The reason is simple. Software is getting more complex and featureful, but companies are not investing enough to get a matching amount of quality assurance.
Why is the I/O layer team of Linux not taking responsibility to make TRIM work properly? Linux still sends individual TRIM sector commands instead of TRIM ranges. This creates unnecessary traffic in the bus and is especially nasty for everything before SATA 3.1, because then the TRIM command has to be executed synchronously, meaning that the device command queue has to be completely flushed first.
You go to the gym not because you have aspirations of mastering a bench press, but because you aspire for a stronger, healthier body. Mathematics are an example of exercise equipment for a software developer.
As an important sidenote, I want to underline that literally going to gym is also important to a software developer.:) Your mind will greatly benefit from the energized body.
Can they be re-configured once the blocks are programmed? I don't know anything about processor design, but I'm curious if FPGAs are the kind of thing you configure once for a particular application and then that's it or if they can be reconfigured again later for another application.
The FPGA itself is empty every time it starts. On startup the hardware description is uploaded from a tiny external flash chip. This flash can be reconfigured arbitrary times. Actually, that is one of the strengths of FPGA: if there is a problem in the design or a new feature needs to be added, the customers can be served without rolling a new chip.
However, there are also some programmable logic devices which are designed to be programmed only once. The programming is usually done by using antifuses.
It could be the frame rate. Other theories that come to my mind is using a controller instead of keyboard/mouse, input latency, your distance from the screen, flickery screen (PWM), lighting conditions, etc.
It would be nice if they just had one person in the company who can see that Windows 8.1 and metro are a piece of shit and is in a position to get rid of them.
I believe Satya Nadella actually sees this. It's just hard for Microsoft to completely halt the Modern UI strategy as they are so deeply married to it by this point. The Start Menu in Windows 9 is taking things back though.
Windows is currently unusable on the desktop.
By the way, along the silly UI, the update system is also very glitchy in Windows 8. After dropping Service Packs they have gone with weird patch levels stacked upon each other like "8.1 Update 1". They quickly pulled the carpet from Windows 8.0 support altogether. Then, the updates from Windows Update often do not apply cleanly, leading to "Installing updates failed. Reverting changes." Not to mention that the Control Panel Windows Update section often has problem downloading updates or showing the status properly (the backend worker might be doing its thing but the UI never shows any progress). The 8.0 to 8.1 update process is also a major pain in the ass, being unreliable and leading people having to do various magic tricks like unplugging all USB devices or removing display drivers so that everything goes fine.
We cannot discuss even those things with much accuracy. It would still require more information about how product teams and other structures are arranged inside those companies.
Nothing really. I have been toying with the idea of taking an existing terminal and patching it to do the trick. It's probably still too tasking project for my skill level. Generally I like the idea and would like to contribute either by providing code or making a donation.
(except perhaps the fact that it seems like a dumb idea resulting in linux-KMS-framebuffer-console-like performance)
Oh. I believe there's many ways to make it butter smooth and not consume much CPU or GPU power at all.
I want a terminal emulator that smoothly scrolls in the new text that appears. Some of the old real terminals had this feature, but I never have never seen it in a software terminal.
The installation process is often junk. I've played around with Matlab and Quartus and they were both extremely finicky to install unless you were running precisely a certain version of certain distro.
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The reason is simple. Software is getting more complex and featureful, but companies are not investing enough to get a matching amount of quality assurance.
Ah yes, I missed that. Apparently my microsecond-long attention span wasn't good enough to read the full page properly.
That is true.
Microsoft's Virtual Address Space (Windows) page claims that it is 8 terabytes (with a special feature to allocate just a full 2 gigabyte chunk).
Why is the I/O layer team of Linux not taking responsibility to make TRIM work properly? Linux still sends individual TRIM sector commands instead of TRIM ranges. This creates unnecessary traffic in the bus and is especially nasty for everything before SATA 3.1, because then the TRIM command has to be executed synchronously, meaning that the device command queue has to be completely flushed first.
They won't suffer much harm business-wise, as this issue will mostly be forgotten over the weekend.
Is this game/simulation programming?
:D
You go to the gym not because you have aspirations of mastering a bench press, but because you aspire for a stronger, healthier body. Mathematics are an example of exercise equipment for a software developer.
As an important sidenote, I want to underline that literally going to gym is also important to a software developer. :) Your mind will greatly benefit from the energized body.
Wouldn't even studies in philosophy work?
Can they be re-configured once the blocks are programmed? I don't know anything about processor design, but I'm curious if FPGAs are the kind of thing you configure once for a particular application and then that's it or if they can be reconfigured again later for another application.
The FPGA itself is empty every time it starts. On startup the hardware description is uploaded from a tiny external flash chip. This flash can be reconfigured arbitrary times. Actually, that is one of the strengths of FPGA: if there is a problem in the design or a new feature needs to be added, the customers can be served without rolling a new chip.
However, there are also some programmable logic devices which are designed to be programmed only once. The programming is usually done by using antifuses.
It could be Ubuntu Mono. Yeah, I like it too.
What would happen in practice if Satoshi now started to convert his mountains of Bitcoins to U.S. dollars?
Wait, what? Xeons with a FPGA core? That sounds pretty cool.
It could be the frame rate. Other theories that come to my mind is using a controller instead of keyboard/mouse, input latency, your distance from the screen, flickery screen (PWM), lighting conditions, etc.
Do you get motion sickness also from less fast-paced 3D games, such as Portal or Skyrim?
It would be nice if they just had one person in the company who can see that Windows 8.1 and metro are a piece of shit and is in a position to get rid of them.
I believe Satya Nadella actually sees this. It's just hard for Microsoft to completely halt the Modern UI strategy as they are so deeply married to it by this point. The Start Menu in Windows 9 is taking things back though.
Windows is currently unusable on the desktop.
By the way, along the silly UI, the update system is also very glitchy in Windows 8. After dropping Service Packs they have gone with weird patch levels stacked upon each other like "8.1 Update 1". They quickly pulled the carpet from Windows 8.0 support altogether. Then, the updates from Windows Update often do not apply cleanly, leading to "Installing updates failed. Reverting changes." Not to mention that the Control Panel Windows Update section often has problem downloading updates or showing the status properly (the backend worker might be doing its thing but the UI never shows any progress). The 8.0 to 8.1 update process is also a major pain in the ass, being unreliable and leading people having to do various magic tricks like unplugging all USB devices or removing display drivers so that everything goes fine.
We cannot discuss even those things with much accuracy. It would still require more information about how product teams and other structures are arranged inside those companies.
The code snippets have too many colors which in my opinion make them hard to read. What do you think?
If you mean Adobe Flash, I have not noticed it having any kind of spyware characteristics.
what stops you from writing it?
Nothing really. I have been toying with the idea of taking an existing terminal and patching it to do the trick. It's probably still too tasking project for my skill level. Generally I like the idea and would like to contribute either by providing code or making a donation.
(except perhaps the fact that it seems like a dumb idea resulting in linux-KMS-framebuffer-console-like performance)
Oh. I believe there's many ways to make it butter smooth and not consume much CPU or GPU power at all.
F2FS is also one quite sweet file system.
I want a terminal emulator that smoothly scrolls in the new text that appears. Some of the old real terminals had this feature, but I never have never seen it in a software terminal.
The installation process is often junk. I've played around with Matlab and Quartus and they were both extremely finicky to install unless you were running precisely a certain version of certain distro.
It's not a hipster thing. The term has been in use for quite a long time. It stands for "user experience".