begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:38PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > >...and meanwhile, programs don't actually get faster. The more compute > >resources they have, the more useless crap they try to do. :-/ > > Bullshit. > > OpenOffice has gotten *vastly* faster with time.
OpenOffice started off by first getting slower. You're saying it's gotten better since? That's good news. Of course, I've basically given up on OpenOffice, as they consider my hardware to be their machine, and I won't hold with that. > Firefox has gotten faster with time. Not for me -- but then, browsers have always been limited by bandwidth. It just takes longer for me to go through and figure out how to turn off the crap I don't want but is enabled for my convenience. > Thunderbird has gotten faster with time. Again, not noticably for me. Of course, I mostly use mutt, and only use thunderbird on two little-used machines. > The FFMPEG libraries continue to get faster. Can't say that I use those at all. I'm glad something is getting better. > etc. > > Prove the slowdown or quit spouting garbage. Even on uber-fast machines, I still get a jerky mouse, hesitations for terminals, etc. The difference between my 500MHz primary home box (so far as application responsiveness goes) and the multi-GHz machines at work is.... basically nil. Of course, I'm not always buying the newest hardware and installing the latest version of everything, and it's generally a year or two between when I upgrade major applications. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
