I wish, sometimes, that Windows apps had the UNIX philosophy of "Do 1 thing and do it well". But, you can't sell the exact same app to a person twice if nothing has changed, so I understand WHY it happens, but it eventually kills most payware..
There is a lot of Windows Free (as in beer) or FOSS software that has no need to push for more sales, and actually do a good job of one thing, and one thing well.
Web developers are constantly working on the most requested feature: speed. That's not a problem for most PC programs, which can access data with a much wider bandwidth, run on powerful CPUs/GPUs (do not have to deal with cell phones), and do not have to work around the bugs of a thousand different browsers.
Then how come websites slow down over time? I can understand limited performance if you're trying to run an interactive application through interpreted web languages, but it seems as time goes on, pages that should be serving basically static content (news articles, blogs), slow down.
here's a tip: your country isn't fully totalitarian until current politicians start showing up on the stamps and/or money. Once that happens, get the fuck out at any cost. (You won't listen. No one ever does.)
Queen Elizabeth, head of state for several countries, is frequently found on stamps, coins, and bills. However I'd much rather live in those countries than in the USA.
Then again, in older British houses, ground is often earth, which causes Big Scary Problems when trying to use a converter plug or connecting the earth socket on a radio or receiver to earth...
I'm confused. I thought in British English ground is called "Earth". So really old and new houses will have ground as earth. Are you confusing neutral in there somewhere? They have Line, Neutral, Earth. Like in North America, Neutral is tied to Earth at the entrance, but should never be connected to exposed casing like a protective earth. Doing so would be called a "bootleg ground", or I guess a "bootleg earth".
Also, I guess you streamers must have a constant Internet connection. I go lots of places, and that's not true for me. Maybe it's an urban vs. rural thing.
Most streaming services offer a way to download content to your phone which can be good for something like 30 days, allowing you to save data charges, and listen to music outside of cell / wifi coverage.
Peak _stupid_ is closer to what is really happening.
Most people are idiots, and they stare at their phones like some kind of animal in a lab experiment, because they are too goddamned stupid to either sit and think or to sit and experience the real world around them. It's going to get worse, because idiots are breeding at a much higher rate than smart people are.
If it's going to get worse then we haven't reached peak stupid yet.
Re-writes are or seem to be less brutal than in the days of 80'- 90's due to better compilers and more programming options. Also, while I think this is wishful thinking, I believe coders now-a-days really try to modulize the code to help the debugging teams and upgrade function teams, yes I know they will dump code for the pre-alpha to get the concept working, but then they keep cleaning and cleaning and then had it off to debugging by the time beta come's around. again most likely wishful thinking.
It seems now-a-days rather than finish developing programs, alpha quality software gets shipped because "hey we can ship now and patch later". But the bugs never get patched, because the focus for the next release is to implement new features (such as more advanced user tracking, or more irritating ads), or the design guys have a new braindead idea for a UI design with an even lighter "light gray"(F0F0F0) text on a slightly lighter "light gray" (FAFAFA) background, or changing from a hamburger menu icon to three dots. Or change the tab edges from angled to straight back to angled. Or make it even harder to tell what is a control.
Also there will be a new trendy framework that absolutely has to be integrated. It won't really improve functionality, but it will substantially increase resources. But hey, we'll tell users "LOL, get with the times Luddite, buy a new device" when they complain about the poor performance. It's cheaper to get users to buy new hardware than it is to code better. What's the sense of the hardware guys developing faster hardware if we can't slow our software down so the experience is the same as it was 20 years ago on shittier hardware?
I don't blame the developers themselves, as much as the management that pushes for new releases with shinier features, rather than completing a job.
Ding ding ding someone gets it. I would be shocked if Google wasn't doing something similar to get updated info. Yes we have all heard of / seen their cars, which provides a starting point, but after that's created, the devices can assimilate new data automatically in an anonymized way. Sort of a hive update concept.
How do you think Google Maps gets realtime traffic data?
Back in 2005 time AMD was making significant headway in becoming the Chip for your PC right before Intel released the Core duo chip. The Pentium Line was getting aging and the Pentium-5 wasn't that popular and AMD was the chip for your PC. AMD had about a year or two of popularity.
