So they'll get it to 61ms. The speed of light from London to New York is 18.6ms by my calcs. Can anyone summarize as a list of the major percentages what makes up the rest of the 40ms?
And this is why we need a better, more standard benchmark than the much-acclaimed 'Turing test'. I've known for ages how poor it can be in assessing the worth of an AI. There's got to be a better scoring system out there.
Lol, that made me laugh. I think something we can both agree on though is more funding for researching both 'green' and nuclear energy sources (which can still be very green potentially).
What is a troll anyway? I probably disagree with all his posts, but he doesn't seem abusive. Even though all of his posts seem to get minus one, it could be 'just' that he really thinks all that stuff about dangerous chemicals, health, radiation etc. to be true. Heck if someone's going to believe any one of those things, it's going to be make sense to throw in the rest as well. He may be so engrossed that that kind of topic is all he wants to discuss, hence no higher rated posts.
Why not talk about the elephant in the room? I expect noise and fume pollution from cars and lorries to be an order of magnitude (or two) more significant to subjective air quality generally than any nuclear reactor.
Electric cars will solve both of those issues, and at least give country-like air and a strange, wonderful relative silence to busy cities. That'll be a time worth living for.
Thanks! I'll bet I'm going to use it quite a bit, but it's only a shadow of what I really had in mind, as each one leads off to a separate window with more icons/sliders/checkboxes, rather than having all these available in the primary window (e.g. changing the mouse pointer speed). I'm after a "SuperGodMode" I think;)
Finally, someone's suggesting something close to what I've been championing all along.
Want to change a particular Windows pref? Forget the registry, control panel or other such rubbish, and have them in a unified million-entry metadata tagged database, where a quick search for say, "mouse" will return all fields responding to 'mouse' (speed, cursor picture, double click speed), with the most promising entries at the top.
Want to find that Visual Studio class GUI component property? Again, a search will condense the hundreds listed to just a few (foregoing the need to scroll through what is often a VERY long list). Things like 'location' will be metatagged with 'position', or 'x' to help the search be more relevant.
Want to find that file quickly? Again, a metadata filesystem with a single folder containing all files is the way to go.
Such an approach not only makes it easier and quicker for the user to locate a file or property, but reduces the need for the programmer to painfully create positions for the GUI icons and buttons, and obviously the whole hierarchy of windows inside windows mess becomes a relic of the past. Like you say, why this has not been done already is pretty astonishing.
Yum. It's almost like comparing HD to SSD, or LCD to OLED/QLED. Any decent articles on the web about using ultra-capacitors in cars, and do you know of the best company to invest in for this?
Battery tech advances all the time, and so should get smaller and lighter over time. We can also apparently cut out the changing gear / clutch crap, and turn on the instant heating say, without having to worry about also having the noisy engine on if the car is stationary. Yeah noise will be a thing of the past too.
Additionally, the cost of electricity should also plummet over time as we build better nuclear power stations or even fusion in the future, and at that point, electric cars will be ready to immediately 'switch', because electricity is just electricity.
Typing is good yes. A console uses typing, but so does a text editor, IRC, and a million other things. The idea of a console is so ingrained into many (not all) Linux folk that they would even use it as a basis for a calculator, when something like Soulver on the Mac is a far superior way of working with numbers (notepad like editing with real-time answers as you type).
Insensitive clod! Down here in the South pole where penguins doth tread in your imagination, we currently have night time all the time (thank FSM, not long to go before we can start living again). So I demand that the world switches to apx. 00:00 hours worldwide, and keep it fixed at that until next month.
I have heard that my friend down under is currently in constant daylight, and we often argue whether we should stick to 12:00 or 00:00 (we swap our stances every 6 months or so). Anyway, it gets tiresome, and just hearing people like you suggest yet another alternative makes me want to hibernate forever.
Well then we need to somehow evolve out of needing sleep, and also light the streets up to daylight levels or brighter to allow for sunshine 24 hours a day!
(I'm only half-joking, I think it would be really cool not to have to sleep)
Unification is actually a very good idea generally. It will happen to language eventually, and it would be a good thing to happen to time, and if you despise the idea because of the low likelihood of actually being accepted worldwide, then you're just not thinking into the future far enough.
For now, both time systems would be a great thing, and I don't even travel much yet.
Interesting, I had a somewhat bad experience with the Macs we used at uni (slow and buggy music editing programs), but I bet they've improved a lot more since then.
Okay maybe at a push for something like that if you're paranoid.
However, 99.9999% of software publishers don't make anything nearly on that scale of generality. For the rest, we should keep our own self-contained folder thank you very much.
Sure for the *really* important DLLs, but those are going to be on Windows by default for everyone. Yeah keep a library of those.
