Intel's graphics cores are way behind AMD's and AMD's chip processes and CPU designs are not quite as good as Intel's. If they put their technologies together, we'll have the best of both worlds in one single chip, and the important part you're missing is that AMD *AND* INTEL would make money off of this combined chip. It's intended for low-power high-performance gaming so it's obviously not going to under-cut the desktop CPU market that AMD has just made exciting again and it won't replace the "cheap chips" like Celeron and low-end A-series chips.
The HTC Dream was smaller than most of the larger 5"-class Android phones, though it was also a bit thicker. It was a slider phone so unless you were actively using the keyboard it still had the same general size as today's average Android phone. If it were remade today with an optical trackball and the more compact hardware available today, it could be significantly smaller overall.
The big deal with the 5-row keyboard is that it has function and number keys as well as a staggered key layout just like a normal keyboard. It's significantly easier to type quickly on than keyboards with less rows. It's even faster than predictive touch keyboards when you get used to using it.
More importantly, you can't carry a tablet or laptop in your pocket. All of the "better options" that have keyboards are also way too big to carry everywhere you go. The only times I'd want to do something heavy on my phone is when I'd wish I had a computer around but didn't have one and the phone just happened to be there. Since phones are in-pocket everywhere by default, it's far more likely I'll have that than a laptop.
I had the pleasure of owning the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) when it was a pretty new thing. The five-row keyboard, trackball, and extra hardware buttons basically meant that I had a tiny "laptop" in my pocket. I used it for VNC. I used it for SSH. I even ran a Debian overlay with X on it just because I could. It made the iPhones look stupid: one button, clunky touch-everything, dumbed down trash.
Then the next phone I ended up with had a four-row keyboard and an optical "trackball." OK, it was still quite usable and the optical tracking was admittedly a lot nicer, plus it was less hefty and still a nifty slider phone, with better hardware specs than the Dream had.
Then hardware keyboards on phones were...just gone...and the "mouse" was eliminated entirely, as were physical buttons (in favor of nasty glitchy badly-behaved capacitive touch buttons.) That was where phones went to shit and never recovered. Never mind the app-ocalypse, where the free and open internet was gutted by the use of walled-garden apps, each with their own inconsistent behavior and each requiring its own ever-growing hefty pile of resources on your never-sufficient internal storage.
Apps for big services that have a website are almost always a step backwards and are ALWAYS bloated piles of trash compared to what they should be: a tiny extension for the website to access native phone features that web standards don't exist for. Of course, now we've got standards for most of those too, so why do we still need apps for most things AT ALL? Because Facebook can't mine your damn contacts if they don't have an app, that's why.
Bring back five-row hardware keyboards, slider phones, and optical trackballs. Bring back phones that don't suck and stop shoving apps down our throats.
You don't shoot an IMAX movie with iPhones. You can say a bad workman always blames his tools...but when he's a carpenter and he's handed a piece of rebar and some chewing gum to measure, cut, and hammer, he has to go out of his way to learn to become MacGyver to work with the garbage tools he's been handed. Even then he's still going to produce some pretty crude work.
systemd is rebar and chewing gum in the hands of a carpenter.
I know they're not "extra" but they are separate processes and all carry extra weight. I haven't looked at the shared memory info but the commit sizes per process add up very fast. I'd imagine the "one process per tab" model of Chrome is why Firefox is more stable in my experience; why fix program-crashing bugs if you can fall back on the "oh well, it was only that one tab and not the whole browser so it's actually a good thing" crutch?
I actually have a Firefox update waiting to install. I wonder if that will fix it. I've grown quite cynical about Firefox despite my overall positive view of it because Mozilla doesn't listen to the users, so even though I hope it does...I doubt it.
What on earth are you talking about? You clearly DO NOT use Firefox at all. None of what you described has been a thing in Firefox for years. Memory leaks in the Firefox 4 days were a major issue but they're barely even on the radar today. I have had Firefox open for two days and it's using 1.7GB of RAM, but I also have ~15 add-ons including several privacy add-ons and many of the 20 or so tabs I have open are paused YouTube videos, each with their own buffer sitting in RAM.
I'm running Firefox 56. I don't see any of the stuff you're complaining about. Clearly you have some...unique...issues. Even if Firefox sucks, it sure is better than Chrome which can't seem to stop spawning extra processes, each of which consume many hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and while Chrome is fast when you install it and have never used it, Chrome is as fast as a square trash can rolling down a grassy hill once the caches and SQLite DBs fill up with data.
