I remember when computers used to actually work. Now, like everything else it seems things are getting worse. Adobe flash used to just work. Now it crashes several times a day. When it first started I thought it was a temporary thing and Adobe will fix it. But months later it’s not getting any better.
It seems like dysfunctional is the new functional and standards are dropping. I remember back when Yahoo Messenger used to work. It was a little app that just did chat and no problems. Now it’s bloatware and barely works.
It’s not just limited to the Windows world. the Linux KDE interface has yet to catch up to where it was 10 years ago. In some ways when it comes to text mode editors Linux has yet to catch up with where DOS was 25 years ago and Linux file permission are way behind where Netware was 20 years ago.
We all love Google but I just bought one of their “Google TV” operating systems built into my new Sony TV and to say it sucks is implying that it works at all and comes up to the level of sucks. When they said it was Android 3.1 I had an expectation is was as good or better than my Android 2.3 cell phone. It’s like it’s not even the same operating system. It’s totally incompatible with every other Android app I run. It’s like it’s a completely different operating system. Nothing I’m used to works. Shame on you Google!
I don’t know what others think but I’m getting really tired of things going down hill and that becoming the new standard. It’s like technology is reflecting the deteriorating state of society. Everything is going to hell.
My 2 cents …
I am using the Chrome browser, and I thought Chrome was crashing Flash.
Sometimes it crashes 7 times an hour.
When I refresh the page, Flash starts working again.
I learn something new every day.
That’s one of the “features” that prevented me making FF y main browser. Everytime there was a new version there a very high chance that you would kiss your plug-in goodbye.
Tis is also why open source is not a good idea. No coordination nor incentive for third parties to keep up, only people with good ideas for plug-ins that will later become chaos.
Here’s my experience with Flash and the three browsers (using Windows XP). When Flash Crashes:
1. in Chrome, I hit the refresh button and if I’m lucky, it will work. If not, I just abandon the site.
2. in Firefox, the entire browser crashes
3. in IE, the entire computer goes down with it.
It’s all about the race to be 1st with the next new thing and then copy write that new thing so nobody else can make it.
Forget quality and reliability, as long as it’s 1st and out before any other new thing.
I will second that emotion.
Don’t get me started about Firefox hourly updates. Break all my plug-ins and then maybe they will be happy?
Seems to me we lost quality when we moved away from shipping physical media. Android is a good example. Since Google’s environment is based on sending code when you reload, bug fixes take a back seat to adding features. Of course, this doesn’t work right on a phone that has several committee levels to go through, from Google to the handset manufacturer to the carrier (in the US anyway), so as an end user you better make sure you learn to love the bugs.
Well now that Adobe has killed mobile development it will just be a matter of time before they are completely moribund. Really, who are they kidding? If you can’t develop for mobile in this day and age, give it up!
Don’t get me started about Unity in Oneriec Ocelot!
Unity is great! I put the Ocelot on my wife’s netbook. Now she doesn’t have fourteen freecell games running with 5 or 6 Firefox windows with 7 tabs each while complaining how slow the machine is running.
Otherwise it’s kind of a pain.
Adobe makes fine bricks
Hm, not wanting to be a douchebag, but my Apple-Stuff still works ok
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You really have no experience on mac or you’re just plain idiot.
The queen of planed obsolescence for software & hardware is mac.
Baloney.
macfan in denial?
My windows 7 PCs work great. So does my android phone.
Whats your point?
What do you expect when every techie has to take a break every 5 or 10 minutes to check Facebook, Twitter, GMail, FourSquare, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Google Plus, Farmville, text messages, voicemail, financial apps, etc., etc., etc.?
As phones get “smarter” and data speeds get faster, it seems to take more and more time to keep up instead of less. And where is that time coming from? Not from Game Time, I’m sure.
Notice the people in the “That was so 12 seconds ago” mobile phone ads are never actually _doing_ anything, they just look at their phones all day.
Well, get used to it Marc because companies all over are pushing that philosophy in their RD’s
This is the way of the future. Who cares about bugs, the version we’re putting out will last only a year, if lucky. And customer complaints be damned. Shut-up, slave.
And I completely agree with you with your last paragraph although unlike you I do not think it is going down like society, I know it.
“shut up slave”
I don’t think so. We are only slaves if we keep buying from these companies that push crap on us.
I got the 1st Droid and it sucked. battery life sucked, keyboard sucked… it just wasn’t a pleasant experience. I was on Verizon and was stuck in my wife’s plan. When the iPhone came out for Verizon I went to the VZ store and the first thing they said when I asked for an iPhone was “you should get a Droid instead”.