Instead the reality is that everyone has their own pet DLLs which they just have to infect the system with. You end up with a million DLLs and bits of preferences (which are usually duplicated beyond belief) in another thousand places. But by all means, have fun with your backup, and trying to make each program independent without going to a dozen different places to find the exact DLL. Yuck.
Great, an installer to handle the installers. Yet another layer of crapness.
Now people know how I feel about installers in general. We shouldn't even have to have them. Some of the best apps you can get are single files (not even zipped), and they work just great with no 100 step install processes in sight. Okay you need to specify the download location, but that's about it, and with a purely Metadata filesystem, we wouldn't even need to do that.
Files should be unified in a single folder with everything self-contained. Okay, shared DLLs save a bit of memory, but in this day and age, that's not an issue anymore. Backing up data and compatibility is a lot simpler also when everything is self-contained in a single folder and not dumped in the registry, all over the OS, in the user's "My Documents" folder, and god knows where else.
Er just to clarify the last sentence of my post; obviously one would need to type in keywords, but I meant it would be quicker than typing what would be the equivalent of the CLI version. Heck, I'm tired..... time for bed.
Having read your original post again more properly this time, you're right, it almost feels like a different post, at least the first half or so (that's an odd feeling!). Let me try again:
Yes, Windows can easily make what should be a one step process into a million steps. But that's with a bad design. I'm saying what could be, rather than what is (I too hate having to trundle through window after window in the way you spoke of).
To give a better idea of how the GUI can work for speed instead of against; picture a "Master Prefs" program window with every single preference of the OS inside. These millions of entries would be searchable instantly (0.1s), with real-time filtering, and metadata (including semantic variations of a word) attached to each option so you could find or edit the desired option in seconds. It would be quicker than typing and would save having to remember the massive array of options.
Your audio example could easily be a custom-made preset inside a GUI. You'd get the same thing done with one or two clicks. If you wanted different values each time, then the tab in the gui would replace the space bar in the terminal, as it would move on to the next field/textbox.
If software is written right, it will be as stable as any terminal.
I hate kludgy slow software as much as anyone (hence why I'm so interested in Haiku, and wrote an article about latency which made Slashdot's news a short while back), and I have a fair amount of experience with the command line......... but I remain unconvinced.
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So they'll get it to 61ms. The speed of light from London to New York is 18.6ms by my calcs. Can anyone summarize as a list of the major percentages what makes up the rest of the 40ms?
And this is why we need a better, more standard benchmark than the much-acclaimed 'Turing test'. I've known for ages how poor it can be in assessing the worth of an AI. There's got to be a better scoring system out there.
Thankfully yes. I never (or rarely) have to reboot my computer.
Lol, that made me laugh. I think something we can both agree on though is more funding for researching both 'green' and nuclear energy sources (which can still be very green potentially).
What is a troll anyway? I probably disagree with all his posts, but he doesn't seem abusive. Even though all of his posts seem to get minus one, it could be 'just' that he really thinks all that stuff about dangerous chemicals, health, radiation etc. to be true. Heck if someone's going to believe any one of those things, it's going to be make sense to throw in the rest as well. He may be so engrossed that that kind of topic is all he wants to discuss, hence no higher rated posts.
Why not talk about the elephant in the room? I expect noise and fume pollution from cars and lorries to be an order of magnitude (or two) more significant to subjective air quality generally than any nuclear reactor.
Electric cars will solve both of those issues, and at least give country-like air and a strange, wonderful relative silence to busy cities. That'll be a time worth living for.
Thanks! I'll bet I'm going to use it quite a bit, but it's only a shadow of what I really had in mind, as each one leads off to a separate window with more icons/sliders/checkboxes, rather than having all these available in the primary window (e.g. changing the mouse pointer speed). I'm after a "SuperGodMode" I think ;)
Finally, someone's suggesting something close to what I've been championing all along.
Want to change a particular Windows pref? Forget the registry, control panel or other such rubbish, and have them in a unified million-entry metadata tagged database, where a quick search for say, "mouse" will return all fields responding to 'mouse' (speed, cursor picture, double click speed), with the most promising entries at the top.
Want to find that Visual Studio class GUI component property? Again, a search will condense the hundreds listed to just a few (foregoing the need to scroll through what is often a VERY long list). Things like 'location' will be metatagged with 'position', or 'x' to help the search be more relevant.
Want to find that file quickly? Again, a metadata filesystem with a single folder containing all files is the way to go.
Such an approach not only makes it easier and quicker for the user to locate a file or property, but reduces the need for the programmer to painfully create positions for the GUI icons and buttons, and obviously the whole hierarchy of windows inside windows mess becomes a relic of the past. Like you say, why this has not been done already is pretty astonishing.
Yum. It's almost like comparing HD to SSD, or LCD to OLED/QLED. Any decent articles on the web about using ultra-capacitors in cars, and do you know of the best company to invest in for this?