Unfortunately, Firefox is getting neutered with the release of version 57. Fortunately, if my add-ons can find some way to migrate to the horribly insufficient world that is WebExtensions, I've been promised an even faster browser experience, which is superb since Firefox is already much faster than Chrome.
Windows 10 Pro build 1607 "calc.exe" invoked WIndows 10 app shows the e-19 number. Can't speak for other builds or apps. Obligatory: appy app app apps, LUDDITE.
This one is hard to end up finding even if you're a Commodore guy. The Deathbed Vigil by Dave Haynie is basically a documentary about the last day the Commodore doors were open. It's almost entirely footage shot on-the-spot by Haynie of the staff and what they talked about and had to say during the last day.
If you watch it, you'll find that one of the employees was probably one of the nicest people ever, and even he was on the verge of saying that the head of the company was a piece of shit that was entirely to blame. It was pretty depressing, really. Everything went to hell after Tramiel left and management is entirely to blame. The engineers were the most dedicated people you could get.
Thunderbird already has some of that. Lightning (the calendaring extension) comes with Thunderbird by default now. I have used extensions that two-way sync Google Calendar and Contacts with Thunderbird. Now, one could argue that extensions aren't "part of Thunderbird" but neither are the things that would enable Outlook to do most of what you mentioned. Unless they've changed it in Office 2016, Outlook's calendar sync with Google is read-only; Lightning plus Provider for Google Calendar was two-way syncing with Google many years ago.
I and many others use Thunderbird all the time and rave about it to others. It is unfortunate that it has been neglected because with better support for Outlook stuff and Exchange Server it'd basically kill off Outlook. Outlook is a terrible program and I'm very happy to have an excellent alternative to it.
But you're right. Mozilla has spent a lot of time not listening to its user base. I definitely understand that the user is not always right, but after the Australis shit and the looming murder of XUL/XPCOM despite WebExtensions being woefully inadequate at this stage, Mozilla is winning the "Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" YOU'RE WINNER trophy of shooting oneself in both feet with a crossbow several times in a row.
Sure, I've watched plenty of US movies and television shows. I also know that Jack Thompson and Anita Sarkeesian were both proven wrong by scientific studies several times over: the fantasies you indulge in don't become your reality. If they did, I'd have some serious concerns about Italians after having seen Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
Culture of violence? Something tells me you don't live in America. Fantasy violence is very different from actual violence. Violent crime in the US peaked in the early 1990s and has been on a mostly steady decline ever since. Most of what you've posted is clearly a greatly exaggerated fantasy based on what you read on the internet and has little basis in reality. Contrary to what you seem to think, people are not punching each other in the streets with reckless abandon and slashing their neighbors' throats to get ahead. I wonder where you have been getting these crazy notions. When I walk outside every day, I'm vastly more likely to run into someone who is friendly or at least agreeable to deal with than someone who will stab me in the face. Doesn't jive with whatever strange novel you've been reading.
Source? You mean the already-illegal fully automatic weapon he used? That is already illegal to own in the United States. Easily made from non-automatic weapons though, so what's your solution there? Ban all guns? Not the best time to mention that anyone can buy machining equipment to make such a gun themselves, I suppose. Force registration of all machining equipment capable of building a firearm? Where's "address the source" going? Please elaborate.
Ah! Here you go, making assumptions based on your own prejudices. "You fucking gun rights assholes." Nice label-slapping. Here, I'll copy-paste what I just wrote to another respondent that wasn't nearly as much of an angry agenda-fueled lunatic as you:
This shooter had a fully automatic weapon which is already quite illegal in the USA for normal people. It seems that comments assume I refer to reactionary gun control legislation when my actual thoughts run more along the lines of reactionary legislation forcing hotels in urban areas to perform intrusive security searches a la TSA airport screenings on patrons and have metal detectors at all of the doors. That's not quite the same thing that responses to my original comment seem to be reading into it.
I'm more of a "fucking don't want to live in a police state asshole" than a "fucking gun rights asshole." But hey, enjoy your fantasy world, Anon.
I don't want to get into the "assault rifle" discussion partly because the whole concept of "assault rifles" is nebulous at best and it's completely irrelevant to this story. This shooter had a fully automatic weapon which is already quite illegal in the USA for normal people. It seems that comments assume I refer to reactionary gun control legislation when my actual thoughts run more along the lines of reactionary legislation forcing hotels in urban areas to perform intrusive security searches a la TSA airport screenings on patrons and have metal detectors at all of the doors. That's not quite the same thing that responses to my original comment seem to be reading into it.
