Billy has spent his entire life litigating anyone who calls out his blatant cheating, and spending an incredible amount of court resources to bully anyone who challenges him, it's disgusting.
Apple puts a 50 volt screen backlight pin on a ribbon cable next to the pin that goes straight to the processor - moist day? Short time, unhappy mac-book. Their products are built to look nice, not last.
And I have had Lenovo thinkpads last a decade as well... You are just plucking a single data point and saying it speaks to the entire line of products this company makes.
My HP mobile workstation 2010 is still superb. Although, the screen is going darker. The ruber frame around the screen is becoming more and more porous porous, the rubber mouse keys are also porous. But, it runs, it runs, it runs . Need to vacuum the fans.. haven't done that in years:)
I love 4 fun posts here, it's a shame they aren't more common, as usually when they're here someone inevitably with their nose as high in the air as possible chimes in with how this isn't profitable or a business model and will die soon.
Bad lyrics ruin songs for me, so I tend to listen to music in a way where I completely disregard the lyrics if they're bad, which causes me to like songs where the lyrics are hard to understand/hear or in a different language.
This seems to absolutely NAIL my case of listening, I'm loving this. Thank you!
The comparison might not be equal in terms of how much they’re doing, but the Amiga was doing it on a single core CPU, so it could quite literally only do one thing at a time.
A modern OS running on a multi-core CPU has even less reason to hang - one of the cores should always be available to immediately switch context to handle UI events, even if the other cores are running a million processes. There’s no -technical- reason for it to hang, just poor programming.
Edit: Upvoted because despite disagreeing, your comment seems to have sparked a ton of discussion, and that's always great. :)
One important difference was that AmigaOS bumped the priority of threads that dealt with user input - the user always had priority over other tasks.
Somehow this simple trick seems to have been forgotten or is ignored in modern OS development - or if modern operating systems still do this, their process schedulers seem to be pretty terrible at handling priorities.
<< The diff is the amiga is doing maybe three things total.
This is indeed the crux of the problem. Windows Start is trying to do everything at once including guessing what the user may be thinking of wanting including, but not limited to semi-random bing searches. Some would argue that less is more.
However, this is not a popular opinion these days. User is assumed to be an idiot and to not know what they want. As a result, MS menu does 3000 things as opposed to 3 Amiga did.
Interacting with hardware is on another level. I remember taking some introductory hardware level classes, and we began to simulate our circuits, just combinations of gates and what-not and you hit a weird signal pattern....
"Ohh, that's just a gate-glitch, we'll discuss that in later courses!"
The way that physics interacts with hardware is incredible, and the dance that we all do back and forth between hardware and software really strikes me as magical. I love it.
