1) Massive increase in die area for units that translate the rotten x86 ISA to the internal RISC one. 2) Massive power usage by that translation block 3) Massive IP costs for everything that makes x86 'special' (special in the short-bus sense) 4) Massive coding inefficiency overhead for having to control the true internal RISC ISA with code written to the x86 ISA (usually emitted by a compiler, of course)
5) Massive cost of supporting multiple overlapping compute models such as x87, mmx, sse, sse2, blah, blah, blah... 6) Massive cost to support stupid number of obsolete and legacy instructions that nobody care about but still need to perform well to avoid performance regressions on old binaries
Yay. More projects should port from crappy bastard hack oop GTK to properly object oriented QT. GTK is just pathetic. I always notice when a program uses GTK - dialogs suck, widgets often require two clicks, one to focus, another to ack (what the fuck? this is the 21st century) interface is usually simplistic verging on nonfunctional and defaults are terrible. All things that OOP helps a lot. Especially defaults. Plain old C is the enemy of good defaults. Speaking as a verteran plain old C hack, including all the crappy workarounds GTK does to pretend that compilers didn't advance in the last 20 years.
The most idiotic keyboard feature ever has to be Google's braindamaged committee addled decision to replace the comma key with "turn on the semifunctional voice control" on the standard Android keyboard. See why Google can't be trusted to own development on that project?
I do not agree that "Whoracle" is being evil this time, quite the contrary, but I agree strongly with your point about forking. If it bugs you, don't waste bandwidth whining, just fork, it's your right. Even your duty, if you want to be honest.
Civilization Revolution is really great, I have had endless fun with it. It is significantly less nerdy than the mainline Civs. Sid Meier designed it personally, whereas he apparently does not have much to do with the main Civ games any more. He said it was the game he had always wanted to make.
BTW, why did Android/Google feel it necessary to screw randomly with the standard Unixy top level dir layout? Just to piss everybody off? They succeeeded.
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'introverts' have generally been pushed out of that culture already. It is harder and harder to be an introvert in tech, esp at the trendy companies. The people they are hiring today probably would not have been programmers 20 years ago.
And they aren't programmers now, they're script monkeys.
SF doesn't have decent public transit either. All it has is a pathetically limited number of light rail lines and buses. Unless you're on the "corridor" it's a sardine tin like bus commute for you, that averages to be twice as fast as walking.
BTW, why did Android/Google feel it necessary to screw randomly with the standard Unixy top level dir layout? Just to piss everybody off? They succeeeded.
Android is very crappy in terms of not being able to run standard applications. There is no reason for it.
Oh, and basic functionalilty like cut and paste really blows in Android. I mean, really really blows. What is the excuse for that? And don't get me started on keyboard navigation regressions.
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you forgot to mention "unusually stable weather".
1) Massive increase in die area for units that translate the rotten x86 ISA to the internal RISC one.
2) Massive power usage by that translation block
3) Massive IP costs for everything that makes x86 'special' (special in the short-bus sense)
4) Massive coding inefficiency overhead for having to control the true internal RISC ISA with code written to the x86 ISA (usually emitted by a compiler, of course)
5) Massive cost of supporting multiple overlapping compute models such as x87, mmx, sse, sse2, blah, blah, blah...
6) Massive cost to support stupid number of obsolete and legacy instructions that nobody care about but still need to perform well to avoid performance regressions on old binaries
Enterprise DB is basically PostgreSQL
I meant "act", not "ack".
Yay. More projects should port from crappy bastard hack oop GTK to properly object oriented QT. GTK is just pathetic. I always notice when a program uses GTK - dialogs suck, widgets often require two clicks, one to focus, another to ack (what the fuck? this is the 21st century) interface is usually simplistic verging on nonfunctional and defaults are terrible. All things that OOP helps a lot. Especially defaults. Plain old C is the enemy of good defaults. Speaking as a verteran plain old C hack, including all the crappy workarounds GTK does to pretend that compilers didn't advance in the last 20 years.
The most idiotic keyboard feature ever has to be Google's braindamaged committee addled decision to replace the comma key with "turn on the semifunctional voice control" on the standard Android keyboard. See why Google can't be trusted to own development on that project?
Speaking as a normally functioning male, I fully approve of this phenomenon, provided the girls don't start staying home too.
I do not agree that "Whoracle" is being evil this time, quite the contrary, but I agree strongly with your point about forking. If it bugs you, don't waste bandwidth whining, just fork, it's your right. Even your duty, if you want to be honest.
I don't think Ballmer is bad in every way...
I agree, Ballmer is really good at destroying Microsoft and making it a miserable place to work. For that I admire and thank him.
Patents and scumbags are both problems.
You pulled that out of your ass.
Start button but no start menu, right. Microsoft takes careful aim, blows the other leg off.
Those "whining babies" as you so thoughtfully refer to them are Microsoft's customers. Or former customers.
Civilization Revolution is really great, I have had endless fun with it. It is significantly less nerdy than the mainline Civs. Sid Meier designed it personally, whereas he apparently does not have much to do with the main Civ games any more. He said it was the game he had always wanted to make.
BTW, why did Android/Google feel it necessary to screw randomly with the standard Unixy top level dir layout? Just to piss everybody off? They succeeeded.
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Message to Googlers with mod points: downmodding critical comments, especially when correct, is evil. That way lies the likes of Microsoft and Apple. Oh wait, you think that's cool. Ok then, feel free to mod away you fucking hippocrits.
Edwardian, not Victorian.
'introverts' have generally been pushed out of that culture already. It is harder and harder to be an introvert in tech, esp at the trendy companies. The people they are hiring today probably would not have been programmers 20 years ago.
And they aren't programmers now, they're script monkeys.
The Grateful Dead guy is long gone.
Silicon Valley is more like thirty downtown cores all connected by a train network...
"Network"? Ha ha, that's a good one. More like a conveyor belt with rusty rollers.
I loved where BeOS had their headquarters.
Fat lot of good that did them.
SF doesn't have decent public transit either. All it has is a pathetically limited number of light rail lines and buses. Unless you're on the "corridor" it's a sardine tin like bus commute for you, that averages to be twice as fast as walking.
Actually, Stanford pretty much is Silicon Valley. San Jose is where they send you if you behave badly.
And Solidworks is a "solid" contribution to the state of the art of engineering CAD.
BTW, why did Android/Google feel it necessary to screw randomly with the standard Unixy top level dir layout? Just to piss everybody off? They succeeeded.
Android is very crappy in terms of not being able to run standard applications. There is no reason for it.
Oh, and basic functionalilty like cut and paste really blows in Android. I mean, really really blows. What is the excuse for that? And don't get me started on keyboard navigation regressions.