Then Intel made the Intel Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo chip (64 bit) which put AMD back. But right before then, Intel was seen as the dying giant.
What actually happened was at the turn of the century Pentium III was replaced with Pentium 4, which had a worse per clock and per watt performance than Pentium III. But Intel kept pushing it because Mhz. They were also thinking Itanium was the way of the future.
AMD managed to make cheaper, lower MHz, faster chips. They also invented x86-64 with full backwards capability.
Intel kept pushing the Spaceheater 4. That thing was such an energy hog it was completely unsuitable for laptops. Intel in Israel created the Pentium M chip in 2003 as a new mobile chip. It was based on the Pentium III. It was usually marketed as a "Centrino" platform: Intel chipset, Pentium M, Intel Wireless.
The Pentium 4 was such a piece of shit Intel eventually threw the whole Netburst Architecture in the garbage, and based all future processors on the Pentium M: Core, Core 2, Core i3/5/7.
They also had to adopt AMD's 64 bit platform.
Only because of their huge missteps of Netburst and Itanium was AMD able to grab a sizable chunk of the market. Even when Core / Core 2 were on the market (~2007) it was easy to get better performance / dollar with AMD.
Mainstream Windows has only transition x86 to x64, a relatively small change. However various parts of Windows or Win32 API have been available on a few other architectures.
There was Win16(eg: Windows 3.1) to Win32. Win16 support is still alive in 32 bit versions of Windows 10.
I like some of their named-by-committee products. Or the project had a description, but no name, so they made the description the name when it went to market.
"Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs"
"Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP" which they thankfully later called "Windows SteadyState"
I don't know what the heck is "questionable" about a netbook. ChromeBooks and similar Windows machines are simply cheap laptops. The only difference is that netbooks are supposed to sub-10 inch devices.
I think Netbooks took the big industry players by surprise. Where the likes of Microsoft are used to trying to dictate the market, netbooks were the opposite. Companies like Asus, MSI, and Acer started making cheap (sub $400), compact sub-notebooks. Which performance was limited, and you couldn't play Crysis on them, consumers liked how they could get a cheap portable computing device that was good enough for checking email, and watching movies on the go.
Microsoft and Intel were trying to push the likes of "Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC)" and "Ultrabooks" and couldn't understand why consumers were flocking to cheap $300 Netbooks instead of these $1200 ultraportables. Microsoft was caught so off-guard they had to reserect Windows XP to satisfy the market.
If nothing else Netbooks highlighted the potential market for cheap, small computing devices, which is now largely (but not entirely) satisfied with Smartphones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks.
For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
Apple removed the Floppy drive from the original iMac in 1998. At that point the computer came with a CD-ROM drive, not a CD-R/RW. USB Flash drives had yet to be invented, and highspeed internet access was not universal, and "cloud" storage wasn't really a thing. I'd say it was another 5 years before they started disappearing from Desktop PCs.
Optical drives probably started disappearing in the 2007/2008 range with Netbooks and the original MacBook air. Then people started realizing they hardly used them anyways.
I never read or browse reddit directly. However, for some topics I find that tossing the word "reddit" into a web search will more quickly lead to useful results.
I find that as well. Much more useful results than relying on just searching the topic, which will result in completely worthless Quora posts.
It is called shifting your car into neutral. I am surprised that so many people who tell scarry stories about cruise control or sudden acceleration have stories like the the movie Speed 2 expect it is in a car and not a boat. Where all they need to do is put the car in neutral and apply the emergency break.
They should be able to shift into neutral and apply the service brake. The "emergency brake" (parking brake) would be a last ditch effort in case of a hydraulic failure. You'll get more braking effort standing on the service brake, even if the vacuum assist is depleted.
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Since Imgburn became malware, AnyBurn has been a good free replacement for lightweight CD/DVD burning, and even supports ISO editing.
I wish, sometimes, that Windows apps had the UNIX philosophy of "Do 1 thing and do it well". But, you can't sell the exact same app to a person twice if nothing has changed, so I understand WHY it happens, but it eventually kills most payware..
There is a lot of Windows Free (as in beer) or FOSS software that has no need to push for more sales, and actually do a good job of one thing, and one thing well.
