*caugh aka node stinks on windows cough* lol one one hand this is part of a problem with saying sure lets have stuff "Just" use a crap ton of stuff. And it'd be just realy nice for programs to be in a little box or something so as when things go wrong it doesn't blow up the machine. On the other hand their is a weird kind ore oh, well at least I'm not the only one looking at computers that come with 'just' 16 or 32 gigs of ram and a bajillion cores that may or may note be async and thinking: uh their is a fundementall problem here when even a common browser can and will blow up your computer!
I hold out hope that'll meen finally having nice fun tablets and stations perpahsp like those seen on StarTrek, or the realy cool 3D computer kinds of things in marvel movies and TV shows. You are right though Russel that with really cool things that people want to do with their browser (or any other program as far as I can tell). That meens tackling two things: getting programs to stop using ever inch of hard disk space and memory. and when it goes kamoom to clean up after itself. FireFox Quaunt, Classic, and chrome are all really bad about that. As a concrete example today I was looking for pictures to make a colage (sort of) announcement. On one hand I had been looking for just the right style of pictures for easily 70 minutes or so whilest listening to some super fun music on Youtube and then SoundCloud. When Windows told me Doom has happend! we'll try to fix Doom (it never does) On the other hand that was my que to stop (TechNech for one, lunch for another). But what if it had been something important much more important than something I just do for fun as Vauluntary thing? That'd suck. Inothers words Nick if you're still following this thread. Don't worry, it's not just you that finds Firefox (and chrome) to have pretty bad habits. I tried to explain that humorously this morning to you. I hope you didn't get horribly lost. My weird Dyslexic brain for some reason sometimes (often actually) finds weird humor or anecdotes a bit simpler sometimes to explain things as best I can. Don't let me confuse you. Someone else may have better skills at short explinations than I often have. Personaly I find Quantum a weird mixed bag it's extension type (you tan turn on and off the protocall droids/extensions) hit and mis In fancy speak it's XTags real time loading(possibly transitional) with a node in a small fake computer. In simple speak addons can turn on and off, and each one is in a fake computer. Sounds good on paper...till one goes kaboom (Looking at you Xtag Flash and Hangouts) On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > The problem is that these days, the browser tries to _be_ the > operating system. A bit like what people complained about emacs back > in the day. > > Not sure there's much to be done about it, other than grumpy old men > rants. If its really important to you, you'll need to buy yourself the same > class of machine developers use, ie minimum 16GB memory 3+GHz > multicore processor. Otherwise, you just have to kill off the browser > every day or two (akin to doing the 3 fingered solute on good ol' DOS) > to release the execessive amounts of memory. > > Written on 7.5 yo Netbook with 1GB memory... :). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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