Posts by Denial Vanish

Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software

Re: Intel sponsored article?

That's 68k to PPC to Intel to ARM. 68k to PPC provided valuable experience going forward.

Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended

Re: Island Getaway

Gilligan's ISS ?

Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus

Re: It's going to be approved

I disagree. I made the mistake of investing in Tesla last fall, only to watch Elon become increasingly unhinged and the stock take a nosedive--all due to his antics. I'd be the first "investor" to rejoice in his ousting. And it wouldn't surprise me in the least if, as soon as he goes, sales of Teslas go up when all the fence-sitting potential buyers finally breath a sigh of relief and can buy a Model 3 or Y without having to hold their noses with a pair of vice-grips.

The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver

Bad Dog? What about Bad Dog?

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Re: I have been on about this since I was a teenager

Moore has also been a shill for giant logging companies and their friends ever since quitting Greenpeace. He's rightly hated by environmentalists and plenty of Canadians, particularly in BC.

The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it

A prime example of this sort of debacle actually comes from where it was least expected: Evangelical Minimalist Jony Ive--oops, that's SIR Jony to you. While Forstall's skeumorphism involved a bit of unnecessary iCandy, iOS functioned fantastically well up until iOS 6. Then Forstall got booted and Ive was promoted to head of software design. What he did to iOS and MacOS since is worthy of a public flogging and/or hanging.

And while this sounds like heresy, compared to OS 9 and below, MacOS/Unix is an ungodly mess under the bonnet--without even venturing into the terminal. Ever had a look at the library folder(s) alone? More folders and subfolders than you could shake a stick at, and hundreds of thousands, if not a million or so, files per user. And never mind the rest of the system which, of course, has its own library.