Comments on: Stuck in the RAM

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:29:26 +0000

Much as we all like to malign winders, it is actually much better than most of the software that gets installed on top of it.

The problems *really* start when you have say each API assigned 100 millimetres of virtual machine space, with a 10 mm gap all around it to separate it from the other API’s, and developer A writes some software that pushed 5mm into that boundary to make x function work easier, and developer B of a different product uses the neighbouring API but pushes THAT boundary 5mm to make function y work easier, now you have products A and B installed, and possibly both running simultaneously, with fuck all in between them.

A *classic* case of this is EVERY_CUNT_THAT_EVER_WROTE_A_FUCKING_GAME.

My current win7pro install came with MS Visual C++ 2012, and everything worked fucking perfectly.
Then along came ubisoft not even asking but installing an older version for Crysis 3, then along came Bethseda not even asking but installing an older and DIFFERENT fucking version for Skyrim, then along came the same story for FEAR3, and next thing you know when I open a folder full of movies fucking explorer throws up an error trying to generate preview thumbnails.

This is NOT microsoft’s fault, even though they wrote all the versions of C++

By: hans

hans — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:38:55 +0000

Crap, you had to mention the power grid. 😦
I´ve managed to forget this bogus “Grid Down” Drill the US gubinmint wankers are preparing for the 13th next month.
Fuck, I´m getting that pissed-off feeling again.

By: Aurini

Aurini — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:29:15 +0000

There isn’t a back-yard mechanic in the world who hasn’t muttered “Intermittent problem” under his breath.

In automobiles, these only start cropping up after 15 years or so; a relay develops a high-resistance short, or part of the pneumatic fuel injection control system develops a very slight resistance with gunk in the tubes that only affects you between 3000 & 3250 RPMs. Quite frankly, these problems *should* not exist… but they saved $0.05 by getting the cheaper relay, and besides, who owns a fifteen year old car? We have a 2% increase in engine efficiency by adding the computer, for a 50% reduction in life expectancy (at least Holly got decent IQ bonus…).

The infrastructure and ecosystem we’re developing for software is deeply worrying to me, unfortunately I’m not the sort of computer genius that anybody would listen to. All I know is that my gut instincts, thus far, have been frequently affirmed by actual software geniuses.

But hey, Windows 8 has cool transition screens, and that’s all that matters, right?