Posts by Tchou 375 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jun 2011
Part of the problem is making it fly combat mission, the other significant problem is the unique maintenance software that is a complete pile of failed crap.
You Brits would be better off buying Dassault Rafale or even Mirage 2000-5 (modernized).
Actually battle proven.
Or the brand new Sukhoi 35, which is far from the US over-engineered, Java ridden, sad joke.
To quote a US General : "This fighter can barely turn anyway. It can only deliver payload in clear skies."
"Windows 10 is good if you don't care about controlling your own computer or your privacy"
Spot on.
Ho and I'll add "and if you don't care having an ever mutating OS, wich will reset your privacy settings with each upgrades and confuse you with senseless changes".
Somewhat of a repetition, but Windows does it too : MS switch its model to running gag or perpetual update as they call it.
... and Microsoft would force feed Windows licenses on buyers.
Now PCs aren't selling, so they force feed "free" upgrades to a never finished OS to ensure their presence on the market in future years.
Numbers are misleading.. which % is actually "voluntary and somewhat informed" ?
Newer languages and software architectures are utter catastrophe when it comes to memory use & management. For no added value except overly "architectured" code and runtimes for.. nearly zero gains (except trashing CPU caches by mis-aligning objects in memory and useless context switches). THAT'S why new software needs gigs of RAM.
You may be naïve thinking all this "progress" happen for the greater good. Mister commentard it is an industry with some of the most important issues on Earth (millions of billions of $, strategic information dominance, industry/military intelligence, ..) and it certainly is a filthy one.
'write once, run anywhere' is a marketing fad that have no technical reality.
Devices have architectures, different uses, ...
Developers who like the 'code once, run everywhere' fad are by definition sloppy programmers who don't have any interest in their job beyond knowing by heart a set of commands developed for them by a tech provider.
The one and only interest in programming is the interaction you get with the target platform and the challenges and possibilities that comes with it.
I use a medium specced desktop (i5, HDD -> no SSD, no Gfx, 8Go of standard RAM, FreeBSD as an OS) mainly for browsing the net and programming. The embedded Intel graphic chip is not yet supported by the OS so I don't even have full power but it runs 2D games without problems.
Unless some major problem, I may change machine in 10 years.
"The point is you can't trust anything that:
1) has closed components"
Sadly being open source don't mean the code is audited by people who actually know where the back doors are, under which form, for what purpose.
Do you really believe the entire Linux code is exempt of backdoors? And why? Because strangers told you so?
... And the US perfectly knows it.
In time of "peace" it is also a very good strategy to keep an eye on vassals, I mean allies sorry and make sure any their moves (diplomatic, economic, military R&D) are known.
3/4 of the world uses US IT tech. Only China and Russia are trying to develop home built operating systems at a large scale (for national use).
The only thing that could come to mind for a citizen of any given country "friendly" to the US (UK, France, Germany...) is that the persons in charge are both incompetent and corrupt.
They might find out it is better to carry goods instead of people.
Instead of vacuuming the tube to lower air resistance , they could go for good old MHD properly done (bring resistance to nearly zero WITHOUT emptying the tube, the air pressure become the thrust by redirecting the normally even-across-object-surface pressure to the rear, and vacuuming the front by redirecting air atoms with Laplace forces)
"a new generation of coding-capable kids will come up with lots of great ideas"
>> IT-learning kids are less and less capable, not more. Yes they can start to code earlier than most of us could. But 'coding' doesn't mean anything. These days they barely know how to 'talk' properly to a PC, academic education favor the scripting languages, .Net, Java, Python. Yes they are easier to teach, end pretty much guarantee the education big sponsors (Microsoft, Oracle,..) a mass of pretty much ignorant future clients.
Some innovation can happen, but only in the form of 'business' innovation (Uber, Facebbok, ..) for the tech side they will be forever bound to the big solution providers, incapable of understanding that all the work done by these tools (no memory management, absurdly complex mandatory OO designs and architectures, design patterns,...) is precisely what guarantee said sponsors the new cool kids will NEVER come up with competing solutions that work better, faster, are more reliable, easier to use and less buggy.
I know what you think. It would be impossible to compete with, say, a big MS product because of the 100's engineers they throw at every project and the 10's of millions budget they can get.
Well you've been well 'educated', pretty much like the Australian politician.
The fact is, we've brainwashed by corporate marketing (that reach out also in academics, schools) that sold us truly low quality software during the last two decades,
Users expectations (*ALL* users from IT pros, to software engineers, to end consumer) have fallen drastically.
Visual Studio => Brilliant way to force .Net versions, no major innovations for years, useless changes in UI (hoooo the bckground color is now dark-blue instead of grey and all menus switched places!
Windows as an OS : Obvious decline, now 1 out of 3 versions is barely usable (xp, 7), still bulky, slow, shit packaged, disrespect its user, becoming worse and worse
Programming languages : shit piles above shit piles. Anyone who compared the assembly output of a native code and a .net code knows for a fact .Net code is on average 3-5 times slower for any program that remotely do anything useful (that mean a simple nearly empty for loop doesn't count)
Services : Pay for my servers so I can leak your metadata (or outright data in certain cases) to marketing, information companies/agencies
IIS : http://gwan.ch/benchmark Nothing to add.
Office : The *useful* parts already existed on word processor that ran on my Atari ST. The rest is a quagmirish nightmare.
SSRS : Anyone who used it know it makes one curse at an abnormal rate
SSIS : nice concept gone wrong
Win32 -now called Windows API for the sake of 32/64 bitness- will always be around because Windows Core can't on something else than C and C++. Computers are working the way they used to be since decades and academics language paradigms are not changing that, at the very best only making programmers worse at doing their job.
Making native Windows API unavailable for programmers is definitely a risk MS is willing to take tough, keeping for itself the "pro" way and letting the rest of the world play in the sandbox dreaming they know what they do.
The aim of MS is clearly to vampirize further the Open world, stealing features that will be added to .Net Core by the community to .Net while bragging about openness and honesty and transparency, why keeping 2 versions otherwise and grow them "separately"?
"We have Fortune 500 customers that have deployed RC1 in production on both Windows and Linux. The performance that they’re seeing on those workloads is higher than they’ve ever seen before," he said." => I laugh in your general direction Microsoft, the reason people comes toward big vendors is not because of performence or usability or features but merely because they need a big name to hide behind as an excuse for management : "nobody got ever fired for buying Microsoft (or Oracle)"
I must say I'm pretty happy with my Lumia myself.
The Metro UI is really good for this format and general usability is awesome.
Alas as often with MS, the last major update introduced some bugs, like the sms app hanging (no longer typing), and occasional OS crashes.
I must agree on your last sentence Android really sucks big juicy donkey c**ks.
- Sent from my FreeBSD computer
>>But Sc00bz and others have dismissed that boast, saying it would be easy for Mega to provide an >>"unbreakable" account with a long, random password, but it wouldn't prove that real-world Mega >>accounts can't be hacked or spied on.
And it would be easy for Microsoft & friends to start bogus claims on MegaChat security without providing evidences, let alone proofs.
Isn't it strange that "security researchers" main argument is "yeah we could not have break it because they would have cheat", in other words "trust only the one we can OFFICIALLY break"
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