS is getting very good speed nowadays thans to those optimizations - ie. it's hardly just JS's fault.
Not less bloat, just more shared components, meaning less duplicated resources. Performance would probably be the same - if either case fit in your RAM, that is.
Want to make you site fast? You don't need Ajax, Flash, or any other "Hype du Jour". Toss it all out, stick with plain old HTML and make it look decent with simple CSS. Wham, your site is now an order of magnitude faster.
And wham. You can no longer drag the map around in Google Maps, or zoom in, or...
JS is intended to make sites more functional. These speed improvements are good because they prevent JS from sucking up too much CPU for features you may need (at least, if you're a web coder who knows what he's doing and not using JS for totally unnecessary reasons).
It sometimes takes forever or it isn't even possible at all in some cases, in which case you'd have to reload the entire page. It's a bug that has been in Flash for too long.
It wouldn't make sense to revert back to HTML5 if it can't play it, though. How about using more than one encoded video inside the same video tag (like webm, h.264 and ogv)? The HTML5 video tag actually supports this too, and it'll play on all devices that way.
But there is a problem with that. In the end, companies can actually go bankrupt by trying too hard to make money. For example, the mail TNT is completely neglecting its full-time mailmen in the Netherlands because they're under a lot of heavy pressure from international (American) share holders. Fun fact is that TNT is already making a lot of profit in the Netherlands, and they're actually missing out on more profit by firing more and more of these fulltimers (not to mention completely destroy the morale inside the company).
It has to be said that the Dutch director of TNT is corrupt like hell and doesn't know what he's doing, though. But he's probably managing the company wrongly partially because of the pressure he's getting from the shareholders.
A balance should be found between profits and letting the company do what it wants in the best interests for who works there. There is no actual limit right now, once your company starts being profitable everything suddenly starts being about money.
Fragmentation, or spreading? Many different people from many different distros are working on (patches for) many different pieces of software, much of which will in one way or another actually find its way back in said software's main repository.
Ie. the good ideas and improvements come from all sides, meaning software gets more attention from different perspectives. That can't be bad.
Well, as long as the stable versions and updates never regress but instead only ever speed up things, it shouldn't hurt. Of course that isn't 100% possible (see the Flash thing), but that got fixed a bit in a newer stable update anyway.
I never expected that eBay could be such a huge hassle from the seller's side - especially dealing with the people who apparently can't read. As a buyer the experience is more or less perfect, at least, for me.
Well, thanks for explaining all of that to a random stranger.
Wrong, wrong and wrong. I haven't seen ANY ad after subscribing with the exception of *some* ads inside Flash videos. It no longer downloads the actual ads but blocks them before the content is downloaded, saving you bandwidth. Not *all* in-flash ads are blocked, but a fair part of them are (the YouTube ones most definitely), so it's VERY close to blocking just as much.
Extensions update, you know.
You could still argue that "very close" isn't enough, but then you're just nagging about much smaller things, I think. Adblock is now definitely decent enough to make Chrome more than usable.
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It's got an overload of features (especially built into its graphical interface), which is simply what some people prefer.
Correction: Microsoft is WORKING on the next version of Windows. But it would take about two years before “Windows 8" got on the market.
Is this a poor Google translation?
Also, ABOUT two years doesn't mean October 2012 exactly. What kind of journalism is this?
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Are you kidding me? For this one, you'll want to visit them. Repeatedly. Day and night.
It also acts as a torrent client.
Well, I thought you meant the opposite, since you were mentioning a video that can play in Flash but not HTML5. Sorry for the confusion, then.
You've answered your own question already.
There's more complications than that in a modern OS. Mostly, there's just way too many layers between the game and the hardware access. JS is just one of them, but at least JS is getting very good speed nowadays thans to those optimizations - ie. it's hardly just JS's fault.
Not less bloat, just more shared components, meaning less duplicated resources. Performance would probably be the same - if either case fit in your RAM, that is.
Want to make you site fast? You don't need Ajax, Flash, or any other "Hype du Jour". Toss it all out, stick with plain old HTML and make it look decent with simple CSS. Wham, your site is now an order of magnitude faster.
And wham. You can no longer drag the map around in Google Maps, or zoom in, or...
JS is intended to make sites more functional. These speed improvements are good because they prevent JS from sucking up too much CPU for features you may need (at least, if you're a web coder who knows what he's doing and not using JS for totally unnecessary reasons).
It sometimes takes forever or it isn't even possible at all in some cases, in which case you'd have to reload the entire page. It's a bug that has been in Flash for too long.
Well, no more CPU hogging until you unblocked a bunch that are on the same page (like a list of video posts).
It wouldn't make sense to revert back to HTML5 if it can't play it, though. How about using more than one encoded video inside the same video tag (like webm, h.264 and ogv)? The HTML5 video tag actually supports this too, and it'll play on all devices that way.
They ask you to install AIR, not Flash. Still annoying, though.
Believe me, that'll just make your system less responsive.
I wish I were kidding.
He's already using a real OS. How else do you think he posted this? The C64 BASIC interpreter?
But there is a problem with that. In the end, companies can actually go bankrupt by trying too hard to make money. For example, the mail TNT is completely neglecting its full-time mailmen in the Netherlands because they're under a lot of heavy pressure from international (American) share holders. Fun fact is that TNT is already making a lot of profit in the Netherlands, and they're actually missing out on more profit by firing more and more of these fulltimers (not to mention completely destroy the morale inside the company).
It has to be said that the Dutch director of TNT is corrupt like hell and doesn't know what he's doing, though. But he's probably managing the company wrongly partially because of the pressure he's getting from the shareholders.
A balance should be found between profits and letting the company do what it wants in the best interests for who works there. There is no actual limit right now, once your company starts being profitable everything suddenly starts being about money.
The ones who know how awesome a Dreamcast is.
This isn't a case of you missing the joke, but you missing him MAKING the joke. Or something.
Fragmentation, or spreading? Many different people from many different distros are working on (patches for) many different pieces of software, much of which will in one way or another actually find its way back in said software's main repository.
Ie. the good ideas and improvements come from all sides, meaning software gets more attention from different perspectives. That can't be bad.
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
Decently enough, yes. But this is hardly a kernel problem.
Well, as long as the stable versions and updates never regress but instead only ever speed up things, it shouldn't hurt. Of course that isn't 100% possible (see the Flash thing), but that got fixed a bit in a newer stable update anyway.
I never expected that eBay could be such a huge hassle from the seller's side - especially dealing with the people who apparently can't read. As a buyer the experience is more or less perfect, at least, for me.
Well, thanks for explaining all of that to a random stranger.
If you never use the junk again, sell it on eBay! I'd gladly take that board off your hands.
Wrong, wrong and wrong. I haven't seen ANY ad after subscribing with the exception of *some* ads inside Flash videos. It no longer downloads the actual ads but blocks them before the content is downloaded, saving you bandwidth. Not *all* in-flash ads are blocked, but a fair part of them are (the YouTube ones most definitely), so it's VERY close to blocking just as much.
Extensions update, you know.
You could still argue that "very close" isn't enough, but then you're just nagging about much smaller things, I think. Adblock is now definitely decent enough to make Chrome more than usable.