Why are computers so fucking slow?

I mean, jesus.  We've come all this way and yet computers are still slow as fuck.  We make faster computers, better hardware, and it still just sucks ass.  Why the hell is this?

>>1
Bloated Software, it expands to fill the resources afforded by better hardware

>>1
Because those things are used as excuses for lazier programmers using shittier languages.  Next question.

Have it occured to you that software gets slower too?

Simple, because computers do a shitton more than they used to.

its because u have a pc that was made prior to dual core like mine

>>1 2009-07-06 21:53
>>6 2009-07-06 22:15
WHAT IS THIS

STOP POSTING SO MUCH

>>7
my cawk

>>6,8
And so was /b/ brought on /prog/!
May bowels of yours tremble as homosexuality ravages this peaceful land!

But seriously, how is it possible that /prog/ had good grammar, intelligent people and was clear of idiots for so long?

>>9
Excuse me, but I believe the answer to you're question can be found in post >>8

>>9
grammar nazis != intelligent;
grammar nazis == OCD;
But yes, i have noticed a recent surge in retards. I think it's because moot is advertising that 4chan firefox toolbar thing on the imageboards, and that helpful toolbar makes it easy for idiots discover the textboards.

>>11
Hmm.. thats sounds quite about right.

>>1
The answer is JAVA

>>13
Oh god no.

>>11
grammar nazis != intelligent;
grammar nazis == OCD;
True, but also:
good grammar == !(idiot);
shit grammar == idiot;
Somehow /prog/ was pretty idiot-free when it used frames, which didn't do much to hide text boards. In frame based 4chan interface they are hidden by default, but clicking one '+' is enough to show them.

>>15 Its called Summer and it has nothing to do with frames.


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>>1
The Great Decline
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4131/greatdecline1v5.png

>>16
I must disagree.
Summer only increases the problem, it doesn't create it.
Text boards are, by default, hidden. Summer-spawned individuals tend to lack skills to discover them on their own.
If frames were the default option now, we would have much bigger problem. Yet, when it was the default one, /prog/ had high level of average intelligence.

>>1-4,17
I had a computer 15 years ago that could play a 128kbit mp3 or load a primitive web page.  But not both at once, because of the intense processing requirements.  You're chart can go fuck its'elf.

>>19
You're chart
No, he isn't a chart.
its'elf
Elf belonging to it?

Please, do not make such mistakes on /prog/. We have /b/ for that.

Summer-spawned individuals tend to lack skills to discover them on their own.
>>18 Every large board has a link to its text board counterpart



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>>20
YHBT. YHL. HAND.

>>20
 The chart is Santa Claus in paper form.

Take Vista, which I have had a bad experience with: it takes about ten minutes for the machine I'm on to be able to do anything useful. Why? Because most of the Windows crap that starts with the computer is bottlenecked through svchost.exe, because Mickeysoft thought it was a good idea to do it that way. Right now, 13 instances of this program are running, using about 200 megs of memory, and as far as I know it is just MS Spyware.

>>24 Upgrade to XpSp2



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>>11
Actually, grammar nazis == OCPD.^[1]

References                         
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCPD

>>1
You don't value your freedom and instead, you choose to remain helpless and divided when you accept proprietary software. If you had valued your freedom, you could use it to improve your system to meet your desires.

>>25
At work, I have to use XP SP2, and I have the exactly same problem on many different machines there.

>>27
go to bed, RMS

lolshto

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