Nope. Didn't vote for Trump. Nice red herring you got there though. Any other stupid labels you want to try to slap on me instead of refuting my actual point?
Expect swarms of people to demand that our freedoms be curtailed so that "this can never happen again!" Expect the same swarms of people to be just as stupid and reaction-driven as they were every other time a bad thing has happened in the United States. Let's not address the source of the problem, let's make sure they just have to do the bad deeds in a slightly different manner with the same degree of success.
They tell everyone of the infection but don't provide hashes for the infected files and installers. Class act right there. Just get 5.34 which is totally okay, we promise.
The buttons aren't included in the tab because they have a less local scope than the tabbed items. Re-read the post you replied to; I'm not typing it twice and you don't seem to have read it since it answers some of your questions already.
Are those three buttons good UI design? It depends on the context. All UI decisions are compromises. The OK/Cancel/Apply triad is misunderstood by several people; it is common to run into users that click Apply and then OK, not realizing that OK implicitly does Apply already. Having that Apply button also only makes sense if there is a setting that will be tested, i.e. if you're changing desktop color and want to try different ones out without having to dismiss and then re-open the configuration for every single change. In the context of the tabbed window the buttons being global is generally good design because the alternative is to have to apply changes on a per-panel basis rather than making all desired changes in each individual panel and then applying them with one global action. You suggest allowing [x] to implicitly cancel changes but it already does that unless you've already used Apply to commit those changes. Asking the user on close instead of providing OK/Cancel adds an unnecessary extra step to the process which eventually frustrates the user.
UI design is "good" when it is (among other things) discoverable, predictable, and unobtrusive. Users should be able to figure out the system by trying things out and good design assists them in knowing what to try; flat designs generally make it hard to tell what can be controlled and what can't and the extreme pursuit of "de-cluttering interfaces" leads to controls being hidden away for no purpose other than looking neater as a screenshot. Users should (generally) be able to take the same sequence of actions to achieve the same result; commands and controls that are context-dependent interfere with pattern recognition and should be avoided or used very sparingly. Users should be able to use the system without surprising actions taking place; the JavaScript message popup is a great example of something that violates this concept and should simply not exist.
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Intel's graphics cores are way behind AMD's and AMD's chip processes and CPU designs are not quite as good as Intel's. If they put their technologies together, we'll have the best of both worlds in one single chip, and the important part you're missing is that AMD *AND* INTEL would make money off of this combined chip. It's intended for low-power high-performance gaming so it's obviously not going to under-cut the desktop CPU market that AMD has just made exciting again and it won't replace the "cheap chips" like Celeron and low-end A-series chips.
The HTC Dream was smaller than most of the larger 5"-class Android phones, though it was also a bit thicker. It was a slider phone so unless you were actively using the keyboard it still had the same general size as today's average Android phone. If it were remade today with an optical trackball and the more compact hardware available today, it could be significantly smaller overall.
The big deal with the 5-row keyboard is that it has function and number keys as well as a staggered key layout just like a normal keyboard. It's significantly easier to type quickly on than keyboards with less rows. It's even faster than predictive touch keyboards when you get used to using it.
More importantly, you can't carry a tablet or laptop in your pocket. All of the "better options" that have keyboards are also way too big to carry everywhere you go. The only times I'd want to do something heavy on my phone is when I'd wish I had a computer around but didn't have one and the phone just happened to be there. Since phones are in-pocket everywhere by default, it's far more likely I'll have that than a laptop.
I had the pleasure of owning the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) when it was a pretty new thing. The five-row keyboard, trackball, and extra hardware buttons basically meant that I had a tiny "laptop" in my pocket. I used it for VNC. I used it for SSH. I even ran a Debian overlay with X on it just because I could. It made the iPhones look stupid: one button, clunky touch-everything, dumbed down trash.
Then the next phone I ended up with had a four-row keyboard and an optical "trackball." OK, it was still quite usable and the optical tracking was admittedly a lot nicer, plus it was less hefty and still a nifty slider phone, with better hardware specs than the Dream had.
Then hardware keyboards on phones were...just gone...and the "mouse" was eliminated entirely, as were physical buttons (in favor of nasty glitchy badly-behaved capacitive touch buttons.) That was where phones went to shit and never recovered. Never mind the app-ocalypse, where the free and open internet was gutted by the use of walled-garden apps, each with their own inconsistent behavior and each requiring its own ever-growing hefty pile of resources on your never-sufficient internal storage.
