More "features" are being added.? Better graphics, more
connectivity, more things going on (for instance, re-indexing all
of your photographs, requested action or not).? There's an awful
lot going on under the hood of the modern computer, good or bad,
and all that takes processor time.? If, perhaps, the OS were
written so that the OS itself could ONLY grab so much of the
resources, well, that might be different.? Would take some thought
and design, of course.
But I wouldn't just blame the programmers (who were taught
however they were taught).? Marketing needs this new feature, how
can we get it in?? We don't care if it's slowing down the machine,
they can just upgrade that to run xxx).
Then again, there's the people out there that insist on those
features....? and they buy computers.? Not, mind you that you can
turn OFF any of these highly desirable features.? (Windows
Messenger, cloud services, etc....)
Harvey
On 4/19/2020 8:39 PM, Jim Ford wrote:
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Yes, indeed.? Why do we need faster and faster hardware??
Slower and slower software, of course!? The problem is that
software is getting slower and slower faster than hardware is
getting faster and faster. :(
Jim Ford?
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Date: 4/19/20 5:03 PM (GMT-08:00)
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On 4/19/20 7:38 PM, Bob Albert via groups.io wrote:
> I must say that I saw a pattern in my professional life.?
Everywhere I
> went, including the military, I was told that things were
really nice a
> while back, and I should have been there then.? Perhaps
nostalgia isn't
> what it used to be.
? This didn't just happen at random.? This, along with another
major
problem, software bloat, can be traced to just about the same time
and
the same type of attitude.
? Sometime in the 1970s, I think it was, some clueless economics
professor in some ivory tower said something to the effect of "the
sole
purpose of any corporation is to make money by any means
possible," all
other considerations be damned.? Suits all over the world took
this as
if they'd just been released from some sort of prison (where many
of
them arguably belong) and they went absolutely wild.? It was then
that
the decline of these corporations, and the rise of extreme levels
of
sleaze at the executive level, began.? Enron, Worldcom, etc.?
Crime no
longer need take place in dark alleys and crack houses, it moved
to the
comfort of the boardroom!? We all get screwed daily by the result
of this.
? Also sometime in the 1970s, another moron, probably related to
the one
described above, said "programmer time is more valuable than
processor
time".? This similarly caused the laziest programmers to act as if
they'd be unchained, and the decline of computing efficiency, and
caring
about same, began.? This is why modern OSs require multi-GHz clock
speeds and billions of bytes of memory just to boot, much less get
any
work done.
? If I ever get my hands around the neck of either of these men,
they
will have a difficult day.
????????????? -Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
