Am I technologically 'conservative'?

I

Industrial One

Politically, I identify as a left-libertarian, I hate conservatives
with a fiery rage.

However, I've noticed that I sometimes sound exactly like them when
ranting about how change has ****ed up the net.

I always long for the 'old days' before every single demented retard
figured out how to use a keyboard like today. 2006 was the last year I
have any fond memories of the net.

Hardware isn't getting any faster, and if it is I can't seem to notice
improvements as software is bloated as **** and keeps getting slower
because every coder is now a dipshit nerd-wannabe who thinks his 500-
MB Pokedex plugin for Firefox makes him trendy n kewl.

New Windows operating systems are a joke. New software is moving
forward into the past because it must appease to the new idiot masses
who can't be bothered to apply the slightest bit of intelligence to
illegally get that movie or program for free. Everything must be spoon-
fed (hello BitTorrent) and new high-speed connections are slow once
again thanks to ISPs being forced to utilize bandwidth caps because
everyone's gotten so dumb, entitled and irresponsible that they can't
save the videos they want to their computer anymore and must re-
download again and again whenever they feel like watching (YouTube.)
Google operates at a loss of half a billion bucks a year for these
cumslurping simpletons.

I never thought we'd ever enter an age where every newer version of
MSN sucks a wider chode than the previous. MSN 8 sucked, MSN 9 sucked
monster cock, MSN 10 was even worse and MSN 11 is just garbage. It
requires 20x the resources to run for... god damn, I must be blind, I
missed it.

Firefox, which used to be an escape from shitty Internet Explorer now
has become the same. It grows up to a gig in memory and I only have 3
tabs open. Seriously? I hear talks about needing to implement hardware
acceleration in the latest Firefox because it has become so ****ing
unbearably slow on even a brand new computer. You have gotta be
shitting me, Jose. Hardware acceleration for a WEB BROWSER?

Let's not forget that because of this trend of mass-****tardification
of what used to be powerful network, everything is becoming more and
more centralized. There's no true P2P anymore, everybody uses that
tracker-controlled piece of shit BitTorrent or YouTube, controlled
entirely by Google who can shut it down anytime. 9 out of 10 people
use closed-source popular software commonly controlled by one or two
corporations who are making everything less and less user-customizable
because how everyone wants everything spoon-fed.

But I digress, my technological philosophy roots around efficiency. I
love low-power video cards and CPUs with the highest GFlops/watt. I
love tiny, fast code that solves complex problems well, like AES which
beats the shit out of far more complex yet far less secure cryptos.

KKRIEGER is also an awesome example of powerful code--a 96KB 3D game
with amazing graphics that compete with CD-sized games of similar
nature.

I love to sit in my chair with my awesome inferior, cheap i7 rig and
watch how other retards cry about running out of RAM for some shitty
rushed-development game and always running out of resources while I
enjoy 10x the performance of my inferior setup that runs everything in
less than a second. Love how they waste so much hard-earned cash to
get garbage.

What I absolutely HATE, however, is that the minimum standard for
anything brand new always seems to be "barely functioning". Wake the
**** up, morons. Then again, most subscribers come from a country
where a minimum standard of living is considered being in a scuzzy
trailer making $7.25 an hour. China is even worse.

So yeah, am I a technological conservative or liberal?
 
M

Mayayana

|Hardware acceleration for a WEB BROWSER?
|

Microsoft is doing that for IE. They're building it in
and giving it hardware acceleration. Presumably that's
so that they can make IE outshine all other browsers
on Windows -- just as they did with some success
using ActiveX. So it may be that the Mozilla people
are just trying to keep up. (Which is not to defend
Mozilla. It's been a long time since their actions made
sense.)

| So yeah, am I a technological conservative or liberal?

I don't know, but I think it's safe to say that you're
very fond of loving and hating things.
 
B

BillW50

Mayayana said:
(Which is not to defend Mozilla. It's been a long time since their
actions made sense.)

When did their actions made any sense? I tried to like them for years,
but it just never worked out.
 
K

Ken Springer

On 3/30/12 7:45 PM, Industrial One wrote:

<snip>

I'd have to agree overall. I've ranted to friends, enemies, anyone that
would listen, as to how ignorant today's computer users are. And how
you used to get decent manuals with good general guidelines and
instructions.

Falls into the category of "dumbing down of America", IMO.



--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 11.0
Thunderbird 11.0.1
LibreOffice 3.5.0 rc3
 
C

Char Jackson

|Hardware acceleration for a WEB BROWSER?
|

Microsoft is doing that for IE. They're building it in
and giving it hardware acceleration. Presumably that's
so that they can make IE outshine all other browsers
on Windows -- just as they did with some success
using ActiveX. So it may be that the Mozilla people
are just trying to keep up. (Which is not to defend
Mozilla. It's been a long time since their actions made
sense.)

| So yeah, am I a technological conservative or liberal?

I don't know, but I think it's safe to say that you're
very fond of loving and hating things.

Your attribution line is (still) missing. Who are you talking to?
 
C

Char Jackson

Well, Mayayana already stated he doesn't care to do that. :)
As I recall, from his (and only his) point of view, if we want to see what
is being quoted, we're all supposed to open the usenet posts in a couple of
windows, and find the orginator's post in some other window, (as I recall).
Go figure. The idea of simply opening one window to read usenet posts and
find the quoted text in there bugs him. (I think he said he doesn't like
scrolling IIRC).

That's right, I forgot about his FU attitude. Thanks.
 
M

MotoFox

And it came to pass that Ken Springer delivered the following message unto
the people, saying~
I'd have to agree overall. I've ranted to friends, enemies, anyone that
would listen, as to how ignorant today's computer users are. And how you
used to get decent manuals with good general guidelines and instructions.

Falls into the category of "dumbing down of America", IMO.

I don't drink, but if I did I would to that!

My old Windows 2.0 manual was/is at least 200+ pages thick. Quite a
bit compared to the little 8-page four-colour brochures that seem to ship
with software these days. To put it in perspective, the 2.0 installation
kit pretty nicely fills up a single 1.44 MB diskette. Heck, even Win2K
still had at least half-way decent offline documentation, although it
wasn't even remotely as much as there was in the "good old days". At least
it told you enough about how to set it up and become semi-proficient using
it!

It seems that as the software itself has increased in storage
requirements and complexity, the amount of documentation has decreased.
Even when the actual, physical storage disk it ships on (assuming you
actually still "buy" software commercially) today takes up the same amount
of physical space as it probably would have 15-20 years ago. Bizarre.

Yes, I do realise it's mostly migrated to "electronic" documentation, but
really, when your OS is crashing and you can't get to your PDF reader as a
result, how are you to know what to do then? And not everybody's going to
want to stare at a computer screen to get the same information they could
off paper.
 

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