Apps for big services that have a website are almost always a step backwards and are ALWAYS bloated piles of trash compared to what they should be: a tiny extension for the website to access native phone features that web standards don't exist for. Of course, now we've got standards for most of those too, so why do we still need apps for most things AT ALL? Because Facebook can't mine your damn contacts if they don't have an app, that's why.
Bring back five-row hardware keyboards, slider phones, and optical trackballs. Bring back phones that don't suck and stop shoving apps down our throats.
You don't shoot an IMAX movie with iPhones. You can say a bad workman always blames his tools...but when he's a carpenter and he's handed a piece of rebar and some chewing gum to measure, cut, and hammer, he has to go out of his way to learn to become MacGyver to work with the garbage tools he's been handed. Even then he's still going to produce some pretty crude work.
systemd is rebar and chewing gum in the hands of a carpenter.
I know they're not "extra" but they are separate processes and all carry extra weight. I haven't looked at the shared memory info but the commit sizes per process add up very fast. I'd imagine the "one process per tab" model of Chrome is why Firefox is more stable in my experience; why fix program-crashing bugs if you can fall back on the "oh well, it was only that one tab and not the whole browser so it's actually a good thing" crutch?
I actually have a Firefox update waiting to install. I wonder if that will fix it. I've grown quite cynical about Firefox despite my overall positive view of it because Mozilla doesn't listen to the users, so even though I hope it does...I doubt it.
What on earth are you talking about? You clearly DO NOT use Firefox at all. None of what you described has been a thing in Firefox for years. Memory leaks in the Firefox 4 days were a major issue but they're barely even on the radar today. I have had Firefox open for two days and it's using 1.7GB of RAM, but I also have ~15 add-ons including several privacy add-ons and many of the 20 or so tabs I have open are paused YouTube videos, each with their own buffer sitting in RAM.
I'm running Firefox 56. I don't see any of the stuff you're complaining about. Clearly you have some...unique...issues. Even if Firefox sucks, it sure is better than Chrome which can't seem to stop spawning extra processes, each of which consume many hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and while Chrome is fast when you install it and have never used it, Chrome is as fast as a square trash can rolling down a grassy hill once the caches and SQLite DBs fill up with data.
Unfortunately, Firefox is getting neutered with the release of version 57. Fortunately, if my add-ons can find some way to migrate to the horribly insufficient world that is WebExtensions, I've been promised an even faster browser experience, which is superb since Firefox is already much faster than Chrome.
Windows 10 Pro build 1607 "calc.exe" invoked WIndows 10 app shows the e-19 number. Can't speak for other builds or apps. Obligatory: appy app app apps, LUDDITE.
This one is hard to end up finding even if you're a Commodore guy. The Deathbed Vigil by Dave Haynie is basically a documentary about the last day the Commodore doors were open. It's almost entirely footage shot on-the-spot by Haynie of the staff and what they talked about and had to say during the last day.
If you watch it, you'll find that one of the employees was probably one of the nicest people ever, and even he was on the verge of saying that the head of the company was a piece of shit that was entirely to blame. It was pretty depressing, really. Everything went to hell after Tramiel left and management is entirely to blame. The engineers were the most dedicated people you could get.
Yeah, that part is really crap. They should never have added it because it's useless. It never gets the settings right.
Thunderbird already has some of that. Lightning (the calendaring extension) comes with Thunderbird by default now. I have used extensions that two-way sync Google Calendar and Contacts with Thunderbird. Now, one could argue that extensions aren't "part of Thunderbird" but neither are the things that would enable Outlook to do most of what you mentioned. Unless they've changed it in Office 2016, Outlook's calendar sync with Google is read-only; Lightning plus Provider for Google Calendar was two-way syncing with Google many years ago.
I and many others use Thunderbird all the time and rave about it to others. It is unfortunate that it has been neglected because with better support for Outlook stuff and Exchange Server it'd basically kill off Outlook. Outlook is a terrible program and I'm very happy to have an excellent alternative to it.
But you're right. Mozilla has spent a lot of time not listening to its user base. I definitely understand that the user is not always right, but after the Australis shit and the looming murder of XUL/XPCOM despite WebExtensions being woefully inadequate at this stage, Mozilla is winning the "Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" YOU'RE WINNER trophy of shooting oneself in both feet with a crossbow several times in a row.