Web developers are constantly working on the most requested feature: speed. That's not a problem for most PC programs, which can access data with a much wider bandwidth, run on powerful CPUs/GPUs (do not have to deal with cell phones), and do not have to work around the bugs of a thousand different browsers.
Then how come websites slow down over time? I can understand limited performance if you're trying to run an interactive application through interpreted web languages, but it seems as time goes on, pages that should be serving basically static content (news articles, blogs), slow down.
And the selection of articles they have seems to be more towards tech, and less towards SJW / politics.
here's a tip: your country isn't fully totalitarian until current politicians start showing up on the stamps and/or money. Once that happens, get the fuck out at any cost. (You won't listen. No one ever does.)
Queen Elizabeth, head of state for several countries, is frequently found on stamps, coins, and bills. However I'd much rather live in those countries than in the USA.
Then again, in older British houses, ground is often earth, which causes Big Scary Problems when trying to use a converter plug or connecting the earth socket on a radio or receiver to earth...
I'm confused. I thought in British English ground is called "Earth". So really old and new houses will have ground as earth. Are you confusing neutral in there somewhere? They have Line, Neutral, Earth. Like in North America, Neutral is tied to Earth at the entrance, but should never be connected to exposed casing like a protective earth. Doing so would be called a "bootleg ground", or I guess a "bootleg earth".
GIFspreading is also really trendy. Having animated GIFs instead of static images in articles.
(Doesn't everyone have the day off?)
This might come as a shock to you Americans, but United States Independence Day is not an international holiday.
Also, I guess you streamers must have a constant Internet connection. I go lots of places, and that's not true for me. Maybe it's an urban vs. rural thing.
Most streaming services offer a way to download content to your phone which can be good for something like 30 days, allowing you to save data charges, and listen to music outside of cell / wifi coverage.
Oh? How many nuclear incidents have we had in reactors that weren't built in the 60s?
Fukushima? Construction there started in 1976.
2) It gets people used to Google dictating how their websites look and function.
They already dictate website look and feel with AMP
Peak _stupid_ is closer to what is really happening.
Most people are idiots, and they stare at their phones like some kind of animal in a lab experiment, because they are too goddamned stupid to either sit and think or to sit and experience the real world around them. It's going to get worse, because idiots are breeding at a much higher rate than smart people are.
If it's going to get worse then we haven't reached peak stupid yet.
Are you insane? I regularly use a mouse with 13 buttons and only very rarely accidentally hit one.
Amateur. I couldn't use anything less than my 18 button mouse.
Re-writes are or seem to be less brutal than in the days of 80'- 90's due to better compilers and more programming options. Also, while I think this is wishful thinking, I believe coders now-a-days really try to modulize the code to help the debugging teams and upgrade function teams, yes I know they will dump code for the pre-alpha to get the concept working, but then they keep cleaning and cleaning and then had it off to debugging by the time beta come's around.
again most likely wishful thinking.
It seems now-a-days rather than finish developing programs, alpha quality software gets shipped because "hey we can ship now and patch later". But the bugs never get patched, because the focus for the next release is to implement new features (such as more advanced user tracking, or more irritating ads), or the design guys have a new braindead idea for a UI design with an even lighter "light gray"(F0F0F0) text on a slightly lighter "light gray" (FAFAFA) background, or changing from a hamburger menu icon to three dots. Or change the tab edges from angled to straight back to angled. Or make it even harder to tell what is a control.
Also there will be a new trendy framework that absolutely has to be integrated. It won't really improve functionality, but it will substantially increase resources. But hey, we'll tell users "LOL, get with the times Luddite, buy a new device" when they complain about the poor performance. It's cheaper to get users to buy new hardware than it is to code better. What's the sense of the hardware guys developing faster hardware if we can't slow our software down so the experience is the same as it was 20 years ago on shittier hardware?
I don't blame the developers themselves, as much as the management that pushes for new releases with shinier features, rather than completing a job.
Ding ding ding someone gets it. I would be shocked if Google wasn't doing something similar to get updated info. Yes we have all heard of / seen their cars, which provides a starting point, but after that's created, the devices can assimilate new data automatically in an anonymized way. Sort of a hive update concept.
How do you think Google Maps gets realtime traffic data?
