20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
7:52 p.m.
On 20/09/11 9:56 PM, TeoZ wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Thain" <toby at
telegraphics.com.au>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: RANT: Never enough room
Yes, that's a problem too.
This is very true and may be the only realistic way of turning back the
tide of bloat, poor design and poor architecture. Programmers should be
on SLOW machines! Otherwise what we get is a kind of software-enforced
hardware obsolescence, which is just wrong.
(The problem isn't limited to Microsoft, though. The rant might have
reasonably focused on them in the 1990s, but are they even relevant any
more?)
--Toby
The problem is people blindly upgrading their computer/OS/Software for
no real reason. I don't understand why you need to have the
latest
version of most mature apps when very few people need or will use those
new features. Older apps and OS fly on new hardware, why upgrade?
Programmers target the machines that they expect to be the norm when
their software is released.
They wouldn't, if they didn't have them on their desks. A bit of tough
love may be needed.
Look at the payoff: For all the fools blowing money on new hardware they
don't need, get a FASTER system because the software is so much more
efficient (having been tested on slow hardware); and those with older
hardware will continue to be able to use it effectively.
Can't see any downside here. And pointless consumption has to end, anyway.
--Toby