Sure, I've watched plenty of US movies and television shows. I also know that Jack Thompson and Anita Sarkeesian were both proven wrong by scientific studies several times over: the fantasies you indulge in don't become your reality. If they did, I'd have some serious concerns about Italians after having seen Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
Culture of violence? Something tells me you don't live in America. Fantasy violence is very different from actual violence. Violent crime in the US peaked in the early 1990s and has been on a mostly steady decline ever since. Most of what you've posted is clearly a greatly exaggerated fantasy based on what you read on the internet and has little basis in reality. Contrary to what you seem to think, people are not punching each other in the streets with reckless abandon and slashing their neighbors' throats to get ahead. I wonder where you have been getting these crazy notions. When I walk outside every day, I'm vastly more likely to run into someone who is friendly or at least agreeable to deal with than someone who will stab me in the face. Doesn't jive with whatever strange novel you've been reading.
Source? You mean the already-illegal fully automatic weapon he used? That is already illegal to own in the United States. Easily made from non-automatic weapons though, so what's your solution there? Ban all guns? Not the best time to mention that anyone can buy machining equipment to make such a gun themselves, I suppose. Force registration of all machining equipment capable of building a firearm? Where's "address the source" going? Please elaborate.
Ah! Here you go, making assumptions based on your own prejudices. "You fucking gun rights assholes." Nice label-slapping. Here, I'll copy-paste what I just wrote to another respondent that wasn't nearly as much of an angry agenda-fueled lunatic as you:
This shooter had a fully automatic weapon which is already quite illegal in the USA for normal people. It seems that comments assume I refer to reactionary gun control legislation when my actual thoughts run more along the lines of reactionary legislation forcing hotels in urban areas to perform intrusive security searches a la TSA airport screenings on patrons and have metal detectors at all of the doors. That's not quite the same thing that responses to my original comment seem to be reading into it.
I'm more of a "fucking don't want to live in a police state asshole" than a "fucking gun rights asshole." But hey, enjoy your fantasy world, Anon.
I don't want to get into the "assault rifle" discussion partly because the whole concept of "assault rifles" is nebulous at best and it's completely irrelevant to this story. This shooter had a fully automatic weapon which is already quite illegal in the USA for normal people. It seems that comments assume I refer to reactionary gun control legislation when my actual thoughts run more along the lines of reactionary legislation forcing hotels in urban areas to perform intrusive security searches a la TSA airport screenings on patrons and have metal detectors at all of the doors. That's not quite the same thing that responses to my original comment seem to be reading into it.
Nope. Didn't vote for Trump. Nice red herring you got there though. Any other stupid labels you want to try to slap on me instead of refuting my actual point?
Expect swarms of people to demand that our freedoms be curtailed so that "this can never happen again!" Expect the same swarms of people to be just as stupid and reaction-driven as they were every other time a bad thing has happened in the United States. Let's not address the source of the problem, let's make sure they just have to do the bad deeds in a slightly different manner with the same degree of success.
I guess this isn't a very good time to bring up Blu-ray, the backup that is resistant to magnets and hackers at the same time.
They tell everyone of the infection but don't provide hashes for the infected files and installers. Class act right there. Just get 5.34 which is totally okay, we promise.
My kingdom for mod points...
Good thing I didn't post a picture of Windows 3.1 then.
The buttons aren't included in the tab because they have a less local scope than the tabbed items. Re-read the post you replied to; I'm not typing it twice and you don't seem to have read it since it answers some of your questions already.
Are those three buttons good UI design? It depends on the context. All UI decisions are compromises. The OK/Cancel/Apply triad is misunderstood by several people; it is common to run into users that click Apply and then OK, not realizing that OK implicitly does Apply already. Having that Apply button also only makes sense if there is a setting that will be tested, i.e. if you're changing desktop color and want to try different ones out without having to dismiss and then re-open the configuration for every single change. In the context of the tabbed window the buttons being global is generally good design because the alternative is to have to apply changes on a per-panel basis rather than making all desired changes in each individual panel and then applying them with one global action. You suggest allowing [x] to implicitly cancel changes but it already does that unless you've already used Apply to commit those changes. Asking the user on close instead of providing OK/Cancel adds an unnecessary extra step to the process which eventually frustrates the user.
UI design is "good" when it is (among other things) discoverable, predictable, and unobtrusive. Users should be able to figure out the system by trying things out and good design assists them in knowing what to try; flat designs generally make it hard to tell what can be controlled and what can't and the extreme pursuit of "de-cluttering interfaces" leads to controls being hidden away for no purpose other than looking neater as a screenshot. Users should (generally) be able to take the same sequence of actions to achieve the same result; commands and controls that are context-dependent interfere with pattern recognition and should be avoided or used very sparingly. Users should be able to use the system without surprising actions taking place; the JavaScript message popup is a great example of something that violates this concept and should simply not exist.