Well how else do you expect the app makers to examine your contact list to build your shadow friend network, and to track your location at all times?
Back in 2005 time AMD was making significant headway in becoming the Chip for your PC right before Intel released the Core duo chip. The Pentium Line was getting aging and the Pentium-5 wasn't that popular and AMD was the chip for your PC. AMD had about a year or two of popularity.
Then Intel made the Intel Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo chip (64 bit) which put AMD back. But right before then, Intel was seen as the dying giant.
What actually happened was at the turn of the century Pentium III was replaced with Pentium 4, which had a worse per clock and per watt performance than Pentium III. But Intel kept pushing it because Mhz. They were also thinking Itanium was the way of the future.
AMD managed to make cheaper, lower MHz, faster chips. They also invented x86-64 with full backwards capability.
Intel kept pushing the Spaceheater 4. That thing was such an energy hog it was completely unsuitable for laptops. Intel in Israel created the Pentium M chip in 2003 as a new mobile chip. It was based on the Pentium III. It was usually marketed as a "Centrino" platform: Intel chipset, Pentium M, Intel Wireless.
The Pentium 4 was such a piece of shit Intel eventually threw the whole Netburst Architecture in the garbage, and based all future processors on the Pentium M: Core, Core 2, Core i3/5/7.
They also had to adopt AMD's 64 bit platform.
Only because of their huge missteps of Netburst and Itanium was AMD able to grab a sizable chunk of the market. Even when Core / Core 2 were on the market (~2007) it was easy to get better performance / dollar with AMD.
Mainstream Windows has only transition x86 to x64, a relatively small change.
However various parts of Windows or Win32 API have been available on a few other architectures.
There was Win16(eg: Windows 3.1) to Win32. Win16 support is still alive in 32 bit versions of Windows 10.
I like some of their named-by-committee products. Or the project had a description, but no name, so they made the description the name when it went to market.
"Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs"
"Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP" which they thankfully later called "Windows SteadyState"
I don't know what the heck is "questionable" about a netbook. ChromeBooks and similar Windows machines are simply cheap laptops. The only difference is that netbooks are supposed to sub-10 inch devices.
I think Netbooks took the big industry players by surprise. Where the likes of Microsoft are used to trying to dictate the market, netbooks were the opposite. Companies like Asus, MSI, and Acer started making cheap (sub $400), compact sub-notebooks. Which performance was limited, and you couldn't play Crysis on them, consumers liked how they could get a cheap portable computing device that was good enough for checking email, and watching movies on the go.
Microsoft and Intel were trying to push the likes of "Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC)" and "Ultrabooks" and couldn't understand why consumers were flocking to cheap $300 Netbooks instead of these $1200 ultraportables. Microsoft was caught so off-guard they had to reserect Windows XP to satisfy the market.
If nothing else Netbooks highlighted the potential market for cheap, small computing devices, which is now largely (but not entirely) satisfied with Smartphones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks.
For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
Apple removed the Floppy drive from the original iMac in 1998. At that point the computer came with a CD-ROM drive, not a CD-R/RW. USB Flash drives had yet to be invented, and highspeed internet access was not universal, and "cloud" storage wasn't really a thing. I'd say it was another 5 years before they started disappearing from Desktop PCs.
Optical drives probably started disappearing in the 2007/2008 range with Netbooks and the original MacBook air. Then people started realizing they hardly used them anyways.
This. Or, "these" rather.
I never read or browse reddit directly. However, for some topics I find that tossing the word "reddit" into a web search will more quickly lead to useful results.
I find that as well. Much more useful results than relying on just searching the topic, which will result in completely worthless Quora posts.
You mean like this post almost two hours before yours?
Remember:
to make a paragraph break in /.
Or just enable "plain old text" in Username-account-posting so you can use Enter like a normal person.
It is called shifting your car into neutral.
I am surprised that so many people who tell scarry stories about cruise control or sudden acceleration have stories like the the movie Speed 2 expect it is in a car and not a boat. Where all they need to do is put the car in neutral and apply the emergency break.
They should be able to shift into neutral and apply the service brake. The "emergency brake" (parking brake) would be a last ditch effort in case of a hydraulic failure. You'll get more braking effort standing on the service brake, even if the vacuum assist is depleted.