Progress

[deathboy]

Chips push through nano-barrier

I was initially enthusiastic about this, but then I thought: It doesn't matter, does it? Not one fucking iota.

Because as soon as some new Ming Mecha-Chip arrives, pushing the cycles faster than ever before, there will be Vista or Mac OS SuperCandy and they'll both drench the CPU by drawing realistically rendered 3d shadows under each and every letter, making the icons for Safari out of rendered 3d models of a fucking sweet shop, complete with little cunts inside wearing fucking Apple T-shirts, and if you click the icon, it zooms in, so you can hear them snidely bragging about their new iPods. Vista will be superceded by Microsoft UniverseFucker which will represent every file on your hard drive by a model of a universe so complete and perfect that when you erase a file, you are committing genocide on a trillion lives so accurately modelled that they are truly intelligent.

Unlike the cunt sitting in front of the fucking monitor, that is, who will still be a Big Brother-watching, tabloid-reading chimp, using this Deep Thought-alike to play fucking Solitaire-4000, watching the little cards jump around with glee as the hours tick by, STILL fucking unaware that practically EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. APPLICATION. on the computer has a fucking spell check but STILL fucking well unable to master the apostrophe or spell "library" with a fucking Q in it, when they're forwarding 50mb emails full of fucking spreadsheets with animated pictures of tits and 72pt bright pink, misspelt fucking text proclaiming:

I HAVE ALL OF THIS POWER, ALL THIS POTENTIALITY SAT IN FRONT OF ME AND TODAY, MATTHEW, I AM GOING TO TOP MY FUCKING HIGHSCORE ON FREECELL. I AM A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME, ENERGY, MONEY AND SUNLIGHT. PLEASE, GOD, END ME NOW.

Because we're getting faster and faster and faster, aren't we, but we're not actually fucking GOING anywhere.

Haven't drunk a fucking thing today, yet, no. Thanks for fucking asking.

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

How much memory do you have in your comparison system?
How much memory did you have in 2000?
I've got 2GB in the box in front of me. 6 years ago "2GB" wasn't quite Gibson-territory any more, but it was more than we got to put in the desktops.

I note also that you haven't even _run_ a comparison test. You've simply observed "System c. 2007 runs better than System c. 2000" (which might even be true) and then extrapolated this to "XP is faster than NT4", which is the most errant bollocks.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you want to convince me of anything here, do you have some ego tied up in which OS is "faster"? Or do you just hate MS so much for whatever reason that you can't admit that they might be able to learn from their mistakes?

FWIW I have run both operating systems on the same hardware, and for my usage, XP is faster. So that's what I use. Sorry if this offends you in some way. My computers are tools for me to accomplish goals, not fetish objects. Get a life.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

No matter how much you troll it, I don't think you can spin "XP vs. NT" into "Linux vs. M$oft".

I'm merely pointing out the logical fallacy in extrapolating from your observation to your conclusion.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

As I say above, and this is clearly quite complicated, so I will try to go slowly, I compared on the same PC. The actual, same machine. I don't care about operating systems, no-one who isn't a pathologically boring nerd does, I care about getting my stuff done. On my PC, for my workload, I choose what works for me.

I didn't mention Linux at all, BTW. But you clearly cannot even think about operating systems beyond that tired and pointless debate. Grow up!