How inexpensive?
* $200 Nexus 7
* $299 nVidia Shield Tablet http://shield.nvidia.com/gamin...
* $350+ Nexus 10
Some tech specs comparisons
* http://gadgets.ndtv.com/nvidia...
* http://versus.com/en/nvidia-sh...
Indeed. Reminds me of that old joke
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." -- Murphy's (Computer) Laws
While funny it is sad to see that the state of software really hasn't progressed much in the last 20+ years. Businesses still cut corner to minimize expenses. Programs still have shitty UI. Keyboard accelerators / shortcuts along with manuals have gone the way of the dodo. Help has moved to being online only -- with the help index being a complete joke lacking common search terms. We've gone from 1 MHz to 4 GHz machines which is over 3 orders of magnitudes difference and we _still_ wait. Every day we hear of yet-another-device (or company) getting hacked / p0wned / etc. Security is a complete joke at most places.
One of the few good things is that never before has so much computing power been so inexpensive.
Along the way we lost the "human element". We don't build machines for other machines for but for _people_ to use. Why do computers _still_ continue to suck? Because we doing it ass-backwards. We're forcing people to adopt to some shitty UI instead of making the computer adapt to us. But that isn't the complete picture.
There is a meta problem looming. This video seems relevant
Forget that anti-skeuomorphism. It looks like shit.
It is step ass-backwords to Windows 1.0 as that picture shows.
Let's analyze these "reasons"
* virtual desktops -- Virtual Desktops are hidden in Win7
* a rumored tabs in explorer -- xplorer2 has supported this for years
* kernel level sandboxing that all browsers can use -- Sandboxie does it for ALL applications
* much improved power consumption -- we are talking pennies a month on a desktop
* directx 12 with low cpu overhead -- not a fan of forced obsolescence. Games _still_ support DX9 for crying out loud. We already went through this shit with Vista and DirectX 11.
* USB 3 support -- with what devices??
So basically $100 for features that MS should of done **years** ago that I can get elsewhere. *Yawn*.
The "best" part is that Microsoft STILL can't get the Control Panel consistent !
OSX does a far better consistent job
Microsoft doesn't have a clue about good UI.
Your pedantry is "almost" correct.
The only program that is bug-free is the trivial one liner.
NOP
// assembly no-operation
Though some would argue:
int foo = 0;
is bug free since without input, and output, whatever "calculation" you do is pointless & void.
Software runs on the _assumption_ that the hardware is
a) functioning
b)
We have almost no way to guarantee that in software. Sure we have ECC RAM but what else? Anything more then 1 line is making these assumptions and therefore is a candidate for being buggy.
So I would revise your statement:
"All non-trivial software is buggy."
I miss the days of playing CTF when everyone would say "GG" for good game after the match eded. The complete lack of "sportsman conduct" definitely turns a lot of us older gamers off.
That is an excellent point -- the more companies try to control the servers the less options server admins have.
The more power game devs give to the server admins the more power can be used to keep the community good.
You are spot on with consequences is the best way for people to learn. Positive Reinforcement or Negative Reinforcement. Direct feedback is a way to help the person retain and recall the option to chose differently.
100% agree!
If businesses were smart they all would chip in $10 say towards LibreOffice, Inkscape, Krita, FreeNAS, GimpShop, etc.
They could be free of the tyranny of proprietary vendor-lock file formats for once and for all. But yet they would rather pay to suffer ! **shrugs**
Could you image how much development could get done if open source alternatives to X could get funding!? Not say money is a silver bullet TM but it certainly would go a long way!
> was visible in source code for 20 years and until now nobody found it. This includes the black-hats. Not sure what this means...
As opposed to close source? That doesn't change the reality that
ALL software has bugs.
Now at a pragmatic level at least the open source ones are _eventually_ found -- we have no idea, or guarantee, when or If the closed source ones will ever be found !
> The ratios are close to even in social games (including MMOs), not so much for shooter/wargames.
Can you blame them? Hell, I don't either want to listen to some 14 year old f-bomb this, f-bomb that, trash talk and whine about everything and not learn a dam thing about _teamwork_.
Thank God for private servers, and SourceMod to freeze / slay / ban the little shits.
Please don't link to Phoronix garbage -- all they care about is linking to themselves instead of actually linking to the source
i.e.
* https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/1... Linux 2.6.36-rc4
* https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/2... Linux 2.6.36-rc5 <-- alpha: fix a 14 years old bug in sigreturn tracing
Open Source software is legally free!"
"So? On bittorrent, any software is free"
You forgot most likely illegal -- just because the "cost" appears to be zero for you, doesn't mean it is legally free.
FTFY.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