So I held up the one I had and said I tried that already. He said oh yea, they fixed all the stuff wrong with those. So I said they sell me a POS and then expect me back as a customer so I can pay again for the phone the 1st one should have been? I don’t think so.
I love my iPhone.
Me too. And so does my wife, daughter, son, son-in-law and EVERYONE at work that has one.
200.000.000.000 flies can’t be wrong; eat shite!
It used to be that a CORE, OS was just an interface to the WHOLE of the computer.
The core gave you access to the rest of the hardware..
Programs had to work around the core, to make things work.. SOME programs bypassed the core, and worked directly with the hardware.
NOW, the core controls everything. and you cant bypass it(at least they DONT bypass it). And the CORE tells the programs what it can and cant do.
Those old enough to remember DOS systems(not just windows) remember how OPTIMIZED things were, to MAKE THEM WORK. You even had to Adjust the core, abit, to get SOMETHINGS to work. THEN there were the games that BYPASSED all of this, and installed their OWN OS, and just WORKED…
most current programming is SLOPPY.
Im tired of useing an unfinished game…BETA WARE…Betaware is a program this is almost finished. Everything after is an addon. I think there is even ALPHA ware releases, which is the START of creating a program, NOT to be released.
I forgot, how you enjoying that Android fragmentation? Neat, huh?
Which is why i am still using XP and a palm treo 750 both do everything i need to do and with minimal aggravation.
So, message to Microsoft: stop trying to copy Apple and Google. Maintain focus on backward compatibility, reliability and giving people freedom to use their systems as they see fit (NO forcing App Store for Win8/Metro). Keep providing top notch developer tools for the your platform and, while your at it, don’t force us to use Metro on traditional desktop systems.
Adobe flash works okay, you just periodically have to go into your task manager and kill the task when adobe eats up 1.5 gigabytes of your memory, then you reload the browser again.
The garbage collection routines don’t seem to work or there’s an awful memory leak in adobe, or a simpler explanation is that adobe’s programmers are buffer-crazy and buffer everything for speed but forget that main memory is still not an infinite resource.
“I remember when computers used to actually work.”
Are you serious? You don’t remember how, a mere 10 years ago, if you didn’t remember every week to update your AV and scan, and defrag, your computer would grind to a halt? How 90% of the multimedia files online had to be downloaded to your system, and if you were lucky you already had the codec for them, but more often than not it was in some obscure one the poster favored?
Back then, sure, Flash was king…of Newgrounds for animation and games.
Everything today in computing is far better than it was ten years ago, but now we focus on the pointless little annoyances instead of the hair-pulling system killers. This is the exact same stupid nostalgic attitude of the “good old days” people try to claim in general.
Man, you sound quite computer illiterate. That or you live in an alternative universe.
No, I just remember how terrible a pain in the ass Win 95, 98, and 2000 were, how XP was better, and 7 is actually pretty pain-free in comparison.
Bell invented the telephone and it replaced the telegraph and now the phones are little wireless telegraphs…I do agree that flash is broken while HTML is not fully baked.
I was activating a MS computer today and it failed for security reasons. That was all it said.
It was up to me to figure out the time, date, and time zone were set wrong by the people that sold this refurb so naturally MS thought it was a pirated copy of the OS.
They wanted me to contact them using a modem on a machine without one that was connected to the net already. For some reason the controls on setting the time and date and getting it to stick are a kind of slovenly design in that you can do it without it taking.
Okay, I knew what to do as soon as it failed to activate but this sort of 12th rate design sucks the fun out of life and wastes time.
“It’s like technology is reflecting the deteriorating state of society. Everything is going to hell.”
As John and Adam would put it…that’s a fractal!
I’ve got two XP laptops and a Win7 desktop, with Adobe all over them. None of them give me any problems (well, Firefox has been a little cranky, nothing that IE won’t handle). Whiners.
I gave up on Adobe a few years ago. I used to use their Dreamweaver product after the bought it from Macromedia. They ran it in to the ground. The code it produced was garbage. The support sucked. Despite the fact that the product would crash and inject random garbage into the code, they would deny it was possible. And yet they want top dollars for their products.
Believe it not. Microsoft’s Visual Studio produces much cleaner code. And not once has it ever corrupted anything I’ve worked on.
Anyhow… I’ve had other run ins with Adobe trying to get support on what I considered basic items over the years, only to run into brick walls and refusal to even acknowledge product flaws. I don’t expect things to be perfect. But I do expect a vendor to at least consider that it might happen and help their customers.
Adios… Mofos…