Battery tech advances all the time, and so should get smaller and lighter over time. We can also apparently cut out the changing gear / clutch crap, and turn on the instant heating say, without having to worry about also having the noisy engine on if the car is stationary. Yeah noise will be a thing of the past too.
Additionally, the cost of electricity should also plummet over time as we build better nuclear power stations or even fusion in the future, and at that point, electric cars will be ready to immediately 'switch', because electricity is just electricity.
I'm sure there are many other advantages too...
Esperanto is apparently 4x quicker to learn than English or other languages, so maybe that ;)
Typing is good yes. A console uses typing, but so does a text editor, IRC, and a million other things. The idea of a console is so ingrained into many (not all) Linux folk that they would even use it as a basis for a calculator, when something like Soulver on the Mac is a far superior way of working with numbers (notepad like editing with real-time answers as you type).
Insensitive clod! Down here in the South pole where penguins doth tread in your imagination, we currently have night time all the time (thank FSM, not long to go before we can start living again). So I demand that the world switches to apx. 00:00 hours worldwide, and keep it fixed at that until next month.
I have heard that my friend down under is currently in constant daylight, and we often argue whether we should stick to 12:00 or 00:00 (we swap our stances every 6 months or so). Anyway, it gets tiresome, and just hearing people like you suggest yet another alternative makes me want to hibernate forever.
Well then we need to somehow evolve out of needing sleep, and also light the streets up to daylight levels or brighter to allow for sunshine 24 hours a day!
(I'm only half-joking, I think it would be really cool not to have to sleep)
Unification is actually a very good idea generally. It will happen to language eventually, and it would be a good thing to happen to time, and if you despise the idea because of the low likelihood of actually being accepted worldwide, then you're just not thinking into the future far enough.
For now, both time systems would be a great thing, and I don't even travel much yet.
I know, it's amazing to think English is so full of inconsistencies that it makes us suffer so much.
Then again, Esperanto is apparently only 4x quicker to learn because it's consistent and logical. 4x? pah.... what's a factor of four anyway.
Crucially though, I think we all got the meaning. Thank FSM!
I've used them yes, but they don't seem to display ratings next to the summary of each program when you do a search.
Interesting, I had a somewhat bad experience with the Macs we used at uni (slow and buggy music editing programs), but I bet they've improved a lot more since then.
Anyway, that sounds good I have to say.
Okay maybe at a push for something like that if you're paranoid.
However, 99.9999% of software publishers don't make anything nearly on that scale of generality. For the rest, we should keep our own self-contained folder thank you very much.
Sure for the *really* important DLLs, but those are going to be on Windows by default for everyone. Yeah keep a library of those.
Instead the reality is that everyone has their own pet DLLs which they just have to infect the system with. You end up with a million DLLs and bits of preferences (which are usually duplicated beyond belief) in another thousand places. But by all means, have fun with your backup, and trying to make each program independent without going to a dozen different places to find the exact DLL. Yuck.
Great, an installer to handle the installers. Yet another layer of crapness.
Now people know how I feel about installers in general. We shouldn't even have to have them. Some of the best apps you can get are single files (not even zipped), and they work just great with no 100 step install processes in sight. Okay you need to specify the download location, but that's about it, and with a purely Metadata filesystem, we wouldn't even need to do that.
Files should be unified in a single folder with everything self-contained. Okay, shared DLLs save a bit of memory, but in this day and age, that's not an issue anymore. Backing up data and compatibility is a lot simpler also when everything is self-contained in a single folder and not dumped in the registry, all over the OS, in the user's "My Documents" folder, and god knows where else.
Er just to clarify the last sentence of my post; obviously one would need to type in keywords, but I meant it would be quicker than typing what would be the equivalent of the CLI version. Heck, I'm tired..... time for bed.
Having read your original post again more properly this time, you're right, it almost feels like a different post, at least the first half or so (that's an odd feeling!). Let me try again:
Yes, Windows can easily make what should be a one step process into a million steps. But that's with a bad design. I'm saying what could be, rather than what is (I too hate having to trundle through window after window in the way you spoke of).
To give a better idea of how the GUI can work for speed instead of against; picture a "Master Prefs" program window with every single preference of the OS inside. These millions of entries would be searchable instantly (0.1s), with real-time filtering, and metadata (including semantic variations of a word) attached to each option so you could find or edit the desired option in seconds. It would be quicker than typing and would save having to remember the massive array of options.
Your audio example could easily be a custom-made preset inside a GUI. You'd get the same thing done with one or two clicks. If you wanted different values each time, then the tab in the gui would replace the space bar in the terminal, as it would move on to the next field/textbox.
If software is written right, it will be as stable as any terminal.
I hate kludgy slow software as much as anyone (hence why I'm so interested in Haiku, and wrote an article about latency which made Slashdot's news a short while back), and I have a fair amount of experience with the command line......... but I remain unconvinced.