Computers and software hit a pinnacle of speed, usefulness and lack of trouble about 10 years ago and it has been downhill ever since.
That sounds about right to me!
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Loyal
I don't think it is a computer problem per say.
There were a lot less options 10 years ago.
I don't think speed is increasing at the rate it was back then, and software developers have had a decade to think of more useless things to do with your computer resources.
Most "updates" now seem to only move things around so they are hard to find and change the graphics so you don't recognize things, plus endless "security updates" that never seem to keep us secure.
The security issues are fundamental - they are trying to put bandaids on broken bones. The fundamental assumptions being used make it impossible to be sucure. Nobody should ever have written an operating system that has built-in automatic remote updating, nor allowed every web site to run scripts on your machine. If I were emperor of the world, the web would be plain SHTML, no add-on scripting.
There is a lot more speed in computers today, it's just the the software is a lot more complex, so there's the wash.:-(
The old days programmers had little space so that the programs ere written tightly . Now days with so much space they are clumsily compiled with add on patches.
The other problem is we have no idea what and who are running in background transferring data while we are on the net.
I have always been suspicious that governments are siphoning off our private particulars, simply because the super highway is free .
RADu
RADU, Something like...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Yea, free is never free.
Computers are faster and software is much better, but what I see is that every software package is so competitive to be fast it doesn't program itself to work with anything else running. When multi programs are going your toast. they are all trying to hog the ram.
We could test you theory if we could get an early version of Visicalc to run on an Win 7 machine. I'm betting it would run at light speed.
The problem is bloatware.
Back in my classes on computers the goal was to produce the most error resistent code in the least amount of bytes. (yes, bytes).
I find the same bloat somewhat on our current crop of data collectors. More memory, so they add more programs, and while some are needed, I think a lot of headroom is wasted on some things that are rarely used.
Just think back to the early versions of TDS or SMI. They ran very fast and without many glitches or lockups.
How early are you talking? Myself I find TDS to be about as fast as a dead slug while the TSC2 is a comparative rocket sled on greased rails.
Hardware giveth and
Software taketh away