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Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 1) 20

So, no idea why you think Apple fucked up, when they invent a faster disk image?

I want to know how they fucked up with the first disk image. That's why you have no idea why I would want to know something I didn't want to know.

So if you think something was fucked up before, perhaps point out what it was?

It was obvious to everyone else. This is a you problem.

Comment Re: How do people get stuck with Teams? (Score 1) 83

I never used the original Wordperfect, I was only near people who were using it, but by the time I wanted to do any word processing at all I had an Amiga. And while I still had it, Workbench 2 came out, and brought scalable fonts along with it.

Of all the DTP software of any description, I align myself with PageMaker -> InDesign. I have used a number of packages and still go back to Adobe when I want to do some layout and typesetting. I go back to before they required a sub, though. My experience with it also goes back to Aldus. I've tried Quark, and yuck, they never did get the UI figured out worth half a shit compared to Adobe... or even Aldus.

Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 1) 20

And from this follows: there is a ton of ways one could fuck up performance with a shoddily implemented custom file system for a particular disk image format.

I only know a little bit about filesystems (I haven't dug into any deeply since using fsdb on SCO Unix) but even I know that. I want to know, in what particular way did Apple fuck up?

Comment I'm going to have to tell you (Score 2) 55

There Aren't Enough Cables To Meet Growing Electricity Demand [...] The International Energy Agency estimates that 80 million kilometers of grid infrastructure must be built between now and 2040 to meet clean energy targets

I'm failing to see the relevance of the text to the headline. As if we were going to meet clean energy targets? As if we were trying?

Comment Monopoly Spell (Score 2) 83

I wanted to murder Teams hundreds of times over the past few years. It's slowly getting better, going from F-minus to D-minus, but it still sucks the big one to Hell and back. Employees just eventually get used to its many oddities and flaws and learn to work around them.

The only reason so many shops use this P.O.S. is that MS bundles it with all the other MSware, making it a "really terrific deal". It couldn't survive in the market as a single product, even if open-sourced.

But the bundle "deal" is penny-wise-pound-foolish, because the total labor wasted dealing with its f$ckage is much more than the bundle savings. PHB's don't weight the labor waste into the judgement because it's not taken directly out of their own budget.

SharePoint is in a similar boat.

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