DJA wrote:
Well, he's entertaining anyway. But to me he represents the average lazy, and technically ignorant user who thinks his way should be the only way. Especially if it means any mental work on his part. The rest of us should just pound sand.
Maybe, but the whole problem with the "Power" button on Windows is that it doesn't really work unless you power completely off.
My Macbook almost *never* gets powered off. I shut the lid and I reopen the lid. I go weeks without hard powering my system up or down. And then, the restart is generally some idiotic Apple system upgrade (bad Apple--no biscuit).
On Windows, even one shut lid-open lid cycle starts introducing strange bugs. My rule of thumb is, 3 cycles or screwball bug, whichever comes first, and hard reboot.
And, he is correct about power management, the computer should be *far* better at managing that than it is. When the computer is idle, it should be ready to park everything immediately.
The problem is that whole boatloads of applications sitting in the background are too blasted chatty. "Hey, I cleaned the disk. Hey, we redid the application caches. Hey, here's another inconsequential log message." All of these applications demand persistency for no good reason.
The worst offenders are the web browsers. "Let's cache everything on disk! Yay!" in spite of the fact that we now have computers with 1GB+ of RAM and network connections that can reload almost instantly. If you want to write my last links to disk as history, maybe, but I should be able to shut that off. Keep my last browsing in RAM cache, or *throw it out*. Writing cached images to disk is now useless.
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